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The new science of online Advertising: Friendcasting

The social media revolution is unstoppable, and it is touching, and changing everything. For Advertising, we are moving from “one to many” marketing to “many to many” marketing, which also means for marketers moving from “broadcasting” to “friendcasting”. Friendcasting is a new way to make your message delivered by the people who are the closest and most intimate to your target market. It’s a deep trend that has started some years ago but only now we are seeing its full expression. It Requires new way of thinking and new tools. During the presentation, you’ll learn the basic principles to understand about friendcasting, and some tools and tactics to use successfully.

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How The Law of Reciprocity Could Help You.

The law of reciprocity states that we repay, in kind, what another person has provided us. It’s a common mantra in our culture.

Here are 2 powerful ways to put the Law of Reciprocity into action:

1. To recruit advocates for your business:

  • To recruit customers as advocates, become advocate for your customers,
  • To recruit peers as advocates, become advocate for your peers,
  • To recruit friends as advocates, become advocate for your friends,
  • To recruit strangers as advocates, become advocate for strangers

Start by asking yourself how you could become advocate for these people in a consistent way.

2.  To make new friends and attract people to you:

  • To make friends, start treating people like friends,
  • Treat strangers the same way you’ll treat a friend. It’s a replication of attitude that works very well to make new friends and attract people to you.

Start by making a list of the ways you treat your friends that makes them feel special, and replicate these attitudes with people you’d like to befriend.

Trust in the law of reciprocity, and you’ll see the miraculous results.

“The highest form of public relations is human relations. People buy from friends, so it’s crucial to make the human bond before you can make a lasting business bond.  Always Develop The Human Bond Before The Business Bond”. Jay Conrad Levinson

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Employees are not Assets, Resources, or Inventory, But Humans with Dreams.

Today, we heard employees referred to as “resources” or “assets” by corporate executives, business press and management thought leaders. Michael Eisner, ex Chairman and CEO of Disney, has been recorded as saying “our inventory goes home at night.”

Bullshit!

Employees are people. Employees are not assets, resources, or inventory, but Humans with dreams and aspirations.

Did you call your friends, your kids, your wife, your mother, your father, … your greatest assets, resources, or inventory?

There is a Chinese Proverb that teaches the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

This is not just an economic decision, it is a psychological and emotional decision; because how you relate to a person, an animal or an object depends a lot on how you name or label it.

People are not resources to be mined nor inventory to be turned over. Time is a resource. Office furniture is an asset. People are people.

In the past, we have seen how before putting into slavery, slaughtering, killing, depriving from freedom, invading, colonizing some populations or countries, their names have been altered; instead of calling them by their real name, they became barbarian, primitives, damned, uncivilized, human without soul, insects, etc.

Employees are not assets, resources, or inventory, but human beings with dreams, aspirations, and personal goals.

The new economy is in need of a new type of leadership—a service leadership. This is the kind of leadership that starts Not from wondering How someone could help you achieve your goals, but from a very basic, active generosity of asking how you can help your people achieve their goals, personal or professional.

From this standpoint, the role of any leader in the new economy is to get to know their people individually. All it takes is to start with some basic questions you ask yourself about your people:

  • Why are they here?
  • What do they want to achieve working for our organization (or buying our product)?
  • What are their goals in life, both personal and professional?
  • Where are they in their life’s journey?
  • What barriers are they facing now in life?
  • And lastly, how can I, as the people leader, genuinely help them get where they want to be, be what they want to be, and contribute what they want to contribute?

The new leadership role is active generosity, based on carefully and intentionally collected information about the people agenda, apart from their contextual status as customers or employees.

Start looking at people not from the perspective of how they can help you, but how you can help them. Master this single law and your success is assured.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
W A Nance

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I need help to choose, to find relevant information … Please Help.

The end of the scarcity age in developed countries resulted in consumers being overwhelmed by a huge number and variety of goods and services.

“Am I buying the right digital camera? Am I getting the best treatment for my chronic ulcer? Am I signing up for the right service?” becomes the inner voice of each consumer when he faces this “hell of choice.”

