March 27th, 2008
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You probably already know that if you’re planning on making it to the big time with any network marketing business opportunity that you are going to have to advertise at some point.
It’s inevitable you’ll need a constant flow of steady, targeted leads for your program and you’ll have to advertise to generate them. There really isn’t anyway around it so you’ll have to get used to the fact that it’s going to take a little money to get that ball rolling.
However… Advertising your business opportunity doesn’t have to break the bank and when done effectively with the right tools can be a sure fire way to inject super responsive real-time leads into your email inbox.
One of the most common mistakes an MLM or network marketing newbie makes is trying to use their replicated affiliate website for advertising campaigns. This poses a major problem if the goal of your advertising campaign is to generate fresh real-time responsive leads for your product or opportunity. Most replicated MLM websites do not have the provisions to actually capture a lead.
Sure… They provide a lot of great information to a prospect… But this poses another problem in itself especially if you’re advertising on the Internet. Prospects don’t want to read a whole pile of information up front just to find out if they are interested or not. You’ll scare them away if you do this. When you bombard someone with information you can create confusion. A confused mind almost always says NO!.
There is a simple solve to this problem and it’s called a Lead Capture Page. This is a short snappy page designed for the task of doing one thing. Generating you a fresh real-time lead for your business opportunity. Lead capture pages are simple, attractive one page websites that will have a just a few short paragraphs of text in total.
Lead capture pages aren’t meant to bombard a prospect with information. They are built to provide the prospect with just enough information to make them curious and actually entice them into requesting more information through the form on the lead capture page.
Like Bill Gates says… “Simple is always better” And the same rule applies when you’re trying to advertise you MLM or Network Marketing opportunity. Don’t bombard a prospect with every single ingredient your product may offer. Don’t confuse the daylights of the poor prospects mind trying to explain your compensation plan either.
The lead capture page should be designed around a few key points about your product or business opportunity. It should be simple for a prospect to read in its entirety in 30 seconds to a minute. You’re looking for the prospect to make the decision on their own to learn more… that’s it.
By simplifying your marketing message with a well designed lead capture page not only will you have more people paying closer attention to your advertisement you’ll also have more prospects submitting their information to your page and becoming fresh real-time leads for your business.
If you’re advertising a well designed lead capture page targeted for the specific market you are going after you can bet that your response rate will be significantly higher. You’ll actually have something tangible from your efforts. A massive list of fresh names waiting to be contacted by you!
Carl Sorensen is the owner of http://www.ezleadcapture.com He provides a valuable service to network marketers or direct sales people who are looking to generate their own leads via online or offline advertising. You’ll need lead capture pages if you plan on generating any leads and Carl has your solution.
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I was in the fine city of Chicago this week to speak at a marketing conference. And I learned some interesting things:
1 - Traffic in Chicago is much worse than the allegedly bad traffic in Atlanta where I live. We left the hotel downtown at 3 p.m. and were parked on the “highway” a few minutes later.
The Lesson Learned:
I am thankful - as I know many of you are - that I don’t have to leave home and fight through this terrible traffic on a daily basis. Life’s too short to
suffer like this regularly. The stress level of doing this would take years off my life.
2 - Despite the traffic, I arrived at the airport early enough to rebook my ticket (by paying the $25 fee) on a flight leaving 90 minutes earlier than my original schedule. That was the good news.
The bad news turned out to be that this flight would leave 45 minutes late so I didn’t gain very much for my $25.
Obviously, I can afford the $25, but that’s not the point.
The Lesson Learned:
It’s not about the money. It’s about the perception of value received for the money. When I made the deal with the airline to book the earlier flight, I did so with the specific understanding that I was investing $25 to buy 90 minutes.
But, I ended up only getting 1/2 that time - 45 minutes. So, I felt like I’d gotten screwed in the deal.
People - like us and our customers - invest money with us based on the perception of the value they’ll receive in exchange. If you don’t deliver on your promise, then the customer is not going to be happy with the deal.
If you deliver more, the customer should be ecstatic. That’s why you’ll usually find extra - unadvertised - bonuses when you purchase my products.
It doesn’t matter that I probably would have spent the $25 to get the 45 minutes anyway - that’s not the deal I bought.
3 - When I booked my hotel reservation, the website promoted the fine history of the property. When I was standing in the lobby, they had an interesting wall display listing the famous people and many presidents who had stayed there years ago. And they specifically mentioned how they had upgraded the hotel with the latest in electrical, plumbing, etc.
I’m not sure how long ago someone wrote this fiction, but it must be at least 30 years ago - maybe longer. Perhaps the reference to Diamond Jim Brady should have clued me in.
I won’t bore you with the sordid details about the sagging mattress and matted down carpet, but it was depressing to enter my room. Especially when I opened the curtains so I could look 15 feet across the air shaft at other rooms.
