Archive for May, 2009

What Makes a Mobile Phone Popular?

Monday, May 18th, 2009
Ian Ball asked:


Do you buy exactly the same mobile that your mom bought? Or do you sometimes feel envious seeing your friend’s handset? If your answer is yes to any of these two questions, then have you ever wondered what kind of mobile phones are more popular among the mass? Well preferences are truly individualized in all aspects of demands in all times. But let’s talk about mobile phones.

Truly, people throughout the world greatly vary in their differences in using different handsets or in counting on different network service provider. But it is also seen that the use of mobile phone great differs in different cultures.

The study conducted by Nokia

Different people from different cultures prefer to use different mobile. For example, the mobile preferred by Brazilian profoundly varies with the preference of Ethiopians. Nokia claims, due to this reason they are after developing so many models and launching so many phones.

As explained by Mr. Tomi Paastila, the vice president for Nokia mobile phone sales and marketing division, the individual choice differs depending on the regional demand and it is the responsibility of the manufacturer to understand the specific demand for each market and to identify the pattern of using of a buyer in particular location.

Mr. Tomi Paastila is responsible for developing more than 8800 consumer-winning designs along with over 1 million loyal customers.

The Study Area

Nokia conducted a study which affirmed that there are 12 unique consumer divisions across Middle East and Africa. These zones are especially significant as there is an increasing market for Nokia and other manufacturing units. The study also confirmed that consumers in these zones are appeared as the trendiest rational buyers in the world who understand the concept of style ambassadors and style drives.

This market has become so valued essentially because of its youthfulness. That is, the region primarily focuses on young buyers and is largely dependent on it.

Study revealed that Nigerians primarily tend to be the most vibrant in order to test the mobile working most in the African setup. The prevalence of using by Nigerians aligns with SH2000 to SH4000 from Nokia, because of its durability and affordability. Their preference primarily goes with affordable connectivity. Also they are fond of using mobile phones with flash light or FM radio. On the other hand, people living in Dubai most prefer using flashier phones suitable to cosmopolitan life styles.

orange mobile phones



BRADFORD

Does anyone have an open pay as you go N95 phone for sale?

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Julian J asked:


I need one to use in the West Indies

OLIVER

Cheap Mobile Phone Shopping Via Credible Online Mobile Shops!

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Astin Sharon asked:


Getting cheap mobile phones from somewhere might be a joke for you but it’s really possible. You can get your favorite expensive phone at a cheaper price. You might be wondering how this can be possible. Well several online websites act as online mobile phone shops offering best mobile phone deals. Gone are the days when people were required to go out for their shopping needs as websites enable them to buy anything just by clicking the mouse.

Mobile phone has become a necessity for every human being. The impact of cell phones is enormous on teenagers, children and adults. Every individual has different requirement of a mobile phone. Some use it for business transactions while few consider it a fashion statement. So no matter whatever be the purpose mobile phone sales are increasing at an incredible speed.

There are various advantages in buying mobile phones from online resources. Some of them include:

Websites provides comprehensive information on each of the handset including new mobile phones. This encompasses detailed specifications of each handset, images of handsets from different angle and other minor details. These help consumers in getting a fair idea about the usage of the handset.

Online resources are better than city retailers because they include their personal profit and can influence the consumer in buying any inferior quality handset at a higher cost. On the other hand the main aim of websites is to offer cheap mobile phones through special deals and promotion offers.

The online mobile phone shops have got tie-ups with leading handset makers and service providers and provide special attractive deals like contract mobile phone and payg mobile phone deals to lure the consumers who cannot afford expensive handsets.

In contract deals, the user usually enters into an agreement with the service provider and is required to pay a monthly charge for a specified period of time. While in payg deal, the user is required to pay the amount in advance for the talk time he wants to use and once the talk time gets over, he can top up with any amount of his choice.

Other special deals are also provided to the consumers in the form of T mobile phone and 3 mobile phone deals. These deals are presented by the service providers in which they provide their own handsets.

So looking above at some of the benefits attached to online mobile phone shopping, it can be said that conventional shopping methods stand nowhere nearer to online mobile phone shops!



LYLE

Cell Phone Shopping Opportunities

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Daniel Smith asked:


If you visit a local mass merchandising retail giant, there are going to be multiple cell phone shopping opportunities available for public review. These cell phone shopping opportunities are displayed under glass in display cases, attached by cords to display case countertops, or can be found hanging on display racks in the center aisle of the store.

