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How to make money with list building

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on July 8, 2019 No Comments

How to make Money with List Building

List building has proven itself to be one of the best ways to make money online. By having a good e-mailing list for your business, you get ample opportunities for earning a handsome amount with optimum efforts at your end.

Nothing is important to your success than building a strong and viable mailing list. This implies much of the focus on your website should be on having people join that list. By doing this, you ensure that you are putting the efforts in the right direction for building a highly targeted subscriber list.

The following below mentioned pointers will ensure that you are able to generate a good income with the help of list building-

1. Promote a new website-

With the help of list building, you can earn money by sending them to a new website that belongs to you or your close pals. With this, you will be able to drive traffic faster and more effectively, it will drive people who are interested in what your site has to offer, and they might possibly recommend it to their network of friends.

2. Utilize affiliate marketing at its best-

Making money can also be facilitated with the best use of affiliate marketing. By choosing the best product to promote, you can send your visitors to their link, and consequently, it enables you to earn profits at your end.

3. Find targeted prospects by CLONING top customers-

Always keep a check on your high paying customer base. Have a look why they are buying from you and get knowledge about their preferences. Have a proper database in place so that you can slowly convert your contacts into relations and then, your relations into customers.

4. Consider your list as your source of daily bread-

Keep in mind a simple fact that your list is going to decide the success or failure of your business. You should design suitable strategies to attract them and get their attention to facilitate your business growth.

5. Ensure customer retention-

For a business to become successful, you need to retain the customers for a long time. The most difficult part of maintaining an email list is to hold on to your customers attention. It sounds simple but goes a long way if used correctly. Learn to device suitable strategies and give away freebies to gain their attention.

6. Enhance repeat purchases from your customers-

With the help of list building, you can enable your subscribers to buy again from you. This is facilitated because list building enables you to get in constant touch with customers. So, you can introduce new products and promote them without much efforts at your end.

7. Pre-test the message before posting-

Another great way of making money with the help of list building is to test each and every mail message before sending it out to your customer base. With the help of this, you ensure that there are no last minute hassles at the time of sending mails.

Keeping all the above mentioned points in mind, you can ensure that your list building efforts give you the maximum financial benefits that help you attain success in the long run.

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Content is Queen

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on June 11, 2019 No Comments

content marketingContent is Queen when it comes to Lead Generation

What is the most powerful force in the world of business? That’s a good question. There are many possible answers.

Some people might say that its money. That would be a very good response. Money is certainly the motivating force in business. It is the reason why every business exists. It is also the reason why many businesses no longer exist. However, it may be too obvious of an answer.
To figure out what really is the most powerful force in the business world, we need to be a little more creative, a little cleverer and think outside the box a little bit.

We need to peel back the layers of the onion, so to speak, and take a look at what is really going on.
To begin with, let’s look at what businesses do. The answer to this one is fairly obvious. Businesses sell things.

From there it’s an easy step to say that because they sell things, they make money. Therefore, what businesses do is make money. However, this line of reasoning is flawed. The purpose of business is to make money.

This purpose is the end result of a process that begins with what businesses do. So, we find ourselves back where we started.
Let’s begin again, by agreeing that what businesses do is sell things.

Now, instead of jumping to a conclusion, and confusing purpose with process, let’s take a closer look at the idea we’ve agreed upon. If businesses sell things, then what are those things?

In general, a business can sell products, services or a combination of both. However, these are simply categories.

We need to look deeper to see what common element makes up both products and services. If we can determine that, we have probably come close to answering our original question.

If you think about it, both products and services are a form of information.

Products perform a function because of the information that went into the design.

Services do the same, except that the information is contained in the expertise of the person performing the service.

So what all businesses really do is sell information.

Because of this, information is actually the most powerful force in the world of business. This way content is king when it comes to generating sales leads.

Content is information. When you give potential clients valuable information, you establish a trust relationship with them that paves the way to making them paying customers.

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List Building — Does It Help Grow a Business?

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on May 17, 2019 No Comments

The Power of Lists for Small Businesses

Small businesses are also using list building to expand their reach in market-place. Being a small business owner, focusing on building a targeted list of interested prospects can grow your business, but it starts with you sharing YOU and your knowledge through content.

List building should be your top most priority of your marketing strategy. Generating a valuable list can be challenging for small business owner. A list has the power to become the focal point of your business. When you have a list of customers, you can keep them informed of new services or products and increase revenue through repeat business. When you have a list of interested prospects, your first goal is to build rapport and educate.

