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Subject: UPDATE: Your teams are formed!

From: GISHWHES <Mothership@gishwhes.com> Date: August 2, 2017 at 11:11:42 AM EDT

Greetings [Name],

I have spendifigorious news! Your teams have been formed!

All you need to do is log into the website and click on “Your Team” under your username in the menu. You’ll be able to see all of your teammates and connect with them.

Reach out to them via group email, and then perhaps one of you can kindly and generously volunteer to create a Facebook group to communicate. You can also use a free chat service (there are many online), smoke signals, carrier pigeons or whatever else grooms your donkey.

So here’s what’s next…

1. Who are your teammates (i.e. new best friends)? If you don’t already know them, find out where they’re from. What do they like doing? Have they gished before? Why did they sign up for gish? What do they hope to experience from it? Above all else, be sure to ask them what side of their mouth they begin brushing their teeth with: left or right (from the vantage point of the brusher NOT the viewer). This is really important information. Find out if your team is predominantly left brushers or right brushers.

2. Do you have missing teammates? Many times you might have team members (more than one) that are silent when you first reach out to them… and sometimes stay silent throughout the duration of the Hunt. Although annoying, definitely do not worry about this (or contact support!): (1) winning teams in the past have had less than 15 members, and (2) sometimes they’re just shy so simply keep on including them on emails until they decide to come out from under the bed and play. Remember that first day of school where some of us hid behind our parent’s leg and hugged it like it was the last tree in Nepal? That. So just be nice and accommodating and maybe, just maybe, you’ll make someone’s day by giving them courage to come out and play. At the end of the day, you don’t need 15 people to have an amazing time. As a final note, PLEASE don’t contact support about this. Our gish gnomes are overworked as it is and are powerless to give your missing teammate courage to come out from under the bed (only you can do that).

3. Want to change your team name? Some of you may have noticed that your team name is changed. When the gnomes combine two (or more) partially filled teams (to get a team of 15 put together) they can’t erase a team’s name. That would be bad karma. The good news is you all can work together on a NEW team name (or choose one of your existing ones to go with). The Captain can change the team name. This will likely be the first thing you all work together on… so don’t botch up your first collaborative task! Embrace it with the same creativity, communication and collaborative spirit that you will employ during the Hunt!

4. Want to change your team Captain? There may be situations where you choose to change the Captain of your team. The Captain can do this in their My Account panel on the website. (NOTE: I’m told there may be a little pesky bug with this but gishbot is working on it, so be patient with the little dorkbot!)

Misha Collins or I will send you another email prior to the Hunt explaining next steps, but in the meantime, introduce yourself to your teammates and let them know about your brushing habits!

Yours unless I’m someone else’s but I’d still kinda be yours which is something,

Miss Jean Louis

Advisor (a.k.a “babysitter”) to Misha Collins

The Gishwhes Historian is a project to archive Gishwhes-related information including emails, hunt updates, timelines, and more.  

If you’d like to help, we have a list of missing content here,  or you can fill out one of our surveys.

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Finding Profits Through Successful Internet Marketing Ideas

Finding Profits Through Successful Internet Marketing Ideas

These days, you need to be on top of your game when it comes to internet marketing. If you do not keep up with the current trends then your techniques may become outdated or even obsolete. Use the tips provided in this article to make sure you are staying current in the market.

To understand how your audience uses your website, you need to add analytics tracking to the site. Analytics gives you a lot of interesting intelligence about your website visitors including how many are visiting each day, how many are returning a second time, what content they are most interested in, and much more.

Develop ways to capture emails across your website. Increasing your business takes constant communication with your visitors to help build brand engagement and loyalty. So the more emails you collect, the more opportunities you have to drive traffic back to your site later when you are launching a new product, publishing new content, or offering a sale.

Post your opinions on current events and discuss how these events affect your readers. When something major happens in the world, it becomes a hot topic that many people search for. If you are one of the first websites to write about a recent issue, then you are a valuable resource to readers who desire immediate updates. Search engines crawling for information will also add your relevant articles to their index for that keyword.

