The headline is the one thing that grabs your prospect’s attention.

Whether it’s in your web page, email, ad, sales letter, leaflet, brochure, the opening sentence of your telephone script, and so on, your headline can be the difference between failure or incredible success – it’s that important!

If your prospects or clients, customers or patients dismiss your headline – that’s it, you’ve lost them. They won’t start reading your web page, letter, ad, brochure etc., and you won’t get a response.

To emphasise the importance of headlines, here are a couple of quotes from two of the most highly respected copywriters of all time…

“If you can come up with a good headline, you are almost sure to have a good ad. But even the greatest writer can’t save an ad with a poor headline.”

John Caples – How To Make Your Advertising Make Money.

“On average five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy.”

David Ogilvy – Confessions Of An Advertising Man

What does this mean?

Basically if you get your headline right you almost guarantee your success.

Get your headline wrong – and your results will suffer!

But if all you do is lead with a strong headline with all your marketing communications you’ll improve your response and success many times over.

Effective Headlines Fulfil These Four Key Objectives…

• Get attention
• Select an audience
• Deliver a complete message
• Draw the reader into the body copy (or keep them listening to you, etc)

The good news is that creating winning headlines can be achieved by following some simple and proven ‘headline types.’

I’ve listed 7 of the most successful ones here. By applying a number of these different headline types you’ll start to see how easy it is to create winning headlines…

1). Benefit headlines (all your headlines should contain a benefit of some sort)

2). Use a two or three word headline (but remember long headlines are almost always more successful than short headlines)…

Burn Fat Faster

Get June Free

Double Bonus Sale

Oh My God!

Gosh

At Last

Millionaire Secrets

If Only…

3). Headlines that focus on quick and easy solutions

Fast And Simple…

Ridiculously Easy And Fast…

Idiot Proof…

In Just 10 Days…

The 7 Minute Workout…

The Lazy Man’s Way To…

Instant, Automatic Results…

The Quick And Easy Way To…

4). Warning headlines

Read This Before You…

Don’t Buy…Until You’ve Read These Facts

5). Testimonial Headlines

A Specific Benefit Written Testimonial From One Of Your Clients

“Or It Can Just Be A Headline In Speech Marks Like This Written Like A Testimonial”

6). Reasons Why headlines

Seven Reasons Why You Should…

37 Invigorating Reasons…

6 Ways To…

7 Steps…

Here’s How…

7). Offer headlines

Put your offer in the headline…

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That brings to an end to our blog s detailing the 26 Most Common Marketing Mistakes.

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Previously we talked about the amazing effect referrals can have on your business. This ‘positive word of mouth advertising’ is a truly awesome way of increasing your sales and profits – agreed?

So what happens if the opposite occurs?

Instead of getting ‘good word of mouth’ you get ‘bad word of mouth’ (online reviews have taken this to an unprecedented level!).

What effect can this have on your business?

I think you’re going to be shocked…

One lost and unsatisfied client or customer has far reaching implications.

You don’t just lose their business – you lose the business of many other potential clients or customers.

Let me explain this using a simple example…

Let’s say you shop at your preferred supermarket each week. And let’s say you spend £/$/€150 a week on grocery shopping. That’s £/$/€600 every month. And a massive £/$/€7,200 a year. Over a ten year period you’ll spend over £/$/€70,000.

But let’s say for several weeks the supermarket doesn’t put enough people on the check-out and they are out of stock with regular items on your grocery list. You put up with it to begin with because you’re a loyal customer, but week-after-week this keeps happening so you decide to leave and go to another store.

So, what was the cost to the supermarket that had your business and then lost it?

Well on first inspection you’d say straight away they lost your custom which amounted to £/$/€600 a month.

But here’s where is gets even more frightening…

You’d probably tell this story to every one of your friends.

As a result a few of them have also stopped using the supermarket out of principle. Heaven knows how many friends they’ve also told.

In effect, you have a mushrooming situation where more and more people get told about the ‘story of why you left the supermarket.’ It amounts to a huge tide of bad publicity. And it’s exactly the same when you lose a client or customer.

So let’s take a closer look at how this bad word of mouth could impact on your business.

If one unhappy customer were to tell 10 other people about that experience (or not refer those 10 people to your business), and each of those 10 were to tell six others, the total number of people affected by your one bad experience would total 71. (6 x 10 = 60 + 10 = 70 + the original unhappy customer = 71).

Now, if only 25 percent of those people chose not to do business with you, that comes to 18 people.

If each of those 18 had similar buying habits as your original customer, your total lost revenues would be £/$/€27,000 (£/$/€1,500 x 18 people)!

£/$/€27,000… all from one bad experience!

But what if those figures are way off, and it’s only 20% of that amount? That still totals £/$/€5,400.

That’s a lot of money for letting one person leave your business unhappy. And here’s an unfortunate thing:

Sometimes people are unhappy, and leave, and you don’t even know it.

They just get their feelings hurt, feel slighted, or have something completely unexplained happen, and take their business somewhere else. And you never know.

Here’s how the above situation looks…

As you can see, losing customers really does impact your sales and profits – and ultimately the value of your business.

So what do you do about it?

Well, you can’t afford to do anything but treat each of your clients, customers or patients in the very best way possible.

Give them all the love, care, attention and service you can.

Go overboard.

Make it nearly impossible for them to even consider doing business with anyone else but you, regardless of price, location, convenience, or any other reason.

Become not only the preferred place to do business with, but the only consideration your customers, clients or patients and prospects have.

In fact, if you address all the mistakes in this training, you’ll be well on your way to doing that!

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I can go into any business and release thousands of pounds of revenue and profit literally overnight.

I can do this NOT because I’m an expert marketer, but because I tap into the ‘Hidden Goldmine’ that every business possesses.

Often the difference between someone like me, and say, anyone else is that I know where to look, and I know what to do (and you will too).

What is this ‘Hidden Goldmine’ I hear you ask?

It’s your Clients, Customers or Patients!

