How Do I Start On A Shoestring Budget?
Here’s our fourth installment of this month’s
question answer session!
Ok Daegan
I’m game…I’ve watched one Yanik video too
many, If you were starting over in your
business today and you had a $500 budget, but
no list, no contacts, no ebook, no name, and
3 hours a day free to devote to your business
(pretty much where our prospects are), what
step by step action would you take daily to
make a promotion in the next 30 days?
Where would you devote your resources?
Would you give more attention to blogs or
forums or Traffic Swarm or ezines or
something else?
-Carlos Scarpero
Carlos,
Again, I’m being fed great questions which
help get right to the heart of matters and
I’m more than happy to oblige.
Your question mirrors the exact circumstance
that I was confronted with when I first found
my most recent network marketing opportunity.
Instead of telling you what I WOULD do I can
tell you exactly what I did.
This should help enlighten quite a few
issues.
The first thing I did when I began marketing
my business:
I guess I should start prior to first thing I
did, because it was actually the steps that I
took before I actually began my promotion
that set me up for HUGE success online.
Before actually beginning marketing of my
business I had to be sure all my eyes were
dotted and tees crossed.
What do I mean?
I made sure I had a powerful marketing
system.
To make things simple and not to rehash this
concept you should be sure that whatever
business you join has one.
If not I STRONGLY suggest you create one.
You can start simply . . .
You system should include:
Lead Capture Page Automated Email Follow Up
For All Leads Direct Marketing Style Sales
Page
When I came across my business it had all
things in place.
Why is this important?
As the great Myron Golden says:
“What you lack in skill you can make up for
in leverage.”
Well I lacked skill in recruiting via peer to
peer contact in a BIG way.
Having a system in place before marketing
afforded me the leverage to have a sale
process in place that was concise and easily
duplicable.
So I did my homework.
(If I had not found such a system I would
have taken the time to create one.)
After finding a business with the proper
tools the next thing that I needed to do was
test.
The first place I went to test this system
was actually a forum online called the
Warrior Forum.
In that forum one of the members was allowing
solo mailings to his mailing list for $60 a
piece.
I did a test with one of these list.
The mailing brought in my first 12 sign ups.
If it works you do it again.
With a little tweaking of the ad copy I did
another mailing to this same list.
The results were 24 MORE new sign ups.
So . . .
I knew the system worked at this point.
The next step was to try different medians
for further proof.
I moved into PPC marketing and Forum
marketing.
I began a campaign with Google Adwords in
which I choose 700+ keywords to advertise
with at a cost per click of around $.20.
The results.
The next day I had spent $14 and from that
spend I generate 14 leads and 1 new sign up.
This system worked so I left it in place and
moved on to forum marketing and more robust
newsletter marketing.
For the newsletter marketing I turned to the
Directory of Ezines
And for the forums I choose 4 forums.
2 were internet marketing related and the
other 2 were network marketing related.
I posted to these forums 2 to 3 times a day
for the period of a week.
This activity generated 5 new sign ups in the
business.
With these results what I do I think you
should do first?
Newsletter marketing will bring you the
biggest bang for your buck, but it’s also the
most risk.
So I would test my system with newsletter
marketing via a solo ad.
Once marketability is confirmed I would then
move to PPC marketing and test there.
Finally I would go to forums and strike up a
few conversation and see how that works.
You’ll get good marketing data and you’ll be
able to scale your further promotions from
these initial results.
To take your marketing to the next level all
you will simply need to do is take these
success and do them on a larger scale
tracking your success ever step of the way.
To increase your rank in your company once
you get some personal momentum going you need
to do is relay ALL of your success back to
your team in an exact and precise fashion.
Those that are highly motivated will turn
around and duplicate.
To the top,
Daegan
“The King Of Never Calling A Single Lead”
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