Establishing a relationship with your customer is important, as you can do this by inserting an "about us" link on your website. In this section, you can talk about the startup of the company and how you progressed to where you are today. Include pictures to improve the personal connection with your client.

You should create standalone pages for stories that are popular to visitors. Using techniques such as index pages can allow you to create a new URL that stands alone and references previously made content without republishing a full article multiple times, leading to a unneeded lower rank on the SERP.

When seeking out people who will create back-links to your website or products, make sure that you're always choosing a quality site that puts out quality content. You do not want your brand in any way associated with weak content or spammers. You have to be able to build up a solid reputation in marketing.

Pay attention to your page rankings. Many sites will tell you that they do not matter, but others argue strongly that they do. The higher your page ranking, the more people will see your site. It is a good idea to pay close attention to your ranks, but not to obsess over them.

Don't use the e-mail addresses of non-consenting individuals for advertising purposes. It is not only rude to fill someone's mailbox with unwanted advertising e-mails, but can also be illegal. Be sensitive to your prospective customers' needs. When they ask you to remove them from your database do it promptly or before your next e-mail campaign.

The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them.

Before you develop your site, gather a team and come up with a concept sketch. This tool is used to form the overview of what you want your site to look like and can serve as a solid foundation for the detail oriented site that you are about to create.

Make sure that your internet marketing efforts reach out to people who use their smartphones to get online. This segment of the online population is constantly growing and you do not want to miss out on it. It may not be possible to make all of your website available to phone browsers but you still need to have some kind of presence available to smartphone users!

Once your website is offering more than a handful of products for sale, a product search function becomes a smart investment from an Internet marketing standpoint. When a website offers lots of products or has a selection of very closely-related sales offerings, the capability to search is vital to connecting potential buyers with the products they want. Otherwise they may just quickly go elsewhere.

In conclusion, you know that in this day and age it is crucial to stay in the know with the latest information on internet marketing. Use the tips provided in this article to help you stay up-to-date. Don't get left behind or become obsolete! Make your internet marketing a success!

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Top Reasons Why 67% Of Sales People Fail To Reach Their Goal

In sales, there is a multitude of reasons you can fail. The timing is terrible, the status quo won, or maybe you were outsold by the competition. What can you do with so many variables at play? You can work on things you can control that contribute to the success or failure of any sale.

I have enjoyed personal success in the sales in both B2B and B2C industries and have coached and trained sales teams from every sector. The failure to advance the ball is the most common reason salespeople fail. The following are the top reasons why 67% of sales people fail to reach their goal.

1 – Inaccurate Databases

The hidden cost of bad data may be even greater than 12% lost revenue. 28% of those who have had problems delivering email say that customer service has suffered as a result, while 21% experienced reputational damage. And finally 40% of business objectives fail due to inaccurate data

The question here is not just one of increasing conversion at source, but one of protecting a company from the risk that comes from sending communications with incorrect contact information. In the US, this risk is high as ISPs increasingly crack down on email senders.

All of this forms the background to a key trend in marketing. Customer data (and in turn, CRM systems, marketing automation, customer experience management and analytics packages) remains a priority for improvement

Let’s look at some stats created by ZoomInfo on the negative impact of data decay

62% of organizations rely on marketing and prospect data that’s up to 40% inaccurate

Up to 25% of B2B database contacts contain critical errors

1-10-100 rule: It costs $1 to verify a record as it’s entered, $10 to scrub and cleanse it later, and $100 if nothing is done

I believe the numbers are scary enough for every sales manager to run back to office and check the accuracy of his or her databases.

2 – Dry Pipeline-

Many salespeople or telemarketers instead of searching new prospects, they continue calling the old ones hoping something will convert.

Here is a list of to do’s to overcome a dry pipeline:

Source leads, ensuring you do it appropriately and compliantly.  Match the leads to your ‘ideal customer profile’ as much as possible.

Qualify leads using criteria which will help you categorise prospects into segments.  For example, you may have some more urgent than others or want to select different contact methods for each segments.

