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Forum: Offline Marketing 1st August 2013, 03:10 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,599
Posted By DaniMc
Passion is contagious...influence your way into anything you want

I just had an experience that I always enjoy. I am an executive at one of the country's largest business incubators. I was in my office there when someone knocked on the door to make an intro.

I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 27th July 2013, 02:05 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 513
Posted By plainwords
Stop moaning about your clients... look in the mirror instead!

If you're in the business of website design or online/offline marketing consulting, you will be aware of the challenges that confront you when working with clients.

Most of us have a love-hate...
Forum: Offline Marketing 25th July 2013, 03:42 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 3,118
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Business Brilliant

I do exactly the same thing.

And I'm going to pretend like someone asked me how I read so many books a year.:rolleyes:

I don't read every word on every page. I may order 15 to 20 books a month...
Forum: Offline Marketing 20th July 2013, 06:42 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,190
Posted By Marty S
Re: Great Local Marketing Videos

Here is a generic intro video I created for a local bakery

Francesca Bakery - Toronto Italian Bakery - YouTube

I lean towards videos for small businesses that are

1-) well branded for your...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th July 2013, 04:18 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,190
Posted By CreekChub
Re: Great Local Marketing Videos

Yep. Not a whole ton of technical expertise there once you figure things out. As Claude would likely say, "the money is in the script". Gotta make it look pretty though.
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th July 2013, 03:15 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,190
Posted By CreekChub
Re: Great Local Marketing Videos

Absolutely well done. You guys do fantastic, quality work. I'm continually inspired by the stuff you guys put out (and to be honest - steal as much as possible. As in, learning tips, tricks, and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th July 2013, 03:04 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,190
Posted By Rollmodl
Re: Great Local Marketing Videos

Here is a sample of what we do. The call to action closing link generated over 70 RSVP's in three days. The capacity of the event is 100.

Connected Creatives: Taking the Work Out of Networking...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th July 2013, 02:51 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,190
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Great Local Marketing Videos

The best videos are live and feature the owner of the business (or a good employee). They convert the best, and the client is invested. Of course, you include contact information on the video.
Forum: Offline Marketing 14th July 2013, 11:12 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 809
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Anybody Try This, Yet? Amortizing Cost Of Design

You'll sell more at the $99 a month, I can promise you that. I can also promise you that every month, 20% of the cards won't go through. I don't know how much I would put up with for $99 a month.
...
Forum: Warriors For Hire 12th July 2013, 04:18 PM
Replies: 486
Views: 39,846
Posted By pixeldreamer
Re: BREATHTAKING DESIGNS. Minisites, Landing Pages, WP Designs, WSOs, eCovers, Headers, Banners & mo

Hi John,

Yes we can - what theme are you using specifically?

We use Genesis child themes for our sites mostly and use a plugin that allows you to upload 4 extra different versions of your...
Forum: Offline Marketing 12th July 2013, 10:53 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,508
Posted By Rus Sells
Re: Linda Buquet - Your Expertise is needed! Or any other Google Local experts...

I don't see why you just can't create a optimized page on the corporate site for each city, make sure match the Google categories in the header of the page and do some optimized videos for keyword +...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th July 2013, 11:31 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 792
Posted By CageyVet
Re: Do you guys actually enjoy it?

Not every person or personality type is suited for working with businesses and their internet needs.

The one thing I know for sure though is that too many people try to get into internet marketing...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th July 2013, 11:02 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 792
Posted By Jason Kanigan
Re: Do you guys actually enjoy it?

Agreed...this is a "full time and more" business. I have to make sure I carve out time for my wife, and just to go outside and walk a dog. If I let this business take over my life, it does...in fact,...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th July 2013, 05:56 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 792
Posted By rizy
Re: Do you guys actually enjoy it?

I have never been a good Internet marketer, just never understood organic SEO, I am awesome at local SEO but not the other one. And I am an awesome sales person, and I don't really like marketing,...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th June 2013, 04:39 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 3,156
Posted By bob ross
Ever hit rock bottom?

