Royal Sale!

Last friday, April 16th, our beloved Danish Queen,
Her Royal Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark,
celebrated her 70th birthday!

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

She was celebrated all week, and at her birthday party many celebrities and royal people from all over the world participated.

Many Danish people have a special relationship and memories about the Queen.

I once played classical guitar for her, and afterwards we shook hands and she said thank you for the music.

I was pretty proud!

My 7 years old daughter has also enjoyed the Royal Birthday as it is very exciting to see “real” princesses and princes!

I have decided to make a small “Royal Sale”!

Three of my bestselling products with a 50% discount!!

1. Powerful Affirmations For Attracting Money
(downloadable audio)
Used to be USD 19.97 NOW USD 9.97!!

2. Ebook: Joint Venture Marketing
Used to be USD 9.97. NOW USD 4.97!!

3. Ebook package – Blogging For Profits – 2 ebooks!
Used to be USD 15.97 NOW 7.97!!

The sale will last till Sunday, April 25th!

Thank you!


Why You Should Consider Joint Venture Marketing

Post 29 in Connie Ragens 30 day blog challenge.

The more I go into online business and online marketing, the more I realize how Joint Venture Marketing is a great way to build your list, increase your customer base and maximize profits. The idea is simple: join forces with another business/business owner and instantly gain access to a greater audience with built-in trust. It’s really that easy. Personally I do list building joint ventures as well as joint ventures regarding product creations.

Some marketing strategists may want to make it seem more complicated, but at the root of every joint venture are two or more businesses with the same goal, and that is to make money. How you go about attaining that goal together is where much of the effort will come in to play, but that is all part of the experience. You will learn to work as a team for the benefit of both your businesses.

Whether you choose to seek out potential joint venture opportunities within your own industry, or with those that may compliment your business, consider how and why your joint venture will benefit everyone involved. In order to be successful, joint venture marketing should be mutually beneficial as well as complimentary. Is there equal opportunity for promotion, visibility and sales?  Will there be profit-sharing involved? You will surely have some kinks to work out, but as with any good business idea, you will have to devote time, energy and planning to your joint venture marketing strategy in order for it to become a success.

Also, it is important to make sure you share the same vision with your joint venture partners. As long as you are on the same page, you will not only help each other, you will also help yourself and ultimately grow your business, bringing you right back to the bottom line and making money.

in order to find the right joint venture partners, it great and important to do research, but also always trust your instincts!

Thank you!

Also read:
Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

This post is post 17 in Connie Ragens 30 Day Blog Challenge.

Are you aware of the lifetime value of a customer? If by now you have not given a serious thought, it’s time you do now. Customers are the king. They can make or break your business and there’s no two ways about it.

If you already know that, I can bet you do take extra care of each and every customer of yours. There is a simple formula that could do the trick for you and let’s see how it works.

While making our sales we need to show it to our customers that we have something always ready to improve the situation.

You will be surprised once you find out the worth of each customer. To find out the value of the customer one needs to know two pieces of information. We first need to know the average a customer does a year and next we need to know how long the average customer does business with us.

Once you have managed to get this vital piece of information you need to multiply both the values. The product of the two values would determine the lifetime value of the customer. Customers are like gold, precious!

By retaining all our customers we can add value in two ways. There is a definite way to increase business. To do so, one needs increase the frequency and value of the orders. Another way in which you could duplicate good customer is by referral and introducing new business.

It is very important to build strong customer relations. A business research shows it is much more difficult to keep an old customer than to find a new one. It’s sad and humiliating if we lose our customers to poor salesmanship.

The success of our business depends on how often we keep in touch with our customers. The main purpose of the article is to remind us of the importance of keeping in touch with our customer, as this would bring them back.

One should keep in mind that our competitors are always striving to take away our best customers, so the trick lies in keeping them like vintage playing cards. We should set in top priority to thank our customers for their business. It is our duty and we could easily find out how much they mean to us by simply multiplying. This calculation would help you to find out how much your top customers are worth.

This post is an extract from the free ebook Customers Are King.

You can download it here: Free ebook Customers Are King

Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

This is post 16 in Connie Ragens 30 Day Blog Challenge.

As business owners in today’s difficult economic climate, we all could use a boost. That is why there is no time like the present to consider joint venture marketing. It is a great way to gain additional resources for your business without having to break the bank to do it.

Advertising can be expensive and extremely demanding on resources. However, when you join forces with another business, you help each other by sharing costs, dividing up responsibilities, and most importantly splitting the profit.

