Yes, that's one of my sites. The other one is www.accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za.
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Yes, that's one of my sites. The other one is www.accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za.
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Neville Bailey - Sage Pastel Accounting Consultant
www.accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za
neville@accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za
IronTree Online Solutions
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Yes, it has proved to be a success for me, no doubt about it.
The important thing is that the site is merely a lead generating site, not a site to demonstrate your skills as a graphic artist!
Even the form is minimalistic, to prevent "transactional friction".
I blew the mind of a prospect (now a paying client) when I called him seconds after he submitted the form - I was driving at the time and his details popped onto my BlackBerry, allowing me to click on his phone number!
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Neville Bailey - Sage Pastel Accounting Consultant
www.accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za
neville@accountingsoftwaresupport.co.za
IronTree Online Solutions
"Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value."
WALLACE WATTLES (1860-1911)
Thanks for the extremely useful reply, Dave!
If you can recommend them so confidently, I think we can definitely look into it. I was just worried that they were just another internet marketing fad.
It might be worth my while just to consult with them and hear their ideas on it all.
Perhaps the fact that we are going a whole new route with our business, targeting just the entrepreneurial and small business niche, will help to make the program (particularly the Adwords) more effective.
Once our new website is up I will definitely look at giving them a shot.
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Mark,Have you used Marketing Motor before, Dave?
I skimmed through their site and it seems to promise everything that every other internet marketing "guru" might promise. Sounds suspect to me.
Perhaps you've had personal experiences with them that may convince me otherwise?
I sense an air of skepticism about Online Marketing, for which i don't blame you as it is just like any other industry in that it has
it's share of mediocre service providers and ripp off merchants, i've gone through my share of lawyers and accountants to know
there is no service/industry/profession that is immune to this. What i will say is, done well it is actually the golden challice that
can create lead generation and sales on a fairly automated basis. That doesn't mean your input is reduced in closing the sale but
if you had 10 extra enquiries a month from people looking for a new website in Durban what would that be worth to you? Imagine
the hours you would save on cold calling,sweating over offline media advertising, prospecting......... as well as the expense involved
in these activities. Time is the most precious resource in Business, high impact SEO allows high impact lead generation but it isn't
an overnight story and it needs consistancy and perseverence. The other side of the coin is it will have a positive impact for far longer
than it took to have an impact. Neville has had a positive experience with this Marketing Motor, Dave reccommends it, it sounds an
interesting idea as far as PPC goes and may well produce quicker results than SEO but on average Adwords advertisers are only getting
a combined minority of the clicks on any Search results page so this will always be the poorer cousin of SEO. Bottom Line is you really
should be doing one or the other, i had a quick look at your backlinks and the anchor texts you have used will never get good rankings
for the phrases you want apart from that it is a nice site with plenty of indexed pages, a decent foundation to move forward.
I agree. That personal contact before you start mailing is the way to go, and you get a chance to speak to the right person.You don't need a sales pitch. Get to the point and you'll know where you stand. If the company or person has a need for your product or service he'll give you the time.
i would suggest giving them a 30seconds call teling them who you are an how you can help their business. Then tell them that you could also send them the email to inform them more about you. That way your emails wil be treatd wit respect an not as spam!
thats actually a good idea. its absolutely free to send the emails and there is virtually no risk so go ahead
You should not send unsolicited emails. It is spamming. You can do it in a more friendly way.
Ask your customers for their email addresses and to subscribe your newsletter. If they forward your emails to their friends and get active response, they will receive some rewards, like coupon. This will be more effective.
If you want to know email marketing better, you can read some email marketing strategies written by us. http://www.comm100.net/email-marketing-tutorial
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