The more I read posts on here the more I see that a lot of now-successful warriors have gone through seriously troubling times. I think sometimes newbies don't realize that many of us have been in...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th June 2013, 02:08 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,544
Posted By cshilling22
Re: No Clients, No Budget, and No Time To Sell. HELP

Do you have any flexibility on your lunch or any vacation time available?

What are you doing to help your wife and how long does it take?

Your best bet may be to try to get some time off from...
Forum: Offline Marketing 3rd June 2013, 02:00 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,021
Posted By ewenmack
Re: How can I market my video service to offline customers?

You say your videos are good...
are they as good as these?

Video Production Service New York Samples (http://jalandajames.com/new-video-samples/)
Forum: Offline Marketing 3rd June 2013, 07:41 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,447
Posted By Aaron Doud
Re: I Have A Telemarketing Job Interview Tommorow, Warrior Advice Needed!

There are a couple things I noticed.

To start the $80k base is extremely high. This is bad for two reasons. The first being that it makes the job sound fake. Second is once you get past you goal...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd June 2013, 08:20 PM
Replies: 196
Views: 35,416
Posted By Talltom1
Re: Failing at Site Rentals? Maybe this will help...

Actually, that's a terrific question. And the answer isn't something that you'd expect.

Some of the target clients that I'm looking for are literally like a man dying of thirst in the desert. ...
Forum: Offline Marketing 29th May 2013, 08:40 AM
Replies: 196
Views: 35,416
Posted By Talltom1
Re: Failing at Site Rentals? Maybe this will help...

I wanted to add a little bit more to this awesome thread. The one aspect or approach that I truly appreciated about this business model is that there no promises, no selling 'blue sky', no hype. ...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th May 2013, 07:51 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 755
Posted By DaniMc
Re: Closing deals during the summer?

I never even considered that summer might be bad. I hope a lot of people think that way! Maybe that explains why I do so well in the summer?

Hell, people talk about Sunday is a day of rest. I've...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th May 2013, 07:43 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,920
Posted By DaniMc
Re: Can cold-calling build a big offline business quickly?

Don't think of this as an either/or situation. You need to be thinking in terms of ALL.

You can join these groups and create a center of influence. Your centers of influence will bring you a lot...
Forum: Offline Marketing 22nd May 2013, 01:37 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,000
Posted By laird
Re: Easy way to $100,000 - Stop over complicating things

cayman,

I have a friend that started trading stocks in January of 2011 with $2k in her trade account. She systematically pushed that to just over $44k in December. She repeated this process in...
Forum: Offline Marketing 20th May 2013, 12:23 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,647
Posted By Jason Kanigan
Re: Selling on a Monday morning?

Most people you call either a) won't be available to take your call, or b) won't be able to talk right now--even though they picked up the phone.

Watch this...
Forum: Offline Marketing 15th May 2013, 08:41 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 581
Posted By Digital Traffic
Re: Does anyone forward local numbers to their mobile phone?

I would look at it like this.

I would love to pay thousands of dollars in long distance fees per month, that means my game plan is working like a charm.

Same with taxes on income, I would...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th May 2013, 11:52 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,299
Posted By ThePromotionalGuy
Re: Prospect Asked Me This & I Was "Baffled"...

Ryan,

Back when I was selling exclusive ad space on coffee mugs I had a muffle shop owner ask me that very question.

Here's how the conversation went:

Muffler Guy: What do you know that I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 29th April 2013, 06:10 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 5,826
Posted By joe golfer
Re: How To Figure Out the # of Dials You Need to Make

Yeah, it seems like many people lost the appetite for hard work somewhere. It should be the other way around. People should be pumped that if they make enough calls, they will makes sales. How cool...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 27th April 2013, 10:19 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 555
Posted By Marty S
Re: Quail Birds in Scottsdale AZ

Huh?

