Brian Gosur

Advice and Strategies That Will Take You To The Next Level

Oh, It Will Probably Rain Anyway – That’s Why You’re Still in The Box

Do you know an Eeyore, or maybe even have one in your business? It’s a complete wonder to me, how Eeyore’s would even make an attempt in any kind of  business.

In case you might not know who Eeyore is, Eeyore is one of the Disney characters from the “Winnie The Pooh” movies . If you have children, you’ve probably seen one or more of these movies. Eeyore was the very complaining and negative donkey friend of Winnie the Pooh.

Only Eeyore could walk out into a beautiful sunny day, and utter those infamous words, “Oh, it will probably rain anyway.”

Eeyore struggled to see the good in anything, but he could always point out to you all the negative things that could happen and maybe even just might happen.

He walked with his head hanging down and his ears dropped to the floor. He almost always had a frown on his face and never just walked, but kind of shuffled along.

Do you know anyone like that? They aren’t very pleasant people to be around, as a matter of fact, they usually don’t have very many friends, and you certainly don’t want one in your business.

These are people who belong to the 97% group. The 97% of people who live their lives in the box, and never venture out of the front yard for fear of getting attacked or sunburn, or having a tree fall on them, or any number of malady’s that just maybe could happen.

Fear is a terrible prison to live in. It can control you to the point of total incarceration, and being unable to move through the normal routines of life. People who fear everything have a hard time making the simplest decisions and choices and never ever offer any ideas of their own, just complain about yours.

Eeyore’s are looking at things from the confines of their box. They have to stand on their tip toes just to see over the top, let alone see something way down the road. They look at things through the glasses of pessimism not perseverance.

They are the Debbie Downers of the modern world. When you see them in a business presentation, run from them as fast as you can. They can spread like a cancer in your business and they are not the people you want to build an organization around.

Eeyore’s were around Thomas Edison telling him that his crazy scheme of an electric light bulb will never work. Thank God for his perseverance and his ability to shut their noise out and continue to move forward until his vision came to light.  (no pun intended)

There are no Eeyore’s or Debbie Downers in entrepreneurship. If you are an entrepreneur you are not an Eeyore, at least I’ve never met one.

Some of the most dynamic and down to earth people are entrepreneurs. They are the visionaries of the world. They are the ones that walk out into a cloudy day and say, “I see the sun trying to break through.” They see the glass half full instead of half empty. They say, “why can’t we do that?”

Robert Kennedy said, “some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were, and ask why not.” That’s a visionary.

I grew up in a home of Eeyore’s and Debbie Downers, and even today when we get together for holidays and dinners, I hate to admit it, but it’s so hard to be around all the negativity in the room.

We all go through those times of being a little down and struggling, but we persevere through those times and you continue to move forward. Don’t park yourself there, keep going toward your goals. You’re paving the way for others, and defeat or quitting is not an option.

Always continue to move toward your goals, and don’t listen to the Eeyore’s or Debbie Downers in your life. Don’t quit until you reach what you can see.

Everything About You is Branding Who You Are Where Ever You Go

Some friends were coming over to our house a while back for a visit, and I realized what kind of impression I was portraying to others, and the type of person I was telling them I was when they saw how the outside of my house looked. I take great pride in having my lawn nicely manicured and flowers planted around, it’s a reflection of me.

On the other hand, I call my wife the “Martha Stewart” of the family, because she has to have everything clean and everything decorated and in its place. Our house, on the inside, could be on the cover of “Better Homes and Gardens” magazine.

Now I don’t say this to brag or to elevate us above anyone else, but we live in a small home, about 1600 square feet, but we do work hard at keeping it looking nice.

But it hit me, the way the inside of the house looks, and is decorated, is the finger print of my wife on our home and our life, and the way the outside looks is the my fingerprint on our home and our lives. It’s says something of who we are and what we are like.

Everything about you is branding who you are where ever you go.

