10 Rarely Used Ways To Upgrade Your Ad 1. Tell your potential customers special events your business has sponsored. It could be charities, fund raisers, charity auctions, etc. 2. Tell your potential customers about any mergers or joint ventures with other reputable organizations or businesses they would recognize. 3. Tell your potential customers some valuable info. This will create rapport with them. It could be tips, a how-to excerpt, etc. 4. Tell your potential customers about reviews of special events your business attended. It could be trade shows, seminars or conferences. 5. Tell your potential customers stories about your customer service. It could be how you help a new customer, an award you won, etc. 6. Tell your potential customers stories about your employees. It could be about why they like to work for you, their personal profile, etc. 7. Tell your potential customers about milestones and goals your business has achieved. It could be a sales goal, customers served goal, etc. 8. Tell your potential customers about innovations your business has discovered. It could be inventions, new technologies, patents, new products, etc. 9. Tell your potential customers the things you have done to improve your product. It could be lighter, faster, heavier, slower, etc. 10. Tell your potential customers a little history or past information about your business. It could be how it started, how you got the product idea, etc. Provided by:
10 Ways To Shift Your Sales Into Overdrive 1. Publish testimonials for your free stuff. It would increase their value and if they’re viral marketing tools, you’ll have more people giving them away. 2. Give your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes, humorous graphics and funny stories. 3. Make money from web sites that don’t have an affiliate program, by doing a joint venture. Set up the affiliate program through a third party for them. 4. Build rapport with your potential customers by teaching them something new. Provide them with free ebooks, articles, tips, courses, etc. 5. Allow your visitors to collect things from your web site so they will stop back again and again. It could be a series of software, ebooks or articles. 6. Keep each page of your web site consistent or similar. Use similar text fonts, colors, graphics and background on every page. 7. Build a popular directory of freebies. It will draw tons of traffic to your web site and you can request that submitters place your link on their web site. 8. Create traffic generators that people can add to their site without doing all the work. It can be an article directory, freebie directory, web tool, etc. 9. Challenge your visitors to buy your product or service. People love a good challenge. Tell them if they can find a flaw you’ll give them a refund. 10. Form a strategic alliance with other related but non-competing businesses. You’ll be able to beat your competition by selling to a larger audience. Provided by:
10 Reasons To Sell A Fee Based Subscription Ezine 1. You will create residual income. For example, if you charge a monthly subscription fee, you will get recurring income every month. 2. You won’t have to spend all your time marketing to gain new subscribers. Just get and keep enough subscribers to reach your monthly income goal. 3. You can figure how many subscribers it’ll take to meet your income goal. Note on your ad that you’ll only accept a limited number of subscribers. 4. You won’t have any shipping or materials costs like offline subscription publications. You’ll just have your internet access and web site expenses. 5. You can sell back end or upsell products inside a fee based subscription ezine. It could be your own products or affiliate programs you’ve joined. 6. You can start an affiliate program that will give people residual commission. People will want to join because it’s residual instead of one time sales. 7. You could publish a free ezine and allow people to upgrade to your fee based ezine. If they like your free one, they’ll likely subscribe to your paid ezine. 8. Your ad copy automatically builds itself into an order pulling machine. Each issue you archive gives you new benefits to add to your sales letter. 9. You could transform your fee based content into another product to sell. It could be an ebook, video, audio book, report, book, etc. 10. You could become known as an expert on the topic of your fee based ezine. You may get hired by other businesses to do speaking engagements. Provided by:
20 Ways To Increase Your Traffic And Sales Using Free Follow-Up Autoresponder Courses An autoresponder course is a group of articles or information set up to be sent out separately over a set period of time by e-mail. People just e-mail your autoresponder to receive the free course and it is sent out automatically over time. You can find free follow-up autoresponders to use by typing it into any search engine. Below are ten ways to use them to increase your traffic and sales. 1. Offer your course as a free bonus for purchasing one of your main products or services. People will buy your products quicker when you offer a bonus. 2. When you write and give away a free course you will become known as an expert. This’ll gain people’s trust and they will buy your main product quicker. 3. Allow others to add your free course to their own product packages. Their customers will see your ad when they purchase. 4. People love to get freebies. A free autoresponder course is perfect. They will visit your web site to get the free valuable information. 5. Allow people to receive your course for free, if they give you the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested. 6. Allow other people to give away your free course. This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the course. 7. You could trade advertising space in your course for other forms of advertising. It could be banner ads, e-zine ads, web site ads, etc. 8. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give you their contact info before they can receive your autoresponder course. 9. Give away the autoresponder course as a free gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business. 10. Give away the course to people that join your affiliate program. This will increase the number of people that sign-up. 11. Make money selling advertising space in your course. You could charge for small classified ads or sponsor ads. 12. Get free advertising by submitting your course to freebie web sites. This will increase the number of people that will see your ads in the course. 13. Make money by selling the reprint rights to those people that would like to sell the course. You could make more money by selling the master rights. 14. Hold a contest on your web site so people could win your course. You will get free advertising when you submit your contest to free contest directories. 15. You’ll gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your course. Word of mouth advertising can be very effective. 16. Make money cross promoting your course with other people’s products or services. This technique will double your marketing effort 17. Increase your e-zine subscribers by giving your course to people that subscribe to your e-zine. This’ll give people an incentive to subscribe. 18. Allow your affiliates to use the free course as a promotional tool for your product. Each lesson could include their affiliate link. 19. Promote other businesses affiliate programs you join with your free autoresponder course. Include a different affiliate link on each lesson. 20. Advertise a different product or service on each lesson. If you only have one, use different emotional response ads on each lesson. Provided by: