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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thousands of dollars in new business could be slipping through your fingers if you are not tapping into the power of Referral Marketing.&#8221;    Tired of stressing to make your next sale?  With a recession looming and everyone pinching pennies it won&#8217;t be getting any easier for the person who has to run a business or make a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=automatedreferrals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5475259&amp;post=51&amp;subd=automatedreferrals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align:left;font-size:1.17em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;Thousands of dollars in new business could be slipping through your fingers if you are not tapping </span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">into the power of Referral Marketing.&#8221;</span></span></span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></span></span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Tired of stressing to make your next sale? </span></h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">With a recession looming and everyone pinching pennies it won&#8217;t be getting any easier for the person who has to run a business or make a sale to survive. Do you have a plan to keep your business growing during this economy? <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Doing the same things will not work.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Finding a continuous source of new clients is always a constant worry. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Except for the people who have figured out how to make referral marketing work for them</strong></span><strong>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Keep reading!</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#008080;"> <span style="color:#3366ff;">Your</span> </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">success rate is 3 to 5 times higher&#8230;</span></h2>
<p><strong>Why Referrals?</strong> </p>
<p>Turning a satisfied client&#8217;s social network into additional new business is a system that works.  The <strong>success rate is 3 to 5 times higher</strong> than prospects targeted using traditional marketing techniques.</p>
<h5 style="font-size:.83em;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">- Hill, Provost, and Valinksy; Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 2007</span></h5>
<p><span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>94%</strong> of consumers regularly or occasionally <strong>give advice</strong> about what they have purchased.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong>91%</strong></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"> of consumers regularly or occasionally </span><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong>seek advice</strong></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"> before making a purchase.</span></p>
<h5 style="font-size:.83em;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">- BIGresearch, 2007</span></h5>
<p><strong>65%</strong> of consumers rate their <strong>friends as the most trusted source of recommendations</strong>; only 27% rated experts as the most trusted source.</p>
<h5 style="font-size:.83em;"><span style="font-weight:normal;">- Yankelovich, 2004</span></h5>
<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"> </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">Do you market your business properly?</span></h2>
<p>Have you noticed that marketing your business has changed? The old standbys are no longer enough. It just seems like you can&#8217;t get anyone to listen anymore. </p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">The problem is&#8230;we are being tuned out!</span></h2>
<p>People, are so bombarded with advertising, marketing, and information that we tend to tune much of it out. That&#8217;s why satellite radio, iPods, and TiVo are so popular. Do you fast forward through the commercials? I do and so does everyone else. <strong>During a tight economy clients become even more resistant to new products and services.</strong></p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">How do you turn a negative economy into a positive for your business?</span></h2>
<p>Once you know how to generate positive, word of mouth referrals you can bypass the bad news and make an economic downturn work in your favor.  This is not a new breakthrough; it is not the latest trend or a secret new idea. This is a proven time tested concept that produces new customers and repeat customers who keep coming again and again.  If you were looking for the secret to getting rich quick &#8211; this isn&#8217;t the answer. However, if you put an organized referral building process in place and monitor the results, you will continue to grow your business and <strong>obtain the ability to weather any financial storm</strong> that comes your way.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Word of Mouth Referrals have been around a long time. Lately this form of marketing has been reinvented as &#8220;buzz&#8221; or &#8220;viral&#8221; marketing. Have you heard of word of mouth but not sure why or how it is effective?</p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Why is Referral Marketing the Answer?</span></h2>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Because it will turn your clients, friends, and family into your own personal, marketing army.</strong></span>  What an amazing concept! Imagine having one person recommend you to the qualified people in their personal and professional networks. Do you think having a good Bird Dog helping you market your business could help? <strong>What if you had 50 of these people marketing your business consistently on a day to day basis?</strong> This sales force has no payroll, unemployment taxes, or health insurance. How would an army of Bird Dogs help grow your business?  Are you ready to capitalize on positive word of mouth referrals?</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/businessmen_1a.jpg"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="businessmen_1a" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/businessmen_1a.jpg?w=263&#038;h=365" alt="businessmen_1a" width="263" height="365" /></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Are you ready to learn how to do this?</span></h2>