Everything that we say and do, and the way we say it and do it,  is a reflection or a branding of who we are. The way we talk, the way we dress, the importance we put on different things, are we organized and disciplined or not, all these and more, reflect a small piece of our personality to the people we are exposing ourselves too.

For example, those of you who follow me and read my posts are learning a little bit about me simply by reading what I write and the way I write it.

Because of all this we should take a pause and see the way we are reflecting ourselves to others, and if you don’t have a plan of action, you should plan on what you need to do to brand yourself. How do your prospects see you? What kind of person do you want to emulate to your world?

I’m not just talking about to your business world, but to everyone, because who you really are will always come out into the forefront. You can put up a mask to hide behind for only so long, and then the real you will come out.

You can put up a mask to hide behind for only so long.

Have you ever met someone who was famous and maybe you saw them running to catch a plane or somewhere behind the scenes, and they weren’t the way you had expected them to be?

I met Ted Lindsay once, hockey legend and Hall of Famer, and he was the most gracious man I have ever met. Here was this great hockey player who was known for the way he took care of business on the ice, and yet he took the time to talk to my sons and sign autographs. It made you feel important that he stopped to take that time to talk with you.

The most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who are just being themselves. The same person you read and see in videos, is the same person that you will meet at a company function or maybe a person that is more personable than you thought.

Branding yourself goes a lot further than just doing videos and writing articles, it’s who you are on the inside, who you are when no one is watching, and letting your market get a little peak at the real you once in a while.

Now I understand, everyone needs the time when you let your hair hang down and you relax with your family and friends, there should always be a side of you that you keep for the very close and intimate people in your life. That’s not what I’m talking about here.

I’m talking about who you portray and how you portray yourself on the business platform, should be the real you, and not a mask to hind behind.

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How Do You Deal With Negative Hits and Comments?

When I was growing up, negativity was the rule of my home. My father wasn’t home much and my mother was a very negative and critical person, and so children breed in that type of environment will grow up to be negative and critical as well.

My mouth got me in a lot of trouble while I was growing up and it has been a long and hard road to get that tongue somewhat under control. I have greatly improved on that but my wife might tell you otherwise.

Being a network marketer and using the vehicle of the internet to market, I have a couple of blogs where  promote and brand myself and the various businesses that I am involved in.

As in anything, everyone who is in the crowd will always wait for someone else to speak up first, and for someone else to step forward before they and others will come out and divide themselves behind the people or the causes that they believe in. Mark those people out who speak up first, because they are the real leaders and they are the ones others will follow.

It’s always those people who step out and speak up first, that get the most thrown at them. Leaders walk a very lonely road, and there is never a time that you can, or should, please everyone.

But what do you do when those negative remarks and stone throwers come out at you? How do you handle these kinds of people.

There is a friend of mine who posted how she handled a negative person who stood right up against her in the middle of a business presentation she was doing. How would you handle that one?

I played hockey when I was younger, and given the meek mild-mannered person that I am, (not), if you hit me during a game, I was coming after you. I could almost guarantee, that I would get to you before the game was finished.

Just a little hockey love tap

Unfortunately, we can’t operate like that with our businesses and in our society today, we would all be in jail. So how do you handle these people and there objections.

I say this with my teeth clenched and with great trepidation, we should attack with kindness. Yes…kill them with kindness. The old adage, “the customer is always right”, is how we should approach this.

Now I didn’t say this would be easy, but this is what we should practice.

I write a series of articles on HubPages, and I usually write about politically and controversially charged issues, so needless to say, I get a whole lot of attacks and negative remarks about the stand and views that I take. Because it has nothing to do with my business ventures, I am not as nice as I should be but I do try very hard to be. I’ve had to apologize on more that one occasion.

Now there are those people who will complain, argue, and fight just about anything. All they want is the attention it brings, not the truth. They are seeking only self-gratification and nothing else.

These people should be exposed for the frauds they are. Don’t waste any of your energy or time with them at all, as a matter of fact hitting the delete button is usually the best way that I’ve found to deal with them. Don’t even give them a platform to stand on. That usually gets them even more angry, but oh well, it’s your blog isn’t it?

