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My 11 Reasons to Social Networks For Business
By Wes Waddell

Social networking websites, especially Twitter (#1) and MySpace (#2), have significant marketing advantages for business owners, marketers, and home business entrepreneurs.

In todays world of constant media blast ads and forced see marketing; keeping your business current and in peoples minds is critical. One of the best ways to reach people and establish a true friendly relationship is with the social networking sites. In point, you should at least be familiar with the latest conversational marketing techniques and viral technologies, including Twitter/MySpace and their menu of powerful social contact features.

Here are my 11 reasons to be active with Social Networking websites:

So, if you’re not on the Social Networking Sites… your marketing plan has a very large hole in it!

Wes Waddell
www.SpidersMarketingWeb.com
www.Twitter.com/Spidersweb

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Hi fellow Entrepreneur’s,

This is from one of our friends that we JV with in our Digital Scrapbook niche. BUT, it’s just as important no matter what nich you are in to know how to do this the correct way. Dawn is part of a team that knows how to do follow-up the right way.

I know I’m learning a lot from their lessons and examples both…
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The Importance of Follow Up

By Dawn Stegall

Now that you’ve added a personal touch to your newsletters from our last lesson and learned what not to do in the lesson before that, what else can we learn about effectively keeping customers via a client list. There is an old saying that says, ‘The fortune is in the follow-up.” Following up with customers and clients can be one of the most important business actions a home business owner/entrepreneur can take.

There are many ways to follow up with your clients or customers, all of them being important in their own unique ways. One of these is to follow-up with both potential new and lost past customers. This can be done very easily through sending out a regular customer e-newsletter.

To send out a client/customer e-newsletter, or to do any form of eMail marketing for that matter, it is recommended to have a fully automated autoresponder service. This will make sending the newsletters very easy. In this way, they can even be loaded into the system several months or even years in advance.

It’s no secret that people lead very busy lives and they (meaning you and I) cannot always remember to do all the things they want or need to do. Simply sending out a little email, reminding them that your business is still there may be all it takes to stimulate a membership upgrade or new sale.

Following up with your clients/customers can also make them feel more special and appreciated. Offering them a special customer/client appreciation sale (or membership renewal rate) is one way to do this. This can, again, be done through automated email marketing. Another twist is to send your customer an actual card/coupon in the postal (snail) mail.

As you can imagine from your own purchasing habits, when you feel special and appreciated by a business, you are more likely to buy more product from that business. You become a loyal customer/client. But, when you feel ignored or unappreciated, you are many times over more likely to change or avoid that business completely.

One of the main reasons that some business owners tend to fall behind on following up with their customers is due to a lack of time. If this sounds familiar, setting up an automated systems to keep things flowing can make life in your home business much easier.

If you have a service-based business (such as a green home builder or an accountant), it is also very important to follow up with potential clients on quotes and proposals you’ve submitted. When a person contacts you for potential work estimates, they may be at a starting point where they are just trying to sort out their project.

Following up with them on a regular basis will let them know you are truely interested in working with them and will serve to remind them that they need to hurry up and hire you before someone else does. That doesn’t mean you have to be pushy at all. Just sending a quick note to let them know that you currently have a little space on your calendar for them, also serves to remind them that your spaces fill up fast. This is all that is needed in many cases to get them down off the fence.

Once a business owner implements a regular follow-up routine into their home or brick and morter business, they will then open up the potential for repeat business and more consistant profits.

Well, that wraps up the easy 5 part series of how to keep the customers you worked hard to find in your business. I hope you can take away from this simple e-course a little knowledge that you are personally able to implement into your long term business. If you are a scrapbook business and would like more in-depth help with your scrapbook business, please check out ScrapVenture Pro today!

To Your Scrapbook Business Success,

Dawn Stegall

http://www.ScrapVenture.com

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As a post script…

Dawn uses Aweber for her autoresponder and I use AutoResponse Plus hosted on my own server for mine. The size of your list is going to be the biggest determining factor in whether you choose an autoresponder service or surve up your own…

to your success…

Wes Waddell
www.SpidersMarketingWeb.com
www.SpidersMarketingWeb.info
www.ColoradoSpringsBusinessOwners.com

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“The #1 Skill That Makes You Rich…” (Video)

http://www.igottatellyou.com/blog/the-1-skill-that-makes-you-rich-new-video-from-jim-e

Jim Edwards here with a new video that will change your life (and that’s no small claim)…

It’s about the #1 Skill that will make you richer than you ever dreamed possible — and NO:

It’s NOT writing sales copy…

It’s NOT blogging…

It’s NOT publishing ebooks or doing webinar…

It’s NOT even how to use Google AdWords…

So what is it?

Watch this 11 minute, 13 second video right now to find out and change your life instantly! (This also includes the “Magic” question that explodes your business!)

Jim Edwards

PS - Why am I releasing this video today?

Because with all the “problems” in the world today with the stock market and other issues constantly in the news, this skill is more important than ever (at least in my lifetime):

PPS - Feel free to leave your comments about this video right here on my blog - I always enjoy your feedback

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Traffic For Your BLOG

BLOGging traffic has always been a give and take type of relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your BLOG is by visiting other related BLOGs.

Go to the related BLOG site and read one of their entries… or read a few of them to get a good feel of what the site is all about. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common that relates back to your BLOG site.

When you find something that you find truly interesting on a related BLOG post, leave a comment so that they know that you were there and read what they had to say. Be sure and leave your signature with a link back to your BLOG at the bottom.

