5 HighImpact Marketing Tips

5 HighImpact Marketing Tips

by: Bob Leduc

Here are 5 highimpact marketing tips you can use to boost your sales quickly. All are simple to implement and they involve little or no new expense.

1. Promote Only One Thing at a Time

Promote only 1 product or service each time you advertise. Many people have difficulty selecting one product when their decision forces them to delay or reject buying something else they also want. When prospects cannot make an easy choice they often make no decision at all …and you lose the sale.

Tip: Offer new customers a related product or service immediately after they buy from you. Many will accept your offer, producing an easy sale without jeopardizing the initial purchase.

2. Provide Multiple Ways for Customers to Buy

Providing choices of what to buy will reduce your sales. But providing choices of how to buy will increase your sales. Offer many different ways for customers to buy from you. The same method is not convenient for everybody. Prospective customers are more likely to act immediately when their favorite way of ordering is available.

3. Avoid Your Competitors

Look for some new niche markets you and your competitors overlooked. You may uncover a market you can dominate with little or no competition.

One quick and easy way to find profitable new markets is to subdivide your current market into several narrowly defined niche markets. Then customize your advertising to the unique needs of prospects in each niche market.

Tip: You can narrow the appeal of an existing web site without losing its effectiveness with your main market. Just create customized web pages for each market segment you want to target. Then add a link to each of these specialized pages on your home page.

4. Use Alternative Marketing

Look for alternative media your competitors may be overlooking. For example, many internet marketers are beginning to use direct mail postcards to generate traffic to their web sites. It?s a low cost way to bypass the heavy competition online.

A brief captivating message on a postcard with an enticing offer sent to the right prospects will generate a flood of traffic to your website or a large number of sales leads.

Tip: Postcards are also an excellent lowcost alternative to email. People get so much email today that even legitimate messages are getting deleted unread. But they get few if any postcards. Your message is guaranteed to get their attention when itกs delivered on a postcard.

5. Encourage Questions

You?re walking away from a lot of easy sales if you don?t encourage prospects to ask questions about your product or service.

Only interested prospects will take the time to ask questions. Many will buy …especially if you answer their question quickly and completely. You can even include a promotion for your product or service as part of your answer.

Make it easy for prospects to ask questions when they are at your web site or in other selling situations where there is no personal contact. For example, provide a phone number or an email address they can use to ask questions.

Tip: If you find yourself personally answering a lot of questions, add a Questions and Answers section to your web site or your sales brochure. Include the answers to the most frequently asked questions. It will reduce the number of questions you have to answer personally.

Each of these 5 marketing tips provides a simple way for you to boost your sales quickly …and for little or no new expense.

Copyright 2004 Bob Leduc

http://BobLeduc.com

About The Author

Bob Leduc spent 20 years helping businesses like yours find new customers and increase sales. He just released a New Edition of his manual, How To Build Your Small Business Fast With Simple Postcards …and launched *BizTips from Bob*, a newsletter to help small businesses grow and prosper. Youกll find his lowcost marketing methods at: http://BobLeduc.com or call: 7026581707 After 10 AM Pacific Time/Las Vegas, NV

This article was posted on October 26, 2004

by Bob Leduc

The Truth About Easy Affiliate Income

The Truth About Easy Affiliate Income

by: Donna Monday

If you’ve spent any amount of time online pursuing opportunities to make money online, you know that affiliate marketing associate programs are very popular.

Affiliate online opportunity programs are very appealing to those looking to make money while they learn Internet marketing. Affiliate programs are free to join and easy to sign up for. This makes them especially attractive to moms looking to work at home and others looking to work at home part time.

In fact, it’s so easy to set up an affiliate Internet marketing web site, that you’ll find plenty of them online promoting everything from kitchen appliances to online dating.

There’s nothing wrong with this, except the illusion of making easy money with an affiliate marketing mlm network or any affiliate marketing opportunity is more myth than reality. Most affiliate web sites make very little money – if any.

Why is this?

I think it’s because it’s so easy to sign up for a bunch of affiliate programs and throw them on a web site, BEFORE you learn how to really build and promote a proper affiliate site that’s capable of producing an actual profit. So, unless there is a real effort to use target marketing and promotion, these sites usually flounder and fail to attract much attention.

The simple truth is that the Internet is the ultimate information super highway and most people won’t take the time to stop by your little shop of affiliate wonders to look at all your affiliate links.

