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If you own or operate a Small Business of any type:  How would you like to immediately stop being an “advertising victim”?…..Finally get accurately measurable, trackable results from every dollar you put into ANY kind of advertising, marketing, or promotion?  On demand, attract a flood of brand new customers?  Or spark a huge cash flow revenue surge?  Define and DOMINATE any “target or niche  market” of your choosing…..for less than $3.00 per prospect?  (It doesn’t matter if you own a company selling sophisticated software only to Fortune 1000 companies or a local retail store, what I’m about to reveal to you can “re-invent” your entire marketing process and improve it for the better!)

 

If you are a Sales Professional :  How would you like to end cold prospecting once and for all? Learn new powerful ways to magnetically attract prospects who are pre-disposed to view you as an expert and advisor, and already pre-disposed to buy from you?  Put an end once and for all to being “screened”, or to playing phone tag? Have qualified prospects eagerly asking you to make time to see them?

               

If you are a Sales Manager or Marketing Executive:  How would you like to eliminate the fat, waste, and even the uncertainty out of your company’s advertising…..AND…..make your salespeople immensely more productive?

 

All these benefits, and many more, are readily available — with these marketing strategies, notably the “Magnetic Marketing Systems”.

 

All this from Marketing guru -Dan Kennedy.  You’ve probably heard of him — or heard him speak.  He used to speak to over 200,000 people each year, appearing in big events with the likes of Zig Ziglar, Tom Hopkins, and Larry King, just to name a few.  Private clients pay him $1000.00 and hour for consultations; $7,500.00 to $15,000.00 plus royalties to develop marketing documents, tools, and campaigns.

 

One of his hottest, most in demand topics and consulting specialties is — “Magnetic Marketing” – and he gets rave reviews from the individuals and companies who acquire and use his Magnetic Marketing Systems and Strategies, across hundreds of different types of business or industry sector.    

 

I promise you that you, too, will be amazed at the power of his unusual yet proven methods. To be able to virtually transform businesses and sales careers from struggle or ‘average’ to meteoric growth and extraordinary success at amazing speed.

 

 I Outright Guarantee You’ve Never Got Your Hands On Anything Quite As Powerful And Practical As His Materials.

 

In this blog and the various resources that I will introduce, I will be looking at how Dan’s Magnetic Marketing can be utilized in all types of situations to deliver qualified prospects to the door!

How to implement his ideas and techniques in all types of business?  How to measure and track marketing campaigns? How to get the best “bang for the buck”!

Both offline and online. Plenty of tips and tricks to get the most out of his materials and ideas.

 

In summary what is “magnetic marketing”?

Magnetic Marketing is all about positioning instead of prospecting, about attraction rather than pursuit of the client. It’s a different combination of marketing message, target markets, and direct marketing strategies that come together in a SYSTEM, to magnetically attract the right quantity of customers or clients, affordably and effectively.

It changes the way that businesses and salespeople acquire their customers.

 

It involves the development of a compelling marketing message that is accurately targeted or matched to a very specific type of prospect. The quality of the match will determine how hard the marketing or prospecting will eventually be. Then the use of advertising that can be held responsible and accurately measured. No money spent unless this can be achieved. Then no chasing of new customers, which ultimately drives them away. You need to find ways to attract them, and bring them to your door, already pre-disposed to do business with you and not your competition.

 

This will need a big change in our thinking on how we sell!

http://www.richardbutler.biz

 

 

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A good copywriter is a great communicator.  Very, very simple.  And copy is just like oxygen, it can
breathe life into any sales & marketing campaign, or take any business off life support.
If you’re finding yourself working harder and harder each day, only to get fewer and fewer qualified leads, learn to become a direct marketing copywriter.
If you can’t distinguish your marketing methods from your nearest competitors, learn to be a direct
marketing copywriter.
If you’re trying to squeeze out the last ounce of profit from a dying business model, learn to become
a direct marketing copywriter.
 On the web or off the web.  You owe it to yourself as a direct marketer … which means getting a direct order, it does not mean going to a store and picking up something to purchase, this is directly.  I’m communicating with you and I’m giving you a way to purchase from me directly.
You owe it to yourself and your business to use copywriting as a secret weapon for the next campaign that you launch, and it will seriously make your response rates soar.  Increase the pulling power of every ad that you have.
That may sound like a commercial, but it’s been indelibly etched in my mind.  I didn’t read it from
anywhere.  It’s just there to know because I remind myself how important it is to write copy.
If I’m not communicating with my reader then I don’t have a sale and I’m not giving them the opportunity
to buy.  I’m confusing them.  That’s what it means to be a great copywriter and it can be easier than
you think if you just record yourself, just like Eugene Schwartz one of the greatest copywriters of all
time.He took a tape recorder with him, wherever he could.
So all you have to do is record yourself or have someone interview you , and take those words about the subject at hand or maybe call your best sales people and ask them “Why do you do so well? 
Tell me how you go about selling all those customers?”
Take those words, transcribe them, and you have about 80% of the research you need.  You don’t
have to be a great writer, but you do have to be a great communicator.