Just don’t get too carried away with signatures… if it looks like advertising, you’ll get a SPAM block or your comment will be deleted.

One of the best known BLOG hosts in todays social media frenzy is LiveJournal. A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.

For example: are you interested in horseback riding… You can see what other bloggers are saying about horseback riding as well.

A great example of BLOGs related to Internet Marketing and Multiple Income Streams is www.SpidersMarketingWeb.info. It’s also another great source of articles such as this one.

More about comments:

When you are commenting on someone’s BLOG post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave a simple generic type comment. If you like the post, say something about what you specifically liked in the post. I liked the 7 simple steps you provided in your article is much better then just saying I liked your article about XYZ.

If their BLOG allows links in the comments… after you have commented on the person’s BLOG post, you can then finish by saying something like: ‘I really like learning about BLOG traffic methods too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ Then, insert a simple html link back to your BLOGging journal.

Just be sure that you sound sincere when you are commenting on their post or article and take extra care so you don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic.

If someone thinks that you are just using their blog to get more traffic to your BLOGs content, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be for the most part wasted.

Wes Waddell

www.SpidersMarketingWeb.com - The FREE Multi-Income Stream Internet Marketing Training System.

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Hi Entrepreneur,

Can problems improve sales?

In this next conversion boosting tip you’ll soon see that if done in the right way your prospects problems can help you make more sales on your website…

Be sure to follow in by mentioning a problem your prospect is facing.

You want to qualify your prospect by telling him or her the problem he or she is facing.

And then, you want to make the problem “sound” BIGGER, as if it’s a real big deal.

Remember! Be careful not to go overboard with exaggeration, but you want to make it really important
that your prospect should tackle the problem a.s.a.p. (with your product or service, of course).

I’ve got even more conversion boosting tips, techniques and strategies for you right here…

==> http://www.BigSellingConversions.com/profits

If you have any questions at all …just let me know.

All the best!
Brian Terry

“Turning Your Bright Ideas
Into Big Selling Websites”
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www.SpidersMarketingWeb.info

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From Lee Milteer

A fast story to make a point!

Yesterday I went to a local store where I bought some deck furniture last year. Living on the beach is always a challenge with outside deck furniture. Over the years, I have found that normal outside furniture has rusted, blown away, or needed painting. So I found this new outside furniture that is not wood, will not rust, and it never needs painting! It’s very heavy and attractive and is made from recycled plastic bottles and containers. It has the look of traditional painted wood furniture, but doesn’t require any maintenance. And folks, I am into NO MAINTENACE. So last year, I redid my entire beach deck with this wonderful and expensive deck furniture. I love it and wanted some more of it.

I decided to reward myself and invest in my beach home again by replacing my top deck furniture. So I go back to the same store I bought from before. Wow, what a change in energy from last year!

First, they did recognize me since I had been to the store before and I had dealt with the owners. But this year as I started discussing the pieces I wanted, the first thing the owner said to me was “Wow, you are not going to believe the price increase from last year. The company has really raised the prices and now the freight is so high due to gas prices that I no longer can offer you any discounts from the retail prices like I did last year.”

I had actually walked into this store with the intent of spending another few thousand bucks to invest in my home. But as our conversation progressed, the owner kept showing me a comparison of what I paid last year and what I would have to pay this year. Bottom line: he talked me out of the sale with his negative view of life, and I was the only person in the store for over an hour. Now again, I went into the store to buy. I have no idea exactly what I paid last year. That was last year. Of course I expected prices to be a bit higher. So what? That is called life. Stuff gets more expensive, so buy now is my attitude.

What sent me out of the store running for my emotional well-being was the owner’s comment that he knew I flew a great deal and he saw in the paper where the airlines were going to raise the prices really, really high and they were NEVER going to come down again. He was like a wild man talking about high prices. This was almost like a Saturday Night Live skit it was so over-the-top! I could not believe what was happening and how he was ruining my mood AND killing the sale.

By this time folks, I was folding my tent and getting the heck out of this store. I was so repelled by this energy that I could not do business with these folks, and most likely will never go into that store again. Plus, I when I went into this store on a Monday morning at 10:30 AM, it looked closed. No lights, no one in the store except for the owner. They are doomed. They are closed and don’t even know it. I am guessing they have run off all interested prospects from doing business with them. It’s not like they are the only people selling the stuff they sell. They are out of business due to their reactions to price increases, and don’t know it yet. They have created their own gloom and doom reality.

By the way, if they had just ignored the price increase and talked about how great the product was and how it would last over 25 years and still look new, never had to be painted –today I would be the proud owner of new deck furniture!

So bottom line, what are you thinking and focusing on? Are you letting the negative news determine your mood and energy of life? CUT THE NEWS OFF!!!! Stop hanging around people who bitch and moan all the time about what stuff costs.

Ask yourself, what are you and your staff talking about with customers and clients? If it’s not benefits and how your products and services will make them feel good-well you too, will have folks running out and away from your service or business. You must look at and focus on what is good, what is working, and how you are the right people to create solutions for others’ needs! Forget the cost of gas! Forget prices are higher, and focus on creating great services and making people happy! The fact is that there are always people spending money on things they want and need. You better make sure when they give you a crack at their money, you are in the state of mind to take it!

Today is a great day to look for the good in life. Someday, these will be the good old days!

Love and Success
Lee Milteer

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