A Step Above - Your Professionalism Is Front & Center! by Bobbette Madonna Copyright 2002 & 2003 Letterhead on e-mail Offers Credibility and Exposure Internet marketers are well aware of the power of signature files. All of the Internet gurus recommend them as a fundamental tool to online marketing. Many, many sales are generated every day because of them. They sit like little signs along the road, passively advertising your product or your opportunity with every e-mail you send. They are comprised of a few words or lines of text and a URL or autoresponder e-mail address. While we all know what a valuable tool the signature file is, many of them are missed or ignored all together. After awhile, many marketers stop caring what the other guy has to promote. It’s easy to ignore a few lines of text tagged onto the end of an e-mail. Roadside sign vs. BILLBOARD As we said earlier, the power of the signature file, that little sign along the road is outstanding. But posting a BILLBOARD to compliment your little roadside sign makes this even MORE POWERFUL. Placing a full color LETTERHEAD on each e-mail you send, featuring your company name, URL, your name, e-mail address, any additional contact information you wish PLUS a photo or graphic of your product will advertise for you even when you’re not advertising. Click here and go Professional: letterheadforemail.com/index.asp?a=logon Not convinced? Keep reading... HOW WILL THIS HELP YOU MAKE MORE SALES? 1. EXPOSURE EVERY e-mail you send will expose your company or product FRONT AND CENTER! Say the flagship product for the nutritional company you are marketing for, XYZ Nutritional, is “Great Grape Antioxidants”. Your letterhead features a graphic or a photo of the Great Grape Antioxidants bottle (or even just the name as well as the company name). Maybe you could add another line like, “fights free radicals”, or “8 out of every 10 doctors take antioxidants”, or “50 times more powerful than Vitamin C”, or something to that effect. You send e-mails to Aunt Bea regularly but gosh, you just don’t want to push her into anything. You never really mention Great Grape. Just maybe some day she’ll look at her e-mail and the message will click, “8 out of every 10 DOCTORS???” Who knows? Maybe Aunt Bea will be your next customer. Maybe she’ll feel so great she’ll tell her friends and you’ll have half of them too. Who KNOWS what it will all lead to? Do you have a DOWNLINE? Imagine this. Take the number of people in your downline and multiply that by the number of e-mails that each one of them SENDS, REPLIES TO, and/or FORWARDS in a single day, whether they be personal or business. Now imagine them all with a full color letterhead at the TOP of their e-mail announcing Great Grape Antioxidants. Just think of the number of free, passive ads that you have floating around cyberspace EVERY SINGLE DAY! Send a thank you note to all the commercial e-mail you get in a day. EXPOSE all of these people to your ad for Great Grape Antioxidants, right there where they can’t miss it or ignore it. 2. CREDIBILITY You are offering your company name, your personal contact information, maybe even your picture. Now your prospects will view you as reliable and trustworthy, not just hiding behind some anonymous e-mail address. You may opt to place your company name, URL and product only, that is up to you. But to really MAXIMIZE your CREDIBILITY, there is no better way. If you are running a special promotion for your product, you can really SHOWCASE it by using a letterhead that features it. If you are marketing for more that one company, have a letterhead for each company that you represent! By using LETTERHEAD in your e-mail, you will: CAPTURE A MARKETING OPPORTUNITY with every e-mail you send ADVERTISE even when you are not ADVERTISING you will gain CREDIBILITY for you, your company and your product, and people will NOTICE and REMEMBER your e-mail Letterhead is the NEWEST tool to add to your marketing arsenal. Click here and go Professional: http://www.letterheadforemail.com/index.asp?a=logon ================================== About the Author: Bobbette Madonna publishes LOGON NewZine and the Guerrilla Marketing Resource Center. Also, she is the owner of www.niba4u.com - a spam watch site and is a partner for the fight against unfair termination of service at www.spamattorney.biz The main subscription and marketing site is located here: www.logonnewzine.com ========================================