With additional resources, including time, money and access to quality leads, joint venture marketing offers your business huge profit making potential. What better way to make more money by spending less? Joint venture marketing will require you to use less of your capital while gaining the potential to earn more. Just be sure you and your partner share the same goals and understand your shared responsibilities.

The best way to make your joint venture marketing partnership a lucrative one is to ensure you are getting out what you put in. Make sure you and your partner are equally committed to your agreement, no matter what the provisions are. That is why it is so important to start out with a plan that clearly defines roles, expectations and goals. If you lay the groundwork first, you and your partner can focus on what’s really important and that is increasing profits by working together.

It may take money to make money, but with combined resources, targeted lists and double the effort, your joint venture marketing partnership will be a success and so will your business!

Resources:
Ebook: Joint Venture Marketing

Also read:
Joint Ad-Venture

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Finding Your Voice.

My Portable Empire

Three years ago I was forced to make changes and reconsider my life. All aspects of it.

I had a serious stress breakdown. Two heart failures in one night. There I was with a body that had turned 80 overnight, and lot’s of emotional challenges.
And – lots of time to think!

As a part of my recovering, I worked with affirmations, visualization etc. I saw and read The Secret, began to study books by Joe Vitale, John Assaraf and Jack Canfield. My curve was going rapidly upwards.

I soon made the decision that it was time for a change regarding my career. Through Joe Vitale, I heard about Pat O’Bryan, and bought his book: You Portable Empire. Immediately I ressonated with what he was writing. That was what I wanted to do for a living! I wanted to have my own Portable Empire.

Also I ressonated with his personal story. Being a musician myself, I was never financially broke, but as I was teaching music a lot, and never really liked it (actually I mostly hated it!) I was kind of emotionally broke!

At this point in my life I knew nothing about the technical side of creating webpages, opt-in forms or creating digital products like ebooks and audio products. Pdf, ftp, html etc. was Chinese to me! But I started to learn. Through my study of the Classical Guitar at the Academy of Music, I had taught myself to work very purposefully and determined, and while learning I met some really nice and helpful people on the internet. Some of them are my close friends today.

Parallel to this I educated myself as an online marketeer. A whole new world had opened to me!

I now run several web sites (designed by myself), I have created digital products, and I’m building My Portable Empire. And I love it!

Recently I joined Pat O’Bryan’s Portable Empire Coaching program. Because I wanted to learn from the best! As I studied the Classicall Guitar, I was used to have the best teachers. Teachers who could not just tell you how to, but also play how to for you. I wanted the same regarding online business. I wanted a teacher who was walking his talk, and Pat O’Bryan is.

I am creating products in two niches that have been a part of my “new life”: Audio programs for personal change and growth, and ebooks on subjects as Blogging, Online Marketing, Audio Production etc.. I’m dedicated to helping and inspiring others achive their dream lives.

I’m now a part of an online marketing “gang” with lots of talent, everybody helping eachother and everybody progressing with an incredible speed.

As part of the coaching program, we have announced an Unlaunch. A launch where we offer high quality products to very attractive prices.

We have an Unlauch web site and I invite you visit it here:
www.portableempirecoaching.com/products

I have two products on the site:
Creating the Perfect YouTube Marketing Video
Powerful Affirmations for Attracting Money

I’m happy and proud of being a part of this, and I so much enjoy my “new life”!

Thank you!

Joint Ad-Venture

This blog post is my post for day 2 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

You’ve probably heard of joint venture marketing and how it can benefit your business, increase your customer base and maximize profits, but have you taken the leap and truly put yourself out there?

Whether you are just getting started and seeking to team up with an established business owner in order to gain visibility and grow your customer base, or already own a successful business and seeking to maximize your profit-earning potential, joint venture marketing can be an adventure and should be treated as one.

Most likely, you are entering into uncharted territory. You will have to get to know your coming partner, their business, their existing strategy and their customer base. It has taken them months, maybe even years to build their business, therefore, you can’t expect to know and understand it over night. Take the time to study the history of the business, where it came from and how it became what it is today.

You could make a list of the Top 20 people from your niche, connect with them on Twitter and FaceBook, subscribe to their newsletter, and start building a relationship with them.

Then after a while you can start to introduce your business to them. Make sure they know and understand what it is that you do, why you do it and who you do it for. Getting to know each other seems like such a menial task, but in reality, it will serve to be the very foundation for the success of your joint venture marketing campaign. Also, remember to ask them what you can do for them.

It will take time, effort, planning and require a certain vulnerability that can be intimidating for any business owner. However, don’t be scared or put off by joint venture marketing. Embrace the adventure, take a risk and watch your business grow. The worst thing that can happen is that you can get a “no”!

