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    How To Win Business By Networking
    In sales we do tend to become focused upon our own little worlds. Our company, our desk, our clients; but there is a whole world of people out there living their lives in their little worlds too. And they do a lot of business. The purpose of personal networking is to move yourself into these people’s networks so that you can do business with them naturally and without cold calling. Now, I am not for one second suggesting that you should stop cold calling but you can use personal networking to greatly increase your chances of success and referrals.Pareto’s Law states that 80% of your business will come from 20% of your clients. Chances are that these are the clients that you have strong relationships with, your “champions” if you like. So start to network with them. Find out who they know, who they can refer you
    in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best se

    Bulk Email Software
    Sending bulk email for roping in new clients is a strong and effective marketing strategy. For any businessman, whether experienced or not, bulk email should be an integral part of his marketing plan. Bulk email marketing is more effective than other advertising media because when you broadcast your message to opt-in email lists, you are targeting people who have explicitly requested information about your products and services.Using bulk email software, you can send personalized emails to mail lists using macros, and bounce unsubscribed features. You should look for a solution that will enable the use of HTML, plain text, and multipart (HTML and plain text) messages. With the help of these tools, it is possible to send emails with up to 120 concurrent threads. It can handle mailing lists of up to six million, and allo
    As I logged into my e-mail account, I clicked on the Bulk folder to check the latest newsletters. Most of the newsletters and mailing lists that I'm subscribing to, arrive in my Bulk folder.

    I glanced curiously through the 25 new messages displayed on the first page. There were only 3 e-mails that pulled my attention and made me open them immediately. Also, I opened 4 additional e-mails because they came from sources that I was expecting e-mails from.

    And, what about the rest?

    There was nothing in the subject line that would've been beneficial for me. Therefore, I didn't even bother opening the rest of the e-mails. Maybe, I'll go through them later when I have more time to spare.

    Who knows! Maybe those e-mails that I didn't open had something of a great value to me. But, the marketers sending them didn't spend enough time to word the subject in a way to grab me by my shirt and make me open them without even thinking about it. Well, at least 3 of them did.

    How's your "opening ratio" of the e-mails that you're sending to your list?

    We live in a "Headline Society." With free time becoming increasingly rare and with a massive amount of information coming at us from infinite number or sources, people use headlines as time-saving devices. They direct their movements and attention to the headlines that spark interest.

    Analyze yourself and see what grabs your attention first, the content or the headline?

    If your headline doesn't instantly reach out and touch the prospect, chances are that the rest of your message doesn't stand a chance.

    And, remember that the subject line of your e-mail is nothing else but a headline. It's the first thing that people see before they even look at your entire e-mail. It's your only chance to interest and influence the recipients. It will either grab their attention or not.

    Your subject line will tell the recipients whether they should "read on" or "move on". If your subject line fails to attract a sufficient readership, nothing else matters. The body of your e-mail quickly becomes irrelevant. Your entire effort might be doomed.

    Ideally, you want to make your e-mail recipient be "fully alert" and pay attention to your message, the same way you would pay attention to a fire truck, an ambulance, or a police car coming down the road with the sirens on.

    You have to burst out with your strongest, most provocative, explosive choice of words. Something that compels the recipients of your e-mail to read further and take action.

    So, how would you get that accomplished?

    A successful subject line consists of carefully selected words that achieve any, or all of the following:

    1) Deliver a benefit,

    2) Present a compelling offer,

    3) Reveal attention grabbing news.

    But regardless of the approach you choose, at the end of the day you want to accomplish the following with the subject line of your e-mail:

    a) Attract attention and create curiosity;

    Never beat around the bush, but cut right to the heart. Capture people's attention with your most remarkable claim or benefit that you will deliver with your e-mail. You want to make your subject line impossible to miss. Benefits, benefits, benefits. That's what everyone wants – including your e-mail recipients. The bigger and more impressive the benefit you offer, the more curiosity you create.

    b) Arouse people's interest and ignite their desire to read more;

    Give them a hint or a taste of what is to come. It makes the person hungry for more and keeps them involved. The benefit, offer, or news that you mention in your subject line, will be the major reason for your recipient to continue reading. It's the magical lure that compels the person to read on.

    c) Sell them on the rest of the message;

    Always think of the recipients' benefits when writing the subject line. When you're thinking from your recipients' point of view, you're communicating on their level about something that they're interested about. WIIFM (what's in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best sex

    Humans' Curiosity on the Internet
    Humans are by nature curious, they seek to know as much as possible of the subjects they are interested in. Needless to say, curiosity for a subject is related to how interested they are in the subject.We all want to know what other people think of us. Do they talk to us, and if so do they like us or not? When do they talk about us, how much do they talk about us?These questions are very common and are typical for the human being. We need to receive positive confirmation of our actions, from the group to which these actions were aimed to. If we receive opinions from people we do not have an interest in, the level of curiosity goes down.On the internet, with the raise of web 2.0 applications, people spread their stories and opinions throughout the internet. As personal stories spread, through blogs and p
    ratio" of the e-mails that you're sending to your list?

