A challenge to all online marketers

I decided to put up this challenge that I’m personally going through right now. I think it’s one of the best ways to get additional business, find new opportunities, making more sales, whatever your goal is right now.

It’s geared toward getting you lots of connections and making more money in under 30 days, and it doesn’t require any real “work”.

The only work that is required is contacting people that you don’t know or don’t know well.

Here’s how it works.

Step 1: Pick 50 target prospects that could drastically help your business.

• These can be a mix of people in your industry or in an industry you want to get into.
• You must not only pick the targets, but collect their contact info where you can have a live conversation. This can be in person, on the phone or on a live online chat like Skype. Email doesn’t count because it’s not live.
• Have a mixture of targets that you think will be easy to get a hold of for a live conversation and a mix of people that you think will be harder to get a hold of. Don’t pick all easy or all hard targets.

Step 2: Create a plan.

• What are you going to say to these people if you only have 5 minutes, 2 minutes, 30 seconds, etc to tell them about you?
• Create a plan that will allow you to have something to say even if you are given tight time restrictions with each person.
• Resist the urge to “sell” yourself or your product. Rather tell them something interesting about you and have a genuine conversation.
• Don’t create a pushy plan, the idea is just to get these people to remember you and be intrigued to contact you back.

Step 3: Start contacting them.

• Remember, you need to have a live conversation. Face to face, voice to voice or as a last resort an online chat program. No email, text messages or letters.
• At least 10 must be in person, at least 15 must be over the phone. The more in person and then second best, over the phone that you reach out to the better the results are going to be.
• You have 30 days. GO!

The goal of the whole exercise is to put you outside of your comfort zone and make new business contacts. People will appreciate genuine conversation about business without being pushy. Make sure to give people a chance to talk about themselves and what they have going on, don’t push just your agenda.

I’ll make you a challenge that if you follow through on this and don’t get a single dollar of new business that I’ll personally give you a free consulting session. But, if you do get new business you owe me something good.