by Jeff Trimble | May 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s interesting to note that Google’s email algorithm is highly effective, as less than 0.1% of the messages that land in your Gmail inbox are considered spam. However, there are instances when Google mistakenly categorizes important emails and messages as spam. As a precaution, Google puts more emails into the spam folder, potentially leading to missed critical messages.
To avoid missing important emails, whitelisting email addresses and domains can be the solution. By adding an email to your whitelist, you can effortlessly ensure that important emails are delivered to your inbox and avoid ending up in the spam folder. Whitelisting is a simple process that can help safeguard you from scammers.
How To Whitelist using Desktop Apps:
Gmail
#1 Log Into Your Gmail & Open Your Settings
After logging in, locate the gear icon situated near your profile picture and click on it. This will trigger a drop-down menu where you can choose the “See all settings” option.
#2 Select Filters and Blocked Addresses
Within the settings, you will find a row containing various options. Click on the fifth option labeled “Filters and Blocked Addresses.”
#3 Create A New Filter
Be sure to scroll down and choose the “Create a new filter” button, located in the center of the page, as shown below.
#4 Add Your Email Address That You Want To Whitelist
Once you have clicked on the “Create a new filter” button, a pop-up window containing an email address should appear, similar to the one displayed below. Enter the email address that you wish to whitelist next to the “from” line. Once you have entered this information, be sure to select the “Create filter” option.
#5 “Never Send It To Spam”
We are nearly done, please ensure that you tick the “Never send to spam” box. After selecting this option, click on the “create filter” button, and voila! The email address has now been successfully added to your whitelist.
#6 Confirm the Whitelisted Email Address
We advise you to double-check and confirm that the email address has been successfully whitelisted. Once you have selected the “create filter” button, you will be redirected back to the settings page. Navigate to the “themes” section and verify which filters have been applied to your email.
You should observe the email address you whitelisted with the message “Never send it to Spam” located underneath it. And that’s all there is to it! Simple and straightforward. Thank you very much!
Outlook
Access the email from the sender that you have whitelisted, and click on the option that reads “I trust [email protected]“.
Gmail
How To Whitelist using Mobile (tablet/phone) Email Apps:
GMAIL
When using the Gmail app, you have two options:
1. If an email is in the spam folder, you can mark it as “not spam.”
2. You can move an email from the secondary inbox to the promotional inbox.
If an email continues to be sorted into the spam folder, you can access it and click “Report not spam.” Alternatively, you can prioritize the email by selecting the three dots located in the upper right corner and choosing “Mark important,” as demonstrated in the video below.
For option two, you can open the email and tap on the three dots located in the top right corner. Then, select “Move to” and choose “Main.” This will transfer the email from the promotional folder to your primary inbox.
OUTLOOK MOBILE
To make certain that you receive important emails on Outlook for mobile, you can add senders to your focused inbox. Follow these steps:
1. Access the email that you want to whitelist.
2. In the top right corner of the screen, tap on the three dots (not the dots inside the email).
3. Select “Move to Focused Inbox.”
4. Click the “Always Move” button in the popup window.
by Jeff Trimble | Apr 11, 2022 | How To Make Money, Laptop Lifestyle, Popular Blog, Self Improvement
When it comes to creating the “Laptop Lifestyle” there are 5 major income sources that allowed me to break the chains of the 9 to 5
1) Creating A Digital Marketing Agency
Throughout the years, agency and freelancer work has grown. As we pull through the COVID world, more and more people are working remotely. This enables business owners to truly understand the true power of the internet.
If 2020 taught us anything, it was the power of zoom calls and just how easy they truly are. This has opened the doors for more remote and outsourced work. When business owners begin to see how effective people can truly be when working from a remote location they begin to allow it. Just a few short years ago, it was like pulling teeth to convince business owners to hire an agency that was across the globe. “I want somebody local to me”. Most no longer care where you are, which is an incredible thing! Why does it matter where you are working from? As long as you have an internet connection you can do agency work!
Client Acquisition through covid has changed. In the “Before Times,” many businesses just relied on foot traffic into their locations. What happens when that foot traffic stays inside? How do you acquire customers then? You have to market online. The world has woken up to the need to have its online presence up to par. There is more demand than ever before.
But Jeff how do I actually start an agency?
Step 1) Pick a SINGLE skill to acquire like graphics design for dentists. Everybody needs new signs inside their locations.
Step 2) Give your services away FREE OF CHARGE. This will allow you to build relationships with dentists and generate a portfolio to show other prospects in the future.
