Wednesday, April 26, 2006

10 Strategic Ways To Maximize Your Profits

1. Tell people the point or focus of your web site. Explain to them what things they can do or which goals they can accomplish while visiting your site.

2. Make your visitors feel comfortable at your web site. Give them your main business address, your visitors may not trust you if you're using a P.O. box.

3. Include a FAQ on your web site or via email on an autoresponder. This will give your customers an extra convenience without having to contact you.

4. Buy advertising space on discussion board web sites. They are usually arranged by subject; that makes them highly targeted.

5. Start a free email newsletter to create your own opt in list. Create a title that grabs readers attention. Submit it to free ezine directories on the internet.

6. Record all your new promotion ideas into an idea journal, good or bad. Sometimes you can combine ideas to create new ones to increase your sales.

7. Convert your web site and free email newsletter into different languages. This will increase your over-all target market.

8. Make your classified ads stand out in a crowd. Use all capitol letters in the headline, divide letters with extra spaces, add in text symbols, etc.

9. Remember your customer is always right, even if they are not. Resolve all conflicts quickly and painlessly. They are the lifeblood of your business.

10. Create a bond with your visitors by bringing up likes or dislikes you have in common with them in your ad copy. Just make sure you do your research.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Sizzling Ways To Improve Your Ad Copy

1. You could decrease or increase the length of your ad copy. There is no rule on how long your
ad copy should be unless space is a consideration. The ad should be long enough to sell your product.

2. You could add some sub headlines on your ad copy. Sub headlines act just like headlines; they
grab the readers attention. They'll keep the readers interested as they continue to read your ad.

3. You could ask your reader questions through out the ad copy. They will answer the questions in their own head as they read your ad copy. The questions you ask should persuade the reader into buying.

4. You could highlight keywords through out your ad copy. The keywords should be attractive to
your target audience. You could highlight them with color, underlines, italics, etc.

5. You could bullet or indent your benefits on your ad copy. Must people won't read a whole ad copy, so make your products benefits standout and you won't lose the sales from all the skimmers.

6. You could change the size of your text on your ad copy. You want to make your text large enough so it's not hard to read. You also want your headline and major points to be larger so they will standout.

7. You could raise or lower the price on your ad copy. A higher price could increase the perceived
value of your product and a lower price could lesson your product's value.

8. You could add proof of results on your ad copy. You should include testimonials, endorsements, and factual statistics to prove your product's claims.

9. You could add special offers on your ad copy. It's usually easier to sell the offer than the product. You could use discounts, free bonuses, volume sales, etc.

10. You could eliminate the hard-to-understand jargon on your ad copy. Unless your product calls for technical words, you want your ad to be read without people pulling out a dictionary.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Sizzling Ways To Ignite Your Profits

1. Create a memorable logo and slogan to brand your business on the internet. When they see your slogan or logo it will remind them of your business.

2. Multiply your marketing all over the internet by creating free bonuses for other business' products. You just include your ad somewhere on the bonus.

3. Offer to buy advertising space inside electronic products like ebooks, software, subscription sites, etc. It will be cheaper than print insert ads.

4. Increase your sales by adjusting your product or service to attract other target audiences. This may mean redesigning or adding on to it.

5. Test the prices of your product or service. You may increase the perceived value by raising your price and a lower price may decrease your sales.

6. Use your product's features to support all of your benefits. Just because benefits are more important, don't forget to list the features.

7. Market yourself or business as an expert. Most people have been told throughout their life to trust and respect the authoritative figures in society.

8. Train yourself and your employees to be polite to all your customers, even if they're shouting Solve their problem quickly and it may even turn into a sale.

9. Give your visitors a good impression when they first visit your web site. Don't make the first thing they see at the top of your home page a banner ad.

10. Join online business associations. Most will give you a membership graphic to put on your web site which will give your business extra credibility.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Sizzling Offers That Sell Like Crazy

One of the best way to increase your sales is to offer your potential customers a special offer. It could be trial offers, discounts, purchase awards, etc. Below are ten sizzling offers you could use to sell your products like crazy.

1. You could offer your potential customers a free sample of your product. If the sample proves what you claim, there is a high chance they will buy it.

2. You could give your potential customers a free trial of your product or service. Tell them you won't bill them for 30 days.

3. You could offer your potential customers a rebate after they buy your product or service. They will feel they are getting a good deal.

4. You could offer your potential customers a monthly payment plan. Tell them they can pay for your product or service with three easy monthly payments.

5. You could reward your potential customers if they buy a specific number of products. Tell them if they buy 3 or more products, they will get one free.

6. You could reward your potential customers if they spend over a specific dollar amount. Tell them if they spend over $100, they get a 10% discount.

7. You could hold a holiday sale for your potential customers. Tell them everything on your web site is discounted up to 50% on Thanksgiving Day.

8. You could hold a buy one get one free sale for your potential customers. Tell them if they buy one product, they get another product for free at the same value.

9. You could hold a special $1 sale for your potential customers. They'll come to your web site to buy your product for only a dollar, but may buy other products.