Yes no surprise there, but tell me why 99% of organisations don’t ever tap into the most lucrative part of their businesses?

This is ‘Marketing 101’ and the 4th part of The FORMULA.

Once you’ve generated a new client, customer or patient, it’s your duty to enrich their life by giving them more value…

More services…

More products/services…

More benefits.

This is known as ‘Back-End Selling’.

And when you do this successfully (it isn’t hard) you’ll release so much cash that you’ll wonder what to do with it.

Strategies such as up-selling and cross-selling will enable you to increase your ‘wallet share’ of each client, customer or patient (you can get a full list of the best performing strategies to use on your customers from the ‘1-Page Business Growth FORMULA’ – details below).

As long as you look after your clients, customers or patients, they’ll keep buying from you – but you must keep selling to them – or someone else will!

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One of the greatest mistakes people make is to base all their results on the first sale.

Here’s what I mean…

Let’s say on the first sale a new client or customer pays you £1,000. Your gross margin after delivering your product or service is 50%, which means you make £500 per new customer.

However, it costs you £600 to generate this one customer (the cost of your advertising) so you actually made a loss of £100.

Based on these assumptions many people would conclude that this approach was not profitable and would no doubt cease using it.

That’s how 99% of business people evaluate their success – based on the first transaction or sale.

Now, in most businesses, the customer keeps coming back for more.

And even if you sell a ‘one-off’ product or service you can and should get referrals from your clients or customers and start looking to ‘partner’ with other non-competing but aligned businesses so you can offer their products or services (for a commission of course!).

That means the client, customer or patient is actually worth much more to you than the amount generated on the first transaction.

This in effect is what’s known as Lifetime Customer Value.

Quite simply, Lifetime Customer Value is the average profit a client generates over the duration of the relationship with you.

A good guide to use is 5 years for the duration (but you’ll know what your average lifetime is).

Let’s use the above example to show you the BIG difference this approach can have…

Now, let’s say one new client, customer or patient generates the same £1,000 per year but they pay this every year for 5 years. Your gross margin for delivering your service is the same 50%.

That now means by looking at the value over the duration of the relationship, the average lifetime value is £1,900 (£5,000 x 50% = £2,500 – cost of advertising £600) and not -£100 as we had in the first example!

Plus, these figures don’t include any referrals the customer would also bring!

Do you see the difference?

All it takes is a simple shift in thinking, and you can leverage your business so much that it astonishes your competition.

And where does this leverage come from I hear you ask?

Well now you know what each customer is worth to you, it means you can actually spend more money to acquire the customer in the first place.

This is where the whole issue of creating Irresistible Offers comes into play.

Your irresistible offers make it impossible for your prospects to ignore you, and as a result you rapidly increase your client or customer acquisitions!

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I guess you knew this was going to come up sooner or later!

However, you must have a marketing plan. I prefer to use a “marketing action plan” that shows what marketing tactics and strategies you’ll be using and when you’ll be activating them. This way you know where you’re going and you know what to do.

Without a plan is like sailing a ship without a rudder – you never know where you’re going to end up – and you might even capsize! You’ll move from side to side and rarely forwards.

Part of the plan must include your short, medium and long term goals for the business. You should record all your results and measure the effectiveness of every campaign.

Your marketing plan is the tool you’ll use to drive your business forward.

Often the best ways to create your plan is start with your goals for the year.

Break them down into monthly goals followed by weekly goals.

Now you know each week what you must achieve.

Now work back and decide what marketing activity you require to generate the sales/profits/client acquisitions.

What you’ll be left with is a ‘roadmap’ describing the activity you need each and every week to ensure you hit your targets. You don’t need to go into any more detail.

What you don’t want is a 40-page marketing plan that gets read once and then collects dust on a shelf. Your marketing plan should be a dynamic working document that is looked at weekly (sometimes daily depending on your operation).

The ‘Sales Accelerator ROADMAP’, which you can get for FREE (details below) will give you a complete roadmap on what you need to quickly build your business and is a great plan for you to follow.

Spend the time right now to plan your success.

Mark my words, it will be time very well spent!

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Even sales professionals are reluctant to ask for the order for fear of rejection.

However you must ask for the order.

Why?

Because your prospect is silently begging to be led.

Asking for the order is something you must do to get the sale. If you don’t ask for the order you won’t get the business.

Or you won’t get as much business as you should.

Closing is simply the way in which you ask for the order.

Basically this means you should have two or three good logical closes you can use comfortably when meeting with prospects. (This also applies to all of your marketing communications. If you want people to request further information, or a meeting, or whatever, your communication must close to get the desired outcome).

…and, of course, it’s no different online. Your buttons, your videos, all your social media, articles and so on, all need to ask for the order, or at least get people to move to the next stage of your sales process.

This can be as simple as saying something like, ‘Shall we go ahead?” or “Shall we give it a try?”

That’s not hard for anyone to say, but the difference it makes to your sales and profits will be astronomical (I chose that word very carefully!).

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Our time is precious – very precious.

The more time you spend talking or meeting with good quality prospects – the more profitable and successful you’ll be.

So why do I see so many people meeting with ‘prospects’ who aren’t ready to buy?

You must only meet with people (or spend time talking to people) who are in a position to buy your product or service now or at least in the very near future. (This ultimately depends on your sales cycle, i.e. the average time it takes for a lead to convert into a client or customer).

You cannot afford to waste time on what I call ‘poor prospects.’

You must spend your time with ‘good prospects.’

So how do you do this?

Quite simply you create a list of questions that determine the quality of the prospect.

These ‘qualification questions’ will give you the information to make a decision regarding the quality of the prospect. You ask your qualification questions the first time you speak to the prospect (usually over the telephone).

By doing this you can still keep in touch with prospects who aren’t quite ready to buy by using ‘follow up.’

Be strong. Don’t class all your leads and prospects the same. Work hard on good prospects and let your follow up ‘move’ poor and average prospects into good prospects.

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If your product or service is half-decent, then you’ll automatically receive referrals or recommendations from your clients, customers or patients.

