Lead Capture 1; The Money is in The List!
Capturing leads, converting those new leads to paying customers, building relationships with customers to create loyalty, having your customers buy more often from you & getting your customers to spend more on each item purchase… is every small business owner’s biggest challenge.
Here at E- Com Gold for Small Biz, we understand the enormous value of gathering, educating & monetizing “The List” (or “Data Base” as some call it).
In the online world, The List is the prize, the sought after pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
A responsive, targeted list has so much income potential for local brick & mortar businesses. Most business owners are quite shocked at the un-mined gold they are sitting on the first time they are introduced to this very effective & age old business necessity.
Today, with the ease of installation & low cost of modern technology, the job of collecting prospect & customer details is simple, lucrative & a highly effective bottom line strategy no business should be without. List building has been automated to such a degree this essential element of direct response marketing is a must have that business can not overlook, no matter how large, small or from what industry sector.
Building relationships with your list of contacts is the key to creating customer loyalty, long term customer satisfaction & a constant stream of referrals which substantially reduces the huge cost of advertising facing all businesses to-day, as they scramble for market share.
List gathering & customer relationship building will place any business light years ahead of their competition…take a look at the recent hugely successful DOVE soap adds for example.
Then, just this week, a car manufacturer has come out with a serialized add campaign to engage a potential audience …their particular demographic…in the more intimate details of the “life you could live when you buy this car”
Managing your list, educating your buyers, creating loyal, long term “raving fans” is now within the reach of all small businesses via Direct Response Marketing.
If approached in the correct manner, list building & proactive management can also help slash advertising costs by half, increase sales… & the biggest surprise of all to most biz owners is that with direct response marketing, they can learn how to increase their prices, gain market share, have their customers willingly pay the extra $$, buying even more product, all with reduced business advertising costs!
Next; How much is each person on a list of responsive, targeted names worth?
Have a guess & fill in the anonymous poll here !
For more info on how to start a list or if you want to begin an on-line business go here.
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20/01/2009 at 6:12 am
strange marking in 2nd paragraph
20/01/2009 at 6:27 am
Thanks Lola,
Will fix it now!
Mary
22/01/2009 at 12:00 am
Thanks for the info.
It looks like a list is the way to go.
22/01/2009 at 3:20 am
It sure is!
Why have a biz if people just come & go?
You have to keep spending advertising dollars to get them back in each time, so why not get them in once & keep “wooing” them to buy more, more often!
It’s heaps cheaper!
Mary
17/09/2009 at 11:50 pm
Hi Mary
Where is your opt-in box??
Liz