Grow Your Business with Greeting Cards

Sending Greeting Cards

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Increase Your Profits
Retain Your Customers
Get Referrals

Greeting cards are a great way to stay in touch with your customers and an excellent way to expand your business. Like any other business, home-based business entrepreneurs also need to develop strong relationships with their customers and referrers to grow a thriving business.

Remember the 80/20 rule?

80% of your business will come from 20% of your customers.

The most effective group to market to are the customers that you already have. Your existing clients are your marketing goldmine. The trouble is you don’t know which clients will fall into that 20%. The key is to treat them all like friends of the family. And one of the most effective ways is to stay in touch with your customers by sending greeting cards! Show them just how much you appreciate their loyalty and business!

Greeting cards will help you:

• Build your business
• Retain more existing customers
• Expand your referral network
• Have more free time for your family, yourself and your other interests
• Protect your business from competition

Make your greeting card marketing work

Keep the overt marketing to a minimum. You don't EVER want your customer to feel like the greeting card is a sales pitch.

Sending greeting cards is an effective way to strengthen the relationships you already have with your customers, which will ultimately grow your business!

"Offer your customers a long-term Relationship,
then do everything possible to build and maintain it."
-Brian Tracy

Fact: 66% of all prospects come from word-of-mouth referrals.

That's two thirds of your business!

How do YOU make sure your clients are singing your praises?

Does that client you serviced two years ago remember you fondly?

If you would like to know more about how Greeting Cards can work for you, please visit my website: http://www.socreview.com/PoweredByCards

You'll create waves of excitement and opportunity with our Greeting Cards!

Win Cash from John Chow!

John took a go at grabbing some cold hard cash while inside the Cashinator at the Market Leverage booth. He's going to be giving all of his winnings to one of his lucky readers. Check him out in action below and find out just how much you could win!



Now head on over to his blog and leave him a comment for your chance to win! Here's the link to his post: Affiliate Summit East - Win Cash Money
Leave me a comment while you're at it! I'd love to see how many people I actually send to his site... and good luck!

Don't ever quit on a bad day!

If you are new to building a network marketing business, here are a few things to realize:

1. Don't forget, YOUR BUSINESS RUNS IN CYCLES (like the seasons). You will have up cycles and down cycles. When it seems that no one is working, stay in motion and your business will re-emerge stronger than ever before. Don't ever quit on a bad day! A good day is always just around the corner!

2. Typically, it's only ONE PERSON that WILL BREAK YOU LOOSE - You will learn of people that will sign up anywhere from 3 months to as much as 2 years after hearing about it and will go on to build groups of thousands of people! You will never know who that one person might be. So, make sure you are working and active when they come back . . . if not they will sign up under someone else!

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* ANYONE can find a use for this, regardless of your current profession!
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If you'd like to learn more about this amazing opportunity, just click on the image below!

Referral Marketing - The Most Powerful Form of Advertising

Practice these referral marketing techniques and your business will explode with new customers
By John Jantsch


Business owners tell me everyday that the way they generate the most new business is through referral marketing. Yet they don't seem to grasp the power of this statement. Few if any businesses harness the true power of referrals by making the receiving of systematic referrals a cornerstone of their marketing efforts.

First let me tell you why you need to do this.

1. Referrals are credible right from the start. When a trusted friend tells you about a business you transfer that trust to this company...even if you've never heard of them before.

2. People who are referred to a business tend to spend more money. Research has proven this beyond the shadow of a doubt and it is likely because people tend to refer other who are highly qualified and not just tire kickers or price shoppers.

3. Referrals are very cost-effective. In some cases free or a fraction of what you might pay in advertising costs.

In some industries, like consulting and professional services most companies are chosen solely on the recommendation of a friend.

Are you getting your referrals...if not consider these little ideas.

1. Expect to get referrals but don't assume you will. Talk about them early and often and build them into your sales and marketing efforts...don't wait for people to offer them.

2. Create a system. It can be as simple as advertising $20 for every referral.

3. Follow-up by phone or mail asking for referrals

4. Give every client 3 business cards. Look in your drawer you've got hundreds. Give them out to clients and they may just pass them along.

Referrals are essential to your business so don't overlook them chasing the newest trend in marketing in your industry.

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John Jantsch is the owner of Jantsch Communications, a marketing consulting firm located in Kansas City, Mo. He is the creator of Duct Tape Marketing, a fully-customizable turn-key marketing system. You can reach him at 816-561-3931 or john@ducttapemarketing.com

Meeting Jerry Yang: CEO and Chief Yahoo!

Meeting CEO Jerry Yang

my son Brandon, Me, Jerry Yang, my husband, and my daughter Caitlin

I had the privilege of meeting the CEO and Founder of Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, yesterday at Camp Yahoo! 2008 (the company's annual summer picnic). Yahoo! is the reason that we transplanted out here to Silicon Valley in January. My husband accepted an offered position with the company last year. It has been a big adjustment for us, leaving friends behind in the Chicago area, but the Bay Area is wonderful! And Yahoo! is taking good care of us while I'm pursuing my entrepreneurial dreams as well!

Business Card Swap

I've decided to host a business card swap. (If I can get enough people interested in participating) Please leave a comment here with your email address and I'll send you a message to let you know where to ship your cards to.

All you'll do is send me around 150 business cards + $4 (for return shipping back to you), I'll sort them all and send you back an assortment of all the participants business cards. The distribution is up to you! Be creative! When you ship out an order, you include a handful of everyone's business cards, or pass them around at networking meetings, post them on bulletin boards, the possibilities are endless... It's an easy way to promote each others businesses and to gain new customers that we would never meet otherwise! Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts and/or suggestions on making this work! I can't wait to network with you all!

Dream, Share, & Lead!

To become a successful builder, you must be able to do 3 things consistently. That is to be able to Dream, Share, and Lead... Doing these 3 things will dramatically improve the quality of your life!

Dreaming is where it starts! You must exercise your dream muscles daily and realize that the dreams we have, create the framework for everything we desire. It's also important to understand that it doesn't really matter if we believe our dreams to be true or not. The mind doesn't know the difference between what's real and what's not. So write down your dreams! The bigger the better!

The next step is Sharing! As you share your dreams with others, your dreams will grow in intensity, building momentum! The movement and direction of your dreams will have much more intensity when you share them with others. This applies to any business and any dream!

Last but not least, Lead! As leaders we take responsibility for our teams. If you don't see yourself as a leader, this may be the reason that you haven't achieved what you want in your life! You must see yourself as a Leader first! Whether you lead your family, business or team, declaring yourself as a leader is essential to building your success. Leaders take responsibility for where they are and where they're going. Leaders dream and shape their own destiny! Leaders are creative and resourceful! Leaders share their vision!

So in conclusion... Dream, Share, and Lead!

- Credit goes to Jordan Adler for sharing this info.