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<<<<<AGPCommunity E-Zine>>>>> Issue 29, Oct.
30, 2001 Visit "http://www.agpcommunity.com/" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Top Sponsor Ads ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RESIDUAL INCOME. 80% off Dental, 60% off Vision, 50% off Chiropractic and prescription. Health PlaN. NOT Insurance. No exams. Entire family $91.95/month. Brokers needed . "http://www.MyBenefitsPlus.com/SSinger" *** FREE Newsletter -- SECRETS of top Internet entrepreneurs: "http://www.quickinfo247.com/115518/NL" *** STOP TRYING TO MAKE MONEY THE HARD WAY This Single-Line downline Building Group helps put members into your downline for you! Get $40 bonus for every member you refer and fatten your bank account in FOUR Income streams! 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The winner of "what is the insignia on Bubba's lunch pail" was GP member "ds2" And the insignia is the GP insignia logo. The winner of "what is bubba standing on" was GP member "? Bill I forget your id" And the answer is bubba is standing on an I-Beam. (I would of course taken any sensible answer such as a bar of iron) ***CHRISTMAS PACK SPECIAL*** for those interested in doing some very LOW COST Advertising. The Christmas Pack Special will consist of 4 ads sent out in solo ad fashion. Each ad may be 8 lines in length. The cost will only be 8 dollars. Ads are to include "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Holidays" or something of a Christmas nature. These will begin going out DEC. 1st. If interested send an email to "mailto:valerie@agpcommunity.com" @@Do Not forget about the TOP SPONSOR AD program@@ Over 117,000 subscribers will SEE YOUR AD.....OVER 39 PARTICIPATING EZINES in which YOUR AD WILL BE DISPLAYED! Visit "http://www.agpcommunity.com" and click on the "paid ads" link. =+=+=+=+= Testimonial =+=+=+=+= Thanks for replying! I have to admit that you are my favorite "mod"! You are so helpful and caring that I don't think people realize just how much you do. Please believe me when I say that I know how busy you are and I have the utmost respect for you! I am always happy to see the e-mail that is from you! I love your e-zine and have learned so much from you that I can't believe that it is free!!!!!!! I also support you whole heartedly in GP! I hope that you have seen my posts showing just that because you have been bashed sometimes.. which I do not understand AT ALL!!!!!! So, I am saying "Thank you" for everything you have done and continue to do for GP because, like you , I believe 100% that GP IS OUR FUTURE!!!!!!!!!! I don't mean to sound like an a** kisser! My statements are from the heart and I hope that you realize that! Sue Gizewski ================================================ Feature Article: ================================================ "Leads...From Your Competition" Copyright New Innovations by Christopher Wright, Guerrilla Marketer "http://www.GuerrillaPromotions.com" Leads...the life blood of any business. No business can survive long without them. Business owners often pull their hair out trying to locate new 'blood'. Once you know where to look...they're everywhere. One such place is from your competition. I like to call it 'friendly forced attrition'. This process can be boiled down to three steps: 1.Locating and identifying your competitors. 2.Performing competitive intelligence (ex: finding their customers). 3.Positioning (or rather repositioning) the competition. Locating and Identifying Your Competition This may seem like a straight forward question and answer deal, and it is in a simple way. If you're a web designer, then other web designers are your competition...easy enough. But there are also some not so clear camouflaged competition. Following the web designer example, some of your comp may be package resellers. There main business may be web hosting and they offer designing as a value added service. Who you choose (notice I said YOU choose) to battle is dependent upon the strengths and weaknesses of your own product or services. Ok, you've identified your comp profile, now lets locate actual businesses and their clients. The most obvious place to start is with search engines. I prefer using a meta-search engine like Dogpile. Enter your keywords or keyword phrases and Dogpile will search not one but between 8-12 different search engines and directories. Although they'll list only the first ten results from each engine, this is often all you need to get names and url's of 'the enemy'. Performing Competitive Intelligence So far we've accomplished the task of creating a comp profile and we have list of competitors to investigate. So, now open up another browser window and visit each url you have. Look around and see what's going on with their site. Are