It’s a simple equation…

…the better you are – the more ‘unsolicited’ referrals you’ll get.

That’s what good business is all about. Agreed?

However, if you actively go after referrals and put in place a referral system, you’ll generate many, many more referrals.

This can be as easy as asking your client or customer for the names of three people who like them would be interested in receiving some information from you.

You’ll be surprised at the increase in sales just from referrals if you put in place a systemised approach to get referrals rather than waiting for them to happen.

Here’s the ‘Success Formula’ for creating a powerful referral system…

Good Business

+

Incentive

+

Communicate

+

Systemise

=

Powerful Referral System

And don’t forget referral business is your best type of business.

You rarely compete on prices or fees, and these people tend to be people whom you enjoy working with! Better still… you’ll find that you convert a much higher percentage of referrals into clients or customers.

If you got just one referral from 50% of your clients or customers every year, what sort of difference would that make to your business? HUGE!

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Again, I’ve got files full of these sorts of mistakes.

You must check and double check that you’ve got the correct details of your prospects and clients, customers or patients.

I’m sure you know from experience how annoying it is when someone gets your name or other contact details wrong.

The name (and address if relevant) on any communication is checked first by all of us. What do you think your chances are if you get your prospects or customers contact details wrong? Where do you think your marketing piece will end up?

It’s often difficult to get 100% accurate data. But make sure you keep your errors to a minimum. Keep updating your records. Check the prospects or customers details when they call in. Just good ‘housekeeping’ will eradicate many basic (and often human) errors.

Plus, with the ever-changing laws on data protection it’s good practice to keep your data as current as possible.

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This is one of the ‘dreaded sins’.

You must NEVER send your brochure or catalogue out without enclosing a sales letter.

If the reason you send your brochure to a prospect is to secure a meeting, then your sales letter must ‘sell’ the meeting, and explain why the prospect should give up their time to meet with you.

This is absolutely critical.

Sending a cover letter like the one below will NEVER give you the sort of result you can achieve…

And I could have shown you hundreds of similar letters!

If the purpose of the brochure or catalogue is to secure an order, your sales letter must push for the order.

Sending a brochure out without a sales letter is like throwing money down the drain.

And if you think a one or two line cover letter will do the trick – think again.

There’s a well known saying we use relating to this mistake…

‘Your brochure tells, your letter sells’

Brochures cost hundreds even thousands of pounds to produce. Most are written so badly they never ever cover their costs, but a good sales letter will often ‘save’ the brochure and generate a good profit for you.

And just in case you were wondering what you should do if you can’t afford a brochure or a catalogue…

Send a sales letter instead.

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I’ve got three files full of letters/adverts/fliers etc., that haven’t been checked properly.

They’re ridden with mistakes.

Basic mistakes that could and should have been avoided. (I’ve included a couple of great examples below)

Remember this…

Every marketing strategy you activate has an up-front cost.

Some strategies such as advertising (online and offline) and direct mail can cost thousands – especially when you make simple and avoidable mistakes.

Mistakes in any form can be very costly.

They make you look sloppy.

They make you look amateur.

They make you look like you don’t care.

Are these the feelings you want to portray?

Now, I appreciate, we’re all human and we all make mistakes, but what I’m really talking about is NOT even thoroughly checking for mistakes before launching a campaign.

If you’re writing your own material it’s often very hard to see the mistakes because you’re too close to the project.

That’s why you must get someone else – even your partner to check your work before it gets released.

Irrespective of the tight deadlines you may have – you must never, ever launch a marketing campaign (no matter how small) until you’ve checked and double checked for mistakes.

Here’s a simple example – can you spot the mistake?

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I am amazed at how frequently this occurs.

When you communicate with your clients, customers or patients, please use their name. Don’t ever write to your clients like this…

• Dear Client
• Dear Valued Client
• Dear Sir/Madam (yes I still receive letters like this – I’m sure you do too)

This sounds really obvious but it happens regularly. If the person you’re writing to is a client, customer or patient, treat them like you would a friend.

NEVER write to your clients like this again.

Here’s how to do it…

• Dear John
• Good Morning John
• Hi John
• Dear Mr Jones (I prefer not to use this naming convention, as it’s very formal, but it’s still personal)

If at the beginning of the relationship you would rather be more formal you should use the following greetings…

· Dear Mr Brown

· Good Morning Mrs Jones

Think about it…

If you’re a ‘Valued Client’ why hasn’t the business taken the time and effort to write to you personally?

For many people this is very irritating. It’s a sure-fire way to annoy and even repel people from using your products or services in the future.

And don’t forget…

…one of your ultimate objectives is to nurture your relationships so you can ethically extract as much profit as you can out of your existing clients, customers or patients.

Using their name is a good start!

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Just saying your product or service is this or that much better than your competitors’, isn’t going to be enough to convince your prospects.

You must always give reasons why.

For example, let’s take a cliché that many people use – “our service is the best”.

On its own, this phrase is meaningless.

It’s regarded as hype – and therefore instantly unbelievable.

But if you give the reasons why your service is the best, your claim suddenly becomes more believable.

People assume (wrongly) that their prospects will make choices based on minimal information.

Sometimes that’s true, but in the majority of cases your prospects need more information to be able to act decisively, and choose you before your competitors.

They need reasons why.

Here’s why…

Before a prospect buys your product or service they are asking themselves many important questions…

• Why should I pay this price for this product or service?
• If the price ‘seems high’ why should I pay more for it?
• If the price ‘seems low’ why is it low, is it inferior?
• Why should I choose you over other businesses providing the same product or service type?
• What makes your product or service better than others?
• How do I know you won’t let me down?

I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

Now what do you think happens if you don’t answer all these relevant concerns?

That’s right, the prospect will turn to someone else.

It goes without saying that in order for you to acquire BIG increases in sales you have to give reasons why.

What does that mean?

It means you need to explain clearly why you charge higher than your competitors, you need to explain how and why your product or service is better than your competitors and so on.

Tell them about your expertise.

