If you are marketing your business on facebook (and you very well should be, considering it's the most popular social networking site!) you are bound to have tons of leads that you do not have an email address for. Am I right? You know, the prospects who request info from you but haven't "had time" to go check out your website yet (where you SHOULD have a capture page- a way to collect their email addresses- before they can even access your website!) The one and only way you have to contact those leads is through facebook. And that can get VERY time consuming, once you have hundreds or even thousands of leads to follow up with.
If your goal is to work smarter, not harder, and automate as much of your business as possible (which again, it very well should be!) then I have an AWESOME tip for you today! It's a way to collect the email addresses of those prospects without having to ask for it. Would that help you out, at all? Of course it would!!! So let's get started, shall we?!? Step 1- Go to www.yahoo.com and create a new FREE yahoo email account. Step 2- Once you are logged in to your new account- Click the little avatar/person icon on the top left corner of the screen. Step 3- Click "Facebook" on the left. Step 4- Click "Import." Step 5- Click "Continue as YOUR NAME." Step 6- Once the import is complete, the email address of everyone on your facebook friends list who shares their email address- will now be stored in your "Contacts" in your new yahoo mail account. Now you will simply go through the list and grab the email address of those you need it for, and add them to your auto-responder. If you have a leads list (and again, you SHOULD! lol) you can simply go through your leads list and type in (or copy/paste) their names, one by one, into the search box in your yahoo contacts. *Remember that you are ONLY grabbing email addresses for those who have asked you for information! Adding random facebook friends to your auto-responder will be considered SPAMMING. You ONLY add those who have requested information from you about your business and have not yet given you a yes or no answer. Some of those people may no longer be interested and if that is the case, they can simply click the "unsubscribe" button when they receive an email from your auto-responder. *In order for this technique to work, your prospects will need to be on your friends list, on facebook. That is one of the many reasons why it's so important to always ask them to send you a friend request when they request information from you. If they do not send you one, you can send them one. Some people may not accept it, and that's fine. You can then ask for their email address, instead. If they are not on your friends list nor do you have their email address, make a note to follow up with them via facebook message periodically. I hope this tip has been helpful for you! Now go get it done! =) To Your Success, Missy VanMeter www.facebook.com/mdvanmeter www.facebook.com/groups/tinyhomebiglife
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Hi, I'm Missy! I am a 29 year old work-at-home homeschooling Mommy, Wife, Animal-lover, homesteader, & Christian Ministry student. Categories
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