So you’ve just created the coolest web site on the Net, with the latest development tools, amazing animated images, and it loads in just under 5 seconds with your brand new T3 connection. You’ve just messed up big time.
3 Interlocking Sales Intensifiers
1) FLEXIBLE OFFERS
Keep your offers as flexible as possible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could also offer the people that can’t afford it an optional payment plan. For example, “3 Easy Payments Of $19.95”.
Will Content Ever be Profitable?
THE CURRENT WORRIES
1. Content Suppliers
The Ethos of Free Content
Two “Must’s” in e-Marketing
-Must make them see you in 60 characters or less.
Where do you advertise? Links, FFA’s, Classified ads, opt-in email, news groups, message boards, search engines? All of them are limited in how many characters you can use. In the ocean of ads, you have to grab the viewers attention, then make them click.
The 3 Secrets of High Traffic Sites
It seems to be in vogue these days to downplay the importance of web traffic. It’s popular (and perfectly valid) to say things like: “Traffic is worthless if you don’t turn it into money.”
Effective Marketing Strategies That Don’t Break the Bank
Every start-up business goes through phases of needing to try something different to increase exposure and bring in new clients. Even established businesses need to revisit their marketing strategies every once in awhile to help bring in new and repeat business.
During a recent business chat at Staffcentrix.com, in which I was honoured to be the Mentor of The Month and chat moderator, several Virtual Assistants (VAs) with varying experience in the small business sector shared their ideas and know-how.
How Do You Measeure Success?
When someone asks you if you are successful, how do you answer? How does one measure success?
Learn From My Ugly Mistake
Early this morning as I was putting the finishing touches on today’s newsletter, I received a good news / bad news email message:
Should I Say Me or We?
Many of my clients are small businesses or home-based businesses. When we begin writing copy for a web site, brochure, etc. one question never fails to surface. “Should I say ‘Me’ or ‘We’ in my copy?”
One Short Story, Three Very Important Lessons
I buy a lot of books online. So many, in fact, that I built my own website (Booku.com) which searches the big online stores and locates the best prices for me. It’s nothing fancy, but it does the trick.