Design the activity and milestones for your sales pipeline.  For example, will you use the phone or email, or do you want to meet face to face?  What does success look like at each milestone?

Begin your sales activity – think about which sales approach you use and why.  When we say sales approach, we mean are you transactional or consultative, is the focus more on inbound or outbound, have your team been trained a consistent way to approach sales?

Record your activity and outcomes so that you can spot trends and understand conversion rates.  We’d advise you use a CRM for this, but you can always start with a spreadsheet until it becomes too big to manage.

3 – Not dialing enough

Very common problem in sales people that they don’t make enough dials. Successful sales have calling hours where all they do is “Only Call” with a “Do not Disturb Sign”

With a good time and calendar management, you make sure you leave yourself enough time to sit and make ‘rockstar’ calls.

In our experience, a diligent inside sales person making their first pass through a new list will be able to easily achieve 8-10 calls per hour.

The cold calls per hour will increase as the list becomes warmer and more refined over the next few calls. This will allow a good inside sales person to average 10-12 calls per hour while effectively maintaining and updating information in the CRM.

4 – Dont update CRM

The key to good followups is keeping good notes on your CRM software.

Customer Relationship Management software is widely hailed as “the” vehicle to improve customer relationships and carry your company to a profitable bottom-line. Even so, sometimes CRM feels a bit like a clunker. How do you know if it’s time to trade-in your CRM or just give it a tune-up?

You might need a CRM upgrade if:

Your customers need to run through their history with you each time they call.

You tout a “new customer sale” only to later discover that it’s actually from an existing customer.

You need more than a few seconds to find an existing customer’s order or purchase history.

Every time a customer calls, you need a carrier pigeon to access supporting systems and information.

You find out you’ve lost a customer from a competitor’s press release touting their new customer win.

“Integration with legacy systems” means you share a workstation with the oldest person in the company.

Someone calls to place an order, and you only find out they have a quote when they tell you.

You ship an order to a customer’s competitor.

Instead of Christmas cards from you customers, you receive sympathy cards.

You don’t even know who your customers are.

5 – Lack of networking

The formula is simple. Go out and meet new people

Staying indoors and locking yourself at an office is keeping your eyes away from sales opportunities, and most of all far from potential marketing to boost your sales performance.

Always look for events, conferences, seminars, training,… around you. Such environments are great to jump into conversations, introduce yourself to people, you can never know, maybe someone out there is searching for something you can offer.

6 – Attending industry events

The question is, why attending tradeshows and networking events is that important?

Once you have the target audience in place, you can easily identify their areas of interest and the kind of conferences and trade shows they are likely to attend. Attending industry conferences, seminars, events or trade shows are a great place to connect with potential prospe

cts. You get the opportunity to meet people face to face and talk to them about their requirements and how your product or service can help them. Attending such events will also keep you updated on the latest industry trends and ensure that you stay ahead of the curve and also give you the opportunity to build connections with industry experts which you can leverage during networking. You also get the fantastic opportunity to identify if your product or service needs to add any feature to become more market ready.

7 – Slacking during good times

Do you know what makes some salespeople one of the most successful? They’re not slackers.

Elon Musk runs two companies, Tesla and SpaceX. Those are two full-time jobs. The guy barely has time to sleep. I hear he gets six hours a day on average. Now you know why he is successful. Winners gonna win and slackers gonna slack off.

As a salesperson you need a meaning and a momentum to keep yourself motivated, active and constantly striving toward excellence instead of slacking off. You can never tell what opportunity you would miss while napping.

Motivation and having a goals is the ultimate mix for crushing slacking off. And for that here are some notes on how to motivate a salesperson.

Sprints

Recognition

Make the salesperson a mentor

Feedback

The right tools

8 – Hiring a sales trainer

On a daily basis calls need to be listened and  skills need to be enhanced.

Hiring a sales trainer too early is one of the common mistakes. In the early stages, you want founders to ideally drive the sales process. Hire your first sales people only after you have a sense of who your ideal customer profile is, what is the right messaging and value proposition, what are the typical stages that a prospect passes through in your funnel, key objections and how to overcome them etc.

