James was absolutely rapt that already he’s generated 2 leads from his new “Smarter Websites” System and one of those ‘qualified’ leads has converted into a client already.

You need to understand that James hasn’t actually done any active offline marketing yet!!!

What does that mean in MONEY TERMS? Well, I’m not at liberty of disclosing James’ numbers but let’s use a nominal average client spend of say… $1500 to you over a set time frame. Is that a figure that you can relate to?

So even if you only pulled 4 leads a month (with no actual active marketing as such). Do the math! With only a 25% conversion, which is easy to achieve ’cause they’re ‘qualified’ leads that would be $18,000. Not bad when you’ve not done any active offline marketing yet and you haven’t yet got your sales pipeline finished. Gee, I think the recession is only affecting those who don’t do active direct response lead generation marketing.

Imagine when you’re up and running with this automated system you are pulling say, only 100 leads a month of which only half are warm leads. Of those only half again are what I call  “qualified” (actual shoppers) which is 25. Let’s halve that again to 12 that are what I call “highly qualified” (spend money soon). What if you only convert half again to actual clients -- that’s 6 @ our nominal figure of $1500 = $9,000.

Who Wants $9,000 a Month From Effortless Auto Pilot Marketing?

You can see how much of a happy chappy James is with Peter Butler’s “Smarter Websites” (Yes, we are in a pub but it was work, dear. We really were in a ‘mastermind’ session at JB O’Reilly’s pub -- great people the Irish)

Anyway, watch the video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrJJW8qyMHE

You can see James’ website “Productivity Coaching” right here.

To get your Free Report “7 Points To a Profitable Website” and Bonus “How To Generate Fresh Qualified Leads on Auto Pilot” Go Here NOW!

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

Peter B Butler

“7 Points To a Profitable Website” and “How To Generate Fresh Qualified Leads on Auto Pilot”

Finally: An Automated Marketing System & Website Platform That…

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

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

Get Your FREE Marketing and Website HEALTH & PROSPERITY Check! valued at $350 Here.

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.

Yippee! I got the loan!

Friday nights with good friends and a good wine is a great way to end a busy week.

And as you do with like minded entrepreneurial friends we were bouncing around our “take over the world ideas, million dollar breakthroughs and world changing ideological schemes”.

By the end of the night I’m sure we’d pulled at least 17 million dollars and solved all the worlds problems, it was hard work but obviously worth it.

The particular friend we were visiting is in real estate and although he’s not been in the industry that long he’s pulling good listings and sales and carving out a healthy career even against all the odds of the market being slow. A man of action and a quick learner and certainly open to innovative marketing stuff.

It turns out that he subscribes to my e-marketing newsletter so I started talking about my recent post on testimonials. He hesitantly confessed he hadn’t read the recent post knowing full well that I would get on my pedestal and rant… “What, you didn’t read my stuff?”

Even when I wrote the post I had visions of real estate agents with photos of ecstatic home owners putting ‘Sold’ stickers on the ‘For Sale’ sign out the front of their house with a big ‘thumbs up’. What a better way to show prospects that you get results… right!

(What, you didn’t read my previous post too?)

Or a photo of the buyers… with the agent, beaming smiles, keys in hand at of the front door of their new dream home.

Why would you go to all this bother? People look at pictures, hello!

Don’t you think an ‘imagery’ style testimonial is a lot more powerful than a whole heap of text? I’d like to think everyone reads my stuff but the reality is we’re all busy and you know the old adage ‘a picture tells a thousand words’.

Why do you think I place a picture in my posts? To try and get them read.

I heard a fellow marketer coin the expression – ‘results in advance’. Using picture testimonials in this way is exactly that. Use the right pictures and you are showing your prospects the outcome they will achieve by doing business with you.

With any transaction there is the process but it’s the outcome that people want – focus on the outcome. Get a mix of testimonials and photo’s.

Another point that needs to be made is that of ANY marketing idea you read or hear about the question should never be “Can I make that work for me?” but rather the question should ALWAYS be “How can I make that work for me?” Most ideas can be adapted so use your imagination.

If you add a twist to any marketing idea it is sure to make you stand out over all the other brokers… and isn’t that what marketing is all about? Standing out! Differentiating you from the ‘pack’!

So to subscribers… be warned… I will find out if you don’t read my stuff. We have ways…

Seriously, we all want the one idea that will bring us 100 new clients but the reality is… it’s probably going to be 20 ideas that pull 5 clients each time… but we still end up with 100 clients.

A side note… the marketing stuff we do and advocate can be systemised meaning that once it’s set up… it’s an auto-pilot lead generating prospect converting money making marketing machine… works for me!

PS: A colleague and friend made a comment on my last post… you can too. I’ll tell you why it good for you in my next post. Click on the blue headline in the post or right here to have your say now.

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 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!

I know I’ve had a bit of a rant on Social Media Marketing recently but even at this early stage of sorting my own I now have evidence that it works. I’ll make this post a quickie…

I was just in checking my stat’s stuff for my sites. This is why I love our Smarter Websites model.

I can quickly and easily check a whole gambit of stuff that helps me reach more people and get more people to find me but more on that later.

Not only can I tell how many visitors I’ve had, and on a daily basis, I can tell how long they stayed and which pages they went to and from.

A big thing is what keywords they used to find me in the first place – that is huge. It means that I can then tweak and refine the keywords my site is known for and increase the visitors to my site… exponentially.

Another big thing is where did they come from? Did they type my name in? That’s known as ‘direct’ traffic or did they see a link somewhere?

There are only 3 ways people are going to get to your site –

• Direct traffic
• Referring sites
• Search engines

Does that seem techy to you?

It’s not… If you can use Microsoft Word then you can do this stuff, it’s dead easy.

Actually, you don’t even have to ‘cause that’s a part of what the Smarter Websites package does. We not only optimize your site but we monitor it ongoing… test and measure… and refine what gives results.

And that’s what our members enjoy… results!

This is the exciting news. I’ve been talking about setting up your profiles more effectively on ‘Facebook’ and LinkedIn’.

After checking my ‘Stat’s stuff’ this morning I found that I’m getting checked out via both Facebook and LinkedIn. Yup, the stat’s tell me exactly where and how many. I’ve had 9.8% of traffic through Facebook and a bit less through LinkedIn. Not bad considering I’ve only refined my profiles recently.

What is most interesting for me is the mix between the 3 primary sources of traffic – direct, referring and search engines. You don’t think I’m going to tell you the rest of my stats do you?

Our clients love the fact that they now understand it all – or is it the fact that they don’t have to understand it is what they love? Hmmm, I’ll have to ponder that one… you can enjoy it too – go to “Smarter Websites” to find out more.

Have I made any money or picked up any clients as a result of this already?

No, give me a break… its early days yet but the extra traffic and exposure is always a good thing. All this will increase your favour and standing with the ‘Google Gods’. It’s also increasing the ‘authority’ of your site along with increasing the chance of other people picking up my content and referring people to us.

You’ll be amazed who and where other traffic will come from, but that’s another post… If you want to enjoy this lap of luxury in website world go to “Smarter Websites” and look for yourself.

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!

“Peter is a rare jewel in the crown of the WA marketing fraternity in that he provides excellent guidance in that hardest of hard business development jobs – lead generation.

The techniques he advocates help to differentiate your business, are measurable and cost effective – an attractive feature in our current financial environment.

I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Peter to any business owner or manager who is looking for a marketing professional with original ideas and the skill and expertise to make them work for you.”

Tony Addiscott

Mobile: 0413 143 500
Fax: 08 9463 7852
Email: tonya@guidecommunications.com.au