There are, in fact, vast amounts of information available to respond to these questions, and there are several channels, “But who has the leisure and the proficiency needed to sort through and evaluate all these products and services? [And] the burgeoning complexity of offerings, as well as the associated risks and reward, confounds and frustrates most time-starved consumers. Product variety has not necessarily resulted in better consumer experiences.” - C. K. Prahalad

As a result, consumers are lost. Information comes to them as noise. When consumers need answers, they may end up sifting through contradicting advice, opinionated content and a lot of pretty crappy material. They’ll waste plenty of time.

The unheard voice of the consumer behind all this data could sound something like this: “I want less data, not more data. I need to know what’s important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know. …Can someone please do this for me? Please? I need help.” – Erick Schonfeld

Netflix, like Amazon, has figured out that helping people make choices is the key to market success. People won’t buy things if they can’t make fundamental choices, and most people won’t make as many choices if they don’t get a little help — without being barraged with too many questions.
That’s the trick. We don’t want to answer too many questions about what we’re looking for. Half the time we don’t know what we’re looking for (just browsing) and the other half of the time we are incapable of describing it ‚ or maybe that’s just me. Harvard professor Daniel Gilbert details people’s inability to understand or describe what makes them happy in his book, « Stumbling on Happiness ». We think that many of those same mental barriers exist for people shopping or searching online, and we believe a good recommendation platform is essential to overcome them.” Rob Rustad, From Collarity.com.

How to transform helping your customers to choose and find relevant information in a marketing strategy that built loyalty and growth for your business?

Send “Information as a Gift” your customers.

According to a 2004 Forum Corporation study on cross selling, 88 percent of customers with spending power welcomed product and service suggestions that help them. The same is true in the B2B world—clients prize sales professionals who empathetically understand their business and make suggestions on how to improve it.

What is information as a Gift?

Information as a gift ™” means to pay attention to your customers’ and contacts needs and interests for products and services other than your own, and give them relevant and trustful information to help them reach good services providers.

Since one company alone can no longer autonomously create consumer experience, Linkcrafter members pay attention to their customers’ and contacts needs and interests for products and services other than their own, and send their customers to other business for Free as a powerful way to build loyalty and Growth.

Linkcrafter solution helps you send your customers safely and securely to other businesses as a powerful way to build Loyalty and grow your business. Yes, It’s about Sending your Customers to other businesses for FREE as a way to build Loyalty and Grow. And It works.

You become known as a powerful resource for others—and when you have the reputation for being a strong resource, people start turning to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, connections, etc. This keeps you visible and your business top-of-mind when people need your products and services. This, in turn, will greatly increase the number of referrals your customers will send to your business.

You don’t need Money to start. Information, Recommendation are intangible things you can give again, again and again without being left broke.

“Information as a gift ™” has a tremendous power to induce positive emotional connections to customers and contacts. The positive emotional connections in turn has the power to turn customers and contacts into voluntary advocates for your organization, generating a consistent word-of-mouth referrals and a Nonstop Viral Buzz for your business.

How it works?

“Simply go to that address book and list out the 20 percent of your contacts who matter most. Do you know their interests? Their biggest dreams and goals (professional and personal)? If you don’t then that is a place to begin. Once you do, mark down next to each name what specific actions you can take that will help that person realize those goals. What connections can you make for them? What knowledge can you transfer to them? Call them up. No agenda. No ‘asking for the business.’ Just deliver value relevant to them and keep doing it.”

Howard Mann

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Are You a Leader? We need You. We Want YOU to Lead US.

What are doing right now?

So, you are a leader and the world is in trouble and you seat there, just repeating your life like one year ago?

Do you think this is a reaction for a leader when our world faces such a Tough time, When Millions have lost their jobs or are leaving in the fear to lose their jobs; when Hundreds of thousands lost their houses, and Millions other are living in the fear to lose their houses; when Millions of Businesses, small and large, are struggling; when Millions are petrified with fear, and Neighbors, friends and contacts are now constantly worrying about their finances and having panic attacks. Even people who are not suffering significant economic losses are  worrying they will or simply are reacting with sleeplessness to pervasive uncertainty;

What are you doing?
Are you waiting for the bad news to get down by their own, so you could enjoy again good life like earlier, two or three years ago?

So, you think this is not your responsibility. You think this is such a big mess and you are just too humble a person for the situation. You are wrong.

We have a call for you :The World needs you as a Leader in this troubled time.

We need you as a leader and you can do something for a better world tomorrow.
Start anything you can that could make difference, contribute, help.

YES YOU CAN.