Another common mistake, is hiring a sales trainer before even setting a sales process. Many tech companies think that selling is easy and hiring sales people is enough to start selling. This is not true, you have to setup your sales process before actually get into hiring mode and it’s take a lot of work.

9 – Consistency in follow ups

I get it nobody wants to be “that” person who does not stop calling. Whilst I would never phone anyone every day and fall into the harassment zone, we can follow up in a respectful way.

It takes up to between 8 and 12 follow up calls to close a deal perfectly. While most sales reps just stop at the 3rd call and complain about the low number of closed deal or even why the company losing revenue.

People tend to lead busy lives and if the email you send or voicemail you leave arrives with them at an inconvenient time, they may forget to respond or, be full of intention to, but then something else happens that takes priority.  Past research has shown that it can take up to seven touchpoints with a prospective client before they take action and with the huge rise in social media, this figure can now be significantly higher.

After someone has requested some information on your business and you have sent it out, a simple seven-point contact plan could be as below.  Once a prospect buys from you, they would move out of the remaining sequence and be added to your client mailing list so that ongoing contact is still maintained.  The types of contact you have will be determined by the information you have available so at the point of initial enquiry, get as much information as you can. Ask for an email as the bare minimum but if you can, take a phone number and mailing address.

Attempt contact via email or phone call to see if info received and if any questions. If no response, leave a message or send acknowledgment email (within 24 hours)

Follow up call to prospect and if not there, leave a message (+24 hours from step 1)

Send follow up email (+ 1 week from step 2)

Send a written letter (+ 1 week from step 3)

Final phone call (+ 1 month from step 4)

Final email (+ 1 week from step 5)

Final letter – confirm no further contact will be made but will add to mailing list (+ 1 month from step 6)

Once prospects have moved off the main seven steps and on to your mailing list, this database of contacts can be used for sending out your newsletter, free advice, and tips and for future marketing purposes including competitions/surveys etc.

10 – Selling when its raw

Excitement is a natural human feeling, we tend to enjoy it when it comes. However, for sales world it is not the best thing when it is being handled wrongly.

Many sales reps get excited when they first get in touch with a prospect and they put the sales talk on the table at the very first moments. Neglecting the importance of building trust and understanding with the prospect.

Plus with the world of social media today, it is highly advised the let your target audience consume your free content before letting them know that you’re selling something.

If a prospect consumed your content, it will be easier for you to let them consume your products and services. For the reason that they interacted with you before out of a sales frame, and they acquired a free added value out of your content. At that time you can bring the sales talk, and you will see yourself the efficiency of patience.

It is easy and simple for the mind, let them consumer your free content, build trust and understanding, unleash the sales beast and seal the deal. B2B Lead Generation Company

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Top Internet Marketing Ideas To Get Your Business Noticed

By Hickson Michael

The internet is one of the newest and most effective tools you can use for marketing a product or a service. Whatever it is that you are trying to market, if you learn a few simple tricks of the trade, soon you will be a master of online marketing. Internet marketing is often seen through banner ads, but these are not highly recommended. Do not invest much of your resources in banner ads if you want to successfully market your products or services online. Banner ads are increasingly being blocked with extensions in browsers, effectively deleting your ads from sites. Follow-up with customers. Ask if they are benefiting from your product or service. Ask if there's anything you could have done better. If you want to take it a step further, follow-up with non-buyers as well. Find out why they didn't buy anything and ask what would have made them do so. Try to stay current with your webpage and the market for the items you have on it. You want to make sure you are periodically updating your webpage with new content and deals that people can see. You can't expect to just make a new webpage and never update it, make sure you know you are going to have the time in the future to keep up with your webpage and it's content. Add a frequently asked questions section to your website, especially if you tend to get the same questions in emails repeatedly. This will let your readers know that not only are you listening to them, you are responding. Developing a great rapport with your customer is just as important as any other marketing technique. To increase the success of your Internet marketing website, it is important to consider what you want a visitor to your website to take with them when they leave. You can decide what information is the most important for your visitor, and position that information in a prominent place in your layout. The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them. At the bottom of every page on your site, do not forget to add a back to top option. This will allow every visitor to avoid scrolling and get to the top of the page by simply clicking a button. Inserting a back to top button limits frustration and will improve your sales. Staying on top of emergent trends is very important to keeping your internet marketing strategy up-to-date. Keep track of the way your customers and your competitors are using new services to communicate with each other! Do not get left behind when everyone else in your business migrates to a new social networking service or communications channel. If you expect customers to participate in and respond to your online marketing by disclosing their personal contact information, shouldn't your business do the same? Do not make your contact information a mystery to prospective or existing customers. Include a contact name, e-mail, and phone number in addition to the site address. If the message recipient needs further information about something he or she reads in your marketing messages, you must ensure that they can easily reach you or a representative." Check that all the links on your website work and that all the images are displayed correctly. When a visitor clicks on a link and is presented with an error screen, they lose trust in your business and will be less likely to order a product or service from you.

