Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Use AutoResponder Email Marketing To Convert Visitors In To Sales

You work hard to get visitors to your web site.

And for good reason. Visitors are the lifeblood of your business. No visitors means no sales. Everyone knows that.

So we work on things like:

Writing and Submitting Articles
Press Releases
Classified Advertising
Building backlinks
Creating a blog
Emailing our friends
Social Networking Sites:
* Twitter
* Facebook
* Myspace
* Digg
Participating in Discussion Forums
Buying Banner Ads
Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising
Search Engine Optimization
And more ....

And then visitors come.

Don't get too excited. Most visitors don't buy the first time they visit a web site. They are looking for information, comparing prices, checking for credibility, looking for testimonials, etc...

So how do you get those visitors to come back?

Add an autoresponder subscription form to your web site. Some people refer to these forms as lead capture forms. The purpose is simple: To capture your visitors' information so you can follow up with them.

Why is this important?

Remember that visitors hardly ever (almost never) purchase when they first visit a web site. Research suggests that prospects need to be exposed to your offer an average of 7 times before they will make a decision to purchase from you.

This is why it is critical that you add lead capture forms to your web site so that you can gather information from your visitors.

This is where your email marketing begins. You can now follow up with those prospects over and over again, providing valuable and relevant information that helps you:

1) Build credibility.
2) Increase exposure.
3) Generate repeat visitors.
4) Close more sales.

The big question is usually:

How Do I Get Them To Fill Out The Form?

It can be as simple as adding a line above the form that says:

Join Our Mailing List and Receive Important Updates

or you could use a bribe. Yep ... free information is still something people will usually give you a name and email address for if it is information they are interested in receiving.

In my case, as I am presenting information on AutoResponders to my visitors, my lead capture form says:

Free Report: How To Boost Sales With AutoResponders.

And every day, people fill out that form.

They found my site online either on an ad somewhere, a banner they clicked on, a search engine result they liked, an article they read, etc... I do a lot of advertising (most of it absolutely free). And when people come to my site, I know they are interested in how autoresponders can help them boost their sales.

So I offer them a free report on how autoresponders can help them do just that.

When they request my information, they get informative tips and suggestions on how they can use autoresponders and email marketing. I give a few specific steps, show them how they might create their own follow-up messages, give some of my own insights, share a few testimonials, etc...

And each letter closes by presenting them with my offer: A Free 30 Day Trial of the TrafficWave.net AutoResponder system.

Does it work?

Every single day.

Every single day, I get more subscribers (people requesting my information).
And every single day, I get more customers (people that decide to try my AutoResponder system).

If you're not adding autoresponder subscription forms (lead capture forms) to your own web sites and blogs, you are missing out on a LOT of potential sales!

Brian Rooney

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Build Your Empire in 5 Hours a Week

Staying on the theme of time management and knowing it’s relevant because I’ve heard it over and over from clients all week and knowing that many of us are busier than we want to be or feel we can sometimes manage….

You’ve heard the expression you teach what you need to learn?

Well, did I ever find myself doing that this past month. I’m personally coaching 11 people in our Power Prospectors course and I needed to get everyone scheduled and organized and into my calendar around the rest of my business activities (I’m still a writer for hire and have a number of business clients I write for with deadlines and a whole other calendar) and the rest of my life.

I didn’t do the best job – at first. I know there are people reading this who are likely chuckling right now. Two weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night panicked because I realized I had double booked people and had probably booked some people during a prior commitment.

I felt completely unglued and overwhelmed. The next morning I went back to our Calendar Training. I worked with a coach throughout 2010 to grow my business and we spent A LOT of time on time management. I needed to see where I had fallen down and what I needed to do to put it back together.

Are You Distracted?

I think part of what plagues us with time management is that we have a lot to do and so much vying for our attention and we’re flat-out distracted. Turns out we spend more time thinking about some things than they actually take to do. Sound familiar?

It takes some time to get your ‘time together’ but is it SO worth it. First, in order to properly manage your time, you need to know what you’ve got to do and how long it takes to do each thing. Sounds simple, but you have to track ALL your activities for a week or so. The good news is you’ll find that you actually have to time do everything. That means you can spend less time obsessing about what you’re not doing, or should be doing and then feeling disorganized and wake up in the middle of the night from a nightmare about time, like I did – literally.

5 Hours to Build an Empire

For example, we know that the money in network marketing comes from team building. Granted, some comes from product sales, but to take advantage of the leverage MLM offers, team building is the answer. To build a team, you have to share information about your business with other people. It’s the KEY activity that makes you money and builds solid income over time.

How long does it take to contact people and share your business concept with them? Done correctly, it should take about 5-6 minutes per initial phone call. So, that means you can probably make about 6-8 of those in an hour if you factor in taking notes, sending emails and booking what you’ve said, they’ve said and done the job properly. Let’s say you can make 7 calls in an hour. Then, in 5 hours each week you could introduce 35 new people to your business, or 140 people each month.