To those who are legit and are really asking and looking for answers, being direct, kind, and helpful is always the best approach. If you can’t answer their requests in a few short responses, take the conversation to the private sector.

Remember you have an audience who is watching how you handle these types of questions, and they may also be having the same thoughts themselves, but are just sitting back of the crowd and waiting for someone else to step forward. It’s just the way human nature operates.

When people see how you handle these objections and these types of people, you will either grow more as a definitive leader in their eyes, or you will be losing some of your followers.

If you mess up and say something that you shouldn’t have said, (like I’ve done before), apologize openly and publicly. This is also a sign of the type of person you are, and the kind of leader you are in your business.

Some of the best coaches and leaders that I’ve had or seen, were not perfect people and they never portrayed themselves as such, but when they made a mistake, they were always man enough to admit it and say they were sorry. Being a real person is always the best format you can take as a leader.

That’s my kind of leader, because that’s the type of person I want to be. I will step forward, I will be the point man, but I know my weaknesses also and, I know how to be open to good solid criticism, so that I can always improve and get better.

A good leader is always improving and will be the first to tell you that,  he or she, is not perfect and doesn’t have all the answers, but together we can walk this road.

Give me some of your experiences in this matter. How do you deal with negative hits and comments?

Communication – The Key To Life and Your Business

There are many elements and qualities that you must possess to be successful in life, but there is none that is more important than communication.

The ability to communicate with other human beings. To be able to convey a thought or an idea to another individual, and through the incredible process of communication, allow them to see what you see. That’s what communication can do for your life and relationships, but it can also work this same magic in your business as well.

Let’s first explain what communication is not. Communication is not the used car salesman type, who sees you coming and chases you down and starts to talk and talk and talk, and never shuts up. That is not what communication is.

Actually, what real communication is, will probably shock some of you, because it’s more listening than it is talking. You do have to talk to have a meaning line of communication, but you will do more listening than you will do talking to have effective communication.

One of my pet peeves about communication, and I see more and more of this going on with so many people today, is the uncanny ability to make you think they are listening to you, when they really aren’t. They’re more worried about the task at hand than anything you have to say.

Have you ever been talking to someone on the phone and you can hear the key board keys clicking away? What do you think they’re doing? They’re not listening to you, that’s for sure… they are typing on their computer and they’re concentrating on what their typing, not on what you’re saying.

The best way to stop this is to abruptly stop talking right in the middle of what you’re saying. Than the only noise you hear is them banging on those keys. They’ll realize you’ve stopped talking, and they’ll stop typing, but remember, they don’t have a clue as to what you were saying to them. They will quickly try to answer you back with some sort of response, and the responses that you will get are so funny.

I remember telling a friend of a tragic event that took place, and I could hear him typing on the key board. I stopped and he did too, but as he fumbled with his words of response to me, all he could think of to say was, “that’s great Brian.” I said, ” what’s so great about my friend’s daughter wrecking their car in an automobile accident?” I had him and he knew it, so he did apologize, but this is something that I see taking place way to much, especially in the business world.

This is the most rude act in communication that we could do, but why are so many of us doing it, and we’ve all done it… myself included. I don’t ever want to convey the message to someone that there are more important things in my life than to be talking to you right now. This is not good for business.

The biggest part of communication is to listen. Ask some pointed questions and than just shut up and listen. First one to talk loses. How can you ever know anything about a person unless you listen to what they have to say? How will you ever know what they need if you never let them tell you.

Listening is a skill that has to be learned and it takes some of us longer to get this part down, than it takes for others, but it is something you must learn and master if you are going to be successful in your business or in any relationship.

I was the king of talking about me, myself, and I. That’s all that existed for me and it took years, and with great trial and error, that I learned the art of listening.

My wife can tell you some stories, but I’ll let her do that the next time we get together.

