The heartburn advert! Opens with a guy shovelling into a wheelbarrow, then goes to him clutching his chest with a face shot of discomfort. It then pans to the roadwork’s sign and a stick figure bashing away at the pile of dirt which then erupts like a volcano. The dialogue running with all of this captures this guy’s pain very well.

“Getting People’s Attention Is Successful Advertising!”

By using all the right emotional triggers they’ve engaged the viewer with shots of the guy clutching his chest, another shot of belching, the volcano erupting to depict the burning sensation and using the sounds of gasses gurgling from inside.

Then the orator uses words that sufferers will relate to and starts to aggravate the problem with – “if left unchecked it can lead to other medical problems” and “with proper treatment it may end your discomfort for good”. The last shot is a bulldozer clearing the pile and a shot of the worker smiling and looking relieved getting back to shovelling.

Very emotive and engaging… especially if you’re a heartburn sufferer!

The ad finished with the orator directing people to “Talk to your doctor” or visit “www.heartburn.com.au”

This is a better than average ad model. They got my attention, held my interest and told me what they want me to do – Go see my doctor or go to the website. Those elements they got right. Very clear steps.

OK, I’ll go to the website – easy! Nice looking site, lots of good information but here’s the thing.

Why would you spend all that money on a TV ad, direct me to your site and not want to get my details? (Apart from a lame newsletter signup that was hard to find.) Why not have a compelling offer of free information that people get when they submit their details. If you have my details you can then market to me… forever!

“Successful Marketing Is What You Do With Them After!”

Flawed thinking! It’s a classic case of what I call a library site – lots of information and the business owner lives in the ‘hope’ that the prospect will call the business or maybe opt-in to the lamely named newsletter… maybe in your dreams.

I found the company name in tiny print in the footer and it turns out it’s a huge pharmaceutical company. It’s the classic branding style ad process. They spend truckloads of money on ads and strategies that are not directly measurable. Dumb or dumber? They are not leveraging off their website as they could. This is the marketing cancer of the big boys.

“YOU Have the Edge!”

This is how smart small to medium business owners can get the edge over the big boys. Here’s the ironic thing – people actually want to do business with people, that’s you! The trouble is that you are not making it easy for your new prospects to become clients.

You might not be running TV ads but why would you have a sexy website, then bust your gut getting people to go there without an offer of information in exchange for their details?

This is how the average business owner can take toll position and run rings around the big boys.

Here’s my number 1 question to all business owners!

Out of 100 visitors to your website how many are you now able to market to?

The answer should scare you!

If you want to know how to make a compelling offer for prospects details and generate fresh leads and actually convert your website from a glossy online corporate brochure that sits out there as internet flotsam then click here NOW!

I am offering a FREE Marketing and Website Audit valued at $350.00 for the first three, that’s 3 as in 1, 2, 3 ONLY! Why 3? – because they take a heap of time and frankly, that’s all I have time for.

So, has your website paid for itself yet? Find out what’s holding it back and how to jump start your automated lead generation – Easily! Click Here NOW to be the 1 of 3 ONLY Free Marketing and Website Audit valued at $350.00.

Committed to Generating “Highly Qualified” Leads and Making You More Money,

Peter B Butler

“Discover the 5 Things You Can Do in the Next 17 Days To Generate More Clients & More Money!”

Finally: An Automated Marketing System & Website Platform That…

* Systematically Generates Fresh Leads.
* Automatically Qualifies Leads and Prospects into Clients.
* Predictably Makes You Much More Money!

… All On Auto Pilot? All Those In Favour Of That Say ‘AYE’!

To find out more go to Peter Butler or go here to get your FREE Marketing and Website Audit! valued at $350.

I wasn’t a Jim Carey fan at all until I saw him in an interview with Oprah a couple of years ago. In fact I was what I would call a ‘non’ fan – I didn’t like the ‘Mask’ movies and I had no time at all for anything he was in. In this interview Jim was sharing some stuff from his life and I got to see the ‘real’ Jim. I really related to what he was sharing and my view of him changed just like that.

So my son and I really enjoyed the movie, and as usual Jim, with all his extreme mannerism’s pulled off the role really well. A nice light hearted look at life, great to zone out for a bit.