Aw, don’t be so disappointed.

The truth is that no one wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves ขI’m going to visit that little obscure site promoting xyz products today and buy a few of those interesting products they’re advertising.ข

The reality is that most people could care less about your site and your dreams of making money online with your affiliate programs. No, Most folks are looking for specific ขinformationข about a product or service and they won’t waste much time surfing around to find it.

So, the web sites that smartly use keywords to write appealing copy for their affiliate sites, that gives visitors the information they’re looking for, will have a much better chance of attracting visitors. Of course, this also depends on how nice your site is to look at, and whether it’s a virtual affiliate farm or a legitimate site that promotes a particular niche product.

The best affiliate programs are ones where the vendor (affiliate) also has an attractive, easytonavigate, givethecustomerwhattheywant, and easy to order type of web site. Also, these vendors are very helpful and supportive to their affiliates.

Another important truth is that you should resist the temptation to promote lots of affiliates on your web site. This is the dreaded ขaffiliate overkillข syndrome. You should especially stay away from affiliate programs that have absolutely nothing to do with the theme of your web site – these will not attract any interest from your visitors.

So, the bottom line truth about affiliate programs is that, although they are easy to set up, it’s really not very easy at all to make money with them. This is true even if you’ve done everything right. It takes a lot of patience, tweaking, and testing to nurture your affiliate site into an income generating profit machine.

But, don’t let this discourage you from jumping into the affiliate marketing waters and getting your feet wet. The more you do, the more you learn.

And that’s the truth.

About The Author

Copyright 2004

Donna Monday

After much trial and error, I’ve managed to set up some nice affiliate sites. You can see two of them here:

http://www.1loverings.com

http://www.lastminutehawaiicruise.com

More on affiliate marketing here: http://url123.com/mn6dk

This article was posted on January 03

by Donna Monday

Print Shop Deluxe Empowering Users To Do Publishin

Print Shop Deluxe Empowering Users To Do Publishing

by: Grannyกs Mettle

Professional and businesslooking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that itกs a lot of work for me.

Broderbundกs ‘the Print Shopก has been doing that for its clients, particularly users who need a quick, easy and affordable way to do basic publishing activities.

Now comes another version of the popular Print Shop program that lets you design or adapt over 11,000 templates of everything from greeting cards and photo albums, to signs, banners, and even calendars.

The Print Shop Deluxe 12.0 is for kids, as well as for those kidsatheart, who love the idea of churning out fun projects. Aside from turning regular banners and greeting cards into great works that ensures attraction, the newest edition of the 16yearold printing and desktop publishing program includes a photo editor and tools that can help users produce simple paper products from menus to other marketing products. It also has easytouse interface, and a great online support.

Print Shop 12.0 is easy to use, never mind that the program has six CDs of clip art. One review even stated that you might need to find enough drive space for the whole กmonster programก. The review even said that even if one should stick with the minimum installation option, the program still needs 670MB of drive space. On the other hand, if one should decide to just keep the extra clip art CDs handy, swapping them every time you need an image may be a timeconsuming alternative.

But as Iกve said earlier, never mind the number of CDs. The huge collection of clip art and images will blow your mind. With more than 134,000 images and 11,000 layout templates, youกll have more than enough for the next decade of publishing, I think.

With its easytouse interface, the program is definitely simple and functional. Print Shop 12.0 has menus with scores of commands and toolbars easy enough to manipulate. One artist even boasts of its large open space in the center of all those icons and toolbars the better to design your work.

The program also boasts of 5,000 more templates than the previous version. Just choose a template from one of the many categories, do the easy instructions, then customize the text and art and your on your way to creating your very own greeting card, or banner, or whatever marketing material you need at the moment.

The new Color Set Creator also helps users change the Color Set on the background. With just one click, users can try different colors for their project.

With a userfriendly manual, even a kid can handle its features. The programกs help file is complete and clear.

About The Author

Grannyกs Mettle is a 30something, professional web content writer. She has created various web content on a diverse range of topics, which includes digital printing topics, medical news, as well as legal issues. Her articles are composed of reviews, suggestions, tips and more for the printing and designing industry.

