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What's Working, What's Not?
What needs a boost in your business? Do you want to sell more books or products? Need more new clients? Need more ezine subscribers? More Web visitors?
Perhaps you need to change your focus. If your promotion approaches are time consuming, aimed at too many groups, and not bringing in great sales, you may be spread too thin.
A client I'll call Joan came to me with her promotion challenge.
After spending a lot of time writing and marketing her book, she started to lose coaching clients. Some left because their work was completed, yet replacements didn't come.
We set up a strategy session. Her goal? To replenish her lowered income with 5 new coaching clients. Here is an example of intention and attention.
The strategies?
One. Traditional Marketing Strategy:
Joan was missing social interaction outside the office. While she put out a great ezine, where were the smiles and social life? For balance, she planned to attend a few networking events each month. While they take time, they are necessary to balance her life.
A seminar and teleclass leader in the past, Joan also decided to offer in-house seminars again.
Joan's success?
I advised her to use her ezine to get the word out about her upcoming local seminars and teleclasses. Within two weeks after sending out her ezine (online marketing), she received several sign-ups for her upcoming seminar (traditional). While networking, she coached someone on the spot, and got a new client!
Traditional marketing combined with online are a great marriage.
Two. online Marketing Strategy
While Joan put out a quality ezine each month, she needed to make it more commercial--to include a blurb or testimonial about her new book, and to announce her seminars and teleclasses. If you don't let people know what you can do for
them, how will they buy?
Other marketing advice?
1. Create a coaching sales letter to send by email as well as put up on a Web site. Put in writing the benefits of your service. Include features such as what a session looks like. How will you change your client or customer's life? Bring them more money, time, clarity, more intimacy? Ask yourself what is the major problem you solve for them? Your answer is the benefit. Inform people of the details, so they can decide to buy. In the dark, they will slip away.
2. Create an online promotion exchange letter to send to all the people you meet online who may be willing to network with you. Offer your link write up, short book blurbs, tips, ezine ads, and articles. If an ad, offer a 3-4 month exchange for better results. Keep a special list to mail to every few months.
3. Write many more articles to circulate online. Thousands, even hundreds of thousands of your targeted market will see them each day you submit. They will notice your free ezine or other free offer in your signature box. Your ezine subscriptions will increase 7-20 a day, depending on your topic.
Take one topic from your longer book and retool it into a short article. You have endless material in your files, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
With intention to increase her coaching clients, Joan added her attention. She took action to meet more people as well as to continue writing new articles to circulate online. It's a good idea to pay attention to what's working and what's not.
About the Author
Judy Cullins: author, publisher, book coach eBook: _Ten Non-techie Ways to Market Your Book Online_ http://www.bookcoaching.com/products.shtml Send an email to mailto:Subscribe@bookcoaching.com The Book Coach Says... includes 2 free eReports mailto:Judy@bookcoaching.com
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