Why Pay For Long Distance When You Can Get It Abso

Why Pay For Long Distance When You Can Get It Absolutely Free!

by: Mike Ofori

Imagine making long distance calls to everyone you know… for free

For the millions of consumers who are sick and tired of paying hundreds and even thousands of dollars each year on long distance calls, a company in Aliso Viejo, CA has created the greatest breakthrough since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. This cuttingedge (patent pending) internet technology by AdCalls enables anyone to make long distance calls to anywhere in the US and Canada absolutely free! The free AdCalls Phone Dialer also gives consumers access to coupons and special offers from local advertisers directly from the ad viewer.

The AdCalls online phone system is a patentpending system using VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) technological advancements that allow consumers to make digitally clear phone calls from their home or business computer to any cell phone, business or home phone in the U.S. and Canada … free and to any computer anywhere in the world. While the free call is in process, moneysaving coupons appear in a T.V. screenstyled format across the top of the online dialer. Consumers can also view, print and search coupons by categories. Free movies are also being added to the AdCalls suite of consumer online services.

How Does It Work?

AdCalls gives away unlimited, free VoIP calling to home and business phones as well as cell phones, plus unlimited free movies, with more free features to come in the future. The giveaway is accomplished in the form of a simple free VoIP software program that can be downloaded from the internet and activated within minutes, and looks like a small cell phone when installed on a computer desktop. Consumers can make phone calls from their home or business computer to any cell phone, business or home phone in the United States, and Canada free – and to any computer anywhere in the world.

Consumers are able to make FREE, Unlimited long distance calls because businesses and organizations are paying for those calls. Just like free TV, when the dialer is being used, coupon ads are displayed in the patentpending screen of the ‘cell phone’. The ads are rotated every 15 seconds. Consumers can click on any coupon and redeem it, and also use the patentpending search for coupons in various categories in their local area. Let’s say the consumer wants to find out about pizza specials in their local area near their home or office. They would simply open the free AdCalls Phone Dialer and type ‘pizza’ in the search field. The consumer would instantly get access to all pizza advertisers offering specials in their local area. Then they can click on a button, call and order directly from the computer.

Coupons have traditionally been delivered via inserts in weekly or daily newspapers and magazines, or in stores through point of sale promotions. Free Standing Inserts (FSI’s) reach over 58million households each week in the United States via newspapers and other direct mail vehicles. In 2002, manufacturers distributed over 400 billion coupons. Consumers have had to sort through all these stacks of paper and find the coupons that match their shopping needs. Not surprisingly, only 4 billion coupons were redeemed in 2002, and consumers still saved over $4 billion. The AdCalls solution provides the following benefits to consumers:

* Provide consumers with easy to find, targeted coupons which fit their needs

* Provide consumers helpful information (recipes, grocery lists, promotions, ads)

* Only coupons relating to consumers’ local area will be displayed

* Other valuable offers and coupons will be available ONLY to AdCalls members

* Allow costeffective distribution of coupons

* Provides consumers with the opportunity to earn extra income each month for simply referring others to use the Adcalls free calling dialer

The AdCalls solution will make it easier for consumers to redeem more coupons than before, thereby saving more than before.

If you do not mind watching commercials on your PC screen while you make unlimited calls to your friends, family and acquaintances, then check out this terrific software. At the very least, you will save money on your long distance phone calls.

To download your free software, visit http://www.TalkFreeAmerica4Ever.com

About The Author

Mike Ofori has been a successful banker for nearly 25 years helping small businesses to find free and/or inexpensive resources to reduce expenses and improve profits.

For more information, visit http://www.TalkFreeAmerica4Ever.com.

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This article was posted on September 14

by Mike Ofori

5 Tips for Online Shopping

5 Tips for Online Shopping

by: Melanie Breeze

Shopping online has become more and more popular in America as we are all looking to save a little time and money. Ecommerce sales are growing at astronomical numbers ranging from 2025% per year. And according to Forrester Research, 40% of households are using coupons in their web shopping. The huge increases are obvious: the online savings and discounts are impossible to match by traditional stores constrained by the overhead costs of employees, rent, and insurance. By using some of the tips and tricks mentioned below, you’ll be able to take further advantage of a new American pastime: saving with online shopping!

Tip #1: Don’t buy Ebay. We all know online auctions seem like such a great deal, and it’s easy to get caught up in the emotion of auction. Thing is, auction sites like Ebay and Ubid have become saturated with buyers AND sellers, so virtually any discount found is quickly sought by redistributors who then add their own markups to your purchase. The online marketplace has enough people out there that you can end up spending hundreds of extra dollars for the same things found in your local mall! Don’t let your emotions get involved – these are not the right places for the aware shopper.

