"Mini Sites, Maxi Benefits, Mega Profits"- If you've poured weeks or even months into creating "the world's greatest website" -- and then found it isnt selling, a mini site may be just what the doctor ordered. A mini website is typically a two page affair --a powerful sales letter for just one product or service, with a link to an payment form. That's it. No distractions. No linkouts (why invite your visitors to leave your site??).
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10 Amazing Product Selling Formulas!- 1. Sell your products at a wholesale price to retail web sites. You could sell them individually or in bulk.
2. Set up joint ventures with other businesses to sell your product to new customers. They can introduce it to their customers for a set price
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10 Bonuses That Will Sell Your Products Faster!- 1. Consulting-Give your customers advice on topics related to your product or service. You can consult via e-mail, message board or chat room.
2. e-Book-Compile related product information or instructions into an ebook. You could publish it in text, pdf, html or exe format.
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10 Hard Hitting Tips For Increasing Your Sales!- 1. Persuade your visitors to like you. People buy from people they like. You could tell them a joke, give them a compliment, give them a freebie, etc.
2. Add viral marketing into your promotional plans. Allow your visitors to give away your free stuff, just include your ad somewhere on all the freebies.
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10 Hypnotic-Like Sentences That Sell Like Crazy!- Tell your readers what they are probably thinking, feeling or doing as they read your ad copy. This strategy will usually trigger their own subconscious mind to bring out these feelings or actions. You can add these sentences into any ad copy. You may have to change one or two words so it relates more to the product or service you're selling.
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10 Killer Ways To Make Your Ad Sell!- 1. Use plenty of examples in your ad copy. This will allow your whole target audience to understand your pitch completely.
2. Gain extra credibility by using terms your readers may not understand, but can follow by explaining them in simple terms. This will show you're an expert.
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10 Rarely Used Bonuses That Can Triple Sales!- 1. Announcement Alerts - Give customers e-mail alerts about critical information or product releases before your non customers find out about it.
2. Discounts - Allow your customers to get lower prices on your products and other related products other businesses sell.
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10 Reasons Why People Won't Buy A Second Product From You!- 1. You didn't follow up after the first sale. After the sale you could have introduced your other product on the thank e-mail.
2. You didn't ship the product in the about of time you stated. If they needed it in a hurry and you didn't provide, they won't rely on you again.
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10 Spellbinding Ways To Light Up Your Sales!- 1. Specialize your product or service if you have too much competition. If you're selling an advertising book, rewrite part of it and target it just to pet businesses.
2. Sell a lead in product for super cheap, even if you loose a little money. If people like it, you have a greater chance to sell your higher price product.
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10 Ways To Sell Your Ad Space Like Crazy!- 1. Give your customers a discount when they spend over a certain dollar amount for ad space. You can also apply this tip to the amount of ads they buy.
2. Offer your customers a free bonus for renewing their ad order. It could be an ebook, special report, online ultility, etc.
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10 Ways To Shift Your Sales Into Overdrive!- 1. Publish testimonials for your free stuff. It would increase their value and if they're viral marketing tools, you'll have more people giving them away.
2. Give your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes, humorous graphics and funny stories.
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21 ways to increase the pulling power of your ads- If you're re-building an engine, doing your taxes or baking a cake, you follow a set process and everything happens in a certain order. It's the same with advertising.
Great copywriting is about knowing who your prospect is, what they need, what they REALLY want and how your product will give it to them ... specically, specifically, specifically.
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3 EXCEPTIONAL SELLING SECRETS!- Sell a few products on your web site instead of selling a large amount of products. Too many choices can overwhelm your visitors and they won't buy. Haven't you ever had too many choices and could not decide?
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3 HOT WAYS TO CRANK UP YOUR SALES!- When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a "thank you" email and include an advertisement for another product you sell. You can be more subtle including the offer within your signature file.
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3 INTERLOCKING SALES INTENSIFIERS!- Keep your offers as flexible as possible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could also offer the people that can't afford it an optional payment plan. For example, "3 Easy Payments Of $19.95".
A few other options would be to tell prospects that you'll take barter offers and you're open to negotiating. Even if you lose a little money the first time, you gain a customer and make the profits on the back end.
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3 NIFTY WAYS TO BOOST YOUR ORDERS!- Find strategic business partners. Look for ones that want to market to the same target audience. Make sure they're not direct competition. You can look for them in the search engines.
You could introduce their product to your mailing list if in exchange they do the same for you. If they turn down your deal, offer them a percentage of the profits you make from the venture.