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Internet Marketing: Everyone Else Is Doing It Successfully, Why Aren't You?

By Hickson Michael

The internet is one of the newest and most effective tools you can use for marketing a product or a service. Whatever it is that you are trying to market, if you learn a few simple tricks of the trade, soon you will be a master of online marketing. Internet marketing is often seen through banner ads, but these are not highly recommended. Do not invest much of your resources in banner ads if you want to successfully market your products or services online. Banner ads are increasingly being blocked with extensions in browsers, effectively deleting your ads from sites. Follow-up with customers. Ask if they are benefiting from your product or service. Ask if there's anything you could have done better. If you want to take it a step further, follow-up with non-buyers as well. Find out why they didn't buy anything and ask what would have made them do so. Try to stay current with your webpage and the market for the items you have on it. You want to make sure you are periodically updating your webpage with new content and deals that people can see. You can't expect to just make a new webpage and never update it, make sure you know you are going to have the time in the future to keep up with your webpage and it's content. An easy way to remind your current customers about your store and also, to tell potential customers about your store, is to send a press release. You can announce sales, new products or just remind your customers to come back and shop. Anything that brings your company to the front of your customer's mind, can really help your profits. A very important tip for Internet marketing is to keep track of all site data. You should pay careful attention to all of the visitors for your site. Information such as where the visitors come from, what they do upon visiting the website, and how long they stay on the website are all important and should be analyzed regularly. The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them. At the bottom of every page on your site, do not forget to add a back to top option. This will allow every visitor to avoid scrolling and get to the top of the page by simply clicking a button. Inserting a back to top button limits frustration and will improve your sales. Staying on top of emergent trends is very important to keeping your internet marketing strategy up-to-date. Keep track of the way your customers and your competitors are using new services to communicate with each other! Do not get left behind when everyone else in your business migrates to a new social networking service or communications channel. If you expect customers to participate in and respond to your online marketing by disclosing their personal contact information, shouldn't your business do the same? Do not make your contact information a mystery to prospective or existing customers. Include a contact name, e-mail, and phone number in addition to the site address. If the message recipient needs further information about something he or she reads in your marketing messages, you must ensure that they can easily reach you or a representative." Do not make the mistake of believing that you can just start a website, and people will flock to it. Unless you start marketing it, nobody will know that it is there besides you and whatever ISP you use. Try to market your site before it is even launched.

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Work with web promoting to market your lifevantage reviews solutions or services toward a distinct target group. The helps a small business to maximize their advertising spending budget. Web advertising and marketing also makes it possible for companies to easily measure the effectiveness of their marketing. The online world is definitely the finest spot for sensible firms to promote.

