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DeskPing Sizzle Lines FTC Compliant With Do Not Call Regulations

The FTC has won again as it continues to crack down on violators (companies and individuals) accused of violating the Do Not Call Registry, which now includes 145 million phone numbers (almost 1/2 the US population.) Which is why DeskPing Sizzle Lines are still your best tool for sifting and sorting through your prospects.

This last November, there were six violators who will now pay the FTC $7.7 million in civil penalties.

The companies named in the settlement included Craftmatic, Ameriquest, Global Mortgage Funding, ADT and Guardian Communications. Some name brand companies, not fly by night boiler room companies, here today, gone tomorrow.

Not only does the FTC collect the $7.7 million, they have also through the US Justice department taken legal action to prohibit these companies from ever violating the DNC list ever again.

So what does this have to do with Sizzle Lines?

With the prolifacation of Predictive Dialers and online dialing services I fear that more and more home-based entrepreneurs are going to be faced with FTC violations and not just the big boys.

What happens is entrepreneurs are purchasing fresh and aged autoresponder leads and placing them inside these dialing services. However, these prospects have not given their permission to be called, only emailed. So when the un-expecting entrepreneur sends a recorded message or uses one of these new online dialing services, and they connect with a prospect who has entered their information into the Do Not Call registry, YOU the homes-based entrepreneur is the one who pays the price!

With Sizzle lines you do not violate the DNC in any way shape or form. You can continue to purchase email leads (if you still rely on email) put your sizzle line number in the body of the email and they call it. If they like what they hear, they will follow your call to action and take the next step.

This is called sifting and sorting your suspects from the true prospects who are interested in finding a legitimate home-based business.

And, if you are building your business like the most successful home-based business entrepreneurs and are using real-time surveyed leads, you can use this same Sizzle Line, sifting and sorting method.

This will save your hours of time chasing the tire kickers. Now you can focus only on the serious prospects who will begin to chase you!

Never Give Up,

Troy Dooly

Do MLM Sizzle Calls Still Have Their Sizzle?

A few years ago, Sizzle Calls were the wave MLM prospecting. But lately I have heard several MLM Leaders asking “Do Sizzle calls still work?” My answer is YES!

The reason I feel so strongly about the use of Sizzle calls is because I have used them personally for years. As a matter of fact one of the most successful prospecting systems of all time in network marketing is built around Sizzle Calls.

Here are just a few ways you can use your DeskPing Sizzle Call service.

• Add your Sizzle Call number to a prospecting business card

• Add your Sizzle Call number to your MLM Lead Capture page

• Send your MLM Leads to your DeskPing Sizzle Call number

• Post your Sizzle Call number to Craigslist

• Place your Sizzle Call number on your Blog

• Create an Autoresponder email message with your Sizzle Call number

• Create a bumper sticker with your Sizzle Call Number on it

• Place your Sizzle Call number on a Car Sign

• MLM Leaders can create daily or weekly team trainings

• MLM CEOs can record Sizzle messages about their company

These are just a few tips on how you can use your DeskPing Sizzle Call number.

Here are a few other ideas for how to market DeskPing to others using the Sizzle Call number as your #1 benefit for the service.

• Pastors can record teachings and list the number on their website and church signs

• Attorney’s can use the DeskPing Sizzle line to record their briefs for transcription

• Business leaders can record messages for their secretaries to dictate later

• Politicians can record political messages and publish the number nationally

• Mentors can record motivational messages for their students to listen to.

• Husbands can record romantic messages for their wives

• Mothers can record important messages for their children

Now you see why I believe Sizzle Calls are still the backbone of a solid MLM marketing and prospecting system.

Here are a couple of other articles we have written on Sizzle Calls

Sizzle Lines Do Not Violate The DNC List
Sizzle Calls The Best Kept Secret To Generating A Six Figure Income

Never Give Up,

Troy Dooly
Rainmaker

Top 10 Reasons for Direct to Desktop Marketing

Read the top 10 reasons why you should consider direct to desktop marketing or a desktop application to send permission-based desktop messages to your readers.

Those reasons include…

1) It’s Spam free & Phishing free

With all the spam and phishing email scams today, is it really any wonder that businesses are sending their marketing messages via private direct to desktop communication channels?

Let’s face it, there’s simply too much spam email these days. So while well intentioned marketers are sending well intentioned emails, those emails are commonly getting deleted with the dozens or even hundreds of daily spam emails.

