The Importance Of Email Follow-up In Your Home Business

March 26, 2009

Are you prepared to learn a very important tip in network marketing? The follow up is where the money is!

Most people will not sign up the moment you show them your business plan, no matter how profitable it may appear to be, online or offline. This is a fact that will never change and you will need to follow up a prospect a couple of times before you can sign them up or sponsor them.

Just take this really short quiz:

Among all the tasks, which of the following gives you money?

- Lead Generation - Cold-calling - Showing The Plan - Follow Up

Obviously the follow up and compared to all the other tasks, the least amount of time spent on follow up will still generate MORE MONEY compared to the other 3 (the 80/20 rule applies where 20% of the actual work generates 80% of the results and it is scientifically proven in everything that people do).

There are many ways you can execute this task of following-up with a prospect. You can either meet them to get their feedback or opinion or you can use emails to try and connect with your prospect.

One of the best tools you can use to automate the follow-up process is by using an Autoresponder. On the Internet, this is what you can do:

- Generate leads from blogs, organic search, pay per click, banner advertising, forums or Facebook.

- Drive those traffic to a lead capture page and capture those leads by offering them a free E-book or newsletter. This is to legally bribe them into joining your newsletter and your mailing list.

- Use a series of follow up emails to give them valuable information in your newsletter. Do not try and sell them things on the first contact. Offer them tips on how your product can help them or how your network marketing business can help them to solve certain problems in their lives. Soft sell them regarding your opportunity for a period of 7-10 days because you want them to get to know who you are. You can use follow up emails to help you to build rapport.

- Finally, pitch your network marketing business once you feel that they are ready. You can also send them personal messages to ensure them that they are not receiving mail from a robot.

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