The Seed Newsletter - November 07

	November 2007 Newsletter

Welcome! Welcome to the November issue of TheSeed newsletter. With Christmas fast approaching we hope that we find you all in a festive mood and looking forward to a few well earned days off work! In this issue we will be looking at ezines and how they can help you with marketing your company and keeping in touch with existing and potential customers. Also, we will be offering you the opportunity to earn £1,000 in commission from your network of business contacts in our news section. In this month's Top Tips we are advising you to re-fuel your account before Christmas to keep the business fires burning… All that remains for us to say is have a great Christmas and we look forward to your continued custom throughout 2008. TheSeed.com Team
	The Seed News
Earn £1,000 from your existing network! As you may have read in the June edition of our Newsletter we recently purchased a new purpose built building in Burntwood, Staffordshire and moved in to one of the offices. It is a modern, high-quality, self-contained office building on an established business park which is newly-constructed and has high-specification fittings throughout. It also benefits from an excellent location with easy access to the M6 Toll. Part of this building is still available to let and if any of your contacts, or indeed you take out a lease on this office we will pay the following referral fees: 3070 sq. ft. suite - £1000 1535 sq. ft. suite - £500 The office itself provides high-quality office accommodation of 3070 sq. ft. set over 2 floors. It is available to let as one unit or each floor of 1535 sq. ft. can be let individually. Flexible lease terms are available. For full details including photos, video and prices please visit: http://www.spearhouse.co.uk If this is something that would be of interest to your business or you know of another company that is looking to re-locate please contact Keir McConomy on 07917 021 017. This could be a great way of you earning a substantial referral fee for just a few minutes work!
	Marketing Matters...
Producing your own ezine. Did you know that you could lose up to 68% of your business over the next 12 months simply by not following up your prospects and existing customers such as the ones you get from TheSeed.com? Now, you have to agree that this is a staggering statistic. So, given that we at TheSeed.com are working hard to ensure that you get as many viable prospects as possible, how can you make sure you continue to be front of mind for them, not just when you first contact them but throughout the following days and months? Producing your own ezine is one way of maintaining regular contact with prospective and existing customers so that when they do have a requirement you are the first company that they think of. These can be made as interesting and as special as you want them to be. You can design one or several dependent on your target audience and the products/services that you offer. The outcome of this communication can be quite simple: Your ezine will create more visitors to your business and your website Visitors become buyers Buyers become clients/customers and purchase many times from you as well as telling other people about your great services/products Why do ezines work so well? An ezine is an Electronic Magazine which is delivered to people who ask for it (subscribers) via email. You can send this so it fits to your schedule… daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or just occasionally. But what’s really important is that ezines have nothing to do with spam or unsolicited email! Your subscribers actually want to receive ezines and respond to the information placed within the ones they receive. The reason that ezines work so well is that they are delivered to a very targeted group of people, businesses that are actually interested in what you have to offer and this is very good news for you. As you become more skilled at targeting your message, when the ezine gets in front of motivated and interested readers, you will find that responses happen very quickly… and all of a sudden you have your very own pool of highly qualified leads that are eager to know more about what you can offer and how your business can help them. This is the key to succeeding with your ezine strategy. Also with ezines, as you probably do yourself, if you have no requirement for that particular product or service at that moment in time it gets filed in your inbox under ‘other suppliers’ or some such folder and businesses actually keep the information that you send to them and can come back to it when they do have a need. This is an ideal way to keep in touch with your Seed.com customers, keeping them interested in your business and what you have to offer. Stand out from the crowd and make your ezine really work for you. If 'opt-in' email marketing isn't part of your promotional mix - I wonder what is holding you back?

		Top Tips
	Tailored to suit? With this being our last newsletter before business ceases for the Christmas period we would like to remind you to ensure that your Seed.com accounts are topped up before you head out of the office on Christmas Eve! Although most businesses shut for some time over the festive season there are still companies out there that will be looking for business services/products and we would hate for you to miss out on these valuable leads because of lack of funds. You could even refresh your profiles geared towards the start of a new year and if applicable a 'January Sale'.

		Leads this month
	Below is a selection of sample leads generated over the last month. These example leads should give you a taste of the type of leads you will receive if signed-up to TheSeed.com. Translation Services Wednesday 14th of November 2007 17.46 Need documents and website translated from English into French. What is the word rate in GBP? i.e how many pence per word? Additional notes from TheSeed.com: Spoke to Rodney who advised that he believes there will be between 7,000 to 10,000 words to be translated on the Website alone. He has some experience of writing/translating website content and as such advised that although the content will be about legal and financial services it is not a contract or need to be correct for legal reasons, it is simply marketing content so should not require any additional surcharges. He also stated that he does not want the translation done by Software because it is never as good as manually translated content (and the site will be reviewed manually by people whose native tongue is French). Rodney has meetings for the rest of the day so may not answer his phone immediately but he will return calls if required. He suggested that email would be the preferable form of contact. Telephoned by Phil on 2007-11-15 at 12:20. Email address confirmed. Telemarketing Thursday 15th of November 2007 19:27 I need 4 appointments booking per day for small business' to have their electrical appliances tested for safety. Appointments are to have the work carried out and payment made on the day. It is a low cost service at £79 for the first 30 items then 75p per extra item. This is an easy service to sell as all business must comply with electrical health and safety at work legislation. Bookings are to be made only in Yorkshire at this time but will need to cover other counties in the near future. I will also require bookings to increase to a min of 8 per day within 2-3 months. Additional notes from TheSeed.com: I talked to Nik and he gave me some more information regarding his enquiry. He told me that he is located in Leeds and is looking to have something under way within the next three months. He has had quotes of £190 per day per operator and £200 per day per operator up to £750+VAT for a two people working the phones. He is willing to spend a maximum of £2500 per month and no more. He is the best person to talk to and can be contacted on the number provided between 8am and 8pm. He is looking to target Small businesses, health and beauty, care and nursing homes, high street stores however is not looking for large businesses at this stage. If successful, will continue in the future. Telephoned by Kim on 2007-11-19 at 16:10. Email address confirmed. Web Design Monday 26th of November 2007 13:30 A comprehensive CMS online community. We currently have an online community website. We want to keep all these functions and add more, including:- blogs, friendship function (like facebook), better chat function. We want a state of the art friendship community for the over 50s. Additional notes from TheSeed.com: I talked to Miles and he gave me some more information regarding his enquiry. He told me that he is located in Sweden for a few days, today being his last and the company is situated in Rugby in the Midlands. He is looking to have this development under way ASAP and would like you to look at the website before hand. He has had some other quotes ranging from £5,000-£15,000 which he feels is appropriate for this project. He is the best person to talk to and can be contacted on the number provided. However if you would like to contact Miles today, please contact him on 01788 535 ***. He is looking for the main functionality of www.facebook.com and is looking for a high standard CMS and would like to be able to control the content on the website. He would like to view a sample of the work you have already done. Telephoned by Kim on 2007-11-26 at 13:43. Email address confirmed.

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