Do you have a business in which you need to followup with leads on a regular basis? Neglecting to follow up with prospects is one of the most damaging problems in businesses that need a constant stream of new clients.
One way to take care of this is to automate it with an email autoresponder like aweber. This can be very effective if done right. The problem with emails is that a lot of times they are flagged as spam and never make it to your client. If they do make it through, they are easily missed among all of the other emails they receive or are ignored.
You can make this more effective by adding a card campaign to your existing email campaign. When your prospect receives a physical card in the mail they are more likely to notice it and take a look. And even if they don’t do anything with the card right away, people don’t usually throw cards away, so it will catch their attention again later on.
Enter your first name and email address to the right and I will immediately email you a link to a great online card service that allows you to set all of this up for your business. You can try it out for free.
Michelle Woodworth
Helping you be successful with real cards.
Are you a business owner or marketing specialist looking for an easy way to build a relationship marketing campaign?
One great way to do a relationship marketing campaign is to use cards because your customers are more likely to keep a card than a lot of other types of mail. Sending out individual cards by hand gets very tedious if you have a large database, so there has to be an easy way. Fortunately, there is.
Let me give you a good example. We found a great online service that allows us to send cards very inexpensively and schedule them in advance. This is perfect for a relationship marketing campaign. We recommended it to a massage therapist friend who had 200 contacts in Outlook that he wanted to send cards to. He is also not at all technical, so this had to be easy. We were able to step him through exporting his contacts to an Excel spreadsheet and upload it to the card service. Once he mapped the fields in the spreadsheet to the fields in the online card services contact manager, all of his contacts were successfully imported.
Next he was able to select a card to send to his contacts and customize the text inside the card. The service even provided tags so that each card could address the recipient by their first name so that he didn’t have to create a new card for each person.
Once his card was created and his contacts had been uploaded, he went into his contact manager and selected the contacts that he wanted to send the card to. Very easy. The next step was to select a gift if he wanted to send one. He skipped that and chose to just send the card and he was done. Less than a week later his contacts were receiving the card that he sent.
There were a few other options that he didn’t choose. If he had wanted to, he could have picked a particular date to send the card out. He could have also created more than one card for each person to received and set the number of days between sending each card. Something like this is great for customers who just ordered something from you. The first card can go out immediately to thank them for their order and the second card could be set up to go 1 week later after they received the order.
If you would like to know more about this service then enter your name and email address in the form to the right and I will immediately send you the link to the site. You will even be able to send a couple cards on me so that you can try it out.
Michelle Woodworth
Your Relationship Marketing Consultant
Do you use a vision board? Or do you not use one because you want something more portable?
Visualization is an important part of using the Law of Attraction to create the life you want to live. If you’ve studied people like Bob Proctor then you know that you want to have something that you can take with you to aid in your visualization practice throughout the day. A vision board is just too big for that.
I recently heard a great solution for this problem. Create a vision card. You can make one from an ordinary greeting card. First, put a picture of what you want on the outside of the card. Then on the inside describe what it is that you are attracting. Try to get all of the senses involved and be sure to include why you want it and how having it makes you feel.
Let’s say that you want to attract a new car. First, go down to the dealership and take a picture of yourself sitting in the car. That picture should go on the front of your card. On the inside you describe how the seat and steering wheel feel, the colors that you see, the new car smell, and the sound of the engine as you give it gas. Also, describe why you want the car and how good it feels to drive the car and be seen driving the car.
Now you have a card that you can take with you to use for your visualization practice while at work or stuck in traffic in your old car.
They person who told me about this has an online greeting card company that is great for making these customized cards. You can add your own pictures to the front and inside of the card, create your own text, and even use your own handwriting if you submit a font sheet. Enter your first name and email address in the form to the right and I’ll send you a link to try some of these features for free.
Michelle Woodworth
I’m visualizing you trying a free card.
Do you like meeting new people from all over the world? I just found a way to do that without having to leave home. It’s called Postcrossing.
A friend told me about this great new service last week and I have just signed up with it. To get started, you register on www.postcrossing.com to create your account. Then you request an address to send a post card to. The address could be anywhere in the world. According to the website they have members in 196 countries. They also give you a code to put on your postcard so that it can be tracked. When you receive a postcard you enter the code on it into the website so that they know it has been received.
This is a great way to get a glimpse into other cultures and maybe even make a new friend from somewhere else in the world. I only started a few days ago so I haven’t received a postcard yet, but I have sent two. One to Finland and another to Taiwan.
Now that I’m going to be sending a lot of postcards I’m glad that I have access to an online service where I can design my own postcards for a fraction of the cost of buying a postcard. They also figure out the postage and mail it for me, so no standing in line at the Post Office. What a great convenience.
If you want to meet people from all over the world then get involved with Postcrossing. If want to save money doing it then enter your first name and email address in the form to the right and I will immediately email the link to you. You will be able to send a couple postcards on me to try it out.