You do not want to start off selling.  It is a real turn off to people, as they do not like to be sold.

Building Rapport can be achieved through your emails and through your content.  Provide value, right off the bat.  Give, give, give.

This includes educating. Educate your prospects about you, your business and your solutions to their problems, but do it with a style that is not salesy, pushy or overbearing.

You want to think about the “What’s In It For Them” as you develop content.  Can you provide them with your expertise and help them learn HOW to solve a problem that they are having?

List building helps you to reach the perfect audience.
List saves your time, money and other resources
You can customize your message to the correct audience to get a better return on your investment.

With list building, you will be able to get huge success in your niche market if you do it in a correct way. Here I am going to show you the strategies to empower your list building –

  1. Reveal products to the new audiences with Joint Venture:

Joint venture is one of the most effective list building marketing strategies where you advertise or promote a product and service of another party or to a segment of your list. The commission is generally divided into 50/50 but some of marketers set it as high as 75%.

Joint venture helps you to build a deep-rooted relationship with a specified list that have happy customers and you can sell them numerous times. It is not one-time deal when you have closed a sale and deal is completed. In real, you get a new customer that will be happy to from you again.

When you have a joint venture partner endorsing you, that helps the people on their list to be interested in your offering.

  1. Creating Specific Videos to motivate the prospects:

Videos are the quickest method to grab the attention of your audience. By creating short and informational video, you enable them to get complete info about your products or services

Before starting with videos, you need to keep in mind the 10 X 10 X 4 content creation formula which includes –

  • 10 most general queries regarding your business and 10 prime queries your visitor can ask.
  • You can create 20 videos to solve these issues within a three minute video.
  • You can also build four more video that have the basic focus on leading prospects into your sales funnel and facilitating ultimate purchase.

You can include a link of your website with relevant keywords in the description field and create a channel on video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion etc. or you can create them via Facebook LIVE and then share them to other sites.

  1. Hosting Free Webinars Offers New Sales Opportunities

Webinars are a great method to build interest, get leads for your list and possibly make sales.  With the help of webinars, you can add a punch to increase your email list which enhances your communication with customers.

GoToWebinar, Zoom and ZohoMeeting are the popular webinar services that have some pros and cons. You can include a “BUY NOW” button at end to hamper your marketing efforts.

The bottom line — list building should be prioritized.  Get people on your list FIRST, then build your relationship and then make an offer.  Do not reverse the order because people will RUN.

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Daily Profitability Practice

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on May 7, 2019 No Comments

Do you have a daily profitability practice? That is your business growth practice.

How do you connect with new prospects?

My daily profitability practice is largely built on my Content Repurposing Strategy. I use content publishing as a large part of my daily profitability practice.

What do you do to increase profits in your business?
What is your daily practice for growing your business revenue?

Create a plan.

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Having a daily practice can totally shift your business outcomes. It is part of focusing ON your business instead of IN your business.  CEO’s and business leaders NEED to be the leaders that focus ON the business. It is your vision, your strategies and your actions (practices) that totally shift what is and is not happening within your business.

Profitability practices are essentially the daily practices that lead new prospects to your business and keep them moving through your process. If you are just “winging it” or using “HOPE Marketing”, then you most likely will not have daily practices that produce predictable and reliable results for you.

Once you do have those types of results — then you are in LOVE with marketing and your business is scaling UP.

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Monday Morning Checkin

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on May 6, 2019 No Comments

It’s Monday morning and a great time to checkin with yourself on YOUR plan for the upcoming week.

My daily practice plan — is designed to support my BIG vision and my daily profitability practice is directly connected to my business growth.

What is your plan for the week?

Do you have a daily practice? Does that daily practice support YOU- mind, body, spirit, prosperity….?

Do you have a profitability practice for growing YOUR business?

Create a plan.

I have a daily practice plan to address ME…. keep MY head in the game and my health on track…

My daily PROFITABILITY Practice is all about growing my business.  What do I NEED to do each day that helps my business GROW?  What are your daily profitability practices?

Journalling is one of the tools that I use to help me. It is part of my MIND plan but it also connects to my SPIRIT plan…. journaling helps me to look at my challenges and fears and becomes the place I use to brainstorm the potential solutions.

When you brainstorm ideas for overcoming fears, challenges etc. You are more likely to push them aside, overcome them, or walk through them.

Use your journal weekly or daily to make your plan and celebrate your successes!

