How To Make Money With Your Answering Machine

Your Answering Machine can be used to make MORE MONEY than you'veever made in your whole life! People with absolutely no businessor marketing skills have been successful with Answering MachineMarketing methods. Recently, a young couple in Gossell, Kansas,went from three hundred to three million dollars, marketingmoney-making information in the form of books, manuals, andreports using a simple telephone answering machine.
This can only prove that the American Dream is still alive andwell. this couple has also proved that if you have:
(1) A Great Idea; (2) Believe in your ability to make it happen;(3) Non-Stop motivation to take action now!, and (4) If youpersist...You Can Have It All!
UNLIMITED MONEY MAKING POTENTIAL
The money-making potential of a simple telephone answeringmachine is almost unlimited. So how do I use my answeringmachine, and what do I sell? Good question! The possibilities areendless! Many people are making a lot of money selling "How-To"information in the form of books, reports, manuals, directories.Topics include: Home Worker Guides, A Government Job Guide,Making Money As A Free-Lance Writer, Making Money With YourPick-Up Truck, Making Money At U.S. Government Auctions, andmore. However, the telephone answering machine ad approach can beadapted to many, many different products and services: Insuranceor real Estate selling, home mortgage reductions, homeimprovements, Seminars of all kinds, Dating Services, and anykind of restaurant, social events, and 1001 other types ofservices.
HOW IT WORKS
A small display ad, or an inexpensive classified ad is placed indaily or weekly newspapers inviting the reader to call a recordedmessage for more free information on your product, service orevent. Using a well-written, benefit-rich script, you, or aprofessional speaker, record a 2 or 3 minute message that enticesthe caller to do one of the following:
(1) Leave his/her name and address and request that the order beshipped C.O.D.
(2) Leave his/her name and address to request more "freeinformation" be sent.
A third method that some have tired concerns credit cardordering. however, most operators have found that this does notwork very well. people do not like to leave their charge cardnumber at the end of a recorded message. A fourth method that hashad some success, asks the caller to order direct from the phonemessage, by sending a check or money order. Which of the twoprimary options works best? There are several advocates of eachmethod.
Obviously, if you are offering a high-ticket item, or aspecialized service (real estate, insurance, multi-levelmarketing, etc...) you would want simply to capture the callersaddress and/or phone number for the follow-up.
If you're selling a relatively low-priced item (less than $50),such as a book, gift item, etc., you can either use the C.O.D orinquiry method.
To ship C.O.D., or not, is a marketing option that confrontsevery marketer who has a reasonably priced item, and who wants touse a recorded message as a selling tool.
The major advantage of C.O.D. shipping is that the orderinstructions are captured on your answering machine, and can beprocessed and shipped immediately.
The major disadvantage to the C.O.D. method is that it is likelythat 40% to 55% of all orders shipped will come back to youbecause the UPS driver or U.S. Postal Route Carrier (C.O.D.orders can be shipped either by United Parcel Service or by U.S.Mail) could not make delivery and get paid. that's not good!
Proponents of C.O.D. shipping claim, even with the huge amount ofundeliverable, that this method is still their favorite. Thereare three entrepreneurs, one in Utah, one in California, anotherin Arizona, who each are making millions of dollars per yearselling books and reports, via the C.O.D method. it's nice tokeep it simple. you run your ads, you use a hard sell recordedtelephone script. the callers leave their address, and you ship.
Marketers who hate C.O.D. shipping usually can't emotionallyhandle all those undeliverable, unpaid for shipments. C.O.D.shipping does work for some. if you can "psychologically" handlethe big return factor, it may make you the kind of money you havealways dreamed of making.
Her's an important marketing tip: If you do get involved in C.O.Dshipping, send a postcard to the responder one day before youship the order. Say something like this:
Thank you for your order for our amazing (fill in the book'stitle or the name of the product here), your order is beingprocessed and will be shipped immediately. Please be sure to have$_______ (total amount) available to pay the UPS driver when hecalls.
SPECIAL FREE BONUS
In addition to receiving the (fill in product name), we are alsoincluding a very special free bonus with your order. We knowyou'll love it!
Thanks again for ordering. We appreciate having you as acustomer.
Signed___________________________________________________________ Name and Address Of Your Company
This technique works just great! One marketer was able to reducereturns by over 15%, by using this little ploy that added up totens of thousands of dollars in one year!
What should your free bonus be? Put on your thinking cap! you cancome up with some inexpensive "widget" or low-cost report, thatrelates to what you're selling. If you're going to use the C.O.D.method---You must do this!
Another option to the C.O.D. method is the two-step inquirymethod. Sure, it's much slower. First you capture the name andaddress of the voice responder. Next you rush him or her (it'swise to mail within 48 hours--or less!) your sales literature. nohuge ego-deflating returns, plus your printed sales literaturecan make a much stronger, and longer presentation than a 2 or 3minute electronic script.
WHY IT WORKS
Why does a simple answering machine work so well. We havediscovered that many people who are usually not "mail responsive"will pick up a telephone and call a recorded message. this isparticularly true of newspaper readers.
So what must you do to get started in this exciting and highlyprofitable business! Well, let me give you the necessary stepsthat you must take to put this information into action.
(1) Create/or locate a product or service that is highly indemand by a large group of people.
(2) Write a classified ad and sales message (almost like acommercial) to sell the product or service. record the salesmessage onto a simple answering machine.
(3) Place your classified ad in a newspaper that offers thecheapest rates (usually a very small paper or Pennysaver, etc)and put the phone number that is being used by the answeringmachine that has your recorded script on it in the advertisement.
(4) Your customer will see your ad, call your number, listen toyour sales message and order. A SIMPLE CONCEPT THAT CAN MAKE YOU MILLIONS!