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How To Market Online Like One Of The Pros

By Pessin Sarah

The Internet is constantly changing, which means you should constantly change the ways you use it to market your products. To do that, you should be sure to keep track of new marketing tips and tricks. Here are some great pieces of advice that will help give your old Internet marketing techniques a boost. Using search engine optimization will ensure that your website is listed for its content, not its existence! In other words, popular websites cannot harvest information from certain types of content. For example, if your user interface uses Flash, your listings may be bereft of information. Search engine optimization techniques will add more text-based information to your website, making it easier for search engines to represent your website accurately. Gather statistical data and analyze it. There's no way to improve upon your site if you don't know who is visiting, where they're coming from, how often they stop by, and what keeps bringing them back (or keeps them away). Use a tool like Google Analytics to help achieve this. Don't be afraid of self-promotion on your own website. No one is going to market your opportunity for you, if you don't market it first. Choose an area on your home page that can act as a sign post for future offers and deals for your customers. That way, they will always know where to look to see what is the next big opportunity from your brand. When marketing online you must carefully consider the design of your site. We all know how frustrating it can be to use cluttered websites. Your site should be designed for ease of use, and should leave the user wanting to come back. A well-thought-out website will make a big difference to your overall sales figures. Giving something away for free is a great way to encourage visitors to sign up for your mailing list. Email marketing has high profit potential and one of your top priorities as an internet marketer, should be to build a list. An easy way to do this is by writing a report or ebook and then offering it for free to your visitors, in exchange for them signing up for your mailing list. Set an amount you are willing to spend, and stick to it. Marketing can cost lots of money, but if you do it right, you will bring in more than you spend. Do not be too stingy with your spending, but do not be frivolous either. Keep your goals in mind. To make sure visitors click your banners, don't use them in excess. A site filled with banners will have a high bounce rate, and visitors who do stay will be reluctant to click. Choose only a few banners and spread them out throughout your site so that they're not overwhelming. This will give your site a professional look and increase your clickthrough rate. Building an email list of everyone that visits your site is a great way to market your business. You should give the customer the option to opt in to receive emails. You can then send special promotions or offers to these customers. The better the offers, the more customer base you will receive. The first key to mastering Internet Marketing is determining what the goal of your website should be. Obviously, your ultimate goal is to bring more customers your way, but how exactly will it accomplish that? Pick one specific goal to begin your website with at first. Then after some time, begin to build other important goals on top of that. Always follow-up with a customer immediately after a sale and then every few weeks afterwards. By sending a "thank you for your order" e-mail to previous customers, as well as, including adverts for other products or services that you sell, you can increase the number of repeat or new orders that you get from previous customers. The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them.

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Internet marketing training course can be an effective tool in boosting your business, but you need to use it skillfully. Follow the tips in this article, and your sales will improve because your internet marketing efforts will be successful.

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How To Have A Good Internet Marketing Website

By Gold Jonathan

Internet marketing can be pretty exciting if you know what you can expect from it while promoting the products and services of your business. It can be a winning strategy for you if you can do it successfully. To ensure that this happens, try looking at the tips that are listed below. Uniqueness sells better than conformity. The more unique and hard to find your product is, the more likely people will buy it through your website. Search for companies who offer interesting and fun items, as they tend to be the most unused. Becoming an affiliate to these companies is a bonus, as it almost ensures sales. Create a blog that is directly linked with your website. This increases awareness of your brand, and is a separate, creative avenue to link to content on your site. A blog with your company's name means you automatically have a second search result that relates to your business. Finally, you can join a professional blog community and contribute intelligent comments to other sites, which increases web exposure to your links across the web. Send out an email or place a coupon on your website allowing your customers to give out a discount code to introduce their friends and co-workers to your products. Allow existing customers to use one for themselves, too, so you reward their loyalty and show that you value their continuing business. The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them. Not every piece of information you find on Internet marketing will be totally accurate. Remember that you always want to check a good tip or idea against other sources on the Internet to make sure that someone isn't just blowing smoke in an attempt to gain readership. Yes, there are snake-oil salesmen even in the world of advice-giving. Your business should have a Facebook and Twitter page, so that you can increase your marketing presence online, but you shouldn't include your personal pages. You can still be a real live person, but you want a facebook page for your business and a Twitter account as the owner of the business. You can have the same identity, you just don't want your customers on your friend's list, unless you truly are friends. Having true fans is a great way to succeed in internet marketing, so always put the effort in to make fans out of every visitor to your site. When you give people something to look forward to, your business is able to transcend the simple selling of a product and you become something much more forceful in business. Don't use pre-checked boxes on your sign up form. You may think this will bring you more subscribers but all it's likely to do it annoy people. People who forget to uncheck it will be subject to your emails even if they don't went them and they're more like to be annoyed with you and stop coming back to you. You want people to sign up because they want to, not because they were tricked into it. Call up the local newspaper. Speak to the editor that handles stories about your website's topic, and offer to talk on the record about your topic. Editors can send out a reporter to interview you, and you'll get free publicity for your website. You'll also likely get a link to your site if the newspaper has an online version. Iinternet marketing really is exciting, isn't it? There is so much to do and expect from working to promote your own online business. That's why you need to stay with it and keep going so that you can see results. Luckily, these tips contained advice that can be beneficial to you.

