Are You Throwing Away HOT Prospects?Written by Dustin Rhodes
Targeted prospects are coming to you each and everyday, but from a very unlikely place. You probably do not recognize these potential customers /subscribers. You are most likely dismissing these targeted prospects as an annoyance. They cost you NOTHING, but could be costing you in LOST SALES. Here is how I discovered this hidden treasure. Everyday I receive a never ending stream of unsolicited email offers, thank goodness for Spam filters. However, many of these unsolicited offers land into my IN BOX. These messages have been verified that they originated from legitimate email addresses and other criteria that makes them borderline or questionable SPAM. At first, I was annoyed that my SPAM filter would let these messages pass into my IN BOX. Then one day I decided to REPLY back to each of these messages with my own offer. Let these guys/gals see how annoying it is to get unsolicited email in their IN BOX. To my surprise, 3 out of 5 actually ACCEPTED my offer. Now, I value these unsolicited offers that "squeak" through my SPAM filter. I began to consider just how much time and money I spend each day trying to find new prospects, when targeted prospects are coming to me. Each day, I was DELETING these highly targeted prospects and curse them for sending their offers. When, I could easily, reply back with a note of appreciation and include my own offer. The senders of these offers are promoting online businesses and would be perfect prospects for my offer. I can send a reply offer-message with just a few key strokes, it doesn't take but a couple of seconds to do. Step 1: I composed my "reply" offer that I would send: Thank you very much for sending your great offer, I appreciate your thinking of me. I have a very special invitation that you will find valuable. As an online business owner, you will want to subscribe to my free weekly ezine, dedicated to serious netpreneur. News and Articles that relate to conducting a profitable online business for newbies and experienced netpreneurs alike.
| | 15 Minutes of Fame: Unconventional MarketingWritten by Dustin Rhodes
Everyone has (within their lifetime) what Andy Warhol referred to as "fifteen minutes of fame", sometimes this fame comes by accident or through some effort of our own. No matter case, each of us has our moment to shine. Your moment of "crowning glory" may have been in High School when you won an award or scored a winning point in sports. Later in life, you basked in limelight of yours or a friends wedding. oops! You have had more than your allotted share of "fame"!Can we have more than just one moment of fame? Yes, all through life, we have moments "of fame", they may not be huge elaborate headline-grabbing fame, but we are recognized for our accomplishments no matter how small they may seem to be. Peers, neighbors, relatives recognize us for little things that we have achieved all time. Being recognized is our fame. Recognition = FAME! FAME is our reward. Ok, you have encountered numerous moments of FAME, but has your web page or affiliate program had same recognition? Or, how do you get your product or service to be noticed on Net, with thousands of other similar web sites? As I mentioned earlier, fame comes by accident or through some effort of our own. Most web sites are not merely noticed because someone discovers it, so we should probably rule out possibility that your web site will accidentally become famous. So, that leaves us with second option, "fame comes through some effort of our own". OK, you see where I am going with this: search engine optimization! Dang, can't pull wool over your eyes! WRONG, we are NOT going there. We are about to make your product or service famous! We are going to create FAME for your web site! Here are two statements that you have heard before in various advertisements: "Everything goes better with COKE!"
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