In the month of October 2006, Ironport Systems reported that more than 62 billion emails were sent each day by spammers. That totals 1.9 TRILLION spam emails in that one month alone.

Phishing email scams are also on the rise. Average loss per victim in the year 2006 was $1,244 (Gartner).

Customers wonder why their email receipts never arrive. They wonder why customer support emails never get answered. And all this puts an unnecessary strain on the customer/business relationship… which ultimately costs the business money in lost sales.

Spam email is annoying and it’s becoming more and more sexually explicit. WOW! Have you read the email subject lines lately? It’s gotten so bad that I won’t check my email around my kids. And as a marketer, you have to ask myself…”Is that really where you want my marketing message to appear… right next to the porn email?”

You’ll never have to compete with spam and phishing email again when you use direct to desktop marketing or a like desktop application. You’re always in the control of the content provided in your private marketing channel.

2) Direct to desktop marketing desktop messages are 100% deliverable

Direct to desktop marketing or a like desktop application delivers 100% of their desktop messages.

Using a direct to desktop marketing application, your messages will never be filtered.

No longer do you have to worry about if and when your email marketing service or autoresponder service is blocked.

No longer do you have to worry about spam filters filtering out your message and throwing it in the “junk” folder.

No longer will you have to worry about getting shut down due to spam complaints.

Direct to desktop communication is 100% deliverable. Since it uses RSS technology (the same technology that fuels today’s blogs), your desktop message is never blocked. Instead, your messages are sent directly to your reader’s computer. That means that critical or time-sensitive messages area always delivered on time, every time.

3) It includes Rich Media

Have you tried sending streaming web audio or streaming web video in your email marketing message lately? If so, then you know that it’s virtually impossible to do so.

That’s not the case when you use direct to desktop marketing desktop applications in your marketing.

Direct to desktop marketing desktop applications allow marketers to include rich media in their marketing messages. And by “rich media”, I’m referring to streaming web audio, streaming web video and graphics.

Now, why is that so important?

It’s important because real people communication is both verbal and visual: words you can hear and visual you can see.

Audio and visual allows the marketer to communicate with their readers online in ways that they could not before.

And more importantly, rich media allows marketers to build trust with their readers faster and easier than every before.

When buyers know you, like you and trust you, they’re more likely to do business with you.

4) It’s Personalized

Email marketing showed us the importance of personalizing our marketing messages to our readers. And by personalization, I’m referring to the use of the reader’s personal name directly in the marketing message like… “Hello Alice… Hello Bob…” etc.

That same personalization is now available in at least one direct to desktop marketing service. That service allows the marketer to automatically place the reader’s name directly into the desktop message just as they could in the old email autoresponder days.

5) It Provides Sequential Messaging

Savvy marketers understand that it takes repeated exposures to their prospects before their prospects make a decision to buy from them. Email marketers learned this early on. That’s why email autoresponders worked so well for them. Autoresponder allowed email marketers to write a series of messages in advance, and then assemble those messages into a sequence that would be sent to their readers over a preset interval of time. We call that “sequential messaging”.

Sequential messaging is now available in at least one direct to desktop marketing desktop application. It allows their marketers to write their marketing messaging in advance and then deliver those messages to their readers at preset intervals of time.

Sequential messaging allows marketers to literally put their marketing on auto-pilot.

6) It’s Safe, Secure

Direct to desktop marketing desktop applications use RSS to deliver their content or desktop messages. RSS is the same technology that fuels blog communication throughout the Internet today.

7) It’s Engaging

People like “moving pictures”.

As humans, we like to see, talk and hear. That’s how we communicate. So is it any wonder that television commercials are so effective (and expensive)? It’s because they work.

And so are direct to desktop marketing desktop applications. They communicate with the readers by fully engaging their reader’s senses.

It’s Always Expected

What’s the one thing you’ll never see or hear again when you use direct to desktop marketing desktop applications?

A spam complaint.

Readers KNOW why they’re receiving your desktop messages. In fact, they expect your message. They’ll even call you on occasion (if your business is like mine) asking why you haven’t written them lately.

Customers calling you…now that’s a nice “problem” to have?

9) Improved Response Rates

In a recent survey, 59% of consumers said they would subscribe more often if they didn’t have to give out as much information. So the less you ask of a consumer, the more consumers will respond.

Since direct to desktop marketing desktop applications typically require little if any personal information, marketers can dramatically improve their optin rates when compared to building an email list.

