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1. You don’t make people feel safe when they order.
Remind people that they are ordering through a secure
server. Tell them you won’t sell their e-mail address
and all their information will be kept confidential.

2. You don’t make your ad copy attractive. Your ad
lists features instead of benefits. The headline does
not attract at your target audience. You don’t list any
testimonials or guarantees included in your ad.

3. You don’t remind people to come back and visit.
People usually don’t purchase the first time they visit.
The more times they visit your site, the greater the
chance they will buy. The most effective way is to give
them a free subscription to your e-zine.

4. You don’t let people know anything about your
business. They will feel more comfortable if they know
who they are buying from. Publish a section called
“About Us” on your web site. Include your business
history, profile of employees, contact information etc.

5. You don’t give people as many ordering options as
possible. Accept credit cards, checks, money orders,
and other forms of electronic payments. Take orders
by phone, e-mail, web site, fax, mail, etc.

6. You don’t make your web site look professional.
You want to have your own domain name. Your web
site should be easy to navigate through. The graphics
should be related to the theme of your web site.

7. You don’t let people read your ad before they get
your freebie. When you use free stuff to lure people
to your web site include it below your ad copy or on
another web page. If you list the freebie above your
ad they may never look to see what you’re selling.

8. You don’t attract the target audience that would
buy your product or service. A simple way to do
this is to survey your existing customers to see what
attracted them to buy. This information will help
you improve your target marketing and advertising.

9. You don’t test and improve your ad copy. There
are many people who write an ad copy and never
change it. You have to continually test and improve
your ad copy to get the highest possible response
rate.

10. You don’t give people any urgency to buy now.
Many people are interested in your product but they
put off buying it till later and eventually forget about
it. Entice them to buy now with a freebie or discount
and include a deadline date when the offer ends.

Quote of the Day:

“A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of
medicine.” — American proverb

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A strategic alliance is when two or more businesses
join together for a set period of time. The businesses,
usually, are not in direct competition, but have similar
products or services that are directed toward the
same target audience. Below are ten reasons to
create a strategic alliance.

1. You could offer your customers a larger variety of
products or services. This will allow you to spend
less time and money developing new products to sell.

2. Your number of sales people will increase because
you’re combining with other business. You won’t have
spend to time and money hiring new employees.

3. Your marketing and advertising budget will increase.
When you form a strategic alliance with other businesses
you both will share the advertising and marketing costs.

4. You can now offer your existing customers more
back-end and upsell products. This will increase your
sales and profits.

5. Your business will gain a larger number of skilled
people working on the same project. You will gain
the knowledge of the other businesses employees.

6. You will be able to beat your competition by selling
to a larger target audience. You will also increase the
total number of existing customers you can sell your
products and services to.

7. You can exchange endorsements with your alliance
partners. You’ll add more credibility to your business
and gain your potential customers trust to buy.

8. You can expand your business more rapidly. You
can develop new products and services faster with
a larger work force.

9. You’ll be able to solve your customer’s problems
faster with a larger base of customer service people.
You’ll also learn new ways to improve your customer
service from your alliance partners.

10. You’ll have a larger number of “strategic thinking”
people. This will allow both businesses to come up
with profitable business ideas quicker than before.

Quote of the Day:

“A man of character finds a special attractiveness in
difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with
difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.” –
Charles de Gaulle

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1. Make copies of your web site in many different
languages. This’ll allow foreign speaking people to
read your web site and advertisements.

2. Give your customers a surprise bonus for buying.
When you give customers more than they expect,
there is a good chance they will buy from you again.

3. Send greeting cards offline or online to customers
on holidays. You’ll get the chance to increase your
orders by including your ad inside the card.

4. Market your products or services to your target
audience. For example, don’t try to sell a football
in a cooking magazine.

5. Give people the option of buying other products
or add on products when they decide to buy your
main product or service at the point of sale.

6. Think of new ways to attract people to buy your
products or services. You could add on extra free
bonuses, delivery options, payments options, etc.

