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Everyone is selling some special “magic beans” to make all your business problems go away these days…

Repeat after me: “there are no magic beans.”

At the end of the day, there is:

- your understanding of buying psychology

- your ability to manage your business efficiently

- your junk-yard-dog toughness for when the going gets rough (because it will!)

The absolute best stuff I’ve ever read about buying psychology is a little book by Joe Sugarman called “Triggers”.

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Last night, I was teaching a session for our “Self-Made Wealth” program, and I shared a 5-step formula that I’ve discovered for making deep friendships fast.

I thought I’d take a minute and share it with you, since it’s so powerful. This formula has allowed me to make friends with some of the most interesting, successful and even famous people—and it can work for you as well.

If you can master this simple 5-step system, I really believe that it can help you get access to, connect with and make friends with almost anyone you want.

And it can help you make friends FAST.

So what make me believe that there’s a formula for making friends?

And why hasn’t anyone discovered this before?

Well, it turns out that we humans do the things that we do, for the most part, very predictably.

What I mean is that we go through predictable steps when interacting with other people.

You’ve probably heard of anthropologists, those professors who study people ‘objectively’ and sort of watch them to observe “how they behave in the wild”.

What they discovered is that when people are meeting each other, whether it’s in a business setting, a romantic setting or a “just friends” setting, they do certain things in a certain order.

EVERY TIME.

For example, when 2 people meet each other for the first time, you might not realize it, but most of the first 30 seconds is about unconsciously figuring out who is going to be “in control” of the relationship.

I know that this doesn’t sound very “enlightened”, but if you start noticing, you’ll see that it’s true.

And it doesn’t matter who it is, how they’re meeting, or where they’re meeting.

Everything from who makes eye contact first, who smiles first, to who disagrees first—it’s all part of the sub-conscious “inner animal” dance.

Now, when most people hear something like this, they say “well, I don’t do that.” Or they think that others who do this are somehow ‘unevolved’.

NEWS FLASH: WE ALL DO IT.

You can’t control it, and neither can I. It just happens, and it’s going to keep happening.

Now, with that said, just because we humans have a bunch of “pre-programmed routines” that we go through when we meet each other does not mean that we have to go through them blindly.

In fact, I’ve discovered that the more aware we become of these routines, and the more conscious we become of how to use them productively, the more success we can have in business, with our personal relationships and with life in general.

Several years ago, I realized that making friends is one of the fundamental “common denominators” of all large-scale success in the world.

If you want people to like you, trust you, be influenced by you—and work with you in business effectively—then you must connect with them, bond with them, and build TRUST.

In other words, you must make friends with them.

After realizing that creating friendship is the “common denominator” of success, I went to research—and find out if anyone had ‘mapped’ this process.

It seemed that, if making friends was such a key part of success, that there would be many books on the topic that were available.

Guess what?

I was WRONG.

In fact, I found almost nothing written about the process of how to simply make friends.

There were no mainstream books that explained the formula or how it worked.

And, maybe more importantly, there were no books or programs created specifically for business success that explained how it worked on a psychological level.

But I persisted.

Eventually, by studying the works of many different experts on everything from psychology to anthropology to business networking, I found a PATTERN.

And after putting the pattern together into a system, I was able to use the system to build an amazing network of friendships, business contacts and professional relationships—which has made a huge difference in my own success.

Here’s the 5-Step Friendship Formula, with an explanation of each of the steps in the process.

1) Connect on something substantial that you have in common with the other person

2) Disclose something valuable or personal to deepen the relationship

3) Give-give-give, get… Give-give-give, get… build the dialog of lasting friendship

4) Balance the needs of the individuals and the friendship to deepen the relationship

5) Create a unique shared space within a group – and then ultimately create the group yourself

STEP 1: Connect on something substantial that you have in common with the other person.

At the beginning of a relationship, it’s critical to remember that you and the other person are really living in different realities.

Even though it seems like we are all “here together” in the same world, we’re really on completely different channels—or pages.

I like to imagine that there’s a transparent movie screen between me and the other person I’m meeting, and that we’re each projecting a completely different movie on that screen.

Even though it looks like there’s no difference, there’s A HUGE DIFFERENCE in how we’re seeing the world and each other.

This is why it’s so important, in those first critical moments, to connect—to open up a common reality—with the other person.

