Use Your Cell Phone to Capture Invaluable Testimonials

Okay, this is something I've been doing for several years now but recently became much easier to duplicate and leverage for your own personal use.

Let me start with a case study.

As you can probably tell that I'm not only an information junkie but I also consider myself to be a major seminar junkie too! I was attending Mark Victor Hansen's MEGA Speaker Empire event and at the end of the seminar I was asked to come on stage and explain to the entire audience that we were looking for testimonials to publish on the web site that was being launched to sell the recorded version of the entire event.

So, I essentially had everyone pull out their cell phones and write down the number to Marks Audio Generator testimonial line. Then immediately following the conference dozens of people went outside into the lobby where they were able to record a 60 second to 3 minute testimonial.

The power in this comes from the fact that they were Doing it in the MOMENT! While they were still jazzed about the 3 day event we just completed. Their energy was awesome and these make for the best kind of testimonials.

Applying this to your business:
Now you could do this on a similar level if you do a lot of public speaking in front of either a live audience or even on a teleconference. However let's say you just happen to be attending an event or even simply having lunch with a client and want to get a single testimonial from one or two individuals, you could ask them to leave you a testimonial and then dial your number and hand them your cell phone. This works extremely well.

If you do not already have an Audio Generator account I suggest that you get one immediately. This would provide you with a toll free phone number to store in your PDA or cell phone, which allows you to record and digitally encode these voice messages for further use online.

Once you get back to your office you can then use your Audio Generator account to send these testimonials via email, audio postcards, or even publish them on your web site.

Audio testimonials like this are so incredibly powerful and can help to increase your selling power on a web site by up to 300%+.

Other Reference Materials:
The following is an article I wrote with further examples and other technologies to accomplish the same function. http://www.interplicity.com/articles/PhoneWiz.asp

Welcome to My Audio Blogg

This is where I will be publishing any ideas, resources and new ways to learn and consume information via my "Accelerated Audio Learning Strategies".

I've opened this Blogg up so that anyone may post a reply or give comments and feedback. If you have not already visited my original article about accelerated learning you can read that by going to http://www.SegoviaSmith.com/Audio

I spend on average of 6-8 hours per day listening to, recording, archiving, enhancing and consuming digital information. I know this may seem a bit excessive but I am able to do this while I multi-task and accomplish many other things.

Because of the sheer number of hours that I've spent over the last six months doing this I've not only been able to listen to a lot of incredible information, but I've also spent a lot of time researching various ways to getting things done. Everything from how to record from your phone to both analog and digital, to how to convert cassette tapes to digital format and everything in between. (*No I didn't try records or an 8-Track)

One of the most common questions that I get from people is "How can I record phone calls?"

There could be several answers to this. For a quick and inexpensive answer you can record them to a cassette tape using a device found at Radio Shack and other electronics stores. This device is called a "Call-Corder" or "Record-A-Call". If you want to read a complete article on how to do this and what all the logistics are you can read the following.

I will post more instructions later to outline the process of recording direct from the phone to your computer. It generally requires more hardware which begins to cost more money. To get a general outline of how to get started you can visit InternetAudioGuy.com. He has all the fancy toys to record audio like a pro.

If you have any specific questions about anything related to audio or high speed accelerated learning I would be more than happy to answer them for you.

Send your questions to: segovia/at/richandsuccessful.c*m
Or please call me directly: 604-924-2387 (I'd be happy to chat)