Ultimate Dads Success Ezine 002
As you create your Work At Home atmosphere, what questions come to you most often?
- What tools to use?
- How to stay on a schedule?
- How do I attract buyers of my products and services?
Please let me know and we’ll be sure to focus on those areas more important to you.
And as YOU have information you want to share with our list, let me know. As we grow the list of those reading this Ezine, I want to be sure to focus on YOU as well.
Charlie
What can we do to help you? As we work on more information to supply Work At Home Dads, your input is vital to help direct what we concentrate on. Please tell us what you are thinking by writing to us.
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Why Should Customers Do Business With You? Here is one of the best pieces of advice you’ll ever hear: NEVER make an appointment with a customer unless you can answer why customers should do business with you. Your answer must show a benefit to the customer, who will readily do business with you if you can make him feel good, solve his problem, or both. Actually, there is a business benefit and a personal benefit and they are often interlinked. You can calculate the economic benefits the product will provide to the customer and the consequences to the customer of not going with the recommended product. It’s not always the same for a consumer who is not in business, but if you can do this, it is a help. Dan Kennedy writes in his book, No BS Sales Success, “A prime consideration when packaging yourself is the first impression you give others. Psychologists tell us that most people form impressions of others in the first four minutes of meeting them and that 80% of the impression is based on nonverbal input. What you say has very little to do with it. We also know that people are very reluctant to change their first impressions.” People do judge books… and people… by their covers. The sooner you understand this human tendency, the faster you will achieve success. Dress and act the part – it’s so much easier this way. Charlie Seymour, Jr. presented this information at the Sales Summit for Business Development Resources, where he served as guest lecturer, presenting timely information on Sales, Marketing and business Development Success. If you have a favorite marketing method and will share it with all of us, I'll be sure to include your name and contact information here in our Ezine. Share Your Marketing Ideas Here! |
Facebook. Twitter. Blogs. Bookmarking. Squeeze pages, sales pages, direct-response marketing. It’s enough to make your head spin, isn’t it.
There’s WAY too much for any one individual to stay on top of so if you’re feeling a bit frustrated by all the names or all the work it takes to keep up on it, you’re in good company.
But that doesn’t get things done for you, does it? Just because others can’t do it or can’t stay up on everything doesn’t mean that you should take comfort in that.
So, week after week we’ll cover bits and pieces of Web 2.0, Social Marketing.
Let’s start with Twitter (and see the Special Offer of the Week below as well).
For now, just go start a Twitter account. Start sending some “tweets” and see who sends you tweets back.
“@” sign tweets means someone is responding to you in a way that others who get his or her tweets can see. DM (or Direct Messages) are just between the sender and the recipient. Be sure to keep these two straight – I’d hate for you to give the secret recipe to your grandmothers cinnamon buns to EVERYONE (when you were just sending it to me – I LOVE cinnamon buns, so all terrific recipes are welcome!).
And before you start sending tweets, decide Who You Are.
“WHAT? I know who I am, Charlie – why do I need to decide that?”
There are two main types of accounts on Twitter – those for people who send notes to everyone and anyone and those who send notes to a specified niche of interested people. Personally, I have 10 accounts ranging from my photography interests to politics to the one for UltimateWAHDads. So when I tweet for my UltimateWAHDads account, I don’t talk about photography.
See what I mean?
But my good buddy Bill tweets about everything on his account, even though he’s primarily a Social Marketer.
So decide that, start twittering, and we’ll pick this up next week.
What do you find is working on the Internet? If you have a short article or suggestion to share with others here, please let us know. Share Your Internet Marketing Ideas Here!
Here’s a great phrase I learned years ago from a friend. I was writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a major musical and I sought the advice of Tony Award-winning Lyricist David Zippel. I went for a lyric-writing lesson but came away with much more. He told me that many of his friends think he’s just playing during the day since he works at home. “Come on, come to lunch with us.” “Hey, I can’t, I’m busy.” But that never seemed to work. However, when he discovered THIS phrase, everything improved: “I’m no a deadline, I can’t.” Wow… that’s always true. We ALWAYS have deadlines zooming around us. So I’ve used that line a lot when I know I have to work but friends feel I should be playing with them. So… back to my writing here: I’m on a deadline! What do you find toughest about working on your own? Tell us what we can do to help. |
There are several blogs related to our UltimateWorkAtHomeDads.com site.
The largest one is right here on the site and you can find links to it in the left column.
But there are three others that are hosted in Blogger (which is owned by Google). These three are used to highlight the movies created to draw attention to what we are doing here, and you can find them at:
http://WhereDidTheDreamGo.blogspot.com
http://TakeMeFromTheRatRace.blogspot.com
http://TurboChargeMyWorkAtHome.blogspot.com
If you want to write for one of our blogs, please send us a short email telling us the topic you want to write about, giving us a writing sample of 250 – 500 words. Here's My Writing Sample – I'd Like To Blog With You!
Twitter – how do you build a large list, especially when you’re just starting out? My buddy Bill Crosby has created a system that is super hot for creating a large Twitter list. If you’re new to Twitter, seeing this short video might help you better understand the benefits of Twitter. If you’ve been using Twitter for a while but your list is still puny, this is a great way to increase the size of your list much more quickly. |
What's going on? What would you like to share? What great tidbits of information will you share with the rest of the group? We'll publish it here: Around The Water Cooler Information – Click Here To Share Your Ideas And Comments!
From 50 Universal Truths About Men 46. Sometimes I have weird and strange thoughts. I don’t take them seriously and I don’t want to share them with you (or anyone). Did you just hear something from a woman and thought it needed translation? Did you recently say something that was totally unintelligible by your spouse? Share How Men And Women Speak Differently – Click Here To Email Your Thoughts! |
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WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE MORE CREDIBILITY AND INFLUENCE THAN OTHERS? Credibility stems from that elusive thing called perception. People’s perception of you may be based on what they hear others say about you, the way you talk and act, or their previous experience with you. Credibility is based on a track record – either real or perceived. Those who are most credible over the long haul - |
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He is living life with the 'Oz' Philosophy: Courage, Brains, and Heart. Blogger, Philosopher, Marketing Evangelist. Helping Ultimate Success Dads achieve their financial best! Right Now. He's the #1 Marketing-Success Coach To Dads. Charlie has studied with some of the best direct response marketers on the planet – one on one, in the classroom, at seminars, and with work at home courses. He is no stranger to thinking big. He is an entrepreneur with a variety of interests and abilities, mostly focused on families and the Arts. He honed his skills as a business marketer and entrepreneur after earning his MBA in Marketing and Management from The Wharton School in 1975 and his BA in Economics and Music from Tufts University in 1973. He sold $247,368,657.97 as a salesman and marketed more than $1 billion as the Vice President of Marketing for Jackson-Cross Company. Charlie is featured in the new book, Dream Inc, about 32 Philadelphia-area entrepreneurs and their million dollar secrets to success, and The Ultimate Success Secret by Dan Kennedy and Michael M. Capuzzi. Artistically his life has also been rich by directing musical theater when not working. He is a frequent speaker and author about Marketing, Work At Home, and Web 2.0. He runs his own photography and video business; is an online community builder; and has been an Ultimate Work At Home Dad since 1983. In addition to his major online projects, Charlie created http://LizSeymour.com to assist his younger daughter as she produced her first music CD. His personal portal site is http://CharlesSeymourJr.com. Charlie lives outside of Philadelphia in Wallingford, PA USA with his wife, Pam, two cats, a dog, 7 computers, and 8 cameras! |
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