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<p>There are multiple ways to generate positive word of mouth referrals. In fact many organizations and sales professionals try to implement their own process for building and tracking referrals and referral sources. Attempting to maintain relationships with everyone that has referred business can be an overwhelming, time-consuming effort. Many times the burden becomes too great and a referral program that may have needed a little more time to flourish gets pushed aside and abandoned. The fact is there aren&#8217;t enough hours in the day to run a proper referral program and run our businesses at the same time. We should really <strong>focus our time on closing the sale rather than chasing the sale.</strong>Wouldn&#8217;t you agree?</p>
<p>Ask yourself the following question; Do you want to focus on your strengths or weaknesses?  Is it better to work hard to become mediocre in your weaknesses or to work hard and become the best at what your good at?</p>
<p>If you said you would like to improve your weaknesses than you should stop reading right now.  If you said <strong>&#8220;focus on your strengths&#8221;</strong> than read on&#8230;</p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">So how do I get a consistent stream of referrals?</span></h2>
<p>Would you benefit from spending less time on marketing and more time on selling?  The typical way to building a large referral network would be to spend hours of your time nurturing good relationships and staying in touch with your clients, friends and colleagues on a regular basis? If you have the time to do this then great! It&#8217;s a good start, but most of us are stretched too thin as it is. Finding extra time to devote to this one small piece of a good referral program is just not feasible. You must also consider keeping things organized, tracking leads, referral status updates&#8217;, recruiting new birddogs, and giving recognition or compensation for referrals that are successful. It is a lot too manage and these are just a handful of the tasks.</p>
<p><strong>So, how can you build a massive army of referral sources without sacrificing all your precious time?</strong></p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">An Automated Referral Marketing System</span></h2>
<p style="text-align:center;"> <span style="font-weight:normal;"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="dashboard_sample" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/dashboard_sample.jpg?w=300&#038;h=187" alt="dashboard_sample" width="300" height="187" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.mybirddogs.com"><img style="display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;border:0 initial initial;" title="MyBirdDogs logo" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/logo_facebook.png?w=192&#038;h=110" alt="logo_facebook" width="192" height="110" /></a></p>
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<p><strong>You need Automation!</strong> A manual home-grown referral program is complicated, hard to setup, and labor intensive. <strong>Automation is the key</strong>to freeing up your time to work on what you do best.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what to look for when researching an automated referral system&#8230; You want a system that will help you <strong>continuously build</strong> your referral network. <strong>Communication</strong> is the key to good referrals; make sure there is a way to keep ongoing automatic communication to your referral network. <strong>Quality leads</strong> are the difference between successful people that spend their time closing sales and non-successful people that waste their time with leads that don&#8217;t work out. Your system must have a filtering process to distinguish between good and bad leads. Keeping track of everything should be <strong>simple and organized</strong>, if you don&#8217;t know who gave what referral and when, your communication will begin to break down and referrals will stop coming in. If possible provide an <strong>incentive and give recognition</strong> to those that send in referrals. Do you want only one referral from the people you know or do you want multiple referrals consistently coming in. What better way to encourage <strong>repeat referrals</strong> than to offer a reward and a thank you.</p>
<h2 style="font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Referral System Checklist&#8230;</span></span></h2>
<p>MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System addresses all of these areas.</p>
<p><strong>1.    Does it continuously build your referral network?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>         Grows your referral network fast with simple tools</li>
<li>         Easily converts new leads into your referral network</li>
<li>         Ends the awkward and uncomfortable task of asking for referrals</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>2.    Is there ongoing automatic communication to your referral network?</strong></span></p>
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<li>         Schedules automated emails, just set it and forget it</li>
<li>         Notifies your network of the status of the sales process</li>
