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Lori Feldman covers email and database marketing at the 2010 MarketSTL Conference in downtown Saint Louis MO

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How To Stay in Touch with Your Customers

With Lori FeldmanAka “The Database Diva”

#FollowUp

• 100% Online• 50%+ Online• Would like your business to be

50%+ online

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The Purpose of Business…

To grow customers

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What a Database Is NOT!

• A List of Email Addresses

• Shopping Cart

• Autoresponder

• Excel Spreadsheet

• Outlook Address Book

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US companies lose 50% of their customers every 5 years.

A 5% increase in customer retention can increase profits by

25-95%

Harvard Business Review

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Things Direct Database Marketers Know Are True

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DATABASE SEGMENTATION

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Creative10%

Offer

30%List60%

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RETAINING

PROSPECTING

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Poor Quality15%

Price15%

Poor Relationship

70%

Why Companies Lose Business…

Forum Group

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A . B. L. B.

5+

Email Newsletter

Limited-Time Promotion

Drip Marketing

Email Newsletter

“It’s a lot easier to sell a solution to a customer’s problem than

to sell the solution to what you think the problem is”

Case Study:325 New

Subscribers, 3 speaking

engagement,7 RFQs

<-- BEFORE

AFTER

Limited-Time Promotion

2. Limited Time PromotionSaleDiscountEventClose-Out

Drip Marketing

• When would you use it?1. Lead from your website2. Trade show lead3. Proposal sent4. First-time customer5. Customer stops buying (Inactive)6. Lost sale7. Networking meeting

~ 13% Ready To Buy Now

~ 65%

Tire Kickers or

Unqualified

~ 22% Yes, But Not Now

Traditional Sales Funnel

• Defined follow-up process of relevant messages…

E-mail

Phone CallPost Card

E-mail

Survey

• 0 Days - Thank You – “We appreciate you”• 1 Day - Meet our Staff – “Here’s everyone’s

contact info”• 5 Days - Customer survey• 10 Days – Special Report with Case Studies• 15 Days – Product Tip• 30 Days - Ask for referrals• 60 Days - Gift toward next purchase

5+

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1. Get a true, customizable database2. Add fields for segmentation3. Survey your list to see what they want4. Give it to them in your content (niche!)5. Set up at least 5 web forms to ABLB6. Auto-generate your e-newsletter7. Connect all web forms to drip marketing

campaigns“There’s no time; there never will be” – Do it now!

Lori Feldman

Contact info:lori@TheDatabaseDiva.comwww.TheDatabaseDiva.com

@LoriFeldman

#FollowUp

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