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PLAN AHEAD FOR SLOWDOWNS
1) End your slow sales periods by planning ahead. Plan to add extra bonuses, hold a sale or package your product with other products. For example, you could say, “Buy one, get one free!” Another example would be, “Buy over $20 worth of products and get 5 free bonuses!”
Face it – no one needs another affiliate program to join and making yours successful requires standing out from the crowd.
1. Do not offer an affiliate program at all when starting to market a product.
Start by testing your copy and direct marketing strategies, generating satisfied customers and building your e-zine subscriber base. Do not even mention planning an affiliate program at all in your e-zine or anywhere else before you launch it. This will help you retain a feeling of exclusivity later on.
2. Offer the partnership program to your customers and subscribers first, without advertising it anywhere else.
Start when you generate at least 1000 satisfied customers and 2000 e-zine subscribers. Send them an e-mail explaining how you are now ready to prerelease your marketing partnership program (do not call it an affiliate program – it will help you look different), but only to the first 25 people that qualify. The small number of available slots and the exclusivity will increase the perceived value of the program and help it achieve its USP. Treat your program like a small marketing circle of a closed group of partners and tell them so.
They’re many people who don’t believe in psychic phenomena and many people who do. Who is right? I feel that they’re both right.
1. Allow your prospects imagine you both have a strong bond. A powerful way to bond with your prospects is to tell them a secret in your ad copy. Tell them the only people who are learning the secret are the people who read the ad. This will make them feel like they’re included in a special group of people. When you tell people a secret, it makes them feel important and creates a strong bond. It will also create trust and rapport. Example: Please don’t let anyone know I’m releasing this top secret information to you…
Every part of your book can be a sales tool. When you include the below tips, you’ll sell more books than you ever dreamed of.
I couldn’t snap Billy out of his trance.
It happened over thirty years ago. I was a teenager fascinated by the powers of the mind. I read about spirituality, psychic phenomena, UFO’s, past lives, present problems, the magic of believing, and yes, even hypnosis.
Selling–a word that strikes terror in writers and professionals. We love to write. We love to coach. We love to speak. We hate to SELL. Maybe that’s because we have the used car salesman or the vacuum sales person in mind. They annoyed us because they didn’t listen, they pushed, and we felt attacked. We defended our position, and that’s what we think others do when we share our talents.
Butch Pujol came into his business through a unique series of events. Being taken advantage of himself didn’t set well with Butch and he realized that many others had been through the same thing. His background lends itself to Butch’s need to provide service and to care for others. The combination of these elements came together in a realization that when you take care of your customers – when you put forth a strong image of consumer confidence – your customers take care of you by granting you their loyal and repeat business.
Last week, I was chatting by phone with a friend of mine who happens to be the CEO of a major player in the high-tech industry. We were talking about how, when, and why he decides to get involved in the sales process. An hour or so into our talk, almost as a lark, I decided to ask him for his take on the current state of the economy and how the events of September 11 had affected his own business. His answer was concise and it came quickly: “I believe it’s a new world,” he said, “and it’s a new world economy which is going to take new world marketing. That’s our working assumption for growing and succeeding from this point forward.”
For every recognition program there comes a time when you need to sell top management on the benefits of what you are doing — to gain the support and credibility that comes from top management endorsement. For some programs this is before you start; for others, it is to be able to continue or expand funding. Here are three ways you can influence top management in your organization about the importance of employee recognition:
Bottom line benefits
