Following Up with Seminar Prospects: Boost Seminar Registrations

Keeping your seminar in front of prospects is key if you want to fill seminar seats. Here are 5 tips for using email to promote your events without fatiguing your list.

December 1, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing, Mailing Lists, Marketing Strategy, database segmentation  No Comments

Overcome Prospects’ Procrastination to Increase Seminar Registrations:Increase Seminar Registrations with Deadlines

Keeping your seminar in front of prospects is key if you want to fill seminar seats. Here are 5 tips for using email to promote your events without fatiguing your list.

November 5, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Database Management, Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing, Mailing Lists, Marketing Strategy  No Comments

When Is Too Much Email Too Much?: How to Overcome Your Fear of Emailing Too Much

Keeping your seminar in front of prospects is key if you want to fill seminar seats. Here are 5 tips for using email to promote your events without fatiguing your list.

October 22, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Database Management, Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing, Mailing Lists, Marketing Strategy  No Comments

Adding Value to Your Seminar: Use Bonuses to Increase Value and Justify Higher Prices

Price is relative when you’re promoting seminars. To win seminar registrations and justify higher prices for your seminar seats, use bonuses to increase the perceived value of your seminar. Adding bonuses to your seminar package is also a good way to find affiliate marketing partners for your seminar.

October 7, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Internet marketing, Marketing Plans, Marketing Strategy, Teleseminars, Webinars  No Comments

You’re Sending Seminar Prospects Where?: Choose Links Carefully to Avoid Losing Seminar Prospects

A recent trip to the grocery store reminded me of a valuable Internet marketing tip I learned years ago.
When I was headed out the door with my cartful of groceries, the greeter — an elderly man who always welcomes me with a big smile and friendly “hello” — flagged me down. His job that day [...]

September 30, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Copywriting, Email Marketing, Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing, Marketing Strategy, Prospects for marketing  No Comments

Seminar Landing Pages to Grab Affiliate Traffic

One popular (and cheap) approach to filling seminar seats is to involve affiliates.
(Affiliates are people who will promote your event in exchange for commission on every sale they generate. Ideally, they will have their own opt-in lists of subscribers who hang on their every word.)
When you have affiliates who are highly influential and have the [...]

September 11, 2008  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Affiliate marketing, Internet marketing  No Comments

Are Ugly URLs Killing Your Marketing?

Are the links you’re including in your email promotions harming your marketing efforts? Could be … even if you don’t spot any obvious problems before you send your messages.
As the resident marketing expert for Business Expert Webinars (http://www.businessexpertwebinars.com), I help speakers plot their marketing strategy, as well as dissect past marketing campaigns that didn’t perform [...]

July 10, 2008  Tags:   Posted in: Internet marketing  No Comments

The “Courtesy” Opt-In

Last week, I received three emails in one day from a subscriber of mine. It seems that because he had subscribed to my email list, he thought it was fair to add my email address to his distribution list, as well.
If you’re using this type of list building — opting the people you meet into your [...]

March 5, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing  No Comments

3 Ways to Help Your Seminar Affiliates

Using other people to help promote your seminars is a powerful marketing tool — especially when you are first starting out and don’t have your own mailing list.
But relying on affiliates (other people who promote your events to their lists for a commission on each sale they generate) has a big downside: many, if not [...]

February 7, 2008  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Affiliate marketing, Guerrilla Marketing, Internet marketing  No Comments