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In an effort to keep at least one of my feet imbedded deeply in my own mouth I told a lady in one of my seminars that she just needed to “Put Out” if she wanted to get more business.
NOW WAIT A MINUTE . . . Before you start sending me hate mail like that goof ball a couple weeks ago, let me explain. I was trying to tell her that instead of guarding everything she had ever created that she should give it away and more business would come to her.
Here’s how it works: You may remember that a little over a month ago I “put out” a FREE 7 Day mini course on Electronic Marketing. (If you missed it, you can still take it by sending a blank email to minicourse@aweber.com ) About 1200 people signed up for it in the first couple days. At the end of the first week I took in about $7000.00 in sales from my FREE minicourse.
You might ask, “Tom, was it a scam? Was it just a giant sales letter?” No it was not a scam, and the answer to the second question is yes AND no. It was a perfectly legitimate and credible marketing technique. . . . It’s not new either. It’s called “Give before you get.”
I gave good information that people need to know so that they can both thrive in E Marketing and also so they don’t get taken by people selling them poor services. There is nothing wrong with educating people about the benefits of your service. There was no hard sales pitch at all. Once the people who took the course realized that there was quite a bit they needed to know, they made the decision to purchase the information.
“Wow! Your phone message is just too happy!” “You’ve got way too much energy.” “How do you stay so upbeat?” These are just some of the comments I get about my voice mail message and my technique for answering the phone. Many times I answer personally and the person on the other end of the line starts to leave a message. They think I’m the voice mail. Hahaha I tell them I answer that way so if I don*t like them I can say “beep” and hang up.
You can’t catch me answering the phone poorly. If I feel bad, I still answer the phone in an upbeat manner which sometimes knocks me out of my bad mood. If I feel so bad that I just can’t rise to the occasion, then I DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE. It’s all part of walking your talk, or I guess in this case you would call it “talking your talk.” If I profess to be able to create excitement in the client’s organization and I can*t even do it in my own, I’ve lost a considerable amount of credibility. My interns aren’t even allowed to answer the phone until they can absolutely prove that they won’t hurt my reputation of being upbeat and exciting.
Listen to your own voice mail message. Is it as enthusiastic as it could be? Does it convey the personality you are selling to the client? How about the way you answer the phone? Would you be proud if I called you and critiqued your technique?
You can sell a ton of products and services just because of the way you act on the telephone. Be a little phony if you’re not feeling great, but push yourself toward enthusiasm. Potential clients don’t want to hire a dud.
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FriendFeed is a great way to share articles, videos, status updates and a ton of other important information with collegues and prospects. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is a bit like the Home Page updates on Facebook that you see when you login. Everyone that you subscribe to will see all of the recent activity you have done on any of 56 services that you work with.
When you send a Tweet, bookmark a site on Digg, upload a YouTube video, post a blog, or join a group on LinkedIn your subscribers will be notified in a feed stream in real time that has a link straight to the source. You can watch videos right in the FriendFeed stream and click out to blog posts. It is especially helpful in getting your bookmarks on Digg, Reddit and Delicious seen and voted on.
In one click, you can add all of your Facebook friends that have a FriendFeed account to subscribe to yours. I grabbed up 1300 followers from Tom’s Facebook friends in 5 minutes. Now, no matter what site I update for him, the FriendFeed updates automatically and all 1300 followers are notified. Used in conjunction with Ping.fm, you can use Ping to update all of your social sites at once, then the updates feed from each of those sites to your FriendFeed account. You can get a lot of views in short order of tons of your social marketing. Plus, you get to stay in touch with thousands of others from your FriendFeed home page.
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No, you don’t have to go on-stage in a gorilla suit, although you could if you wanted to. A costume can be anything from a flashy tie, to a feathered hat, to a full blown shiny Marca Polina outfit (the feminine Marco Polo) complete with an illuminated magic wand, that my friend Sally Walton wears when she talks about the magic art of “Communicating Across Cultures.” Costumes add a flare and excitement to your presentations and certainly help to make them more memorable.
If you don’t like to wear costumes, get the audience members to wear them. Better yet, get the “big shots” to wear them and you will probably be the hit of the meeting. I was doing a customer service talk for a pizza franchise and I had one of the senior managers march into the meeting wearing a filthy, doctor’s lab coat with ketchup all over it (fake blood). I had another senior manager come in with a crisp, new lab coat. I asked a simple question, Which manager would you like operating on you? Of course, all the junior managers yelled out that they wouldn’t let either one of these people operate on them. Everyone was laughing and joking around, but the point was made. They must keep their employees looking clean and neat because nice customers won’t want to be served by grungy food service workers.
Costume characters can be hired to hand out fliers at your event, entertain, and generally create an air of fun and excitement. The local heart association has a “blood drop” costume they use when they are soliciting funds. There are literally hundreds of costumes available through costume shops or via mail order. Just make sure, as always, the theme of the costume matches the theme of your presentation or event.
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To add some humor to your public speaking engagement you can make fake newspaper articles and headlines and book covers by using your computer software and printer.
To mock up a newspaper article, simply find the column function of your word processor and set the column width to approximate a real newspaper. It does not matter that your are not holding up actual newsprint because you could have simply cut the article from a newspaper and had it photocopied. If you want to actually use a real newspaper, you could go through a lengthy trial and error process trying to shade a piece of laser paper to approximate the color of your newspaper. I guess you could also find some actual newsprint that would feed through your printer.
The easiest way is to simply paste or tape your headline or article on one of the inside pages of a real newspaper and then open the paper so you can read the paste up, but the audience can not really see it.
Humorist and parody writer David Glickman gave me this really funny idea . He uses his color inkjet printer to duplicate the black box and yellow letters that are on the front of all the Dummies series of books. He then pastes his new title over the one on an actual Dummies book. The rest of the cover is so busy that people only focus on the big black box. From a distance you can’t even tell it is a mockup. I just used this techniques for a big cable company. The title was, Digital Cable TV Maintenance and Installation for Dummies. It is not too funny to you, but to the targeted audience it was hilarious. You can also mock up fake telegrams and letters from well known people who are not at the public speaking event.
