Internet Marketing – 5 Ways to Add Human Touch to Your Business
By: Joel Christopher | Posted: 25th July 2007
Make your business personal. This is the credo of the more successful internet marketers. Nobody wants to make business with a robot! While you will be using automation and outsourcing techniques, this is not an excuse for you to let them do all of the work for you.
There are different ways to add human touch to your business as an internet marketer. Review them, apply them, and you will surely have your business thriving in no time!
Modify Your Autoresponders
Your autoreponders must be as personalized as possible. The good thing about autoresponders is that it has a capacity to hold in huge amounts of memory. Your autoresponders must be tailored to suit the mood you want to convey to your prospects.
If at all possible, do multiple versions of autoresponders, be it in the form or text, audio or video, so that you will be able to reach out to more people who dig different types of media in getting information.
Ask your Prospects
You heard me right. Ask your prospects on what they would want to see, what they expect from you and what their needs are. You may have done your research, but there may be other pressing matters that went beyond the scope of your research at the time you were building your business.
Everyday, more and more people are being included in your target market. It would be safe to assume that it is perpetually changing, so in order for you to remain at the winning edge, you must be able to ask your prospects what is it that you can change or what you can do to further improve your business in serving them.
Invite Your Prospects to Interact with You
Have a contact number handy. Invite prospects to interact with you. This is really the ultimate human touch you can offer. Your autoresponders are not quite enough. There is a different appeal and ring to it when you are able to interact with your prospects. Treat them as you would treat a good friend.
Welcome their inquiries and actually encourage them to call you. If you find yourself unable to answer all of their queries at the same time, just make sure that you are able to get back to them somehow, either by means of having an assistant or an autoresponder while they wait for your response.
Be conversational in your approach
This is a winner when it comes to marketing. Since they do not really see you face to face, the next best thing you could do is make your text seem to be friendly enough for them to read. Communicate, register warmth and have them directly involved with whatever it is you are writing them for.
Customize Your Products
When you have a specific target market, you put human touch to it when you do choose to deal with products that are made just for them. It will also be so much better if those products can be modified to suit their individual preferences. Do not just make your autoresponders, conversation skills and website friendly. Include your products as well and make it as personalized as possible.
Joel Christopher is a best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The MasterListBuilder.
To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Visit MasterListBuilder.com
About the Author
Occupation: Internet Marketer
Author, Speaker, Philanthropist,
Master List Builder, Family Man
When Joel Christopher came to the United States from the Philippines on August 8, 1988, he knew nothing about the internet. He was a physical therapist who wanted a better life for his family. Yet today, Joel is known among internet marketing gurus as the "Master List Builder".
Master List Builder
Recognizing the business and marketing potential of the Internet, he started his own online business in late 1999 and launched his first website on January 1, 2000, geared towards providing aspiring Internet entrepreneurs with a step-by-step guide to succeeding online. He was himself merely a beginner, or what he fondly calls a “newbie netpreneur”. After faltering and floundering in his first year online, he attended a live seminar, took a lot of notes and applied what he learned. It only took two months after that for him to become successful enough to quit his job and make a full-time living creating and selling products on the internet.
Speaker
Since, then, Joel has attended more than 100 live seminars, boot camps and conferences, and has actually spoken at more than half of them on the topic of "opt-in" list building. He has spoken in front of thousands of people in the U.S. and Canada and has shared the stage with many marketing legends such as Ted Nicholas, Joe Sugarman, Robert Allen, Mark Victor Hanson and Mark Joyner.
He has grown his own opt-in list to more than 153,000 newsletter subscribers in just three years. But he earned his "Master List Builder" nickname when he tripled his list to over 30,903 names in only 99 days.
Author
Using the email marketing principles he teaches, he recently demonstrated the power of a huge opt-in email list when his co-authored book "Mining Online Gold With An Offline Shovel: How To Build A Massive Online Mailing List By Mastering Offline Promotion" zoomed to the top of the Amazon.com best-seller list just 13 hours after it was published. Only the pre-release of the latest Harry Potter book beat it to the number one position.
International best-selling author and radio talk show host Mike Litman recently nicknamed Joel Christopher the "Tony Robbins of Internet Marketing" and Randy Gilbert of the "Inside Success" show called him "The Michael Jordan of Internet List Building".
Joel Christopher is the Director and Owner of SuccessAccess.com and MasterListBuilder.com. He is a consummate entrepreneur who wants to share his passion for self-employment with others because of the time and financial freedom it offers.
Philanthropist
In addition,Joel Christopher has made a personal commitment to help young Philippinos receive the education they need to improve their lives. To this end, he has begun a foundation and is donating 100% of his profits from his first book to this cause.
Family Man
Joel's beautiful wife, Sheila, is his constant companion and supporter, as well as playing a key roll in Joel's businesses. They live with their precious daughter Simone in Helotes, Texas
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