We need You as leader.
if You have no idea about what to do or how to start, I have a list of 20 things that could inspire you and that you could start today.  I made this list with inputs from Seth Godin and Robert Midleton, two authors I admire.

Please Read and start something today. 
Tom Peters
, the business guru, offers a very useful “How to” tip that I put at the end of this post.

Start today, ….

  1. Teach someone how to sell their services on Craigslist, or how to use the web to find a job.
  2. Start a blog and profile one worthy non-profit every single day.
  3. Go through your house and find beloved books that you’re glad you read… and give them to the library.
  4. Find an artisan and redesign their website or help them figure out how to promote their work.
  5. Create and promote an online petition for a cause you care about.
  6. Make a video that teaches people how to do better in a job interview or balance a checkbook or spot consumer fraud.
  7. Start a Facebook group for like-minded people who support the same non-profit you do. Commit to spending time to promote it, organize the people there and actually create outcomes of value.
  8. Seek out a religion that isn’t yours and volunteer to help build a bridge between your circle and theirs.
  9. Write ten letters a day to corporations seeking donations for a local homeless shelter.
  10. Find a tool that non-profits need online, and then organize some brilliant people to build it as an opensource utility.
  11. Find a cause that supports soldiers or diplomats or other public servants that are on the road, and make it easier for them to connect with people back home.
  12. Use Copilot to diagnose and fix computer problems for people or causes that can’t afford fancy IT support. It’s free on weekends.
  13. Find an entrepreneur in the developing world and become her email penpal. Daily advice and encouragement might save hundreds of lives.
  14. Lobby politicians with letters and blog posts to make a change to a law that doesn’t benefit you at all, but helps the community in the long run.
  15. Write a great wikipedia article every day about a person who is changing the world for the better.
  16. Find video and remix it into an insanely viral video that promotes a cause that you believe in.
  17. Call a past client and see how they’re doing. Don’t ask for anything; but offer an idea, a resource, or even encouragement.
  18. Call someone you met through networking and invite them to coffee to learn about their business.
  19. Do a favor for someone who you know would appreciate it. Don’t worry about what you’ll get back.
  20. Write a thank-you note to someone who did you a favor or who took the time to speak or meet with you.

For doing so,

“Consider …

  • Get up earlier.
  • Go to bed later.
  • Work harder.
  • Finish what you start.
  • Learn one new thing.
  • Renew one contact.
  • Ask, “How can I help you?” at least once.
  • Make yourself visible.
  • Be of good cheer.


Catch a break.
Or not.

Repeat tomorrow.

Tom Peters

As Barack Obama remembered it to us all in his inaugural message on 20th January 2009: “Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive … that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].”

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations. “

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We need You. We Want YOU to Lead US.

When we’ve started Linkcrafter we’ve asked ourselves  “Why 90% of the Internet traffic goes to ONLY 5% of websites”. We’ve discovered that:

  • 7 of the top 10 web properties are search engines
  • 22 of the top 50 web properties are search engines and web directories.

Browse and search have become the most time-consuming and frustrating activity for consumers.

People are looking for trustful and relevant information to reach the best services, companies and products that could satisfy their needs. 90% of the traffic goes to these websites because they are trying hard to help people solve this problem.

What will happen if you become a resources center or a knowledgeable friend for your customers?

You become a Traffic magnet.You are a knowledgeable professional. You Know a lot and Now  We need You. We Want YOU to Lead US.

According to a 2004 Forum Corporation study on cross selling, 88 percent of customers with spending power welcomed product and service suggestions that help them. The same is true in the B2B world—clients prize sales professionals who empathetically understand their business and make suggestions on how to improve it.

Linkcrafter helps companies and businesses to become solution providers for their customers through real-time interaction and involvement in their customer’s solution-hunting process.

Instead of giving Planners, calendars, T-shirts, Mugs, Foie Gras,  coupons, or other material or monetary gifts to customers as incentive to build relationship – most of these incentives fail to build loyalty - Linkcrafter solution helps you provide Information as a gift ™ to your customers.

What is information as a Gift ?

Information as a gift ™” means to pay attention to your customers’ and contacts needs and interests for products and services other than your own, and give them relevant and trustful information to help them reach good services providers.

Since one company alone can no longer autonomously create consumer experience, Linkcrafter members pay attention to their customers’ and contacts needs and interests for products and services other than their own, and send their customers to other business for Free as a powerful way to build loyalty and Growth.