And this is why it’s important to make sure that the thing we’re connecting on is substantial.

In other words, it’s something that’s important to both of us.

If I say “nice weather we’re having, huh?”, that’s not a substantial way to connect. Because it’s what everyone says—and it’s not related to something I have a deep interest in.

On the other hand, let’s say that the person you’re about to meet has an interest in old cars—and that they like to restore old cars as their hobby.

If you begin the conversation by asking them about the car that they’re restoring, and telling them about your experience with cars, you’ll have something meaningful to connect about.

Now, you might ask: “What does fixing up old cars have to do with getting someone to help me in business?”

And my answer would be: EVERYTHING.

I have a friend that decided that he wanted to meet more powerful and influential people, so he took up golf as a hobby.

And guess what? He met tons of powerful executives, and was invited out on the golf course by successful people constantly.

Humans are interesting creatures. When we become interested in something personally it becomes more than just “a hobby”. It becomes a passion.

And when others talk to us about the things that we are passionate about, we like them and are interested in them.

So connect on something substantial. Start the conversation with something you know is personally meaningful to the other.

You can get to a level of interest and comfort that would otherwise take many hours to reach.

STEP 2: Disclose something valuable or personal to deepen the relationship.

If you think about your closest relationships, you’ll realize that the relationship deepened as each of you shared more ‘secrets’.

That’s the way it works.

We trust people more when they reveal their secrets to us.

Now, the secrets you reveal can be valuable information, or insights you’ve had about life—or they can be embarrassing stories or life experiences.

The key is that you must disclose something that is valuable or personal if you want to deepen the relationship.

STEP 3: Give-give-give, get… Give-give-give, get… build the dialog of lasting friendship.

Most people who are trying to reach or connect with successful, powerful, influential people have a certain “smell” to them.

You can sense that they’re trying to GET something from the person they’re trying to reach.

You know what I mean—when someone approaches you, but you can tell that they want something.

This instantly brings up your guard, and makes you suspicious of them.

Well, you don’t want to come across as wanting something. You don’t want to come across as selfish.

So it’s important to adopt a different mindset when you’re going out to meet and make friends with successful people.

You must go out with the mindset that you’re going to add value to them and their lives, and you’re going to make the big investment first in the relationship.

That’s why I say “Give-give-give…get”.

You want to be giving 3 times for every time that you get something.

If you follow this as your mantra, you’ll find that others will be much more interested in you.

I’ve had relationships that I’ve ‘given’ to for years and years before I every asked for something in return.

And guess what? The rewards have been beyond my wildest dreams.

STEP 4: Balance the needs of the individuals and the friendship to deepen the relationship.

When you begin a friendship between you and another person, it’s actually like being in a relationship with THREE people.

There’s you, there’s the other person, and then there’s the relationship itself.

When two or more people get together, they form a little ‘eco-system’ or culture that’s unique to that group of people.

There are certain words, phrases, jokes and references that become the ‘language’ of the friendship or the community.

And what’s interesting (to me, anyway) is that the more the relationship grows, the more the individuals feel a pull to ‘conform’ to the ‘culture’ that’s formed.

At some point, you begin to feel tension.

You start feeling pulled between what YOU want and what the GROUP wants.

Have you ever been out with a group of friends, and you decided to go home, but everyone in the group started saying “no, you can’t go—stay with us!”…?

Of course, that’s what groups do.

They pull you into the group.

And here’s the paradox: For a friendship to thrive in the long-term, you must balance the needs of the friendship with the needs of the individuals.

Make sure you don’t get “sucked up” by the friendship.

Make sure you balance your needs, your desires and your interests—but also meet the needs of the friendship.

By balancing both, and being aware of the pull to do both, you’ll create a much stronger relationship.

STEP 5: Create a unique shared space within a group—and then ultimately create the group yourself.

Let’s say that you make friends with someone at a business seminar.

You’re in the middle of hundreds of people, and you meet that person you’ve wanted to meet for a long time.

As soon as you’ve connected with the other person, it’s important to create a little ‘us’ feeling within the group.

Maybe the two of you are both passionate about a particular sport. You can make a joke that the others in the bigger group don’t look like the “sports type”.

In other words, you’re creating an “inside joke” between you and the other person.

This is very powerful. It has a bonding effect, because now it’s “you and me” in a big group of ‘them’.

