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12 years ago

Congratulations on taking action and closing down the deals, I would like to learn more about these mobile SMS campaigns, do you have any useful thread links I can take a look at to learn more please.

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IM Lover

12 years ago

Internet crashed and double posted sorry.

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Kunle Olomofe

12 years ago

Congrats! Way to go... Hope building four mobile sites won't be too time consuming to build for free? Either way, glad you got your foot in the door and got paid to boot. Great going.

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godinu

12 years ago

nice work! how did you manage the linkedin approach without it seeming spammy to the owner? is the biz in your locale/network?

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P1

12 years ago

Awesome! I remember your original post asking about SMS for that certain restaurant.

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Bennette 12 years ago

Congratulations I'm so happy for you. It's a great feeling to close sale. Don't stop now take the momentum and keep going.

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jordan08

12 years ago

Great job, Kim! I'm so happy for you!

You just learned how to create your own financial future...Merry Christmas indeed!

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12 years ago

Huge congrats! Keep it up!

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Zesh

12 years ago

This is fantastic. As an Offline consultant myself I remember when I made my first sale from an Offline client. Well done.

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12 years ago

Well done thank you for sharing.

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rachelle123

12 years ago

Thanks so much everyone.. It's a great feeling, especially when you keep trying and get nothing.. I have to say after buying so many WSO's and just reading, I think I just got sick and tired of not doing anything due to that four letter word..."FEAR"..

I did practice on my husband quite a bit prior to the phone calls, so that helped a little bit too..

As for the approach on linked in.. I join specific groups. Once you are accepted, I manually went through each profile and sent a private message to the individuals that did not have a mobile site for their business. I used mobilizer to check it out.

In my email, I just stated that I was new to linkedin and I am trying to build up references and feedback to gain business. I would then tell them that I made a mock mobile site for them and if they would be interested in seeing it to let me know.. Once they looked at it and liked it they message me back about how to get it with their phone number. I had 2 restaurant owners this week that replied back..

As for building the sites, for now I am using brick and mobile, very simple to use and they look amazing but once I make enough money, I think I will just buy some mobile layouts, as I hate the thought of them having control with the hosting..

All I can say, is for everyone that is trying.. Just take action.. the more you do, the more chances you have at something happening!

Cheers,
Kim

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sandalwood

12 years ago

Originally Posted by rachelle123

Thanks so much everyone.. It's a great feeling, especially when you keep trying and get nothing.. I have to say after buying so many WSO's and just reading, I think I just got sick and tired of not doing anything due to that four letter word..."FEAR"..

I did practice on my husband quite a bit prior to the phone calls, so that helped a little bit too..

As for the approach on linked in.. I join specific groups. Once you are accepted, I manually went through each profile and sent a private message to the individuals that did not have a mobile site for their business. I used mobilizer to check it out.

In my email, I just stated that I was new to linkedin and I am trying to build up references and feedback to gain business. I would then tell them that I made a mock mobile site for them and if they would be interested in seeing it to let me know.. Once they looked at it and liked it they message me back about how to get it with their phone number. I had 2 restaurant owners this week that replied back..

As for building the sites, for now I am using brick and mobile, very simple to use and they look amazing but once I make enough money, I think I will just buy some mobile layouts, as I hate the thought of them having control with the hosting..

All I can say, is for everyone that is trying.. Just take action.. the more you do, the more chances you have at something happening!

Cheers,
Kim

First - great job Kim. Keep hustling and the dollars will keep rolling

Next - Years ago I learned FEAR is merely an acronym. It stands for False Eexpectations Appearing Real. Since you landed a good sized account I bet you can relate.

Last - Don't forget to tell us about your next success.

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rachelle123

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sandalwood

First - great job Kim. Keep hustling and the dollars will keep rolling

Next - Years ago I learned FEAR is merely an acronym. It stands for False Eexpectations Appearing Real. Since you landed a good sized account I bet you can relate.

Last - Don't forget to tell us about your next success.

All the best,

Tom

Ha.. ha... love your acronym Tom! I really don't understand why we beat ourselves up so much.. It's like walking in the dark, trying to find out what is on the otherside of the room.. and really when you get there it's only a door..

But yes.. will absolutely share the process.. For now I have told my client I will be building the 4 mobile sites this week for him.. It will only take me a day or so.. and then I will be setting up the sms campaigns after the mobile sites are to his satisfaction.

Kim

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IM Lover

12 years ago

Originally Posted by rachelle123

Thanks so much everyone.. It's a great feeling, especially when you keep trying and get nothing.. I have to say after buying so many WSO's and just reading, I think I just got sick and tired of not doing anything due to that four letter word..."FEAR"..

I did practice on my husband quite a bit prior to the phone calls, so that helped a little bit too..

As for the approach on linked in.. I join specific groups. Once you are accepted, I manually went through each profile and sent a private message to the individuals that did not have a mobile site for their business. I used mobilizer to check it out.