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3 WAYS TO GET MORE SALES WHEN YOU ADVERTISE- Here are 3 powerful marketing tactics you can use to get more sales the next time you advertise. All 3 work for any business. And you can use them effectively on the Internet or in traditional media.
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4 E-INFORMATION PRODUCT SELLING TIPS!- Offer your prospects 3 to 4 free e-information products, if in exchange they agree to buy 3 more in a year at your regular prices. You could e-mail a small catalog of your e-information products each month.
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7 EASY WAYS TO INCREASE SALES -- FAST- What am I doing wrong?" That's a question business owners often ask themselves when business is slow. Often, the answer is... "You're not doing anything wrong. You just need to do some things better -- and you need to start doing a few things you've been neglecting."
Here's a list you can use to evaluate your own marketing efforts. It includes what I've found to be the 7 most important marketing principles contributing to the success of ANY business.
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7 STEPS TO GREAT LEADERSHIP- There are many great examples of leadership in the Bible (and some not so great too), but the one I am most amazed by is Moses. Moses had a tough job. Moses was in charge of almost 1 million people for over 40 years. If it had been me, I’m sure I would have ended up shooting them, myself, or both, and yet when Moses died, he was called the greatest prophet that ever lived (Deuteronomy 34:10). He must have done it right, therefore, his leadership style is worth studying.
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7 Tips for Testing Your Sales and Marketing- One marketing technique may work wonders for someone, but that doesn't guarantee that it'll do the same for you. The only way to really know what works for YOUR products and YOUR target audience is to experiment. Testing and experimentation are crucial to increasing your profits.
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Don't just Get Sales; Get Affiliates in the 2nd Tier!- Many affiliates programs allow you to sign up affiliates under
you so you can earn commissions from the sales that YOUR
affiliates are making. This is commonly referred to as the
2nd tier
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DRAMATIZE THE EMOTIONAL REWARD TO INCREASE YOUR SALES- I recently read about a survey conducted among new car owners. The researchers were trying to determine which ads had the greatest impact on the buyer's decision to buy a certain car. What they discovered surprised them. Most of the new car owners they surveyed didn't remember any ads influencing their decision to buy the car. But they did remember watching the ads numerous times AFTER buying their
car.
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Ego-less Selling: The Greatest Advertising Secret Ever Revealed!- Recently I sat on a plane from Phoenix to Austin. I decided to kill some of the two hour flight by flipping through the online magazines and catalog. You've seen them. They are always stuffed in the pocket right before your knees. But what you may not have seen is that virtually all---yes, all---ads violate a secret advertising principle invented more than 100 years ago.
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GET MORE SALES BY REDUCING SKEPTICISM AND INCREASING- Prospects buy from you because they want to enjoy the benefits produced by your product or service. Their desire for those benefits makes them want to believe everything you tell them. But skepticism makes them reluctant to buy. When their skepticism is greater than their desire -- you lose the sale.
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How to Sell in Tough Times- Do I have any specific thoughts about selling when times are tough? Well, if you are to achieve high levels of success in selling, you must be able to get positive results even while circumstances are negative. In just about every area of selling the field will over populate
in boom times and thin out in tough times.
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INCREASE YOUR SALES BY INCREASING YOUR BELIEVABILITY- People won't buy from you until they're confident you will deliver exactly what they expect to get. You can help them develop that confidence by making certain every claim you make about your product or service is fully believable.
Here are 3 ways you can increase your believability with prospects -- and generate more sales. All 3 work for any business. And you can use them with any marketing method including the Internet.
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ONLINE SALES CLOSE SECRETS- One of the biggest problems in any type of sale is the
close. With one-on-one salesmen, getting them to ask for the
sale is one of the hardest things to teach. In online
selling, where words are the salesman, many times you see
the same problem - the writer never asks for the order or
business! Do you make that mistake in your marketing?
There are as many ways (perhaps even more) to ask for the
sale with the written word as there are in person. But, you
Must ask for it!
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Sales Sagging? Let a Press Release Get You Out of a Pickle!- You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that your business' success or failure is directly related to the amount of exposure your business receives. If your sales have been lagging a bit in recent months, there's a useful, but underestimated tool that can help revive interest in your product or service.
(Added: 24-Aug-2001 Hits: 563)
Take Control of Your Profits and Sales 7 Steps to an Effective Marketing Pl- Developing a marketing plan can be an ominous task for most business owners, so much so that they often neglect to create one at all. Having no plan results in spending precious marketing/advertising dollars generally with the wrong mediums.
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