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Mine Your Business Before It Mines You

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

How exactly do you “Mine your own business”? By understanding your job title. I don’t mean your title as an owner, vice president, CEO, manager, attorney, doctor, realtor, etc. I mean your title as a MARKETER! Understand that no matter what profession you’re in and no matter what your job title, you are at the very core, a marketer.

Without playing this critical role, without a fool-proof, automated, effort-free marketing system, all you’ve got is a fancy title and potentially a whole lot of unpaid bills.

If you don’t have a system for mining your business, for attracting, processing and reselling clients, your business is going to rob you of your energy, your resources and your capital until there’s nothing left.

How do you “Strike Gold With Your Marketing?” By learning how and implementing easy-to-use marketing tools like Voice Broadcast, Recorded Messages, Niche Websites and more. You see, it’s not just any one thing you do. It’s about how you apply and integrate ALL the things you do.

“It’s the 21st Century, and if you’re not using today’s technology available to increase your responses (and sales) by 200% or more, you’re making the biggest marketing mistake you could make.

Automated Marketing Solutions has the two things every business owner or sales person must have: Easy to use, inexpensive tools to capture leads in ways you would not otherwise get; and, a complete understanding of real direct marketing.

Bottom line, if you’re not using automated marketing technologies; and if you’re not using Automated Marketing Solutions as your outsourced provider… you’re costing yourself a fortune in lost cash you cannot afford to lose!”

If you would like to learn more about the Marketing Strategy we reviewed today or learn more about this or any of the other AMS’ products, services and Marketing Programs and how we can turn your prospects into profits, go to www.automatedmarketingsolutions.com or give one of our reps a call at 800-858-8889 right now!

If you would like to hear more about Robot-Marketing and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today.

The Miracle Of Recorded Messages And How They Make You Money

Friday, March 12th, 2010

A Recorded Message is a message (recorded in your voice or someone else’s) that automatically starts running when someone calls your special 1-800 number, much like your answering machine. Also known as Toll Free Recorded Message Hotlines; recorded messages have been around for years. Their longevity is testament to their effectiveness. Even with the immense popularity of the Internet you are still only accessing about 70% of people you want to attract. Everyone, on the other hand, has access to a telephone line. Having a Toll Free Recorded Message Hotline as part of your Marketing Program means you don’t have to restrict how a potential prospect might identify themselves to you.

There are many benefits to using this type of technology when you deal with a reputable vendor. They are relatively inexpensive and they can be implemented almost immediately. The only down time is time spent getting your ad placed in a publication targeting your identified niche or prospect base. Hotlines are also simple to include on all of your marketing materials. With a Hotline, your business card now becomes more powerful. The fact that an 800 type number appears in your marketing materials means that people are offered a less threatening way of accessing the information you are making available to them. Therefore there is no fear or anxiety that comes with having to deal with a live person. People are given the time to digest the information you want and make a well informed decision in a time frame of your own making.

The really good companies out there also provide a series of reports that allow you to maximize the potential of your recorded messages. You can see which ones work and which ones don’t and adjust to increase your response rate. You will also see what advertising media is working better so you focus your budget were it will do you the most good. Finally, the Recorded Messages are working for you 7 x 24 so they will outperform any other media you select.

I have come across a company that provides a full suite of marketing technology tools and processes including Toll Free Recorded Message Hotlines. That company is AMS. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing has allowed them to develop tested and proven methods for using Recorded Messages. They start from the advertising headlines and content, go right to the recording of the messages themselves. Their experience ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technology. And it doesn’t stop there. AMS provides the capability for a business, no matter what size, to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human input.

The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for apathy.

If you would like to hear more about Recorded Messages and how they can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

To learn more about Hotlines and how they can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can start using, and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven experience and technology.

Comparing Different Types Of Advertising

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

You may agree that in many ways, communications has caused our planet to decrease in size. A news event anywhere in the world today can be communicated, almost instantly, to almost anyone else in the world. Newspapers, Radio, Television and the Internet have all contributed to this. Like any technology that brings benefits however, unfortunately, there are also downfalls. Our world is one that is overrun with forms of communication. Over the course of an average day we are exposed to news, commercials and advertising through all of these media. The result of this is that we have become conditioned to blocking out all but those items that we are interested in.

