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Sell Them By NOT Pointing Out That You’re Trying To!
We don’t try and sell them in the e-mail. We remind them of their interest, we remind them where they visited, and we include a link back to the site if there is some other information we didn’t tell them. Each time we write in those follow-ups we put something in like “oh, maybe I didn’t tell you.” “Maybe I need to remind you.” “Maybe you didn’t realize.” “Are you aware that the deal expires tomorrow that I offered you? I don’t want you to miss it. You can click here and go right to the site.”
These kinds of notes are not common. People are not accustomed to getting them. They’re accustomed to getting lengthy sales letters and such. So how do they respond to these short messages? They respond as if they are personal correspondence.
Thirty-seven percent of the messages
that we send out get a response. Now, we have to admit, that takes some time. But they write us to tell us thanks for writing and they give us the reason that they’re not going to buy.
That’s why the Internet, for us, is a much, much better sales tool than mail order. We sell the same product through mail order, so it makes a nice comparison. In mail order we don’t hear why they don’t buy - they just don’t buy. If someone is not interested, they’re not interested.
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