Her thoughts on writing: กWriting gives me pleasure… pleasure and excitement that you have created something to share with others. And with the wide world of the Internet, it gives me great satisfaction that my articles reach more people in the quickest time you could imagine.ก

On her spare time, she loves to stay at home, reading books on just about any topic she fancies, cooking a great meal, and taking care of her husband and kids.

For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.ucreative.com

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This article was posted on March 03

by Grannyกs Mettle

Snapshot Image Cleaning

Snapshot Image Cleaning

by: MAricon Williams

Time is precious and we don’t want it to slip away that easy without taking advantage of its significance. To circumvent waste of time, Snapshot can be a great help to us.

Snapshot is a valuable technique to save our precious time when working with images in Photoshop – be it an original copy image, something from a digital camera or from a scanned slide or negative. This is usually used to clean up images such as images for publication use.

The technique is so easy, it only involves a fourstep method and is easy to recall. You can make use of this in many situations like adjusting levels, color, saturation, sharpness and other corrections without wasting time with layer masks, lasso tools, layers, rubber stamping or magic wand. To ensure that your eyes are fixed to your subject, you can use this method.

Softeyes are scanning problems inherent of the natural film curvature while scanning. To avoid softeyes problems, use snapshots technique which allows fixation in few seconds. To do this, first open your file. Then go to filter > sharpen > unsharp mask. After that, a dialog box will appear with unsharp mask defaults. Set the default amount to 75 percent, radius to 1 pixel and threshold levels to zero or one. Finally, click OK. You may notice that the entire image has the unsharp mask applied to it beforehand. As a result, it sharpens the overall image.

The texture is no longer as soft as it first appeared. This is the time when the snapshots will save your artwork.

To correct the flaws, you must go to the history palette. If it you did not find it in your desktop, you can find it normally on the right in Photoshop by default. Go to window > Show history. Once you have located your history palette, select the bold arrowbutton on its right side. Click and hold it until a menu appears then go to New Snapshot. When you release your mouse, another dialog box will appear. You must enter in it the name ขunsharp eyesข, then click OK.

If you have more than one snapshot in a working file, do not forget to label your snapshots to be able to have a better workflow management when it comes to organization of your images. It is nice to do it that way for easy and fast selection and for an efficient scheme.

About The Author

Maricon Williams

I love reading. Give me a book and Iกll finish it in one sitting. Reading is the chance to be transported to a different world and so is writing. Iกm more enthusiastic about writing however, since you can relay your ideas to someone else. I can only imagine that feeling when I hear a complete stranger talking about my ideas which read on an article somewhere. To relay my message to as many people is the same as touching people with music. Only mineกs less harmonic. I try to make up for it with the color I bring with words. And most of the time, it’s more than enough.

Additional Information about the article can be found at http://www.fullcolorprintingcompany.com

[email protected]

This article was posted on March 10

by MAricon Williams

The Easy Way to Order Catalogs

The Easy Way to Order Catalogs

by: Maricon Williams

Catalog printing can fill a customerกs demand for information. With detailed product catalogs, you can engender orders from customers without delay. Catalog printing services offer a selection of sizes, or you can use the clever 51/2 x 81/2 or the everpopular 81/2 x 11.

Research showed that having a printed catalog of your products will produce 10%20% more sales than a website alone. Whether it’s a simple folded brochure or a sophisticated 40 page catalog, allowing your customers an alternate means of ordering your products is necessary to boost your sales. The problem now is to know the easy way to have it with no hassles attached.

Looking for the right printing company is hard because only a number of them specialize in catalog. A good printing company will give you the style you are looking for but an unskilled catalog designer will create technical difficulties resulting in cost overruns and delays. The next thing to consider is the budget. Seek help from catalog designers or producers so that your catalog will fit within your budget.

Catalog printing offers anything from a simple brochure folded to make a fourpager, up to 64 pages in full color, stapled at the spine. The printing company will administer all of the technical details like shingling and headtrim, leaving you free to create a catalog that will rock the cradle of the business world!

Catalogs can be instantly priced and ordered using catalog online printing quotes. With it any person has a free access to the printing price offered by different printing companies. They can compare the prices and choose what’s best for their project at the same time their pockets. By that they can gauge the right catalog printing company for them accompanied with its reasonable price. While accomplishing the catalog printing quotes online, be sure to have the following information available quantity, flat and finished sheet size, paper type and weight, number of ink colors, finishing specifications, and proofing preference.