This is an excerpt from the FREE Report “10 Steps To Killer Web Copy” that is available here:

http://www.online-marketingstore.com/download/10Steps.pdf

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The most recent website boom showed us all that the business world and businesses of all types and sizes were indeed ready to enter the world of the internet and embrace the new technology. However, things have changed significantly, and many sites have not moved on, and kept up with the times. Here are a number of errors that many sites still make in today’s current internet culture.

1)Infrequent updates- To construct a site that gains the most unique visitors and ultimately the most business, you must have the best, most up to date site possible. If a visitor feels that the site is not properly maintained and updated, then the chances are they will “click away” and find a similar business and site that they feel does regularly update and maintain their information. They need to feel that the information is as current as possible and therefore as relevant as they can easily find.

2) JavaScript pop ups- A JavaScript pop up, is a notification screen (window) that opens when you visit a site that gives you a message and normally has an ”ok” button at the end. This was very popular during the initial internet boom. But it quickly became over used, and subsequently the technique became a real “no – no”.

Not only did web designers add the pop up to the main page of their site, but they made the mistake of also adding one to each and every sub page within it. The problem was that typically these pop ups did not contain any relevant information that would be viewed as important to the visitor. This soon became very annoying, and is even more annoying now, as most newer computer systems also have a sound effect that accompanies the pop up.

If you have a message that you feel MUST be displayed to the visitor, before they can go further into your site, then a JavaScript pop up may still be the best option, but if you do utilize this technique I strongly caution you to be careful not to overuse it.

3) Heavy graphics- It is important to remember that not all internet users have the benefit of a broadband connection. You need to remember that a percentage of your worldwide visitors will still be on a dialup connection. Typically this means that they will have trouble downloading your site, especially if you have a large quantity of graphics on your pages. Unless your website is in flash, I would try to avoid using any animated graphics, as they normally involve large file sizes, long downloads and do not provide valuable information to the visitor. A simple site that clearly delivers the intended message will now be much better received than one that concentrates on being a design piece with clever graphics and amusing animations.

4) Using heavy, high contrasting colors- This was also very popular during the initial internet boom. It also soon became unpopular due to overuse. It was initially believed that use of high contrasting colors would grab the user’s attention. While this may well have been true, it also carried with it a negative effect since it tends to hurt the user’s eyes, and therefore sway them away from spending time within the site.

5) Clutter up pages- If your website appears to be cluttered and badly organized, then visitors will be less likely to progress deeper into your site, particularly if they think they will have to invest too much time weeding out the information they need from the other information that they perceive is useless to them. You do not want to run the risk of having too much information on each page, and you also never want to include more then one topic on each page as well. A good navigation system will eliminate many potential problems that you and your visitors may have. The visitor needs to be able to find the information that they are looking for, quickly and easily. Only then will they be prepared to invest time and progress further into the site.

6) Lack of a navigation system- Many of the sites created during the internet boom lacked one of the most important elements needed within a site. So often once a visitor clicked on a page, they were taken to a new page, without ever having a way to return or move to other pages within the site. A navigation system insures that the visitor will be able to view your entire site. A good navigation system will both take the visitor back to the page that they originally came from, to the main page, and to the other major parts of the site. Additionally, the navigation (normally at the bottom of the page) should have links to other items, such as website polices and terms and conditions. Navigation systems should always have a series of text links which can be easily utilized with a dialup connection, as well as any other more graphic buttons or links.

7) Over using Advertising- This is actually a fairly recent new problem with websites. This situation started as soon as Google started their Adsense program. Many sites have more ads then  information on their pages. A visitor does not want to have to spend time weeding  though ads to find the information and content that they are looking for. The reality of the situation is: A visitor is more likely to click on an advertisement link if they do not feel that they are being bombarded by them. Nobody likes to be sold to! This is definitely a situation where the old adage “less is more” is certainly true.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 14 June 2008 )

 

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Thank you for taking the time to visit my new blog. I will be updating regularly with ideas, tricks and tips on my use of magnetic lead generation techniques.
Whether or not you are a small business owner, entrepreneur or professional sales person, I am sure that you will find good information, for you to try and implement in your own environment.
I will be also providing my own recommendations of products, software and further information that you will find useful, relating to various areas of the constantly changing marketing world!

Richard Butler & Dan Kennedy

Richard Butler & Dan Kennedy

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