7. Give other businesses the option of selling your
product. It could be a simple joint venture deal or
an affiliate/associate program.

8. Follow-up regularly with all your prospects and
current customers. When people see your ad more
than once they are more likely to buy.

9. Learn sales ideas from reading and studying other
business’ advertising and marketing material. It
could be ads, brochures, tv ads, sales letters, etc.

10. Educate yourself with new strategies to increase
your sales. You could take classes, subscribe to
e-zines and magazines, read books or ebooks, etc.

Quote of the Day:

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is
something for you to do in the world. So long as you can
sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.” — Helen
Keller

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Author: Mark Styranka

There may be several reasons why a person needs to work from home. One household members works outside the home and the other stays there to take care of the kids, an ill relative or simply is unable to find a job to match their employment skills. Fortunately, with the increasing acceptance of the internet there are many various work at home jobs a person can perform and make money without having to leave the house.

Websites need to market their sites and to do so they use three basic types of marketing. Search engine marketing, articles marketing and affiliate marketing and people with little or no website experience can take advantage of a couple of these methods and begin earning money at home. Search engine marketing does require extensive experience in building websites that are attractive to the electronic spiders employed by search engines, but article marketing and affiliate marketing hold promise.

Affiliate marketing is one of the hottest trends in working at home and with a basic understanding of internet language can have their own website up and running and collecting an income from many different companies. While many opportunities exist with some internet companies that offer turnkey business solutions, they are offering the person a chance to advertise a specific site and earn money from any sales that stem from that site. There are a few good ones online, but still, the income is going to come from a single source and if something happens to that one company, the income stream stops.

Building your own website allows the opportunity to choose as many affiliate companies that the individual wants to join. They could build a virtual mall with internet affiliate from a variety of specialties to attract visitors with different tastes and interests to provide a better chance of achieving sales. When a visitor goes through their virtual mall and makes a purchase, the site owner receives a commission. Although most commissions are in the five to 10 percent range, there are a few that pay handsome rewards to a site owner who refers business their way.

Signing up with companies can be done one at a time, which is time consuming, or through an affiliate portal that offers hundreds of online companies from which to choose. The trick is choosing companies in which the target market may be interested. Additionally, the more companies that sell items referred to as consumables, the better chance there is to achieve repeat sales. Consumables are not necessarily edible merchandise; rather consumables are those items that will need to be replenished on a consistent basis such as toothpaste, paper products and household cleaners.

There are many opportunities with which a free website can be established and most of those have the tools with which to build a working website. However, in order to have a unique name to the site, web-hosting companies may offer sites for under $50 a year. These may be considered after the free site is up and running and producing an income.

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1. You’ll be able to communicate with your visitors.
They’ll begin to trust you and get to know you on a
more personal level. People will purchase products
quicker from somebody they already know and trust.

2. People will revisit your web site to participate on
your discussion board or chat room. They will meet
other people with similar interests and your web site
will become a hang out were they can chat.

3. You can learn important information about your
visitors by reading the conversations they have. They
may chat about your web site or products. With this
information you could learn to market your products
more effectively.

4. You could answer the questions your visitors ask
in your online communities. You’ll become known as
an expert by giving the answers to their questions.
This will give you and your business more credibility.

5. You could teach a free online class using your chat
room. This will give you an expert status and increase
traffic to your web site by offering the free class.

6. When your discussion board or chat room becomes
popular, you could sell advertising space on them. This
will give you an extra income stream for your web site.

7. You can network with other businesses by having
a chat room or discussion board. You could exchange
business ideas, leads, advertising, etc.

8. You could allow other web sites who don’t have
a discussion board or chat room to use yours. You
will get free advertising by allowing them to link to
your online community.

9. When you have a discussion board or chat room
you can get free advertising by listing them in online
community directories. You can also join web rings
with similar discussion topics.

10. You can make money by advertising your own
products and services on your discussion board or
chat room. You could also join other people’s affiliate
programs and make commissions advertising them.

Quote of the Day:

“How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” — William
Shakespeare

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