How to Sell Your Product on the Forums?

How to Sell Your Product on the Forums?

by: Radhika Venkata

1. Your signature file:

Most of the forums allow you to carry a 4 6 lines of signature files with your name. So these files appears below your name when you answer a forum thread.

Most people advertise about their product. Don’t do that. Always offer some free ecourse or trial product. Personally I prefer to offer free ecourse than an ezine because, we feel that we gain more in short course of 7 days rather than a chain of endless ezines.

Second you can offer free product or free trial software or free membership.

Always hyperlink the email or web page link, so simple click will take the reader to the destination page.

2. Use the section กSpecial offers to Forum Membersก Forum:

You may see a seperate forum like กSpecial discount to Forum membersก. Here you can advertise your product or offer special discounts to forum members.

Tips while posting in these type of forums

Add an image of your product.

Use the html code to highlight the benefits.

Hyperlink the web page or product link.

State your discount in bold letters.

3. Seek partners for joint ventures:

Choose a forum appropriate for your product or business. For example if you are selling reseller hosting service then choose web designers forums.

Most web designers prefer to host their clients on own servers, so there will be more chances for you to get partners here.

Tips on seeking joint ventures

Let your partner get equal benefits from your proposal.

Be polite in asking partnership.

Leave the selection or decision making to the person whom you are going to ask a joint venture.

1 or 2 emails. If you didn’t get any response, no more emails. May be he/she doesn’t like these type of ventures.

4. Banner advertising or sponsoring:

Some forums sell advertising space and look for sponsors to sponsor the forum categories. If you want to act as a sponsor, you pay them like monthly or yearly and they put your web site or product link on the forum index, at the sub forum you choose.

This sponsoring is very cost effective way of advertising than banner advertising.

For example, you are selling search engine ebook. You can sponsor the sub forum กSearch engine promotionก in the list of forums. Your ebook link will be placed on that category of forums.

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Radhika Venkata

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This article was posted on January 21, 2004

by Radhika Venkata

How To Turn Freebies Into Sales

How To Turn Freebies Into Sales

by: Rudy Cline

You can increase sales and profits by offering freebies to people who buy your main product or service. They increase the over all value of your main offer and in return people feel they’re getting more for less.

Itกs important that you have a high enough profit margin so you can afford to give them away. Some freebies can be created without a lot of expense; like electronic information products. With these type of freebies thereกs no shipping or physical material costs.

Below are some popular types of freebies. In the examples are some other benefits and a tips for offering freebies to your buyers.

FREE COUPON/GIFT CERTIFICATE

Offer potential customers a free coupon or gift certificate for a back end product or service you’re selling. This will increase your chances for repeat purchases.

FREE BOOKLET/EBOOK

Offer a free booklet or ebook related to your main product or service. Inform potential customers that it is a limited time offer and it will only be available before a specific date.

FREE MEMBERS ONLY WEB SITE

Offer a free membership into your members only web site. Tell them what it normally costs for people who don’t purchase.

FREE AUDIO CASSETTE/VIDEO

Offer a free audio cassette or video to people who buy. Let them know this audio cassette or video can’t be found anywhere else, only through this special offer.

FREE EMAIL COURSE

Offer a free email course on a topic related to your product or service. Add your back end product ads to each email course lesson.

FREE CHAT ROOM SEMINAR/CONSULTING

Offer a free chat room seminar or consulting to give away as a freebie. You will become know as an expert on the topic by electing to do the seminar or consulting yourself.

FREE GIFT

Offer a free gift if they buy your product or service. Giving the value of the free give will attract them to purchase your main product or service.

Copyright 2004 Rudy Cline

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Rudy Cline publishes กHome Business Tipsก, a fresh and informative newsletter dedicated to supporting people like YOU! If you`re looking for the *best rated* home business opportunities from an honest friend in the business, come by and grab a FREE subscription today at: http://www.homeworkforyou.org.

This article was posted on December 29, 2004

by Rudy Cline

Why you need to and How to Follow up Your visitor

Why you need to and How to Follow up Your visitor or customer.

by: Radhika Venkata

The person who comes to your web site seeking products or information is a visitor. A person who bought a product or service of yours is a customer or client.

***Why should you follow up Your VISITORS?

Simple…

People tend to forget easily.

After he gone from your web site, he may not remember that he came to your web site. He/She could have some reasons not to buy a product right now. Or he still searching for a product similar to yours. This person is a potential prospect to you. So try to get their email adddress and permission from them to receive emails from you.

How to get their email:

Offer free product with basic feature, later they can upgrade

Offer fully functional demo product that expires after a time

Offer coupons that give discounts on your products

Offer a free ecourse

Offer an ezine

Offer a free ebook

Offer free membership for a certain period

***Why should you follow up Your CUSTOMER?

You can ask me… Why should I follow up my customer? He already my customer, isn’t it?

Don’t forget the simple กpsychology of comfortก. Once your customer is using your product means, he will have more confidence in you and your service. So he/she will be easily influenced to buy your other products.

***How to follow up Your visitors and customer?

The main aim of the following is to do optin email marketing.

1. Put email addresses in an follow up autoresponder: You can buy a mailing list software or an autoresponder to send follow up emails. Schedule them every 15 days or so. Or you can send broadcast promotional emails to your customers.