Make sure you place your order with an skilled and knowledgeable commercial printer with an integrity for quality, dependability, consistency and one that is easy to do business with. Bear in mind that the least expensive catalog is often not the best value. Your local area printers may be able to do your job but printers with websites can do even better job with benefits like low prices, instant price quotes and easy online ordering.

About The Author

Maricon Williams

I love reading. Give me a book and Iกll finish it in one sitting. Reading is the chance to be transported to a different world and so is writing. Iกm more enthusiastic about writing however, since you can relay your ideas to someone else. I can only imagine that feeling when I hear a complete stranger talking about my ideas which read on an article somewhere. To relay my message to as many people is the same as touching people with music. Only mineกs less harmonic. I try to make up for it with the color I bring with words. And most of the time, it’s more than enough.

For additional information and comments about the article you may log on to http://www.printingquotesonline.com

[email protected]

This article was posted on April 01

by Maricon Williams

Easy Online Business Idea!

Easy Online Business Idea!

by: BB Lee

So, you’re not very business savvy or computer literate. But you are searching for a business that is easy to start with your home computer. One you might start with a very limited budget and your present skills you already have.

Consider the following:

Do you own a computer?

Are you a frequent Internet Surfer?

Are you aware of the many affiliate programs online?

Is your business budget very limited or nonexistent?

Do you have several free hours or more a week to devote to business?

Consider researching online and join a few of the affiliate programs that you think will appeal to your targeted audience.

Next, set up a no fee website with important info surfers will find helpful. Set up links directing visitors to your affiliate products home page. (Your affiliate products should be related to the information on your page). Next, submit your site to all the significant search engines. Place ads in ezines, classifieds, and swap links with similar sites. All easy to do!

Setup a few autoresponders on your page that will act as your follow up salesman and deal closer. Itกs easy to sign up and receive a no cost autoresponder. Simply type the word into one of your favorite search engines. And surf to a few of the sites. Most will supply needed info to get your autoresponders up and running.

Total investment: Zero.

Equipment: A basic computer setup and Internet Connection.

Potential Earnings: Unlimited!!!

Check out this book on scoring super sales profits with your affiliate programs. This is really a low to no overhead cost business just for about anyone. And is super easy to start.

http://hop.clickbank.net/?xy123/webvista2

by BB Lee (c)2005

mailto:[email protected]

About The Author

BB Lee is the editor of SmallBizBits News. Visit the website for more home based biz ideas, ebook downloads, business reports!

http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com

[email protected]

This article was posted on March 07

by BB Lee

How to Spellbind your Prospects in 10 Seconds!

How to Spellbind your Prospects in 10 Seconds!

by: Jaruda Boonsuwan

Youกve got yourself 10 seconds to HOOK your prospects or LOSE them!

If you can’t make them interested in 10 seconds, thereกs a good chance youกll lose them forever. So, youกd better shoot it right and กgrabก their attention fast if you don’t want them to go to your competitors!

And how do you do this?

**Just write HARDTORESIST headlines!

It works just like dating online. There are hundreds and even thousands of your potential dates floating on the net, waiting for you to pick for your Saturday dinner. You can’t date them all at once. And you can’t just read all of their ads either!

So what would you do?

IF YOU WERE A GUY, which lady would you กpickก, and which one would you กpassก just by reading what they say in their headlines?

2 ladies post their photos, both looking like Jennifer Lopez. Which lady would you ask out?

Between the one that says ก28 single latin lady, looking for a kind and sincere gentleman!ก

And the one that says กDance salsa with me, and youกll know I was born to surprise you!ก

Wow!! I don’t know about you, but I CERTAINLY like surprises!

NOW IF YOU WERE A LADY, which guy would you choose to go out with?

2 guys post their photos, both looking like Brad Pitt. Which guy would you pick and which would you pass?

Between a guy who says กA friendly, outgoing guy looking for a shortterm relationshipก.

And a guy who says กIf you let me, Iกll make sure you get lost in my blue eyes as I sing to youก.

Whoa!! This guy definitely knows how to turn the ladiesก heads. He knows how to use romance and passion as his กsecret weaponsก.

See the TEMPTING power of headlines??

Now itกs time for you to SEDUCE your prospects! Remember, youกve got 10 seconds!!

DON’t be the กSingle Latin Ladyก. Rather, BE ‘the One to Surprise Youก!!

