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How To Use iPhone4 – This Changes Everything About Selling Your Products

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Let me just say it out-loud – if you sell anything to anyone – you are an idiot (is that too strong?) if you don’t run out and get an iPhone4 today, right now. And no, they didn’t pay me to say that.

Don’t care if you already have a Verizon account. Don’t care if you use a Blackberry. Don’t care if you own stock in Microsoft.

And the higher the price of the items you sell, the stupider you are if you don’t get it NOW. Ok, I’m a bit opinionated on these. Stay with me…

Forget all of the other bells and whistles. You have the ability in the palm of your hand to make a personal introduction, followup or product video in minutes using the iMovie app. Easily, professionally and you can email them right away.

Here are four I just created.

One for a nursery talking about their fresh tomatoes for the day:

iPhone4 Example for a Farm Stand with Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor®

One for a Buick Dealer following up for a customer:

iPhone4 Example For Buick by Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor®

One for any salesperson who has to followup after speaking on the phone:

iPhone4 Example Following Up with Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor®

Last one for a landscaper or professional Gardener talking to a client about a problem;

iPhone4 Example Landscaper / Gardener with Bob Phibbs, the Retail Doctor®

Do you see how impressive this looks? How immediate? How out of the ordinary, knock your socks off fantastic this is?

I’ve done testimonial videos for years with my Flip camera. Yes it was convenient but NOTHING like this. I can add titles, transitions and music quickly and easily.

Imagine the look on your customer’s face when it is you talking to them directly right in front of their home before you go back to the office?

Sure I could get hung up with a few clipped words or a few transitions. But the door has opened for anyone to quickly and easily make youself standout.

How could you use it in your business? Think about it and put in the comments below please.

Oh yeah, and don’t worry about your competition finding out, they’ll still be hung-up on the cost of the data plan as you steal their customers right and left!

For more ways to make your business standout, check my new book from Wiley & Sons, The Retail Doctor’s Guide to Growing Your Business.

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6 Responses to “How To Use iPhone4 – This Changes Everything About Selling Your Products”

  1. Thanks for the justification! I’m still fence sitting waiting for the Iphone4/Ipad hybrid that’s coming in the next few months.

    • bobphibbs says:

      Who knows when that might come. If you can use any of the video options I shared on this blog today, I would suggest not waiting. This is a game changer for small businesses who “get it.”

  2. Michael says:

    I pre-ordered my iphone (delivers early July). As the current owner of a ‘dumb’ phone, my question is does the video just end up in the recipients email — so it can be viewed by them regardless of their phone? (Basically they’d have instant gratification if they have a smart phone, but would have to wait until they are at a computer otherwise?)

    • bobphibbs says:

      It becomes an attachment like any movie someone could send so if their phone can play .mov files, it would play. It definitely would play on their desktop.

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