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With so much great knowledge now at the ready, you should be able to master lead generation in no time. It's up to you to go forward and make the most of your sales experience. Using the tips you've read here, you should have no problem getting more leads tomorrow.

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How To Have A Good Internet Marketing Website

By Gold Jonathan

Internet marketing can be pretty exciting if you know what you can expect from it while promoting the products and services of your business. It can be a winning strategy for you if you can do it successfully. To ensure that this happens, try looking at the tips that are listed below. Uniqueness sells better than conformity. The more unique and hard to find your product is, the more likely people will buy it through your website. Search for companies who offer interesting and fun items, as they tend to be the most unused. Becoming an affiliate to these companies is a bonus, as it almost ensures sales. To be a great marketer on the Internet, track your statistics and data. Keeping records of everything you possibly can is extremely important for learning what really works. Track what marketing methods you use and how they affect people. Record exactly what you sent or presented or posted, when, to which people and in what form. Track who clicks, who responds, who buys, and when and how and how many people take each specific action in response to your marketing campaigns. The more you know, the more you'll see what you need to do to boost your success rate. Business owners can be blind when it comes to their website. They can be emotionally attached to their business and will assume that their website is easily explaining their business to the customer when it is not. The key to having a great website is acknowledging the website is not perfect and may need improvement. The more ways they have to contact you the happier your website visitors will be. Relying solely on a contact form is unacceptable. Give your visitors, at least, an email address too. More communication channels are better; make yourself available via chat, video, Twitter, phone, fax and snail mail if you possibly can. If your visitors want to send you carrier pigeons, do your best to accept them. One problem that plagues a lot of beginning marketers is the language barrier. A lot of people want to market to audiences that speak different languages, but they do not know how. Well, a good tip here is to not really worry about it. Stick with the native language of your product. Search engines have translators to do the work for people interested. Your business should have a Facebook and Twitter page, so that you can increase your marketing presence online, but you shouldn't include your personal pages. You can still be a real live person, but you want a facebook page for your business and a Twitter account as the owner of the business. You can have the same identity, you just don't want your customers on your friend's list, unless you truly are friends. Having true fans is a great way to succeed in internet marketing, so always put the effort in to make fans out of every visitor to your site. When you give people something to look forward to, your business is able to transcend the simple selling of a product and you become something much more forceful in business. Utilizing social networks is a great way to enhance your internet marketing campaigns. You can find various tools online to help you post to all major search engines, which will help you save time. Not only will this be a lot less work, but it also ensures that you will reach a much larger audience. When describing your product, you should be extremely honest. Most people can see through typical advertisement discourse. Talk about the advantages of the product, but also its limitation. You should of course focus on the positive aspect, but try to sound like someone giving advice rather than trying to sell something. Iinternet marketing really is exciting, isn't it? There is so much to do and expect from working to promote your own online business. That's why you need to stay with it and keep going so that you can see results. Luckily, these tips contained advice that can be beneficial to you.

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With so much great knowledge now at the ready, you should be able to master lead generation in no time. It's up to you to go forward and make the most of your sales experience. Using the tips you've read here, you should have no problem getting more leads tomorrow.

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