    We live in a "Headline Society." With free time becoming increasingly rare and with a massive amount of information coming at us from infinite number or sources, people use headlines as time-saving devices. They direct their movements and attention to the headlines that spark interest.

    Analyze yourself and see what grabs your attention first, the content or the headline?

    If your headline doesn't instantly reach out and touch the prospect, chances are that the rest of your message doesn't stand a chance.

    And, remember that the subject line of your e-mail is nothing else but a headline. It's the first thing that people see before they even look at your entire e-mail. It's your only chance to interest and influence the recipients. It will either grab their attention or not.

    Your subject line will tell the recipients whether they should "read on" or "move on". If your subject line fails to attract a sufficient readership, nothing else matters. The body of your e-mail quickly becomes irrelevant. Your entire effort might be doomed.

    Ideally, you want to make your e-mail recipient be "fully alert" and pay attention to your message, the same way you would pay attention to a fire truck, an ambulance, or a police car coming down the road with the sirens on.

    You have to burst out with your strongest, most provocative, explosive choice of words. Something that compels the recipients of your e-mail to read further and take action.

    So, how would you get that accomplished?

    A successful subject line consists of carefully selected words that achieve any, or all of the following:

    1) Deliver a benefit,

    2) Present a compelling offer,

    3) Reveal attention grabbing news.

    But regardless of the approach you choose, at the end of the day you want to accomplish the following with the subject line of your e-mail:

    a) Attract attention and create curiosity;

    Never beat around the bush, but cut right to the heart. Capture people's attention with your most remarkable claim or benefit that you will deliver with your e-mail. You want to make your subject line impossible to miss. Benefits, benefits, benefits. That's what everyone wants – including your e-mail recipients. The bigger and more impressive the benefit you offer, the more curiosity you create.

    b) Arouse people's interest and ignite their desire to read more;

    Give them a hint or a taste of what is to come. It makes the person hungry for more and keeps them involved. The benefit, offer, or news that you mention in your subject line, will be the major reason for your recipient to continue reading. It's the magical lure that compels the person to read on.

    c) Sell them on the rest of the message;

    Always think of the recipients' benefits when writing the subject line. When you're thinking from your recipients' point of view, you're communicating on their level about something that they're interested about. WIIFM (what's in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best se

    Bringing Life to Your Workshops-Avoiding the Grave Mistake
    Workshops aren’t that difficult, but they can fall apart. Audiences come expecting to hear from an expert. Students expect to hear from someone who is knowledgeable. The problem is not that you might not know your material. But, the problem comes when you seem like you don’t know your material.I recently watched a workshop where the teacher was working with no more than ten students. That’s a manageable class size. Could you imagine working an audience of over a hundred? A class of ten to fifteen gives you the chance to get to know people, to look in their eyes and be more personable. You will actually know their names.But, there can still be problems. Of course, you know the material. But, you have to be able to know it frontward and backward. You can’t just walk into a workshop thinking you are goin
    thing else matters. The body of your e-mail quickly becomes irrelevant. Your entire effort might be doomed.

    Ideally, you want to make your e-mail recipient be "fully alert" and pay attention to your message, the same way you would pay attention to a fire truck, an ambulance, or a police car coming down the road with the sirens on.

    You have to burst out with your strongest, most provocative, explosive choice of words. Something that compels the recipients of your e-mail to read further and take action.

    So, how would you get that accomplished?

    A successful subject line consists of carefully selected words that achieve any, or all of the following:

    1) Deliver a benefit,

    2) Present a compelling offer,

    3) Reveal attention grabbing news.