DON’t be the กFunLoving Guyก. Rather, BE ‘the BlueEyed Who Can Singก!!

Youกll be surprised how easy it is to get all the attention you want from your prospects and make explosive sales!

Iกm going to make this really easy for you…

Here is the list of 111 READYTOCOPY words I make exclusively for you. Make sure you include them in your emails as they will easily turn casual visitors into eagertopay buyers!

1. Use verbs that TURN THEIR HEADS

กunveil, discover, steal, kidnap, explode, shoot, skyrocket, blow, hypnotize, grab, surprise, reveal, expose, spin, increase, generate, stop, turbocharge, supercharge, launch, fire, boost, spark, reverse, bust, hide, arm, jumpstart, score, hit, spill, spell, outsell, outsmart, skykick, burn, avoidก

2. Add words that CATCH THEIR EYES

กfree, guaranteed, magnetic, magic, explosive, shocking, lifesaver, unbelievable, the number one, topnotch, secret, trick, pure profits, cash, nonstop, handsfree, allinone, stepbystep, shortcut, bulletproof, foolproof, no B.S., no hype, how to, instant, breakthrough, formula, frontpage, master, top gear, sixspeed, lightning fast, headachefree, insiders, jawdropping, heartstopping, mindblowing, headspinning, jampacked, power, success, weapon, surefire, kickbutt, sidekick, blackbelt, jealousyguarded, pitfallfree, deadlyeffective, surewinner, warp speed, in a heartbeat, razorsharp, mappedout, armed, turnbyturn, competitors, littleknown, littleused, lifetime, turnkey, ringside seatsก

3. Include specific numbers that STOP THEIR BREATH

กas easy as 1,2,3, by up to 927%, in as little as 7 days, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, 5 days from nowก

4. Use vivid, colorful comparisons that KNOCK THEM OFF THEIR FEET

กas easy as chewing gum, cheaper than a cup of Starbuckกs coffee, sell as fast as fireworks on the fourth of July, sell as fast as icecream in the heat of June, sell faster than frozen turkeys on Thanksgivingก

**Now that you’re armed with this supereasy SHORTCUT, you can easily come up with the SLAM DUNK headlines like….

1. กLegally Steal the Jealousyguarded Secret of the Heavyhitters on the Internet!ก

2. กSkyrocket your Profits with the Turnkey Marketing Tricks the Big Dogs Don’t Want you to Ever Find out!ก

3. กEXPOSED! The Search Engine Sealed Secrets thatกll Sell your Products Faster than Fireworks on the Fourth of July!ก

4. กDiscover Mindblowing Techniques thatกll Explode your $0 Website into a Knockout Worth $14,000 in as short as 8 weeks!ก

Or 5. ‘reVEALED! How to Outsell your Bestselling Competitors with Littleused Pricing Tactics that Don’t Cost you One Single Red Cent!ก

P.S. Believe in the power of words! They can make your business prosper and make your dreams come true.

About The Author

The author, Jaruda Boonsuwan, is offering oneofitskind, deadlyeffective copywriting ecourse at NO charge.

Beat your competitors now at http://www.groundbreakcopywriting.com

This article was posted on October 23, 2002

by Jaruda Boonsuwan

The 2 BestKept Secrets Of The Internet

The 2 BestKept Secrets Of The Internet

by: Mike Cheney

Itกs a difficult creating a website that brings you business. Itกs fulltime job where things seem easy at first but as soon as you start to explore the possibilities and appreciate the complexity of the task at hand it can soon start taking up ever increasing amounts of your time. There is a plethora of people out there offering you conflicting advice and itกs often difficult to know what to focus on.

This article cuts through all that and reveals to you the two most important things you need to know about creating a website that brings more profit to your business..

Secret Number 1 Information

Yes thatกs all it is information. Just think about this for a minute what is the sole reason anyone surfing any website anywhere across the world is looking for? Every single one of them is looking for just one thing information. The information might take the form of text, an image, a sound file or whatever but at the end of the day it is information. This is the first biggest and bestkept secret of success on the internet and now you know it!

What do you mean กSo what?ก. The sole purpose of your website is to provide its visitors with information think about this the next time some combattrousered graphic designer tells you a big Flash graphic would be a good thing to have instead of a homepage.. People are looking for information don’t put anything in the way of them getting this. Make sure the information you have on your site is easy to find, worthwhile reading and ideally easy for your visitors to disseminate onto their friends and colleagues.

Information is also essential if you are going to gain any influence with the search engines. They might only be computer programs but those search engine critters can be quite clever at discerning a website that contains nothing of any use and one that has useful information relevant to its target audience. Lots and lots of high quality relevant content on your website will do more for your websiteกs overall success than a fancy graphic or rotating picture of your head on the homepage.

Secret Number 2 Interaction

Goto your website. Just look at it. Go through a few pages. Imagine that you had hit กPrintก on each of those pages. Would the experience of reading the pages in hardcopy be exactly the same as reading them on the screen? If it would you don’t own a website you own an expensive brochure. Interaction is why the internet was born it is the one attribute and opportunity that sets the medium apart from print and anything else. Your website needs to be littered with things that enable interaction between you and your visitors. Feedback forms, downloads, bookmarking tools, contact options, newsletters etc.

Information and interaction together these are the only things that matter when it comes to the internet. Now go back, look at your site and appraise it honestly in terms of how well it addresses each of the two facets. Is it full of interactive features that enable people to get closer to your business and control their browsing experience? Does it provide lots of valuable information that is easy to find? Armed with these two secrets you can start to truly harness the real power of the internet. Good luck!

Mike Cheney, www.magnet4web.com

About The Author

Are You Getting Your MagnetMail? Mike Cheneyกs WorldFamous Free Magic Mail To Make Your Website Magnetic, Get Yours Now: www.magnet4web.com/website_services/?page=magnetmail

This article was posted on March 31, 2004

by Mike Cheney

Quantify Your Sales Online

Quantify Your Sales Online

by: Maricon Williams

The goal of a business is to profit from every endeavor. They do all sorts of advertising and marketing strategies in order to achieve the same. They live by the maxim the more sales the better. However, it is quite a tedious work to jump from one individual to another just to advertise your goods and services. It is also costly to advertise on print and broadcast media. Nowadays, in order to get the full benefits, you need not get out and publish or broadcast. You can do it right in the confines of your homes or offices. Today, it is already proven that the most profitable way to start and grow your business is through the Internet.

Internet Marketing is the key element to succeed in the World Wide Web. There are obviously hundreds and thousands of consumers surfing the Net everyday. If your web sites are both pretty and functional, chances are more visitors will be persuaded to purchase or to acquire your services. As a result, you will bag a large percentage of boosts in connection to your sales. If it has not thought of that, well, you have still the chance to have it. You will be totally amazed with the outcome. It’s amazing, and it’s true!

Certainly, there is a better way to quantify your sales. However, in order to achieve the boost, you have to take in some viable considerations. Start from the web design. Does it reflect the identity of company or the product and services? If it does, then go to another element of a good website – content. It is so important that is it considered as the king. Even if you have pretty web design if your content is not that catchy and does not answer visitor’s queries then it’s no good having a web site. People may tend to be impatient they can switch from one web site to another in a matter of seconds. So to stop them from leaving your site, give them what they wanted and also in a matter of seconds they can be persuaded and decide to grab what you offer.

More and more people are now purchasing with the use of the Net. In fact, it has evolved to be the most popular method of finding products and services. The method is made easy by the search engines. Prospective buyers can just type the name of the product or services on the Net and the search engines will find it for them. It ensures easy access to sales which is achieved through search engine optimization, cost per click or both. That easy no sweat at all!

About The Author

Maricon Williams

I love reading. Give me a book and Iกll finish it in one sitting. Reading is the chance to be transported to a different world and so is writing. Iกm more enthusiastic about writing however, since you can relay your ideas to someone else. I can only imagine that feeling when I hear a complete stranger talking about my ideas which read on an article somewhere. To relay my message to as many people is the same as touching people with music. Only mineกs less harmonic. I try to make up for it with the color I bring with words. And most of the time, it’s more than enough.

For Comments and Questions about the Article you may Log on to http://www.printingshoppers.com

[email protected]

This article was posted on April 22

by Maricon Williams

An Introduction To Selling on eBay for Profit

An Introduction To Selling on eBay for Profit

by: Jason James

It doesn’t take a genius to make money on eBay, nor does it require you to have any specialized computer knowledge. You don’t even need to be a skilled entrepreneur, because eBay does most of the work for you. With over 1.5 billion page views per month and more than 1000 categories, they bring customers TO YOU and save you enormous advertising costs.

