Quick Tips for Creating a Great List
by Shannon Cherry
If you want to make money in your business, whether online or offline, there’s one thing you need to have: a list.
Without it, your business won’t grow so you need to create subscriber leads. These are leads to people who may be interested in buying your products and services.
You can gather leads automatically by creating your website in a way that requires everyone that visits sign up for your newsletter to give you their email address. While you can’t force anyone to sign up, you can gently encourage him or her to sign up by showing him or her the benefits of doing so.
Let’s review some of the most important steps you need to take to ensure you build a profitable list:
Top 5 Tips for Your Opt-In Page
by Terry L. Green
If you have an online business, your opt-in page can be your most important Internet marketing asset. In fact, as long as you put it together correctly and market it properly, your opt-in page can be your sole means to generate leads. Listed below are the top five tips you can use to ensure that you make the most out of your opt-in page and make it as effective as possible.
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Are you Stuck in Your Business Model?
by Jane Atkinson
Back in 1992 when I entered the speaking business, things felt much less complicated.
I worked with a speaker who was a leadership expert. We worked the ‘call-send-call’ process to book speeches and workshops. And she had a book which we used to leverage her expertise.
We didn’t offer consulting, teleseminars, membership clubs, webinars or podcasts. There was no such thing as Facebook, Twitter, Technorati, Digg or Flickr. Yet, we doubled our business every year.
I was a bit surprised by the climate at the National Speakers Association conference this year. Several very successful speakers confided in me that they were in transition and were not entirely sure which way to turn.
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Break Down Their 5 Most Common Objections and You’ll Sign On More Clients
by Fabienne Fredrickson
“A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.” -Anonymous
You’ll always get objections. Let’s face it. You may have the world’s best service, the best product available in your category or industry, but no matter what you do, no matter how good you are, you’re always going to have to deal with objections.
What’s the nature of objections, anyway? I believe most people simply have limiting beliefs of some sort; old conditioning that often keeps them from succeeding. It may be fear of failure, fear of success, fear of being ripped off, fear of overwhelm, etc. Problem is that these objections keep them from finding the solutions that solve their most pressing problems. Their self-doubt gets in the way of their success.
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