The rigorous lengths you take to recruit your staff.

How long you spend training your staff.

What steps you take to ensure customer satisfaction, and so on.

This stuff is important – really important.

It provides the rationale behind your prospects decisions and helps cement the sale.

Often we think that if we say too much it will repel our prospects. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Tests have proven time after time that as long as a prospect is interested in your product or service they are willing to consume large amounts of information – as long as the information you provide is interesting and informative.

The more relevant information you provide the easier it becomes for your prospects to make an informed decision. And as long as you give ‘reasons why’ you’ll generate many more sales than ever before.

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I have yet to come across a business that religiously tests their marketing campaigns.

Here’s what I mean…

Let’s say you decided to send a sales letter to your target market. You’ve bought a list that has 5,000 names on it.

You’re certain that out of 5,000 you’re going to get many orders, so even though sending 10,000 letters costs you well over £5,000 (£1 per letter including postage), you have to do very badly to NOT make a profit.

You then sit back and wait for your windfall. Unfortunately the response was just 0.1%. You received just 5 orders at £500 each, and each order has a 50% gross profit.

So you made £1,250.

That means based on this first order you made a loss of £3,750

Now depending on the amount of profit you can extract from these new customers over the lifetime of their relationship with you (lifetime value) this could be either awful or very good for you.

However, I’ve seen several businesses go out of business using this approach because they were so sure their product or service would be sold by the bucket load, only to find that people simply weren’t interested. This approach is very risky and will never yield the sort of results you can expect when you start TESTING.

This is where it gets interesting…

When you test you automatically apply what I call ‘The Minimum Risk Formula.’

That means you limit your financial exposure whilst maximising your return (isn’t that what we all want?).

Using the same example above, here’s how it works…

Instead of mailing everyone on the list with one sales letter, you mail just 2,000 people. And instead of using one sales letter you send 1 version to 1,000 people (selected randomly) and another version to the next 1,000 people.

You’ve now got 2 tests running against each other.

The key is this…

Since you know that a headline change can increase response by 500% or more, you keep the same letter except the headline is different on each version. Here are the results…

Headline 1: 1,000 sent. Response 0.2% (2 sales at £500)

Headline 2: 1,000 sent. Response 1% (10 sales at £500)

Now that looks better. Headline 2 returned 10 sales. This headline and letter now become your ‘control’ so you mail the last 3,000 names on the list and now here’s what you get…

Headline 2: 4,000 sent. Response 1% (40 sales at £500)

From the same list of 5,000 your testing enables you to generate 52 sales (2+10+40) generating a revenue of £26,000 and a profit of £13,000.

Also, let’s say that even after testing your figures looked awful – you made a loss. At least you can cut your losses right now. You’ll have saved 60% of the costs you would have spent if you’d mailed 5,000 people in the first place!

That’s what testing can do for you – it maximises your return and minimises your losses!

Here’s a true life example (these headlines were ones tested)…

Headline 1: Revolutionary Creasing Device Totally Eliminates Fibre-Cracking, And Takes Just Minutes To Set Up – Even By Inexperienced Operators

Headline 2: They Laughed When I Put The Tri-Creaser On My Folding Machine, But When They Saw The Results…

Headline 3: The END Of Cracking Problems

Which headline do you think pulled an extra 350%, and has been used in ads for over 15 years to generate millions?

ANSWER: HEADLINE 2.

What this shows is that if you don’t test you’ll never be able to get the best possible return on your marketing. Test your lists, headlines, and offers – these three elements will give the best returns.

Plus, by testing, you adhere to my ‘Minimum Risk Formula.’

Before you invest any significant amounts of time, money or effort in any marketing or promotional effort, you test the effectiveness of your campaign. That way, if it doesn’t work the way you thought it would or should, you haven’t wasted unnecessary resources AND WHEN IT DOES WORK, YOU DON’T HARM YOUR RESULTS EITHER!

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Based on my experience, I can say quite confidently that you’re not charging the right price for your product or service.

Pricing is the quickest and easiest way to grow your business with significantly increased profits.

Here’s how most people go about pricing their products or services (I’m sure you’re no different) …

1. You look at what your competitors charge (many people don’t even do this simple step!)

2. You decide ‘where’ you want your customers to view you – are you ‘low priced,’ ‘middle of the road,’ or ‘high end’?

3. You then price your product or service based on the results of the two scenarios above

This is what’s known as ‘price positioning,’ and to a certain extent it does serve a purpose, but what it means is you base your own prices on where you see yourself positioned in the market in relation to what your competitors charge.

You might be saying to yourself, ‘well that’s fine – isn’t that how I should be doing it?’

WRONG!

This is a huge and fundamental mistake.

People rarely buy on price. Sure there is a small percentage of people who buy the cheapest, but this is a minority.

What people are buying is based on ‘VALUE.’ And ‘price’ and ‘value’ are two very different things.

Let me explain…

As a rule, people automatically value your product or service more if you charge higher (unless it’s viewed as a commodity). The opposite is also true!

This may surprise you, but think about this simple example…

You go to two different restaurants on two different nights…

The first restaurant has a low priced menu.

Although you may think “great a cheap meal”, you will start having some doubts about the quality of the food and the service – even before you enter the restaurant.

You keep these doubts hidden until you wait ten minutes to be greeted. You pass this off as “one of those things,” but your doubts are starting to come to the fore.

You are seated at your table. The table is still dirty from the previous diners. The waitress comes and takes down your order. She has to keep asking you to repeat what you wanted. You really are now worrying. Not surprisingly your order comes and it’s all wrong, and so on.

The point here is as soon as you saw the menu the doubts started, purely because the price was low.

If you’d had a good experience then you’d be surprised and you’d definitely go back.

The second point here is this – the restaurant should charge more if they serve you well and you have an enjoyable experience (the value is greater!).

The second restaurant you go to is different – very different.

The menu is very expensive. In fact you’ve never been to a restaurant with prices so high. However you automatically think, “it must be good if they charge these prices”.