Step 3) Build a relationship with these dentists and probe for other problems they are struggling with. I.E My front-end manager is not converting enough sales calls. Then build other services around the problems dentists have with the goal of charging a monthly recurring retainer for services rendered.
Pro Tip: If a dentist is struggling with a front-end conversion rate. Set up a call recording software for the client and spot-check their phone calls for them. Sending back the data on missed opportunities AND how to fix the problems. (We get paid to SOLVE problems not present the owner with more)
2) Affiliate Marketing
If there was ever a buzzword list for “How to make money online” this one makes the top every time. The problem is everybody makes affiliate marketing harder than it has to be so, let’s make it simple for you.
Affiliate marketing in its simplest form is just selling somebody’s product and taking a commission for the exchange. It’s almost exactly the same as every sales gig on the planet with one minor twist. If you are really really good at marketing then you can sell these products faster and build a crazy big commission without even talking to people. That is for another blog post though. Today we are going to stick with the basics.
You have customers coming to you every day, they are looking for services that you do not provide. So why not find a provider of these services and then take a cut of the profits? That is exactly what I do…
At my Client Acquisition Agency, we develop and create beautiful websites. Every website needs a hosting provider. We partner with a provider that offers quality commissions and we sell their services. They have to buy hosting anyway so why not take a piece of the pie by recommending our preferred partner? (Every hosting we sell we get an additional $200 right in our pockets)
Now take a look at the people around you. What are they buying? How do you get a piece of the pie?
3) Subcontractor Internet Marketing Style
One of my mentors gave me this tip of advice that changed my life forever “Do what you do best and pay others to do the rest”. In translation, if you do not have any internet marketing skills partner with somebody better than you and pay them to do the work. It’s almost like affiliate marketing but with services.
Now there are two ways to subcontract a deal. The first is referral-based exactly like affiliate marketing. You refer somebody to some business and you take a commission of the profits. It’s completely hands-off. You don’t do any of the customer services, you don’t set any of the pricing. You just bring the customers to the table and the partner does the rest.
The second way is called “White Labeling” and this is by far my preferred method. It works like this, you find somebody that has incredible skills and work out a partnership and a flat rate they will charge you to provide this service. Example: Flyer design for dentists. Then you go out and sell this service for more than the graphics designer is charging you. The key here is you get to set the pricing, the customer is your customer and you have to handle all the customer service and communications between the designer and the customer.
In fact, when I white label a project. My customers never even communicate with the developer directly. This is usually a win-win for both of us. Most designers and developers are NOT “people persons” they tend to be super introverted and do not enjoy communicating with clients. They just want to focus on what they enjoy the most and that is their designing skills. The individuals that work with me love this process quite a bit, we bring them easy money and closed deals. They just have to produce art for us.
4) Coaching
This income stream took me a few years to get used to. People paying to hear me talk. Now though, this service is usually the down sale to my agency. If you do not want to hire us on a monthly retainer to do “the thing” for you. Then we will charge you a flat rate to teach your team to do the thing.
There are so many avenues into the coaching space and one micro paragraph here will not do it justice. If you are looking to become an online coach I 100% recommend checking out “The one funnel away challenge” it’s put on by a company called click funnels and they specialize in teaching you how to create websites called funnels that sell digital courses on autopilot. I can’t recommend “The one funnel away challenge” enough
5) Content Creation
This one is the hardest to monetize but the coolest if you actually get it off the ground. At the time of me writing this, I am sitting in Playa Del Carmen Mexico after finishing up a week-long “Digitial Nomad” conference. I have met hundreds of online business owners and a handful of content creators.
When I think of content creation, the first thing that comes to mind is YouTube creation. Fun fact, I didn’t meet a single YouTuber at this convention. All the content creators were bloggers, or Tiktokers driving traffic to an email list. Most were talking out the weird things they were mega passionate about. Some about skin issues they had and how they overcame them. Others doing travel blogs documenting their glob trotting. The coolest one was a translation blog. Where somebody was teaching Spanish lessons on their website making a killing. Oh and the podcasters… Soooo many podcasters.
It’s really not that hard. It just takes quality content… And that’s where most people fail. Not putting enough effort into what they are creating.
Why wouldn’t you want to put a lot of effort into your content? Some of these people have MILLIONS of visitors to their sites a month. If you knew you had a shot to have a million people read your blog wouldn’t you want it to be top-notch? #JustATought
by Jeff Trimble | Feb 17, 2021 | Popular Blog
This is a Mexican bath tub…
It’s a PUBLIC BATH TUB…
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You rent it out for an hour, and then well anybody in the village can follow you after.
