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Using Surveys To Serve Your Customers

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Instead of Guessing, Maybe We Should Just Ask!

The key to serving your clients - and making stacks of cash - is to know a bit about them so you can serve them well and often.

How do most marketers operate today?

They build a list, write an email, and blast it out to the whole list hoping that someone on the list wants what they’re offering. Of course, there’s so many problems with that approach, it’s laughable.

But I’ve been guilty of it too.

As your list grows, staying in touch with everyone to find out who they are and what they need is nearly impossible. But with simple surveys, and a simple analytics tool available to everyone, you can uncover amazing information.

Today’s blog post is about that process.

Let’s start with the survey

After discussing the campaign with Jen, we honed in on our goal with the survey until it made the most sense. We came up with three goals:

Find out what niche(s) most of our community is working to provide the right kind of training.
Understand the kind of marketing tools/techniques that people were using to sell their products and provide training on those and the tools they wanted to know more about.
Offer a $100 coupon to apply against our product catalog to entice more people to take the survey and to make sales as they see other things in the cart they want.

Jen started with 2 questions because we wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

Question 1: What is your primary niche?

Question 2: What are your primary marketing tools (to make sales)?

But because we wanted to know a little more, we dug a little deeper.

Question 1a: What is your secondary niche?

Question 2a: What are the 2 marketing tools (to make sales) you'd like to learn more about to implement in your business?

The survey looked like this:

Then we began analyzing the results

The key was to make it easy and painless with no personal details. And to make sure the coupon was being delivered automatically so they could redeem it immediately.

When completed, it was a simple, multiple-choice survey that automatically fed the answers into a Google Sheet - a free tool everyone has access to.

As of this writing, we had 311 responses.

And we’re learning things we hadn’t expected to learn - as you always do if you monitor your investigative processes from inside and outside the process.

So far, we have enough numbers to give us good trends.

Some of them confirm what we thought; others did not.

For example, the top five marketing tools/techniques were:

Email marketing
Social media
Blogging
Affiliate marketing
Video marketing

I think the surprise to all of us was the interest in Blogging as a selling tool.

Next, we looked at the primary niche

When you’re creating promotional partnerships, the question most often asked is: “Who is your community and what do they like?”

That’s a tough question to answer if you have a large community. So, again, we have to ask.

These percentages did confirm one guess. When asked that question, I always answered that about 20% of our community is interested in the “Make Money Online” niche. And the rest were in other business niches. That was true, but I wasn’t sure at all what businesses the other 80% were trying to build.

Self Improvement was huge with 13%
Health and Medical was 8% and if you added in Diet and Fitness, we would be over 11%
Local Marketing Agency was nearly 8%. That shocked me.
And Finance / Investing was almost 6%. Another shock.

So, what does that tell me?

Business building tools and training fundamentals in the “Make Money Online” niche will apply to nearly everyone in our community. But we can also niche down and offer self-improvement or health to a smaller segment and be really well targeted.

What did the secondary niche tell us?

This question helped us identify future trends.

As people mature in their businesses, the niches become more focused. Often, the secondary niche is the passion niche and business people evolve into that.

The surprising trends here were:

Make Money Online dropped by half from the primary.
Self-Improvement rose to the top with the same percentage numbers holding steady as a major focus of a lot of people.
None with more than 10% told us that a ton of people haven’t thought about it, or they are completely focused on the primary niche.
The big surprise was that Ecommerce doubled from 3 to 6%. So, there’s substantial interest in growing that.

What can we learn from this information?

Now, we have a much better understanding of our audience and should be able to target them much better with tools and techniques that help more.

This information forms a basis for our decisions on:

Training product creation
Affiliate offers
Webinar presentations
Email language
Target market segmentation
And better Message to Market Match

I hope you found this helpful. Let me know in the comments if you’ve done anything like this in your business or if you think it would help you create better segmentation and better customer experience going forward.

**** In the time it took to write this post, our survey responses increased by 1/3. Lesson? Make sure you create your survey with a specific time frame in mind to accept results and don't jump to conclusions. Luckily for us, our percentages stayed the same so we can continue forward with our initial hypothesis.

