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How I used a Survey to Uncover nearly £500k in Missed Income – and why you should do the same
By Mark Attwood | Marketing
By Mark Attwood | Marketing
Back in 2005 I did ONE thing that took my revenue from £1.8million to £7.6 million in less than 2 years.
What was that one thing? I sent out a survey.
So, about 10 days ago I sent out a quick survey using SurveyMonkey – my survey best friend for over 10 years.
The headline is that I discovered nearly £500,000 of missed potential income opportunities in that one survey!
I also learned A LOT about my list, and I had to take a bit of an ego bashing. But that’s fine. In fact, it’s more than fine because the feedback has helped me hugely in planning the next stages of my business.
If you are not using surveys in your business, you are missing a MASSIVE trick. If you’ve watched the conversion rate optimisation video training inside my Technophobes course, then you’ll already know how using surveys helped me get the conversion rate of one of my websites from less than 1% to more than 30% – that’s a 3000% increase – which accelerated the growth of that business from £1.8m in 2006 to £7.6m in 2008.
That’s how powerful surveys can be.
So, let’s take a look at some of the results I got from my most recent survey. By analysing this for you, I hope you will glean some ideas on how best to prepare your next survey to your customer and potential customer lists (you are collecting emails, aren’t you???).
So, question Number One: Do You Find My Emails…
Question Number Two: Did you Buy My Course “The Technophobes Guide to Internet Marketing Success?”
Question 3: “I am planning to make a new range of online courses. Could you please tell me what level of interest you have in the following:”
So, this has given me a clear path on what products to create next, as the top three subjects are:
1. Video Marketing
2. SEO
3. Google Adwords
Question 4: “If you did not buy my on-page SEO ebook, please can you tell me why not?”
Missed my On-Page SEO Ebook? Click here to see what’s in it.
Question 5: “If you bought my ebook “The 7 Step Blueprint to Making More Money with Online Video Marketing”, can you tell me how useful it was and any results you have gained by implementing the information?”
Question 6: “If you did not buy my Video Marketing ebook, please tell me why not?”
By the way, you can buy my video marketing ebook by clicking here.
Question 7: “Can you tell me what level of income your business is currently achieving (this is confidential don’t forget)”
Question 8: “Can you tell me your age range please?”
Question 9: “And Your Gender?”
Question 10: “Would you be interested in joining a Mastermind Group with me? This would involve 3 personal meetings per year in exotic locations, monthly webinars/hangouts, personal coaching with me and would cost approx £18k per year”
Question 11: “I am thinking of setting up a new Members Area with detailed instructional videos on how to do anything online and how to implement different strategies. This will cost approx £47 per month. Would you be interested in joining this?”
Question 12: “Did you know that I own a digital marketing agency that can help you with websites, SEO, Adwords, Video Marketing, Blogging and Content Writing, Strategy”
Click here to see what Attwood Digital can do for you.
Question 13: “I am thinking about running a business retreat in Morocco. This will involve pulling together the best brains I know in branding, sales, growth, marketing, personal development and lifestyle improvement for 5 days in the sun with some adventures thrown in up the Atlas Mountains plus pampering and partying. This will cost approx £7k. Are you interested?”
By the way, someone said “only 5 days?” – I am actually planning for it to be 7 days, so don’t worry about that 🙂
Question 14: “Did you know we are developing software to help make your internet marketing even easier and more successful?”
To get the best performing email software (the same that I use), click here.
To watch the video about our new software, click here.
Question 15: “Did you know that there is an affiliate scheme for my products and that we pay you 50% commissions on all sales you generate just by sending a weblink out to your friends?”
If you want to sign up to my affiliate scheme, fill the form out on this page. If you get stuck at all, contact us and we’ll help you through the process.
Question 16: “I am offering one-on-one Skype strategy sessions at £300. Would this interest you?”
Here’s the PayPal button:
Question 17: “Last question! If I have helped you in any way, could I ask you to leave a testimonial below along with your name and company name? Also, could you record a video testimonial for me? Big thanks!”
If you don’t ask, you don’t get! These are three of my favourite quotes:
“My name is Dayron and we have a small marble polishing company here in Miami, Florida It is probably the most competitive market for marble polishing industry in the states. June- August I was getting 2 calls a week from my site. Since talking to Mr Attwood and using some of his principles we have gone to have 2-5 phone calls a day. Markets which I wasn’t even on the radar now I’m on page one with more than one link. What a change imagine if I ( and I will implement all his principle)”
“The quality of Mark’s material and advice is exceptional. His own business experiences are consistently reflected throughout and this in turn conveys trust, belief and confidence to the recipients. The latter are prerequisites when endeavouring to build lasting and fruitful business relationships. David Lawlor, Partner, Bridgewater (Dublin, Limerick, Carlow and London)”
“Mark Attwood has supported our company in many ways over the past 2 years. So much so that we highly recommend him and his digital marketing company to our own partner companies and other busiiness associates. He gets real results – fast. No waffle, just good common sense and he is always at the cutting edge of his field so you know you are getting the most up to date information possible from someone you can trust. Amanda Charteris www.giftwrappedandgorgeous.co.uk “
But it’s not all about stroking the ego, I also got this:
“I cannot afford your high prices now.”
Whoever said that: go back and watch the videos 🙂