This has presented today’s marketers with a challenge. How do they ensure that their target audience responds to the message they are trying to convey? How do they get by the spam-like filters we have all developed to protect ourselves from information overload? This is where News-style Advertising comes in. This style has been created to get past our advertising filters. This is accomplished by presenting the marketers message in a manner more consistent with news. News-style advertising doesn’t appear to be advertising. It has no graphics or pictures. It contains no slogans or logos. There is nothing associated with it that would give the reader any reason to suspect that it is being sponsored by any company or individual. It contains a headline, followed by copy with a method for the reader to get additional information, should they wish to do so.

The reason why this type of advertising is simple and ties back into our mental spam filters. Assume we scan a newspaper or magazine and see something with a Headline that appeals to some issue or problem we are dealing with at that time. Because it is news-like in appearance it is not threatening. Our need drives us to read the article, generally short in nature. This is also appealing since it does not represent a great deal of investment on our part. The response mechanism allows us to get more information if what we have read in the article makes sense to us and represents a viable solution to our issue. It is because it is non-threatening in nature that it is able to generate the response numbers up to 500% better than other techniques.

This very effective form of advertising has actually been incorporated into a robust marketing strategy by one company. This company is Automated Marketing Solutions; or AMS. AMS provides a full package of marketing technology tools and processes that allow your company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tested and proven methods including News-Style Advertising. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique.

AMS also provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction. The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest or desire to do business with them. If you would like to hear more about News-style Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. Learn how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

If you would like to hear more about News-style Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions immediately

Arouse Emotions – Does Your Advertising Do This?

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

On a daily basis, we are exposed, if not bombarded by, messages and advertisements trying to compel us, and convince us to purchase. The result of all of this exposure is that we become resistant and sometimes immune to advertising messages surrounding us. When we watch the news, listen to the radio, read newspapers or magazines; no matter what form of media, we pay attention to only those things that are of interest to us in our own daily lives. We ignore, and throw out entire sections of a newspaper; we watch only certain portions of television shows, and we either peruse carefully, or throw out the Sports Page depending on our preferences. We have been forced to become selective. Given all of this conditioning the chances of peaking anyone’s advertising interest might seem small. But there are techniques available, that are effective and successful.

Here’s a question that will prove that that last statement is true. Have you ever walked past a news stand and taken a quick glance at the various racks of papers available for that day? No doubt you have and when you did this I’m willing to bet that some of those papers stood out against the rest. That was not an accident on their part. Rather, it is part of a well understood and practiced advertising method.

Over the years, successful advertisers have created many techniques to get your attention. The front page of every Playboy magazine should demonstrate that fact. It’s success has spawned too many other publications to count although many might not be able to lay claim to the I bought it just for the articles justification. The “Man goes out to Howl at the Moon, Sees Saucer and Little Green Men” type headlines we see in the National Enquirer magazine certainly grab our attention too. Each of these demonstrates effective ways of getting and holding our attention. Once this has been accomplished the chances start to increase that we may take the next step and read more.

Marketing research has demonstrated that there is a process that successful marketers follow to help get through the spam advertising filters that people carry around with them today. The first one, as I have already demonstrated, is to get the attention of your target audience with the Headline. Once that has been accomplished you need to elevate their interests and emotions. In the marketing world today there is one company that has actually developed a 5 step process and incorporated it into an extensive marketing program of tools and processes. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS. AMS provides a full suite of marketing technology tools and processes that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tested and proven methods including emotional type advertising. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique. And it doesn’t stop there. AMS provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human interaction.

The benefits to this system are significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest. If you would like to learn more about Emotional Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology.

If you would like to hear more about Emotional Advertising and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions right now

Your Business and Automated Multi-Step Marketing, Lead Generation

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

When we discuss marketing we are in fact talking about relationships. We know that the favorable relationships are based on regular contact using a variety of different methods. We call our friends; send cards and flowers to our wives, and employ many other ways of demonstrating our love and affection to the people who we care about. When setting out to develop a successful Marketing Campaign we need to follow this same line of thought.

