There Is Never An Excuse For Losing Touch or Breaking Trust

Imagine you had one lead, and you could spend all of your time getting that lead through the sales funnel to a purchase. How would you do it? What would you say? How much time would you spend on that lead?

Now imagine you’ve turned that one lead into a customer. And you can devote yourself to turning that one customer into a raving fan. What actions would you take?

Now…multiply that one lead by 5,000. What happens to your schedule?

Well, unless you have super powers, you can’t possibly do for the 5,000 what you did for the one. There are only 24 hours in your already busy day. And inevitably, the consistent, personalized attention you gave one prospect is forcibly diminished into:

*A follow-up phone call every couple of months

* An occasional “mass” email

* A two-week long autoresponder sequence

But just because you’re strapped for time doesn’t mean you should neglect your contacts. Your contacts deserve consistent, valuable communication from you whether you have one lead or a million.

And they’re more likely to buy if you are someone they can trust…not just the person who sends them a promotional email once in a while.

Once in a while does not build relationships.

Ironically, most small business owners send emails when they want to run a promotion or when their sales numbers are down. Then, they can’t figure out why no one is buying.

No one is buying because your customers and prospects are working on their time. Not yours. And your only hope of closing additional sales is to be there at the exact moment your contacts decide to buy. Chances are, that moment will not occur the last two days of the month.

With an advanced email marketing system, you
will always be there when your contacts need you. Because you can stay in touch with ALL of those people, you can:

* Follow up with new prospects when they request a free report

* Let contacts know about upcoming events

* Send weekly tips and tricks of your industry

* Immediately send out emails about Product A

* Deliver a monthly newsletter

Devote the necessary time and resources to making your email marketing consistent. If you promise to send a monthly newsletter, than you better send out a newsletter. If someone expresses an interest in your free report, you better email that free report right away (and follow up to make sure they received it).

You need to be someone they can count on to keep in touch. And you need to be someone who follows through on expectations.

There’s no excuse for losing touch or breaking trust. Consistently sending emails to your prospects and customers will help enhance your relationships and lead to a significant increase in sales

Jim Roche NJ

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Use Segmentation to Send ONLY Relevant Messages

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As a legitimate email marketer (as opposed to a
SPAMMER), you know how important permission based
marketing is. You know it’s imperative to get
permission before freely sending emails to your
prospects and customers.

Unfortunately, without segmentation, you’re
still committing one of the greatest sins in email
marketing…sending people emails they don’t want to
receive.

Imagine you wanted to
send a promotional email for Product A. Without
segmentation, you draft the email and send it out to
everyone you have contact information for.

Stop blasting emails to your entire contact list! No
single email will be relevant to EVERYONE on your
list. But without segmentation, you have no idea
who’ll respond.

And, no matter how great your promotion is, no
matter how fantastic your product or service is…you
will only ever reach a handful of interested people.
And you’ll irritate or start to drive off the rest.

With each “blast” you’ll get:

• A handful of interested people who like Product A
and are glad you sent them an email

• A group of people who want nothing to do with
Product A, or you, and flag your email as SPAM

• A few people who like Product A, but they want it
in blue and you’re promoting it in red

• A growing list of people who lost interest in you

Now, let’s imagine a different scenario. You want to
send a promotion for Product A. So you find all the
customers and prospects who have recently shown
an interest in Product A and send them an email.

We’ll let you guess the results of a targeted email
like that!

Effective email marketing requires you to know
everything you can about your contacts. You should
know their name, gender, email address, location,
marital status and career, as well as:

• Their interests, particularly as they relate to your
products and/or services

• When and what they last purchased

• Whether they open and click on emails

• Their behaviors (wouldn’t you like to know if a
prospect had been visiting your website?)

With these details, you always have the chance to
send targeted, relevant messages. Messages that get
results! That is what makes the difference between
you and millions of other small business owners.

