Skype and Message Magic Webinar – Prospecting via “Add Contacts” Jan 13, 2008 First Session

Today’s first session took its own course after Julie started covering “Prospecting via Add Contacts from the Message Magic Advanced Users Guide page 5″. Many of the guests in the room commented and asked excellent questions which Julie answered. A great deal of very valuable information is contained in the audio that follows below.

As this is a very long chapter of the Message Magic Advanced User Guide, Julie covered the rest of this chapter as well as the next chapter in the second session at 7pm PST.

We will post the questions and answers here at a later date, but meanwhile, please listen to the audio as there is a wealth of information to be obtained from it.

Prospecting Via Add Contacts Message Magic Advanced User Guide Page #4

Again, simply blasting messages out to strangers would be the wrong approach. Even though you can I encourage you to not do it that way. You will not get good results. Instead, do the following: Think up some keywords of interest to you. That could be networking, prosperity, finance, real estate, whatever it is, that’s ok. Add those keywords as search patterns and click search.

TIP: If you are looking for the people involved with a particular networking company then simply use that company name as a search pattern.

ANOTHER TIP: If you know the names of people involved with networking or a particular company, then use their name as the search pattern. This will give you a list of users and a count over on the right. Click check all, which is also over on the right.

Watch this video to see how easy it is

Now comes the interesting part… time to craft an introductory message, the message you would find interesting enough that you would want to know the writer a little better. For me, a person who is interested in helping others make a little (or a lot) of extra money using the internet, this is what I settled on saying: Hey, how are you? I found you in Skype and was wondering if you are interested in a simple way to build a growing monthly income over the internet…

This is short and to the point and that’s what you want. Keep it brief. If you want to tailor the message to something more specific be my guest to try variations on the theme. What I’d encourage you to do though is to mention WHY you are contacting them and what benefit there is to them to add you as a contact. If you do it in any other way you are wasting both their time and yours.

So now you have a list of users, they all have a check mark beside them, and you have a message. Now click on Add Contacts and watch the log at the bottom of your screen as MM processes each one. You’ll get bored pretty fast though and will walk away. If you know how many you are adding (of course you do) then (as of v1.3) you can figure out approximately how long it will take. If you are a free member then multiply that number by 8 seconds, and if you are a paying member they will be added at a rate of about 1 per second… and come back at that time. In other words, if you are adding 500 contacts it will take about 4000 seconds (66 minutes) for free members and about 500 seconds (8 minutes) for paying members.

If you have the Message Magic window open on one side of your screen and your main Skype window open along side it you can also watch what else happens… the contacts will all get added in your Ungrouped category (there may be a time lag while the Skype database catches up so be patient).

Remember, all of those people got your custom invitation to become a contact of yours so DO NOT send them a message saying the same thing… wait until people start adding YOU as a contact and then you are ready to move them out of the Ungrouped category in to a different group, most likely one of the other groups you created earlier, or even to a new one called MM or whatever.

“There is only 1 reason a person won’t make money with this design and that is they quit before they get their “turn”.” - Grant Andrews.

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