Selling today is a multi-step process. It has been demonstrated that up to 95% of the people you may touch with your advertising are not yet be in a purchasing mode, making it essential to maintain contact with anyone who responds to your marketing efforts. Build a relationship and condition them to the fact that you can be trusted and are knowledgeable about your product or service. This way when they are prepared to purchase, your company will be the one that they associate a solution to their need with.

Although the solution to our marketing challenges sounds simple when we condense it into a couple of brief paragraphs, the reality is quite different. The following scenario is an example of what I mean. Imagine you attract 20 new prospects every month through your marketing and you touch base with each prospect 3 times every month. Touching a prospect 3 times in a month is not excessive by the way. Over a period of 6 months, following this same pattern, you would have to manage 1,260 touches. If you are doing it properly you are also doing this through different media. Imagine the time constraints managing this type of activity would put on your day. The unfortunate reality is that you can’t afford not to do this when statistics demonstrate that you will close 75% more prospects when you DO stay in touch with them over the course of a year.

Recently I came across a company that has spent the last 12 years developing a systematic and fully media featured marketing program that has automated a multi-step marketing capability. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS. AMS provides a full array of marketing technology tools and systems that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program using tried and proven methods. However, the most significant aspect of their development is that the entire process can be automated. They refer to it as putting your marketing on Auto-Pilot. Here’s how it works: Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human input. It captures leads that respond to marketing and places them into the appropriate program for follow up by the LMS itself. Very little, if any, human interaction is needed. The many benefits to this system include significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks and consistency in marketing messages.

An additional benefit of using their LMS is the retention capabilities of the system. As we know, once you have sourced and converted a prospect, your next most important task is to keep them as a customer. Using AMS Lead Management System means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted their lack of contact for lack of interest. Finally, because of AMS years of experience in building multi-media marketing programs they are able to assist and educate their users on the best methods to use as they build their own campaigns.

If you would like to hear more about Lead Management Systems and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

If you would like to hear more about Lead Management Systems and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today.

Make Money From The Internet, Even If You Don’t Know Anything About Computers!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

In marketing circles we refer to the Internet as On-Line Marketing and NO Marketing Program is complete without an Internet presence. That being said, let’s look at some of the reasons why you need to be there.

Websites are an effective way of increasing the number of leads you get each month. Why? Well, the Internet attracts a different audience than some of the more traditional marketing methods do. Although the educated consumers explore both avenues, when you are on the Internet with your own website you are appealing to a different group of people. You also take advantage of these people surfing because it is non-threatening for them.

To stop those surfers dead in their tracks your website needs to be credible, including the design of the site itself, the content, third party validation and more. It is important to work with a company that not only understands how web sites work but how they look and can provide proven and successful Direct Marketing response techniques to entice and capture individuals that know what they want, as well as the surfers.

An Internet presence also provides your Marketing Program with yet another option of staying in touch and relationship building. It gives you an excuse to send along a friendly e-mail, fax or voice broadcast letting existing clients and prospects know that there is something new at your site that they may be interested in.

The real importance of the Internet to Marketing Programs could fill volumes. But if you are interested in finding out in a crisp and informative way, just what a Website delivered through a knowledgeable marketing partner can do for you, then I would suggest you visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. Here you will find a complete article explaining why you need an Internet presence, how it works, how to integrate it with your current marketing technology, the mistakes you need to avoid and much more. You will quickly see that the Internet is nothing to be intimidated by but a Marketing Tool that will complete and enhance your overall Marketing Program.

If you are interested in discovering, in a crisp and informative manner, just what a Website delivered through a knowledgeable marketing partner can do for you then visit Automated Marketing Solutions.

Effective Advertising

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Marketers today all understand that the primary purpose of any advertising is to get a response. It is to attract qualified prospects that can, by using other marketing methods, be converted to customers. It follows therefore that the more prospects that one can attract, the better the chances are that a customer base will grow. Small, medium and large companies all have to accomplish this same goal. How they achieve that goal is what differentiates the successful ones from the short lived ones.

One challenge that small to medium sized companies do have; that large companies generally do not have to contend with, is image. The large companies like Coke, IBM, Microsoft and others all have brand and name recognition. They have the credentials that make them a trusted name. Anything they have to say, we usually trust, will be worth reading, and therefore we respond accordingly. This is not the case with the small to medium companies. Fortunately there are tested and proven mechanisms that can be used to get their message in front of the people that they want it read by.

