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Weekly Featured Resource - One Click Upsell

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 One Click Upsell

 

If you sell products, services or entry to events, using Infusionsoft's order forms, and you are not leading the new buyer to an immediate up sell, YOU ARE LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE!!!


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Weekly Featured Resource - SMS Conversations

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Change the RULES of Mobile Marketing.

Before now, mobile marketing was severely limited. You could only send a single text in response to a single incoming text message. This caused people using mobile marketing to settle for less than effective marketing strategies.


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Weekly Featured Resource - SMS - Infusionsoft Integration

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Change the RULES of Mobile Marketing.

Before now, mobile marketing was severely limited. You could only send a single text in response to a single incoming text message. This caused people using mobile marketing to settle for less than effective marketing strategies.

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Weekly Featured Resource - SLS Event Planning

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Sherrie at SLS Event Planning and Consulting LLC, organizes, sets up, and manages various corporate, public, and private events and meetings.

We’ve known Sherrie a long time and have confidence and respect for her amazing event planning skills, so please give her our regards when you call.


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Mute the world.

If you work within the current craze of open office space, or even in a home office or on the beach, you know what it’s like to try to focus when there’s activity and distraction surrounding you.

Kerry and I have separate adjacent offices but they’re not hermetically sealed so sound travels and it’s easy to get distracted. When you’re trying to do creative work or focus for productivity, it can be downright annoying when the noise around you breaks your concentration and you have to start again.

Picking the Right Media to Reach Your Ideal Client

In a recent blog post, we talked about how to identify your ideal client and what to say to them. Now that you know who they are, let’s move on to the science of choosing the right media to convey your message.

You have a good idea of your ideal client’s age, gender, education levels and their income. You know what they like and what they don’t. When you sit down on the couch, you can practically imagine having a conversation with them.

Back it up or lose it

The title says it all! Sooner or later you will have a catastrophic failure of everything electronic. Your computer, your web server, your website, your smart phone, whatever. Trust me on this one! The only thing you can do is keep recent backups so you have some recourse when disaster happens.

Today, I want to focus on your website. First, don’t count on your web hosting company to keep backups for you. They may, or they may not, but it is really YOUR responsibility to have a recent backup of your site. And best yet, have one that you keep off site, say, on your computer.

Who Are You Marketing To?

“Everyone is not YOUR customer.”      ~  Seth Godin

That little nugget of wisdom is worth writing down and then pinning up where you'll see it. It makes things so much easier when you discover who your ideal customers and clients are, because then you only have to market to them. Your marketing will become less generic and more personal when you know who it is you're “speaking to.”

What Not To Do with Your Automated Marketing

We all love our gadgets. From our classic kitchen appliances to the latest and greatest cell phone app, we’re surrounded by them. They’re great when they work. It’s when they don’t work that things begin to get complicated.

Technology giveth and sometimes technology taketh away it seems. 

Q4 marketing checklist for you

It’s about a month until Q4. Do you have your marketing strategy ready to roll? Without a plan, you’ll flounder for one more quarter and be in exactly the same position at the start of Q1 as you are today.

We just created a simple checklist for you and your team to put some clarity and organization around your Q4 marketing, with an eye towards getting better results for you.

Get the checklist.

Here’s to a brilliant Q4!

Automation is Your Best Friend

The antique shop on the corner is really neat. You go through the door, and on your left there’s a 1910 Victrola, beautifully preserved. Overhead are some ladies’ hats and clothing from local merchants, proudly handmade. Everything in the store calls you back to a simpler time when craftsmanship counted and automated machines weren’t stamping out cheap, shoddy products by the millions.

While the stroll back through time might be fun, don’t let that yearning for yesteryear fool you into thinking automation and quality can’t go hand in hand. Automation frees up time, money and resources so you can concentrate on your business. It means one less hat you have to wear during the course of a busy day.

Doing Your Best Work Outside the Office

On your way to the office, you notice a fellow in a flannel shirt hanging out at Starbucks, his tablet in hand. A block down you spot a middle-aged woman in a café staring keenly at the contents on her laptop. You pass a park and smile to yourself when you see a young couple kicking back in the grass with their headphones on. If only you had the day off like them.

In fact, those people are all hard at work. With real-time global communication and mobile everything, the ‘office’ has gotten a lot bigger these days. Instead of staring at dull walls and cubicles, you can get things done in an environment that relaxes you and helps you do your best work.

Weekly Featured Resource - Infusionsoft

Featured Resource this week - Infusionsoft

The Sales & Marketing Software for Small Business.

Customer & Marketing management: Manage and automate all facets of your customer relationships. Infusionsoft revolutionizes the way small businesses drive and manage their growth. With a robust dose of marketing automation, Infusionsoft replaces your diverse incompatible systems and provides you with an "all-in-one" solution that leaves you with more time to strategically grow your business.


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What’s Your Message to Your Ideal Client?

You already know trying to market to everyone spreads your resources too thin and results in your message being lost in a sea of similar looking ones.

You’re looking for that ideal client, the perfect fit for your product or service. Have you found them?

If you have, good for you! (If you don’t know who your ideal client is or how to figure it out, give us a call or contact us online for help.)

Weekly Featured Resource - FeedBolt

Weekly Featured Resource - FeedBolt

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Automagically Email Your Infusionsoft Contacts When You Update Your Blog or Feed

With FeedBolt, simply enter your blog URL, select an Infusionsoft Tag, and choose your template. FeedBolt takes care of the rest.


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