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Basic Marketing Principles for your AmeriPlan® Business 2007-03-07 07:53:00 Having an effective Marketing
Plan or Advertising Strategy applies to any business, not just AmeriPlan
. Here, you should follow a PROVEN business plan that is already known to work and in place and go with methods based on your personality, skills, strengths and budget.Here are a few tips: Don't put all of your eggs in one basketThat old adage certainly applies here. You should start by selecting a few methods you feel mostly cater to your strengths and personality. Find your niche and give 100% effort in making that method result in a new Transaction in your business as quickly as possible. You can add more methods later, as your business continues to flourish.Be Diligent and ConsistentAs with any marketing campaign, you must remain DILIGENT and CONSISTENT with the methods you select. Try a 90 day run on a particular method and then measure the results. Unfortunately, doing something for just a few days or weeks does not test the strength or the “pull” that it really coul Read more:Basic
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The Ingenious Pay per Call - is your phone ringing yet? 2007-03-07 07:42:00 OK. If you own a business and haven't heard about Pay Per Call, then you're probably living under a rock. I discovered this awesome tool just before the Summer of 2006; and I tell you, Pay-per-call has gained an awesome popularity very very quickly; especially, among business owners that are wanting to target a more local audience. It is brilliant - I use it and it's truly worth taking a good close-up look at.The idea behind Pay per Call advertising is very simple: You, as an Advertiser, pay ONLY when an interested prospect calls you. How? Unlike Pay per Click, where an online user is taken to your Web site, with Pay per Call, an ad is displayed with a toll-free number. Now, this ad is clickable, but it takes that prospect to a small description page (that you create), with basic info about your company (service or product), and based on their interest or need, they pick up the phone
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The Slight Edge in AmeriPlan® 2007-03-07 06:52:00 The Slight
Edge This is absolutely a killer book! The author, Jeff Olson, created a special AmeriPlan
® Edition in 2006, and although I had already purchased the book before we found out we would get one from the Dennis and Daniel Bloom, CEO's of our company, I was happy to now have two copies. :)But seriously, It was truly and awesome experience and a blessig too, to read through this amazing book and pick up some delicious nuggets of REALITY.I love the way he explains the difference between what a successful person does versus what the unsuccessful do. An excerpt from the book:"...That's what successful people do: simple things that are easy to do. Wait a minute. How are all these simple, everyday actions suppose to create all this wonderful happiness, health and success for me, if they are all easy to do - if anyone could do them? If these are things anyone can do, why are only 5% successful? Excellent question. Because they're also easy NOT to do - and while anyone could do t
Want to be an AmeriPlan® Mompreneur? 2007-03-07 02:49:00 I recently came across a term known as "Mompreneurs". I was really touched with that. Pity I didn't come up with it. Actually, Patricia Cobe and Ellen Parlapiano trademarked the term "mompreneurs" and even have a book called Mompreneurs: A Mother's Practical Step by Step Guide to Work at Home Success, an online mompreneurs Web site and Message Board that draws crowd of millions each month. The Direct Sales Association states that 79.9% of people in "direct sales" are women. Most people currently in a home business or seeking to start one stay at home moms. So much so, that there is a term now known as Mompreneurism. Nice fit isn't it?Cobe and Parlapiano interview many home based moms and tap into the secrets of their successes and why the Internet plays a huge part in what they do:A Natural Niche. Cyberspace opens up a wealth of business ideas, allowing moms to tap into their talents, skills and passions to create products and services for highly targeted audiences.If you want to be Read more:AmeriPlan
Managing an AmeriPlan® Business - is it HARD? 2007-03-07 01:45:00 "Is AmeriPlan
® hard?" As I hold back a CHUCKLE, I am wanting to get off the phone as soon as I hear someone asking me this question. Oh, and this is someone who says they're seriously looking for a home based business and have "experience". In what I wonder? Whoever said that owning a business was easy? You have to know WHAT you want and WHY you want it, or at the slightest adversity your're done with it. Business
HOPPERS go from one to the next and never score a profit anywhere.I don't care if you work in a CUBICLE all day, or from home; in a business or a JOB, you still have to tune in to the same station each day: W.O.R.K. You still have to:Acclimate to a new environmentMeet new peopleLearn new skillsDon't fear it. Marketing your business requires Jumping into those waters. You need GUTS, yes; BUT, people have been known to do riskier things for the most STUPID of reasons. Here you have a chance to HELP people,(foreign concept?) to get the helth care they need, while you h
Good-bye AmeriPlan® Persistency Program 2007-03-07 00:53:00 The PEOPLE have spoken!The AmeriPlan
® Persistency Program