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This water is super clear and HOT AF
(it’s filled with a continuous flow of water from a natural hot springs)
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This is the the NORMAL for the people who live here…
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Two years ago when I did this for the first time, I thought it was so weird. I couldn’t believe people did this…
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I love my hot shower at home
where I can just stand and think the whole day away…
(I thought everybody showered the same way)
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The people here LOVE this little bathroom.
Most consider it the best part of the day.
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Perspective…
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If I’ve learned one thing in this life from all my entrepreneur adventures and from all my travels around the world…
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It’s that “The way we see the world is wrong. The “reality” in which we think is real is not real”…
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And this is the exact reason most people don’t win in their relationships, their friendships, their marriages, the business, their bank accounts…
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Their assumptions on how the world works is wrong…
Their assumptions of what others want are wrong…
Their perspective is wrong…
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So if you take anything from this post take this one thing!
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Always ask WHY!
(Fook everybody who says else wise)
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Why does this work?
Why do people buy that?
Why do people say that?
Why do people feel that?
Why do others believe that?
Why why why why why why why why why!!!!!
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Always question your reality because it’s not actually real.
by Jeff Trimble | Apr 19, 2020 | Popular Blog
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Three SECRETS To Acquiring Customers Online!
When it comes to Client Acquisition using the internet; most small businesses, insurance agents, real estate agents, and other “agency” model businesses tend to over complicate things.
Secret 1: The internet world is NOT any different from the offline world.
I, Jeff Trimble, have been working with “agents” for over 5 years now. Coaching them how to transition their businesses from cold calling, door knocking, and other “grinds” to acquiring customers. When we start the process to transition into the internet marketing space almost every agent makes the same mistake…
They boot up their computer, hop onto youtube and watch some tutorials on how to become successful on their social media platform of choice. Then they implement these crazy strategies that are supposed to “hack” the social media platform into generating leads on demand. They start creating content for Facebook to get more shares, they post images with a million hashtags so Instagram gives them all the followers…
In the offline world, when can you ever cheat your way to the top?
They create content for the “social platform” hoping that will make them successful… The agents forget that their businesses end goal to be impressing Facebook. It’s to be creating content that their ideal client would enjoy. Never make the mistake of forgetting about your ideal customer in your marketing!
Secret 2: Follow the attention.
Another major mistake we see quite often at “Jeff Trimble Marketing” is that agents tend to believe that just by getting online, creating a few business profiles or pages will bring them endless amounts of customers. This is not the case… Your Facebook page, your Instagram account, and even your website are kind of like business cards. You might have the best design but if you are not handing out your business cards then nobody will ever see them. Social media is NOT any different.
In the offline world, where do you hand out the most business cards? Meetup groups, events, and other gatherings right? The internet world also has these and they’re called; Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, webinars, virtual seminars, and online summits. When these things are being promoted join them, get inside the community and network with other individuals… Give them your digital business card (Your Instagram handle, your Facebook page URL and all the others).
Secret 3: It goes down in the DM’s
The system that brings in the most customers for “Jeff Trimble Marketings Client Acquisition Programs” is something we call Fusion Prospecting. It’s a system of communicating through social media Direct Messages to prospect individuals to see if they are qualified to be a customer of our programs.
Most agents do NOT spend any time prospecting on social media. They are NOT reaching out to their ideal client using direct messenger. Instead, they chose to cold call… 90% of the world doesn’t want to be cold-called and those same people don’t mind if you message them on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn… So why would you choose to start off a business relationship by doing something people don’t want you to do?
In fact, not only do people prefer to be contacted via social media, it’s actually 10x more efficient to be doing this process. How many people can you talk to on the phone at the same time? Now, how many people can you text at the same time?
It’s not uncommon for me to be having 5-10 prospecting conversations AT THE SAME TIME when using social media.
Author: Jeff Trimble “The Client Acquisition Coach” Founder: Jeff Trimble Marketing and The “Fusion Prospecting System”
by Jeff Trimble | Feb 23, 2017 | Popular Blog, Social Media
Are you leading the next great startup, or are you a part of an executive team at a well-established corporation? While the demands placed on executives at every organization can be dramatically different, what holds true across diverse industries is the importance of brand loyalty.
A big reason why is that just one misstep or poor customer experience can ruin a brand’s reputation. So, if you’re a marketer or entrepreneur, brand reputation should be at the forefront of every decision you make.
Take, for example, a brand like Disney, the leader in family entertainment. Disney’s brand doesn’t just happen. A lot of ongoing hard work goes into not just building the brand, but maintaining it. All employees (or “cast members,” as they’re called), all marketing materials and all internal and external communications convey a consistent message of clean family fun and service excellence.