And since more direct to desktop marketing messages are delivered, more people respond to those messages.

10) It monetizes.

When more people respond to more messages, the marketer stands to make more money.

Our own studies have shown that one can ultimately make as much or even more money with a smaller, more responsive direct to desktop marketing optin list than they can with a larger optin email list.

Converting marketing efforts into sales… isn’t that why we’re in business in the first place?

Are you ready to launch your direct to desktop marketing campaign? 10 strong reasons say you should.

WEBSITE: http://www.deskping.com

KEYWORDS: desktop application, direct to desktop marketing, desktop messages

Sizzle Calls The Best Kept Secret In Generating A Six Figure Income

Each morning I log into my DeskPing account to check my Sizzle Call Box messages from the night before. This allows me to know how many prospects I have to follow up that day. Then I climb up into my 4×4, run by the store to grab some cheese and fruit, and off to the beach with Paige.

Just about every day when we’re done walking on the beach I use my cell phone to dial into my DeskPing Sizzle Call Box to check and see how many new prospects I have waiting for me to call them back. Want to know the great thing about using a DeskPing Sizzle Call Box? When I click to listen to the message left by the prospect, 9 times out of 10 it’s someone who has been driving behind me as I go to the beach and saw the number in my back window. This truly rocks – here I am having folks call me, while I am enjoying time with my wife and family at the beach.

I have printed up what I call Personally Branded Sizzle Cards to use in my business cards. These cards have my DeskPing Sizzle Call Number as my main number, and my home office number as an emergency number. This is a wonderful method of getting your message out to folks you would not normally prospect. So when you do call them back, they will have called your DeskPing Sizzle Call Number, you can know casually ask them what they think? (This is a great method of prospecting for those who are a little fearful of talking to their friends, family and business associates.)

Using DeskPing Sizzle Call Boxes are great ways for you to generate very targeted and specific leads, some that may have more to do with your product or service than your business in some cases.

A couple of other ways to use your DeskPing Sizzle Call Box is to use it on Landing pages, as an over lay on streaming videos you place on difference social networking sites, and as your main contact number on blog posts and forums where you are a member.

Here is a simple 3-step system I developed using my DeskPing Service which allows me to sift and sort my leads. I use this system with lead I generate from my landing pages and leads I purchase from Enrique over at MLMLeads.com.

I commit to taking at least 9 people per day through my 3-Step system. Each of these 9 potential business partners listen to a special “sifting” message I developed. I three-way them into the call so when the call is complete I can ask them very specific and targeted questions. This sifting call gives an empowering presentation about how they can make money if they qualify to be my business partner. After listening to the sifting call 84% of the leads tell me they would like to schedule a follow-up appointment to learn more. It’s been years since I have had that type of results from email marketing. It sure cuts down on the rejection factor.

As a side note, I should also say, I take very detailed notes from my calls and enter them into the contact manager in outlook. This eliminates me misplacing any notes I might make on notebook paper. Plus this allows me to sync up with my PDA and cell phone. I no longer have paper everywhere and I can find anyone at the click of a button and know exactly what I talked about by reviewing the notes.

The second part of my 3-step system is to have each prospect who has requested a follow-up appointment to subscribe to my personal DeskPing Communicator. I explain this is the most up to date cutting-edge permission based marketing tool being used today. Talk about getting excited, they love the fact we do not use the same old run of the mill marketing techniques used by others they have talked with. I also explain that at any time they can un-install the communicator and never receive another message from me. Then I explain that as one of my new business partners they will also receive ongoing training through this same communicator.

The final step of my 3-step system is to have them watch our business briefing video online. Once this is completed I am very specific and ask the following question “Based on everything you have seen over the last 24 hours, is their anything or anyone that would stand in the way of you starting your own marketing and distribution firm right now? And I shut up!

My system would not work if it wasn’t for DeskPing and MLMLeads. All I have talked about in this post is the sizzle call service. However I want you to know I use everything; the conference call bridge for training, the video and audio engine for recording, uploading and hosting all of my streaming media. And most of all I love the fact I can create landing pages on the fly.

Take time right now and take a Test Drive of the DeskPing Services for only $3.97, then go visit Enrique over at MLMLeads and see what leads will work best for your business, and marketing model. (Tell him I sent you, and he’ll give you a special deal on your first lead order.)

Never Give Up,

Troy Dooly

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