And ultimately, to take this to its most powerful level, you should be the one to create the group in the first place—by starting to hold social and networking meetings with interesting and powerful people.

That way, you can do all of these steps very quickly and efficiently with many people…quickly.

If you use this “Friendship Formula” as the TEMPLATE for all of your business relationships from now on, you will find that you can accelerate and deepen your relationships much faster—and you can connect with people that you didn’t think it was possible to reach.

If you’ve been reading this and thinking to yourself: “Wow, I really need to learn and master connecting with others—because I get how important this is going to be for my long-term business and financial success…”

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The “Friendship Formula” I just explained to you was first presented by me in this program.

But it’s only about 3-5% of the program.

Inside of CONNECTED, you’re going to learn the much deeper psychology of what it takes to connect to and bond with the people who are going to literally make your business career.

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Enjoy the video, and use the Friendship Formula to accelerate your business success.

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For several years, car manufacturers have been proactively marketing sales of used vehicles with ads touting “certified pre-owned vehicles.”

These are used cars that have been thoroughly inspected and come with a warranty equivalent (or close to it) to that of a new car.

A few weeks ago, I heard a radio commercial for Toyota, who has jumped into this market.

But instead of calling their used car a “pre-owned vehicle”…they call it a “used car”!

Now I admire plain-speaking people and honest, forthright language…and “used car” fits that bill better than “pre-owned vehicle”.

On the other hand, there’s a reason Mont Blanc sells “writing instruments”…and the reason is that no one wants to pay $100 for a “pen”.

So what do you think?

Will Toyota’s honesty be rewarded by consumers with more sales?

Or are they shooting themselves in the foot by not advertising “pre-owned vehicles”?

I don’t know the answer. No one knows the answer to any marketing question until they test it…but there’s one thing I do know…

The words you choose for your copy can make a big difference in how well it performs.

Or to put it another way: semantics sell.

Here’s a great example: A number of years ago, when Clinton was still in office, I was driving in the DC area, where I almost always get lost.

As I desperately tried to find K Street, I heard a radio commercial for American Spectator, the conservative magazine.

The commercial said that if you called a toll free number to subscribe, you would get a free gift—a “Special Report” titled “Inside the Clinton White House”.

I didn’t call, but I am pretty sure that American Spectator, as is typical of magazines, put together this special report by assembling reprints of a few articles they’d done on Clinton into a booklet.

Listen to the words, “Special Report”. Sounds important and exclusive, like something you’d want to have. And the title—”Inside the Clinton White House”—sounds juicy.

On the other hand, what if the radio commercial had closed with, “So call toll-free today to subscribe and we’ll give you a bunch of past articles ripped out of old issues of the magazine and stapled together.”

I can’t imagine the phone ringing off the hook for that one.

Another example of the power of words in marketing is the old comic book ad with the headline, “Enter the wonderful world of amazing live sea monkeys…open a bowl full of happiness—instant pets!”

The ad pictured a happy underwater family of cute, friendly creatures—a mom, dad, and kids—living outside the family castle—presumably in a fish bowl—as the human youngster and his human parents who purchased the sea monkeys look down in delight.

Well, if you ever took the bait and mailed the coupon with your money, what you got was a plastic vial full of dried brine shrimp eggs…with instructions to hatch them in warm, salty water.

When mine hatched, they look nothing like the handsome Sea Monkey family in the ad…they were basically little dots moving around in a bowl of water.

Yes, words have power, and the words you choose decide a lot about what people think of you, your company, your product, and your offer…especially whether they want to buy or try it.

No one wants brine shrimp eggs. But “instant pets” and “amazing live sea monkeys”? I’m in!

One last example: My colleague Gary Hennerberg was called on by a company in Texas that sold mail order fruit cakes.

Fruit cakes weren’t selling like hot cakes (big surprise) and they needed to boost orders.

Gary asked the bakery what ingredients were used, and to his surprise, he found that these fruit cakes contained pecans.

Not only that, but they were grown locally in Texas, on the banks of a river, where the moisture made them particularly flavorful.

Gary told the company to test a mailing calling the product “native Texas pecan cakes” instead of “fruit cakes”.

They followed his advice…and fruit cake sales soared by 60%.

Semantics, I guess. Go figure.

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An analytics tool provides Internet marketers with a collection of analysis and reports of data gathered concerning the number of visits a website receives over a given period of time.