Jim Roche NJ

908-413-5363

the12secondcommute@gmail.com

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AS a small business owner, you’re always looking for ways to close more sales and grow your business. And by now you’ve either adopted email marketing, or you
will shortly. After all, email marketing is easy, fast, inexpensive, and, in most cases, yields the highest ROI. Which is great for you the small business owner.

List building is a crucial element of any online business today. Building a list entails keeping a collection of prospects who are within easy access of contact.

Of course, to make list building work for you, you must have the tools to have them sign up to your list to gather the leads. With a little bit of creativity and a lot of persistence, your email list can end up consisting of many thousands of customers and interested prospects.

There are many benefits to list building here are just a few of them:

So what are the benefits of list building?

1. Building Relationships

When you email your list regularly, you build a relationship with them. They will learn to trust you and look forward to your emails, particularly if you are constantly providing free, helpful information that will interest them. For that reason it is also essential to know exactly what your list prospects want and need.

2. More Sales

After you begin providing free information to your list prospects they will be more likely to purchase from you. Regardless if they sign up to your list without initially purchasing something from you, you will stand a better chance of converting them after sending a sequence of emails. It is said that it can take up to 7 points of contact before someone purchases from you. Having built a list of prospects allows you the perfect opportunity to reach this point – without over doing it, of course. There is a fine line between helping your prospects and annoying them with constant contact.

3. Branding Yourself

You earn recognition by building a list. You can become an authority in your niche of choice. People may start talking about you and word of mouth can, of course, lead to increased business and a larger email list.

There simply is no better way to build a long term business than by taking advantage of list building, whether online or offline. Both online and offline businesses can benefit from list building. Although we have talked about emailing a list in this article, the same can be done via snail mail (or regular postal mail) and you can build your offline list in similar ways.

List building must be considered an essential part of any business plan. It will increase your bottom line dramatically and will allow you to build unparalleled relationships with your customers and prospects.

Jim Roche NJ

(908)413-5363

the12secondcommute@gmail.com

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List Building Tools

If you want to take your business to the next level, you need to start with your downline because if you help them and they stay with you, your business will explode. If you ignore them which too many sponsors do, they will quit and you will have a revolving door of clients.

It takes 80% less money to keep a client than it does to get a new one, so if your cost to acquire a client is $100, your cost to keep that client happy is only $20 and personally I would rather spend $20 to keep someone happy than $100 to find someone new and have to start all over again.

One of the tools you get with the 12 Second Commute is called the URL Rotator and the rotator simply allows you to create one master URL or link and then place other links under it so as people click on the master URL, they are automatically directed to the links under it.

For example, let’s say you are promoting Program T and I am promoting Program T. In your ads, you tell people that when they join Program T with you that you are going to give them advertising to help them get started. I am too cheap to do this and I just want people to join me in Program T and then they are on their own.

Who do you think is going to build Program T faster, you or me? You will because you are offering help to your clients while I am just offering to take their money.

Another way to help your downline is to use your Ad Tracker in the 12 Second Commute and track every ad and every link you have on the Internet. This is going to save you immediate money because you will know where your hits are coming from which means you don’t waste time and money on advertising that will not work.
And, it will allow you to pass this information to your downline.

Using the same Program T example as above, let’s say you have been tracking your ads for 6 months and you know exactly how much you have spent on advertising and how many hits you got from all your advertising and you can take this information and know exactly how much money it takes to run your business.

You tell your prospects that when they join Program T with you that you are going to share this valuable information with them and you can also tell them how much money they are going to have to spend to get profitable.

Since I am only after their money and I am not smart enough to track my ads, I just spend crazy money on advertising and I never know whether or works or not and I have zero data to pass to my downline.

Who are people going to join with? You, because you’ll tell them exactly how much it will cost them to get profitable and that is what people want and need to know.

Does doing this take a little time and energy? Yes, but it will pay off 10 fold for you because you are going the extra mile for your downline and they will stick with you. And, you will teach them to do the same, so not only will your downline grow but theirs will as well which brings more money to you and since people are not jumping ship each month, you can start counting on a certain amount of money each month as will your downline and you are now well on your way to achieving the success you desire and deserve.