    But regardless of the approach you choose, at the end of the day you want to accomplish the following with the subject line of your e-mail:

    a) Attract attention and create curiosity;

    Never beat around the bush, but cut right to the heart. Capture people's attention with your most remarkable claim or benefit that you will deliver with your e-mail. You want to make your subject line impossible to miss. Benefits, benefits, benefits. That's what everyone wants – including your e-mail recipients. The bigger and more impressive the benefit you offer, the more curiosity you create.

    b) Arouse people's interest and ignite their desire to read more;

    Give them a hint or a taste of what is to come. It makes the person hungry for more and keeps them involved. The benefit, offer, or news that you mention in your subject line, will be the major reason for your recipient to continue reading. It's the magical lure that compels the person to read on.

    c) Sell them on the rest of the message;

    Always think of the recipients' benefits when writing the subject line. When you're thinking from your recipients' point of view, you're communicating on their level about something that they're interested about. WIIFM (what's in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best se

    Sales Secret?
    So, you need to build your business, make more sales, and increase your revenues. It’s universal; what business person doesn’t? But did you know that one of the most effective, easiest and least expensive things you can do to accomplish all of these is also one of the most overlooked sales activities?Follow-up. Yes, FOLLOW-UP!How many networking events, client meetings, etc., have you attended where you made solid contact with someone that is a candidate for your services or products? They may not have run at you with their check book, but they fit your “good client” profile. What did you do? Trade business cards, chit-chat and then… what? You took all those business cards you collected back to your office and added them to the box, the folder, the heaping pile of other cards from oth
    right to the heart. Capture people's attention with your most remarkable claim or benefit that you will deliver with your e-mail. You want to make your subject line impossible to miss. Benefits, benefits, benefits. That's what everyone wants – including your e-mail recipients. The bigger and more impressive the benefit you offer, the more curiosity you create.

    b) Arouse people's interest and ignite their desire to read more;

    Give them a hint or a taste of what is to come. It makes the person hungry for more and keeps them involved. The benefit, offer, or news that you mention in your subject line, will be the major reason for your recipient to continue reading. It's the magical lure that compels the person to read on.

    c) Sell them on the rest of the message;

    Always think of the recipients' benefits when writing the subject line. When you're thinking from your recipients' point of view, you're communicating on their level about something that they're interested about. WIIFM (what's in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best se

    How To Stop Sales Lead Leakage
    Most companies have the classic problem of spending money on the marketing side of the fence in order to generate leads only to see that those leads are not followed up effectively by the sales team. This classic leakage of leads to unnecessary expense and definitely inhibits a company’s ability to accelerate its sales.If your company is experiencing this problem there is a solution, it’s quite easy for you to reengineer your marketing and sales process and connect the dots so that you don’t have any discontinuity between the functions that are generating leads and those who are supposed to follow up on them.Here are a couple of quick ideas on how you can stop the leakage of sales leads in your pipeline. First, if your sales people are complaining that your leads are of poor quality, find another way to qualif
    in it for me). Sell them the rest of your e-mail by telling them with your subject line - what's in it for them and not what's in it for you.

    Here are some examples of subject lines that will help you accomplish the above.

    1) The unfinished sentence;

    "Here's the secret source of ..." , "A sneaky marketing trick that will ..." , "A shocking truth about the ..." , "Increase your commission with this new ..." , "Here's a great example of ..." But, don't get lazy and use the 3 dots on a statement. "Only 14 hours left ..." It won't create the same effect as "Only 14 hours left for ..."

    2) The question;

    "How much is your hour worth?" , "Are you frustrated with your paycheck?" , "John, are you making this mistake too?" , "Did you get the recording from last week?"

    3) The "Ah, what?" statement;

    "The funeral is Friday." – Mat Gill. "Thank Donald Trump for this." – Kevin Wilke

    4) The "how-to" statement;

    "How to increase your profits." , "How to have the best sex ever." , "How to write the best articles." , "How to triple your signups."

    5) The direct statement;

    "The shocking truth about making millions of dollars." , "Finally, the best marketing option."

    6) The Indirect statement;

    "The best ways for getting signups are waiting for you inside." , "A very special opportunity is waiting for you inside."

    7) The guarantee statement;

    Be careful with this one. Don't say it unless you have 100% proof. Or, FTC will knock on your door very soon. "Double your money in 30 days or I'll pay you 120% cash back!"

    8) Scare-them-half-to-death statement;

    "Your online identity is at stake." , "They will steal your credit card right in front of your eyes." , “A teenager can break into your computer nowadays."

    9) The pure benefit statement;

    "7 easy steps to a professional looking website." , "10 ways to fight Click Fraud." , "25 tips to help you qualify for your job."

    10) The news;

    "Google changed their policy." , "The best online survey." , "Judge sentences spammer to nine years in prison." , "A brand new free money video" – Frank Kern.

    11) The invitation statement;

    "You're invited to attend tonight's free phone seminar."

    12) The emotional statement;

    "I cried when I wrote this for you." , "I apologize for the last week e-mail." , "I'm sorry for the late notice." – Frank Kern.

    13) Use your imagination. Create a subject line that will spark interest, create curiosity, get the attention, and most of all, deliver a benefit that your recipients cannot refuse.

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