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DOMAIN NAMES: A Domain name is a simple way to get a new website address for an existing website. For example, my www.FreedomAtHomeTeam.com/VCrabtree site has a domain name of www.Free2BFree.com
It's very simple to do. I use www.GoDaddy.com. You come up with a website address you'd like and key it into the search bar. If it's available, it's yours! This costs about $10/year! It's great to have a domain name for the free classifieds because our corporate websites and FreedomAtHomeTeam site get blocked on craigslist and some others. It also looks nice on business cards and other marketing materials. Once you have your web address, you'll follow the instructions about "forwarding" your new web address to whatever website you choose. Be creative! Make sure it's something fairly easy to remember and "catchy"
This page is meant to offer insight into different tools and techniques that will help grow your business and your check!
Click on the links below for more details.
ADVANCED TIPS
The tips that I share here are for people who are fairly "tech" savvy already. I don't want anyone who isn't comfortable on the computer to feel like they have to tackle this until they are ready. It's not OVERLY complicated, but sometimes when people get started, they haven't been on a computer in YEARS, and this could seem quite intimidating. We have enough to learn without adding more stress than is necessary! Read through this section, watch the webinar, but if it doesn't seem clear within 10-15 minutes... come back to it at a later point in your career. This is NOT something we NEED to know to be successful, it's just a time saving tool and as you get more and more comfortable on the computer, and with your business in general, you'll feel more ready to come back and try it.
GENERIC LEADS: A "generic lead" is person who has requested information about working from home, but has not made that request directly to us. They may have filled out a form online that they found when then did a search for "work from home" or something similar. The company that hosted the form compiles the contact information of people who request information, and then sell that information to companies like ours. These people HAVE requested to be contacted, so we are not cold-calling them and by filling out that form, we are not in violation of any no-call-list participation.
While we do have permission to call these leads, we can not just load their information into our focal point systems and start sending out automatic emails. We don't want to ever be in violation of the CANN-SPAM act, so we must first contact them and request permission to email them. We can do this by calling them, or by sending a personal email that provides them with our web address to our focal point website's landing page.
Since we can get SO many free generic leads, finding a quick way to send out emails to as many as possible from our gmail.com email addresses is very helpful. I did a webinar on a method I've found that works VERY well!!! You may CLICK HERE to view the webinar. PLEASE NOTE: In the webinar, I may refer to different pages of this training site that no longer exist... I can't re-do the webinars everytime a page changes, BUT the lesson content is still accurate, so don't get hung up on those types of things!
CLICK HERE for a copy of the email I refer to in the webinar. You can modify this email with your own informaiton if you'd like to use it yourself.
PLEASE be sure to Set up a new GMAIL account for your business. You don't want to miss any emails from trainers, corporate OR your prospective customers! Using an existing email address will most likely result in emails being forwarded to your spam folder or junk folder, and you don't want to miss business because of that! Keep it simple! FirstLastName@gmail.com is great if it's available. ALSO... we use a LOT of google business tools, so having a gmail account will make your life easier! www.gmail.com (You can have multiple gmail accounts)
FOCAL POINT E-MAIL TEMPLATES: Focal point is set up with email templates already in place. At some point you may decide you want to customize some of the email in your FOLLOW-UP Emails category. Here is a link to a file that has SOME of the templates I use. Feel free to copy/paste them into your own focal point. Just be sure to modify any weblinks to direct people to YOUR website and not mine :)
SCRIPTS: Be sure to develop a script you are comfortable with! There are lots of examples on our FreedomAtHomeTraining.com site. If you'd like to see mine, it's available at lnk.to/vickicrabtreescripts