As long as you are treated exceptionally well and your food is excellent, you would never quibble about the bill.

The point is that as soon as you saw the prices you perceived the restaurant to be very good, even before you entered!

If you’d had a bad experience you’d never go back and pay those prices.

The point here is this – although the restaurant charged high prices, they demonstrated to you with their service and food why they charge high prices.

In other words the VALUE THEY PROVIDED AT THE VERY LEAST MATCHED YOUR EXPECTATIONS.

It’s exactly the same with the prices you charge. If you charge too low, your prospects will automatically think you can’t be that good. On the other hand if you charge high prices you’d better make sure your clients receive excellent value from you – because that’s what they’ll expect.

Ultimately what I’m saying is that you cannot determine how much people are prepared to pay – you must let your clients or customers decide what the perfect price is. You could be lucky and get the price right, but the odds are stacked against you.

What you’re looking for is a price point that gives you the biggest PROFIT (not revenue!), over the lifetime of the relationship.

The only way you can come to this ‘perfect price’ is by testing.

In simple terms this means having one price for the first 10 customers, another price for the next 10 and another price for the next 10. You can then calculate which price generates the greatest profit.

If your business is predominantly an online business where the majority of people buy online, this is easy to do. Not so easy offline, but still very doable.

That doesn’t mean the highest price automatically wins. What you may find is that more people buy at a lower price, which means you make more money because you get more clients or customers.

The Ultimate Principle On Value And Price

What I hope you’ve gained from this so far is that as long as you provide excellent value – people will flock to your business and pay you handsomely for the privilege.

Often many people make the mistake of thinking that price is the main issue in the mind of their prospects or clients or customers.

But what they’re missing is that if everyone is viewed by the prospect as ‘the same’ – i.e. businesses don’t take the time or effort to differentiate from others and add considerable value, the only way they can choose is based on price.

But when you add so much value to your business – substantially more than your competitors, you leave the prospect with little choice.

And often they’ll pay you much more than anyone else.

Why?

Because you’ve added so much value!

Also when a client, customer or patient decides to leave you and turn to one of your competitors, often they’ll say, “Your price/fees are too high”…

WRONG!

More often than not, what they’re really saying is this…

“Your products or services are not worth what you charge. I’m just not getting value for money!”

There’s a big difference!

If you add so much value to what you offer, people are prepared to pay much more for your product or service. I appreciate some won’t. Some people are only after the best and cheapest deal they can find.

But let me ask you these questions…

“Are those people the sorts of clients or customers you want?”

“Are they likely to stay with you long?”

Hopefully you answered “no” to both questions.

You’ll be amazed at what you can charge if you start adding value by offering things like guarantees, bonuses, extra support and so on.

Build extra value and you’ll be surprised how high your ‘perfect price’ climbs!

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You’ve probably heard this a thousand times…

Everyone knows they should talk about benefits and not features yet nearly everyone persists with selling features.

Remember, people don’t buy what your product or service does (features), they buy the result – or the benefits of your product or service.

This is a well known sales technique that’s been around for literally centuries.

It’s a basic fundamental principle, yet people still don’t effectively communicate the benefits of the product or service they sell.

But what really counts is communicating the benefits your product or service provides over and above your competitors.

Now you’re building up a massive competitive advantage.

By ‘stacking’ each benefit on top of each other (‘Benefit Pile-Up’) you create so much desire that your prospects find you irresistible, and are almost ‘forced’ to buy from you rather than your competitors.

By the way, converting your features into benefits is so easy to do…

The best way to do this is to get a piece of paper, draw a line down the middle and write ‘Features’ on the left side and ‘Benefits’ on the right side.

First let’s take a simple ‘product’ to show you how easy this is.

Here are 4 features and the corresponding benefits of a desk top hole punch (if we can get four benefits out of a very basic inanimate object you should be able to get at least the same amount for your product or service!)…

Feature #1

Hole punch is made of hardened steel.

Benefit #1

It will last forever. You will never have to buy another one as long as you live.

Feature #2

The base has a plastic cover.

Benefit #2

The base collects all the punched out paper, which ensures your desk stays clean and scratch free, no matter how often the punch is used.

Feature #3

The base is removable.

Benefit #3

Once the punch is full you simply clip off the base and place the excess waste into your bin. Easy to empty and it leaves no mess.

Feature #4

The punch has a plastic guide for your paper

Benefit #4

Simply adjust the sturdy guide to the size of paper you want to punch. You get perfect results every time.

Do you see how easy this is?

…and notice how much more ‘desire’ you create when you convert your features into benefits.

This simple act of defining benefits adds so much power to your sales and marketing you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.

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Let me ask you a question…

How often do you keep in touch with your clients, customers or patients and prospects? If your answer is less than once every month, then you’re missing out on an untapped goldmine.

You must keep in touch with your clients, customers or patients because…

• You want to keep them for as long as possible (increase the duration they keep buying form you)
• Get as much profit out of them as possible (by selling more of your products and services to them, and other complimentary products and services from other suppliers – known as ‘endorsed relationships’).
• Marketing and sales is all about timing and changing circumstances. Just because someone isn’t interested in buying your product or service today, doesn’t mean they aren’t going to be interested tomorrow.

Let me explain this further…

Let’s say that at the moment you’re really happy with your car. You’ve got no intention of changing it. Therefore every advert, every mailing or any contact you have with a car dealer or car manufacturer is wasted on you.

Letters go in the bin without a second thought. You pick up your newspaper when the adverts come on TV. You simply aren’t interested. And nothing will prevent you at this stage from even considering changing your car.

However 3 months later your circumstances have changed.

You need to do more travelling and so you decide it’s time to look for a more suitable car.

Now every mailing, advert, or communication to do with cars is instantly given attention by you.

You’re “in the market” for a new car, and you develop an insatiable appetite to find out as much as you can about the cars which would suit you best.

This happens every single day when people are buying products and services.

If you don’t keep in touch regularly with your prospects you’ll never get “lucky” with the timing (this is also known as ‘The Moving Parade’ – people move in and out of the market depending on various circumstances).

