Are you looking to start an internet marketing business online? If so, you need to know exactly what you’re getting yourself into. Don’t think you can just enter into this industry and expect to start making millions of dollars within the next 6 months. I get requests from people all the time telling me that they want to be making $5,000 per month within 3 months. And these are people who have never sold a thing online!One thing that you need to know is that when starting an internet marketing business online, you “kind of” have the world at your feet. There’s plenty of places to advertise, there’s plenty of ways to get free traffic to your site, there’s plenty of business owners looking to learn how to do effective marketing online, and etc. So you can be kind of spoiled once you get your hands on some training materials.But understand that you are operating in a HIGH competition arena. A smart thing that you could do is to offer internet marketing services to local small businesses in your area. Most offline small business owners don’t have a clue about how to market their business online. But in the online world, people have training thrown at them all the time.So I guess the best question to ask yourself is: “How am I different?” Right?? You don’t want to be a “me-too” person when marketing your products and services online. This applies if you choose to be a coach, consultant, or sell products such as books, CD’s, DVD’s, or even magazines. So how are you different? How will you separate yourself from the pack and differentiate yourself from everyone else online who are making the same claims as you?It’s something you need to think about when launching your own internet marketing business online. Where most people get tripped up at is when, they read someone’s free eBook about internet marketing, and then go and buy a large resell rights package that is ALL ABOUT internet marketing.Each product in the package contains something about internet marketing. More often than not, the resell rights bundle may contain products about:Email marketing
Forum marketing
YouTube marketing
General internet marketing
Consumer buying behavior
Copywriting
Etc (the list goes on and on)
And most of these people spend YEARS trying to figure out a way to sell these products – if not sell them as a bundle. OR if not resell the same offer that they bought to receive these items. After years of failure, they usually leave feeling depressed, broke, and convinced that making money online is impossible… if not a scam. And this is just not true.All of these kinds of products are supposed to teach people about niche marketing. Especially a general product about internet marketing. The real pros who sell internet marketing products successfully sell them primarily for a good reason: THEY SELL THEM FOR VERY HIGH PRICES.They sell one course about internet marketing at $200. Then they backend sell you for another similar course at $500. Then they sell you another similar course with huge bonuses for $1000. Then they sell their 3-day seminar and invite you to attend… for the price of $2000. THEN they convince you to sign up for their monthly newsletter or membership website, and charge you $50/month to join.How rich do you think you would be if you were to successfully get people to buy your products at these price ranges?Meanwhile, you’re being convinced that selling $19 eBooks will save you from your day job. This is just not the case. To make $100,000 by selling $19 eBooks, you would have to sell 5000 eBooks per year. That comes out to 416 eBooks per month. Which means you would have to sell 104 eBooks per week. Which thus means you would have to sell 14 eBooks per day.How are you going to sell 13 eBooks per day and you’re struggling to make even a dime of profit selling a $5 eBook on eBay? You have to learn a lot about internet marketing if you want to make a lot of money in this business. ESPECIALLY if you’re selling information about “internet marketing”. If you’re not a guru and have been selling other niche products successfully online, don’t enter into this broad arena.The gurus who are selling “internet marketing” products successfully have a plan that have worked well for them over the years. EVEN IF they lose money on the first sale of getting that first customer, they know how to recoup their lost, and then still profit on the next sale that they make from that customer.They know their numbers. They know their sales conversion rate, their cost per lead, cost per sale, and their average long term value of a customer. Let me ask you a question:If you knew that for every 1 customer you acquired, that you were going to make an average of $5000 over the lifetime of that customer spending money with you… would you care if you lost $5 just to acquire them in the first place? Of course you wouldn’t care.But I’m sure you would care if you were spending $5 to acquire them, and then not selling to them again to recoup your profits. That would mean that for every customer you get, you would be losing $5 per sale… forever. You have to market to these customers over and over again to recoup a frontend loss. This is called “backend marketing”.If you want to get started online in the internet marketing business, you have to bring your A-game and have a mathematical plan of how you’re going to make money. There’s a lot to learn, but once you gain an understanding of how marketing online works (and how marketing in general works)… you’ll be well on your way to success in your business.If you’re going to buy a resell rights bundle package, at least READ the information in the products you acquired so that you can know how to sell them successfully. Don’t be a hopeless cause.
