Facebook Fan Pages: Be One of the Popular People

Like it or not, business on Facebook use what’s called a fan page.
If you’re a performer you’re probably used to having fans but many service providers and shops don’t usually refer to their customers and prospects as fans.
None-the-less, if you haven’t claimed your business name as a Facebook fan page; STOP reading this right [...]

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Email Marketing: When Subscribers Ignore You…

After you build up a substantial number of subscribers you will notice that many of them don’t open your messages. Once you verify that the emails are being delivered to their IN box and not the SPAM folder, you need a strategy to get that open rate up.
If you see a noticeable decline after a [...]

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Email Marketing: Quick, WIIFM?

Great!  They’ve opened your email – you’ve got about 50 seconds.
That’s all the average email gets, according to the Nielsen Norman Group’s research. In those seconds, readers determine the email’s value and decide whether to give you more time, click on the link or delete it.
Clarity is the virtue that you need now.
Don’t try to convince [...]

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Email Marketing: Consistency with Frequency Equals Success

Email marketing, like any other business process, requires that you make a plan, gather the resources and implement. Then you go back and evaluate, make changes and re-evaluate.
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Part of your plan must be how often you send emails and with what type of content. To begin implementing your plan you’ll formulate an opt-in strategy and [...]

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Email Marketing: Reactions and Responses

As I’ve discussed before, there are 3 elements to training your contacts to respond to your messages: Content, Frequency and Value.
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You set the tone of the relationship with your sign-up procedure. .
If you’ve offered quality content relevant to their concerns, they’ve had a positive first impression and will (often) keep opening and reading your [...]

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