| Many articles are written and websites are built | | | | parties involved. A funded proposal is used for |
| about how to create a sales funnel. If you take | | | | people who said NO to your ultimate product or |
| your time and research the Internet you will find | | | | business opportunity in the first place. With none |
| lots of information how to do that. Even endless | | | | converted visitors into customers or opportunity |
| videos are available for free on various video | | | | sign-ups for your main purpose of the established |
| sharing websites with diagrams and presentations | | | | sales funnel you run the risk to have to fund your |
| explaining the sales funnel principle. Having a sales | | | | main business or product still out of your own |
| funnel in place is like having your own automated | | | | pocket. This in turn will lead that you have to |
| sales agent working for you 24/7, even when | | | | work harder in your marketing efforts to guide |
| you sleep or when you are on holiday. You will | | | | and lead more people to your landing page with |
| also learn in your research the various marketing | | | | the attempt to convert traffic into sales. But with |
| strategies currently used to start attracting | | | | funded proposals in place you will have the |
| people to your sales funnel. Therefore building | | | | opportunity to capture and convert even the NO's |
| such an automated sales agent is a clever task to | | | | into profit. |
| do for any online business activity. This will take | | | | How do you use funded proposals? |
| time, but this time and sweat spent once can | | | | After people signed up to your main purpose list |
| create sales and sign-ups for years to come. As | | | | you will monitor their activities. If not the desired |
| above mentioned numerous articles and websites | | | | outcome was achieved, you have now the |
| are available showing you the steps of how to | | | | opportunity to remain in regular contact with |
| build such a system. But this article goes further | | | | these potential customers. From this point |
| and explains an additional concept you can | | | | onwards your main focus shall be to offer your |
| implement into your sales process. | | | | expertise, additional products, services and |
| Having a sales funnel in place lets you start | | | | systems which can assist them in their current |
| filtering through your visitors to the ones who at | | | | activities online and offline. But do not miss to |
| the end will engage into the purchase process and | | | | include always your main offer through which |
| a sale or sign-up will be recorded on your books. | | | | they joined your list initially. A visitor who once |
| This filtering process means as well that not all | | | | said NO to your main purpose can be in a total |
| visitors who will enter your list through squeeze | | | | different circumstance after a certain period of |
| pages will turn out as customers or sign-ups in | | | | time, which can result in a positive decision for |
| your online business. When you follow the | | | | your main goal of your sales funnel. And do not |
| statistics only a small percentage will come to a | | | | forget any revenue coming in through a funded |
| purchase decision at the end of your sales funnel | | | | proposal can be taken to support your business |
| (to whom you will hopefully try to up sell as well) | | | | opportunity or the cost of your product creation. |
| and hence a huge potential to make online | | | | Now, do I need a funded proposal (or proposals) |
| revenue is gone... if no funded proposal is in place | | | | in my sales funnel? |
| to make more sales. | | | | The answer to this if you want to overcome the |
| Let us discover what a funded proposal can do | | | | frustration by none converting visitors into |
| for you. | | | | sign-ups or customers is a clearly and straight |
| A funded proposal can be a product, service or | | | | forward - YES! In short a funded proposal is a |
| system which is beneficial for both the visitor and | | | | vital part of any marketing strategy to boost |
| you. Hence I call it a win/win concept for both | | | | your income and so your bank account. |