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Forum: Offline Marketing 17th December 2013, 06:41 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,436
Posted By Marta K
Re: My prospecting journey

I like that a lot - it actually accomplished another thing - instead of going straight into a pitch, you engage them into conversation, and it's not going to be simple yes or no, because they will...
Forum: Offline Marketing 15th December 2013, 02:29 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,063
Posted By Marta K
Re: We need the money by tomorrow at 1pm...I don't have it.

If you get too comfortable, you will be too afraid to risk it and you will stop doing new things. and no risk, no game:)
Forum: Offline Marketing 13th December 2013, 01:21 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 622
Posted By Marta K
Re: Email vs Direct Mail for your customer list?

I agree, it shouldn't be either or neither, but really, email is a must, plus you you could consider other media.

Email campaigns are on the ' why are you not doing it already list obvious list:-)
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th December 2013, 05:51 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,394
Posted By Marta K
Re: [Direct Mail Strategy] Total Win? Or Miserable Idea?

I think it sucks. Sorry to be blunt.
I regularly receive the same leaflet in duplicates - becauseit's 2x faster to distribute double leaflets to the homes. They both go to the bin. The 500? I would...
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th December 2013, 04:05 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,144
Posted By Marta K
Re: Added an extra 100k this year by offering this additional service - Giving back

Wouldn't it be simpler to just find a local photographer, wedding video guy etc, who didn't know what great skills he had and just 'outsource' all the learning curve? It become a passion for you, but...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 05:35 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,271
Posted By Marta K
Re: How to get clients to Pay you the big bucks

I totally agree -you need a bait. How about choose niche - like plumbers or sth, make landing page just for that niche with common problems, like clients who cancel or sh add case study- just...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 05:27 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 794
Posted By Marta K
Re: Adding MY Time to my marketing plan netted me 100k+

'Hoping' they would see it is not a strategy - but having a website with loads of info helps, when you are meeting the prospect, it also helps with refferals, as they have easy way to direct people...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 05:24 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 439
Posted By Marta K
Re: when and how to get rid of client??

The problem with being SEO expert is that there is loads of them advertising page 1 on fiverr:-)

Besides, why on earth would you build link without optimizing the page itself to the teeth??!...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 05:17 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 466
Posted By Marta K
Re: What do you do to keep the action rolling

I know what you mean - as soon as I have to wait for something that was supposed to be delivered by someone else the whole magic of the 'getting it done' is gone and I waste a lot of time!

Like...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 05:10 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 554
Posted By Marta K
Re: "Will 2014 be your breakout year for your offline business?"

1. Making a squeeze page
2. Writing a small report
3. Upsell sequence
4. Everything else:-)

I realised that I have to completely overhaul my business model - I spent too much time talking with...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 02:44 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 677
Posted By Marta K
Re: How to go about marketing a training program?

It all dependes on niche - facebook is not going to be effective in marketing air conditioning services to warehouses and distribution centres.
But marketing to hairdressers would work on facebook...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th December 2013, 02:32 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 1,279
Posted By Marta K
Re: What Can You Do with 90 Minutes?

Work from old clients and their refferals are what works for me best as well.
If you are desperate and need money this week - talking with business owners would do the trick the fastest, just walk...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 04:40 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,075
Posted By Marta K
Re: Can you build a business using email as the first contact?

The thing is - I was dealing with the one who had authority to sign it. And yet it happend, be ause of their quarrel - and because the secind partner thinks that if he offers me 'opportunity' to bid...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 04:35 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 928
Posted By Marta K
Re: Example of going from 6 leads per month to 6 per day in one easy step

Yup, and people think email marketing is dead:-) such a simple thing for us, yet when you talk to business owners it seems like novelty!
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 04:32 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,463
Posted By Marta K
Re: Door to door (b2b) flyer business card results?

Ouch, not nice. Pay, or bad karma will get you:-)
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 04:28 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 432
Posted By Marta K
Re: Why doesnt the UK business sector embrace Linked In

Linkedin is good for jobs here, but still ... everybody agrees that they should use it more,, and than promptly forget about it.
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 02:59 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,737
Posted By Marta K
Re: Clients paying 20k+ from these stupid little posts

I totally agree with charging more. I hought charging £1000 for a website is outrageous, when the client bragged how he just got £60 k order from it.
No wonder I thought it was an easy selll - takk...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 02:00 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,143
Posted By Marta K
Re: Are we getting hung up on the "charging monthly" thing??