Tip #2: Never pay retail. Take this scenario: You find something you want to buy, maybe the latest craze or fad such as the Ipod. Should you really pay the price that Apple is offering? No! You can find many deals and coupons for the same purchase just by typing, for example, ขipod couponsข into Google. Spend a little time searching through the top ten to twenty results, you’re sure to find the same product for a significant discount. Sometimes, by filling out a survey or signing up for an email list, you’ll get additional savings and many times you can even get your product for free!

Tip #3: Get over your instant gratification desire. Just admit it, buying something always gives you a good feeling and you can’t wait to take pleasure in that new purchase. Anything you’re buying at the mall for that same good feeling can usually be found for a huge discount online. You just have to be willing to wait for the short 25 days that it takes for shipping. It’s definitely worth the savings to able to control your emotions and hold off until it arrives via UPS!

Tip #4: Watch out for excessive shipping charges. Many times retailers slash their costs to get the sale but then charge more for shipping. Make sure to check the final cost to ensure you didn’t receive any unwarranted charges. You should also find a free shipping deal at any of the online coupon sites. Sometimes the shipping can cost more than your purchase!

Tip #5: Online Coupons: Were you aware of online coupon websites like www.couponchief.com that have discount and promotion codes to nearly all internet stores? These types of websites always have up to date discount offers arranged by category or store, so you can always find something on sale. It’s not only a way to get a good deal but you can also find some of the free shipping offers listed in tip #4. Just be careful to check for a coupon code before making any internet purchase. It’s a simple way to find extra savings.

About The Author

Melanie Breeze

http://www.couponchief.com provides free online coupons, deals, and discount offers to hundreds of internet stores. They update their coupons daily and offer a free newsletter to savvy shoppers.

This article was posted on April 25

by Melanie Breeze

Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 1 of

Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 1 of 2)

by: Gary Gray

Online shopping continues to grow at leaps and bounds. Depending on who you ask, the numbers for increase in ecommerce have been consistently coming in at 2030% year over year. These numbers present a great opportunity for online stores of both products and services. But despite these staggering figures, increasing competition continues to dilute the marketplace. One great opportunity for sellers to increase traffic and revenue in their virtual stores is to offer online coupon codes and discounts through an affiliate program and their advertising. Coupons and discounts have always been a great way to motivate buyers in brick and mortar stores, and now that opportunity has migrated to web shopping!

Coupon codes with expiration help motivate buyers into taking advantage of a onetime discount. Suggesting creative such as ข10% off home and garden orders over $50,ข for instance, gives not only buyers a great opportunity for a deal, but it allows sellers to push a sale or take advantage of seasonal fluctuations in the marketplace. Online coupons can also be a great way to push a specific product in excess inventory or a service that is high demand. By offering a coupon like ขSave 20% on Rossignol Zenith Ski’s,ข or ขWeb hosting only $3.99 a month – hurry expires in 5 days,ข sellers are able to create a real or fictitious supply or demand by offering these deep discounts to their website visitors. A great place to find examples of these online coupons is www.couponchief.com

Another great opportunity to use coupons is with free shipping discount coupons. Many smart online shoppers are beginning to realize the incremental cost to purchasing online due to shipping, sometimes increasing their end price by 10 – 20%! One source of substantial motivation to these buyers can come from giving a free shipping deal. This allows those customers who can’t leave the house or prefer to shop in the privacy of their home to realize the same (or even discounted) cost to making their purchases online.

And don’t forget the code! Offering a coupon code or promotion code that a buyer can enter at checkout is a great way to give them a sense of entitlement and make them feel like they’re getting the best deal out there. Think about it to yourself for a minute – when you’re using coupons at a grocery store, don’t you feel that you’re getting the most for your money and stretching your dollar in the most significant way? Shoppers of any product or service get this same feeling when they can input a special coupon code into a box to get an additional savings at checkout.

Another great aspect of coupons is expiration dates. Coupons with expiration can give a sense of urgency to a sale. Again drawing on an analogy to grocery coupons, when you have a coupon for toilet paper that is expiring within the week, do you go ahead and make that purchase knowing you will eventually need to buy the product [without the coupon]? Of course you do, you want to make sure you’re getting the best deal! It’s easy to see that by putting a time limit on a coupon or discount, you easily can add a sense of urgency to the sale to get a higher conversion.

