Tips for Running Profitable Website

1. Address your targeted audience on your business site. Example: "Welcome Internet Marketers". If you have more than one, address them all.

2. Make sure your content and graphics are relevant to your web site's theme. You wouldn't want to use a bird graphic on a business web site.

3. Alert visitors by email when you add new content to your web site. This will remind people to revisit your web site.

4. Offer a way for visitors to contact you on each web page. List your email address, fax number and phone number.

5. Give people the option of viewing your web site offline. Offer it by autoresponder or printer friendly version.

Quote of the Day

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference
- Steve Ballmer

Online Diaries

Have your customers publish an online diary instead of giving you a testimonial. The diary would include regularly updated entries of how customers are using your product to improve their life. You could give customers a free product or a rebate in exchange for them publishing it online.

Your customers could write diary entries about goals they have reached using your product, the positive emotions it's given them, the fears and worries your product has taken out of their lives, how bad their lives were before they bought it, how it has helped other people in their lives, etc.

Quote of the Day

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin

Bonuses to Triple Your Sales

>>Announcement Alerts - Give customers e-mail alerts about critical information or product releases before your non customers find out about it.

>> Discounts - Allow your customers to get lower prices on your products and other related products other businesses sell.

>> Expert Call Ins - Set up a date and time when your customers can call up and talk directly with experts that are related to your industry.

>> Private Invitations - Give your customers private invitations to customer events that non customers cannot attend.

>> Online Rolodex - Compile a list of web sites or online contacts that are related to the product. You could publish it on CD-ROM or on the web.

Quote of the Day

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
- Simon Cowell

Selling A Fee Based Subscription Ezine Part 2

>> You can start an affiliate program that will give people residual commission. People will want to join because it's residual instead of one time sales.

>> You could publish a free ezine and allow people to upgrade to your fee based ezine. If they like your free one, they'll likely subscribe to your paid ezine.

>> Your ad copy automatically builds itself into an order pulling machine. Each issue you archive gives you new benefits to add to your sales letter.

>> You could transform your fee based content into another product to sell. It could be an ebook, video, audio book, report, book, etc.

>> You could become known as an expert on the topic of your fee based ezine. You may get hired by other businesses to do speaking engagements.

Quote of the Day

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness
- Thomas Caryle

Selling A Fee Based Subscription Ezine

>>You will create residual income. For example, if you charge a monthly subscription fee, you will get recurring income every month.

>> You won't have to spend all your time marketing to gain new subscribers. Just get and keep enough subscribers to reach your monthly income goal.

>> You can figure how many subscribers it'll take to meet your income goal. Note on your ad that you'll only accept a limited number of subscribers.

>> You won't have any shipping or materials costs like offline subscription publications. You'll just have your internet access and web site expenses.

>> You can sell back end or upsell products inside a fee based subscription ezine. It could be your own products or affiliate programs you've joined.

Quote of the Day

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Increasing Traffic Through Follow-Up Autoresponder Courses

> People love to get freebies. A free autoresponder course is perfect. They will visit your web site to get the free valuable information.

> Allow people to receive your course for free, if they give you the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested.

> Allow other people to give away your free course. This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the course

Quote of the Day

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Frank Mckinney Hubbard

Shift Sales to Overdrive

Shift sales to overdrive by publishing testimonials for your free stuff. It would increase their value and if they're viral marketing tools, you'll have more people giving them away.

Another way is by giving your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes, humorous graphics and funny stories.

Shift sales to overdrive by making money from web sites that DO NOT have an affiliate program, by doing a joint venture. Set up the affiliate program through a third party for them.

One way also is by building rapport with your potential customers by teaching them something new. Provide them with free ebooks, articles, tips, courses, etc.

Shift sales to overdrive by allowing your visitors to collect things from your web site so they will stop back again and again. It could be a series of software, ebooks or articles.

Quote of the Day

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
- Henry R. Luce