The other thing that you must do when you are talking with someone is, make eye contact with them. Don’t be looking around at other people passing you by, or birds flying in the trees, focus on them and what they are saying. Asking questions and responding to what they’re saying, will show them that you are listening and you are taking to heart, what they have to say.

Everybody wants to be validated and giving a listening ear to your customers or clients is the best way to do that. Try it and I guarantee, you will be surprised at the results that you get.

If you can master the art of communication and practice this foreign and new aspect called listening into the mix, your business will change and your life will take on a whole new meaning.

So by all means, learn communication, the key to your life and your business, and you will put yourself in a position of success on all fronts.

 

Is Email Marketing Dead Today?

Hate spam, and most internet marketers that I know hate spam also. When I think of spam, I think of email. Sometimes I get so much spam, I don’t even want to open and read my email, but email has been associated with the internet since it’s inception.

Remember, when the idea of sending a message across cyberspace to a friend, in another state, was just the most incredible thing ever. The first email message was sent some forty years ago, and propelled the internet as a viable means of communication.

What was brand new back then has become so commonplace today, and like everything good, there are those who abuse the system, but as a network marketer, using the vehicle of the internet, I ask you… is email marketing dead today?

Text marketing, QR codes, and video marketing are coming into their own and are very effective forms of marketing, but do people still read their emails?

Yes they do, and maybe even more so today then they did way back when.

Email has taken on different forms, and you can add so much to an email today that you couldn’t before. Videos, pictures, hyperlinks to your website, all so much more to make your email a virtual television commercial online.

It’s also cost effective and practically pays for itself when you want to move someone from conversation to conversion.

But what makes your email such an effective tool, is the value you put into it. What draws people to you is the value you bring to them, in exchange for their valuable time.

Spamming people, with all those relentless promises of wealth and prosperity over night, with the next greatest product…don’t work. Ever hear of the delete tab, because that’s where they end up. A waste of your time and theirs.

Quality email content builds your relationship and trust with your audience through effective subject lines, that entice them to read more, writing as if you were sitting right across the table from them, and handing over the quality goods that your prospects need to hear and will be willing to share with others.

Lots of people think email is old fashioned, and text marketing is the way to go, but the reality is, with a strong push for quality content that targets your  market, email is more powerful today than it ever has. It moves the conversation from business and product to a more personal environment. It provides a more direct line of communication.

The most successful marketers have a good solid relationship with there lists, through the vehicle of email. I bet you could even name a couple of them, that you might even look forward to getting their emails, because you know that they are going to be giving you solid information or training, that you can use, and that you don’t mind sharing with your people also. That’s the  name of the game right there.

Is email marketing dead today? Absolutely not, and if you aren’t using it, you are missing out on a good, (old fashioned),  solid tool that you should be using from your marketing tool belt.

A Personal Hello is Far Superior Than a Generic Hi

Have you ever been in a situation where you bump into someone that you haven’t seen in a long time and you can’t remember their name? Especially someone that you may have worked with very closely for a long time. Embarrassing isn’t it?

What was your name again?

Or what about when you bump into someone, that you haven’t seen in awhile, and they not only remember your name but maybe remember a situation or circumstance that you or a family member was going through? That is impressive, and doesn’t it make you feel kind of important? Doesn’t it make you feel good about yourself and that person who still remembers you?

I am terrible at names and so this sort of thing is something that I battle with quite frequently. It doesn’t take a long separation or a real different setting for me to forget someone’s name. I have to work very hard at getting this all down right.

This sort of amnesia is not something that you want to get into the habit of doing in your business.

Well you don’t have to anymore, because I have found a tool that is just one part of a whole arsenal of tools, that can help you with things such as this.

It’s called IMToolSuite, and if you haven’t heard of this remarkable toolbox of marketing tools for all the top marketers, you are going to here about one part of it right now.

It’s called video email, and I know video email is not exactly new, but this is.

I do a lot of marketing on Face Book, as many of you do also, and when I get people that send me a friend request, I do what most of all of you do, I click the accept button and that’s the end of it.