In my email, I just stated that I was new to linkedin and I am trying to build up references and feedback to gain business. I would then tell them that I made a mock mobile site for them and if they would be interested in seeing it to let me know.. Once they looked at it and liked it they message me back about how to get it with their phone number. I had 2 restaurant owners this week that replied back..

As for building the sites, for now I am using brick and mobile, very simple to use and they look amazing but once I make enough money, I think I will just buy some mobile layouts, as I hate the thought of them having control with the hosting..

All I can say, is for everyone that is trying.. Just take action.. the more you do, the more chances you have at something happening!

Cheers,
Kim

Hi Kim

Not sure if you missed my post above, I said congratulations and also asked if you have some type of information I can use to learn this method as well, with so much about I would like to just look into the technique you currently use if that's good with you.

I'm actually in the Uk so would be great to start providing this as part of my SEO service, would just be an additional feature into our package.

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-Lee

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feliciayapsl

12 years ago

Congrats on your successful deals. Get more restaurants.

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RedShifted

12 years ago

Thats awesome good for you. One thing I learned about trying to pitch anything or even giving a speech in school was how important rehearsal and practice were for being successful.
Same curve that would exist if you did NOT rehearse one time at all or have a single thought about what you were going to say. You'd walk in and likely get more than tounge tied. Go in a second, third, fourth time and maybe the same thing would happen but to a lesser degree.

And then one day, week, or months later you might just eventually learn what the hell you are doing. Well one thing I do now to prevent that is take that "adaptive" stage of learning but engage it when I'm not actually adapting in real life. Same way a DJ might loop channels in sequence at home before going to the CLUB to "freestyle". Or same way a golfer goes to the range before playing 18. Before I go on any sale I always take out like 10 pages of blank paper (sometimes 50 for bigger jobs) and make a logical map of everything I want to say. I try to list it out as clearly as possible.
How do I want to come off?
Do I want to be aggressive and needy or passive and confident in my service?
Try to freestyle things as I go or have single executed powerhouse responses to everything they can say?

Things that just make me sound resourceful & knowledgable. I find if you can teach people something relevant & valuable, whether they really understand what it is you're trying to sell them, just because YOU are so confident in it makes them WANT to ACT like YOU. Thus triggering their confidence in YOUR service.

Confidence distracts us from our fears. Think about it. So there is ALREADY a huge tendency for others to want to BE confident. Its usually their self awareness that takes their mind off confidence and makes people fearful and anxious of random things. Like a pause in conversation can make a person scratch their head or play with their hair or dart their eyes to the side. They become self aware and need to displace the anxieties of awareness. ALSO like how customers are more likely to tip when in front of a mirror, which is why bars always have them behind the counter (and diners/restaraunts anywhere behind their registers or on the side just look).
USE this stuff to your advantage. Teach someone something, something potently relevant. It will take their mind WAYY OFF themselves and into an elevated reality. Afterwards just aim to shoot them back into self awareness mode (bring up something related to their ambitions like their job)and try to sell them something.

ps. I am by no means a guru in anything but I do know it is far easier to sell stuff to people who are self aware. If you manipulate the stages that come before self awareness you can definitely tip the boat in your direction. Whatever that means.

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booyaah

12 years ago

kool well done !!

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ryanmckinney

12 years ago

Hey! Awesome! We were just talking about this guy on Skype chat right?

This is great news -

I am out of town, talk with you later !
Ryan

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ryanmckinney

12 years ago

Hey! Awesome! We were just talking about this guy on Skype chat right?

This is great news -

I am out of town, talk with you later !
Ryan

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rachelle123

12 years ago

Hey Ryan,

Thanks, Yes this is the same guy we were chatting about..

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

Hi Rachelle,

Congrats!
How do you provide sms marketing in SA? Do you use a local provider that you found in SE?

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rachelle123

12 years ago

There are a ton of sms companies that provide worldwide service.

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

Thanks Kim, I was hitting my head with that and it's no headache at all!
Can you please tell me or pm me the service you use for reference.

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

So you create the sites free but charge a $800 setup fee... Can you please tell me more about the difference of the website creation fee or the setup fee, I don't see it...

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rachelle123

12 years ago

Originally Posted by coffeecashnow

So you create the sites free but charge a $800 setup fee... Can you please tell me more about the difference of the website creation fee or the setup fee, I don't see it...

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Olivier

This is my first client, so I just wanted to sweeten and seal the deal by giving him value (sites for free) and the fact that I am new. Each site would normally cost anywhere from $100 to $500 to build, depending on the amount of pages involved.

I took Arron's approach from another thread on here..

Mobile site free..
Setup fee is $200 for each restaurant which involves setting up the SMS service.
* setting up the actual page for each campaign
* developing the txt promotion that will go out.. only doing 1 per week to 500 ppl once we reach that

Then the actual maintenance fee of $250 per mth for each restaurant is:

* sending out the text messages and coming up with new ideas and campaigns to increase ROI and teaching his staff..