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This weekend, I attended a training that gave me 29 ideas for content development over the next 30 days. I believe that training is part of my responsibility as the CEO — personal and professional development.

As CEO, I am also responsible for scaling my business UP.  I see training as part of my strategy and then my daily practice plans put it all into action!

Having a plan is going to help you make this happen. Scaling up is the goal…. GROWTH — leads to your financial freedom and time freedom. If you are like me, then that is what you are going for.  A business that is prosperous and supports me, my family, my goals and vision and has NOT taken over my life.

The weekly focus group can be a great place to put on your CEO hat and focus ON your business growth!!

Watch this week for our new Dream Maker’s Club…. it is going to be INCREDIBLE!!

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Business is About Relationships

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on April 5, 2019 No Comments

How Well Do You Know Your Vendors?

It’s extremely important to build relationships with your vendors and those around you can bring in new customers/clients and increase awareness of your company branding.

The people you work directly with on your products and services are really the ones with the most to gain when you find success. By taking the time to get to know them, you’ll find a whole host of opportunities you didn’t realize were there.

Look for great ways to offer your vendors rewards for helping grow your business and everyone wins. One of ways you can do this is by offering performance based incentives that are much larger than their normal charges.

Here’s the step-by-step process to putting together a partnership with a vendor:

  • Approach all the vendors you work with and offer an incentive based on performance.
  • Put the generous incentive plan together from their perspective, even take suggestions.
  • Develop a clear, concise and easy to track incentive plan, this will increase competition between vendors and therefore higher performance levels.
  • Encourage subsequent sales instead of focusing only on the initial sale. By doing this you can give away more of the profit from the initial sale to your vendors and make higher profits off the back end products. Encourage:
    ·       Future sales
·       Cross-sell to additional products
  • Create an incentive plan that’s irresistible to your vendors by offering generous, exclusive compensation.

Think of all the vendors you work with and the creative ways you can put together an incentive plan that entices them to be part of your business.

Use their talents, capabilities and connections and you’ll both be winners.
Putting together an incentive plan doesn’t have to be a complicated process.

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Entrepreneurial Myths that Will Hurt Your Business

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on April 4, 2019 No Comments

Is Your Business Impacted by E-Myths?

We are going to embark upon a journey through the world of e-myths and debunk them to help you avoid falling into the e-myth trap.

First, let’s take a minute to talk about what an e-myth is. An entrepreneurial myth, or e-myth, is an assumption that anyone can succeed at business with:

·       Desire

·       Some capital

·       Projected a targeted profit

This sounds great, but it just not realistic. Think of starting a business as a marathon. Sure, everyone starts out of the gate at record pace, but after a few miles people start slowing and some drop out entirely. Building a successful business takes stamina and agility.

The reality is that there are many different facets to a successful business and none of them can be ignored if you plan to find success.

Let’s take a minute to talk about entrepreneurial seizure. This defines the roller coaster of emotions that comes with starting, nurturing and the potential failure of a business.

The emotions that occur, in order, are:

·       Exhilaration

·       Exhaustion

·       Despair

·       Sense of self-loss

This is usually cause by the e-myths and assumptions we talked about. You can get your hopes so high on instant success that even the smallest lag and you are sent into an emotional tailspin. This is also brought on by the stark realization that you can’t do it all and will need help in the areas where you don’t have the knowledge. Now, faced with limited choices you may feel like you need to back out and hide, but don’t do this.

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Business Mistakes: No Cash Flow

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on January 16, 2019 No Comments

The last 2 posts covered the first four of the killer mistakes you can make that will not only make you lose your fish, but possibly your entire company. Today we’re going to talk about the fifth killer mistake:

Up Cash Creek Without a Paddle.

Even when business is good there’s still a change of running out of cash flow. You have to always be prepared for a slow in sales or a surge in expenses. One of the keys to balancing your cash flow is to get your clients to pay on time. This can seem like a nightmare, but is absolutely essential to a successful business.

Here are some tips to speed up the payment process:

  • Always send invoices on time and adjust your records for potential audits.
  • Learn how the client processes payments on their side and find out precisely where to send invoices.
  • Find out who’s in charge of processing orders and payment, so you know who to contact if needed.
  • Have a follow-up procedure in place, just in case.
  • As a last resort, call your contact to ask questions.
  • Always make sure your invoices are correct before sending them out.

