Monday, March 12, 2007

Cool Ways to Boost Your Profits

Building a large and growing customer base is simple but
not easy. It requires finding, enrolling and training at
least ten serious business builders.

The better you get at using viral and attraction marketing
and applying excellent service, the faster and more
effectively you will build a customer base.

Building a leveraged residual income that will last
requires building a large customer base of people who order
and use real products of real value. month after month even
if they do not get a check.

You do not need to personally enroll hundreds of customers.
You will need at least ten serious business builders in
your organization who you can teach to practice and teach
most if not all of these ways to build a large, stable,
growing customer base that will last for years.

Joining and participating in groups and associations,
communicating with clarity and honesty, leading by example
and constantly prospecting setting appointments, doing
presentations and follow up will be seen and duplicated.

Here are some ways you can boost orders and your profits.

1.Sign-up to win web site awards. When you win, some award
sites publish your web site link, name and description on
their site.

2.Join online business associations or clubs. If you join,
they will usually list all their members on their web site.
It will give your business extra exposure.

3.Utilize a simple form of viral marketing. Write or have
someone else write a small report with your ad included on
it and allow others to give it away.

4.Improve your business by promoting customer feedback.
Tell them you want their honest opinions about your
business, good or bad

5.Compare your product's guarantee to your main
competitors. Find a niche were your can design your
guarantee to be more powerful

6.Try not to assume your audience understands everything in
your approaches. If you have words they may not know the
meaning to, define them.

7.Build alliances with other online businesses. You could
trade links or ads, create joint venture deals, cross
promote your products, etc

8.Design your web site to be a valuable resource for
people. Include original content, links to other
interesting web sites, ebooks, software, etc.

9.Compete with the highly branded businesses by practicing
good customers service, strong product quality and speedy
service

10.Multiply your marketing and advertising efforts on the
Internet. You can accomplish this by starting an affiliate
program or using viral marketing.

11.Increase your ratio of visitors that purchase your
product(s). You could change your headline, offer a
stronger guarantee, add testimonials, etc.

12.Find out who are your strongest leads for buying your
product by offering a free ezine. The visitors that are
very interested will subscribe to it.

13.Team up with your competition by starting an association
for your specific industry. It could lead to a profitable
partnership with them.

14.Attract people to link to your web site. You could offer
them a discount on the products you sell or give them free
stuff for linking

15.Develop your own opt in email list by giving your
visitors a reason to give you their e-mail address. Allow
them sign up to free stuff and contests.

16.Create a "PR" web page for your business. List
information that could be considered newsworthy for
e-zines, newspapers, magazines, etc. Give your business and
products credibility by linking to web sites that have
written positive stories about your business.


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About the author:
Jon Roussel is a five year veteran of the network marketing
and home based business industry. He owns a business in
Beverly, MA and teaches business owners and others how to
start and succeed with a home based business that will
generate a long term reliable leveraged residual income.
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