Have You Forgotten the Marketing Secret Every Child Knows People respond to repetition. If you are a parent you know how hard it is to refuse repeated requests for an ice cream or a desperately wanted toy.
Little Kids Ask Until They Get What They Want
Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, can I have an ice cream? Can I, Can I, Can I, Can I?
Please, Please, Please, Please. I'll be good for a whole year. I promise. Just
give me a dollar. I won't ask again for a long time. Pleaseeeeee!
Regular, repeated mailings are the way to create big predictable results.
When you mail every 30 days for a year you will cause a dramatic growth in your
business.
People respond to repetition. If you are a parent you know how hard it is to
refuse repeated requests for an ice cream or a desperately wanted toy.
If you are not a parent, I'm sure you remember asking, even begging for a
toy, a treat or permission to stay up past your bedtime, until your parents
finally gave in. Your customers and prospective customers are similar. They need
to be asked repeatedly too.
Who You Should Ask
You should be asking 3 groups of people to do one of 3 things:
- The first group is your house customer list (your own list of existing
customers).
You should be asking your existing customers repeatedly to contact you
about some offer you make to them for your products and services.
A clear offer with an easy way to contact you should be made, like:
We will give you 5000 full color postcards for $389, simply give us a
call at 800-628-1804 to set up getting your postcards
Or some other offer you reasonably believe they will be interested in based
on your personal knowledge of them and preferably based on their actual
previous buying behavior.
- The second group is your house prospect list (prospects you have caused to
inquire about your products and/or services through your own marketing
efforts).
This group of people is interested in your service but hasn't made the
decision to go for it yet. They will be the most likely to respond to a
special when you offer it to them.
- The third group of people are people who can reasonably be expected to be
interested in your products and/or services, but who have never purchased
anything from you and have never inquired about your products and/or services
either.
The likely reason they haven't contacted you is that they don't know that
you even exist.
You remedy that by contacting them with a series of postcards offering
free information about how they can benefit from your products and services.
If this list of people is properly selected and if you make an offer that a
reasonable person will find very, very difficult to refuse, then your response
rate will be high.
That is the whole game in a nutshell. Create or get a list of people who have
demonstrated they are interested in the type of product or service you offer.
AND/OR Get a list of people extremely likely to be interested even if they
haven't already proved they are by buying from you or one of your competitors.
Once you have these lists of people contact them with postcards which offer
them the benefits of your products and services and keep making them offers
until they inquire and/or buy from you and then ask them to buy more on a
regular basis.
If you do what you have just read about you will have more business than you
can shake a stick at.
You will have a smile on your face just like the little kid with a belly full
of ice cream he/she convinced mom to buy.
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with ice cream and your business with paying customers.
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