why the hell i dont get a freaking answer from my prospects? even offering FREE websites?

Would you trust a free website? If you poured your heart and soul into your business day after day, would you want a guy to come up to you and basically say "your business website is worth NOTHING! Get a free website today!"

No, you would not.

People want to satisfy their egos. If they want a great website, they're willing to pay for it.

Show us your direct mail letter and we may be able to figure out why.

Don't do a thing for free.

You'll devalue yourself, and make people who are already skeptical...afraid.

Don't depend on email. Nearly all unsolicited emails go into the trash. I hardly look at any emails from anyone I don't know.

The best way is to call people up and have real conversations. Try this.

I learned that a long time ago as well.
I tried giving sites away, as long as they paid $199 for hosting.
Then, tried giving them away just to build my portfolio. And if they didn't have hosting I would direct them to HG via my affiliate link.

Result, 2 responses, no free sites. I am not a copy writer, and my copy probably wasn't the best.... But, nobody wanted on.

Now, I charge.... And I like that better

Gotta unpiss, man. You're so spitting mad you were dropping caps all over the place.

Lookit, I could tell you chin up, carry on, etc...but I'm not. I'm going to give you the golden nugget. (Naturally there are tons of ways devised by smarter people than me to go...or even supercharge what I'm about to tell you.)

The people you are direct mailing aren't prospects. You don't get to call them prospects until they ask you for a meeting.

I tried direct mail. Doesn't work here either.

You need to write a call script and use it until you have it memorized. Polish it as you go. Contact the people directly by phone. Most won't growl at you.

I'm not convinced that walking into a store unasked is the best thing to do. But, walking in, introducing yourself, handing the manager a card, and then leaving is probably a good thing to do.

Then, later, as you have established a face, contact them by phone. Keep it lite.

What you are going to find is that it's all in the numbers. If a potential prospect is interested in what you have, they'll buy. If not, they won't.

Unless you are some kinda slick salesman (and I get a sense you aren't)--(and neither am I) the direct walk in approach is useless...

"Hey, I'm ol xfelipex from down the road there. You wanna buy a website?"

Contact them again as they roll around on your list. Once you are satisfied they really aren't interested or are bad people, move on.

When you run into that one in however many it takes, your week of happiness is made! It's a real treat. After you repeat a few times, then you'll have a good idea of what the ratio will be of calls to sales.

And spiff up that ol attitude. Sometimes forcing the face muscles to generate a smile smile,even when you really don't want to, will force the brain cells to cheer up a bit. For sure SMILE when you make a call, phone or in person.

Now, go revise the title of this post. First step to success!

Norm

Direct mail is not sending emails....

I don't think the problem is the services you're offering... the problem is how you're marketing those services.

Promotion might not enough while lot of people is providing same service. You must let those know how your service help them different from others and how you can make better than others .
Beside that do check where is your email send out do filter as junk mail or not ?

Well the real problem besides your attitude , besides your marketing method is that you really arent working that hard.

500 emails in 2 months. Thats not very many.

Young grasshopper, there's so much you need to learn about marketing. Did you know studies have shown that it takes on average 5 impressions before they will response to your offer. You've got to hit them on their head 4 more whacks with your offer. I'd follow up with a phone call, but you better have a polished script ready or you're going to wasted shot number 2.

Oh, and you better get ready to handle rejection, lots of it, cuz it goes with the territory. Most people can't and I get a feeling you're in that group. Maybe this is not your cup of tea.

I know it can be frustrating..but you can't give it!

A question for you--of all the emails you sent, how many did you follow up on? With an actual phone call?

People need to trust you before they buy from you. Working on building that relationship first before trying to seal the deal or worse yet, get mad and just give up, believing that IM is too hard and doesn't work.

Good luck and keep taking action!

I'd like to add my two cents here:

1) Sales is a numbers game. Take a measily conversion of 1%, set a goal (# of sales), then calculate what you need to do to achieve that goal. Simply said: 500 may not be enough. I've done product launches to 2,000 people and only got a sale. It really is a matter of: the bigger the number approached, the higher your chances. That is, assuming you have a good/average product of course, good/average pitch, etc.

2) The big problem though, is the nature of the sale. First off, you sound like you're offering a billion things in one direct mail piece. Don't. People can't tell the forrest from the trees so offer one thing and one thing alone.

3) More nature of the sale stuff: if I order flyers and business cards, I order in bulk. If I order a website, I'd better be sure as hell that the provider who'll make it is any good. In other words: you're looking to get big sales from people you don't know and business-to-business people while we're at it. Business-to-business usually requires multiple moments of contact, especially if we're talking about buying in bulk or a large order (which we are). Solution: don't go so far as to actually sell stuff. It won't happen. People need to trust you first. So, make a short sales letter in which you offer free info about how to save money on bla bla and they can download a free report on page XYZ dot com. So, the sales letter is nothing more than a call-to-action to visit a squeeze page on your site that gets people on your email list. Once they're on it, you build a relationship by giving them tips and what not, and THEN you ask for sales.

I simply get the feeling you're trying to sell a car via a direct mail piece: too big of an order to make a buying decision after one moment of contact. More contact points are needed.

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