Then I got fancy and would send them a very generic hello, and that was good, and on occasion I would get a video from someone about a friend request, but that has only happened maybe twice out of thousands of friends.

What if you could send them a personal video calling them by their name and making a connection from something you found off their profile? What if the video was wrapped in a very professional looking template that was about Face Book or better yet, about the very industry that they were involved in. If they were in real estate, have a very cool looking real estate template. If they were in a particular network marketing company, have it in the template that represents their company.

That’s not all, when your short welcoming video is over they are immediately sent to your website, another video, or capture page of your choosing. It could be about your company or about IMToolSuite. They have a great affiliate program connected to this incredible product also. More about that later.

I have found, when people get a personal video email from me, and I look right into the camera and say their name, and refer to something from their profile, they feel important and good about themselves. And if they are in real estate and see this very professional real estate template, or whatever business they are in, they are going to want to know more about me and where they can get this same tool that I’m using.

That’s when they get sent immediately to a place where all their questions can be answered, and signing up is just a breeze after that. After all, it’s just $5.oo to try IMToolSuite out, for two whole weeks, and try the other fifteen tools out that are in place for your use.

Did I also tell you that I saved over a hundred dollars a month because I got to cancel a couple of tools that I was using from other sources, that I didn’t need anymore. They were already in the IMToolSuite’s back-office.

This is just not for network marketers either. I am planning a campaign to take IMToolSuite to all the brick and mortar businesses around my area. If they have customers, they need IMToolSuite as well.

Wait till you here about the Face Book Fanpage creator and the webinar on demand tool. Absolutely phenomenal! That will be coming in in my next posts.

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What are you waiting for? Pull out $5.00 bucks and try it for two weeks. You won’t regret it.

Recruiting and Moving Products is Network Marketing

Network marketing is not a pyramid scheme, and it’s not a scam! Now that we’ve got that out-of-the-way let’s get to the heart of this post.

Network marketing has got such a bad rap from people who are not in network marketing, don’t know anything about network marketing, and never have been in any kind of business in their life.

Have you ever noticed that the people who complain and wine the most about something are always the ones that know the least about it.

I witnessed an automobile accident a couple of years ago, as it happened. I saw the car go flying off the road and land just in front of a telephone pole right in front of me. I parked my car and rushed over where I found a very frightened young teenage girl, she was unhurt, but very scared.

After the police came and the reports were filled out, I heard all kinds of people who said that a girl was killed, that her baby was in the back seat, etc, etc. Everyone of those people were not there when the accident happened and didn’t have a clue as to what they were talking about, but yet they freely gave out false information as to what happened.

I see that very same thing happen in the network marketing industry. If you are interested in getting involved in a network marketing business of your own, talk to some one who is in the business and knows what they are talking about. There are credible and honest people in this industry who give out value and help to those who are seriously looking for it.

Like any business, recruiting and moving products is network marketing. Whether you own a brick and mortar business or any business, you must move products and recruit others to help you move products to keep your business flourishing. That’s how business works, and that’s how you make money.

More and more millionaires are being produced through network marketing. More and more people are coming into network marketing, out of necessity, and finding a completely new career, that is producing for them another income.

Through the internet, a brand new stream of businesses, and a whole new way of doing business is evolving, and more and more companies are jumping on this band wagon. Companies failing to comprehend the substantial pace at which the internet is growing are already loosing ground to competitors. In the recent past even retail giants missing opportunities to compete have disappeared completely.

Network marketing is “The business of the 21st Century”, according to business leader and best-selling author, Robert Kiyosaki. His, “Rich Dad – Poor Dad”, book series is still one of the best sources of information to small business owners today.

Robert Kiyosaki's Newest Book

In the next ten to twenty years, the internet is going to change the way we all do business, and network marketing is going to be in the fore front and leading the way for people, just like you and me, to start and maintain a business of our very own, not just creating another stream of income, but producing a source of income for our families and other families for decades to come.