The Lesson Learned:
Next time I’m booking a reservation in a “historical” hotel, I need to be certain to ask if they’ve stayed true to their history or entered the new millennium.
Of course, for $39 a night, I might have expected something like I got. But, when I’m paying $120 for the discounted conference special rate, I’m not seeing the value in the deal.
For many products and services - like hotel rooms - we have an understanding of what we think we should get for the money we spend. It doesn’t matter whether our preconceived notion is correct - we’ve got it in our heads already.
As marketers, we have to deal with the public that has these preconceived ideas. When we’re not going to fit with them (like charging way too much for a crummy room), we should be fair and make that clear. But we’ll obviously want to do this in a fashion that will show why this is a still a fair, if not great, value proposition.
4 - But this story gets even more interesting…
I was chatting with Paul Hartunian (the PR expert who once sold the Brooklyn Bridge - legitimately) and mentioned that I was not happy with my room. He remarked that other people had also voiced similar opinions, but he loved his room.
Turns out he had asked the hotel about upgrade options and, for $20 more, you could get a completely updated room with a wonderful view of the city and Lake Michigan.
Of course, no one volunteers this when you call to make reservations. And it’s not mentioned at all on their website.
But I’ll bet the people that work in this hotel are wondering why more people don’t choose the upgrade option.
The Lesson Learned:
Don’t hide your light under a bushel basket!
Think about this…the hotel could have turned many unhappy people into raving fans simply by mentioning the $20 option. Plus, they could have been grabbing an extra $20 a night from dozens of people for doing absolutely nothing.
Sure, we’re sitting here in judgment thinking how stupid this is. But…unfortunately, we occasionally make the same kind of silly mistakes and don’t make the really fine benefits of our product or service crystal clear.
To sum up:
1 - Don’t play in traffic. It’s hazardous to your health.
2 - Explain the value in your offers and deliver what you promise (preferably more).
3 - Don’t hide your best benefits and offers. Put them right out front so your prospects will become happy customers.
Yours in success,
Shawn Casey
P.S. If you missed the incredible Jeff Paul teleseminar this week - or just want to review it and take some more notes (Jeff talks fast and delivers a lot of info), you can hear the recorded version here:
http://www.ShawnsNews.net/JeffPaulRecording.html
(Scroll down a little when you get there)
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The art of giving promotional items can be nearly as important as the art of choosing the right promotional gifts. Some would even say that it is MORE important. Let me share a little story with you.
Years ago, I worked as the administrative assistant to a busy CEO who was often plied with the little trinkets that salesmen use as promotional items. After one visit by a salesman, my boss stopped by and carelessly dropped a cardboard shipping box of about a dozen pens on my desk. Take these home to your kids,?he told me. The pens inside were of decent quality, and each was imprinted with the name of a local company that serviced office machines. We found them very useful at home ?but since I have no office machines at home, the promotional gifts did the salesman and his company little good.
Not long after, a salesperson from another company stopped in to make an appointment with my boss. He pulled a pen out of his pocket to jot down the appointment time, then held it up for inspection. Like these??he asked my boss. We just got them in. Here, why dont you keep it? Ive got another in the car.?/p>
THAT pen got tucked into the CEOs pen tub on his desk where he used it often. When another colleague stopped by and needed to sign a document, my boss pulled it out of the tub. When the colleague commented on how nicely it wrote, my boss told him, Keep it. Ill get another the next time Bob stops in.?/p>
Heres the rub ?the second pen was identical to the carton that my boss sent home to my kids. What made the difference? The answer is obvious ?the presentation made all the difference.
The first salesman devalued the companys gift by handing over a whole box of them, still in the shipping carton. The message in that was we have these by the dozen. Theres nothing special about them.?By contrast, the second salesman treated the promo pen as something with some value. It was an item that he thought enough of to use himself, and to compliment. When he handed it over, he didnt make it sound like a throwaway freebie. His attitude said, Let me give you something that I like.?/p>
When youre designing a promotional gifts campaign or choosing marketing gifts, keep the two salesmen in mind. Its not enough to choose the right item. Its also important to consider how its presented. Use your presentation as a way to say We think highly of your business? That may take the form of individual packaging for your direct mail marketing items, or in personally handing each gift to its recipient at a trade show. Even if youre giving away thousands of the identical item, take care to make each one personal in some way, and youll see far better returns on your investment.
If youre looking for ideas for promotional items, youll find many companies online that specialize in unique and unusual promotional and marketing items. Take advantage of their expertise to help you choose just the right items for your marketing campaign.
Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK’s leading online promotional gifts and promotional items company based in the north of England. Established in 2001, he has taken the UK gift market by storm by the application of modern business thinking.
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