they running any specials? Does their site look professional or like a 'get rich quick' site? More important, does your product or service lend an advantage that you can exploit to your benefit? Can your product be 'tweaked' to provide an advantage? Now, let's find some of their clients or at least some associates who have an interest in that company. The Internet makes this easier than if you were trying to apply this off-line. Do they have an affiliate program.. .great join it! "What...you want me to join with the enemy"...YES! Remember that old saying, "keep your friends close...but your enemies closer", this couldn't be more truer. When you join, you'll most likely be given an affiliate link. This is used to monitor your sales and traffic you send to their site. Now take that link and use it to locate other affiliates. How? By using reverse linking services (i.e. LinkPopularity.com, MarketLeap.com, etc.) , you can see other people who have joined their affiliate program also. You may have to truncate a part of the affiliate url. This is because your affiliate url will usually contain your tracking ID. It may resemble something like this: "http://www.comp.com/product/associate.htm?1234". The 1234 will probably be your identification number used to track sales. You simply drop everything after the question mark and use that on the reverse linking services. To cover all your bases, you may even drop everything after '/product/' and run the truncated url again. Positioning (or re-positioning) The Competition Let me state from the beginning...DO NOT openly criticize your competition. Doing so puts your prospect in a defensive posture. Why? Because these people were or are still involved with this company and no one likes to feel like they've made a mistake...even if they have. So, don't rub it in. This is why I call it 'friendly forced attrition'. A better approach would be to state the benefits (not features...know the difference), of using your service over the present one they're using. Is your product or service quicker? Is it more reliable? Is it cheaper (be careful...this sometimes becomes a negative, if your service is perceived as inferior)? This creates a limited playing field in the customers' mind. This helps make their buying decision easier. Now they don't have to choose between 10 or 100 other businesses offering similar products. Don't try to totally sell them on the first contact. Two-step the process. Offer them a free report or some type of sample and have them send for it via joining your ezine or via auto responder. Once they've done so, you know for sure that they're at least interested. But remember it often takes at least seven exposures before most purchases are made (often more on the Internet), so be prepared to follow up. Using an auto responder makes this easy. Most will allow you to set up follow up messages, some limited others with no limit. It's not uncommon for even small sites to have 100's of affiliates. So, just imagine what you could do by locating one good competitor per week? You're only limited by the time and effort you put into this strategy. Good luck :) ********************************** Christopher Wright, Guerrilla Marketer "Make Money...Or Make Excuses" Info: "mailto:90days@SendFree.com" "http://www.GuerrillaPromotions.com" EXPLODE your Internet marketing in 90 days or less... We perform BEFORE you pay!! "mailto:90Days@SendFree.com" "http://www.GuerrillaPromotions.com" C. Wright, Guerrilla Marketer (877)379-6701 *************** Paid Ads *************** YOU do not know what YOU are Missing! But YOU can find out! Take the FREE 15 day trial and find out NOW! "http://go4millions.com/index.php?refid=10976" *** NEW and FREE! Subscribe Today! Send a blank email to : "mailto:ebiz-subscribe@triplerenterprises.net" *** See why MLM Dynamite is the Top Residual Income Program on the Internet! Watch the Video and Join FREE! "http://superchargeyourmlm.com/5018" @@@@@ Info-Meter @@@@@ C2IT RATING = 10+ There is nothing else to give this company but a 10+. It is new, I am not going to knock off points for some pages that load slow from time to time. This program is thru CITIBANK. Most of us if not All of us are familiar with that name. These types of programs are easy, easy, easy! Plus they are very inexpensive! FREE! You cannot get less inexpensive then FREE! Whether you have your own website to place the referral logo or you simply advertise your referral link, you cannot go wrong. Right now C2IT is so New that very few know about it. A person could join the referral program and create a simple doorway page that directs people to sign up to c2it thru their referral link. Submit the doorway page to the engines once a month. Advertise the doorway page every where. And TA-DA! REFERRAL DOLLARS are yours for