Monday, September 22, 2008

Core Processes of Attraction Marketing Systems

Wow! I just went through the most awesome training tonight on attraction marketing! I learned three things that are extremely important:
1) build a list
2) build a relationship with that list
3) market to that list.
It must be done in that order. You want to position yourself as a professional that really cares about helping your niche market. How do you do that? Well.....

Follow these Core Processes for Attraction Marketing:
1) Have your own lead capture page - create one of your own or get one from http://www.ezleadcapture.com/
2) Make sure the leads go into your own autoresponder. Here you want to send information to give them something of value such as how to use attraction marketing :-)
3) Create a page with "My Story" - a page that tells a little bit about yourself and gives the lead information to help them
4) At this point, your lead has come to know you somewhat and feels more comfortable with you. Offer them training and support for them MLM business.
5) NOW and only NOW do you tell them about your program. By now they should trust you and feel like they know you. They should feel bad if they DON'T join you in your program.
6) Train them in attraction marketing using You Tube, webinars, conference calls, or introduce them to your trainer so they receive quality training to help build their business.

This is Attraction Marketing in a nutshell.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

After Gustav

Today is Thursday, September 4. School started back today and so did work.

McComb looks a lot better today than it did 3 years ago. Most of the trees I saw down went down in the yards instead of on the houses. Even with over 12 inches of rain, wind gusts up to 30 or 40 MPH, and tornado warnings everywhere, we all were very lucky!

Thank you, God!

Now let's hope Hanna, Ike, and Josephine have other travel plans.....

Gustav

(written Tuesday, Sept. 3)



Wow! This has been a crazy Labor Day weekend! Friday, Aug. 29, was officially the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans. Being in McComb, MS, we were on the east side of the storm…by about 60 miles! The winds were so wild – first from the north, then from the south. We got a total of 4 inches over 24 hours! Not too bad. We were very luck though. We had one small limb hit our house. Only damage we sustained on our house was a bent gutter. We lost 4 trees in our yard.

Yesterday was Monday. Katrina hit on a Monday morning around 6:00 AM. Marty and I got up around 5:00 AM to see what was going to happen. The wind was already wild!!!!

Yesterday was another Monday and another hurricane. Luckily (or not depending on how you look at it), we were on the west side of Hurricane Gustav. It was first predicted to hit New Orleans again. This time people from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and Louisiana didn't HESITATE to evacuate. It didn't take them two hurricanes to learn their lesson. The first one was extremely hard on them….. We got up at 5:00 AM again because Marty thought he had to go to work. The wind was starting to blow, but it never got as hard as last time. We got 6 inches of rain. Big difference from last time. Because Gustav went almost straight west, I assumed (dumb, I know) that the weather would start clearing up. Little did I know that was not to be the case.

Our lights went out several times yesterday. They went out for the last time around 7:00 PM. We played games by candlelight until we decided we'd go to bed early. The weather got very bad last night. There were 2 tornado warnings – one around 1:30 AM and one around 3:15 AM. We had slept with our windows open for air, so we had no problem hearing the sirens since we live only a mile or so from the source! The electricity came on around 8:00 AM today. We were so glad because we could finally take a warm shower. (Cold water even in summer is too cold to bath in!)

I thought the weather would be so much better today, again, because Gustav was moving away from us. Again, I was wrong. We had several tornado warnings throughout the day. We got another 6 inches of rain. This is dangerous for us because we have so many trees throughout our city that are hardwoods. What does that mean for us? Shallow roots! One or two good gusts could knock down some of these hundred year old (and older) trees. Very scary if one is standing over your house!

I'm sending out a prayer for everyone of us affected by Gustav – whether by property or by job. I'm also sending out a big THANK YOU for all the electric company men who put their lives on the line to get the electricity back on as quickly as they can and for all the civil servants who worked to keep things in order.

Love to all of you!
Georgia Ryle