Thank you!

Disclaimer: In this blog post I have promotional links to the ebook:
Joint Venture Marketing

Also read:
Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing

Squeeze Page

When I first started doing business online,
 I kept hearing the word “Squeeze Page”. At that time I was a total newbie, and really didn’t get 
what a squeeze page was, nor the importance
 of knowing it and knowing how to make one.
We often hear that “The Money is in the List”. 
But did you know that one of the most effective methods 
in list building you should master your skills on 
is creating your own Squeeze Page?

A Squeeze Page is a simple web page that does nothing else 
but convert your visitors into subscribers for your opt-in mailing list.

Here you can see two of my squeeze pages:
budurl.com/powerfulaffirmations
budurl.com/customersareking

I’m now offering an ebook, Squeeze Pages for Newbies.
budurl.com/squeezepagesebook

It is an 18 page guide that shows you 
how to create your very own Squeeze Page and it takes you behind the simple yet ingeniously designed system 
to online riches as used by some of the leading Internet Marketers 
and Direct Response entrepreneurs in the world!

Table of Contents

1 – Introduction to Squeeze Pages

2 – The Squeeze Page System

3 – What You Need Before Getting Started

4 – Planning Your Squeeze Page Theme

5 – How to Write a Squeeze Page that Converts

6 – Tips on Increasing Your Conversion Rate

7 – Driving Targeted Traffic into Your Squeeze Page

For instant download of this ebook:
budurl.com/squeezepagesebook

Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing

Are you looking for a way to advertise more and pay less? Do you Need to build your list and grow your customer base? Do you want to gain credibility and increase customer satisfaction? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then joint venture marketing is for you.

Joint venture marketing is a great way to gain visibility!

Joint venture marketing is a great way to gain visibility, grow your business and maximize your profit earning potential by joining forces with another business. You can save valuable time and money by combining resources, trading services, and sharing your
lists. Before you know it, you will be spending more time on what ís important, like providing your customers with the best quality service or product, and less time worrying about advertising, searching for quality leads and dwindling resources to pay for pricey marketing campaigns. With joint venture marketing, you can decrease your expenses and increase your profit by sharing the burden with another business.

In addition to saving time and money, joint venture marketing provides you with the opportunity to build long lasting relationships, not only with your joint venture partner(s), but with customers as well. As you increase your credibility amongst your peers, and especially with those you are teaming up with, you will also increase your credibility with your clients. With joint venture marketing, you will prove to your customers just how valuable your product is in addition to providing them with excellent recommendations, resources and special offers they canít refuse. Remember, this is a joint effort and requires teamwork. When your joint venture marketing partners succeed, you succeed.

Thank you!

Also check out:
Joint Venture Marketing Ebook

Customers are King

- Understanding Your Customers

The inability to know your customers is the greatest loss, you, as a potential service provider can face. Since you are nothing without your customer, your first priority should be to know them and what they want and expect from your company or product.

Moreover, knowing them not only increases your chances of selling them more goods, leading to your profit, but also causing the inflow of more customers through recommendation. Hence getting to know your clients, greeting and treating them to their liking is crucial to the success of your business venture.

This kind of rapport with your client is even more essential if you keep in mind the nature and the degree of aggressive marketing your fellow business rivals conduct everyday. Your primary asset in business are your clients, this is because if you know their mentality and gauge their buying trends and their preferences, you have the market in hand.

This kind of valuable customer information will also enable you to replenish stock, get the most viably trendy products in the market, thereby satisfy your customers and in the process entice them into come back again to be serviced.

Moreover not knowing your customers will only hinder your chances at success to a greater degree because if you do not know what pleases your customer, you will never know how to approach them. Some might like curt matter of fat dealings, while another might like that occasional chitchat and “hello.”

So if you do not know who likes what you will only end up causing them dissatisfaction and yourself economic loss, due to sheer ignorance and simple lacking of planning. Moreover if you sit down and think about it this abstract ‘market’ that you talk about is no one but the sum total of your customers. So if you want to target the market, then this is the bunch you have to satiate and cater to.

What your customer says is very important for you and your overall success. After finishing one deal you instinctively try to convince them to buy something else; this is only natural and can be called maximizing profit.

But what you should also be doing simultaneously is trying to egg out information about their economic status, what they can afford and what not, what thy need next in their household which might come from your shop.

All this will help you in fixing future deals with them and wooing them back to your shop. So always engage in conversation with them and most importantly listen to them, they might be unconsciously divulging information that might eventually give you an edge over you’re your next door rival service provider.

From the free ebook: Customers are King