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Archive for July, 2005

10 Killer Ways To Multiply Your Sales

Monday, July 25th, 2005

 

1. 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 other products

you sell. You could follow-up every few months.

2. You could up sell to your customers. When they’re

at your order page, tell them about a few extra related

products you have for sale. They could just add it to

their original order.

3. Tell your customers if they refer four customers to

your web site, they will receive a full rebate of their

purchase price. This will turn one sale into three sales.

4. When you sell a product, give your customers the

option of joining an affiliate program so they can make

commissions selling your product. This will multiply

the sale you just made.

5. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to your products.

You could include an ad on or with the product for

other products you sell. You could make sales for the

reproduction rights and sales on the back end product.

6. You could cross promote your product with other

businesses’ products in a package deal. You can

include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and

have other businesses selling for you.

7. When you ship out or deliver your product, include

a coupon for other related products you sell in the

package. This will attract them to buy more products

from you.

8. Send your customers a catalog of add-on products

for the original product they purchased. This could be

upgrades, special services, attachments, etc. If they

enjoy your product they will buy the extra add-ons.

9. Sell gift certificates for your products. You’ll make

sales from the purchase of the gift certificate, when

the recipient cashes it in. They could also buy other

items from your web site.

10. Send your customers free products with their

product package. The freebies should have your ad

printed on them. It could be bumper stickers, ball

caps, t-shirts etc. This will allow other people to see

your ad and order.

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Quick Launch

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

Remember Quick Launch? The little icons next to the Start button? Well, most XP installs don’t have this set by default. Here is how you set it: right-click on the START button, and choose properties. Go to the Taskbar Tab and select the Show Quick Launch checkbox, press Apply, then OK. Think of all the time you’ll save.

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Ungroup taskbar buttons

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Windows XP by default makes all instances of the same program running into one taskbar button. So if you have multiple instances of Internet Explorer open, it can be difficult to figure out which is which. To change this setting, right-click on the START button, and choose properties. Go to the Taskbar Tab and deselect the Group Similar Taskbar Buttons checkbox, press Apply the OK, and you are done!

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Swap out the menu defaults

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

In XP, your favorite programs are displayed in the top left column of the Start menu. Microsoft starts you off with Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Want to change these to your own? Right-click an empty portion of the Start menu’s left column and select Properties > Start Menu > Customize. Near the bottom, uncheck the program you want gone in the "Show on the Start menu" dialog. Advanced: Using Windows Explorer or My Computer, navigate to the program you want instead. Right-click the program and select "Pin to start menu." To rename the new shortcut, right-click it and select Rename.

 

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