Writing for online publication differs from writing for print. One difference is length; online pieces tend to be less than 1,000 words in length. Long text passages are difficult to read on-screen, so the key to writing successfully online is to become a “word compactor”.
Use Tell-A-Friend To Increase Online Sales
One of the most successful ways of marketing in offline businesses is word-of-mouth advertising. Customers tell their friends about a business and up go the sales. There are no direct costs involved.
How To Track Your Online Ad Response
It is crucial for every marketer to accurately track his advertising results. In the direct marketing industry, marketers track the responses to their direct mail pieces so that they know which ads work, which headlines are winners and which products sell.
10 Benefits Of Starting An Online Community!
1. People will revisit your web site to participate on your discussion board or chat room. They will meet other people with similar interests and your web site will become a hang out were they can chat.
8 Things that Bug Me About Doing Business Online
Been trying to do business online awhile? Then you already know it ain’t a bed of roses every day. Here’s my personal list of the 8 biggest irritations about doing business online.
#1. People who are looking for a sure-fire “get rich quick” scheme.
I don’t know about you, but the well-off people I know worked their behinds off for their money (unless they were lucky enough to have a rich old aunt kick the bucket in their favor). Personally I’ve never yet met a person who has actually gotten rich from a “get rich quick” scheme, but I’ve encountered THOUSANDS who tanked trying to get rich without work. P.T. Barnum was right about a sucker being born every minute. The Internet has empowered these people. They literally can’t wait to get online to get taken advantage of. It’s sickening. You want to get rich? Work!
A Free, Powerful, and Credible Method to Promote Your Online Business
I’m a big believer in making smart investments — that is, I won’t hesitate to pay for marketing if I have good reason to believe that I’ll reap big profits from the campaign. But at the same time, if there’s an effective, free method of promoting my business, I sure wouldn’t turn it down!
Online Spending – The Latest News
TEC International just concluded their 2002 first-quarter survey of 6,000 CEOs of small-to-midsize companies. Most are, in Greenspan’s words, “cautiously optimistic.” According to BusinessWeek, this is what they found:
CEOs General Opinion On the Economy
26% recovery is at hand 49% growth will begin to accelerate in the second half of 2002
Which Industries Will Have The Greatest Gains?
26% tech 29% manufacturing 21% biotech
How Many Expect Sales To Increase and By How Much?
Why Market Your Business Online?
If you are like me, and love your business, you certainly want to grow it to be as successful as possible. Whatever product or service you offer, wouldn’t you be willing to nurture it through the number one way to market”the internet? Especially if you realized all the benefits?
Online Surveys To Know How Your Customers Are Feeling
We have been here before. Sales are dipping and business as a whole is slowing down without any warning or any visible reason. What could be causing this situation? We do everything right and follow proven tactics to keep business moving. What else can be done? The only way to find out what is going on is to ask those that are responsible for business slowing up, your customers.
Online Fraud and IP Address Tracking
ClearCommerce Corporation, a provider of payment processing and fraud protection software for e-commerce, studied 1,100 of its best online merchants to get a better understanding of online fraud. In doing so, they analyzed 6 million transactions from 40,000 customers who were collectively doing business with the company’s merchants.