Your job, therefore, is to make a successful sales pitch to the customers who see your auctions, and doing that isn’t as easy as you might think. You will be competing with more than two million other eBay sellers, many of whom are veterans at online marketing and highly knowledgeable in the niche markets found on Ebay. So how do you compete with them? The answer is simple: INFORMATION!

This guide provides the information needed to get ahead on eBay and gives you an instant edge over your competitors. I will provide you with insider secrets on Ebay trading that I have learned from years of online auction sales. If you read this guide carefully, you will be armed with the knowledge necessary for an extremely lucrative homebased business selling virtually anything on eBay.

====eBay First Steps====

This link forwards you directy to eBayกs new user signup page: http://ebayregister.auctionresourcenetwork.net

Step one: Enter all the information that is requested on that form then click submit. You will then be forwarded to a page where you get to pick your eBay user ID.

Step Two: You will need a unique name when asked for a user ID. You might as well advertise your company name for your user ID. For example, Instead of กBobSellsoneBay99ก itกs best to use your company name, like, กBobsMetroCameraก or something to that effect. I think you get the point. If you don’t have a company name, just make one up!

Step Three: Once that is done, you simply have to confirm your new eBay account by checking your email. Simply click on the กConfirmationก link within the confirmation email to confirm your new account. This step confirms your request to sign up to buy and sell on eBay.

The next major step is to get setup to send and receive payments. Becoming ecommerce enabled if you will. The good news is this is very easy with an eBay owned company called กPayPal.ก PayPal makes things very easy to send and/or receive money with a credit card, checking account, or your PayPal account balance. Signup is fast, free and easy. Just click the link below to be forwarded to PayPalกs website: http://paypal.auctionresourcenetwork.net

Congrats! You are now ready to begin buying and selling on eBay!

Now lets start selling. First you will need to set up your eBay sellers account. Please take the time to read all the tutorials and กhow toก links eBay provides: http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/nselling.html

Once you have these initial steps completed, you are on your way to becoming a very successful eBay Power Seller!

Copyright 2005 Auction Resource Network

About The Author

Jason James is a 10 year Internet marketing veteran and an eBay Power Seller of 4 years. His website ‘the Auction Resource Networkก reveals his inside secrets and sources that help him pocket over $10,000 a month on eBay.

Claim your FREE 14 Day กLearn How to Sell on eBayก eCourse Here: http://www.auctionresourcenetwork.com

This article was posted on September 09

by Jason James

RSS: The Amazing Profit Potential

RSS: The Amazing Profit Potential

by: Rok Hrastnik

All marketers are the email delivery problem, hoping that just somehow our messages are going to reach our customers and subscribers this time … and then hoping that they’re going to open them, instead of mistaking them for spam.

The reality usually hits us hard. While email is still the primary and most important internet marketing tool, we need to start using other complimentary tools to get our content delivered.

Most important among them is RSS (Real Simple Syndication), which gets your content directly in front of your readers, without having to »face« any filters along the way.

And itกs easy and even free to use…

The marketing and profit potential of RSS is, simply said, quite amazing. Itกs not just good for blogs, and itกs certainly much more than »just another« way of getting your content to your readers.

And itกs just reaching the tipping point. There are still only »a few« RSS publishers and RSS usage is growing every day. This is your best chance to get on the wave…

To get you started, hereกs a quick overview of what RSS can do for your internet business…

1. GETTING YOUR CONTENT DELIVERED

AOL blocks about 75% of the 2 billion email messages they receive daily, and on the average, over 64,7% of all the business email you send is not even opened, let alone read. These two facts are destroying your internet business.

But fortunately, RSS has a solution.

It gets your content delivered directly in front of your subscribers, prospects and customers, whenever you want and how often you want.

In essence, it means that 100% of your marketing messages are delivered to your RSS subscribers, and thatกs 100% of possibilities to make the sale and improve the relationship.

2. IMPROVING YOUR SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS

Traffic is the lifeblood of every internet business, and RSS makes improving search engine rankings a breeze.

Combined with special web sites, called »blogsites« (advanced blogs), RSS has been demonstrated to bring total newcomers to the market to #1 search positions for their selected keywords, and that without any costs whatsoever.

