Wednesday, April 12, 2006

300,000 is the Magic Number

ShopforT1 just surpassed the 300,000 real-time T1 quote mark and reported a first quarter sales volume of over $300,000 (and we're not talking about a 1-time sales number - we're talking about contract value, which is a monthly commitment made by each customer). That $300,000 will add to the $1.4M already in the hopper to push us well north of $1.5M by May 30, 2006. Now the goal is to see if we can break $3.0M in total billing by the end of this year. Just with our ordinary volume we'll hit $2.3M, but it will take a tremendous push and effort from our agents to reach this goal.

One new SEO tool that my mind created and my IT staff built over the course of last year is the GeoQuote XML Plug-in, which allows agents to add GeoQuote real-time t1 price quotes to their own hosted web sites. This technology keeps the visitor on the same site where they came in by using XML to "ask" our servers in Dallas what content to display. All of the XML happens behind the scenes and the user is completely unaware that the site they are on is not the one actually generating the quotes. This is a HUGE break-through in affiliate and internet marketing technology. I plan to have thousands of these plug-ins deployed by the end of 2006. Competing with us for online leads will be comical.

Patrick.

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