Online coupon codes can be a great way to market your web store, and is a unique tool to increase sales and boost traffic to your ecommerce website. Next time we’ll talk about landing pages and the use of affiliates to further maximize the benefits of online coupon codes, so stay tuned!

About The Author

Gary Gray

www.couponchief.com provides free online coupon codes and discounts for hundreds of popular internet retailers. With a newsletter and RSS feeds, they syndicate new coupon codes and discounts to motivated online shoppers.

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This article was posted on April 01

by Gary Gray

How To Put The ProfitProducing Power of Couponing

How To Put The ProfitProducing Power of Couponing To Work For You…

by: Thom Reece

Coupons have proven themselves to be highly effective sales tools for every conceivable size and type of business.

Because coupons กpull in the businessก they have gained remarkable acceptance and popularity among astute marketing managers. A simple explanation for their acceptance by advertisers is their overwhelming acceptance and use by the consuming public. In fact, Advertising Age (the Bible of the advertising industry) reports that 87% of all shoppers use coupons.

Another independent marketing research firm, the A.C. Nielson Co., reveals that 95% of all shoppers like coupons. And 60% actively look for coupons.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, กIn a Pinch, Snip.ก, states that coupon use rises, as the economy in any given area slides. 54% of shoppers surveyed said they had already stepped up use of coupons, and even more are expected to do so.

Itกs very easy to see why coupon advertising is sweeping the country. Regular use of good couponing strategy will provide a steady stream of new customers and high quality sales leads.

Savvy marketers cite these reasons for heavy reliance on couponing:

A. Coupons have the effect of expanding or increasing your market area. We know that consumers will travel far to redeem a valuable coupon.

B. Coupons will entice new customers that have been shopping at your competitor. Itกs a proven fact that consumers will break routine shopping patterns to take advantage of a good coupon offer.

C. Coupons attract new residents when they are actively in the market for products and services.

D. Coupons will reactivate old customers. Those customers that have been lured away by your competitor will start buying from you again when you give them a good reason to do so.

E. Coupon advertising provides the opportunity for additional profits through sale of related items. (Business owners often forget this.) When you offer a special กdealก on a coupon to invite a customer to do business with you, you have to remember that this same customer will probably end up buying additional items that carry a full profit margin.

In addition, you also are being given the opportunity to กsellupก to a more profitable product or service. You would not have had this opportunity had it not been for the coupon getting the customer through the door in the first place.

F. Coupons build store traffic which results in additional impulse purchases.

G. Coupons are measurable and accountable Don’t overlook that couponing is the most measurable and accountable form of promotion.

Itกs simply a matter of counting the number of coupons redeemed to judge the effectiveness of the offer. Wise use of this consumer feedback will guide you in creating future offers that improve your results.

Understand that the media delivering the coupon has very little to do with the response. Publications simply deliver your offer to a specific audience. Itกs up to you to determine what offer produces the best response from that audience. You do this through methodically testing various offers. Savvy use of this กcoupon testingก technique will give you the specific knowledge you require to greatly improve all of your advertising response, your sales, and your profits.

How do you go about creating a coupon promotion that will work for YOU? Hereกs what I like to call…

THOMกS TWELVE TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE COUPONING:

TIP#1…MAKE A SOLID OFFER!

* OFFER DISCOUNTS…ก$50.00 OFF!ก, ก60% OFF!ก, (percentage discounts are only good when they are high percentages and the value of the product or service is well known.)Dollars Off discounts work best.

* OFFER BONUSES…กBuy One/Get One Free!ก, or ก2 Free with Each Case Ordered!ก, กFree Batteries When You Buy One Super Flashlightก, or กFree Drop Cloth with Each Gallon of Super Paintก, etc.

* OFFER PREMIUMS…Offer premiums for a presentation, for a trial order, for a subscription, for a demonstration, for a new customer referral, for an order amounting to $xxx or largerก, etc.

* OFFER FREE INFORMATION…กFREE bookletก, กFREE brochureก, กFREE estimateก, กFREE detailsก, กFREE samplesก, กFREE trialก, กFREE consultationก, กFREE quoteก, etc.

TIP#2….USE BOLD, COMMANDING AND SPECIFIC HEADLINES!

