Saturday 21 June 2008

10 Killer Profit Boosters

1. Gain an advantage over your competition. Youshould find one benefit your competition doesn'toffer and use it as your main selling point.
2. Design your e-zine so it creates multiple freeadvertising streams. Ask readers to forward it topeople they know, offer ad trades, etc.
3. Allow your visitors to subscribe to an updatee-zine. Anytime you make changes to your website they can receive an informative e-mail.
4. Focus your articles on information the targetedreaders and e-zine publishers want. They will getpublished more often, which means free publicity.
5. Use problems to attract online traffic. Find acommon online problem and use your web siteto solve it. People will visit and see your ads.
6. Have an informative FAQ page at your web site.Anticipate questions your prospects or visitorsmay have; this will help improve your sales ratio.
7. Improve your negotiation skills. This'll improveyour business because you're always negotiating adswaps, supply prices, joint ventures, wages, etc.
8. Beat your competition by giving away a similarproduct or service that they charge for. It couldbe add on products, warranties, servicing, etc.
9. Build a larger online community by giving yourvisitors bonuses for participating on your messageboards or chat rooms. Try free products, ads, etc.
10. Instead of starting an affiliate program, starta referral program. Give people discounts and freeproducts for referring people to your site.

10 Lightning Fast Ways To Escalate Your Sales

1. Sell an inexpensive product to sell an expensiveproduct. If people like your inexpensive product,they'll be persuaded to buy your expensive one.
2. Allow your visitors to decided how much theywant to pay for your product. I only recommend itfor products that don't sell or ones that hardly sell.
3. Create an extra revenue stream with your website's articles or content. Publish the first paragraphof each article and charge people to read the rest.
4. E-mail targeted e-zines and ask them to do ajoint venture with you. Ask them to run your ad andin exchange they get a percentage of the profits.
5. Find a tiny niche for your new free e-zine. Thereare thousands of free e-zines; your e-zine needs tobe extra specialized to attract new subscribers.
6. Test your ads by using autoresponders. You canhave people e-mail your autoresponders to get moreinformation and you just check your traffic reports.
7. Create credibility and trust with your visitors bytelling them something they already know. They'llknow for sure you're not lying to them.
8. Make residual income from your customers byselling back end products. If you don't have any,you could sign up to related affiliate programs.
9. Use a redirect page to boost your sales. Peoplethink the long affiliate URLs look unprofessional ine-mail so you could redirect them to a web link.
10. Create an extra income from your web site bycharging for consulting. The consulting should berelated to your web site's theme.

10 Killer Ways To Sell Your Back-End Products

1. When you ship people the first product they bought,insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end productin the package.
2. Give customers a free subscription to a customersonly e-zine when they buy your product. You couldinclude your ad for your back-end product in eachissue.
3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays oron their birthday. Include a small advertisement insidethe card for your back-end product.
4. After people order your first product from your website, take them to a "thank you" web page and includeyour back-end product ad on that page.
5. Send customers a free surprise gift after they orderyour first product. You could attach another ad withthe free gift for your back-end product.
6. If you're selling an electronic product, like an ebook,include your ad for your back-end product somewhereinside the electronic product.
7. Give your customers a free membership into your"customers only" private site. You could include yourad for your back-end product somewhere insidethe private site.
8. Contact your customers by phone and ask them ifthey were happy with their purchase. You could tellthem about your back-end product.
9. Send your customers a thank you letter by mail ore-mail. You could mention your back-end productsomewhere on the letter.
10. Ask your customers if they want to be updated inthe future when you have new product offers. Youcould have them sign up to receive e-mail or snailmail updates.