#1 Reason Internet Marketers Fail
- Terry Dean -
I am always amazed when I discuss
marketing techniques online with other internet marketers that MOST of them are missing
the key ingredient I find in my own online success.
They usually are well focused on producing internet traffic or on writing good ad copy
(which are both key ingredients to success), but then they leave out what I consider to be
the most important tool of all online...Follow-up.
Almost every one of them without fail tells me when follow-up
comes up, "I have
autoresponders" or "I answer all of my email." Well, good for
you. That isn't followup though.
Making the sale will usually take you 5 to 10 contacts with a prospect. The
recognized number we all quote is 7 contacts. So, if it takes at least 7 contacts with a
prospect to make the maximum number of sales of your product or services, what are doing
to make sure you reach that number with EVERY prospect?
You cannot take a passive approach to marketing and hope that if someone is a real
prospect, they will come back to your website later to check it out again. That is
financial suicide! All of your marketing has to be active...In other words, YOU are the
one who has to make sure you reach at least 7 contacts. Don't even consider leaving
it up to your prospects!
We have the most powerful tool in the entire marketing
world only available to us
online...yet only a small portion of us are taking advantage of it. That tool is Email. Is
there any other tool where you can follow-up
consistently
with dozens or even hundreds of
prospects EVERY day of the week and not spend a single cent extra.
If you followed a daily
follow-up
system in direct mail, you would quickly mail yourself
right into the poorhouse. The same thing would occur with telemarketing. With email
though, I can send hundreds of follow-ups
for FREE as often as I like. If you are not
following up on all of your prospects online, don't make excuses. Change it or admit that
you are too lazy to care about the success of your business.
Make a commitment
that today you will
follow-up. I am asking for that
commitment to be
made to me and to yourself. Plus, I am going to help you. Below I am going to detail the
three most important steps for getting started in email follow-up so that you will have a
base to build upon.
I can't list everything in this short space of time, but if you would like to learn how to
make money every day of the week by email marketing, refer to my "Internet Marketing
Secrets" course at http://www.allthesecrets.com
1) You have to capture the email address.
This is the very beginning of your marketing process and I make it a chief priority in all
of my website's designs. Take a look at my website at http://www.bizpromo.com and notice how I give
you a chance to subscribe to my newsletters, hit my autoresponders, fill out forms with
your email address, etc.
Everywhere you try to go on my website, I am giving you another opportunity to give me
your email address. This is all because I know that real internet marketing begins when
you give me your email address!
(NOTE: Throughout this whole report I am referring to only following up on prospects who
first contacted you and gave you their email addresses willingly. I don't believe in using
SPAM to promote your business, because you will offend people, lose your ISPs, and lose
your reputation online if you start sending unsolicited bulk email)
2) Buy & Learn How to Use High Quality Email Software
Although you may start off with low or no cost email software which is included with your
browser or with your computer. I recommend changing it to professional email software. I
personally use Eudora Pro version and can recommend it to you. That is not the only one
out there, but it is a great one to get started with.
The key element of using this type of software is that you will be able to manage hundreds
of email addresses, sort mailboxes, and assign address books for follow-up. You will be
able to add all incoming requests for info into special address books so that you can
follow-up
on dozens or even hundreds of prospects all at one time.
I don't want to get into a complete study of the software programs here, so I recommend
that you actually pick up and read the email software's manual. It will take some time,
but you will find that your email software's features can quickly become your biggest time
saving feature in your online business.
3) Learn the skill of making offers
Here is a simple technique for getting you started in email
follow-up correctly and
consistently. Have your first offer or salesletter prepared on an autoresponder or as a
automated reply in your email software. Collect every request for that information
into an address book for
follow-up.
Then, begin mailing out to that address book your
follow-up
offer daily. The
simplest
way
of doing this is by sending the same salesletter (We don't want to confuse your
prospects), but attach a new paragraph to the top of each outgoing message everyday.
On this paragraph, you could do a scarcity offer or an email probe. A scarcity offer at
the top of the email would look like this:
"ONLY 5 MORE LEFT IN STOCK...The first five who turn in their orders today will
receive a...."
Then, go on to describe exactly what your prospects get if they order today. Then, the
next day you could do the same thing, but list "ONLY 3 MORE LEFT..." and
continue through with scarcity.
The other technique is to actually put a paragraph on top of the email saying that your
surprised that you haven't heard from them yet and you wanted to know if they had any
questions, etc.
Followup can be just that simple. Include the same salesletter, but change the top
paragraph in every letter you send out. Then, keep it up with each of your prospects until
they buy or they tell you to stop. If someone asks you to quit following up, simply remove
that address from your address books and continue with the rest of your prospects.
Learn and follow this technique in your online business and your sales will double or
triple in the upcoming weeks!
Terry Dean is the webmaster at
http://www.bizpromo.com Visit today for turn-key web site solutions, turn-key products you can sell, and answers to all of your Internet marketing questions. For "115 Internet marketing tips" please send an email to..
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