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 That’s what the news is reporting, not to mention your neighbors and quite a few other well-meaning folk. It’s spreading like wildfire … through word of mouth ...

Back in the 1930s, many well-meaning individuals spoke those same words, screamed them, when the stock market crashed and the banks closed and unemployment rose and the soup kitchen lines grew. All the advertising in the world couldn’t stop it.

During uncertain times, unstable times, fear runs rampant through the streets and through the hearts and minds of almost everyone, all of us and almost certainly your customers. During these times, it’s quite common to want to play it safe, to protect what we have, to stay close to those we love and wait for the storm to pass.

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 The reality is, whether the sky is falling or not, life still goes on. Bills still have to be paid. Children still have to be fed. Money still changes hands. The question is: will consumers be spending it with you or your competitor?

During the Great Depression, a lot of fortunes were built. We often have the mistaken impression that business came to a grinding halt, but that’s just not the case. My grandfather went from having 25 cents to his name and sleeping on a loading dock with his wife to owning a fleet of trucks. He took the last 25 cents he had in his pocket and turned it into $20 million during his lifetime. The principles that made that fortune are written about in my free e-Book, Michael Traveler's Supersize Your Sales through Word-of-Mouse.

The history books have countless reports of shrewd businessmen who cleverly reframed their customer’s perception of their business and made money during the worst of times, while their competitors were complaining about a sluggish economy and business being slow. This can be your story, too. It’s all a matter of reframing your customer’s perspective …

It’s all about changing how they see you and getting ‘em talking!

Research shows that during bad times, people want to surround themselves with things that comfort them. They want their children to feel safe and loved. They want their family close to them during times of uncertainty.

Sales of comfort items skyrocketed after 9/11.

People find reassurance in items that remind them of their childhood or better times or a place where they felt safe like their grandmother’s house. You’ll notice that publications like My Guide to the Backroads of America have a very comfy, homey look … designed to help make readers feel relaxed and warm and safe, designed to call up or produce good memories and warm feelings, to make a person feel welcome and at home ...

... designed to help spark word of mouth!

During bad times, it’s wise to align your business with warm and safe and comforting things, to do everything you can to make your potential customers feel secure. I call this evocative reframing.

By helping your customers remember that life does go on, that this too shall pass and that at least we have each other and that’s what is really most important, you are helping put their fears to rest and ignite the spirit of hope and determination, the American Spirit, the same spirit that carved a nation out of the wild frontier.

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It really is all a matter of perspective, all about how you look at things, how you reframe your image in your customer's mind’s eye. Take the Cracker Barrel restaurants, for example. They serve basic home-cookin’, chicken and potatoes, meat loaf and green beans, pork chops and corn. Now, their food is good. But there’s a whole lot more to Cracker Barrel than just their food …

The Cracker Barrel experience begins as you walk onto a wooden porch with rocking chairs, an apple barrel and a checker board game. It continues as you walk inside to a general store, rich with nostalgic appeal from yesteryear.

You are greeted by folks dressed in clothing that fits the nostalgic atmosphere and led to wooden tables and seated in wooden chairs. The walls are adorned with more items from yesteryear and your drinks are brought to you in mason jars. Cracker Barrel is not just selling food. They’re selling a dining experience and evoking memories of yesteryear and all the good feelings that come with it, feelings of an old-time general store, grandma’s house, a taste of small town country livin’ and connecting all those feelings with the dining experience.

This is the secret to succeeding in a bad economy (or a good one), the formula for competing against larger chain stories outselling you on price. By adding value to what you sell, whether through superior customer service, atmosphere or simply by caring more …

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All of this is what you are actually selling.  Your knowledge.  Your service.  Trust.  This is what adds value to the experience.  This is what makes you a valuable resource and why they would entrust you with their hard-earned money. This is why your customers buy from you, rather than the big chain store. And it is this experience as a whole that you must find a way to show to potential new customers, if you want them to buy from you.