10. You could offer your potential customers a bonus coupon when they buy one of your products. It could be a coupon for another product you sell.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Shocking Ways To Super-Charge Your Sales

1. Test different web site color themes to see which combination will sell your product better. You can also test the size and style of your web site text.

2. Promise your readers an end result or outcome in your ad. You must give them a solid guarantee that your product will solve their problem.

3. Never assume people believe the information in your ad copy. You need to back-up all your claims with indisputable evidence.

4. Give your customers free shipping. If you can't afford that, you can give free shipping to customers that buy over a certain dollar amount to raise profits.

5. Test your web site regularly for ordering glitches, bad links, broken graphics, etc. Those types of errors will make your business look unprofessional.

6. Use free advertising as much as possible. Test a wide variety of free advertising options like banner and link exchanges, classifieds, newsgroups, etc.

7. Build credibility for your business by publishing an ezine and writing articles. Your customers and prospects will see you as an expert and trust you.

8. Answer all your email messages as quickly as possible. Nothing will loose a sale quicker than not responding to a prospect in time.

9. Build a professional looking web site even if you have a small budget. You could use free graphics, designs, list servers, and other tools offered online.

10. Enter to win awards for your web site. When you display the award graphics on your web site it will increase your credibility and professionalism.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

10 Shocking Ways To Energize Your Sales

1. Start your own internet radio station. It could be related to the theme of your web site and you could advertise your products over the station.

2. Turn your banner ad into a trivia question. Post the question on the banner and tell readers they can win a prize if they answer the question at your site.

3. Motivate people to buy your product. Tell them a lot of positive things like "You can now reach your goals and change your life if you buy our product".

4. Get your sales letters and web site evaluated for free. Visit business discussion boards and ask other discussion participants to evaluate them.

5. Get your products or services evaluated for free. You can give your product for free in exchange for evaluations and even testimonials.

6. Keep your loyal customers happy because they are your future profits. Give them discounts and free gifts as often as possible.

7. Clone your advertisements all over the internet by allowing your visitors to give your online freebies away. Just include your ad somewhere inside it.

8. Make it easy for your affiliates to make sales. Give them proven ads to use, make it easy for prospects to order and provide helpful affiliate stats.

9. Persuade ezine publishers or webmasters to run your ad for free. Just allow them to join your affiliate program and earn commission on the sales.

10. Make your products sell quickly by adding a ton of bonuses. You could get the free bonuses for little or no cost buy joint venturing with other businesses.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Riveting Ways To Nail Down Instant Sales

1. End your slow sales periods by planning ahead. Plan to add extra bonuses, hold a sale or package your product with other products.

2. Make more commissions off the affiliate programs you join by giving your personal endorsements for the products. They usually pull more sales than ads.

3. Speed up your internet access. You can get your online business tasks done faster which will help you stay ahead of your competition.

4. Allow people who do not have time to explore your site to download your web site in ebook format. This will allow them time to view it offline.

5. Use tons of headlines and sub headlines on your web site. This will keep their attention and keep them at your web site longer.

6. Take advantage of popular fads. If something is popular at the current time, put up a web site about it. Just promote your main site on the fad web site.

7. Allow your prospects to chose between a retail or wholesale price. Charge people a membership fee to always get the products at wholesale cost.

8. Allow other related web sites that don't have a chat room to link to yours. They'll get use of a free chat room and you'll draw extra traffic to your site.

9. Increase the perceived value of your free stuff or bonuses by including the retail dollar amount the freebie would normally sell for.

10. Create your own web ring. You will gain highly targeted traffic to your web site and others will link to your site because they'll want to join the ring.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal

10 Resourceful Things You Can Do With A Product That Doesn't Sell

1. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to the product. You could make money selling other people the rights to reproduce and sell the product. People are always looking for new products to sell.

2. Giveaway the product for free from your web site. Just because it won't sell doesn't mean people won't visit your web site to get it for free. They may see another product you sell and buy that one.

3. Try auctioning off the product at an online auction. You may make part of your investment back. If you're lucky, you may even make a profit because people sometimes get into bidding wars and will bid a higher price than the product is worth.

4. Use the product as a free bonus for another product you sell. This will increase the perceived value of the product you're selling. People will feel they're receiving more for less.

5. Contact businesses with the same target market and see if they would be interested in using your product as a free bonus for their product. You could place your ad on the product and get free advertising.

6. Sell your product to businesses at wholesale cost as a promotional product. Businesses are always looking for products they can giveaway to their customers with their advertising on the product. You could make part of your investment back.

7. Barter your product to other businesses for things you need for your own business. You could trade for their products or services. This will save you money and help make up for your profit loss.

8. You could create an online contest so people could win your product. This will attract traffic to your web site. You also could get free advertising by listing it on online contest directories.

9. If you decide to giveaway the product for free, allow other people to giveaway the product for free. Place your web site ad on the product. This will spread your advertising and attract even more people to your site.

10. Ask businesses with the same target audience if they would be interested in combining your product with their product. You could then sell them together as a package deal and split the profits. You may have better results selling your product this way.

Regards
Roger Mayne
Swiftdeal