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Business to Business Email Marketing

By Jeff Dedrick

Business email marketing is the use of email to promote your products and services. This is one of the most flexible and influential type of direct marketing that is cheap and commands a quick response from your target audience. The flexibility comes from the fact that you can easily modify your message to your specific customers in a very cost-effective manner than in any other form of marketing.

Business email marketing should be planned with utmost care to make it interesting, pertinent and significant to your target audience. There are a few rules that you have to adhere to for successful and fruitful email marketing. First, you must always get the consent from your target audience before you email them. As much as it is illegal to send junk mail, it is also a turn off to your potential or existing clients. There is nothing as exasperating as an inbox clogged with unsolicited mails.

Another tip is to ensure your emails indicate clearly who you are and give your customers the opportunity to opt in or out of receiving emails from you in future. One of the best ways to have your target audience opting in is using incentives like special discounts to those who may sign up for your updates.

Another point is to venture into a targeted marketing campaign. Do not send emails indiscriminately to anyone on your emailing list, but focus your attention to sending mails to the right audience. The best way to do this is to manage the database of your clients by analyzing and categorizing them. Thanks to many Email Service Providers and email software, there are special tools available that make it easier for you to categorize, segment and even generate instant responses that shows when your customers have received and opened your emails.

Finally, you need to monitor the efficiency of your email marketing. You can do this by recording the amount of responses you have received and from what type of clients. This will help you in your future assessment of your email marketing. Weigh up the response rate which will be evident in the calls and replies you will receive. Normally, a response rate of 5% is viewed as strong for business email marketing.

An effective business email marketing strategy will create valuable relationship with new clients as well as heightening your relationship with your existing ones. This will be evident from the calls you will receive and the profit margins that will be subsequently created.

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Explode Affiliate Marketing

By Dirk Andersen

There is stiff, very stiff competition in affiliate marketing these days. A lot of people are pushing the same products, and several websites are doing it well. It is incredibly hard to beat the competition. If someone says I am wrong, shoot them, or at least stay away from them. You may be an affiliate marketer right now, but are you maximizing your results?

I would like to provide some tips to bring their income to the next level by offering some incentives:

You have to be the only one doing what your doing. This means your ads need to be unique. You need to make yourself the expert by putting yourself and your reputation on the line in your marketing.

You have to make the customer think it is worth the money to buy from you. Create bonuses or incentives that the customer can't refuse. You can offer rebates or something along that line. The bottom line is that you have to make your prospect click through that link and excited to do so.

Stay in your niche and offer bonuses similar to the product that you are offering. When you start offering things that are not related to the product you are promoting, you lose a sale. You have to offer bonus products related to the product in your affiliate link.

You need to reinvent the wheel. There are many cases that you would just copy what someone else is doing, but in this type of business you must be new. You have to invent a different way to market an affiliate product that will make people buy.

You need to offer urgency in your incentives. Make the person feel like if they don't take advantage now, they are going to lose out. Offer a period of time like twenty four hours a few days or so on. Or you can mention that bonuses are only for so many people like the first one hundred. Once the limit is reached eliminate the offer to keep your credibility.

If you know someone that has made a fortune it is because they did something unique. This business is no different. You can always do something unique to make more money than the competition, but if you are affiliate marketing and just copying someone else, you are losing cash.

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Why even Join an MLM Company?

By Dennis Hampton

Or, maybe you joined because you loved your company's products. But, nobody told you it was going to be this hard. In fact, they said it would be easy. Or maybe it was because you love driving your friends and family away by constantly begging them to buy your products, have a party or join your business.

Most MLM companies teach their people to make a list of one hundred names and start making phone calls. And they wonder why 95% of the people that join their MLM business fail. Maybe it is because only 5% of the people who join a network marketing business know enough people who are interested in a work at home business.

Why don't the top people tell you this when you start? There are a variety of reasons. Some of them joined and succeeded with the "old school" methods because they have been with the company ten or twenty years. Many of them used classified ads which were in those days what the internet is now. But they only tell you how to prospect your "warm market" and pass out business cards to strangers because many times this is what the company approves.

Why don't the top people tell you this when you start? There are a variety of reasons. Some of them joined and succeeded with the "old school" methods because they have been with the company ten or twenty years. Many of them used classified ads which were in those days what the internet is now. But they only tell you how to prospect your "warm market" and pass out business cards to strangers because many times this is what the company approves.

Purchasing network marketing leads is another option, but the problem with that is that you don't know how these leads were created. Many times the lead capture pages are so misleading or vague that people don't know what they are signing up for. If you have ever tried to call these MLM leads, you know that often they hang up on you as soon as they figure out that you are calling about an MLM business.

Purchasing network marketing leads is another option, but the problem with that is that you don't know how these leads were created. Many times the lead capture pages are so misleading or vague that people don't know what they are signing up for. If you have ever tried to call these MLM leads, you know that often they hang up on you as soon as they figure out that you are calling about an MLM business.

The network marketing leads you generate yourself will actually call you! These people know exactly what they are getting into and are sincerely interested in working from home with your MLM business before you even speak to them for the first time. How much easier would it be to talk to people who are already interested, not only in working from home, not only in an MLM business, but specifically in working with you in your MLM business? This is the true beauty of generating your own network marketing leads.

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