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NO ONE else is doing things online like you guys are doing it...You guys are building and teaching what I want to learn how to do with my online efforts...Today I saw the future!"

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I have wandered around blindly for over 4 years wondering why things weren't working...the things y'all teach are not being taught elsewhere. Instead, the advice is vague and leaves you feeling stupid because you're not figuring it out.

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David Perdew is the CEO and founder of NAMS - the Novice to Advanced Marketing System. He’s a journalist, consultant, and serial entrepreneur who has built one of the most successful and fastest-growing business training systems online today called the MyNAMS Insiders Club.

The Novice to Advanced Marketing System is a step-by-step system focusing on Team, Training and Tools to help novice to advanced business people build a Simple, Scalable and Sustainable business.

He took a year off in 2003 to personally build a 2200 square foot log cabin in north Alabama where he and his wife and two dogs and a cat live on 95 acres of forest with four streams and 60-foot waterfall.

The NAMS team includes his daughter, Jen, who is an email marketing and automation specialist. Jen runs the day to day business and is one of the primary trainers in our MyNAMS Insiders Club.

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Website Security Checklist: 36 Tips to Complete Your Website Security Check

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Website Security Checklist: 36 Tips to Complete Your Website Security Check

It pays to be paranoid in today’s online world with all the potential website security threats because the bad guys REALLY are out to get you…Check your website security often!

We were hacked not long ago. And let me just confirm, it’s no fun.

But this time, it wasn’t so bad because we had systems and tools in place to shut down the hacker fast.

First, evverything is ok. No data was destroyed nor was any customer information revealed. But it was a close call. This is what we call a teaching moment. And since that is what we do best, I wanted to help as many of you as possible make sure that you have the right website security in place.

Stay tuned and we’ll give you a simple, but thorough website security checklist to help protect you from the bad guys.

Here's what happened to us.

Last week, during the Insiders Club call, Jen (my daughter and company manager) tried to login to the Learning Center to show people how to find a specific product.

She couldn't. She was locked out.

I couldn't log in. I was locked out.

None of the rest of our team could login. We were all locked out.

And we began getting support tickets - customers were locked out too. And that’s a really bad thing.

Website hacking is rampant. We all have to be incredibly vigilant because there’s a group of ne’er-do-wellers out there (and they seem to be growing) who would much rather do damage than do good.

This was the second time we’ve been hacked. The first was many years ago.

During our semi-annual workshop in February, a threatening message on the site homepage read:

“David Perdew, you owe me money and I will expose your database to the world if you don’t pay $15000.”

Of course, we had no idea the identity of this mysterious - and extraordinarily dumb hacker - since there was no contact information or payment instruction.

We called the FBI (zero help by the way) and hired a team of cyber sleuths to rectify the hack.

The damage was done though because it forced us to shut down the site for six weeks to clean up and harden the site. Basically, it was a complete rebuild costing us about $75,000 in lost revenue and expenses to get back up and running.

Ten hours after we discovered the attack, we figured out that a person in Jordan, who had signed up for one of our products, used his login and technical know-how to invade the system and plant a malicious file.

Even though our system is much more secure, no computer is foolproof.

So, when we were hacked again recently, I flashed back to that costly previous experience praying that we’d done a better job this time of backing up our systems, putting our WordPress security plugin software in place, configuring it properly, and working with our hosting company to be ever vigilant.

But our system, like yours, gets hit thousands of times a day by hackers and bots trying to find a simple and easy vulnerability to exploit.

If you think about this too long, you could think that doing business online just may not be worth the trouble. Luckily, there are simple ways to ward against 99.9% of the threats.

This time, when we saw the issue, Jen jumped on with LiquidWeb, our host, and they confirmed that they could see a rogue account with an IP from Tunisia that accessed our server and was in the account. They could see where he was and what he was doing.

And because of the unusual server activity, our WordPress security plugin, iThemes Security Pro, did it's job and shut down the entire site until we could stop the strange behavior in the server.

We'd caught a hacker in the act.

My first thought in a situation like this is about the backups. “Where's our backups?"