I am using Trumpia as Maria Guidelis recommends it and has been using it without a glitch for quite sometime and it services everywhere.

I will be doing this..

Week 1 (now) - Set-up Mobile Website and submit it to search engines

Week 2 - Set-up text message system & A mobile landing page for their primary offer /What offers he is willing to do to build a list and start promoting.

Week 3 /4 - Explain how to build and capture the mobile list ( this will be done first week of January)

* Add Mobile keywords/short codes to flyers, instore
signs, marketing materials, site

* Start texting out to his list, create a new campaign idea every two weeks.

Right now it's all trial and error for me as this is my first one..

Kim

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

Thank you Kim for all the info.
A bit of work for you now!

I'm checking with trumpia for my location.

I m not familiar with sms marketing and I understand you set up a landing page for each sms campaign. But how doest it work? You send the sms. Then what does the recipient do? Click on a link in the sms and then is redirected to the landing page?

This is completely new to me and I'm trying to see the whole picture...

The QR codes on marketing material will be for sign ups right?

How about printing them on receipts and pizza boxes for example? Is it something that's being done already?

Thanks again for the info!
O.

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

Forgot to ask... So you never met the client in person right?

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rachelle123

12 years ago

I have only spoken on the phone with the client.. As for your other questions.. there is a ton of this information in this specific section, "offline marketing discussions".. I suggest you read a few of them as you will find tons of gold nuggets that will allow you to have your AHA moment..

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coffeecashnow

12 years ago

Thanks,

Yeah I know I spend nights reading, there is just so much... that sometimes you just ask the question

O.

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Richard Tunnah

12 years ago

Great news Kim. Another person that has discovered the power of linkedin. It really is a powerful place if you use it wisely. As I posted before it has many decision makers and remember the average salary on there is $74k a year - so people with funds to invest.

Rich

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peter360

12 years ago

Congratulations Kim, great job! Yes, LinkedIn can be a great resource for finding customers. I also signed up with Trumpia, they have a very solid platform. Too bad that they don't have a mobile website builder yet.

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sdentrepreneur

12 years ago

Congrats Kim, I am also a big believer in LinkedIn Marketing. I am seeing more businesses going to Mobile Apps with push notifications over SMS texting. I see that is the future with so many smart phones out there now.

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ryanmckinney

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sdentrepreneur

Congrats Kim, I am also a big believer in LinkedIn Marketing. I am seeing more businesses going to Mobile Apps with push notifications over SMS texting. I see that is the future with so many smart phones out there now.

That makes alot of sense, so you set up an app, and have the custome dl it?

Resources for the app build ? !

I like this angle makes a lot of sense, but we also still hav SMS for polling / voting..

Possible with the app ?

Rachelle.. Sweet, I will Skype you tomorrow , on a weekend get away and promised I would not "work" :-D

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rachelle123

12 years ago

Hi Lee,

This is the thread that I read and watched for sometime..http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...ne-script.html

Like I stated above I just read on this forum as much as I could to learn about the offline industry in regard to approaching clients.. I already have a background in seo and IM.. it was the approach technique that I was having issues with.

As far as SMS services, there are a ton of them on the internet that you can research. My method was contact potential leads on Linkedin, create them a free mock site to get their interest. and then make the sale while their excited.

Kim

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IM Lover

12 years ago

Originally Posted by rachelle123

Hi Ben,

This is the thread that I read and watched for sometime..http://www.warriorforum.com/offline-...ne-script.html

Like I stated above I just read on this forum as much as I could to learn about the offline industry in regard to approaching clients.. I already have a background in seo and IM.. it was the approach technique that I was having issues with.

As far as SMS services, there are a ton of them on the internet that you can research. My method was contact potential leads on Linkedin, create them a free mock site to get their interest. and then make the sale while their excited.

Kim

Hi Kim

I'm guessing that was meant for me, I'm Lee not Ben but thank you very much indeed. I look forward to reading it over and learning it.

Cheers

-Lee

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rachelle123 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Warrior Lee

Hi Kim

I'm guessing that was meant for me, I'm Lee not Ben but thank you very much indeed. I look forward to reading it over and learning it.

Cheers

-Lee

Lol... I'm sorry Lee.. Yes that was for you!

@ Kyle.. should be on sometime today and will add you..

Kim
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agonce

12 years ago

you said your client is from South Africa? :O

How will you be managing his sms campaigns and all? It is hard for me to believe that someone from South Africa will use sms marketing, moreover considering that sending txt msgs will cost a lot I assume.

good luck.

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KyleGolemMedia

12 years ago

Rachelle,

Congrats! I'm venturing into the local mobile design market in January and your words are encouraging. I'd love to have a chat with you on Skype sometime. I'll PM you my Skype info and hopefully I'll hear back from you. Thanks again!

Kyle

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bonn 12 years ago

Congratulations!!! woot!
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SGTech

12 years ago

Congrats from one Ontario resident to another. Unless you are from Ontario California and not Ontario Canada like me. In that case, just plain old congrats.