In a 40 square foot radius, a consumer might be subject to more than 100 cell phone shopping opportunities in a retail store. Customers like to be able to touch and feel the quality of several cell phone cases at one time. They also like to compare all of the different features that are listed on model presentation pages that are printed on hard plastic and firmly mounted to glass display cases.

All of these cell phone shopping opportunities are meant to draw the customer’s attention to the cell phone products in the stores. These sale tools are offered free of charge to retailers in most cases and are meant to help educate sales staff in selling their products. With so many cell phone shopping opportunities available, retail merchants need to have several salespeople who are knowledgeable in cell phone usage, capabilities and rate plans.

There are cell phone dealer locations that provide many cell phone shopping opportunities to, but are focused on one specific dealer. Each national phone manufacturer has their own way of doing business. Some offer dealer locations that provide cell phone shopping opportunities at all hours of the night, and some cell phone shopping opportunities can be found on corner sale sites in the middle of shopping mall hallways.

In addition to cell phone shopping opportunities that are included in buying guides that you will find on internet shopping links located on ads placed on homepages, consumers will also be afforded links to many other websites that sell comparable cell phones and accessories that the consumer might be interested in reviewing prior to purchasing a new cell phone.

On any website that sells cell phones, consumers have many cell phone shopping opportunities, that provide picture, features, rate plans, model variations and rebates and other incentives that make shopping and buying a cell phone a very pleasant experience.

There are helpful online assistants that can provide you with answers to any questions you have about a cell phone. This truly provides cell phone shopping opportunities that are very easy to commit to. Through careful questioning, consumers can find out many hidden benefits that are not normally listed on websites.

When cell phone shoppers talk to customer representatives at call centers throughout the country that work for a cell phone provider that they want to do business with, and identify features such as additional cell phone minute rates available in packages that meet a specified price range, or text messaging packages that will delight their child and save them precious minutes on their cell phone rate plan allotment, these normally hidden cell phone shopping opportunities will certainly give people more incentive to purchase a cell phone at a lower rate plan than they would normally need.



ETHAN

Nokia N93i: the New Breed of Camera Phones

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Caitlin Lucy asked:


When the camera was introduced, it was seen as a ‘gimmick’ to boost mobile phone sales by many. Even the most enthusiast might not have imagined the rate at which the mobile camera would evolve. Nokia’s N series broke many barriers and orthodox perception of multimedia capabilities of mobile phones. In an attempt to cease initiative from its competitors who already crossed the 3 mega pixel mark in camera phones, Nokia had launched the Nokia N93 and recently the Nokia N93i to give its users great video footage other than great pictures.

Compared to its earlier make, the Nokia N93i is much lighter at 163 gm. The handset is fairly large but way smaller than your digital camcorder. The twist and rotating 16 million TFT colour display of the Nokia N93i makes its easy to shoot videos just like any camcorder. Videos are recorded at 30 frames per second compared to the industry norm of 15 frame per second. Primary camera module is 3.15 megapixel and have the power of Carl Zeiss lens. Optical zoom, integrated flash, autofocus, anti Red-eye, timer – the Nokia N93i competes with your digital camera in more than one way.

You can print ‘real’ photographs to be kept in an old fashion album or choose to store them digitally or share via MMS, Email or any other way today’s technology has to offer. A much weaker VGA camera is incorporated enabling the user to make and receive video calls across UMTS networks. Voice clarity across triband GSM network around the globe is second to none. This S60 platform based, Symbian OS operated smart phone has the ability to give you fastest possible data speed in 3G network. GPRS and EDGE (Class 32), HSCSD, WiFi and other connectivity options like Infrared, Blue tooth v2.0, USB 2.0 makes the Nokia N93i one of the strongest communication tools available today.



CURT

Does the LG KF510 mobile phone work with an Optus SIM card?

Monday, May 11th, 2009
idunnoimaskenyou asked:


I want to buy the LG KF510 mobile phone and i want to know if that mobile works with Optus. Its for sale with Virgin Mobile but i don’t get reception with them where i live and i want to be with Optus because they have the best deals. Does it work??

ISIDRO

MLM Training: Proven Steps to Get Your Downline On the Phone (scripts and power phrases included)

Monday, May 11th, 2009
Tim Sales asked:


Prior to becoming involved in network marketing, I was a member of the U.S. Navy’s Underwater Explosive Ordinance Disposal Team (the Navy’s bomb squad). I learned many great lessons there that helped me with my MLM business years later, one of which was overcoming fear.

