10 Things You Should Try To Barter For Before Buying

1. Information Products – it could be ebooks, “how to” videos, cassettes, magazines, newsletters, paid e-zines, courses, etc.

2. Advertising Space – it could be banner ads, ezineads, ebook ads, magazine ads, newspaper ads, tvads, fax ads, online classified ads, etc.

3. Web Hosting – you could offer a free advertisementfor their web hosting service on your site in return for free or discounted hosting.

4. Software – it could be for tax software, web siteauthoring software, accounting software, newslettersoftware, graphic design software, etc.

5. Writing/Editing – it could be for web site content,promotional articles, press releases, e-zine articles,promotional ebooks, etc.

6. Accounting/Bookeeping – you could offer a nocost advertisement in exchange for their accountingand booking services

7. Consulting – it could be market consulting, legalconsulting, computer/software consulting, businessconsulting, etc.

8. Copy writing – it could be for brochures, businesscards, classified ads, sales letters, product packages,banner ads, promotional products, etc.

9. Merchant Accounts – you could offer no costinsert ads in your product packages in exchange forthe option of accepting credit cards.

10. Internet Access – you could offer a no costpop up ad on your web site in exchange for free ordiscounted Internet access.

Stone Evans

10 Ways To Gain An Avalanche Of Sales

1. Utilize holidays to increase your visitors or sales. You could give away free electronic greeting cards, hold discounts, send customers holiday cards, etc.

2. Become well known by speaking or chatting at seminars. The seminars could be held offline, in a chat room, by telephone or via e-mail.

3. Start a free ebook club on your web site. People could sign up to receive a free ebook from you each month. Just include your product ad in the ebooks.

4. Give away your products or expertise to internet business newbies. Just ask them in return to place your link on their web site.

5. Trigger your visitors to buy your products by using colors. You should totally relax and think about which colors would compel prospects to order.

6. Let your past offline customers know about your web site. When they visit and sign up to your e-zine it will remind them to shop at your online store.

7. Create a long term relationship with your entire customer base. You can stay in touch with them through an e-zine, with greeting cards, etc.

8. Repeat the 3 most powerful or appealing benefits throughout your ad copy. Repetition can brand your product’s benefits quicker in your prospects mind.

9. Give your new customers surprise free gifts. This will increase their loyalty and give you more word of mouth advertising.

10. Make your long ad copy interesting enough so people click through to the next web page. If it’s not, they won’t take the time to click and read more.

Harvey Morgan 

The 10 steps to online success

Step 1: FIND A NICHE MARKET

Use research tools like Wordtracker to find a niche market of HUNGRY buyers eager for your product or service.

Step 2: WRITE YOUR SALESCOPY

Write compelling copy that leads your visitors smoothly through your sales process.

Step 3: SET UP YOUR ONLINE STORE

Turn your website into a selling machine using a simple design, easy navigation, and automation.

Step 4: DRIVE BUYERS TO YOUR SITE

Create “paid search” ads that attract INSTANT traffic (without draining your bank account!) and use free search engines to get your site “front and center.”

Step 5: DRIVE MORE CHEAP AND *FREE* TRAFFIC

Use strategies like article-sharing and press releases to drive even MORE people to your site.

Step 6: USE EMAIL TO GET *MORE* SALES

Build a subscriber list of people who WANT to hear from you, so you can convince them to buy over time.

Step 7: FIND *MORE* PRODUCTS FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS

Offer your customers even more products you know they want to buy.

Step 8: GET OTHER PEOPLE TO SELL FOR YOU

Recruit an army of salespeople to sell your products on their websites (and you won’t have to pay them a dime unless they help you make a sale!)

Step 9: GROW YOUR BUSINESS *BIGGER*

Create dozens of new streams of income to multiply your revenues.

Step 10: USE HOT NEW TOOLS TO CREATE A BUZZ

Bring visitors back to your site again and again using the hottest new tools and techniques.

Derek Gehl

Essential Rules For Effective Email Marketing

If you want an email campaign to succeed, you don`t want to
offend anyone when sending your messages. Turn off a
consumer with your email and you can be sure they`ll
tune out your message. Don`t let this happen to you!

A message that earns respect makes sales. That`s why our
first topic for discussion is email etiquette. (Later in the
course, we`ll talk more about how to write an email sales
letter.)

4 Alternative Ways To Gain Lifetime Customers

You will always have more people that turn down your offer than actually buy. They might not have bought because of your price, payment options, or any other possible reason. You will just end up loosing all these potential lifetime customers.
However, there are many ways you can minimize the loss of these prospects.

One way is to accept barter offers for your product.
Maybe the person can’t afford to buy your product.
They may have something you could use in your business or personal life. If the barter deal isn’t fair enough, either of you could add in some cash. You may not make money but, they might buy other products you offer.

Another way is to include a negotiation offer at the end of your ad copy. Tell your reader if there is something they don’t like about your offer, they could contact you and negotiate a different buying offer. They may not like your price, uarantee,
shipping methods, payment options, etc. You can gain a potential lifetime customer by being flexible with your offer and negotiating instead of loosing them.

A simple way to attract lifetime customers would be to give people a freebie. The freebie should be related to the other products or services you sell.
You may not be getting paid for the freebie, but you will get a lot more people using one of your products because it is free. If they are impressed by your free product there is a high chance they’ll buy your other products in the future.

The last way is to sell your product at the price it costs you to produce or buy it. You will usually sell more products at a lower price than your competition which equals more potential lifetime customers. You will break even in cost but you’ll
make your profit from the upsell and backend products your sell your lifetime customers.

Stone Evans

Don’t be accused of spamming

1. Manage your unsubscribes

Make sure people can easily ask to be removed from your list, and then process those requests right away! It’s your BEST defense against spam complaints. In fact, continuing to mail to someone who has asked to unsubscribe is downright illegal, so you’ll want to make sure you’re always on top of this.

5 New And Lesser-Known Online Business Ideas

1. Ask people to find a hidden link in your ad copy. If they find the hidden link tell them they will get a prize or freebie
by clicking on it. This will increase the chance that they will buy your product or service because they will read your
whole ad copy.

2. Start a members only web site. Tell visitors what’s in your members only site and what it costs to get access. Offer them
a free membership, if, in exchange they link to your web site, post your banner on their home page or agree to advertise
your web site in their e-zine for a set period of time. Usually they will agree to the free advertising to save money. This is
a powerful way to get free advertising.

3. Want a popular discussion board? This technique is based on the number of postings made by any one person. You could
give away a free product or service to any person that posts ten or more messages on your discussion in a month. It could be a free e-book, report, e-mail consulting etc. Just keep track of everyone’s postings each month. This could also work for e-mail discussion lists.

4. Give your visitors an instant article directory. Tell your visitors they can instantly add a free article directory to
their web site by linking to yours. Just place your ad or banner ad on top of the article directory for your main product or
service. All those links can add up to a large amount of traffic for your web site.

5. There a millions of web sites on the internet. Instead of marketing your web site as a web site. Market it as a free web
book. Design your web site with a title page, table of contents, chapters, etc. Just place your ad or banner for your product or service on the top of each web page.

Stone Evans