nothing more then a little time and effort. "http://qksrv.net/click-891425-3370184?SID=valerie@agpcommunity.com" %%%%%%%%% I WISH I KNEW %%%%%%%%% I wish I knew how to set up an autoresponder? I just wish I knew what it was and how to use it? I wish I knew where to advertise for free and how to get people to see my ad? I wish I knew what safe lists are and how one uses them and what do they use them for? I wish I knew how some people get referrals so easy while others never get any? I wish I knew how all this marketing stuff worked and just how I can go about learning step by step? WELL STAY TUNED!!!!!!!!! AGPCommunity Ezine is going to bring YOU the ANSWERS! DO NOT MISS ONE SINGLE ISSUE OR YOU WILL BE BEHIND! STEP BY STEP HOW TO'S and WHAT ARE'S ... RIGHT HERE IN THIS SECTION! ************************* 10 Dollars 20 Ads ************************* Become a Virtual 24-7 Master Recruiter with ANY MLM! 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Subscribe today at "http://www.babytalk.150m.com/" =========================================== Biz Whiz Kid # 2 - Ron Want GUARANTEED HITS to your website? "http://dollarday.ownbox.com" "http://lotsaperks.nip.net" "http://guaranteed.nip.net" "http://trafficg.gotoo.com" =========================================== Re-Do Ads =========================================== 1. Old Ad: TIRED OF LIVING PAYCHEQUE TO PAYCHEQUE? Work from home...Be your own boss...Live debt free...Spend time the way you want...More travel and vacation opportunities...Build an income that can last for generations... Same Ad Flashed: ARE YOU TIRED OF HAVING NO MONEY? Are you "BROKE" in more ways than one? We HELP you build an Income that lasts a lifetime! Work at home. Have Money, Time and Peace of mind. Visit now. http//............. =========================================== 2. Old Ad: PICTURE this! YOU are on an African SAFARI! YOU stare in awe at a Mother ELEPHANT and her baby. It's a 'KODAK' moment! MAKE it happen with our ELEPHANT picture frame! Item #31311. ON SALE now for $10.36 http://.................... Same Ad Flashed: EVER PICTURE YOURSELF ON AN AFRICAN SAFARI? Looking at Mama Elephant snuggling her Baby? Now, THAT IS a Kodak Moment! Get your Elephant picture frame now. On sale:) $10.95 -Item # 31311. Simply Beautiful. http://..................... =========================================== =========================================== If you have an ad you would like the AdMistress to redo for you, please write her at: "mailto:Tiny50@webtv.net?Subject=redo_ad" =========================================== ASK THE ADMISTRESS - CLUES 4 SUCCESS DO NEGATIVE HEADLINES WORK ??? Copyright © M B Stearns 2001 ABSOLUTELY !! However, the circumstances MUST BE right. What are the "right" circumstances? READ ON. NO MORE BACKBREAKING HOUSEHOLD Work for ME -- But OUR House IS NOW The SHOWPLACE of the Neighborhood! Look at the above Sample of a before-and-after headline. IT CHANGES the negative INTO positive. It also has a GOOD element of enthusiasm in it. Enthusiasm is a feature of many powerful headlines. Don't let a "Negative" Approach FOOL YOU !! Accentuating the positive AND eliminating the negative IS NO LONGER THE NORM in advertising. Debate about negative headlines has sometimes been fierce. The negative must have some good cause for working. What is it? A headline SHOULD HIT, as directly as possible, right between the "EYES" of the reader. It's possible to do this with BETTER accuracy using a negative headline. POINT OUT the problem INSTEAD OF the solution. Another sample: Is YOUR Home LEAK FREE? ( In the mind's eye of the reader, the thoughts of possible LEAKS pop in, thereby getting YOUR AD READ!!! ) IF AND WHEN you have that kind of a situation don't worry about accentuating the negative. Just DO IT! =========================================== CLUE # 32 - Negativity DOES work in some headlines =========================================== =========================================== Paid ads coming to ALL Ask the AdMistress readers! Email your favorite COLUMN EZINE for details. Top Sponsor Ad in the Column itself, custom ad included, $45.00. Only one ad per Column issue. Will YOUR ad be included? Ask the AdMistress: "mailto:Tiny50@webtv.net" =========================================== Circular Marketing Column Supporting Ezines: Due to the MASSIVE GROWTH in the Circular Marketing Column Ezines list we will now be listing only 10 of the participating in each column issue... To see the ENTIRE LIST of 56 AWESOME Ezines and receive their subscribe links, please click on either of the links below: "mailto:circularezines@atbizopps.com" or go to: "http://www.zarasfunpage.com/ask_the_admistress.htm" 1. The Wholesale Insider - Ed Bangs "mailto:jcebcs@att.net?subject=subscribe" 2. 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