Carrie Wilkerson amassed a following of over 55,000 listeners, viewers and subscribers in her first year of working online because she believes in personalization.
Carrie was interviewed by Rob Toth as part of Dan Kennedy's Info Riches course. Rob interviewed the top information marketers in a series called "Future Of Information Marketing".
She is a work at home mom raising four young children. Before she started her online business she had been running businesses from home for over ten years.
Very few people are able to reach the success levels that Carrie has been able to achieve in such a short period of time. This is especially true of someone working part-time in her very first venture online. According to Carrie there are people at the top who are making millions and people at the bottom who are not making much at all. She says the middle ground is where the big opportunity is. This is where the competition is heating up and people will need to set themselves apart by building relationships.
First there were pictures on web pages to help personalize. Then there was audio, now there is a big push on having video because it makes it more real. Carrie says "I still think people want more. They want more personalization." She says that people are tired of being just a number. People are tired of their marketers being "faceless and flat behind a screen".
Marketers wait for people to come to them instead of going out and serving their customers. Carrie says "I don't want to be that impersonal, don't want to be unapproachable... don't want to be unreachable or set apart". "I want to be right in the trenches..." "I think it makes me more real. I think it makes me more touchable."
While teaching high school, Carrie found that people have different learning styles. She says that she "learned that some people are readers, some people are listeners. Some people are watchers and some people are touchers and doers." Carrie says its important that we connect with each person's learning style. "Unless you are touching all of the respective styles of people you are missing 25% of the population."
If a person only sends out emails they will only be appealing to readers. If your strategy is exclusively audio, you will only get the listeners as your audience. With this in mind Carrie has developed 50 training videos. She is very happy to see that the people who watch her videos have a realistic sense of who she is. "It's a rapport builder".
When Carried runs into someone who has watched her videos she says they feel like they know her personally. If one of her viewers runs into her on Twitter they treat her like a friend. It's a real, personal connection for people who have seen her on the videos.
Carrie tries to touch all learning styles in her marketing. She says it "has been great for lowering trust barriers and creating a following". If a marketer can lower the trust barriers in people, they will be willing to buy from them again and again. These people will be willing to stay on the mailing list and will continue to interact with you to deepen the relationship.
Your goal as a marketer is to develop a trusting relationship with your customers. If you can do that, they will stay with you regardless of what your competition may offer. You will have a stable, successful business. - 15485
Carrie was interviewed by Rob Toth as part of Dan Kennedy's Info Riches course. Rob interviewed the top information marketers in a series called "Future Of Information Marketing".
She is a work at home mom raising four young children. Before she started her online business she had been running businesses from home for over ten years.
Very few people are able to reach the success levels that Carrie has been able to achieve in such a short period of time. This is especially true of someone working part-time in her very first venture online. According to Carrie there are people at the top who are making millions and people at the bottom who are not making much at all. She says the middle ground is where the big opportunity is. This is where the competition is heating up and people will need to set themselves apart by building relationships.
First there were pictures on web pages to help personalize. Then there was audio, now there is a big push on having video because it makes it more real. Carrie says "I still think people want more. They want more personalization." She says that people are tired of being just a number. People are tired of their marketers being "faceless and flat behind a screen".
Marketers wait for people to come to them instead of going out and serving their customers. Carrie says "I don't want to be that impersonal, don't want to be unapproachable... don't want to be unreachable or set apart". "I want to be right in the trenches..." "I think it makes me more real. I think it makes me more touchable."
While teaching high school, Carrie found that people have different learning styles. She says that she "learned that some people are readers, some people are listeners. Some people are watchers and some people are touchers and doers." Carrie says its important that we connect with each person's learning style. "Unless you are touching all of the respective styles of people you are missing 25% of the population."
If a person only sends out emails they will only be appealing to readers. If your strategy is exclusively audio, you will only get the listeners as your audience. With this in mind Carrie has developed 50 training videos. She is very happy to see that the people who watch her videos have a realistic sense of who she is. "It's a rapport builder".
When Carried runs into someone who has watched her videos she says they feel like they know her personally. If one of her viewers runs into her on Twitter they treat her like a friend. It's a real, personal connection for people who have seen her on the videos.
Carrie tries to touch all learning styles in her marketing. She says it "has been great for lowering trust barriers and creating a following". If a marketer can lower the trust barriers in people, they will be willing to buy from them again and again. These people will be willing to stay on the mailing list and will continue to interact with you to deepen the relationship.
Your goal as a marketer is to develop a trusting relationship with your customers. If you can do that, they will stay with you regardless of what your competition may offer. You will have a stable, successful business. - 15485
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