<li>         Notifies you of new referrals and new BirdDogs</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>3.    Does it help you qualify good referrals?</strong></span></p>
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<li>         Allows you to create custom referral forms for your business</li>
<li>         Review referrals to distinguish between good and bad leads</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>4.    Will it keep everything organized?</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li>         View and track your referral network</li>
<li>         View and track all leads</li>
<li>         Get stats and graphs</li>
<li>         Keep a running record of all sales progress</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>5.    Does it encourage people to give additional referrals?</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li>         Give rewards for successful referrals</li>
<li>         Allows you to be creative you don&#8217;t need to offer cash</li>
<li>         Finally start recognizing your best referral sources</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>6.    Can the whole sales staff use it?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>         Give each sales person control over their own referral network</li>
<li>         Monitor sales progress</li>
<li>         Reassign leads</li>
<li>         And more&#8230;</li>
</ul>
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<p>When you choose MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System you will get&#8230;</p>
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<li>The necessary tools for building an army of BirdDogs (Referral Sources)  </li>
<li>The ability to capture new referred leads from your BirdDogs</li>
<li>The ability to convert your new leads to more BirdDogs expanding your referral network even faster.</li>
<li>You will stand out from the rest of the competition and capture more attention</li>
<li>Never miss a new lead or forget to give recognition to a BirdDog again with automated notification.  </li>
<li>Automated communication to keep your business on the minds of your BirdDogs, increasing the likelihood that they talk to others about your business.</li>
<li>A convenient Dashboard to quickly view everything that&#8217;s happening in your referral system.</li>
<li>A step by step guide to make sure you are up and running fast.</li>
<li>Predefined text and templates for your referral program</li>
<li> Excellent customer support</li>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">What people are saying about myBirdDogs&#8230;</span></h2>
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<blockquote><address>&#8220;Our business is based on referrals. We never knew the potential of using an organized referral system until now. Before using myBirdDogs we used to get a referral from a source and possibly never get another one again from that person. Now we are getting more repeat referrals and they are 90% more successful since they are pre-qualified to match our business.</address>
<address>I am so impressed with myBirdDogs. This concept that has eluded us in so many ways is finally simplified and packaged to work like a fine tuned machine.&#8221;</address>
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<address>&#8220;The best sales in my business have always been through referrals. When I heard about a system that would increase my number of referrals, I signed up for the trial. I am pleased with the amount of new business this system has generated for us. Tracking referrals and leads has never been more effecient. I now have my entire sales staff using it and they are all developing their own referral networks.&#8221; </address>
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<address>&#8220;I wish I had this system last year while were struggling to get our new business off the ground. 4 months ago we signed up to myBirdDogs and sales have dramatically improved. This has given me back so much more time to work on other areas of the business. The system has paid for itself many times over.&#8221; </address>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Now think about how much a new client is worth to you.</span></h2>
<p>Depending on your industry, the lifetime value of a client could be multiples of thousands of dollars. <strong>What would you be willing to pay to acquire a new client that comes from a trusted referral source?</strong></p>
<p>An Automated Referral System can cost thousands to implement. We have created a streamlined system without all the overpriced fluff.  Each tool is user friendly and created for maximum return. In doing so we have a clean simple to use system.</p>
<p>The myBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing software is valued at $5,000 per license</p>
<p>We want to bring this revolutionary system to every sales organization we can. So we have done something drastic. We are currently giving everyone a chance to implement their own referral program for FREE. That&#8217;s right it is absolutely free with no obligations. We don&#8217;t collect a credit card number and you don&#8217;t send us any money. All we ask is that you provide feedback on how we can help improve the system for your business. This is not required but it will help us make the system run like a well oiled machine and churn out leads for you over and over again. </p>