If you’re thinking of dipping your toes into network marketing, let me help you get started with a free gift. It’s a business training that we did on internet marketing. It’s my gift to you. Watch it and I will personally call you and talk to you about your marketing needs. Click on the picture for instant access to this training.

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There Are Two Words in Network Marketing – Network and Marketing

Network Marketing. Yes there are two words in network marketing. Network and marketing.

What’s a network? A network is an organization or a group of people who are all working for the same goal. That could describe the company or place of employment that you are at right now, but I would highly doubt that you are all working for the same goal.

You see, your goal might be to become president of that company one day, or maybe just a floor supervisor, but whatever it is, I can almost guarantee that they are others in the company that have the same aspirations as you do, and only one is going to get the prize.

Have you ever seen the movie, “Wall-street”? In the movie, Michael Douglas plays the CEO of a huge corporation and Charlie Sheen is the young  aspiring, goal driven, corporate executive climbing the ladder and trying to get to the top. It’s a great view of the dog eat dog life of a JOB, whether it’s corporate America or just working in a small gas station, there is always someone who wants your job. This is called a network.

In network marketing there is a network of people who are all working for the same thing, but it’s not the boss’s job they’re after. You see in network marketing, you are the boss, because it’s your business and you run your own network, or organization of people, to achieve financial freedom, and everyone in your network is working to achieve this same goal. Nobody is stepping on someone else’s toes so they can leap-frog over them and get to the top. We’re all working for the same end. No dog eat dog here.

Now the other word that is in network marketing is…marketing, and this is the one that most people forget about. Marketing is the key to running your network. Without marketing you won’t have a network for very long.

I have a friend who did not want to learn anything about marketing, all he wanted to do was find the next greatest product, put it out there and people would come from miles and miles away to purchase this incredible product that he had. That’s what he thought anyway.

Your just one peddler in an ocean of peddlers 

He came to a very stark reality that he was just one peddler in an ocean of peddlers and why should anyone consider him over another?

When you learn some marketing strategies and techniques on how important the marketing part is to your network marketing business, then and only then, will you start making some strides toward building your network and making some nice residual money in the process, and a process it is.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will your network marketing business be either. It’s going to take you learning some new skills and putting together an organization that will grow and propel your business into high gear.

Along with marketing skills, people skills are a nice thing to have also. If you struggle with this part, you might want to get into some training and hook up with some people who can teach you the art of listening, because that is the number one qualification to your people skills that you must have. I say art, because learning to listen well is an art and it just doesn’t come natural to most people…at least it didn’t with me.

I hated to get on the phone because I was always afraid of saying the wrong thing and that is because I was always talking to much. When I learned how to listen and let my prospect do most of the talking, it became very easy. My prospect would lead the way and I would just monitor the conversation.

Yes, there are two words in network marketing, and there are two skills that are very important to master in your network marketing business. People skills and learning the skill of listening are what you must master. They will also help you in so many other parts of your life. Really folks… listening is not a bad thing.

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Closing The Door To Your Buyers and Your Business Will Grow

Looking at some old family pictures the other day, and I was looking at the old haircut, and those clothes and shoes. Wow, what made me buy those shoes?

Well there was a very good salesman who convinced me that I had to have these shoes. Everyone was getting them and they were the next biggest craze, and they make me look sooooo cool.

Ever buy something that you thought was the most fantastic, awesome product, and you just had to have it. It was going to make your business fly through the roof. You were so excited and geeked that you stayed up all night working on it. Now a year or two have passed and you are cleaning the files on your computer  and you found it again. Looking back you wonder why you bought it.

If you were the person who sold that product to you, you’re not going to be looked at in a very good light the next time you see them online, or the next time they try to pitch you again.

Sometime closing the door to your buyers will build your business. Don’t sell a network marketing tool, that takes a lot of tech knowledge, to a newbie marketer. You will lose some of your integrity and future sales.