And, best of all, if you KNOW that and you commit that time to your business every week, you could build an empire over the course of 2-3 years. Truly. You’d be contacting 1680 people a year. It’s what top earners do.

If you do that for all the activities in your business, then you can set up Store Hours, stick to them, achieve your goals AND feel sane. You can do that and have time ‘booked’ for relaxing and doing the other things that interest you WITHOUT what you’re NOT doing hanging over you, ruining that time and keeping you OUT of the present moment. Make sense? I hope so.

We can coach you personally on how to get this done, be more effective and get real results and you can also refer to our Store Hours Training and our Calendar Training – which was exactly what I did early in the month so I could breath later in the month and feel like I had it handled. And it goes to prove that learning is an ongoing experience……I know how to do it, I just wasn’t practicing what I know and teach. Crazy? Maybe. I think it’s how we humans are wired. Commitment to excellence sometimes means disciplining yourself to do what you know how to do.

Give it some thought and then see if you apply this simple concept to your business if it doesn’t bring you a sense of mental calm and make you more money.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Do You Realize The Power Of One? by Brian Rooney

Do You Realize The Power Of One?

When a new member becomes an Affiliate, they are at least initially intrigued by the amount of money available via our Affiliate plan.

It doesn't take long to see that with just a bit of effort, a very sizable income is possible to those that are ready to really dig in and get to work.

The challenge is that many people seem to give in to the 30 day curse.

This is what happens when someone buys into the idea of making a huge income within 30 days or the opportunity just "isn't working". These folks typically end up just bouncing from one "opportunity" to the next looking for that magic lottery ticket instead of actually focusing on building a solid long-term successful business.

Amazingly... they spend years getting themselves into a financial predicament and then expect to simply enroll, hang out for 30 days, and watch their financial picture change overnight.

If you fit that particular profile, you are going to be sorely disappointed but I'd rather just let you know right up front. The TrafficWave.net Affiliate Plan rewards diligence and solid business approach. This is not a lottery system or a "sign up and get rich" system. By introducing other small business and home-based business operators to our AutoResponder system, you can build a very lucrative income for yourself.

Now, we do have people that join us and seem to really take off in a big way. Most of the time, these are people that already had a list of their own from previous marketing ventures and they are able to "kick start" their business by tapping in to those lists. This is great and we love to see that sort of success.

But the reality is that even the most basic beginner can make
a tremendous income with this system if they do a few things consistently:



    1) Realize from the very beginning that this is an actual business and is going to require some time and effort on your part.

    2) Take at least a part-time approach instead of a spare time approach. If you focus and dedicate 15 to 30 minutes a day, you can at least begin learning this system and start building your income. But you have to truly set that time aside. Wake up 30 minutes earlier.... stay up 30 minutes later... skip a sitcom episode on TV. The bottom line is that if you truly want to succeed, you will. But you have to decide and commit to your own success.

    3) Set goals based on reality... not pipe dreams and hype. Would we all like to some how magically join that "right" opportunity and watch our bank accounts spill over the top with new deposits? Sure. I'd take that money and have a great time with it.


But here is the reality: Those "overnight success stories" we all are so fond of reading about usually take years to develop. What we just about never hear about is the story where today's millionaire was close to bankruptcy just a couple of years ago. We don't read about the number of nights they just didn't go to sleep but worked through the night on various ideas, opportunities, business plans, etc....

Instead, once someone does realize the fruit of their efforts and achieves some level of success, the media jump all over it and make it sound like this guy was just sitting around one day and POOF! A great idea knocked him out of his chair and he was rich the next day.

Believe me. It didn't happen that way.

You joined us because you saw the possibilities for yourself. You looked at the system and said, "You know... this really makes sense. I bet I can do this."

And at that moment you caught the vision. So let's take a moment or two to find out how you can measure our progress and achieve your goals.

I have put together some numbers based on something that is very simple and very powerful. I call it:

The Power Of One:

This concept is based on you getting just one new referral each month and teaching that referral to do the same thing.

Understand that this will not cause you to become wealthy overnight. In fact, for the first few months, it may seem like not much is happening at all. But if you stick to the plan, the results can absolutely amaze you.

Here's how the numbers play out over 12 months:

In your first month, you are learning the system. You are reading the training articles and figuring out how things work. By following the training and promoting your site, you are able to refer 1 new Affiliate.

You work with them, showing them how and where to find the training articles, how to promote, etc... and they refer 1 new Affiliate.

You now have 2 Affiliates in your organization and you have earned a Fast Track Bonus. Depending on what you spent for advertising, leads, etc... you probably didn't even break even.

This is where the whiners begin to say things like, "I am spending more money than I'm making. This doesn't work."

And they quit.

But not you. You know that success is a matter of focusing on and working toward your goal of financial independence. You know that if you could make just a few hundred extra dollars per month, your family's situation would change in a big way. So you continue pressing toward your goals.

In Month 2, you continue working with and supporting your 2 other Affiliates. You are showing them how to refer others and it is working. They each get a new Affiliate. You refer a new Affiliate yourself.

