More Referrals?

 

 

Jott - A most revolutionary communication tool

One of the brilliant friends I met on Ryze told me about a really cool communication tool found at www.Jott.com. (find my brilliant friend Lamar Morgan here and here)

The following is directly from www.Jott.com about page:

Jott™ is a revolutionary new service that automatically converts your voice into e-mail and text messages—anytime, anywhere, with any cell phone. Jott™ makes you more productive and efficient by capturing your ideas, notes to self, tasks, and more without using your keypad.

✓ Stuck in traffic? Just speak your to-do list into Jott™.
✓ Want to eliminate repetitive calls? E-mail your team with a single Jott.
✓ Forget something? Use your voice to create Jott reminders.

Jott™ is a safer, hands-free way to send text and e-mail messages on the go. And it’s free, so sign up today.

Think it. Jott™ it. Get it done.

Okay, imagine sending a single email message to a handfull of your friends or family members all at once, like, “I’m stuck in traffic but I’m on my way to Christmas dinner I’ll be there in 30 minutes.” No big deal, right? What if you sent this email message by dialing a toll free number and leaving a 30 second voice message that is transcribed within minutes to an email that’s delivered to the select group of contacts that you choose?

Or, how about sending an email message to your customer list about a product that has just sold out or will be going on sale today only - and sending this email message using a phone to voice record your 30 second message to your list of customer contacts. One phone call - one list - many email messages.

Check out the Jott Blog to learn more uses for this genius tool.

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Mindpower

I have some great news that I think you’ll appreciate.

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And so you may already be aware that these programs
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So you actually learn to think on a moment-by-moment basis
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Plus, the whole process is the model of simplicity.

The success stories they’ve got are absolutely astounding.

And the REALLY interesting part today is that Think Right
Now is running a 3 day sale.

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If you want to experience some truly profound positive
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I recommend you find out about these products now and use
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I believe you will love them, too.

Especially since you’ll be saving 20%.

All the best,

Melody

P.S. Remember, this sale ends this Thursday (Feb 7th) at 2pm
U.S. Eastern Time.

P.P.S. Oh, and by the way, you should go there now to sign up to receive Mike Brescia’s Life Transformation Kit. Let me tell you what is in this Life Transformation Kit:

• ‘How to Absolutely Positively Guarantee Success In Everything You Do’
• How to Feel Powerful Instantly
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• ‘Exposed: The Unedited Conversations In People’s Minds’
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• Think Right Now Owner’s Manual  (Audio) 
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There is no charge for this Life Transformation Kit - just sign up for Mike’s Newsletter. I’m sure you will find that it is well worth it.

The Ultimate Referral System Series

Today on www.GetMoreBusinessPodcast.com  we covered part one of a series of shows on The Ultimate Referral Marketing System.

We covered several “best practices” of what makes a good “intentional” referral marketing plan that you can predict a steady flow of referrals from when you’re offering a quality product or service.

Even if you’re a superior technician in you business there is no guarantee of referral business if you don’t have a system in place to generate referrals.

In this series I give you all the secrets - well, today was just part one of all the secrets used by the all the “business by referral” gurus.

Join me in a live webinar where I cover all the best practices and strategies for this gold mine marketing technique by sending me your information below so I can send you the date and time of the event.

When you attend the Live Webinar “The Ulitmate Referral System” I will send you a 2008 Referral Marketing Plan that you can use as a guide to help you prepare your own personalized system for getting all the referrals you can handle.

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Other related reading

• Referrals out-pacing advertisng 10-1?!

Get More Business Podcast - iContact - Jeffrey Gray

I just finished recording with Jeffrey Gray of iContact you can download or listen on demand here.

Today’s podcast covered some of the basics to get started. The information can be used no matter what email service you’re using. I have a dedicated page with explanation on the tools you need and why. I’ll be expanding on this content over the next few weeks.

Try iContact for free now! Discover the tools available for messaging and managing your email newsletter, complete with screen shot visuals. Try the service out free for 15 days.

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Next Friday’s Podcast is with Ron McDaniel, Author of Buzzoodle. He’s an expert on how to start an intentional “buzz” about your product or service. On the show He’ll talk about how to start a buzz and keep customers and downline talking about your product or service for all the right reasons.

I’ll be reviewing Ron’s book - Buzzoodle where I’ll give some of the examples he has in his book of how to create a buzz. These are things that ANYONE  can do and the results are way better than traditional advertising.

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Take the Survey! Tell me what you want to know about Email Newsletter Marketing…

Email Marketing - Top 10 Email Newsletter Mistakes

It’s getting to be more and more challenging to use email effectively to generate leads or generate business. However, if you are going to use email marketing it only makes sense to understand this changing marketing tool.