Be honest and truthful about what your product can do and who it’s best fitted for. I guarantee it will brand you as an entrepreneur of integrity and you’re products will be looked at in a totally different light.

I know you know them as I know them, those marketers that are loading your emails with garbage, and unfortunately they pray on those newbies who don’t know the difference. I was there before and you were there also.

Then again, there are those marketers that I would probably buy anything that they throughout in front of me, because they always have valueable content and they are true leaders and entrepreneurs of integrity. They are the network marketers that I try to emulate and model myself after. They have a huge following, and when they talk, people are listening. They are well respected leaders in the network marketing community.

When you position yourself as one of these leaders, and you let integrity be the rule that you follow, closing the door to your buyers will grow your business. These buyers will see who you really are, and as time goes on, they will probably buy way more from you than what you closed the door on.

QR Code? Text Messaging? Video Email? Is Your Marketing in The Stone-age?

Remember when the bar codes came out and everyone thought “Big Brother”, (from the book 1984), was taking over, and now we have the QR codes taking over.

Bar Code

QR codes actually look very different then bar codes and they hold a whole lot more and very different kind of information then bar codes.

When a bar code is scanned at the check out counter, it is telling the system for that particular store, that this item has been sold and one is removed from the quantity that is stored in the warehouse. When that quantity reaches a certain level, a message is given that the store needs to reorder more of that product.

QR codes are very different in the kind, and amount of information they hold.

Say you’re in the Dentist office waiting room, and you’re browsing through a magazine. You see something that really peaks your interest and you would like to check this out more, but you’re waiting to see the dentist. You can’t cut out the page from the magazine…well maybe you can but I don’t think Dr. Dan would like that very much.

Wait a minute, you just take out your new smart phone from your pocket or purse and scan the QR code that is in the add! Now you have all the information and more on your smart phone. When you get back home, and the numbness wears off from your mouth, you can look at all the info right there. It’s that easy.

This is one of my QR codes. Go ahead and scan it!

More and more companies and marketers are using QR codes. You see them popping up all over. This is one of my QR codes that I use. Go ahead and take out your smart phone and go to the app location on your phone. Click the pop up window and click on the spot where it says, “scan a barcode”. Then all you do is line up your phone over the code as if you were taking a picture, smile and click. This is for those who use a blackberry phone, but you can use any smart phone to scan a QR code.

Now that website or other information from that code is now on your smart phone.

This particular code is the link to my website for the incredible software tool that I use to produce my QR codes. It’s called IMToolSuite and if you haven’t heard of them yet, you will very soon, because they are taking internet marketing to the next level. This is just one of about a dozen tools that they have in this awesome arsenal of tools for business owners, weather you are marketing through the internet or you have a brick and mortar business, if you have customers or clients that you need to communicate with, than you need IMToolSuite.

  1. Capture Page Creator – Ever try putting together a capture page the old fashioned way or end up buying some software that has three templates? IMToolSuite has templates galore and they keep adding more. Create a professional looking capture page in about ten minutes!
  2. Web Conferencing – Get rid of your GoTo Meeting, IMToolSuite has it’s own web conferencing and you don’t pay extra for it. It’s one of your tools.
  3. Video Email – I love this and I use it all the time. Sending a personal video email instead of a very generic text email makes a HUGE difference to people. They see you calling them by name.
  4. Voice and text – Say someone clicks on your capture page and instantly they get a voice or text message from you personally. 97% of people open and read their text messages. Another huge moment!

These are just four of the tools. There are also contact manager, live greeter, Face Book greeter, (over 500 million people using Face Book today), auto responder, video hosting, and a digital library. There are hundreds of dollars of valuable e-books, video trainings, and more, that you can market or give away to your clients or customers from the digital library.

QR codes are the new marketing tool and it is growing fast. Jump on this incredible opportunity to grow your business to the next level.

IMToolSuite is the marketing tool belt to have for all of your marketing needs. Get on it before your competition does. Use The #1 Online Marketing Tool Suite on Planet Earth!