The company makes a conscientious effort to keep its messaging and branding consistent through all channels.
While not all brands are quite as attentive as Disney, everyone in these organizations should be thinking about how their decisions impact current and future brand advocates in every aspect of the business.
The message: What you do determines whether you will have a good relationship with your customers. After all, without customers to help evangelize your brand, you don’t have much of a business, do you?
Here are four strategies that can help drive brand loyalty.
1. Use technology to create a better customer experience.
Technology can be a valuable tool to help improve a brand’s relationship with its customers. When customers trust that you’re delivering a unique service and exceeding expectations to meet their needs, they will return the favor by willingly giving you their information. That symbiotic relationship is extremely valuable — it helps create trust, which should be the ultimate goal for every brand.
Data-driven personalization can also increase revenue for brands. According to an Infosys study, 86 percent of consumers surveyed said that personalization plays a role in their purchasing decisions. Additionally, 73 percent of consumers said they preferred to do business with brands that use personal information to make their shopping experience more relevant.
Once brands have the trust of their customers, and their information, they can employ user-generated profile platforms, like autoGraph, to gain emotionally intelligent insights and customer opt-in solutions. This platform enables consumers to create, edit and delete their profile and use it wherever and whenever they want.
In turn, users know — at all times — what they are signing up for, and can fully control the process with an icon-based user interface.
By gaining a profile on consumers, c-suite executives will have access to valuable insights about the emotional connections and preferences of individuals. By engaging your own consumers with data aligned with their preferences, your brand can build a better customer experience.
2. Personalize the message with an opt-in data policy.
How can you effectively reach your target audience? The answer is: by sharing brand news that resonates with them and reaches a level of personalization emphasizing your company’s unique value to your customers.
Establishing an opt-in policy builds trust in the brand and ensures that consumers have full control of the information shared. Just because your customers trust you doesn’t mean they’ll give you full access. Consumer data is a very powerful tool, but with great power comes great responsibility.
This first-party data equips brands with individual customer preferences and enables them to personalize the messages they send. A brand can quickly lose the loyalty of its customers with irrelevant messages (a barrage of ads, content that’s not relatable, offers that don’t apply). Your customers care about how you’re providing them relevant products and services. They want to know that you understand them, their needs and preferences.
Always ask yourself, “How can I provide accurate information to the customer? Get their participation?” Consumers are willing to share information with the brands they trust. Your customers are more receptive to your message when it’s personalized to their interests.
3. Use social media to show brand value and customer appreciation.
Social media is a great way to build brand loyalty. A BRANDfog study found that when a brand executive has something to say, individuals on social media listen. In fact, 81 percent of respondents in the study said they had more confidence in a company when its executive was using social media.
When brands show their appreciation for consumers on social media, that helps build brand loyalty, and those customers then become your most loyal brand ambassadors — across your social media channels. Replying with a personal message or commenting on a social media post is a perfect way to humanize a brand and deepen the relationship.
Here’s a pro tip: Your organization likely has some brand advocates constantly engaging on social media. So, surprise them. Go beyond the typical reply with a special gift or complimentary upgrade. The cost is minimal and you can almost guarantee that customer-recipients will post about it for others to hear.
The acknowledgment on social media brings in new customers and increases the positive exposure of your brand — not to mention good PR. Showing the company cares about their experience outside of business transactions separates your brand from the competition.
4. Sell the company, sell you.
Leverage executives within your organization by using their personal brand to reflect your company’s brand. Recognize that CEOs or other executives — whether they be someone like Elon Musk at Tesla Motors and SpaceX, or Tim Cook at Apple, are aligned with the brand, top to bottom. These executives can help put a personal face to your brand.
I make time to engage with my followers on social media to keep them posted on whom I’m interviewing or meeting with. Giving your followers a sneak peek at the inner workings of the company can only be beneficial in your efforts to gain an extra level of trust. Let them see behind the curtain!
Developing trust and re-emphasizing the company’s mission statement is vital to connecting with your target audience on social media. The core values of the company are important to consumers and resonate, prompting brand advocates to express similar values.
Also, having a strong brand following for the company benefits the bottom line — and making money is one of my conditions of satisfaction. Communicating your company’s message and values is vital, so be relentless as you deliver on your brand’s promise every day.
Make sure, en route, that your customers remain your top priority during all company decisions, and maintain full transparency in regard to how their data is used.
If you’re a brand, how do you drive brand loyalty? If you’re a customer, what do you want brands to do for you?