* กSave $50.00 on Any Portable TV….This Month Only!ก

* กFREE BROCHURE…กBeauty Secrets for Career Womanก!ก

* กFree Catalog Saves YOU 70% on Office Supplies!ก

* ‘rent Two NEW RELEASE Video MoviesGet One FREE!ก

* กBuy One Dinner EntreeGet One FREE!ก

* กBuy Five Cases of Copier PaperGet the Sixth Case Absolutely Free!ก

TIP#3…USE LINE ILLUSTRATIONS OR PHOTOGRAPHS.

* Illustrations work best when you show products inuse.

* Illustrations enhance credibility, aid understanding, and create desire.

TIP#4…USE YOUR LOGO IN YOUR COUPON.

* Use of logo: builds company identity and awareness in the marketplace, enhances your image, lends credibility to your offer, and improves response.

TIP #5….MAKE EFFECTIVE USE OF WHITE SPACE.

* Don’t clutter. Don’t cram.

TIP#5…SELL THE BENEFITS.

* Save time, save money, increase profits, protect your family, improve your standard of living, be happier, improve your health, increase your income, increase your comfort, more convenient.

TIP#7….APPEAL TO THE SELFINTEREST OF YOUR CUSTOMER.

* Your customer is only interested in what you can do for him or her. Your customer will only buy the benefitsofuse of your product or service. Let me say that again…your customer is only interested in the benefits of use of your product….not the product itself.

TIP#8…MAKE EFFECTIVE USE OF THE 18 MOST POWERFUL WORDS IN ADVERTISING.

* free, now, new, how to, save, guarantee, money, easy, simple, you, proven, love, results, discovery, fast, amazing, sex, profit.

TIP#9…ALWAYS UPSELL.

* Offer extras when a customer requests information or places an order. Always suggest related items. Point out the added features and benefits of a higher priced item and then show the customer specifically how these features will make his life easier, safer, etc.

TIP#10…SPREAD YOUR SPECIALS AROUNDCONSIDER THE TRAFFIC PATTERN IN A RETAIL STORE.

* Set up product displays so that you force your customer to walk the entire expanse of your store. Your กimpulseก buys will increase dramatically when you expose your customer to more products by well planned placement of กsale itemsก.

TIP#11…CAPTURE YOUR CUSTOMERS NAME, ADDRESS, AND TELEPHONE NUMBER. DEVELOP AN INHOUSE MAILING LIST FOR ONGOING DIRECT MARKETING USE.

* Your customer list represents your most valuable asset. Your greatest potential for sales and profits lies in the customer database. To ignore this potential is pure folly.

TIP#12…DON’t STOP AFTER THE SALE.

* Create a planned program of continuous followup to your customer list.

* Use ridealongs, invoice stuffers, new catalogs, new product brochures, special sale flyers, preferred customer sales and discounts, customer appreciation events, more coupons. Keep your customers coming back to YOU!

© Copyright 2005 Thom Reece All Rights Reserved

About The Author

Thom Reece is the CEO of OnLine Marketing Group, a direct response marketing agency with headquarters in Hawaii. He is the creator of the Online Marketing Resource Center [ http://www.ecomprofits.com ] . Thom can be reached by email at: thomATecomprofits.com

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This article was posted on September 02

by Thom Reece

9 Wild Ways To Promote Your Business

9 Wild Ways To Promote Your Business

by: David Bell

A business, more often than not, has a very limited budget when it comes to advertising. The business owner needs to make the public aware of his or her product or service at the lowest possible cost.

There are many ways. A pet breeder in a large city was struggling for several yearsuntil he came up with a novel idea. He started giving away customized กbirth certificatesก for the pets he sold. Almost immediately, his sales rose more than 10 percent.

The owner of a new home cleaning service was trying to attract clients. She couldn’t afford much advertising, so she began offering กhome cleaning seminarsก to civic groups. After two months of seminars, she was swamped with inquiries and clients.

Promotion often makes the crucial difference between business success and failure. Customers or clients must know about a business or product line before theyกll buy and they must have a reason to buy.

GIVEAWAYS. People love to receive กfreeก items, especially items they can use to gain knowledge or improve their lives. You can base an entire promotional campaign on this desire. If you’re running a furniture repair business, for instance, you could give away a furniture repair brochure, free furniture planning guides, or color swatches. Once you begin giving away authoritative information, customers will begin to perceive you as an expert in your field.

NEWS CREATION.Want to get your business in the local newspaper or TV? It may be easier than you think. If you don’t have any news to report to the local media, create some. One man hired a team of beautiful girls outfitted in skimpy bikinis and had them waving signs in a busy part of town announcing his new Web site address. Did it get attention by the media? You bet it did!