Zig Ziglar said it best: “You can get anything in life you want; if you just help enough other people get what they want”. Help your downline using the tools and resources you get in 12 Second Commute and you will soon see an amazing increase in your business.

Jim Roche NJ

(908)413-5363

the12secondcommute@gmail.com

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List Building Tools

Hey, I’m Angie Mitchell… and this is my good friend Jim Roche.

I’m relatively new to the online marketing scene myself but I’m extremely happy to say that I have drastically shortened the learning curve.

I never struggled with where to go and what to do because I partnered up with Jim Roche NJ pretty much right away and together with our skills we have helped each other become successful.

We know that you do NOT have to be good at everything, you just have to be really good at some things.

This is our secret. Instead of being in business for ourselves, he does what he does best and I do what I do best, we outsource to each other and we’ve seen results.

We have found that working as a team, he doing the technical stuff and myself doing the creative copy stuff, we have been able to help our eager team members get on the path to seeing success as well. Some want to be left to their own devices and that’s OK too…

For us, Keyword Rich Content and Article Marketing Is The Ticket!

However, we are not alone in this process. 12 Second Commute with all the training and support has lightened the load.

No matter what program, product or service you are working online, you have to understand that using online marketing tools is only going to benefit you and your online business.

The amount of value you get with an account here is unbelievable.

Personally, I’d recommend kicking Get Response and Aweber to the curb…

12 Second Commute is far more superior in our opinion.

But don’t take our word for it. See for yourself.

If you don’t check it out, I know exactly why you’re hesitant… it’s because everybody and their dog is telling you they have the latest and greatest and it’s hard to know who to believe. I understand that.

Where else on the internet will you find Autoresponders, Contact Manager, Ad Trackers, Capture Page Creator, Affiliate Area, URL Rotators, Newbie Training Center, Blog, Video Training, Translation Area, Program Builders, SEO Tools, Smart Page, Conference Center, Purchase Traffic, Bonus Traffic and Hosting all under one roof?

12 Second Commute is an honest business resource and opportunity center unlike anything I’ve ever come across.

No useless hype at the site or provided by any of the trainers either.

Jim is also a trainer here at 12SC and he puts on his SEO conferences Wednesday night’s at 9:30 EST.

There are a total of 4 conferences that cover social networking, SEO, Advertising and basically a informational Q and A on these specific tools. There are a few during the day as well for the people in Europe on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Darryl Graham has been so generous in allowing anyone and everyone to take the entire system for a test drive free for 30 days.

There are not many businesses that have enough faith in their service to do this as the majority of them make you pay a dollar or pay in full up front before they will give you anything.

Actually, I’d prefer to only have it a 10 or 15 day free trail since I know from experience how when given the opportunity to check something out for too long, it gets pushed to the wayside and next thing you know… you just never get around to it. Oh well, not my rules to make.

If you are a serious person with a serious business goal then I’m confident you won’t wait the full 30 days to take action.

Jim and I are super happy paying members of 12 Second Commute and just wanted to share with you why this is the system you MUST get your hands on, or at the very least test out before deciding if you want to continue.

CHECK OUT THE TOOLS WE USE HERE

Angie Mitchell

angie@fast12secondcommute.com

Skype: angiebt79828

Remember… Its Not WHAT You Are Marketing, It’s What Online Marketing Tools You Use!

Hi, I’m Darryl Graham and let me tell you a little story about why I created 12SC and what it will do for you.

I started working online in 1999 and soon thereafter I had a partner who understood the importance of building a prospect list.

He tried for a long time to tell me about building and maintaining a prospect list as did others who were making money online, but I just could not see the big picture and did not want to spend the time and money in putting an Autoresponder together.

To make a long story short, we parted ways and he went on to make over $500,000 in less than 2 years while I continued to struggle and fight for survival each day.

