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MARKETING & UPSELLING Follow this format in your client newsletter and your success is practically guaranteed as long as you don’t make this common mistake… Every time you spend time or money on advertising it is an investment. Your newsletter should be no different. Now let’s say, you are a carpet cleaner and you mail a client newsletter and get 5 Don’t Try To Be Too Pretty! jobs per month, jobs you would not have otherwise booked. (Easy breezy!) Imagine Most people find this pretty shocking. each of these repeat jobs averages $250. People are surprised that their ad or That translates into $1,250.00 per month newsletter bombed because it was “too or an extra $15,000.00 per year. And that’s pretty”. conservative, most my members who send a monthly newsletter report much, much One of the world’s greatest copywriters, Eugene Schwarz put it this way, “I specialize higher numbers to me. Now, before I go any further let me in ‘ugly’…Beauty looks pretty much the same…. the ugly thing in a world of beauty acknowledge that (if you are a good company) you probably get some referrals stands out.” “organically” right now. But if you want to really see your bank account swell this year It’s almost a guarantee that if you produce you need to be harvesting referrals from a slick, “pretty,” full color, fancy newsletter your happy, loyal clients. it’s most likely ending up in the trash bin. (Along with all the other “junk mail” your clients get daily.) The Easy Way To Boost Your But you know what doesn’t end up in the trash bin? A “home grown”, “grass roots,” “mom and pop”, personal looking newsletter. (a.k.a. “ugly”.) Why? Because it doesn’t look like junk mail. It looks different. It has heart. It stands out in a pile of “pretty mail.” Referrals… Think about this, all of your clients are having conversations with friends and family And if it’s written right, it gets read and does its job of cementing relationships, generating referrals and making sales. A Return On Your Investment That Would M