What was really sad was the ads before the movie. What an absolute waste of money!

This was the most severe case of “advertising victim’s” I have ever encountered.

These were graphically gorgeous and very sexy and stylish ads and I have never seen so much money thrown away in one sitting that I can pretty well guarantee will make NO money for the business owners. Zilch, nix, nothing!

And what will be the response when they don’t get a result? “You need to keep running it, its subliminal advertising” the advertising guru’s will say!

What a crock of crap! That is the single biggest lie about advertising that has ever been told. If an ad doesn’t work – don’t run it again. It’s not rocket science.

The second issue is being able to have a clear and distinct way to measure the results. Every ad should always be measurable. (not that they’ll ever tell you that because they don’t want to be accountable)

Throwing serious money away they are – good old Val Morgan Advertising are making a fortune and those crap ads will kill what could be an absolute gold mine for building qualified leads.

Think about it – you have a captive audience, sitting there comfortably – who are actually in a position to grab a pen and paper and write down a web address or phone number.

But most businesses don’t even make a compelling offer. Why not make an offer for a free report in exchange for the prospects details?

One of the ads was such a perfect model for this. The company did truck and heavy equipment driver licence training. The existing ad had some hunky trucks and forklifts, all looking good if you’re into that sort of thing – cute little background jingle thing (maybe that’s supposed to tap into my subconscious to do)

Great… so what! 3 weeks later I have no idea who they were and not sure even where.

Now if they’d run our style of ad with a very clear and compelling offer of a Free Report called, say… “7 Things You Must Know Before You Even Apply For Your Heavy License” – valued at $47 and Available for a Short Time Only – then I would have made a note of that website or phone number. Then at home I would have given my details to get that report.

Can you see what’s happened?

The smarter company using the model we advocate can now market to me, forever… or at least till I buy or die.

And the even funnier and frustrating thing here is. I will actually be in the market for those services, so I pick on this company legitimately – I’ll be in the market for a BIG Winnebago Touring Van for a family trip around Oz and will most likely need to upgrade my license. I like BIG.

Doesn’t it make a lot more sense to be able to capture people’s details so you can not only market to them when they are ready but you’re also pre-qualifying them? Depending on your business this gives you the opportunity to ‘drill down’ with qualifying so you can make another contact with them. The follow up procedure needs to be tailored to suit your business of course.

To expect people to remember you and your ad after they’ve just watched a movie and been ‘zoned out’ is dumb, or at least naïve.

The other sad thing was how annoyed my son gets with me doing my usual “Gee, if only they’d added a Free report model” or “Did you see that son, all graphic with no compelling offer and no call to action… pathetic… lame”.

At 15 my son is easily embarrassed by ‘Dear Dad’ and has put up with my frustrations and ranting on sad and bad marketing for a long time now. Sorry son, but it’s hard with all this bad marketing, I know it’s not their fault and all but…

I don’t know of many businesses where this model can’t be adapted. It really is the Auto Pilot gem in direct marketing. To find out how the Free Report model and 2 step marketing can be plugged into your business you can do one of two things.

Click on the blue button on my website – you can’t miss it… it’s big, it’s blue and it’s here www.peterbutler.com.au

Or

Phone me on 0413 733 272 and we’ll set up a time to talk you through it.

I have an online PowerPoint presentation and I can actually walk you through it step by step.

I also talk with so many people who love the idea but just don’t know where to start. Or they get started but don’t understand all the pieces in the process. It can be overwhelming if you’re trying to do it all yourself but auto pilot lead generation is a beautiful thing. Well worth the effort.

Here’s what a recent client said… actually, like so recent… like yesterday.

Hi Peter,

I’ve just received the free report you helped me create. Wow, awesome. Although I had written what I think is a good informational article, I see what you mean about how the opening and closing of the report makes or breaks how well this system works. I really ‘get’ how this lead generation model will work so well.

By powerfully taking our prospects on a journey of building a relationship with them – I can see that we’re building excellent rapport even before we meet them. That term “being pre disposed to do business with you” means a lot more to me now as all the pieces to the jigsaw puzzle come together. I’m really impressed by how quickly you did it too!

Thanks again.