Had I listened to him and the others who were hammering me with the truth and telling me to build my prospect list, I too, could have made over $500,000 in those first 4 years, but since I did not listen to reason and do the one thing that was making others extremely wealthy, I lost more than half a million dollars.

I vowed after I finally realized the potential of having my own prospect list that I would help others avoid my mistake, so I created my first Autoresponder around 2004.

My first Autoresponder was good, but people still had to build capture pages and tie the Autoresponder into those capture pages which still took a few hours of work for experienced marketers and many more hours for inexperienced marketers.

In 2009, I started conceptualizing 12SC as I wanted to give everyone the opportunity to build their own prospect list using a service that was easy to use and easy to afford.

In addition to the top of the line Autoresponder, we included all the other tools that are necessary to really succeed online. Tools such as the Ad and Link Tracker, URL Rotator, Capture page creator, conference center, Blog and an affiliate center that would allow our clients to make a little money or a lot of money.

The beauty of 12SC is that everyone who wants to build their own prospect list can now do so and they can be up and running in minutes and since our number one goal is to help our clients, we even do your setup once you upgrade to a paying client.

Your 30 day free trial is so you can see how powerful having access to the tools in 12SC is going to be for you to build any legal business you desire. You are not going to finish building a prospect list in 30 days—in fact, you will never stop building your prospect list unless you want to stop making money.

This is the same reason Wal-Mart, Pepsi, Coke, McDonald’s, Dell Computer, Google, Microsoft and every other successful business online or offline never stop advertising. Your list is your advertising resource for the future.

Let me give you some examples:

Scenario One—You have no prospect list: You come across a product that you want to sell to make a little money so you spend money and time advertising that product to try and make sales and if you make sales, great and if you don’t, you lose all your money. 99 times out of 100, you don’t even make enough money to break even as you are doing a cold sale to people you don’t know and they don’t know you.

This cycle continues for as long as you refuse to build your own prospect list. You find something you want to sell, you pay and spend time on advertising for the product and if you get really-really lucky, you break even once in a while but more often than not, you lose money.

By having 12SC and being able to constantly build your own prospect list, you avoid this cycle of futility.

Scenario Two—You have no prospect list that you own: Let’s say you have been with a company for 12 months selling vitamins or whatever and they have supplied you with nice capture pages and pre-written Autoresponder messages that are sent from their system. All you have to do is promote their capture page and when someone subscribes to get more information, their company Autoresponder does all the follow up. Nice, but only good for the company because if you ever wanted to promote anything else to that list, you can’t because it is not your list. If and when you leave that company, all those prospects are now the property of the company and they can do whatever they want with them. This sucks because it was you who spent the time and money to get those people into the company’s Autoresponder, but it is their Autoresponder and not yours.

All you can do is walk away empty handed…

Scenario Three—You have a 12SecondCommute.com Account: You have been with 12SC for only a few months but you have been building your own prospect list using your own Autoresponder and customized capture page. Now when you come across a great product you want to sell, all you do is login to your own 12SC Autoresponder, click a few buttons and send a Broadcast message to your entire list with your link to the great product. Depending on the size of your list and your rapport you have with your prospects, every sale you make is 100% pure profit and the entire process took you less than 5 minutes.

You continue growing your prospect list and you continue to send helpful information and great products to your prospects as you find them. They continue buying from you; your list continues to grow as does the amount of money you make.

If you never stop growing your prospect list, you will never stop making money.

The main goal of 12SC is to allow you to easily start building your prospect list using our Quick Start System and then through our online conferences and first class customer support we are going to educate you over time on how to use the other tools and resources in 12SC.

Upgrade your 12SC account today, attend our conferences and stick with it. Grow your list, let us train you on everything you need to succeed online and don’t ever quit on your dream because dreams do come true and I am living proof of it.

Darryl Graham

Founder

http://Easy12SecondCommute.com

908-413-5363

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