<p align="center">To get access to the MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System it is available now for&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"> <a href="https://www.mybirddogs.com/clients/sign_up.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3366ff;">FREE</span></a></span></h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">Think of it this way, if we were charging for this service it would <strong>only take one new client to more than cover the cost of the program</strong> and in most cases for the entire year. But since everything is free you don&#8217;t even have to think about it.  </p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><a href="https://www.mybirddogs.com/clients/sign_up.cfm"><img style="border:0 initial initial;" title="signup" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/signup-button-copy.jpg?w=180&#038;h=75" alt="Signup" width="180" height="75" /></a></h2>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;font-size:1.5em;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">myBirdDogs Referral Marketing System is FREE</span></h2>
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<p>I know that if you make the decision to use the myBirdDogs automated referral program you will turn referrals into a reliable steady source of income. I know that some of you may be concerned that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">you</span> might not be able to implement a referral program. If you are concerned about this, do not fear! We are providing you with free customer support until your program is up and running. </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>If you want to stay EXACTLY where you are, doing exactly what you&#8217;re doing now and getting exactly the same results from your marketing, then we can&#8217;t help you.</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>But if you want to generate truckloads of new clients by following a disciplined approach to Referral Marketing then, sign up now!!!</strong></p>
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<p align="center">It&#8217;s FREE</p>
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<p>Thanks for reading,</p>
<p>MyBirdDogs Staff</p>
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<p>P.S. Do not put this in your &#8220;I&#8217;ll get to it later folder!&#8221; We both know what happens when we procrastinate. You will be kicking yourself for letting all those new clients slip right through your fingers. Start your business on the path of exponential growth today!</p></div>
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		<title>Can I grow my Business even in a Bad Economy?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Thousands of dollars in new business could be slipping through your fingers if you are not tapping into the power of Referral Marketing.&#8221;    Tired of stressing to make your next sale?  With a recession looming and everyone pinching pennies it won&#8217;t be getting any easier for the person who has to run a business or make a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=automatedreferrals.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5475259&amp;post=39&amp;subd=automatedreferrals&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<h3 style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">&#8220;Thousands of dollars in new business could be slipping through your fingers if you are not tapping </span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;">into the power of Referral Marketing.&#8221;</span></span></span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></span></span></span></span></h3>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Tired of stressing to make your next sale? </span></h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">With a recession looming and everyone pinching pennies it won&#8217;t be getting any easier for the person who has to run a business or make a sale to survive. Do you have a plan to keep your business growing during this economy? <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Doing the same things will not work.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Finding a continuous source of new clients is always a constant worry. <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Except for the people who have figured out how to make referral marketing work for them</strong></span><strong>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Keep reading!</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#008080;"> <span style="color:#3366ff;">Your</span> </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">success rate is 3 to 5 times higher&#8230;</span></h2>
<p><strong>Why Referrals?</strong> </p>
<p>Turning a satisfied client&#8217;s social network into additional new business is a system that works.  The <strong>success rate is 3 to 5 times higher</strong> than prospects targeted using traditional marketing techniques.</p>
<h5><span style="font-weight:normal;">- Hill, Provost, and Valinksy; Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 2007</span></h5>
<p><span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>94%</strong> of consumers regularly or occasionally <strong>give advice</strong> about what they have purchased.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong>91%</strong></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"> of consumers regularly or occasionally </span><span style="font-weight:normal;"><strong>seek advice</strong></span><span style="font-weight:normal;"> before making a purchase.</span></p>
<h5><span style="font-weight:normal;">- BIGresearch, 2007</span></h5>
<p><strong>65%</strong> of consumers rate their <strong>friends as the most trusted source of recommendations</strong>; only 27% rated experts as the most trusted source.</p>
<h5><span style="font-weight:normal;">- Yankelovich, 2004</span></h5>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"> </span><span style="color:#3366ff;">Do you market your business properly?</span></h2>
<p>Have you noticed that marketing your business has changed? The old standbys are no longer enough. It just seems like you can&#8217;t get anyone to listen anymore. </p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">The problem is&#8230;we are being tuned out!</span></h2>