Kind Regards, James Bryden

and NO… I’m not going to send you there… yet – We’re still testing and optimizing and we don’t want unqualified traffic.

Find out how you can plug the same model into your business right now!

Click on the blue button on my website – you can’t miss it… it’s big, it’s blue and it’s here www.peterbutler.com.au

Or

Phone me on 0413 733 272 and we’ll set up a time to talk you through it. You will be amazed…

PS: Out of  the last 100 visitors to your website how many are you now able to market to?

Committed to Generating “Highly Qualified” Leads and Making You More Money,

Peter B Butler

“Discover the 5 Things You Can Do in the Next 17 Days To Generate More Clients & More Money!”

Finally: An Automated Marketing System & Website Platform That…

* Systematically Generates Fresh Leads.
* Automatically Qualifies Prospects into Clients.
* Predictably Makes You Much More Money!

… All On Auto Pilot? All Those In Favour Of That Say ‘AYE’!

To find out more go to Peter Butler or go here to get your FREE Marketing and Website Audit! valued at $350.

The last couple of “Lead Generating Web Site and Marketing Machines” we’ve set up for clients have been missing some specific content I needed.

And it shouldn’t have been!

So I want to give you the heads up on what you should be doing right now, whether you ever use us or not… and this is an absolute must for all business owners.

What others say about you is “infinitely more believable” than what you say about you…

… think about it.

How much more likely are you to try a new store or go to a restaurant if a friend or family member told you about it?

A lot more likely!

… imagine you then saw an ad in your local newspaper for this business.

You could almost speak with authority and recommend it to others even if you hadn’t been there yet. If someone you know and trust is making a recommendation it invariably means you are going to trust their judgement.

This is a very powerful marketing strategy that you need to embrace fully and use to its full extent.

You’ve probably heard me rave previously about what I call “gush factor” service. Forget the wow factor… we should all move our service to the gush factor level but that’s another rave.

My point is this. What is the value of creating gush factor service and great client rapport if nobody shares it with the world?

No value!!! It’s great to give good service and have happy clients but you really are leaving a lot of money on the table if you ‘don’t get this right’.

… a high gush factor with someone singing your praises is a really powerful tool.

Testimonials provide credibility as well as proof.

Not sure about you but I’m a bit of a gadget freak and I need reasonable amounts of retail therapy. Hey, we all have a vice or three. When I’m out with friends and family I use their recommendations and experiences a lot so I to know where to get the best value for my retail therapy sessions.

So why is this all so powerful? Like most business owners you rely on referrals for new business… a lot!

We all need to maintain or build our self generating referral machine. This is all a part of us positioning our business.

Isn’t that why you started in business in the first place? To be independent!

By using testimonials to provide this credibility and proof of what you say about you is true you’re also switching the psychology of your prospect or new client. They’re already pre-disposed to do business with you. The trust factor is high which means they’re like a direct referred client.

Using the Direct Response Marketing and Lead Generating model of the Smarter Websites system with testimonials is like a self generating referral and marketing centre all on its own.

That’s powerful. So what did we do about getting those missing testimonials? Got on the phone to back track what we and started a system to collect as much as we could.

Imagine your arsenal if you’d started this a year or three ago.

Some business owners already get testimonials and might be saying ‘So what, been there and done that”.

Well, get this… There is a powerful way to get them and use them and the lame way.

• What should your testimonials say?
• How to double the power and readership of yours!
• When is the best time to get your testimonial?
• How should they be signed?
• How and where should you use them?

All this and more will be covered next week…

Speak then.

Committed to Generating “Highly Qualified” Leads and Making You More Money,

Peter B Butler.

Finally: A lead generation and marketing system that generates a stream of “highly qualified” clients for small business owners and retailers that’s self managed so they ‘own’ it and it positions them as the experts in their area and ends all lame and frustrating and sometimes costly advertising and marketing methods.

All those in favour of that say ‘AYE’!

To find out more go to Peter B Butler on… Direct Response Marketing, Websites and Lead Generation!

The question is… have they got it right… yet again?

For those with a slightest hint of historic knowledge may well be versed in the knowledge that way back when Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era it was the Irish that saved us from ourselves. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization, copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost they brought their uniquely Irish world view to the task.

