Email Marketing Terminology Tripped Me Up

It seems with Internet marketing there is always something to learn. The past two days brought me another of those lessons. I was feeling really good about finishing my 8th lesson of the 9 lessons I’m giving people who join my community by opting onto mailing list. Then I noticed that not everyone on my list had received all of the lessons. And some lessons seemed to be missing – bummer.

So I started to make up the missing lessons. In the course of trying to create an autoresponder campaign to ensure this wouldn’t happen again, I discovered my error. So what was the lesson here? It was a reminder of the problem with communications that all salespeople and marketers experience with customers: terminology. We often use terms, expressions, and words to mean slightly different things. This is why it’s so important to ask how people mean what they just said and to periodically during the conversation repeat back in your own words what you heard or [...]

Choose More Powerfully Attractive Words

There’s a fine line that soft sell salespeople and soft sell marketers tread with words. At least 25 years ago, I read a book by one of the leading sales trainers in America. He was a hard sell sales professional with manipulative closing techniques. Despite my feeling really icky about such manipulation, he had a chapter that I liked about choosing more powerfully attractive words.

Make the effort to choose more powerfully attractive words in your soft sell marketing copy and in your soft sell sales meetings with prospects and customers. You will find that gradually your attitude starts to shift. You will be more open, more interested in your prospects because your terms tell your subconscious that is how you view your business. The rewards for soft sell sales and marketing go beyond mere commissions and profits to person-to-person connections. This elevates your business to a level that is fun, fulfilling, and mutually [...]