You become known as a powerful resource for others—and when you have the reputation for being a strong resource, people start turning to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, connections, etc. This keeps you visible and your business top-of-mind when people need your products and services. This, in turn, will greatly increase the number of referrals your customers will send to your business.

You don’t need Money to start. Information, Recommendation are intangible things you can give again, again and again without being left broke.

“Information as a gift ™” has a tremendous power to induce positive emotional connections to customers and contacts. The positive emotional connections in turn has the power to turn customers and contacts into voluntary advocates for your organization, generating a consistent word-of-mouth referrals and a Nonstop Viral Buzz for your business.

How it works?

“Simply go to that address book and list out the 20 percent of your contacts who matter most. Do you know their interests? Their biggest dreams and goals (professional and personal)? If you don’t then that is a place to begin. Once you do, mark down next to each name what specific actions you can take that will help that person realize those goals. What connections can you make for them? What knowledge can you transfer to them? Call them up. No agenda. No ‘asking for the business.’ Just deliver value relevant to them and keep doing it.”

Howard Mann

Is Your Company Still in the Dark Ages?

Most companies aren’t prepared for this new approach to marketing. Companies who co-create customers experiences with other qualified companies will keep themselves far ahead of the competition.

How do you accomplish all of this? We’re not going to lie. It takes a change in mindset.

Business people become super-connectors, people who know a lot of people, and know their interests, skills, and needs of everyone in their social or business circle and connect them together.

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What is Good Information and How to Recognize it?

Consumers are lost. Most the Information we, marketers, produce and broadcast, come to them as noise.  And every day this noise grows thicker and thicker, putting a lot of strain on them. No one believes the noise fatigue to be his problem, but everyone just adds his own noise.

Remember, We are now in the attention economy, in which the new scarcest resource isn’t ideas, capital or talent, but attention itself. Today’s businesses are headed for disaster-unless they learn to manage this critical yet finite resource, or fail!- Thomas H. Davenport, John C. Beck

Businesses which will succeed in this attention economy are the one that take customers attention as a loan or managed as an investment” NOT something they “paid for“. Companies that fully understand and appreciate those distinctions will be the winners in the future. – Michael Schrage

How will YOU manage YOUR consumers attention differently if you take it as a loan or as an investment into your company?

Marketers who win today and will continue to win in the future are those who understand what is a good information, and do their best to engage and keep in touch with their customers ONLY with Good information.

What is Good Information?

Good information for consumers has 3 characteristics:

  • It is relevant.
    You’ve listened to your customer’s needs, and you know exactly what they’re looking for. When you communicate with them, you have no fear they’ll dismiss your communication without looking at it.They know you provide something of value to them. Instead of egocentric company-focused information, they know your company sends them information that’s relevant to them and their needs.
  • It is timely.
    Do your best to send information to your customers (only or mostly) when they need it to act, or decide. Information should be based on their time of need, not based on your time to produce and broadcast it. Timing is important in any communication or conversation process.
  • It is trustworthy.
    Your information should Not be deceptive. Send to your customers the kind of information you’ll send to your friends or your family members. If you Can’t share with or send to your friends or your family members the kind of information you are sending to your customers, then think twice before pushing the Ok button. Your reputation could be damaged for a long time. The world is Watching you.

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Send Your Customers to Other Businesses for FREE to Build Loyalty.

“What you Say? Send My Customers to Other Businesses for Free as a way to Build Loyalty and grow my business!?”
It sounds like complete folly.
Why would I send my customers away?
It’s very unconventional, but terribly powerful.
And, It’s in this way that Linkcrafter is transforming the marketing landscape, changing the lives of small business owners, freeing millions of entrepreneurs from marketing stress and uncertainty.

Here we go, Instead of giving Planners, calendars, T-shirts, Mugs, coupons, or other material or monetary gifts to customers to build relationship, what in most cases fail to build loyalty, Linkcrafter helps you send your customers safely and securely to other businesses as a powerful way to build Loyalty and grow your business.

Yes, It’s about Sending your Customers to other businesses for FREE as a way to build Loyalty and Growth. And It works.

The old era of egocentric sales pitches never entertained the idea of sending customers to other companies, for any reason. They held on to their customers tooth and nail, even if they didn’t have anything the customer needed at the time.

