Comments on: Ring! Your Best Web Marketing Tool is Calling

By: Seven Ways to Convert Your Superfans into Customers

Seven Ways to Convert Your Superfans into Customers — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:57:20 +0000

[...] to the same bar so anyone who wants to show up can. He also wrote a blog post for us in which he posted his phone number…and people called him!But you can take it a step further by finding your superfans and [...]

By: nextfly

nextfly — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:37:04 +0000

This is refreshing. Twitter, Facebook and Email aside, we get some of our greatest clients just by the “old school” cold-call.

By: #FollowFriday: Andy Crestodina | Spin Sucks

#FollowFriday: Andy Crestodina | Spin Sucks — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:00:08 +0000

[...] has written here several times, including: The Giant Robot Guide to Combining Marketing Tactics, Ring! Your Best Web Marketing Tool is Calling, Overcome Writer’s Block Forever, Do Content Marketers Compete?, and Social Proof or Social [...]

By: 4-Step Guide to Create Superfans | Chicago Web Developers

4-Step Guide to Create Superfans | Chicago Web Developers — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:07:55 +0000

[...] recently wrote a post about how the phone is actually the best web marketing tool. In it, I gave an example of how one simple call led to a flurry of connections, introductions and [...]

By: OzData

OzData — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:47:28 +0000

As Tyrese, R. Kelly and Ludacris say: Pick Up the Phone
Thanks for Stumbling this Kate Hamilton !

By: The Power of Persistence and How It Leads to Business Growth - Clarity for the Boss

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:11:53 +0000

[...] wrote a guest blog for Gini Dietrich over at SpinSucks. The post discussed how your phone is your most effective web marketing tool. At the bottom of the post in Andy’s biography, there was a recommendation to connect with him [...]

By: Pon Angara

Pon Angara — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:52:57 +0000

This post made me smile. In this age of impersonal high-tech digital communications, what will help you rise from the clutter and set you apart is, in fact, the personal high-touch human interaction. The mere fact that you made the time to pick up the phone and call me says you consider me to be important enough. After all, aren’t we in a relationship economy? Thanks Andy!

By: crestodina

crestodina — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:01:40 +0000

@kimmolinkama We should call Chris and ask for his opinion.

But seriously, I love his advice, but he operates on a completely different level. If you and the person you’re considering calling have less than 100k followers, you may both be happy to have taken 5 minutes to deepen a relationship. I’ve been doing this about once a month and I’ve never regretted it.

I even got a call from someone who read this post. It was a pleasant surprise. Everyone is busy, but also, everyone knows that and wants to be considerate…

By: Rebecca Livermore

Rebecca Livermore — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:15:10 +0000

I’m not big on phone, but even I am intrigued by this idea. I’d be more likely, however, to text someone as a way of easing into it, unless I already had a deeper relationship with the person. I do love the idea of talking via phone or Skype with someone I’m connecting with well online in order to bring the relationship to the next level.

By: kimmolinkama

kimmolinkama — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:52:54 +0000

Okay, but you also have to consider the “level of interruption” — and whether it gets you where you want: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/communication-tools-and-levels-of-interruption/