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1. Save time and money using ad submitters. You
will reach a larger part of your target audience far
more quickly than by manually submitting your ad.

2. Create a good first impression. You will not be
able to sell very many products if your visitors think
your web site looks unprofessional.

3. Stop procrastinating and start finishing all your
business tasks. Do one at a time. Do not get caught
up thinking that you can never get them all done.

4. Develop a relationship with all your visitors and
customers. Tell them how much you appreciate
them visiting your web site or buying your product.

5. Hire a business coach to help improve yourself
and business. They could help increase your sales,
motivate you, balance your workload, etc.

6. Stay away from being too comfortable with your
income or life. You should always be making new
goals for yourself and developing new sales ideas.

7. Stay away from becoming a workaholic. Your
mind needs time away from your business life. This
will help your brain think clearly while working.

8. Create and follow short/long term goals for your
business. The short goals can create early success
and the long term goals can create future success.

9. Look for different ways to prove your business
and products to your audience. You could collect
testimonials, hold surveys, do scientific tests, etc.

10. Try new business ideas and strategies. Do not
be afraid of changing what you’re doing. You could
try out technology, advertising, marketing, etc.

Quote of the Day:

“Those things that hurt, instruct.” — Ben Franklin

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1. Swap endorsement advertisements with other
web sites. Endorsement ads usually pull more sales
and traffic than regular advertisements.

2. Outsource part of your workload to save time
and money. You can spend more of your time and
money promoting your business.

3. Include a signature file on all the e-mails you send
out. Provide your business name, phone number,
e-mail and web address,etc.

4. Use pictures or graphics on your web site that
support the product you’re selling. They could give
your visitors a clearer vision of your product.

5. Create a friendly, long term relationship with all
your customers. Practice good customer service
and follow-up with them on a regular basis.

6. Create strategic alliances with other web sites.
You could exchange banner ads, sell each other’s
products as backend products, cross promote, etc.

7. Increase the perceived value of your product to
skyrocket your sales. Add on free bonuses, after-
sale services or an affiliate program.

8. Give customers a discount on their total order
to increase sales. You could give them a discount
for ordering over a set dollar or product amount.

9. Allow your visitors to reprint the content on your
web site. Just ask them in exchange to include your
resource box and a link to your site.

10. Provide a free contest or sweepstakes at your
web site. It’s a fact, people like to win things. If you
can fulfill that need, people will visit.

Quote of the Day:

“Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read,
I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn
them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.” –
David Grayson

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As you know it can be very expensive to attract new
customers. You can cut down on those expenses
by “upselling” to those new customers. For example,
let’s say you’re selling a computer with a 15″ monitor
for $1200. You tell people they can upgrade to a 17″
monitor for only $200 more. That’s upselling! Your
goal is to get more money out of the first sale. Below
are ten upselling strategies you can use to increase
your profits.

1. Deluxe Upsell-You could sell a basic product and
tell people for a little more money they can receive the
deluxe edition.

2. Money Upsell-You could offer people the rights
to sell the product they are buying from your business.
You could charge an extra $30 dollars to get the
reproduction rights.

3. Discount Upsell-If you’re selling a product people
may order again in the future like shave gel, you could
offer them a second can of shave gel at a discount.

4. Time Upsell-If you’re selling a product or service
people subscribe to, like a magazine, you could tell
them if they subscribe for two years instead of one,
they can receive it half off the cover price.

5. Quantity Upsell-This is similar to the discount upsell.
The only difference is you increase the discount by
how many products they order. If they order 3 it’s a
10% discount, if they order 5 it’s a 15% discount.

6. Package Upsell-When you’re selling a product you
could offer similar products in a package deal. Tell
the people the other products are cheaper with the
package deal versus purchasing them separately.

7. Affiliate Upsell-When you’re selling a product you
could offer someone else’s product as an upsell. You
would have to make a commission on the product in
order to profit.

8. Free Upsell-You could offer a free sample or trial
of your product (your first sale would be free) and
then tell people if they order the full version right now
they will get a discount.

9. Extra Upsell-There are many things you could
charge extra for at the time of sale. It could be gift
wrapping, imprinting, custom designs, etc.

10. Extended Upsell-If your product comes with a
warranty, you could ask people if they would like to
extend the warranty one more year for only $30.

In conclusion, you can use one or all these strategies
to increase your profits at the point of sale. Don’t be
afraid to use your imagination to come up with other
upsell strategies.

Quote of the Day:

“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.” — Samuel
Johnson

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1. You can get ad copy ideas by studying similar
product’s advertising material. Collect their sales
letters, classified ads, web ads, e-mail ads, etc.

2. Know exactly what you want your ad copy to
accomplish. It could be to qualify prospects, make
sales, generate leads, attract web traffic, etc.

3. Make a complete list of your product’s benefits
and features. Begin your ad with the most important
benefit either in your headline or first sentence.

4. Make your ad benefits as specific as possible.
Include exact numbers, percentages, times, colors,
smells, sounds, descriptive adjectives, etc.

5. List all the ways your product is different from
your competition’s. Include all the differences in
your ad copy that are better than their product.

6. Use graphics, pictures and drawings of people
actually using your product to solve their problem.
Include a picture that also shows the results.

7. Make a list of your target audience. Write down
what reasons would attract them to purchase your
product. Include those reasons in your ad copy.

8. Include any proven facts in your ad copy. They
could be customer surveys, scientific tests, product
reviews, etc.

9. Tell your audience what kind of support they’ll
get after they buy. It could be free consulting, tech
support, free servicing, etc.

10. Ask people at the end of your copy why they
decided not to buy. This will give you new ideas on
how to produce a more profitable ad copy.

Quote of the Day:

“A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind;
and every human being whose mind is not debauched will be
willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.” –
Samuel Johnson

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1. Know the value of the product before you bid. If
the product is brand new, check to see what price
retailers are charging for it. If the product is used or
reconditioned, you will want to pay way less than the
retail value.

2. If the product’s description or picture isn’t detailed
enough for you, contact the merchant to get more
information before you bid. You don’t want to take a
chance to waste your hard earned money.

3. Know the highest price you will bid for the product
and stick with it. Don’t get caught up in a bidding war;
you may end up paying more than the product’s worth.
Don’t forget to add in the shipping price with your bid.

4. Visit a few online auctions before bidding because
some merchants auction the same product in many
auctions. You usually can purchase the product for
a lower price in a unpopular auction because there
are less bidders.

5. Know the time the auction begins and ends. You
also want to know how long it will take to ship. If
you need the product by a certain date, you’ll want
to estimate the time it will take to receive it.

6. Know the payment options the merchant accepts
before you bid on their product. If they only accept
checks or money orders, it may take even longer to
get the product because the payment has to clear. If
they accept credit cards make sure they have a secure
server.

7. Know if the merchant offers a warranty or money
back guarantee or before bidding on a product. You
don’t want to get stuck with a product that does not
work or you’re not satisfied with.

8. Online auctions will, sometimes, allow you to check
the merchants history with their auction. Check to see
if people have complained about the their products or
business practices before you decide to bid.

9. It’s important to place a bid early in the auction to
show other bidders you are interested in the product.
If someone does out bid you, don’t be afraid to out
bid them. Remember not to go over your maximum
bid price.

10. Another reason to know when the auction ends;
you can place a last minute bid. The other bidders
may not be keeping track of when the auction ends
or may not have the time to bid again.

Quote of the Day:

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is
suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of
good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till. The power that resides in him is new
in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can
do, nor does he know until he has tried.” — Ralph Waldo
Emerson

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