Maybe this can go in the off topic forum?
Forum: Offline Marketing 25th April 2013, 04:15 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 2,172
Posted By mrjosco
Re: There is too many "offliners(cold callers)"?

I love reading the anti cold calling rants. They crack me up. Mainly because the business I work for has a cold caller who is a true champion. In fact, to give you a picture of this individual I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd April 2013, 11:57 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,344
Posted By Chris Rivers
"Here's what to do when nothing is working to get clients..."

Hey,

For a long time now I've been preaching the wisdom of staying focused on one strategy or system until it's successful.

Some consultants have taken that principle and built steady...
Forum: Offline Marketing 22nd April 2013, 09:12 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 876
Posted By Eddie Spangler
Re: Biggest Potential Local Business...

You can check this Forbes list but I think you will be surprised at the types of businesses that come up. None of what we think in terms of local retail and shopping. What does that tell you.The Most...
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th April 2013, 12:25 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,830
Posted By Marty S
How to brand videos for your offline clients.

There are a lot of WSOs and threads throughout the WF that offer a lot of advice for video production. Some of it good, most of it ... not so much. However, one thing that rarely (if ever) gets...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th April 2013, 10:30 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 887
Posted By RedShifted
Re: What are the best ways of Local Marketing?

No offense but why would you put "lead generation" in that list? It doesn't jive well considering thats basically what he already asked.

Aside from that, I would add geotargeted youtube videos to...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th April 2013, 12:29 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 4,760
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Fastest way to make 10 million dollars, Direct Mail or Internet Marketing?

I can tell you guys that from experience, a $500,000 (in sales) a year business is completely different from a $10,000,000 a year business.

We hover between $500,000 and a million a year in total...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th April 2013, 11:53 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,206
Posted By Jason Kanigan
Re: Why I Nearly Gave Up, And How I Bounced Back

Yes. You make a sale? Don't get excited. You don't make a sale? Don't get excited. Keep putting prospects into your sales funnel, so that if you do lose 3 prospects in a week, who cares? You have 17...
Forum: Offline Marketing 16th April 2013, 01:09 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,440
Posted By kenmichaels
Re: Are you missing the ball with buying signals???

I am with xxx but i'm not to happy with them.
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why are you better then xxx
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can you do that in ( any color shape or size )
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can you still get me an 800 #
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who controls my account
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Forum: Offline Marketing 16th April 2013, 01:08 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,440
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Are you missing the ball with buying signals???

I can't wait until after lunch. Someone will say something brilliant before I get a chance to...and tat cannot be allowed.;)


These signals mean that the buyer is in the process of saying "Yes"....
Forum: Offline Marketing 16th April 2013, 12:31 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,478
Posted By Aaron Doud
Re: What To Do After The Cold Call? - Web Design Clients

Eddie posted basically what I wanted to post after reading that.

Sell these people on the phone.

Need time to get a quote together? Collect the info and schedule a time to call back with...
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th April 2013, 06:39 AM
Replies: 515
Views: 60,181
Posted By AndrewCavanagh
Re: Jobless Dad Revisted -Offline Secrets' I've Learned Over The Last 3years

I've been asked almost exactly the same question
twice this year..."what has changed in the 5 years
you've been teaching people how to sell their internet
marketing services to brick and mortar...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th April 2013, 11:10 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,431
Posted By kenmichaels
Re: Cold calling to sell logos vs. web design

If you can do logos then you can do menu 's

Try that ... Seriously ... I know half a dozen graphics guys killing it.

From what i have seen it is one of the easiest sales.
It is so good, I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th April 2013, 07:12 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,431
Posted By Jason Kanigan
Re: Cold calling to sell logos vs. web design

Qualify with your call.

"I work with business owners who believe that their current company logo no longer represents what they do, or feel that little twinge of disappointment and frown when they...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th April 2013, 12:37 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,061
Re: What's working for Google Places/Plus Local these days?

Thanks Colm!

Yes I work directly with upper management at Google Local. I'm under NDA with Google, do beta testing for new products like the new dashboard update that just came out.