<p>People, are so bombarded with advertising, marketing, and information that we tend to tune much of it out. That&#8217;s why satellite radio, iPods, and TiVo are so popular. Do you fast forward through the commercials? I do and so does everyone else. <strong>During a tight economy clients become even more resistant to new products and services.</strong></p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">How do you turn a negative economy into a positive for your business?</span></h2>
<p>Once you know how to generate positive, word of mouth referrals you can bypass the bad news and make an economic downturn work in your favor.  This is not a new breakthrough; it is not the latest trend or a secret new idea. This is a proven time tested concept that produces new customers and repeat customers who keep coming again and again.  If you were looking for the secret to getting rich quick &#8211; this isn&#8217;t the answer. However, if you put an organized referral building process in place and monitor the results, you will continue to grow your business and <strong>obtain the ability to weather any financial storm</strong> that comes your way.</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Word of Mouth Referrals have been around a long time. Lately this form of marketing has been reinvented as &#8220;buzz&#8221; or &#8220;viral&#8221; marketing. Have you heard of word of mouth but not sure why or how it is effective?</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Why is Referral Marketing the Answer?</span></h2>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Because it will turn your clients, friends, and family into your own personal, marketing army.</strong></span>  What an amazing concept! Imagine having one person recommend you to the qualified people in their personal and professional networks. Do you think having a good Bird Dog helping you market your business could help? <strong>What if you had 50 of these people marketing your business consistently on a day to day basis?</strong> This sales force has no payroll, unemployment taxes, or health insurance. How would an army of Bird Dogs help grow your business?  Are you ready to capitalize on positive word of mouth referrals?</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/businessmen_1a.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4" title="businessmen_1a" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/businessmen_1a.jpg?w=450" alt="businessmen_1a"   /></a></p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Are you ready to learn how to do this?</span></h2>
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<p>There are multiple ways to generate positive word of mouth referrals. In fact many organizations and sales professionals try to implement their own process for building and tracking referrals and referral sources. Attempting to maintain relationships with everyone that has referred business can be an overwhelming, time-consuming effort. Many times the burden becomes too great and a referral program that may have needed a little more time to flourish gets pushed aside and abandoned. The fact is there aren&#8217;t enough hours in the day to run a proper referral program and run our businesses at the same time. We should really <strong>focus our time on closing the sale rather than chasing the sale.</strong> Wouldn&#8217;t you agree?</p>
<p>Ask yourself the following question; Do you want to focus on your strengths or weaknesses?  Is it better to work hard to become mediocre in your weaknesses or to work hard and become the best at what your good at?</p>
<p>If you said you would like to improve your weaknesses than you should stop reading right now.  If you said <strong>&#8220;focus on your strengths&#8221;</strong> than read on&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">So how do I get a consistent stream of referrals?</span></h2>
<p>Would you benefit from spending less time on marketing and more time on selling?  The typical way to building a large referral network would be to spend hours of your time nurturing good relationships and staying in touch with your clients, friends and colleagues on a regular basis? If you have the time to do this then great! It&#8217;s a good start, but most of us are stretched too thin as it is. Finding extra time to devote to this one small piece of a good referral program is just not feasible. You must also consider keeping things organized, tracking leads, referral status updates&#8217;, recruiting new birddogs, and giving recognition or compensation for referrals that are successful. It is a lot too manage and these are just a handful of the tasks.</p>
<p><strong>So, how can you build a massive army of referral sources without sacrificing all your precious time?</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">An Automated Referral Marketing System</span></h2>
<p style="text-align:center;"> <span style="font-weight:normal;"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-33" title="dashboard_sample" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/dashboard_sample.jpg?w=300&#038;h=187" alt="dashboard_sample" width="300" height="187" /></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.mybirddogs.com"><img class="size-full wp-image-5 aligncenter" title="MyBirdDogs logo" src="http://automatedreferrals.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/logo_facebook.png?w=450" alt="logo_facebook"   /></a></p>