By keeping in contact once a month the chances that you’ll hit the prospect at the right time are increased ten fold.

Do this one thing and your sales will increase.

Do NOT take this lightly.

Keeping in touch (or follow up as I call it) is one of the simplest yet rewarding marketing strategies you can use to significantly increase sales.

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Listen to me carefully…

If you put in place a powerful guarantee today, you’ll be staggered by the success it achieves for you in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

As you know, the benefit of your product or service is gained only after the sale is made.

Sometimes this can be days, weeks, months or even years after the first sale was made. This in itself places an enormous risk on the shoulders of would-be clients or customers.

It’s this risk that often prevents them from buying.

However, if you lower or eliminate the risk, then the natural consequence is people will be more inclined to buy from you.

That’s the secret of creating a powerful risk reversal.

Your risk reversal is nothing more than a simple method that takes the ‘barriers’ away from the prospect, and ensures they keep progressing towards the sale.

As soon as you add a risk reversal or guarantee to your business you…

• Remove the risks, gaining more clients, customers or patients
• Automatically differentiate your business from your competition (remember ‘differentiation’ back in Part 2?)
• And, your prospects will value your products or services much more, because they’ll automatically assume your product must live up to expectations or you must be excellent at delivering your service (why would you offer a guarantee if your product or service wasn’t great?).

The result is a BIG increase in sales, and an avalanche of new clients, customers or patients!

The ultimate is to guarantee the result or main benefit of your product or service and add a ‘penalty’ should your service or product fail.

Here’s a simple example of how risk reversal works:

A man wants to buy a puppy for his daughter. He responds to two ads in the local newsagent window. He examines the first puppy and it seems ideal in temperament, and looks. The man says to him, “If the dog isn’t right for your daughter, bring it back in one week and I’ll give you your money back.”

Clearly he appreciated the value of risk reversal but he didn’t fully understand it!

The man then goes to look at the second puppy…

Again it seems ideal in temperament, and looks. Only this time the owner says, “Your daughter is obviously looking forward to her new puppy and it’s important that she’s totally happy with it. Please take the puppy, let your daughter play with it, look after it, and get to know it. If after three weeks the puppy is perfect for her, pay me for it. If not, just bring it back and owe me nothing!”

Now this man really understands risk reversal. First he extended the “trial” period. He knows that his puppy is a good dog. He also knows after three weeks the puppy and girl will be inseparable. He totally reverses the risk.

You also need to understand this…

The company that reverses the risk, automatically gains competitive advantage and wins more business – in fact much more!

This competitive advantage is very significant when attracting new clients, customers or patients to your business.

Here’s another good example. I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. It’s from a pest control company called BBBK. Their guarantee is aimed at hotels and restaurants:

“You don’t owe one penny until all the pests on your premises have been eradicated…if you are ever dissatisfied with BBBK’s services you will receive a refund for up to 12 months of the company’s services…plus fees for another exterminator of your choice for the next year.

If a guest spots a pest on your premises, BBBK will pay for the guests meal or room, send a letter of apology, and pay for a future meal or stay…and if your facility is closed down due to the presence of roaches or rodents, BBBK will pay any fines, as well as all lost profits, plus $5,000.”

Although I don’t know for certain, it’s easy to assume several things about BBBK from this guarantee:

• They are very good at pest control.
• They understand the concerns of their clients with regard to hygiene.
• They are very successful at attracting new clients!
• They are probably providing very similar services to their competitors. However, they understand risk reversal and their profits I’m sure will reflect this!

Interestingly, they charge 10 times MORE than their competitors!

…and that’s another huge advantage of having a powerful guarantee…

Because it differentiates you, you can charge more!

Hopefully you now have a basic grasp of guarantees and reversing the risk and what it can achieve for your business. If you’ve given any thought to the strategy one question may be entering your mind…

“What about people taking advantage of my guarantee, won’t people try to abuse what I’m offering?”

The key of course to successful risk reversal is this – if you offer a good product or service and you only guarantee what you control, then you have nothing to worry about.

Unfortunately I cannot say no one will ask for a refund or for their money back (or whatever your guarantee states).

What I can say is that for every one of these, you will attract many many more prospects and clients, customers or patients by simply offering a risk reversal in the first place.

Don’t worry about this.

Your risk reversal strategy is usually the one thing that tips the scales in your favour. Because you offer risk reversal your prospect thinks and assumes the following things about you…

1). If you’re offering this risk reversal guarantee, you must be very good at what you do

2). You must be foolish to offer such a guarantee if you were poor at delivering your promises

3). In the prospect’s mind, your risk reversal has ‘proven’ to him or her that you can give them exactly what they need.

4). More importantly, when most people choose to buy a product or service, they choose it for perfectly good reasons and intentions. And they spend time making their decision. They wouldn’t choose you in the first place if they wanted to capitalise on your guarantee.

Isn’t it time you started to use your very own guarantee?

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Let’s be honest – selling isn’t easy.

Unless you convince your prospect your product or service will give them the result they’re seeking, you won’t get the sale.

And what you say is often taken with a ‘pinch of salt’.

After all, we’re all sceptics these days.

So how can you almost instantly prove to the prospect you can deliver on your promises?

It’s actually much easier than you may think. All you need to do is use client, customer or patient testimonials.

Again, I can’t tell you how often I see businesses trying to sell and market their products or services without the use of testimonials.

You make your life very, very difficult if you don’t use testimonials. Testimonials have the power to get clients or customers by the handful.

And remember, ever since Amazon first created ‘reviews’ they changed forever the way people now buy.

And because of that, testimonials are even more important now.

And don’t think ‘my customers won’t give me testimonials.’ For example, our unique ‘Testimonials By The Dozen Letter’ ALWAYS works.