Website backups are not something we think about often, but when we do, it’s usually as the result of some tragedy. And while we never want to use the backups, we must have them in case we do.

One of the reasons our first hacking experience shut us down for 6 weeks many years ago was because our backups had consistently been overwritten with new backups that had become infected with the malicious sleeper file. That allowed the hacker to trigger his activity at a later date.

Rebuilding the site was our only option.

One backup isn’t enough. We like to have a couple of months of backups just in case. Yes, that’s probably overkill, but when you have unlimited cloud storage from a reputable company like Google, data space is not an issue.

Unlimited backup space seems like it would be really expensive, but it isn’t at all. About 18 months ago, I made a very small one time investment in a product called Unlimited Cloud Storage.

All of our backups are loaded on that Google drive account with multi layered 2 factor authentication security. We used those to restore our sites by suppertime and get everything back to normal with very little downtime.

After this episode, I begged the developer to give our community a special promotion code to get $10 off. If you’re interested in Unlimited Cloud Storage, be sure to use the promo code NAMS10.

Tools, tips and tricks to enhance your security with a site security checklist

But unlimited cloud storage is not the only website security best practice we use.

We’ll go through a few of the best practices we use and a few of the tools we like to implement those below.

Domain Registration/ Hosting

Even though this is so important, too many people overlook this simple step. For example, someone may register their domain Godaddy and decide to get hosting there as well. Their entire business can then be shut down by Godaddy if they don’t like your business for any reason.

If you register your domain in one location like Simple Niche Domains (our Godaddy reseller account), and host your domain with a separate company like A2 Hosting (we recommend highly with very reasonable rates for medium to smaller sites), you’ll be in control.

Register your domain in a different place than where you host your site!
Use a hosting company with a good reputation and good support plans

WordPress Admin Structure/Plugins/Themes

Never use admin as your username
Delete any account using admin as the username
Always use a strong password - we recommend 20 characters with AT LEAST 1 Symbol, 1 Number and Upper and Lower Case
Periodically remove admin accounts set up for support of your plugins or products
Alway check for abandoned plugins. These are plugins that have had no updates recently (within the last year)
Don't be a plugin hoarder. Make sure you delete plugins that are no longer being used or that are duplicates of another product.
Never allow additional plugins to be added to your site without permission
Avoid free plugins unless the company has an upgrade path.
Always make sure you're updating your WordPress theme. If your theme has not had updates recently, change themes! (child themes can be hacked too so if your child theme is outdated, it may be time for a newer one)
Keep your WordPress core software updated. Be sure you backup first before updating and if possible run the updates on a test site or server
Do NOT use free themes

Backups

You can schedule backups to run directly with your hosting company. These are not always the easiest to access but are good to have running as a backup of your backup system - or a redundancy.
Make sure backups are running on all of your sites frequently. At least daily. If you add a lot of content to your site, we recommend backing up multiple times per day. We back up every 12 hours and load to our Unlimited Cloud Storage.
Make sure your hosting company is running a Cpanel Backup as well. This does not have to happen as frequently as cpanel changes should be minimal.
Make sure you have a cloud storage account for your backups
Make sure you are deleting old backups, especially if you are paying for storage space.
Use a WordPress Backup Plugin - These are super easy to configure and use. We use Updraft and recommend BackupBuddy as well.

Connect your backup plug in to your cloud storage and make sure to add extra security on your backup folder. Password protect the folder OR put 2 factor authentication on the folder

Security Plugins

Use a WordPress security plugin. A paid version with good support is best. That’s why we use and recommend iThemes Security Pro.
Configure your security plugin correctly
Remember your security plugin will protect your site from bad players but sometimes can flag innocent customers and users. You can automatically whitelist or remove a blacklist on a customer IP address in your security settings.
Use recaptcha or two step optins to ensure you're not getting hammered by bots and bad sign ups

Password Manager

Use a password manager tool. There are several out there but we prefer LastPass because we can share access with our team members without sharing passwords. And we can use the mobile app to access anything from our phone as well.

Use A WordPress and Security Company

Amy Bair - eHemisphere
Paul Taubman - Digital Maestro
Debra Lloyd - WP WebWorks

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