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To learn affordable and effective ways that you can tap into the power of Word-of-Mouth (and online, Word-of-Mouse) to show potential customers up-front (before they've even spent a penny with you) about your extraordinary customer service, vast knowledge, superior service and amazing product(s), download my free e-Book, Michael Traveler's Super Size Your Sales through Word-of-Mouse and discover how you too can .

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How Do I Get More Traffic to My Site?
(Part 2 of Tip 4 of 5)

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With a few simple pointers from our QuickStart Guide (and from QuickTips), you can present a professional-looking article in your go2 Blog that is helpful, informative and of great value to your potential soon-to-be customers.

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Sharing your knowledge with potential soon-to-be customers is one of the quickest and easiest ways of bringing targeted traffic to your website. Our 1 - 2 - 3 Go! QuickStart BlogCreator Templates make the process ... well ... quick and easy.  All you have to do is answer a few simple questions to get started ...

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How Do I Get More Traffic to My Site?
(Part 1 of Tip 5 of 5)

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Your go2 Blog article (or articles - the more articles you create with helpful informative knowledge for your potential soon-to-be customers, the more traffic you can channel from Our Guide to Your Site), but back to the point: 

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One of the most powerful benefits of publishing a blog article is that your relevance in the topic area you wrote about will get indexed in the Search Engines and linked to from other sites and blogs (why?  Because the number one reason people go on the Internet is to look for information on a particular topic)  By publishing an article in your blog, you just increased your relevance to the community interested in the topic you wrote about and with increased relevance, your Search Engine relevance increased and so did your ranking.

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How Do I Get More Traffic to My Site?
(Part 5 of Tip 5 of 5)

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How to Convert Strangers into Advocates

No one starts off as a full blown customer of your business. Customers go through a specific process as they get to know, like and trust you and your company.

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5. Repeat Customer  (Satisfied Enough to Make Second Purchase)

6. Frequent Customer  (Happy With Your Products & Services, Depends On You)

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Step by step, they climb the ladder, going higher and higher up through the process, and as they climb, the more profitable they become to you.

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Strangers are people who don't know about you or your business, and most of them have no interest in buying your products or services.

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How do you get a total stranger to be interested in what your business has to offer?   With the many distractions that the average day bombards us with, not-to-mention a multi-billion dollar media industry fighting for your potential customer's attention, how are you ever going to attract a stranger's interest, let alone convert them into a prospect, sampler, and eventually a first-time buyer.

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How Do I Get More Traffic to My Site?
(Part 3 of Tip 5 of 5)

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Participate in the Community

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People want to buy from people they know, like and trust.  We want to know the people or company we do business with. We want to like them and the way they do business. And we must trust that they are honest, ethical, competent and will charge us fairly for their services.

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The only way you can determine this is by "trying" their services. Just because they say they are honest and trustworthy in their ads doesn't mean a thing. We all know that advertising can often be exaggerated and self-serving. You determine these things based on how they perform and how they treat you.

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How Do I Get More Traffic to My Site?
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Shine the Spotlight On Your Biz

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 The public is under constant relentless assault from a multi-billion-dollar media machine hungry for their attention.  Television.  Magazines.  Books.  Radio.  Billboards.  Direct-mail.  The Internet.  The list goes on and on and on and on.

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Imagine you're out in the middle of the ocean trying to catch fish.  There are millions of fish in the ocean, so fishing the ocean sounds like a good idea.  But remember, the ocean is a very BIG place and your hook may or may not ever come near a fish.  That's why fishing the niches makes more sense.  By positioning your bait near or among a school of fish, you greatly increase your chances of catching what you want.

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The go2 Network's Guide (My Guide to the Backroads of America) attracts targeted groups of consumers with various interests and then channels (or guides) them to Special Interest Groups (such as, the one you are in).  A jewelry group.  A parenting group.  A gardening group.  And so on.

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