However, for an analytics tool to be more effective, you’ll need more than just a numeric figure of unique visits or clicks; you’ll need to know what they mean for your campaign.

That said consider the following when searching for a reliable analytics tool.

1) Data Presentation – Your analytics tool should present data in an easy-to-understand format where each field shows a corresponding value. Most analytics tools have dashboards that present the most fundamental parts of your campaign in the form of reports or overviews. For example, Google Analytics has a dashboard that feature several overviews on different aspects of your campaign such as traffic source, page views and bounce rates.

2) Real-Time results – While real-time showing of visits, clicks and other data may seem no different than ‘unreal’-time showing of data, it can actually play a big part in making your site’s content better. In fact, for high-traffic generating sites, writers and editors want to get a hold of real-time data because they want to optimize content.

The ability to see results as they happen is indispensable because you can adapt to any change with regards to traffic source. Real time results give you an idea of what type of content triggers your audience to immediately visit your site or answer a call-to-action. A popular example of an analytics tool that offers real-time results is GetClicky.

3) Click Analytics and Heatmapping – This feature, particularly heat mapping, monitors which parts or pages your audience clicks on the most. This could play a major role in determining the placement of your ads.

If your site hosts a number of landing pages, it can help in terms of where to place the links to those pages. Click Tale offers a variety of heatmapping techniques, going as far as presenting data about how far a user scrolls down a website and which pages get the most attention. Clickstream tracking is also a great feature that lets you see the clicking flows of users. This helps marketers determine where users drop off on their way to conversions. This allows for the identification and calibration of weak pages.

4) IP Geolocation capabilities – A good analytics service does not only tell you where the clicks are coming from in a ‘digital’ perspective, it also lets you know where in the world they’re coming from. Placing emphasis on an audience’s “Geolocation” can tell you a lot about what type of behaviour responds to a certain kind of content. This allows you to optimize and adjust the way you make your content, depending on the Geolocation data your analytics tool presents.

5) Segmentation Options – Being able to segment your data is very important because it enables you to pattern target figures according to your goals. With it, you can separate a section of traffic that produces good results from another section of traffic that may otherwise need more effort.

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This was asked in LinkedIn and I gave a shot with my answer. Hopefully you can gain some ideas:

Q: What does a business do while developing relationships to close business, in the short term? This is a topic no one wants to really addresses openly. I understand that there is a balance and that it takes time to harvest time spent to grow a business. Any thoughts?

A: I’m not sure if I can answer your question accurately, but I’ll try. By nature, most people won’t respond to a company or its staff unless it’s absolutely necessary, so the staff must do some things to maintain their interest or get them interactive, like:

1) Hold a lucky draw
2) Conduct a poll
3) Get feedback to a question
4) Run a “no-selling” weekly newsletter
5) Conduct a webinar
6) Invite blog comments

If you can do one of these things twice a week, by next month or 2 they should have some expectation of the products/services to come.

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One of the best copy leads I have ever read was that in a small brochure created by SW to promote his consulting practice.

The brochure was written in Q&A format, and began with this unforgettable lead:

Q: Why should I hire SW?

A: Perhaps you should not.

Whoa! What chutzpah! “Perhaps you should not”?

The nerve of this guy! Who sells anything by telling you not to buy it?

Plenty of smart marketers, it turns out.

Human psychology is funny: the more you tell somebody they can’t or shouldn’t have something, the more they want it.

The technique of applying this psychological principle to sales and marketing is called “the takeaway close”.

In sales, it works this way: if the prospect is hesitant, and you are not getting anywhere, start to pack up your sample case, papers, or whatever, while telling the prospect in a serious, sincere, even somber voice: “Maybe this isn’t right for you.”

As soon as you do, most prospects immediately say—”Wait, hold on a minute!”—and ask you to continue your presentation, much more interested than they were only seconds ago.

That’s because as soon as you tell people they can’t or shouldn’t have something, they want it.

Seaman’s, a local retailer near my office in northern NJ, (now out of business), once ran radio commercials to announce sales using a variation of the takeaway close.

The radio announcer began by thundering a command to the listener: “DON’T buy furniture today…”

It catches your attention, because you expect to be told to buy…not to be told, “DON’T buy.”

He then finished the sentence: “DON’T buy furniture today…wait until Saturday for Seaman’s big half-price sale!”