In the Navy, what allowed people to overcome their fear of defusing bombs under water was simple: drill, drill, drill – and when you’re sick of drilling, drill some more. Overcoming fear did not mean read, read and when you’re sick of reading, read some more; that doesn’t make someone skilled at defusing bombs. By the way, drill means repetitiously going over something to learn it well.

It’s the same with getting appointments so you can share either the MLM business opportunity or your products with someone. Not that reading and learning the way bombs go “boom” and phones go “ring-ring” isn’t important, it is. Reading or studying is only one part of knowing something and getting effective at it.

Here’s why some distributors in your MLM organization quit. Just think what would have happened if the bomb squad trainers told the bomb squad to go home and read about the most common ways a bomb blows up, and then sent them out by themselves to defuse a bomb.

Yet that’s what network marketing leaders are often guilty of – asking their new distributors to go home and make their list of prospects. They’re given a sheet (sometimes) of objections they “might” encounter, and then are told to call their prospects and invite them to take a look at a great MLM business…BOOM! Ever wonder why that new distributor in your network marketing organization disappears within 30 days?

What worked best for me was to start with a script. Very often I’ve heard people say they don’t/can’t use scripts. That’s fine. Write down what you plan to say anyway, because you need to get comfortable with making your call. You’ll need to repeat it several times. It’s very helpful to “invite yourself” into a tape recorder microphone. Listen to the tape and ask yourself “Would I accept that invitation?”

One of my scripts went something like this:

You: “Hi, John, this is Sue. Do you have a minute or did I catch you at a bad time?”

Prospect: “No, I have a minute. What’s up?”

You: “Great, are you open to a business outside of_______(what they currently do for a living)?”

Now, here are some likely responses you’ll hear. These are the common objections and questions that you can almost always expect to get from your MLM prospects:

What is it? Is this a pyramid? Is it Network Marketing or multi-level marketing? Is this sales? What would I be doing? I’m too busy, I don’t have time. What is the investment?

Here are the steps to take so you don’t get caught off guard by your prospect’s objections to your network marketing business:

Step 1) Drill

Step 2) Drill

Step 3) Drill

These are the questions and objections! You know what they are! Drilling these beforehand is like knowing what’s going to be on the test!

This is how I finish the invitation:

You” (This was already stated, but I put it here again so you get the whole sequence.) “Great, are you open to a business outside of ________ (what they currently do for a living)?”

The most common response is:

Prospect: “What is it?” This is exactly what you want them to ask.

You: “Do you have Internet access?” (If not, send them the Brilliant Compensation video.)

Prospect: “Yes”

You: “Do you have something to write with?”

Prospect: “Yes”

You: Give the web address of your Brilliant Compensation website and say, “This is a purely educational online movie that explains our marketing strategy – watch this and then we can have an intelligent conversation about the target market, product lines and things like that. Read me back the address.” (make sure it’s correct) Confirm when they will have the time to review the information. Set when you will talk again. Hang up the phone.

Now, that script is one I’ve used successfully for years. The reason it works is because it was designed to PREVENT the objections mentioned above. It took me a long time to develop that script. In the example below there are several phrases I identified that actually CREATED common objections to my network marketing business invitation.

Avoid These Phrases and Instead Use…

(Phrase to avoid listed first, then recommended phrase listed second.)

I recently became involved

I’m working on a project…

I’d like to get you involved

I’m looking for the right person that…

I want you to…

You might want to…

I think you would love this

It may or may not be for you…

You would be good at this

This might be lucrative for us…

New business opportunity

Business idea or project

Are you interested?

You might want to see this

Are you looking for a business opportunity?

Do you keep your eyes open for expansion/diversification?

The point is, to overcome any type of fear, you must have both knowledge and practice. Therefore you must get with your network marketing organization and practice what to say to prospects and drill how to handle questions and objections. This is the best kind of MLM training I know. I’ve not seen or heard of a better way of overcoming telephone fears, training your distributors on what to say and how to have a lot of guests at your MLM business meetings than TEAM CALLING.

I put together a program called Assault Team Training – an event to teach people how to get past the fear of the phone, as well as talking to strangers (in person).

Eight distributors were invited to my house (because I had four phone lines and wanted two people per phone). To attend, each distributor had to bring 250 names with phone numbers.