Companies wanted customers to pay attention to their company, and no one else.

Apparently, no one ever mentioned to those companies that no business is an island.

Customers need more than one company to satisfy their everyday needs and desires. “No company owns enough resources – or can possibly own enough – to furnish unique experiences for every customer,” said C.K.Pralahad in The New Age of Innovation. “Companies must organize a constantly shifting global web of suppliers and partners to do the job.”

A customer experience includes satisfaction in all the customer’s needs for their everyday life. It isn’t enough to sell your customer the microwave oven that person needs. The customer also needs clothes, baby food, music, a good carpet cleaner, a certified massage therapist, and an antique hood ornament.

No company in the world could possibly give a customer every single thing he or she desires.

In short: it takes a village to create a customer experience.

You’ll be recommending companies to your customers that you personally have selected as the best for their needs. You won’t be giving them referrals to professional service and product providers simply because you’ve agreed to – you’ll be giving them the companies that you sincerely believe are the most qualified professionals to meet your customers’ needs.

And your customers will love you for it.

That reputation will buy you customer loyalty and enthusiasm that is impossible to get through any other means.

Linkcrafter marketing solution often sounds too idealistic to companies who have been in the era of the sales pitch too long. Many companies will be thinking, “Spending extra time and resources to help customers with their problems without any request for a sale, without any pitch at all? What’s in it for me?”

The more successful your company is at recommending other companies’ products and services that are relevant to its customer’s lifestyle and needs, the more likely it is that customers will extol the virtues of your company.

Your company gets a reputation for caring about people through this free exchange of information. When a person benefits from information you give them, they become an advocate for you. And the next time they hear someone looking for a service that your company provides, they’ll recommend you – in glowing phrases.

You can’t buy that kind of advertising.

Linkcrafter web based relationship management solution helps you to engage with other qualified companies to co-create customer experiences. You’ll work within a network of partners, all of whom can provide your customers with products and services that are outside of your area of expertise but that are essential to making sure the customer is completely satisfied.

Learn to Co-Create

Through Linkcrafter, you’ll be able to co-create complete experiences for your customers with other companies. You’ll collaborate with these companies to understand exactly what your customers need and how to get it to them.

Your customers will look to you as a resource, a guide, and a trusted ally.

Is Your Company Still in the Dark Ages?

Most companies aren’t prepared for this new approach to marketing. Companies who co-create customers experiences with other qualified companies will keep themselves far ahead of the competition.

How do you accomplish all of this? We’re not going to lie. It takes a change in mindset.

Business people become super-connectors, people who know a lot of people, and know their interests, skills, and needs of everyone in their social or business circle and connect them together.

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What is the most valuable source of leads?

Recently, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council has conducted  a study with channel executives, distributors, resellers, and other channel representatives, asking the question: “What is the most valuable source of leads?”

Customers referrals came at the top: four times more powerful and valuable than E-Mail or Direct Marketing campaigns, and nearly seven times more likely to result in sales and new business than leads from the Internet.

Here is how the results look like:

  • 54% Customer Referrals
  • 14% E-Mail or Direct Marketing
  • 8% Internet
  • 7% Events
  • 7% Leads from Vendors
  • 3% Third Party Lead Generation Organizations
  • 8% Other

Why Customers referrals is so powerful and valuable?
Simply because they command instant credibility, and when customers talk about your business, they have personal stories to share, and could illustrate with real world examples how your solution worked and served them.

Customers are your Natural Advocates.

If your business is struggling to attract clients, it’s simple because you don’t have enough advocates.

Your advocates are customers, prospects and even strangers who like you and your business. They can’t help but singing your praises to the world.

Your business flourishes when more than 10% of your customers become advocates; You thrive when 30% turn advocates and you become irresistible when like Apple 78% of customers are your fans, and go beyond advocacy to create Ads for your brand with their own money and resources.

Frederick F. Reichheld and Thomas Teal found that an increase of 5% of your advocates will yield your profits 25 to 95%.