Contact Manager For Outlook
How is a Contact Manager (CM) application different from Contact Management or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) ?Contact manager, contact management and CRM are all essentially different names for software applications that help you manage your contacts so you can make every contact count and turn your calling efforts into sales. In fact contact manager applications are often also referred to as sales management programs.How can a contact manager software program make me more effective in building relationships?You may wonder how a computer program can make you more effective in building relationships and ultimately sales. The key to contact manager applications is that they help you keep track of every activity surrounding a contact, so you remember what you’ve done, what you need to do next and what the potential opportunity is worth. Contact managers include organizational tools, such as those you use everyday – calendars, email, notes and task managers. What makes CM applications different from your other office productivity tools is that they link all these things to a contact or “opportunity” file, so you can set up appointments, assign tasks or send an email, while you’re reviewing related notes and history. Contact managers allow you to be more efficient by having all your tools in one place. Contact managers also make you more effective by placing all related contact manager information in one file, so you are fully informed and focused on the sales goal.What is meant by a contact manager “opportunity” file?When you first call on a prospect, or make a first call about a particular business opportunity, you open an “opportunity” file in your contact manager application. That becomes the main file for tracking your opportunities. Contact information is linked to the opportunity file from your CM contact list, and you make notes in the file each time you contact the prospect about the opportunity, building a history in your CM application. Any appointments you schedule, tasks you assign and emails you send to the contact related to this opportunity all add to this comprehensive opportunity file.Does contact manager software do anything else?Yes. CM applications include sales management reports that show your opportunity pipeline and forecast sales. Your contact manager reports can include estimated dollar value of your opportunities, stage in the sales cycle, probability of closing the sale and anticipated close dates. You can search and sort your contact manager reports by any of these fields, or by sales rep, region, contact or product. These contact manager reports are an invaluable sales management tool that can be created on demand and used daily to assign resources and tasks to those activities with the greatest sales potential.How does Prophet Contact Manager compare to the competition?Prophet CM is similar to other contact managers in function, but very different in how it performs those functions. All contact managers are built around the idea of creating opportunity files that include all contact information, history and activities in a single location, with the ability to search the information and generate sales management reports. All contact managers include some way to connect to calendars, task lists and email, so you can follow-up your calling efforts by scheduling next steps and sending appropriate communications. What makes Prophet CM so different is that it works within Outlook, making use of your current Outlook contact list, familiar email, task and calendar functions. You don’t need to learn new office productivity tools. Prophet Contact Manager is simply an extension of Outlook. You’ll recognize the toolbars and commands. There’s essentially no training curve and you’ll see virtually instant results.How do competitive contact managers’ productivity tools work?Each contact manager application is slightly different, but none, other than Prophet, allow you to work directly inside Outlook®. You either need to use a duplicate set of tools within your contact manager for your contacts, calendar, tasks, etc., or you have to synch up to Outlook to transfer information between your contact manager and Outlook. These things make our competitors’ contact managers more difficult to learn, more complex to use and, to varying degrees, redundant.
US Health Care is Broken – What is Your Company Doing About It?
We all know U.S. health care is broken. For employers the impact is that employee health care benefits are increasingly and outrageously expensive and are quickly eating away at profitability for most firms. So what is your company doing about controlling health care costs – other than waiting for the slow and uncertain process of government to fix it all for you?Employee health benefits are considered by most employers to be a frustrating but unavoidable cost of doing business. Most employers are simply paying the increases. Many employers have found ways to save by shifting some of the increasing health care costs to employees. The impacted employees are frustrated as a result. That’s why conventional wisdom asserts that, to be an ‘Employer of Choice’, you have to provide rich (read expensive) traditional employer health insurance, requiring very little if anything out-of-pocket from employees.A Revolutionary ApproachHowever, surprising new ways of re-structuring employee health benefits are changing this budget item for savvy employers from an increasingly painful cost and employee-relations problem into a cost-saving investment that dynamically benefits both employees and the company.To understand how employee health benefits are being restructured in these new ways, consider the old familiar concept of Risk Management. According to Wikipedia (the new font of all wisdom!) “Risk Management is the discipline of identifying, monitoring and limiting risks… In businesses, risk management entails organized activity to manage uncertainty and threats and involves people following procedures and using tools in order to ensure conformance with risk-management policies.”According to the standard ISO/DIS 31000 “Risk management — Principles and guidelines on implementation”, the process of risk management consists of several steps as follows:1. Identification of risk in a selected domain of interest.
2. Planning the remainder of the process.
3. Mapping out the following:
the social scope of risk management
the identity and objectives of stakeholders
the basis upon which risks will be evaluated, constraints.4. Defining a framework for the activity and an agenda for identification.
5. Developing an analysis of risks involved in the process.
6. Mitigation of risks using available technological, human and organizational resources.Based on results from new best practices in employee health benefits, using these same principles and steps to re-structure your employee health benefits will serve both you and your employees far better than the current standard approach. Traditional ‘health’ benefits are really sickness benefits, focused on providing care after health risks have led to disease. Health risks are rarely if ever even mentioned in traditional health care and wellness plan designs.Yet CDC reports that 70% or more of all U.S. health care costs are for care of preventable illnesses. CDC states that these illnesses are preventable primarily through improved daily health habits, like getting adequate regular exercise and maintaining a healthy body weight.Other evidence shows that many people do not get the recommended ‘preventive’ screening they should be getting to detect diseases such as breast and colon cancer in their early more treatable and less-costly stages. More CDC-confirmed research shows that 59% of next year’s high health care costs will come from this year’s low-cost population, as people with high health risks succumb to disease.The new best-practice employee health benefit designs take these factors into account. Pioneering employers of all sizes have discovered the cost-saving value of offering strong financial incentives to reward employees for managing their health risks.In case you’re worried about privacy and confidentiality, you should know that the best new programs meet all HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) regulatory requirements that protect these rights.We are not talking here about the tried and failed old worksite wellness programs that were used only by employees who were taking responsibility for their health anyway. We are not talking about carrier-sponsored or other programs that simply refer enrollees to online health information and effectively say ‘good luck’. We are referring to the new employee wellness strategies and programs that far more effectively involve even those with the highest health risks who have not been taking personal responsibility for getting and staying healthy.Saving on employee health care costs can mean saving jobs or the company itself, or at least making far better use of those funds. As some successful firms have already shown, employers who adopt these worksite wellness strategies reap huge rewards, and so do their employees. Experts agree it’s a new economy. It’s time for businesses to do more than just think outside the box. It’s time for companies to take action to reduce costs or risk losing their competitive advantage and quite possibly their business.