Everyone spent the first hour around a table writing a script of what they would say on the telephone to invite contacts to an MLM business briefing we scheduled three days later. Then each person read their script back to the group and the group critiqued the script with one major emphasis: prevent the objection. We all agreed that in the invitation call, it’s much easier to prevent objections than to have to handle them. (See example of what to say/what not to say above.)

Here’s the best way to overcome the most common MLM objections. With good communication skills and using the phrases from the example above, we still got “Is this one of those pyramids!?” objection 50 % of the time.

It was this objection that constantly stopped or severely slowed down my organization’s growth.

After everyone writes an MLM invitation script, the next step is to role play. At the Team Calling event, divide people into pairs and have them role-play with each other. Person A reads the script. Person B asks the most common questions or objections. Start slow and easy and get tougher as your partner gets better. It’s very important that your partner feel successful. Compliment his/her efforts ALL THE TIME. Then switch: Person B invites and Person A asks the questions.

Because during the role playing, one person is constantly reading the MLM invite script – this serves as a drilling of the invitation. Once you as the leader are satisfied that everyone attending team calling is able to handle the above objections, then hit the phones.

Two people on each phone line. One is prospecting – the other coaching. After 15 minutes, switch. The person that was coaching switches to prospecting. The one that was prospecting is now the coach. Do this for one uninterrupted hour.

The rules are: No getting up. No bathroom, no food, no water, no answering cell phones. Nothing! It’s so important to play by the rules. We all know the feeling of searching for any excuse not to dial the phone. Believe me, this is fear-facing at its best, but also one of the best forms of MLM training I know of.

By the way, people who show up late are not allowed in “the pit” until after the hour is up. I can’t stress enough the importance of this SOLID HOUR of no interruptions.

Use Monday – it’s the start of the week and the best day to invite to your weekly MLM business briefing without a weekend interfering. Charge $5.00 per person to cover the cost of the phone calls.

Your job as the leader is to help keep the calls under three minutes and to ensure that the person making the call wants to continue making calls. As a coach, resist the urge to correct “everything” you see a new person doing wrong. You don’t want to unintentionally invalidate the person or make him/her feel that they’re messing everything up. It’s much better for the coach to consider the whole exercise as a gradual learning process. For some people, it can be a huge success just to dial 10 numbers in an hour.

I suggest that you teach everyone how to keep accurate records. It’s very important for everyone to keep statistics while doing team calling. You want to keep track of Dials, Connects and Appointments. Set a goal for each, and then keep track of the activity.

This is the basis for coaching and measuring progress and is the backbone of successful MLM training. If anyone complains about their results, you can go straight to the Daily Marketing Worksheet and tell exactly where someone needs help. Maybe they need help with their actual phone skills, or maybe they’re just not dialing enough numbers!

What Results Can You Expect? After two one-hour sessions in which everyone kept their statistics, the least number of confirmed appointments we’ve seen was eight. The most was 64. That’s right!

The most impressive are those eight. What this represents is the minimum result of eight confirmed guests! What this means for you is that if someone spent two hours per week inviting through team calling, they would have a minimum of eight confirmed appointments at the weekly MLM business meeting.

The next time you or your distributors come to a business meeting without a guest, ask yourself and them, “How much actual time did you spend making calls?”

Making MLM prospecting phone calls isn’t as hazardous as bomb squad work, but it really can be just as scary. But the way to handle any fear is learn how to do it and do it over and over. Confront what you fear most enough times and you won’t fear it anymore.



MARION

I just began receiving text messages from sales people and want to trace their numbers?

Saturday, May 9th, 2009
tulwave asked:


I’m surprised that Im getting these types of texts and would like to trace their numbers because I don’t want them calling or texting my cell phone. I can’t find information about the numbers associated with the texts in 411.

Thanks

BURTON

What do you say to those annoying sales calls?

Friday, May 8th, 2009
AI000 asked:


Our phone number is ex-directory and yet we still get hassled daily by salesmen/women ringing up trying to sell us things. It seems that being polite to them just doesn’t work as they wont take no for an answer. I am fed up of just hanging up on them, and now just feel like telling them where to go. Any ideas for something to say to them to make them actually get the message??
Im in the UK by the way… finding some of these answers quite amusing though!

KRISTOPHER

how much could sale a 3D mobile phone game in US market?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
wei asked:


how can we sale a 3D mobile game to US market?
how much would mobile game distributor to pay for a mobile game developer in US?

ASHLEY