networking without a business card
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How to instantly follow up with every single person you meet via email and text message. IMagine handing people you business card and knowing that they'll be sent an email, text message and voicemail from you.TRANSCRIPT
How To InstantlyFollow Up WithEvery PersonYou Meet… UsingCross Channel MarketingUse Automated Email and Text So You Can Connect Immediately and Never Forget To Follow Up Again…
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Presented by Jacob Gudger
@JacobGudger
MobileMarketingForSpeakers.com
EmbarkInternetMarketing.com
How To Automatically Follow Up and Use
“Interactive Text” To Schedule Appointments
Most Important Process In Your Business Is…
…Moving A Person From A Contact To A Client
Client [def]: “A person under one’s protection.”
Contact Follow-Up ConvertConnect Client
Contact• Meet People• Find Alignment in your customer
base, or personal business needs
Follow-Up• Exchange Contact Information• (Business cards)• You Follow-Up So You Can…
Connect• Meet in person or over the phone• “Be in-front of a prospect before
9am everyday…”• Find a good (healthy) breakfast
joint and sit with your back to the corner so all they can look at is you
Convert• Inform and Demonstrate effects
of product/service…• “Show Them – Don’t Tell
Them…”
Client• They buy, sign-up, register…• Now they are under your
protection• Relationship shifts from building
and persuasion to maintenance and leadership
Really, It’s Pretty Simple.
Two Big Questions From That Process
1. How Do You Build An Ironclad Relationship?2. How Do You Do That Faster?
How Do You Build An Ironclad
Relationship?• Relationships are built by fulfilling a series of agreements
• Read:“How To Win Friends And Influence People” by
Dale Carnegie“Enchantment” by Guy Kawasaki“How To Make People Like You In 90-Seconds Or
Less” by Nicholas Boothman
How Do You Do That Faster?
• Ruthlessly Examine And Reassess Every Phase In A Process
“Identifying the activities in my business that create the best results and eliminating, hiring, outsourcing, streamlining, and
destroying every other distraction.”
How Do You Do That Faster?Read:
• “No BS Time Management For Entrepreneurs” by Dan Kennedy
• “The 4-Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss
Two Questions To Do That:1. What Is The Purpose Of This Activity?
2. Is There A More Effective And Time Efficient Way For To Achieve That Purpose?
Which Step Of These Can We Streamline And
Eliminate From Your Time?
Contact Follow-Up Connect Convert Client
“One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other…”
Follow-Up• Purpose of Follow-Up Is To Schedule The Next
Meeting
•What If Your Business Card Did That Automatically?
Here’s How This Works…• It’s called “Networking Without A Business Card”
• Instead of passing out business cards at networking events, have them text their name and email to a local phone number
• Your new contact gets a custom text message from you, a pre-recorded voicemail from you, and an email with all your information.
• (You can also include the number on your business card and follow up that way)
Text Your Name And Email Address To
(310) 341-0309And You’ll See Firsthand How To Streamline The Follow-Up Stage
They Text You And Immediately Receive Back:1. “Hey (their name), it’s (your name). Great
meeting you! When’s the best time to follow-up?”
2. They text back: “Tuesday at 4”3. Instant Reply: “Great! I’m looking forward to
talking to you. Is there anything else I can help you with?”
Here’s How This Works…
Their Response
Shows Up In Your InboxNow You Know When They’ll Be Available…
Email:“Hi (their name),Great meeting you earlier… Here’s a quick
reminder of who I am and what I do.Here’s my contact information.If there’s anything else you need help with, just
click reply and let me know.-Yours Truly (You)”
Here’s How This Works…
Voicemail• “Hey it’s (You) from earlier. It was great
meeting you. Here’s a quick blurb about who I am. I just sent you an email and text message with my contact info so we can stay in touch. I’m looking forward to talking to you.”
Here’s How This Works…
• The new lead’s information is sent to an autoresponder system.
• That system automatically sends your customized follow-up messages to the new lead.
• You instantly receive an email with their contact information and replies in your inbox (it can also be sent to you as a text)
Here’s How This Works…
Here’s What It Will Do For You…
In the time it takes you to hand someone your business card and shake their hand you have:
• Sent them your contact info• Scheduled the time when you two can actually
talk
Here’s Why It’s Powerful…• Break their pattern
– Everyone else has business cards.• Multichannel (Full-Frontal Assault)– Contact them through multiple mediums of
communication• Authentic Messaging• Digital Intimacy
“But doesn’t a business card make a statement about you and your
business?”
Sure it does.
But here’s what Networking Without A Business Card says about you and
your business:
• Personal Intimacy– Tools become an extension of ourselves– Message from you, through multiple channels
(text, email, voicemail)• Friendly– When your friend schedules a dinner/outing with
you they use phone calls, leave voicemails, and leave text messages
• Authentic– Feels real instead of produced or manufactured
because of your personal touch
• Helpful– When your new contact replies to the text
message with the best time to follow-up, the reply from you asks if there’s anything else you can help them with
• Savvy– There are only a handful of people in the Portland
Metro area who have this…• Your Ego Loves It Too:– 20th C. was: “I’m better than you”– 21st C. is: “I’m cooler than you”
Bottom Line:• Reduce waste of paper business cards
• You’ll save time since you follow-up instantly
• More time to focus on the things that create the big results you really want (the better life that motivated you to start your business in the first place)
Text Your Name And Email Address To
(310) 341-0309And You’ll See Firsthand How
To This Works