Throughout the course of our lives we have all been conditioned to respond to certain things. We respond to smiles with smiles. We respond to anger with anger. The word FREE has always been, and will continue to be an attention getting trigger. Although it is not always easy to get those interested in your product or service to contact you and leave you their contact information, it must still be the objective of all of your marketing and advertising. One of the most effective methods of achieving this objective is to offer a Free Report in your advertising material. This method works because it can be done in a non-threatening way that allows people to get access to what they want most; information that will help them deal with an issue they need to address. The Free Report requires that the prospect leave their contact information, which allows you to stay in touch, and at the same time, use other marketing tools to convert them to a customer. The report means they don’t have to deal personally with an individual whose job it is to convince them to purchase, which is something that appeals to them.

There is a company today that not only has incorporated this form of marketing into their products and services but they also train companies on how to build their own special Free Reports. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions; or AMS. AMS provides a full array of marketing technology tools and processes that allow any company to deliver a comprehensive marketing program. They use many tested and proven methods including Free Reports. Their twelve years of experience in Direct Response Marketing ensures that even the beginner can quickly integrate and take advantage of the benefits of this technique. AMS also provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to manage and control that program without any further human input. The benefits to this system are significant time savings and consistency in marketing messages, in what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest.

If you would like to hear more about Free Reports and how it can help grow your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. Learn at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

If you would like to hear more about Free Reports and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. You will be surprised at how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

What you Need to Know About Business Cards, Yellow Page Ads, And Val-Pak Coupons

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

In today’s world, businesses are faced with many decisions when it comes to marketing and advertising. How do you get started? What media to use in your marketing campaigns. These are just a couple of the immediate challenges. The reality is that all of the options available will work to one degree or another. The key to your success, regardless of the medium you select, is to present yourself in a manner that appeals to your prospect. When this is understood, you can be successful regardless of your selection.

Very often people follow the generally accepted trends and styles. This happens with the clothes we wear (anyone remember Beatle Mania?), the beer we drink (what age are you) and the way we advertise in publications such as the Yellow Pages. Look in the Yellow Pages and you will see page after page of similar looking business card layouts and wording. What happens is we start to mentally purge the look-a-likes and carry on until we see something that is different.

Some of the most interesting, and different, ads that I have seen appear as a public service announcement. They have headlines like: Warning! Don’t Even Think of Using a Travel Agent Before Calling FREE Traveler Awareness Hotline! Copy below this ad would offer free advice on how to book the best rate for your next trip. I was scanning the travel section because I was obviously interested in taking a trip and this advertisement, because it was different, caught my eye. To make it really successful it also had an 800 number at the bottom to call for a Free Report. There was no ad sponsor so the whole presentation was non-threatening. I was given a safe way to get information I wanted without having to speak directly to a Travel Agent whose job it is to sell me.

The same method can be used regardless of the medium you select for your advertising. Be it Yellow Pages, Business Cards and Val-Pak Coupons. The key is to use the criteria that make it different, interesting and non-threatening. As much as the principles are basic – there definitely is an art to this type of marketing.

I have learned of a company, that over the last 12 years, has developed automated systems that allow business people to incorporate any type of marketing and/or advertising into an overall Marketing Strategy. That company is Automated Marketing Solutions or AMS. They differentiate themselves by not only providing solutions, but by educating their clients on the proper techniques to use including how to create the right message by the form of media being used. It doesn’t stop there. AMS provides the capability for a company to place their ENTIRE Marketing Program on Auto-pilot. Once a business marketing program (including voice messages, e-mails, faxes and other broadcast and mail out collateral) is compiled and sequenced, their Lead Management System or LMS provides the unique ability to control and manage the program without any further human interaction.

The benefits to this system include significant time savings on what would otherwise be labor intensive tasks. It also provides consistency in marketing messages. It also means that businesses never need worry about losing customers who misinterpreted your lack of contact for lack of interest. To learn more about Direct Response Marketing and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today. See how quickly and economically you can implement and start benefiting from AMS tested and proven technology and experience.

If you would like to hear more about Emotional Marketing and how it can benefit your business, visit Automated Marketing Solutions today.

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