Friday at 9 am Pacific the Get More Business Podcast will be back with a very special guest. On Friday’s show we will hear from Jeffrey Gray. He’s the guy that writes the iContact.com blog “Ask the Marketing Guy”. This blog is just one of the resources that iContact provides to aid users in both email and blog marketing.

Jeffrey and I have prepared a list of questions to cover the basics - Tell me if we’ve left something out. Remember, we only have one hour to ask these questions.

• What’s the best time to send
• How to increase deliverabilty
• How to increase email opens?
• Why do subscibers open your email
• How to build your email list
• How to maintaining your list
• Where to find content for your emails
• How often to send emails

If you have a burning question that I don’t have on this list - leave a comment to this blog post…and join us on Get More Business Podcast LIVE.

Get More Business Podcast- Marketing Best Practices - David Frey

David Frey, of Marketing Best Practices and the Small Business Market Bible will be our guest next Friday at 9 am Pacific.

David tells me he has 106 different strategies for generating referrals. Well of course there are some Key Elements.

On the call he promises to share the 3 Main Elements for Getting all the Referrals You can Handle. And he will explain why a small business owner needs a system to manage the relationships that are used to build a business by the referral - a GOOD referral system will produce consistant, repeatable and PREDICTABLE results!

Why is Word of Mouth system of referrals not a reliable system for generating more business to rely on? Is there a way to automate the system for generating referrals - really good referrals?

Listen to David Frey on Get More Business Podcast.

Check out the tool that David Frey uses to automate his entire referral system.

Publicize your Podcast or Blog using Feedburner.com

Using RSS feed at Feedburner to promote your podcast or blog.

1. Open an account and burn your PODCAST feed at www.feedburner.com

2. Create a Headline Animater (feature of Feedburner.com)

    Headline Animator: Create and customize an animated banner that cycles through your feed’s five

    most recent items. It’s an easy way to promote your content anywhere you can place a snippet of

    HTML.

3. Put the code for your Headline Animator on the home page of your yahoo groups AND in your email

    signature. (your email needs to support html)

4. Put the code for your Headline Animator on your Ryze Page, MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo, or other social networking page.

Write titles for your show with the first 3 words to grab attention or with your market’s key phrase or word. Only the first 3 or 4 words are going to be seen in the headline animator, so words like “Episode one” or the name of someone name not universally recognized just won’t draw listeners. Good topics for a woman’s health site might be -

•   Hot flash free
•   Depression and Hormones
•   Never Sick Again?
•   35 symptoms of Menopause

See my headline animator on my Rzye Network Page to see how I use this space to send people to my podcast.

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

Transferring Large Digital Files

I came across this helpful website and I thought you might be interested.

It all started when I needed to send a very large graphic file to one of my vendors who produce the promotional products for my clients at Proforma GiveAways Plus. The vendor’s email could not handle a file that large. I called a friend in the industry to see what advice he had to help me transfer my customer’s art to the manufacturer for imprinting. My friend is so smart! He told me about You Send It

You Send It allows you to send and receive files up to 1GB in size at no charge to you or whoever you’re sending the file to. Use You Send It to accept any document submissions from your customers, users, and even directly from visitors to your website. Common usages include receiving print, image, and multimedia documents normally too big for email securely and easily.

Using You Send It is really easy. Choose who you want to send a file to. It can be anyone with an email address. You can send photos, audio, documents or anything else. Send entire photo albums with this free service. Your file will be stored by YouSendIt without ever filling up your recipient’s mailbox. You Send It will automatically email your recipient a link to your file stored on our server. Your file will be deleted after 7 days or 25 downloads, whichever occurs first.

I’d love to hear from you if you use this. Let me know how you’re using You Send It.

The Little Postcard that could

I’m not sure if this an example of the flaws of our postal service or if it is “delivering on the promise.”

After 50 years Mr Harry McGee’s postcard to his wife was finally delivered.

As the story goes Peter Symons, apparently the current resident of 1-1135 Davie St., Vancouver 5, B.C., Canada received a post card with a post mark of November 7, 1955 from Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. bearing a pair of two cent stamps with the image of Thomas Jefferson. This post card was quick sweet note to Mrs McGee on the sender’s arrival at the Fontainebleau Hotel.

Who knows what could have happened to delay that post card from it’s destination for FIFTY YEARS! Yet, it finally made it at least to the address it was sent to.

You can read the story here at Comcast

I suppose that this doesn’t really have anything to do with your business, I just thought it was a cute and curious story that tickles the imagination. I’m a believer in stimulating one’s imagination for greater creativity.

My favorite tool to create and send postcards is Send Cards Get Business. You can completely customize both front and back of card or choose from over 7000 stock designs. Minimum order is 1 card. Select card and manage your data base online. Card goes out via U.S. Postal Service next Business Day. Cost of postcard is less than .50 cents, plus postage.

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