The story of Ireland’s role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe is missed by so many. Every year millions celebrate St. Patrick’s Day but most are not aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become “the isle of saints and scholars” and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.

So, the Golden Pages has landed.

In the form of “Salon & Spa Golden Pages Ad Secrets” which is a boon for the whole of Ireland. Well, for those salon owners savvy enough to check out what all the fuss is about. John Hayes of “The Simple Marketing Company” heard about the results some other salon owners in the world were getting and basically put me in a virtual headlock until I gave in and let him bring the “Salon & Spa Golden Pages Ad Secrets” under his banner.

You can check it out here www.salongoldenpagesadsecrets.ie to find out more but do it soon. John wangled only 47 FREE Golden Pages Critiques from me and when there gone we’re done. Hit the link right now.

I think for most salon owners the critique they got was a mix of pleasure and pain.

The painful bit was the dose of brutal reality about how bad their ad really was and the money they’d left on the table… or they’d literally thrown away over the years depending on how you want to look at it.
It was a slap in the face for some as not many really knew how much money they’d made… or not… from their Yellow Pages ad. It was not definitively measurable. And it’s not that hard to make your yp ad measurable, I mean, more so than the haphazard way of hoping that your staff will record where your new clients come from.

All your advertising should be measurable and it should always pay its way when you factor in the lifetime value of a client principle.

Imagine if you did the math… and it’s always about the math… and you worked out that “your yp ad cost” divided by the “new yp clients” equalled $330 plus.

Would that freak you out? It would me and it did one client too. Ouch! $330 cost for each client.

They had no idea on the math for their ad and they had never figured their client acquisition cost before… Now, if you’re a high end high priced high average client spend salon that’s fine but if you’re not… you’re in trouble.
Their ad actually generated a reasonable number of new clients but the math wasn’t working so my take was this… Let’s turn that ad around and turn it into a new client generating money spinning ad. An ad that would give them the command position for their category.

Here’s some food for thought.

If you look at any page in the yp directory and divide all the calls evenly between all the ads, including yours ‘cause if your ad has the “sameness” of all the other ads, like a bullet point list of what you do and your business name at the top of the ad then it is a “sameness” ad and not a “commanding” ad so just divide it between the other ads the same size.

What % do you think your ad pulls right now? 10%… 20%… 30%… maybe. What would your business be like if you could double that? What would your life be like then?

This is where the pleasure part came in for these salon owners.

Why? They realised that they could probably pull 70% or 90% or even 100% of the calls. It can be done with a cleverly crafted ad and if you make a great offer. It was that simple (plus a heap of other secrets from the manual). And they could easily measure the results too.

The other pleasure was they actually got a real live over the phone critique session with me, which is a part of the over delivery of service that we do at Worldwide Salon Marketing.

I never told anyone that as a part of their critique I would actually phone them up. The deal was you submit your ad and I’ll critique it and get it back to you but hey, my thinking was it’s a lot easier to understand if I actually get you on the phone and walk you through it.

Here’s what Lesley Morgan-Wesson said only a week after she got her manual.

“…I am THRILLED…!” Thank you SOOO very much for your help with my Yellow Pages advertisement. I couldn’t even have started this without your “Salon & Spa Yellow Pages Salon Secrets”. I did exactly what you advised… built the whole ad by implementing your page by page instructions. Not that this was easy… but it was a whole lot better than anything I have ever come up with on my own.
Of especial help was your availability to critique the ad… I don’t know how you come up with these amazing ideas… every time I changed the ad using your suggestions it became tighter… more powerful and I could see how the whole ad jumped out to grab the reader with a power packed grab of benefits. I’m thrilled with it!

Lesley Morgan-Wesson, Lady at Bay, Neutral Bay, New South Wales.

Now, good news for some salon owners.

I’ve just found out that some districts still have a month to go before the yellow pages deadline closes so there’s still time to get your copy of Salon Yellow Pages Advertising Secrets
For those who’s deadline has already closed!!!

Get the manual now anyway so you can follow the testing tips (Yes, you can test your ad before you give the yp people all that money) which means you will have a finely tuned and well crafted ad to get a big jump start for next year. You can test to your hearts delight and you’ll still get your critique. You don’t get better than that.