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Getting Fired - Facing the Facts - and a Possible Solution
Your boss called you in and said you are difficult to get along with and are causing problems not only for him but for other people in the office. He says you resist direction and don't take criticism well. And he says you're too critical of everybody else. But you really think he's exaggerating. You think the people around you are more of a problem than you are, but on the other hand, your wife or girlfriend says the same thing about you that your boss does. What do you do?Listen to what

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Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop

Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network

Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

Notice that this schedule includes a couple of phone contacts. This to can be a very powerful research tool as well as a business building tool. Sometimes you will learn what your prospect really wants and how valuable the materials you are sending them really are to them.

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Notes for Newbies - Part Nineteen - Traffic
Hello againToday we want to talk about how you generate traffic – how you collect names to add to your list. In Article Three we talked about the importance of your list. If, God forbid, your entire operation were destroyed by fire or flood on Sunday and the only thing you saved was your disk with your list on it, you could be back up and running by Monday.TrafficTraffic, quite simply, is what you use to build your list. Traffic consists of the names of peopl

You know your prospects need what you sell. You know they want what you sell. Heck, you know that they even sent away for information on your service and requested a quote.

But the fact is you are missing one major piece of the puzzle.

Want to know what it is?

No matter what else you know, often, the missing piece is knowing when your hot little prospect will actually make a purchase.

People search for information and solutions in many different ways and on many different time tables.

Some will buy immediately; some may take a year or more depending on the complexity of the purchase.

The key to solving this dilemma is consistent and repeated contact.

If you build a marketing system that guarantees your prospects (particularly your “A” prospects) are contacted at least 8-10 times a year you can significantly increase the odds that your name will jump to the top of the list when they do actually decide to purchase.

Another benefit of constant contact is that by sending your prospects useful information, that doesn't always ask for a sale, you can establish a bond of trust, and trust wins business. It is almost as though some of your prospects will feel that they owe it to you because you took so much time and effort to educate them for such a long period of time without asking for anything in return

So what will you send to your prospects on a monthly basis?

Here is an example a calendar of contact points

Month #1 – Letter announcing a new service (change to existing service)
Month #2 – Newsletter – highlight tips and company news
Month #3 – Phone call to discover opportunities
Month #4 – Reprint of an industry magazine article of interest
Month #5 – Case study of a successful client solution you provided
Month #6 – Request for critique of a proposed sales letter (you won’t believe how valuable this can be)
Month #7 – Time for another newsletter
Month #8 – Reprint of an article you contributed to an industry magazine
Month #9 – Announce a new service
Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop
Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network
Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

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You Don't Have To Get It Right, You Just Have To Get It Going
I have a confession to make.Starting something new sucks. Yup. Plain and simple I'm impatient and when I see something I want, I don't want to have to go through the growing pains of getting it to where I want.Can you relate to that?For example, many of you know that I'm relatively new as an information marketer. I started my career almost a year and a half ago and some people would say that I've enjoyed a fair amount of success in such a short period.I would agree

immediately; some may take a year or more depending on the complexity of the purchase.

The key to solving this dilemma is consistent and repeated contact.

So what will you send to your prospects on a monthly basis?

Here is an example a calendar of contact points

Month #1 – Letter announcing a new service (change to existing service)
Month #2 – Newsletter – highlight tips and company news
Month #3 – Phone call to discover opportunities
Month #4 – Reprint of an industry magazine article of interest
Month #5 – Case study of a successful client solution you provided
Month #6 – Request for critique of a proposed sales letter (you won’t believe how valuable this can be)
Month #7 – Time for another newsletter
Month #8 – Reprint of an article you contributed to an industry magazine
Month #9 – Announce a new service
Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop
Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network
Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

You man want to consider

Managing Resources Through Activity Based Costing
How profitable are your biggest customers? How much of your capital and operating expenditure is tied up servicing different customers or customer segments? Work it out and you may be surprised to find that your "best customers" are in fact your worst customers.Activity Based Costing is normally accountants and finance department employees' purview and shunned by line managers as being too difficult to understand and impossibly difficult to execute.It need not be as diffic

at doesn't always ask for a sale, you can establish a bond of trust, and trust wins business. It is almost as though some of your prospects will feel that they owe it to you because you took so much time and effort to educate them for such a long period of time without asking for anything in return

So what will you send to your prospects on a monthly basis?

Here is an example a calendar of contact points

Month #1 – Letter announcing a new service (change to existing service)
Month #2 – Newsletter – highlight tips and company news
Month #3 – Phone call to discover opportunities
Month #4 – Reprint of an industry magazine article of interest
Month #5 – Case study of a successful client solution you provided
Month #6 – Request for critique of a proposed sales letter (you won’t believe how valuable this can be)
Month #7 – Time for another newsletter
Month #8 – Reprint of an article you contributed to an industry magazine
Month #9 – Announce a new service
Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop
Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network
Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

You man want to consider

Textile Related to Earth: Geotextiles
As its name suggests Geotextiles refers to textiles related to earth or soil. When any permeable material used with rock, soil or earth it is termed as Geotextiles. The basic function of this technology is to prevent soil erosion to strengthening heavy concrete structures. This technology has not yet gained much attention in India, but is widely used in many countries for construction of bridges, roads, railway tracks to improve its strength. Many researchers have view that this technology is not

Newsletter – highlight tips and company news

Month #3 – Phone call to discover opportunities

Month #4 – Reprint of an industry magazine article of interest

Month #5 – Case study of a successful client solution you provided

Month #6 – Request for critique of a proposed sales letter (you won’t believe how valuable this can be)

Month #7 – Time for another newsletter

Month #8 – Reprint of an article you contributed to an industry magazine

Month #9 – Announce a new service

Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop

Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network

Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

You man want to consider

Competition or Companion?
Joint ventures can turn your competition into your companion!What are they and are they profitable?You can benefit greatly from sharing the costs of your advertising and promotional campaigns, while doubling the size of your target market.How can that be so? It’s simple! just look at it like this, you are in the coffee business, you have identified your major competitor, he/she is currently servicing a good portion of the customers you wish to attract. This competitor has bee

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Month #10 – Invite them to a workshop

Month #11 – Phone call to introduce someone in your referral network

Month #12 – Checklist of helpful tips for your industry/service

You man want to consider breaking your prospect list into groups based on potential opportunity. Your 20 or so “A” prospects might get a copy of your favorite book or some homemade cookies in a tin with your company logo one month or some proprietary content or information along with some tickets to the ballgame a couple of months later.

And if you really want to make a hit with your “A” prospects, take the time to find out some background on them and personalize your marketing materials. If Ed Jones over there at Acme Industries went to Notre Dame (not such a hard thing to find out) you will score major points by simply sending a clipping from some magazine about his favorite subject – The Fighting Irish. You can even set-up a service that will find you everything that is being said about a school, industry, company, sports team, you name it. So an industry guru makes a prediction for the future of your prospect’s industry and you drop the article in the mail to them. Now who do you think they are they going to remember come order time?

Create a database of your ideal prospects, set-up a schedule of different types of contact points like the one above, and then stick to it. And don't forget to include your current clients in that list. Reselling them can lead to more and more business and referrals.

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