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<p><strong>You need Automation!</strong> A manual home-grown referral program is complicated, hard to setup, and labor intensive. <strong>Automation is the key</strong> to freeing up your time to work on what you do best.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what to look for when researching an automated referral system&#8230; You want a system that will help you <strong>continuously build</strong> your referral network. <strong>Communication</strong> is the key to good referrals; make sure there is a way to keep ongoing automatic communication to your referral network. <strong>Quality leads</strong> are the difference between successful people that spend their time closing sales and non-successful people that waste their time with leads that don&#8217;t work out. Your system must have a filtering process to distinguish between good and bad leads. Keeping track of everything should be <strong>simple and organized</strong>, if you don&#8217;t know who gave what referral and when, your communication will begin to break down and referrals will stop coming in. If possible provide an <strong>incentive and give recognition</strong> to those that send in referrals. Do you want only one referral from the people you know or do you want multiple referrals consistently coming in. What better way to encourage <strong>repeat referrals</strong> than to offer a reward and a thank you.</p>
<h2><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Referral System Checklist&#8230;</span></span></h2>
<p>MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System addresses all of these areas.</p>
<p><strong>1.    Does it continuously build your referral network?</strong></p>
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li>         Grows your referral network fast with simple tools</li>
<li>         Easily converts new leads into your referral network</li>
<li>         Ends the awkward and uncomfortable task of asking for referrals</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>2.    Is there ongoing automatic communication to your referral network?</strong></span></p>
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<li>         Schedules automated emails, just set it and forget it</li>
<li>         Notifies your network of the status of the sales process</li>
<li>         Notifies you of new referrals and new BirdDogs</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>3.    Does it help you qualify good referrals?</strong></span></p>
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li>         Allows you to create custom referral forms for your business</li>
<li>         Review referrals to distinguish between good and bad leads</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>4.    Will it keep everything organized?</strong></span></p>
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li>         View and track your referral network</li>
<li>         View and track all leads</li>
<li>         Get stats and graphs</li>
<li>         Keep a running record of all sales progress</li>
</ul>
<p> <span style="font-style:normal;"><strong>5.    Does it encourage people to give additional referrals?</strong></span></p>
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li>         Give rewards for successful referrals</li>
<li>         Allows you to be creative you don&#8217;t need to offer cash</li>
<li>         Finally start recognizing your best referral sources</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>6.    Can the whole sales staff use it?</strong></p>
<ul class="unIndentedList">
<li>         Give each sales person control over their own referral network</li>
<li>         Monitor sales progress</li>
<li>         Reassign leads</li>
<li>         And more&#8230;</li>
</ul>
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<p>When you choose MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System you will get&#8230;</p>
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<li>The necessary tools for building an army of BirdDogs (Referral Sources)  </li>
<li>The ability to capture new referred leads from your BirdDogs</li>
<li>The ability to convert your new leads to more BirdDogs expanding your referral network even faster.</li>
<li>You will stand out from the rest of the competition and capture more attention</li>
<li>Never miss a new lead or forget to give recognition to a BirdDog again with automated notification.  </li>
<li>Automated communication to keep your business on the minds of your BirdDogs, increasing the likelihood that they talk to others about your business.</li>
<li>A convenient Dashboard to quickly view everything that&#8217;s happening in your referral system.</li>
<li>A step by step guide to make sure you are up and running fast.</li>
<li>Predefined text and templates for your referral program</li>
<li> Excellent customer support</li>
</ol>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">What people are saying about myBirdDogs&#8230;</span></h2>
<p> </p>
<blockquote><address>&#8220;Our business is based on referrals. We never knew the potential of using an organized referral system until now. Before using myBirdDogs we used to get a referral from a source and possibly never get another one again from that person. Now we are getting more repeat referrals and they are 90% more successful since they are pre-qualified to match our business.</address>
<address>I am so impressed with myBirdDogs. This concept that has eluded us in so many ways is finally simplified and packaged to work like a fine tuned machine.&#8221;</address>
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<address><span style="font-style:normal;">J</span><span style="font-style:normal;">eff McNairy</span></address>
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<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Passages Malibu</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Addiciton Cure Center</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Malibu, CA</span></address>