You also need to make sure your cash flow is protected. You can do this by:

  • Always know which accounts need paid and when.
  • Negotiate with your suppliers for the lowest cost possible.
  • Have a bank contingency plan in place.
  • Build your own inventor network.

These are all great ways to protect the cash flow of your business and prepare for fish transitions and slow sales. These last few lessons are all about finding and catching your big fish clients. These clients are essential to your success and your need to take the time to work through each of these steps carefully and correctly for the best success.

If you need help with any step of the process of catching your fish or subsequent big fish clients, let’s talk.  Schedule your call today: HERE

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The Power of Women Gathering in Circle

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on December 27, 2018 No Comments

Womenpreneurs Gather

Women have been meeting and gathering in circles for centuries, perhaps eons.  They have gathered to work, to cook, to study, to sing, to share, for rituals, and spiritual journeys throughout time.  Some women’s groups at churches were called Ladies’ Circles. Women gathered around the world to change the world through their ability to vote, these women — the suffragettes did change the world.

In a circle, there is an authenticity that is shared.  When you sit in circle you can see everyone. The hierarchy dissolves or is not evident.  Using your voice becomes easier. Women gathering in circles can be an incredible place to be, to do good work, and connect with other women.

When you remove the objects in the center as in Whole Person Process Facilitation or Open Space Technology, the energy blocks to healthy exchange are also removed. When the center is cluttered with unfinished business, conflict, or even just flowers it affects the energy of the circle and the ability of the circle to be open.  Opening a circle, creates a safe space for the people in the circle.  It provides a space for people to share deeply, not just on the surface.

impact circle

This is how I envision circles of impact — connecting, expanding, radiating and cascading out. My ability to create the image is limited, but this captures it a bit.

In a business circle, this can be powerful.  When a group of women business owners come together, passionate about their businesses and connect, then magic can happen.  With a group of women, it is even more powerful.  There can be sharing, support, input, feedback, connection; that each inspire and motivate the people in the circle.

When groups come together in a collaboration space or mastermind space, they start to hold each other up and hold each other accountable.  Accountability is one of those words that has become negative.  But imagine how your business changes if you are accomplishing all you set out to… and why aren’t you doing that right now?  Could someone, or a group of someones help you to do that better.  Its accountability.  A good thing.  It keeps our momentum going.  Kind accountability. Inspiring accountability.  Now you are soaring.

Another thing that happens in a group is the connections that lead to collaborations or idea shares that also propel businesses forward.  When these happen… new magic is being developed.

Business can be done in isolation. But it is definitely more fun, when there is a group of people that have your back, are on your side, are in your corner and are helping you figure out your path to success.  Suddenly, you are no longer alone, wondering if you are making the right decision, or figuring out how to do that newfangled social media. You have a community of women with you.

The power of circle work is incredible from both a participant perspective and a facilitator.  It is by far the best way to work with groups, have meetings, do strategic planning, visioning, just about any type of meeting is better in a circle.

The new Womenpreneurs Mastermind  is a community working in circle to change their businesses, their lives and their communities.  I believe women will change the world, are changing the world, and will continue to inspire a world based on kindness, love, generosity and compassion.  It is getting exciting to imagine the possibilities for each member of the circle, to imagine how they can each impact each other and the world.

When women gather — magic happens.

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Five Steps To Higher Profits

By Donna Price, Marketing Strategist & Business Consultant on December 23, 2018 No Comments

Are You Using the Five Step Profit Formula in YOUR Business?

Five Steps to Profits

Step 1: Lead Generation: most businesses that we talk to need more customers or clients. That means they probably need more leads coming into the business.
Step 2: Leads are great but if they don’t convert — do they help your profits? So mastering lead conversion is step #2.
Step 3: Transactions are the heart of your business. When you increase your transactions with your clients you increase your bottom line.
Step 4: Pricing — have you raised your prices recently? 5%, 10% — what is that impact?
Step 5: Your Profit Margins: You know you have to pay for things in your business — but have you looked at how you can manage them better?

Using the five step profit formula you are able to systematically increase your profits and transform your business.

We are using the profitability formula with every client and creating transformational results.

It is part of our new group coaching program and every individual client.
You as the leader need to understand the formula, marketing and the strategies that you are putting in place to grow. Maybe YOU are not the person implementing each tactic or strategy but YOU are the guide and holding the compass makes sure that you continue to go in the direction that YOU envisioned.

Pick up your copy of Business Profit Breakthroughs where I outline in detail how to shift your business with viable strategies.

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