will be discarded in June of 2007This will be GREAT news for more than just a few IBO's (Independent Business Owners) with AmeriPlan®, that were unhappy with the installation of this rule of measure.Persistency is used in the Insurance industry to measure retention. Example: If you sign up 100 policies in a year and the next year you only have 30 of those customers on the books, then your persistency percentage is 30% and your attrition (loss) is 70%.Now, although AmeriPlan® is NOT insurance, they decided nonetheless, last year, to implement a Persistency program that would, in their view, help IBO's that were writing good buiness and prevent those few others from writing bad business, for the sake of slapping something on the books and getting their initial commission. But in order to receive a FULL residual income check each month, persistency had to remain above 55% or sign up a total of 6 points worth of busine
A lofty GOAL for AmeriPlan® Corporation 2007-03-07 00:22:00 March SPECIAL: $25 investment into your own AmeriPlan
® Business! Make 2007 YOUR Year!That's the latest headline buzz in the world of AmeriPlan®. Afer 15 years in the industry, the AmeriPlan® Benefits package is selling like hotcakes because of the critical need for affordale health care in our country.In fact, the demand for these services is so HIGH, that AmeriPlan® is currently looking to expand it's field of Home-Based Reps in the month of March by adding 20,000 new Reps to market their services.The opportunity is HOT and the chance to build a serious RESIDUAL INCOME, while helping people who need these benefits has never been better. The market is HUGE and the opportunity is YOURS with AmeriPlan®What you get for your Business Overhead:5 Marketing and E-commerce WEB SITESA Personal, Online Back Office (to track customers, team members, earnings, promotions, meetings and so much more16 Discount Benefits (OfficeDepot, DELL, Frames Direct, 1-800-FLOWERS and mo Read more:Corporation
It's who you know - don't you know?? 2007-03-08 06:28:00 It's a fact that most people panic at the thought of talking to their circle of influence about a current or future business venture. If you are one of them, I advise you to think twice about it, before you justify yourself out of some success.You see, in our AmeriPlan® business, in fact, in any business, who you know and how you approach them, can hold the key to your initial success. That WARM Market is a brilliant launching pad.Most business owners and self-employed people get NEW business and referral business from WORD OF MOUTH. It's one of the best forms of advertising that there is; perhaps because it's also FREE! When you have built and maintained strong, integral relationships with people from your past and present; proven to be a friend, a giver, someone willing to do a favor, that can generate an amazing, ongoing stream of business for you. Don't be afraid of the warm market. Wouldn't you prefer the warmth and opinion of a personal contact over the cold, rejection o
Marketing to your existing AmeriPlan® Customers 2007-03-08 03:45:00 You will soon realize that learning how to KEEP an existing customer (that provides you with repeat sales) is easier than going out to find a new one. And with your AmeriPlan
® business, that is the KEY - the RETENTION rate of customers to build your Residual Income!Always Show You CareDo you not feel good when someone pats you on the back or appreciates you for the little things? Well, showing a customer that you value them as people and as patrons solidifies that relationship. When they know you care they will remain very loyal to you. Remember, no one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care:A LetterAn EmailA Post cardA Holiday greetingA Freebieanything you can conjure up!It's your thoughtfulness that they will always recall.Building a Personal BondWe tend to market by association. Think about why you may go to a particular store to shop. Are the people friendly there, nice to your children, terrific atmosphere? In order for your business to remain on your cust Read more:Marketing
How much do you know about AmeriPlan®? 2007-03-11 03:36:00 Are you still a bit in dark about what AmeriPlan
USA® actually does? Allow me to explain, because I assure you, it is very simple.AmeriPlan USA® has been on a mission for 15 years — to provide quality, affordable health care to working-class America, who by other means, might not be in a position to afford Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescriptions and Chiropractic Care. As the health care crisis in our country continues to escalate out of proportion, we are sadly, seeing more and more people going WITHOUT health care. The cost is so extraordinary that even Small businesses cannot afford to offer health insurance to their employees and the Self-Employed pay outrageous monthly premiums to have coverage.What is the solution? Discount-Fee-For-Service. AmeriPlan® is the largest, PAO - Provider Access Organization in the country. With our service, Members have access to quality health care at dramatically reduced prices. From Doctors, Specialists and Ancillary care to Dentist
Together Everyone Achieves More 2007-03-11 01:28:00 Together Everyone Achieves
More! That is the meaning of TEAM isn't it? And it is exactly what AmeriPlan® wants every Sales Director to Focus on — working with their TEAM. So, a great bit of news that came out of Champions Weekend, was the implementation of the New "PAID AS" status; the purpose of which is to create a culture of working with your Sales Organization.In plain English: As a Senior Regional Sales Director and above, there will have to be $100 to $250 in PSGMR or Personal Sales Group Monthly Revenue, written in your organization for you to EARN the overrides (the 15%, 10% 7% and 1% you earn from your team), for that month.Monthly Requirement Chart for SRSD's and above:SRSD — $100 in New PSGMR each monthESD — $150 in New PSGMR each monthSESD — $200 in New PSGMR each monthNSD — $250 in New PSGMR each monthI think it is a step in a great direction, so that Sales Directors do not just sit back and collect on income from their Sales T
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