I love the idea of 2 LAST months free!
I'm definitely stealing it:-)
It'ss so mmuch better than first month free - it gets commitment out of them:-)
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 01:56 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 432
Posted By Marta K
Re: Why doesnt the UK business sector embrace Linked In

They are busy with clients:-) no time for social media :-)
i'm doing local since 2008 and only done my FB page last week. My linkedin ..,.I probably got 3 words on it...

Yes, I'm in UK:-) I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th December 2013, 01:52 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,075
Posted By Marta K
Re: Can you build a business using email as the first contact?

I just had a client to agree the 6 mnths contract, very happy to move forward, next day I get a call from his partner that they put it on hold till next year.
Turn out they had a quabblle and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:50 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,653
Posted By Marta K
Re: Is this a game changer?

I think tne problem is not with financing bit of the post- is your numbers used to explain services offered. The deal doesn't make any profit for the owner, just makes them busy. But, as you said,...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 586
Posted By Marta K
Re: What types of WP plugins do you find yourself using or in need of?

Seo, forms etc as mentioned above
plus the one that re-generates thumbnails, after changing the theme.

There is a plugin that enables a master dashbord for multiple site updates to code. I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:23 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 751
Posted By Marta K
Re: Starting SMS Marketing but one prob!

I wouldn't even mention the self serve- they will still expect you to jump in and fix whatever mess they do simply because you have sold it to them. Avoid. Make a tiny starter package - like an hour...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:18 PM
Replies: 87
Views: 21,275
Posted By Marta K
Re: Offline Businesses that earn $1000+ per customer

Life coaches are really, really god niche.
Event planers -they organize those expensive seminars
Mediation coaches - think divorce, so you know they are costly


But a good way tto find new...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:09 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 4,686
Posted By Marta K
Re: What niche/industry most in demand for webiste?

Everybody sells to realtors, lawyers, dentist, beauty salons. They are tired of it. Besides, they are not making that much money. Restaurants for example - they have huge overheads and people dont...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 05:00 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,143
Posted By Marta K
Re: Are we getting hung up on the "charging monthly" thing??

It's easier to go monthly, because you don't need to repeat the research, presentation, getting to know each other stage, which is a huge time suck. You dont need to convince them they made a right...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th December 2013, 01:38 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 940
Posted By Marta K
Re: How I Made Over £26,000 Last Xmas and How I'm Going To Beat It This Year!!!!

Great minds think a like, I am just doing the same thing, 12 days of christmas campaign to jumpstart my business in new location, but I was thinking more of - I am giving each day one of my services...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th October 2013, 04:53 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,261
Posted By Marta K
Re: Made £2000 in the last 3 months.(Namesless,John Durham & Jason please advice) How do I scale?

Do what the rest of us do - write a report, price it £19, hold a seminar, sell websites for a £1000 each plus consulting retainer for at least £100 per month. This way, 20 customers a year give you a...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd October 2013, 05:45 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 847
Posted By Marta K
Re: Large commercial contracts? - Old school marketers - True experts

I work for the company like that - you need to make website look good and impressive, content wise, white paper authority etc, plus LinkedIn - good, regularly updated profiles of key people in...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th October 2013, 01:49 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,382
Posted By Marta K
be nice to gatekeepers - and chocolates go a long way!

I agree, I have put phone down on countless people, because they assumed I'm a gatekeeper - in all fairness, I was a woman, young one at that, but still...

If you bothered to be nice to me, you...
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th March 2013, 11:17 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 910
Posted By Marta K
Re: How do you offer an email marketing service to an offline business?

What aaron said above, plus factor in what yuour market would bear. Nail technician renting a chair wouldn't be able to afford 500pcm for newsletter service, I even seen £37pcm newslett service...
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th March 2013, 11:07 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,016
Posted By Marta K
Re: $150 seo is it possible

It's not necessarily cheap. We don't know what's included. Maybe for 150 he will rank business name? I mean, he will make sure that if somebody types the actual business name the right website shows...
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st March 2013, 01:47 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 796
Posted By Marta K
Re: Putting the numbers of wed design together?