In average a person has 11 to 12 intimate contacts, 150 social contacts and from 500 to 1500 weak ties. Look what will happen to your business if you succeed in the next 12 months to turn 12 to 15  customers into your business advocates:

Number of Intimate Friends

Intimate friends of your Friends(x12)

Social contacts of your Friends (x150)

Weak ties of your Friends (x1500)

Potential reach through your Friends network

1

12

150

1 500

1 663

2

24

300

3 000

3 326

3

36

450

4 500

4 989

4

48

600

6 000

6 652

5

60

750

7 500

8 315

6

72

900

9 000

9 978

7

84

1 050

10 500

11 641

8

96

1 200

12 000

13 304

9

108

1 350

13 500

14 967

10

120

1 500

15 000

16 630

11

132

1 650

16 500

18 293

12

144

1 800

18 000

19 956

13

156

1 950

19 500

21 619

14

168

2 100

21 000

23 282

15

180

2 250

22 500

24 945

If you succeed to have 15 customers as advocates, you could reach up to 24 945 contacts, without measuring the cascading effect of their referrals. Your marketing will automatically go on autopilot: with the social medias, Blogs, E-mail, twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc. customers today has an increased ability to share personal experience and sing your praises to the world.

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How to Find Eternal Peace in Marketing.

Here we go:

  • You have a great product or service but getting no interest or attention to grow and succeed
  • You have tried few or many things, but the results were not what you had hoped for
  • You have wasted thousands of dollars in advertising with no sustainable results
  • You have tried networking everywhere without no concrete results

When it comes to marketing today, small business owners, freelancers, services professionals are stressed and it’s no wonder. Since most traditional marketing strategies (yellow pages, print, flyers, etc.)  don’t work very well, marketing has turned into 1,001 things to do that have indifferent results at best.

Most small business owners have turned to what has been labeled “small business marketing techniques” like:

  • post to forums only to be banned,
  • spam blogs with comments,
  • bribe bloggers to write articles with your keywords,
  • send press releases to journalists in desperate hopes they’ll write about your product,
  • browse social networks getting more ‘friends’ who couldn’t have the slightest interest in becoming customers.

A poll in France found that 88 percent of marketing and sales-related professionals are stressed people. A Harvard business school survey found the complexities of stress forced 53 percent of marketing executives to outsource their marketing activities.

Even an abbreviated list of a standard day in a marketing department includes:

  • Cold calling
  • Prospecting
  • Tracking
  • Creating print media
  • Spending time on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, and other social networks
  • Interactive marketing
  • Search marketing
  • Content marketing
  • Keyword optimization
  • Organizing promotions and events
  • Press releases

It’s time to switch to a Single Action Marketing solution: “Information as a gift ™“.

Information as a gift ™” means to pay attention to your customers’ and contacts needs and interests for products and services other than your own, and give them relevant and trustful information to help them reach good services providers.

Instead of giving Planners, calendars, T-shirts, Mugs, coupons, or other material or monetary gifts to customers to build relationship, what in most cases fail to build loyalty, this solution helps you provide “Information as a Gift” to your customers.

You become known as a powerful resource for others—and when you have the reputation for being a strong resource, people start turning to you for suggestions, ideas, names of other people, connections, etc. This keeps you visible and your business top-of-mind when people need your products and services. This, in turn, will greatly increase the number of referrals your customers will send to your business.

It’s a whole new World in marketing: One simple, enjoyable action, repeated over and over, that gives you your life back, and puts back time into your marketing department – not to mention the alleviation of stress !

Single Action Marketing Solution

You don’t need Money to start. Information, Recommendation are intangible things you can give again, again and again without being left broke.

“Information as a gift ™” or IRaaS has a tremendous power to induce positive emotional connections to customers and contacts. The positive emotional connections in turn has the power to turn customers and contacts into voluntary advocates for your organization, generating a consistent word-of-mouth referrals and a Nonstop Viral Buzz for your business.

How it works?

“Simply go to that address book and list out the 20 percent of your contacts who matter most. Do you know their interests? Their biggest dreams and goals (professional and personal)? If you don’t then that is a place to begin. Once you do, mark down next to each name what specific actions you can take that will help that person realize those goals. What connections can you make for them? What knowledge can you transfer to them? Call them up. No agenda. No ‘asking for the business.’ Just deliver value relevant to them and keep doing it.”

Howard Mann

It’s time to switch over to a single marketing solution that works.

What’s more fun – cold calling or sending a brief, heartfelt note to help a customer out of a rough spot? At the end of the day, which do you think will leave you feeling like you’ve accomplished something good for your customers? Which do you think will endear your customer to the company?