Here’s a simple example (the legal firm thought their clients wouldn’t send in their testimonials because of the sensitive nature of the work they do)…

Notice the number of benefits in this one testimonial alone…

· Understanding and helpful

· Took time to talk

· Returned many calls

· Nothing was too much trouble

· Helpful home visits

· Worked hard to get the best result

If you were looking for a personal injury lawyer, don’t you think this testimonial would make you believe this firm would do all they could to get you the best possible result?

And that’s just one of dozens they got, many with the damages amounts given, just like this one…

(Please Note: Each testimonial when shown includes the full name and partial address of each client, although I’ve omitted them here for obvious reasons)

You can’t have enough testimonials.

Place them in all your marketing communications. Place them in every place where your prospects will see them – in your offices, in your reception areas, on your walls, in your website and landing pages.

Blow them up and parade them. You’ll see an immediate and noticeable difference in your sales and profits once you start using testimonials.

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I would say 99% of business owners use this technique.

Institutional marketing and advertising is marketing and advertising that doesn’t ask for a direct and instant response.

For example, it is characterised by ads that have the company name as the headline at the top of a print ad or web page…

Very little copy on the ad…

A list of products or services provided by the company…

Lots of white space…

No incentive to call now… etc.

Pick up your local newspaper of a magazine and go to any page. You’ll see this type of ad all over the place.

I urge you to stop this now. Institutional marketing and advertising is costing you thousands of pounds.

Institutional or image advertising is fine if all you want to do is promote the image of your company, your products, or the services you offer.

But let me tell you – image itself doesn’t generate sales!

And when you consider the fact that your clients, customers or patients and prospects really don’t care about you, your business or what you sell all they care about is ‘what you can do for me’. That explains why to a small and medium sized business, image or institutional advertising is a complete waste of money.

Always remember this…

People don’t buy your product or service – they buy the result. They buy ‘what’s in it for me’. They buy a solution to their problem(s).

It’s true that institutional or image advertising can help build “brand-awareness”.

And that’s okay for large corporations such as Coca-Cola, that have multi-million pound advertising budgets (having said that, these companies would prosper even more if they used direct response advertising).

But most small or medium size businesses simply cannot afford to spend their hard-earned money like this.

What would you prefer…

Marketing and advertising that generates sales, almost immediately (direct response), or advertising that builds your name awareness or ‘brand’ (institutionalised advertising) in the hope that sometime in the future someone who wants your product or service remembers your ad and may or may not decide to buy from you?

Do you really have any option?

I guarantee as soon as you start writing direct response marketing and advertising, your results will skyrocket. For example, those characterised by powerful headlines, large amounts of copy written in a very personal style, cluttered ads, a reason to call now and a free bonus for calling (special report etc) etc., …you’ll increase your responses and sales many times over.

Break from tradition.

Start creating marketing strategies that give you a fast and immediate response, that you can monitor and assess in terms of cost and return. You’ll save money and make much more money by following this advice!

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I have yet to walk into any business and find a proper sales and marketing system in place.

It amazes me that people come to me and say things like, “I’m just not able to grow my business. I’ve tried lots of things, but nothing seems to work.” The first question I ask is this…

“How many marketing strategies are you using at the moment?”

I think you can see where I’m going with this.

The reply often goes something like this…

“Well we have a website, we send emails, we post on our Facebook page and send some letters out.”

Now I’m not saying you can’t have enormous success just from using these strategies, but just think what you could do if you used 5, 10, 15, 20 or more proven and cost-effective marketing strategies to grow your business? What effect would this have if each marketing strategy was working and returning a profit for you?

This is how you create multiple streams of income. I’ve identified dozens of proven low or no cost marketing strategies that can be applied to your business. You can get a full list of them in the ‘1-Page Business Growth FORMULA’ (see link below).

I wonder how many you’re using right now?

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Benjamin Franklin said…

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Nothing could be more true with sales and marketing.

For example, I could show you literally hundreds of different ads and sales letters sent by businesses, which are so poorly written it would be a miracle if a response was generated.

This is the norm.

It is extremely rare that you see any sales letter, website or other marketing strategy even close to average in standard. The sole reason for this is lack of preparation.

Your sales and marketing are your “building blocks”.

You must build them step-by-step, piece-by-piece.

This does take time initially but the rewards are astounding if you take the time to get them right and include all the important elements that are necessary to achieve success (for example, you must use all 5 Success Keys of The FORMULA).

I don’t care what product or service you’re selling you need to go through the same preparation as the next person.

The one difference is your content – the stuff that makes you unique.

But for example, every successful marketing strategy, whether it’s a web page, an email, a sales letter and so on must include the elements that make marketing work. These are called the ‘Core Elements’.

There are 9 of them.

In short, they are the tactics that make marketing work.

Here they are…

1. Target Market (we spoke about this in Part 1 of this training)
2. Differentiator (we spoke about this in Part 2)
3. Headlines (coming soon)
4. Irresistible offer (coming soon)
5. Social Proof (coming soon)
6. Features & benefits (coming soon)
7. Call To Action (coming soon)
8. Guarantee (coming soon)
9. Reasons Why (coming soon)

I have a sporting analogy to explain this point further…

A good friend of mine used to play professional rugby for Leicester Tigers – one of the most successful rugby teams in Europe. Prior to each match on a Saturday afternoon, they would train 10 to 12 times between Sunday and Friday.

They would watch numerous videos on their opponents. They would discuss tactics, which were closely aligned to the team’s strengths and also focused on their opponent’s weaknesses.

They had strict diets.

They were told what they could drink and what they couldn’t drink.

And they were told when to rest and when to sleep.

Preparation was a religion (and still is for any sportsman/woman). This amounted to approximately 6 whole days of preparation for an 80-minute match on a Saturday afternoon.

My friend’s team won 90% of their matches each season. They won the league and the cup competitions.

How do you think they would have faired if they turned up to the match on a Saturday afternoon without all this preparation?

It goes without saying that you must be this clinical in your preparation if your business is to grow at the rate you want it to. Far too often we rush into doing things without planning and preparing. And then we wonder why our results were so poor.

Often that’s because the Core Elements haven’t been used or used correctly.