You now have a total of 5 Affiliates and you have earned another Fast Track along with a small Regular Commission check.

In Month 3, you continue this same process. You show each of your Affiliates how to personally refer 1 new Affiliate and you refer another one yourself.

That's another Fast Track Bonus and your Regular Commissions are going up. You're not exactly rolling in the big bucks yet but you are seeing progress.

In the meantime, Affiliates that have given up are sending you ads about how they have found the latest and greatest thing and you really should join them. This is probably their fourth or fifth "great deal" in the past 3 months.

You shake your head, invite them to come back and work with your team and then focus on building your business.

In Month 4, you continue this process. By now, you are earning enough in Regular Commissions that you are more than covering the monthly subscription fee for your account.

You continue to receive Fast Track Bonuses because you are referring at least one new Affiliate. Your Regular Commissions are going up because your organization is doing the same thing. Your team is working together and things are starting to pick up.

In Month 5, this keeps going and because you are personally referring new Affiliates, you are now qualified for the 25% Leadership Bonus. You may even be seeing some profits now.

In Month 6, you are starting to see things build up some solid momentum. Your Regular commissions took a nice jump and your Leadership Bonus is building up quite nicely.

By Month 7, you are really glad you stuck with the system. Your team is working together very well. Your organization and your checks continue to grow. This is starting to feel easy. (You and your team are building momentum).

By Month 8, you're earning enough to cover a very nice car payment, maybe pay off some credit card bills, or have a little getaway weekend with your spouse or friends.

By Month 9, you are really getting excited. You are starting to see several hundred dollars per month and you know that things are going to keep building because you are more focused than ever. You are probably referring more than one Affiliate per month now and you've got some folks on your team that are really starting to take off.

By month 10, you crossed over into that area where you are making over $1,000 per month in Regular Commissions and you are now in the 50% Leadership Bonus range! Congratulations!

You've stuck with your plan this far and it is really starting to pay off.

By Month 11, you are starting to think about firing your boss! (Or at least paying off some of those debts). Your income is high enough now that most people would be able to consider quitting their regular jobs and doing this full-time.

By Month 12, you're making the kind of income that most people just dream about and you're doing it from home on your computer. By now, friends and family are starting to ask, "What are you doing now?" and things are so much easier than when you started.

Here is how the numbers really stack up with my "Power Of One" approach:

Month 1: 2 Affiliates
Month 2: 5 Affiliates
Month 3: 11 Affiliates
Month 4: 23 Affiliates
Month 5: 47 Affiliates
Month 6: 95 Affiliates
Month 7: 191 Affiliates
Month 8: 383 Affiliates
Month 9: 767 Affiliates
Month 10: 1,535 Affiliates
Month 11: 3,071 Affiliates
Month 12: 6,142 Affiliates

And because you are qualifying for the 50% Leadership Bonus each month, your income is truly unlimited and you are doing very very well. You are getting Fast Track Bonuses, Regular Monthly Commissions, and 50% Leadership Bonuses. Life is good!

Now for the hard cold facts:

Most people in life give up before they ever get to see these kinds of results. If you were to set out on a journey from New York City to Los Angeles, you would cover well over 2,000 miles... closer to 3,000 miles before you even saw Los Angeles looming in the distance.

Imagine going 2,500 miles and then quitting. You didn't reach LA at all. You might even go back to New York and tell people, "Los Angeles doesn't exist. That whole thing is just a scam to get you to buy more gas and drive a lot.". Of course, there are millions of people living in Los Angeles. They know it exists. You just didn't finish the journey. To reach the desination, you MUST COMPLETE THE JOURNEY!

Your results will vary from this chart. This chart assumes a perfect mathematical world. As we all know and experience, the world is not a perfect place and things do change.

I know Affiliates that are WAY ahead of schedule on this plan and I know Affiliates that are a little behind schedule.

If your business is not growing at this rate, that's OK. You can catch up, believe me. If your income level matches Month 3, Month 4, or Month 1 (regardless of when you actually started) then commit today to begin working from that point forward.

Say to yourself, "OK... I'm at Month X... I am going to start from here and focus all the way through Month 12 and beyond."

Go back and review the Training Articles and your Affiliate Plan. Let it sink in just how simple this plan really is. We have been in business since the year 2000 which is amazing in the world of Internet marketing.

Thanks to some tremendous leaders, we are growing like never before. People are starting to catch on to the power of picking and working with a solid company with a proven track record instead of bouncing from one hyped up offer to another.

When you see how powerful this system is; is commit to doing two things:

1) WORKING the plan consistently for at least a year.

2) Teaching your organization how to do the same.

Some will fall away. This is a fact of life. Some will stay right on course. Others will exceed your expectations and this plan.

The point is to focus and stick with it to see the results you want.

Don't hesitate to ask questions.

Your upline is just a click away in your Affiliate Report.

Your fellow Affiliates are just a click away in the Member Discussion Forum.

Your Tech Support is just a click away in the Online Support Forum.

I want to see you succeed and I am looking forward to great things for you!
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Brian Rooney
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Blessings to your success!!