Google...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th April 2013, 08:51 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,084
Major Google Places Update Coming (Google+ Local)

Surprised no one here is talking about the big Google Places update here yet. (Yes I called it Places because it's still branded Places on the business owner side.)

What do you guys think? I know...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th April 2013, 08:01 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,096
Posted By Eddie Spangler
Re: Website Design - When Clients Want 80% Demos - Waste of Time?

What are your thoughts about building me a house thats almost complete and then I will tell you if I want it or not?

Thats why they have model homes.

I feel like you are putting yourself...
Forum: Offline Marketing 30th March 2013, 12:27 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 946
Posted By ADukes81
YouTube PPC for Local Marketing?

I have been hearing that YouTube PPC is like Adword in 2004-05. I am hearing it is CHEAP traffic and can be VERY effective if ran properly.

Anyone have any experience with it for local marketing?...
Forum: Offline Marketing 29th March 2013, 02:27 PM
Replies: 91
Views: 8,407
Posted By JSL Publishing
Re: Telesales for the non-salesperson! How to make loads of $$$ working from home!

Are you interested in another line of Business you can add to your portfolio.. If so drop me a line.

Regards,
Forum: Offline Marketing 29th March 2013, 08:30 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,329
Posted By sdentrepreneur
Re: $15,000 in 60 Days with a $500 Budget

You have many options to accomplish this, it really depends on your skill level and type of services you offer. I am going to assume since this is a Offline Marketing Forum, that is what you can...
Forum: Offline Marketing 29th March 2013, 06:58 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 6,329
Posted By BigGameHunter
Re: $15,000 in 60 Days with a $500 Budget

If the OP follows the advice given on this thread there should be no reason why he would fall short of his goal.

Couple of things I would add to this.
As a real estate investor I am very...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th March 2013, 07:54 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,724
Posted By SteveSki
Re: Putting businesses on Youtube videos?

You could even start out just by offering to interview customers and put video testimonials up on their website and facebook pages... A Kodak iZ8 with a $20 mic clipped to their shirt will work very...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th March 2013, 07:26 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,724
Posted By RedShifted
Re: Putting businesses on Youtube videos?

An older version, #9.



Never. The only other video software I've used is Adobe After Effects. But never for business, as its way too complicated for me.



Good question. I only do this...
Forum: Offline Marketing 17th March 2013, 01:30 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,724
Posted By RedShifted
Re: Putting businesses on Youtube videos?

I love youtube. I have a bunch of videos/channels for my own business, than a few others that I do for friends who pay me.

Focus on results and nothing but results. An HD camera is highly...
Forum: Offline Marketing 17th March 2013, 03:14 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,724
Posted By Marty S
Re: Putting businesses on Youtube videos?

I think the best way to go about this is to offer a more "social" package, and not focus too much on the equipment used.

You really don't need much more than an iPhone, a screencast...
Forum: Offline Marketing 17th March 2013, 01:55 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,724
Posted By zardon
Putting businesses on Youtube videos?

Hello there

Some time ago I remember a user in the Offline marketing who either sold Youtube videos to businesses.

If I remember, the person got a high uptake, used a low-cost HD camera and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 13th March 2013, 04:54 PM
Replies: 49
Views: 3,217
Posted By Rus Sells
Re: Potential client is asking for 2 references of past work..how to handle it?

For future reference just tell them that reference lists are always the hand picked nothing went wrong clients. If all you want to hear about is how awesome I am I'll just tell you now for myself.
...
Forum: Offline Marketing 13th March 2013, 09:41 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,338
Posted By Claude Whitacre
Re: Its mabye rude qus' but can i ask you how mach you make each month from offline martketing?

Sure, why not.

In 2012, purely from offline sales (meaning online services to offline businesses) I took in $202,000. This is mostly from speaking to groups of brick and mortar business owners. I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 13th March 2013, 02:30 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,338
Posted By DaniMc
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