Applying the takeaway closing technique to your marketing is easy. Often simply adding the words “order today—supplies limited” is enough to get the phone ringing off the hook.

Or, in a lead generation campaign, change the phrase on your reply element from “for more information” to “to find out how you can qualify”—implying that receiving what you are offering is not a sure thing, but only granted if they pass your criteria.

Another variation is ads for home study courses which offer a free booklet with a test to judge your writing or artistic talent, implying that you can’t take the course unless you pass the test.

Remember, people want what they can’t—or think they can’t—have or get.

Even in relationships, singles who date know that one way to attract the interest and attention of members of the opposite sex that they like is to play “hard to get”—to make them call you, rather than you call them.

Conversely, when in pursuit of your soul mate, the worst strategy is to leave 48 messages on his or her answering machine. It demonstrates you are eager and needy, and actually makes the other person less interested.

Time-limited offers are yet another variation on the takeaway close.

In the case of time-limited offers, the product or service is available, but only if you buy now. Later, it won’t be.

Direct marketers know that, almost without exception, adding a time limit or expiration date to a promotion lifts response rates.

In service industries, telling prospects you can squeeze them in a week from Thursday makes you seem desirable.

On the other hand, if you tell prospects, “I can see you now,” they worry: who wants to go to a professional who isn’t in demand?

The late Howard Shenson, a consultant and author, called this the Busy Dr. Syndrome, noting that people want to do business with those they consider busy and successful, not those who seem desperate and in need of the work.

Why does the takeaway close work? Why do people, upon hearing they can’t have something, want it more?

Perhaps the motivator is scarcity, an imbalance in the supply and demand equation: the shorter the supply of something, the more it is valued.

That is why gold has a much higher price than copper, even though copper has many more practical uses.

Whatever the reason, the takeaway close often works like gangbusters.

To test this, tell half your inbound sales leads that your product or service is available right away.

Tell the other half that it’s not available until December, but you might be able to slip them into the schedule earlier.

Then measure the closing rate between the two groups, and let me know the results of your experiment. You can e-mail me at rwbly@bly.com.

Bob Bly is the author of “World’s Best Copywriting Secrets” and has written copy for more than 100 companies including IBM, Boardroom, Medical Economics and AT&T. He is the author of more than 75 books and a columnist for Target Marketing, Early To Rise and The Writer. McGraw-Hill calls him “America’s top copywriter”.

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An autoresponder service allows you to send messages automatically after a user opts in to your landing page or from any other platform that asks them for a name and e-mail.

When looking for an autoresponder service, consider the following:

1) A Friendly User Interface – A Graphical User Interface makes navigating through a program easy for a user by introducing buttons, bars and toolbars that represent themselves with images associated with their function. In times like these, learning curves are considered a liability. So eliminate that by learning on the fly, and nothing does that better than a GUI driven autoresponder service.

2) Flexible API – An API is an interface that allows software and web applications to communicate with each other. Your autoresponder service needs should have a flexible API so you can have them respond from virtually anywhere (landing pages from Facebook, Kajabi, WordPress etc). If an autoresponder service doesn’t have the ability to speak with Facebook or WordPress, you might have a hard time trying to integrate your autoresponders with any landing page.

3) Easy Management of Lists – You need to easily organize your lists for e-mail list segmentation. The ability to segment your email lists according to your subscribers’ background or preference is indispensable because it allows you to make target prospective customers with precision.

4) Diverse selection of E-mail Templates – An e-mail template not only makes a marketer’s message enticing to read, it also provides an opportunity to expose his brand more. However, an emphasis on aesthetics could mean bigger e-mail sizes, which may trigger spam filters on a lot of mail clients. A good autoresponder service has a wide selection of appealing e-mail templates to choose from, all of which are email client-friendly and don’t lead the message to the Spam box.

5) Excellent Reporting – Get an autoresponder service that can show you open, click-through, and unsubscribe rates. It should give you data that’s indicative of the overall performance of your campaign. More importantly, it gives you an idea as to which factors in your campaign are working and which aren’t, thus allowing you to make the changes necessary for it to perform better.

6) Customer Support – Last but not least, you need an autoresponder service that provides great customer support. There are things that an Internet marketer wants to do that aren’t covered by the help wizard or tutorial (or it does, but he/she just doesn’t grasp it). For times like that, he/she needs to turn to support for assistance and a guiding hand.

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