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<address>&#8220;The best sales in my business have always been through referrals. When I heard about a system that would increase my number of referrals, I signed up for the trial. I am pleased with the amount of new business this system has generated for us. Tracking referrals and leads has never been more effecient. I now have my entire sales staff using it and they are all developing their own referral networks.&#8221; </address>
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<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Tim Moshenko</span></address>
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<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Car Match Plus</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Orange, CA</span></address>
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<address>&#8220;I wish I had this system last year while were struggling to get our new business off the ground. 4 months ago we signed up to myBirdDogs and sales have dramatically improved. This has given me back so much more time to work on other areas of the business. The system has paid for itself many times over.&#8221; </address>
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<address><span style="font-style:normal;">A Ogden</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">President</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Echo8</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Outdoor Fitness Adventures</span></address>
<address><span style="font-style:normal;">Salt Lake City, UT</span></address>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">Now think about how much a new client is worth to you.</span></h2>
<p>Depending on your industry, the lifetime value of a client could be multiples of thousands of dollars. <strong>What would you be willing to pay to acquire a new client that comes from a trusted referral source?</strong></p>
<p>An Automated Referral System can cost thousands to implement. We have created a streamlined system without all the overpriced fluff. Each tool is user friendly and created for maximum return. In doing so we have a clean simple to use system.</p>
<p>The myBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing software is valued at $5,000 per license</p>
<p>We want to bring this revolutionary system to every sales organization we can. So we have drastically lowered the cost to a fraction of its value and we&#8217;ve made it easy for anyone to take advantage of its powerful feature set.</p>
<p align="center">To get access to the MyBirdDogs Automated Referral Marketing System it is available now for the unbelievably low price of only&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"> </span><span style="color:#3366ff;"><a href="https://www.mybirddogs.com/clients/sign_up.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3366ff;">$59 a month</span></a></span></h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">Think of it this way, <strong>it only takes one new client to more than cover the cost of the program</strong> and in most cases for the entire year. Every Successful entrepreneur thinks of spending money as an investment. What is the return on investment (ROI) for this program in your business?</p>
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<p>And to remove any risk on your part, for a limited time we are giving you the first 30 days for FREE just to get you started.  </p>
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<h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;">30 Day FREE trial of the myBirdDogs Referral Marketing System</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align:left;">You have the opportunity to get started for free. If you decide to keep using the system it is priced so low that it is an absolute no-brainer to keep using it. If this system generates just one successful lead for you it is most likely enough to pay for the system for the entire year. That&#8217;s how inexpensive this solution is!</p>
<p>We are so dedicated to making this system work for you we will also <strong>call you to walk you through the setup process.</strong></p>
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<p>I know that if you make the decision to use the myBirdDogs automated referral program you will make your money back many times over. I know that some of you may be concerned that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">you</span> might not be able to implement a referral program. If you are concerned about this, do not fear! We are providing you with a Quick Start Guide to help you get a running start. But even if that, somehow, does not get you going we are offering free customer support until your program is up and running. <strong>We are dedicated to your success; because that is the only way we will succeed.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>If you want to stay EXACTLY where you are, doing exactly what you&#8217;re doing now and getting exactly the same results from your marketing, then we can&#8217;t help you.</strong></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>But if you want to generate truckloads of new clients by following a disciplined approach to Referral Marketing then, sign up now!!!</strong></p>
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<p> We have also provided big discounts for organizations with a sales staff.</p>
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<p>Thanks for reading,</p>
<p>MyBirdDogs Staff</p>
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<p>P.S. Do not put this in your &#8220;I&#8217;ll get to it later folder!&#8221; We both know what happens when we procrastinate. You will be kicking yourself for letting all those new clients slip right through your fingers. Start your business on the path of exponential growth today!</p></div>
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