And itกs easy. All it takes is publishing an RSS feed, submitting it to the right places, keeping it updated and using some other little known but easy techniques.

3. GENERATING AMAZING NEW TRAFFIC

But the traditional search engines are not everything that RSS »offers«. Far from it.

There are now more than 100 search engines and directories that specialize in aggregating content from RSS feeds. Getting in to them is easy, and each of them will provide you with new »spending« traffic.

4. GETTING YOUR CONTENT PUBLISHED ON OTHER WEB SITES

The traffic doesn’t stop here. RSS makes it easy to publish your content on other web sites, which creates additional exposure and more importantly, brings you new targeted customers.

5. DISCOVERING NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

But itกs really all about the new business opportunities that didn’t even exist before RSS became popular.

Most of these haven’t even been discovered by the majority of marketers yet. We’re talking about new and effective ways of getting new content to your readers, content that will make them buy.

Just think in terms of easily delivering daily or even hourly content updates, coupons, customized product updates, audio content (podcasting), video content (videocasting), whitepapers and free reports, and so on.

6. GETTING MORE SUBSCRIBERS MORE EASILY

Because RSS is so fundamentally different than email, getting more subscribers is easy as 123. The profit potential is quite amazing: just imagine converting more than 50% more of your visitors in to ezine subscribers…

And much much more…

And the list doesn’t stop here by a long shot. RSS feeds also make for an excellent affiliate marketing tool and help you get the most out of your affiliates, and so on.

With this many profit generating possibilities, the even greater benefit is that most marketers haven’t even touched them yet.

You can be one of the first, today.

Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik

About The Author

Rok Hrastnik is the author of »Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS«, acclaimed as »the best and most comprehensive« guide to RSS for marketers by leading RSS experts. The complete guide on RSS for marketers: http://rss.marketingstudies.net/index.html?src=sa1

This article was posted on March 22

by Rok Hrastnik

Tips For Developing An Effective Questionnaire

Tips For Developing An Effective Questionnaire

by: Nick Hill

Developing the questionnaire is undoubtedly the most important part of conducting a survey. The quality of the questions will determine the quality of the results and the effectiveness of your survey. Here are 12 tips for developing an effective questionnaire.
1. Write a good introduction The beginning of your survey should have an introduction of the survey. It should state your objective in a way that grabs the attention of potential respondents and encourages them to take the survey. Also, since it is easy for online survey respondents to abandon your survey, you should include instructions on how to complete the survey and an estimate of how much time it will take.
2. Ask questions that provide the information you need Always keep your objective and the information that you need to gather to achieve it in mind while asking the questions. Also, it is best to avoid the temptation to gather กextraก bits of information that are กnice to knowก but irrelevant to your objective.
3. Ask important questions first, demographic questions last Since it is very easy for online survey respondents to abandon your survey, always ask the important questions first and the demograhic questions last.
4. Organize the questions in logical groups Always organize the questions in logical groups. It makes it easier for your respondents to understand and answer the questions, thus increasing the quality of the results.
5. Use plain, easy to understand language The most effective surveys always use plain, easy to understand language. Using unclear or ambiguous language will give you misleading results. So test your survey thoroughly to ensure that it is indeed easy to understand.
6. Avoid technical terms, jargon, and acronyms If you use technical terms, jargon, and acronyms, your respondents might not understand them, get frustrated, and abandon your survey. So strictly avoid them.
7. Use even number of responses Whenever possible, use even number of responses for multiple choice questions. That way the respondents have to give a positive or a negative opinion, they can’t give a กneutralก answer.
8. Randomize the responses Whenever it makes sense, randomize the order in which responses are displayed. This removes กorder biasก from the responses.
9. Avoid unnecessary graphics and embedded components Although it might be tempting to use graphics and embedded components, their use increases the time it takes to download and display your survey. So use them only when it is absolutely necessary and certainly don’t overdo it.
10. Be sensitive to the feelings of your respondents Always be sensitive to the feelings of your respondents. If you offend them, they might abandon your survey. So test your survey to ensure that it is not offending to any group of people.
11. Thank the respondents Your respondents spend the time to take your survey. So never forget to thank them for completing the survey.
12. Keep it short As a general rule, keep your survey short, simple, and to the point.
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This article was posted on June 24, 2004

by Nick Hill