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[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

I love technology as well as anyone, but how far can you take it? Now we have automation this and automation that! Where do you draw the line?

E-mail: Answer this for yourself: Do you prefer to let the e-mail service answer back (vacation response) or do you respond personally?

Phone: do you prefer to let a service or your voicemail pickit up - or do you answer

Any other way that you like to communicate?

This is your business, how responsive you are could make the difference between success and failure. I would really like to know, it seems there are many that believe the internet means you never have to talk live with someone.

[Ron Barnas Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 2]

Coming from a offline sales position I developed a love hate position on phone communications. You love when you can make a quick sale on the phone, however most of the time your spending hours on end just trying make contact with customers. I'd much rather use other resources available via the internet to communicate. That being said thou, I haven't seen a better way, (yet) that will close a sale more effectively than with a personnel connection.

For now a balancing act between automation and a personnel connection remains to be the best practice.

[Richard De Haven Company: SendOutCards Contribution Level: 2]

Here is something I've just begun doing with my theater company and on facebook.

If someone joins my email list, I let the auto responder send a message. But then I will personally send an email with a reference to today's date or something exciting in the news so that they know it's a current message. I can do this now because I don't have hundreds or thousands joining each day.

Something new I just started testing a couple of days ago is including a link to a youtube video that I have made specifically for that person. I introduce myself, mention them by name and thank them for joining, reenforce their reason for joining (benefits) and if they have any questions to please contact me.

I will play with this idea. Perhaps giving them a link to a special report or whatever that I did not mention in the website.

With facebook, instead of just accepting a friend request I will post a thank you video on the persons wall and acknowledge some commonality that I discovered on their website or perhaps they mentioned in their friend request.

I try to do the same if someone accepts my friend request.

Not to many people are doing this. I think it could help anyone stand out. It's easy to do if you have a webcam.

Appreciation from the Heart,

Richard De Haven

[Mario Sanders Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 6]

How well do you communicate is a very good topic, Lynda.
How we communicate is very important too.
Finding your key target market is what we are looking for. Is your target market looking for you. How do they communicate to you. Is anybody listening?
I found that some target market do not use the internet, facebook, twitter or any online systems.
That means that if my main target market is offline, I would have to meet them there.
That means going back to ground zero and talking to more people every day and finding out what they want and how can I communicate with them.
From that experience, I could go onine and find more people looking for the same thing.
I am finding out that a lot of young people do not use the internet outside of their jobs. I guess that if you work on a computer all day, you don't want to see it at night.
How well do we communicate is very important because when someone is looking for you, you will be ready for them to achieve their goals.

[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

Here is something I've just begun doing with my theater company and on facebook.

If someone joins my email list, I let the auto responder send a message. But then I will personally send an email with a reference to today's date or something exciting in the news so that they know it's a current message. I can do this now because I don't have hundreds or thousands joining each day.

Something new I just started testing a couple of days ago is including a link to a youtube video that I have made specifically for that person. I introduce myself, mention them by name and thank them for joining, reenforce their reason for joining (benefits) and if they have any questions to please contact me.

I will play with this idea. Perhaps giving them a link to a special report or whatever that I did not mention in the website.

With facebook, instead of just accepting a friend request I will post a thank you video on the persons wall and acknowledge some commonality that I discovered on their website or perhaps they mentioned in their friend request.

I try to do the same if someone accepts my friend request.

Not to many people are doing this. I think it could help anyone stand out. It's easy to do if you have a webcam.

Appreciation from the Heart,

Richard De Haven

Wow Richard that sound interesting you will have to keep us posted!

[Lynda Cromar Company: Empower Network, LLC Contribution Level: 9]

very good shares here, keep them coming!!

[Matt Heltzel Company: Global Resorts Network Contribution Level: 1]

I really think it's best to have both. Give a few autoresponder emails, but also make sure that if they're leaving their phone and/or skype, call them. No one is purchasing your products until they first purchase YOU. Especially if you are starting out, direct marketing (phone & face to face) is a must. You will fail, 99% of the time, if you think you can start out without direct marketing.

[Brian Didier Company: Lightyear Wireless Contribution Level: 1]

Here is something I've just begun doing with my theater company and on facebook.

If someone joins my email list, I let the auto responder send a message. But then I will personally send an email with a reference to today's date or something exciting in the news so that they know it's a current message. I can do this now because I don't have hundreds or thousands joining each day.

Something new I just started testing a couple of days ago is including a link to a youtube video that I have made specifically for that person. I introduce myself, mention them by name and thank them for joining, reenforce their reason for joining (benefits) and if they have any questions to please contact me.

I will play with this idea. Perhaps giving them a link to a special report or whatever that I did not mention in the website.

With facebook, instead of just accepting a friend request I will post a thank you video on the persons wall and acknowledge some commonality that I discovered on their website or perhaps they mentioned in their friend request.

I try to do the same if someone accepts my friend request.

Not to many people are doing this. I think it could help anyone stand out. It's easy to do if you have a webcam.

Appreciation from the Heart,

Richard De Haven

What a great idea! I will defiantly add this to my list of tools . I have also been testing how to incorporate "Mobile Marketing" into my communications, text messages are opened and read almost as soon as they are received unlike email today.

Brian Didier

[Rania Harris Company: Numis Network Contribution Level: 2]

I think that having to call every prospect can be very time consuming. So I'd rather have my tools do the swift and sort work and I follow up personally with the prospect who is serious. By then I should have had a chance to connect with them on Facebook for example which on then makes it easier to be talking on the phone to them.

[Jeffrey Chew Company: Vemma Nutrition Company Contribution Level: 2]

Sometimes, the phone number they gave is either wrong or nobody picking up. That where I just send them an email to see if they pick up and let the system to do the sorting for me.