Michelle Woodworth
International postcard sender
Amicalola Falls
UPDATE: July 15, 2009
My first Postcrossing postcard was received yesterday in The Netherlands. Very exciting. The lady who received it called it a unique card. I created it using the online card service I keep talking about and used a picture I took at Amicalola Falls in Dawsonville, GA.
To find out more about how I created the card, put your name and email address in the contact form or leave me a comment. The contact form is quicker.
Greeting cards are a great way to express gratitude to someone who helped you or somehow touched your life in a meaningful way. We interact with people all day long and usually don’t take the time to thank them.
If you study the Law of Attraction as put forth by the movie (or book) The Secret then you know how important it is to express gratitude. When you express gratitude you attract more of what you are grateful for. It helps you stay in a very positive vibration.
Now is a great time to start a gratitude habit. At the end of the day think back over your day and remember the people that you are grateful for. It could be a co-worker, someone at the grocery store, or your server at lunch. Pick just one of them and send them a card to let them know how they made you feel. It may just make their day.
Put your first name and email address in the form on the right and I will send you a link to send a couple cards online for free.
Do you have an event coming up in a couple weeks that you need to send out invitations for? Do you have more important things to do than waste your time at the card store looking for the right invitations?
Do it online. I found a great online card service that has a huge selection of cards to choose from. You can enter your entire recipient list and the service prints the cards with your message and sends it to each person on your list. And they do it all at a fraction of the time and cost of you going to the card store and the post office.
You can try it out with 1 or 2 cards for FREE. Just enter your first name and email address in the space to the right and I will send you the link immediately. You will love this.
Here’s an idea that I bet you haven’t thought of. Do you write down “I AM” statements or some other form of affirmation? If you follow Bob Proctor, you’ve probably written “I am so happy and grateful now that…” on a little card, put it in your pocket, and after a few days you have washed it or lost it some other way.
I heard a great alternative to this about a week ago. Find a greeting card with an inspiring or attractive image on the front then write all of your “I AM” statements or affirmations on the inside of the card. Even congratulate yourself for being all of these things. Then set the card up somewhere that you will see it often. This could be your desk at work or on your nightstand at home.
We found a great site online that has several “I AM” cards. They have an “I AM statement on the front with great looking images and are blank inside so that you have plenty of room for your affirmations. The great thing about this service is that your statements will be printed inside the card, so it will last and always be easy to read. If you would like to try it for your “I AM” card, put your name and email in the form on the right and I will send you a link so that you can try the site for free. I think you’ll like it.
Michelle Woodworth
I AM writing my “I AM”s right now
Father’s Day is coming up on June 21 and it would make his day to receive a real card from you, not one of those lame e-cards. Did you know that you can send a real card online right from your computer? It’s true. You don’t have to go to the card store or the post office because we’ll take care of the whole thing. It is a really cool service. You can pick the card you like and send it as is, or you can change the text to have it say exactly what you want to tell your Dad. And as if that wasn’t good enough, if you haven’t used the service before, I’ll pay for the card for you so that you can try it for FREE. You have nothing to lose and it’ll make your Dad happy.
Put your first name and email address in the form to the right and I will email the link to you immediately.
We all know that Christmas falls on December 25th and that Thanksgiving is the always the fourth Thursday of November. What about Easter? How many people actually know that Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox (one of two times during the year when day and night are approximately equal)? That means Easter can be celebrated anywhere from March 22nd to April 25th.
For those of you without a calendar, Easter is on April 12th this year. That means you still have time to get out Easter cards to your family and friends, especially the kids you know and love. My daughter, who is 5, likes to walk to the mailbox with me. Her face lights up when there is an envelope with her name on it. That’s exciting stuff. And getting a package in the mail is enough to have her dancing all the way back to the house. It takes just a few minutes of your time and a few clicks of your mouse to send a personalized greeting card, and even a gift, to the people who mean the most to you. Check out this incredible online greeting card service. Email me at
Michelle@MeaningfulMail.com and I’ll walk you through sending a FREE card.
Would you send out more cards if it were more convenient?
I don’t know about you, I like to send cards. A lot of cards. Birthday cards, anniversary cards, Christmas cards, Mother’s Day cards, Father’s Day cards, and even Just Thinking About You cards. The problem is that it is very inconvenient to have to go to a card store every time I want to send one out, especially when you have small kids like I do. Have you noticed too that the card selection in the card store is very limited? You can’t find one that says just want you want to say, or if you do then it’s the same old card you sent last time.
Fortunately I found a solution and I’d like you to know about it. There is a company that lets you send real cards online. Just go to the website, choose your card from a huge selection (much bigger than the card store) and customize it with your own words and pictures if you want. When you are happy with the card, they will print it, put it in an envelope, stamp it, and put it in the mail for you. On top of all that, it’s less expensive than buying a card at a store. You get to save time, gas driving to the store, and money. It’s a total win all the way around.
Check it out. I’ve arranged for you to be able to try it out with 2 free cards. I know you’ll like it. Go to www.sendoutcards.com/meaningfulmail. Don’t forget the “meaningfulmail” part, that’s how you get to try it out for free. Email me at michelle@meaningfulmail.com and I will even help you send out your first card.
