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How to Increase Your Email List Opt In
One of the most effective ways of promoting your business is through building your email list. The most common and easiest ways is by offering a free giveaway booklet (digital download) in exchange for getting someone’s name and email address. This is very important because it allows you to generate a very targeted audience for [...]
List Building with Blogs
One of the most effective marketing advantages for using a business blog is that it serves to build a prospect and/or customer list. I wish that, with every blog software, it would include an “opt in” box so that the blog owner doesn’t even have to bother with adding this feature. Search engines love blogs [...]
Blogs Increase Sales For Your Business
There are at least three ways how can blogs increase sales for your business. Capture and build an email list of customers Able to sell your product or service directly from your blog Sell related affiliate products or services Between the three benefits listed above, you cannot help but make revenue from your business blog, provided [...]
Making Your Blog Important By Consistent Communication
One of the hardest things to do as in any business is to keep in regular communication with your customers. Did you know that only 20% of businesses, whether online or offline actually keep consistent communication with their customers? That is a very sad state because there are literally thousands of dollars of money being [...]
Making Your Blog Valuable To Your Customers
One of the most important things you can ever do is make your blog valuable to your customers. In other words, give them relevant information they should know about the product or service you offer with great value to them. The old sales adage, “what’s in it for me?” comes to mind. Truth is, the typical [...]
List Building is Important To Any Business
I have been going through my “mailbag” lately and find that most businesses are interested in getting new customers to increase their revenue. I explain that the best way to do this is to grow the list. Whether it is retaining the current customer base or seeking new customers, the principle remains the same…any business, [...]
List Building is Important to Your Business
One of the most important functions you can implement on your business blog is a customer capture system. The most common form of this is via an “opt in” form. It is the best way to develop a customer list in the shortest amount of time. First, your business has to present a very interesting [...]
Three Things Every Business Blog Should Have
For any business blog to be worth the effort to your business, whether offline or online, you must have three main things going on. Consistent blog posts that are valuable to the reader An opt-in type of device to capture prospects Video that is embedded in your blog, related to your product or service It [...]
Step Three – Develop and Send Out an e-Course
This is one of the most important parts of developing a strong customer relationship. Most businesses fail because of not following up with quality content to their customer list. This especially holds true for “brick and mortar” businesses. Even if it is a postcard mail out of some educational information sprinkled with a special on [...]
Step Two – Give a Free Gift – Build Your List
This step is an all important one. Make sure that you have a complementary gift of some kind to give to your target market. Everyone loves something for free, even if it means spending more money in the back end. Casinos are an excellent business model for this. Have you ever been invited to a [...]
Step One – Make a List, Build Your Business
In step one, you need to make a list of at least 100 businesses to approach. You can generate this list from several sources. I use the local business magazine that has space ads. If they can afford space ads, they can afford your product or service. I also use the weekly news bulletins, and [...]
Building your customer list with a blog
Lately, there is a buzz about blogs being able to build your customer list. There is a lot of truth to this but it does take calculated work. If you are dedicated and able to think “outside the box” and run with several systems at the same time, you simply can’t miss with generating a [...]
Upcoming blog seminar for July
We are pleased to announce our next live blog seminar to be held on July 22 called “Discover the Secrets of Getting More Customers Using a Blog.” For those of you who are located in the Phoenix Metro area, we extend a personal invitation. For details, please click here. We are planning to make videos [...]
Blogging is the Marketing Tool of 2009
Did you check how much you are spending on marketing costs from a monthly basis? A quarter page 2 to 4 color ad can cost $2,500.00. Print advertising, whether in “Val Pack” or specialty flyer inserts can cost $2,500.00. Radio or TV will run $1,000 for each 30 second spot, more for prime time slots. [...]
Building your customer list
When building your customer list, there is no better way than with a business blog. One of most important things to do is put up an “opt-in” box on the sidebar of the blog. You want to entice the visitor to fill in their name and email address so they become part of your targeted [...]