EVENTS.You may be able to attract the attention of the media or a crowd by staging a special promotional event. If you run a fitness classes, for instance, you could stage a celebrity instructor day. If you’re promoting a new real estate business, you can offer tours of a model home in the area. If you’re selling childrenกs products and itกs springtime, you can offer lunch with the Easter bunny. Get the idea?

CHARITY TIEINS.Are you launching a new product? Trying to increase visibility among a particular segment of your community? Offer your product to one or more local charities as a raffle prize or for use at a fund raising event. Youกll receive lots of exposure among people who buy tickets or attend the event.

CONTESTS. Offer a desirable or unique itemor even several itemsas contest prizes. First, find a contest theme that tiers into your business. A caterer might offer a quicheeating contest. A photographer might offer a young model contest. A mail order craft firm might offer an กEarly Americanก handicrafts contest. Invite contest submissions and offer prizes to the winners. Do contests attract attention? You bet. All it takes is a few signs, a small press announcement or two, and the word will spread throughout the community grapevine.

COMMUNITY SERVICE.Nothing brings you to the attention of the people fasteror more favorablythan community service. Ask yourself how your enterprise can be a กgood neighborก to your community. If you’re running a lawn care and gardening service, perhaps you can offer one seasonกs services at no charge to a needy charitable organization or nursing home in your area. Hundreds of people will hear about your work in the process. Volunteer for various community causes. If appropriate, you can step in during community emergency, offering products and services to help an organization or individuals in need.

COUPONS. Americans are very couponconscious. Test the market: at what level will coupons increase the volume of various product or service lines? When you get some tentative answers, start distributing coupons that offer a discount on your services. Distribute them to area newspapers, on store counters, in doortodoor mail packets (which can often be quite inexpensive), at the public library, at laundromats, at any location where people congregate.

BADGES AND NOVELTIES.You can easily and inexpensively produce badges, bumper stickers, book covers, and other novelty items for distribution in your area. You can imprint your business name and the first names of the customers on many of these products at little cost and distribute them for free. Or you can tie your novelty program into a contest: once a month, you can offer a prize to any individual whose car happens to carry one of your bumper stickers or badges with peeloff coupons, redeemable at your place of business.

CELEBRITY VISITS.With a bit of persistence, you may be able to arrange to have a local media celebrity, public official, or entertainment personallyeven a fictitious cartoon character or clownvisit your service. The celebrity can sign autographs, read stories to children, perform cooking demonstrations, or perform any one of a hundred other trafficbuilding activities.

By all means, advertise in the media if you can. But don’t neglect your greatest promotional assetyour mind. Ponder the products, services and events you can offer the community and devise a creative promotional strategy around them. Youกll have to invest a bit of time and energy in the project, but the payoff will be worth it. Youกll save hundredsor even thousandsof advertising dollars and better yet, youกll travel a wellworn shortcut to profit.

I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.

About The Author

David Bell

http://www.wspromotion.com/

Advertising research and development center

This article was posted on April 14

by David Bell

Did You Know That Coupons Help Track Your Advertis

Did You Know That Coupons Help Track Your Advertising Dollars?

by: Rhonda White

Itกs not just the cost of a product that is on the customerกs mind. Customers want to save money. They know that if they save a dollar, thatกs another dollar still hidden in their pocket. All though there are still a big percentage of shoppers who do not utilize coupons, it certainly brings attention to the customers eyes when they see the possibility of saving another dollar. Coupons help visualize this savings to the customer.

Not only do coupons help bring attention to your business, but it helps track the productivity of your advertising dollars. Many business use กpromotional codesก to help track their advertising dollars. If you are paying for advertising with various companies or websites, you should use a different promotional code with each advertiser so that you know which companies or websites are helping you produce the best results. This technique is particularly important for webbased businesses. If you have a brick and mortar business, customers will bring in their coupons, and you should be able to identify the source by either creating a promotional code or a distinct difference among the coupons that you create.

Visit our website to view our featured links on our homepage.

About The Author

Rhonda White

Author of www.OklahomaCityShoppers.com local enzine and website

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This article was posted on March 15, 2004

by Rhonda White

Online Coupons Furthering Consumerism

Online Coupons Furthering Consumerism

by: Richard Dows

Consumerism is the public face of capitalism. Ultimately, everyone is a consumer regardless of the political system in position even communists had to buy things. But, consumerism has reached giddy heights in the กWestก, where the culture itself is one of กI wantก. Perhaps a more recognizable face of this is the กone up on the Jonesกก ideology the Jonesก have a new car, then you had better get the next model.