You will find that you will lose money on first couple contracts anyway. It always takes more time than planned, they always want more revisions etc. If you are not sure what to charge, it simple to...
Forum: Offline Marketing 17th March 2013, 12:41 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 644
Posted By Marta K
Re: Squeeze Page Help

If you don't want to pay for an autoresponder - try Mailchimp, it gives you free account up to 2000 subcribers. Personally, though, I think a consultant who doesn't build his list, it's simply going...
Forum: Offline Marketing 15th March 2013, 03:23 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 3,685
Posted By Marta K
Re: Best way to get business owners to respond?? HONEST ANSWERS!

[B]Biz owner replies: "Sure it's John Smith. I look foward to receiving your letter".[ /B]

I don't think so. Maybe 1 in500?usually they would say, thanks, we got all customers we can handle now....
Forum: Offline Marketing 14th March 2013, 01:45 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 912
Posted By Marta K
Re: Good Directory Plugin

I checked million and one and wrote custom one and than completely backed out of it - 'great directory' depends on what you want to achieve with it. All I wanted is make profile pages for businesses...
Forum: Offline Marketing 14th March 2013, 01:27 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,351
Posted By Marta K
Re: Its mabye rude qus' but can i ask you how mach you make each month from offline martketing?

What I find funny on this forum, is how people sometimes post really basic question, or how they complain they can't get any clients, but in their signature there is link to make 'millions in your...
Forum: Offline Marketing 13th March 2013, 02:16 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,351
Posted By Marta K
Re: Its mabye rude qus' but can i ask you how mach you make each month from offline martketing?

I think the question like that is a more about what's possible and what is market average. I want to make £60000 this year, if most of you told me you are getting less than that, I'm in trouble. I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 12th March 2013, 03:42 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,467
Posted By Marta K
Re: Anyone want to critique my USP statement

I agree, it reads like corporate mumbo jumbo. It doesn't feel like targeted to small business owners. You lost me before 2nd paragraph and I have masters degree in writing and editing scientific...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th March 2013, 03:29 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 706
Posted By Marta K
Re: Want to keep $80,000 this year? Are you pitching enough? Are you charging correctly?

I agree, it went off topic:-) I was just curious who get the lion share of the profit, since we were talking small company without shareholders and such, or that's what I assumed.

I completely...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th March 2013, 02:49 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 706
Posted By Marta K
Re: Want to keep $80,000 this year? Are you pitching enough? Are you charging correctly?

No, that's what I was curious about. He talks about company profit- that's after all expenses and overheads, ie costs.
I understand you leave money for growth, research and developmnet, essentially...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th March 2013, 12:10 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 706
Posted By Marta K
Re: Want to keep $80,000 this year? Are you pitching enough? Are you charging correctly?

Who gets the 66% of the profit then?
I don't get it. The cost is cost of outsourcing, producing, staff wage, office etc- if you make £1766 after that, you need less than 50 in a year to get 80k, ...
Forum: Offline Marketing 1st March 2013, 04:10 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,983
Posted By Marta K
Re: Anyone Build Their Own Daily Deal Site

I wanted to build one, but I'm rethinking it. The only thing people wanted from groupon was their email list. If they couldn't make it profitable even though taking 50% off the ticket price, how much...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th February 2013, 02:47 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,203
Posted By Marta K
Re: Email then call - Will this work...

Pretending to be customer to reveal you are sales person i s a deal breaker for me. If you are so desperate to cheat at the beginning how anybody can trust you? I wouldn't recommend it!
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th February 2013, 01:57 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,382
Posted By Marta K
Re: Money From Past Customers...

I was thinking about reactivation -direct mail- being my main product, as well as retention meaning email:-) I'm tired of doing websites, because somehow everybody expects that SEO should be part of...
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th January 2013, 05:14 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,928
Posted By Marta K
Re: What Services to Offer to Restaurants

Hi, if that's not too much to ask, how did you do the birthday email club? Do you use some specialist software? I got Aweber, but can't figure out how to set up automated mailings for people's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st April 2009, 04:30 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,101
Posted By Marta K
Re: Product Creation is Easy...Finding Affiliates...Not So Much!

You can also include a video in your sales letter. sometimes a simple thing like that helps. pictures of people giving testimonials is another thing. Make it real and long. Tell the story - if you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st April 2009, 04:20 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 876
Posted By Marta K
Re: Newbies welcome.....Your first sale...

My first sale was installing wp blog for a furniture shop. I used free theme, as well. Sweet money.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th March 2009, 05:18 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 467
Posted By Marta K
Re: Reviews Needed - Freelancing eBook

Hi, happy to help.
I'm new here, but I will provide honest feedback.
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