Video Marketing

Your key to website trafffic and sales success using Video Marketing.

Today we’re going to discuss a how you can use the power of video marketing to communicate more effectively with your clients, prospects and staff.
But more than that, we’re going to show you how you can use this misunderstood medium (video marketing) to build rapport, establish your credibility, build a loyal following and convert more clients more often.

In October 2010 - according to a survey conducted by Forbes, Business Owners watched more online videos than a year earlier.
Nearly 60% of all respondents said they would watch video before reading text on the same webpage.

In short, this video article you wil learn...

• The 5 tips to Producing Video Content that Sells YOU, your product and your message to both the mass market, and to individuals.
• The 5 common pitfalls and mistakes that most people make when creating a video for marketing.
• And why, if you aren’t promoting your business via Video Marketing, you may be handing new customers to your competitors.

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A special thanks to Philippe from 7 Degrees Creative - 7dc. If you would like to find out more about video marketing contact 7dc by clicking here.

Irresistible marketing

Isn't it great to know that when times are tight, there's a proven method of converting more leads into paying clients....

In this short video, we'll show you exactly how you can do this and become more irresistible.

The question is...

What in your business is so irresistible that I just HAVE to have what it is that you're offering?

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"Live in the Boardroom with the Marketing Mentors"

presented by Bill Doyle and Sandra Hammond

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6 Marketing Strategies for Building your List & Boosting Your Income

Strategy # 1 Reactivate Old Contacts

• Scan old business cards into a spreadsheet
• Look in all of the places you may have stored old contacts
• Upload them into a professional email marketing system like FastTrack Email Marketing.com
• Write your email and send it out ASAP.

Strategy # 2 FREE Giveaway with your irresistible offer

• Develop your irresistible offer free giveaway
• It could be a Book, Digital eBook, Mini eCourse, Video Series, Special Report, Audio Program/CD’s, Teleseminar Series, Coaching session or Mini-course

Strategy # 3 FREE Traffic with Social Media

• Remember to capture leads
• Drive them to your “Capture Page”
• This is the SMART way to monetise your marketing efforts with social media. Now social media becomes important in generating quality leads.

Strategy # 4 Attend Live Networking Events

• Use Lead Generation Business Cards PLUS your 30 Second Audio Business Card

Strategy # 5 Public Speaking & Business Talks

• Whilst on stage... Let everyone know up-front that you have FREE information available to give to them. So there is no need to take notes.
• Give them a copy of your PowerPoint Presentation or other relevant reports, white-papers, e-books or videos etc. Ask this question… “Is there is anyone that DOES NOT want to receive this FREE information valued at $XX. BINGO! Now get the list and you have new instant leads in your marketing funnel.

Strategy # 6 Join Venture Partners

• Work with others who share a similar target market
• Cross promote each other Advertise your free report on their e-Newsletters and do the same for them
• Share your knowledge and suggest a webinar or tele-seminar to their database
• Swap endorsed letters to your databases introducing each other.

Copyright Altitude Marketing & Communications 2011. All Rights Reserved. This article may not be used without the prior written consent from the author. See below for more details...

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A common element in the success of a thriving businesses is their ability to take advantage of their database of contacts (clients, past clients, prospects etc). And while in the past, growing this database involved a lot of time and manual effort, it is now possible to automate this process thanks to the Altitude Communications FastTrack  eMarketing system.  

Your contact list is your business goldmine and it must be kept up-to-date. Thankfully, there are a limitless number of strategies that you can use to update and grow this list with ease. Your contact list can be used to get your clients to purchase from you more frequently, refer your business to others and for prospects, become your customers.

Here are a few ideas on how you can build your list of contacts, or to help expand your existing contact database:

Assess your business - It's a potential pot of gold...

For starters, examine every point of contact you have with possible clients, and use it to gather details such as:

• Seminars, workshops
• Trade shows (get cards from fellow presenters and attendees in your target market); or
• Collect business cards at Networking functions.

NB/Be aware to be compliant with the SPAM act you MUST ask for permission to include them on your mailing list

If you don't have time to ask them there, send them an email immediately stating how you got their details and ask permission to include their details within your mailing list quickly covering the value they will receive.

Sign-up Contacts

Get every new customer to complete a form either at your premises on your website to automatically capture their details and populate your database of contacts. 

Your online sign-up form should be simple to use, and fast for the client to complete.  Remember to briefly describe what they are signing up for and its frequency. Keep the number of details you are requesting less than seven points in total and where possible, use drop down boxes for speed and efficiency. The Altitude FastTrack system makes it easy to create a form that can automatically update your contact list's details - for further assistance with this, give us a call.

Excite them to want to sign up immediately

Keep your website and your eMarketing campaigns interesting and engaging to encourage people to sign up.  Send a postcard or letter to your contacts to give them an incentive to sign-up on your website, so you capture peoples email address and other details.

Other incentives may include prizes, e-books, white papers or discounts on your website, to increase your sign up conversions.

For fresh contacts, consider running a competition on your website or through other mediums to capture their details that includes a tick box that is already ticked, giving you permission to send the contact future offers or ePromotions. 

Promote It

Consider promoting the 'sign-up' facility in your eNewsletter, so that if someone wants to send articles to a friend, they too can subscribe easily.

Also promote your 'sign-up' form on the home page of your website, or better still on every page within your site. This form will automatically place your contact's details into your contact database and subscribe them into your predefined groups.

Foster Teamwork

Remember, many hands might light work, so get everyone in your team to ask each new caller, visitor, or appointment for permission to be placed on your mailing list. Consider offering new contacts access to your free, members-only eNewsletters or other special offers.

Remember the key to massive sign-ups is to describe the content of your ePromotions from a WIIFM (What's in it for Me) perspective. Position your ePromotion as access to an exclusive club filled with many benefits, lots of important information and special VIP offers.

Another technique for securing even more sign-ups is to add a subscribe link to the signature file on all your team's outgoing emails.

Make your Name Known

Get your company brand out there by supplying articles to other businesses and including a link on your website that features a sign-up page.  In addition, you could also make your articles public within the Article Library for other Altitude Communications FastTrack  eMail Marketing users. These articles can feature a link back to your website and sign-up form.

Another method is to advertise your ePromotions on search engines or other websites? There's a myriad of ways to get your name known!

Put all of these processes into consistent action and your database of contacts will grow constantly. And so will your business.

For more information, visit www.altitudecommunications.com.au - whose suite of tools makes marketing and communications simple and effective for small to medium-sized businesses. 

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Copyright Altitude Communications 2008. All Rights Reserved. This article may not be used without the prior written consent from the author. See below for more details...

DO YOU WANT TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR E-ZINE OR WEB SITE?  You can, as long as you include this text copy in its entirety:

Altitude Communications' Marketing Mentors Bill Doyle and Sandra Hammond publish the popular 'My Marketing Mentor' weekly eZine with over 2,300 subscribers including solo-preneurs, entrepreneurs and business owners. If you're ready to boost your business, generate more leads and make more money, go to http://www.Bees2HoneyPot.comPlus, just for visiting, we’ll give you FREE 50 fresh eMarketing ideas and tactics to help you to grow a profitable business without spending a fortune and attract new clients like bees to a honey pot.

Altitude Communications are dedicated to providing you with the tools, strategies, systems and ideas to help you achieve your online marketing success.

Just like you, we know how critically import that it is that you have the right online marketing tools to empower you with tme-saving techniques that help you to automate your marketing funnel. Altitude Communications offers a range on online marketing tools such as FastTrack eMarketing System, including eNewsletters, survey manager,