Retailers have the bottom line in mind of course, their goal is to make as much profits as possible while attracting as many consumers as possible. Traditionally this is a razorกs edge if they charge too much for an item there will be other retailers who offer it at a reduced price, thus their profits dip. If they charge too little they will be swamped with consumers and sell out of their stock. They have to find that point where they can just sell out of stock and charge just enough to attract hoardes of hungry consumers.

So how do they make lots of cash and still beat their competitors? One way is to offer coupons. Give 5% off and theyกll start to attract a whole lot of consumers eager to take advantage of them (the real question is, who is being taken advantage of?). Another method is the rebate, which it should be said, not everyone fills out and sends back in. They make a lot of money on attracting people via rebates but who don’t actually send them in.

Enter the Internet. Now, retailers see a way to make even more money, and to cut out the middle men. By placing all their stock on websites, and offering coupons to fill in at order time, they don’t have to operate stores, pay salespeople and staff, pay electricity bills, rent etc., The order gets filled in online, and shipped directly from warehouses, what a money saver! Take a look at sites like www.streamsofgold.com and www.oceansofgold.com and youกll see what I mean some retailers have astonishing offers, up to 70% off items ordered online, $200 off $2000 purchases. It makes consumers think they are making a killing, but in reality the retailers is laughing all the way to the bank.

Is it the birth of something new? Or rather, are consumers becoming more receptive and savvier than before? Rather than having to fill a form out, send it in, wait for the check in the mail, it is far simpler now. Go to the website, order, fill in the coupon code, instant savings! No, it is not new, it is young sales executives who were weened on the early Internet realizing its true potential, as a mass marketing medium for consumerism.

About The Author

Richard Dows is an entrepreneur that has started several businesses, some as experiments, others as serious enterprises. As a freelance web designer he has embraced Standards and explored many facets of the online business world.

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This article was posted on April 03

by Richard Dows

Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 2 of

Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 2 of 2)

by: Gary Gray

Last time we discussed how online coupons and promotion codes can motivate buyers. We discussed examples of coupons and some of the aspects of these offers that can boost sales and generate urgency to a purchase. Today we’ll focus on how to create great landing pages and the use of affiliate programs to further enhance your marketing efforts.

Creating good online coupons to offer customers is not the only thing you need to do to maximize your sales. Using an enticing landing page that meets the customer with the deal they’re being offered is also an effective tool leading to a sale. There are two ways that let the customer know the benefit of the coupon they’re using, and both can be equally appealing choices.

Option 1 to creating an appealing landing page for a coupon is to restate the coupons terms and offers and to reiterate the promotion code that needs to be entered upon checkout. This way the customer knows they are getting the deal they had anticipated receiving, and makes them aware of potential expiration on getting the discount. As we discussed in our previous article, that sense of urgency is a good way to provoke your shoppers into a buy mentality.

Option 2 takes this a step further by automatically applying the coupon at checkout, so when the customer gets to the checkout page, their discount code is applied and actively showing them their deal. This also benefits the customer because they don’t need to go back to get the code, where they can be distracted from the point of purchase. By adding something to the landing page like ขYour 10% coupon code will be automatically applied at checkoutข in a highly visible area, you are able to keep customers from being confused about what they’re getting. You can also use cookies so the next time they visit, if they remember their coupon, they will be more likely to realize they can still get a great discount.

Affiliate programs can also be beneficial when used with coupons to promote your products or sales. New and expiring coupons are littered on coupon web sites throughout the internet bringing more attention to you! Just check out CouponChief.comกs homepage for an example of who can be displaying your coupon. In addition, many affiliates will be happy to promote your store when you have a great coupon code or promotion to offer. These high traffic sites bring a ton of added exposure and drive a large customer base of shoppers ready to buy you know this because they clicked on your coupon! Another secret tip to getting affiliates to put your coupons on their homepage is to increase commissions temporarily upon proof of good placement. Sometimes these affiliate sites can get many more buyers than your own!

Coupons have migrated to the web in a big way, and should be a part of any serious marketing campaign. If you aren’t using online coupon codes and one time deals to promote your site, you’re missing the boat on driving incremental customers to buy your products.

About The Author

Gary Gray

CouponChief.com provides free online coupon codes and discounts for hundreds of popular internet retailers. With a newsletter and RSS feeds, they syndicate new coupon codes and discounts to motivated online shoppers.

This article was posted on April 03

by Gary Gray