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      How many ways do you think there are to grow a business? You may be surprised to learn there are just 5 ways. Each one of these is what I call a ‘Success Key’ and each combines to create what I call ‘The FORMULA’…

( T × L × C × M )S = EXPONENTIAL BUSINESS GROWTH

You must use all 5 Success Keys to successfully grow your business.

If you do I guarantee your business will reach or at least get very close to its potential very quickly and then move on beyond.

It is my estimation that you are only using one or possibly two of these Success Keys (and thes e could be improved significantly). Here they are…

The 5 Success Keys’ of The FORMULA…

1. Transform: Optimise every sales and marketing strategy using the ‘Core Elements

2. Lead Generation: Getting more qualified leads

3. Conversion: Improving Sales Conversion Rate (converting more leads into sales)

4. Maximising Customer Value: Selling more products and services to your clients, customers or patients. Includes:

– Increasing Average Order Value

– Increasing Referrals

– Increasing the Frequency of Purchases – Retaining Customers for Longer

5. Systemise: Systemising and automating your lead generation, conversion and maximising customer value success keys

There are numerous proven strategies you can apply to massively improve each of these 5 key areas, and by combining the power of each one you have the ability to grow your business to heights you never thought were possible.

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This is one of the most common mistake people make. Let me explain…

A differentiator is the one thing that sets you apart from the competition in the minds of your prospects and clients, customers or patients.

Your differentiator is what makes the difference between having a truly outstanding business or a faltering one.

Often your differentiator can be found in your business – you just need to articulate it in a way that makes you stand out from the crowd.

I can’t stress enough how important this is to you.

How can you expect your clients, customers or patients to be able to choose you, over and above any of your competitors, if they can’t quickly see what it is you do that is so unique and beneficial to them?

Outstanding businesses have been founded on a differentiator alone. For example, here’s a very well known differentiator…

“Red hot pizza delivered to your door in 30 minutes or less – guaranteed.”

Tom Monahan of Dominos Pizza created one of the most successful fast food businesses in the world from the strength of this differentiator. They currently produce $3.4 Billion in revenue!

Please don’t dismiss the importance of having a differentiator.

I guarantee your competitors are unlikely to have one. This will make a massive difference to the growth and profitability of your business.

Plus, there are other factors to consider…

If you are viewed by your clients, customers or patients and prospects to be the same as your competitors, what do you think becomes the important criteria when they want your product or service?

That’s right – price.

There’s no hiding the fact that as soon as you create your differentiator you automatically take your business out of the “price war” and into the nirvana of higher prices/fees – and less competition!

That’s the power of a differentiator.

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“You can’t be all things to all people.”

I know this may come as a shock to you, but it’s true.

You cannot hope to market your products or services to everyone, even if you think everyone needs them.

I’m not saying you can’t be successful doing this. What I’m saying is you really do limit your potential by not focusing on select groups of people or businesses. These specific groups are called “target markets”.

By focusing on one or more target markets you’re able to connect with these people at a much higher level, and consequently you automatically gain more business.

I’m sure you’ve heard people say things like, “This person really connects with me, they really understand my business.” This is what you do when you choose to market to these different groups.

Think about it…

What’s also important to understand is that certain groups of people or businesses are more likely to want and need your products and services more than others.

More importantly your target market must focus on the groups who can AFFORD your products or services.

There’s no point in targeting groups who want and need your products or services if many of them can’t afford to buy or pay for them!

A common question I’m often asked is this – “If I limit my market won’t I be reducing the chances of doing business with more people?”

Of course you will, but to succeed in today’s competitive market place you need to concentrate your marketing on a smaller number of well chosen segments or niches into which you pour all your resources.

Because you are targeting smaller numbers, the same amount of money you were previously using to acquire clients or customers, is spread across a smaller number, and therefore you have more to spend on each prospect than you would if your market was bigger. This alone makes you more successful.

In a nutshell your target market is the segment(s) that represents your best chance of getting a good return for your marketing efforts.

These target markets are critical to you.

Of course, if you focus on a smaller group you may not get the business of other people or businesses outside the target group. However, what actually happens is you increase the amount of business you receive from your target market(s).

This is because you are specifically meeting needs and requirements of your chosen market.

You’re saying to them that, ‘you are THE company that knows about their situation’.

No other company specifically meets their needs in this way, and therefore you are seen as the logical company to turn to.

Here’s an example to show the power of defining your market or niche…

Let’s say you’re a start-up business and you need an accountant. Your first choice is to look in the local newspaper. Although there are a number of small ads the first one you see reads…

‘ABC Chartered Accountants. Tax preparation, auditing, bookkeeping, payroll services and management accounts, for all types of businesses.’

The second ad reads…

‘XYZ Chartered Accountants. Specialising in helping Start-Ups get their businesses running quickly, profitably and effectively.’

Which firm of accountants are you likely to choose?

The answer is obvious, but it serves a good example to show how effective this strategy is – yet how widespread it is that few businesses follow this simple approach!

The first ad is trying to be all things to all people and is a very common approach.

The second ad is completely focused on ‘start-ups’ and therefore is much more likely to get start-up business owners contacting them and in much higher numbers.

If you can create this bond between you and your target market(s) I guarantee you’ll grow your business to unprecedented levels.

That’s the power of target marketing.

By concentrating on specific groups, you can achieve very high market shares in that particular category because people automatically come to you.

You’ll ‘own’ the market.

You are viewed as the only choice because your product or service is ‘designed’ to solve the specific problems of those people.

Not focusing on one or more target markets is perhaps the biggest mistake people make!

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#1: FREE Sales Accelerator ROADMAP >> Request Here

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#2: FREE Scientific Marketing Makeover >> Request Here

Multiply the results of any of your marketing strategies (web site, landing page, print ad, letter, postcard, leaflet, etc.) with zero extra cost!

#3: FREE “The FORMULA” Webinar >> More Details Here

How to implement ‘The FORMULA’ and achieve transformational results even if you have zero sales and marketing experience!