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2. Start forums for your products or service: People will join in the forums to ask you presale questions or someother product inquiries. During registration process tell them that they will receive promotional emails once in a while and they can unsubscribe anytime.

3. Offer a free product in exchange for an email address.

4. Offer discount to your present customers. Once they signed up for your membership area means you should have their contact emails. So you can send them coupons, discounts etc.

Radhika Venkata (c).

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This article was posted on October 16, 2004

by Radhika Venkata

How to Turn Freebies in to Sales

How to Turn Freebies in to Sales

by: Paul Jesse

You can increase sales and profits by offering freebies to people who buy your main product or service. They increase the over all value of your main offer and in return people feel they’re getting more for less.

Itกs important that you have a high enough profit margin so you can afford to give them away. Some freebies can be created without a lot of expense; like electronic information products. With these type of freebies thereกs no shipping or physical material costs.

Below are some popular types of freebies. In the examples are some other benefits and a tips for offering freebies to your buyers.

FREE COUPON/GIFT CERTIFICATE

Offer potential customers a free coupon or gift certificate for a back end product or service you’re selling. This will increase your chances for repeat purchases.

FREE BOOKLET/EBOOK

Offer a free booklet or ebook related to your main product or service. Inform potential customers that it is a l.imited time offer and it will only be available before a specific date.

FREE MEMBERS ONLY WEB SITE

Offer a free membership into your members only web site. Tell them what it normally costs for people who don’t purchase.

FREE AUDIO CASSETTE/VIDEO

Offer a free audio cassette or video to people who buy. Let them know this audio cassette or video can’t be found anywhere else, only through this special o.ffer.

FREE EMAIL COURSE

Offer a free email course on a topic related to your product or service. Add your back end product ads to each email course lesson.

FREE CHAT ROOM SEMINAR/CONSULTING

Offer a free chat room seminar or consulting to give away as a freebie. You will become know as an expert on the topic by electing to do the seminar or consulting yourself.

FREE GIFT

Offer a free gift if they buy your product or service. Giving the value of the f.ree give will attract them to purchase your main product or service.

Copyright 2005 Paul Jesse

About The Author

Paul Jesse is a small business owner and the author of several articles on homebased business. Visit his website at: http://www.besthomeremedies.com.

This article was posted on March 28

by Paul Jesse

How to Stand Out From The Competition

How to Stand Out From The Competition

by: Julie Martin

We have all seen the numerous ขclonesข of websites out there. Each one promises ridiculous profits and each one is nearly identical. Is it possible to sell the same things these sites offer and retain your individuality? Yes!

For an example, let’s step outside and take a look at a typical minimall. These stores all look the same. Many of them sell the same items, and somehow they manage to stay afloat. How? One of the easiest ways to stand out from the competition is to offer something that customers can’t find anywhere else.

The old adage, ขthe grass is always greener on the other side,ข can apply very heavily to an EBusiness. More and more businesses pop up every day and chances are, someone else will be selling the exact same item. The only way to stand out from the competition is to research the competition.

By using popular search engines, such as www.google.com and typing in keywords similar to your own keywords, you can get a very good idea of who exactly is out there. Visit their websites, see what they offer and see if you can improve the service, offer something different or make your site more appealing. You can use Alexa, www.alexa.com, an internet ranking site, to see which one of these competitors is pulling in the most visitors. Once you have got an idea about the competition, you can start taking steps to plan your site around them.

The best way to get an edge on your competition is to offer something for free. You can do this without any cost to your business if you offer free information.

Ebooks are an excellent way to accomplish this. There are several free ebooks available on many different subjects. You can offer a free download with the purchase of your product. This means there is absolutely no expense to you, and your customer feels that they are getting more value for their dollar. In today’s economy, that can mean everything in keeping your business afloat.

When offering free information, try to tailor it to the product you are selling. For example, if your ebusiness sells plant seeds, you can offer a free ebook on planting methods and care of the plants. If you can’t find an ebook out there that is right for your product, it is very simple to create your own. All you need is an idea and you are well on your way.

You can offer other free products as well, such as screensavers, a subscription to an ezine, or coupons towards the customer’s next purchase. Your options are pretty endless when it comes to offering something for free.

The next step in standing out from the competition is seeing what they do and finding out how you can do it better. Customer service is the most important facet of running an ebusiness. If the competition doesn’t offer a tollfree number for customer questions and support, you can easily add one to your existing phone line. There are numerous answering services you can employ to handle this for you as well. You can use autoresponders to answer customer’s questions about your products almost instantly, which can give you a definite legup on the competition.

Building an online community is a fantastic way to increase your customers and keep them coming back. You can install a message board on your site very easily with little or no cost. Message boards give you a very easy way to keep in personal touch with your customers and allow them to interact with one another. Each time they come back to check for more messages, they will be visiting your site and seeing your products. It is only a matter of time before these visits convert into more sales and increased revenue for your site.

It is possible to run a successful ebusiness, even one that is identical to several others. You will need to take the time to research the competition and tailor your business accordingly. The small investment of time spent doing this will increase your returns dramatically.

About The Author

Julie Martin is the publisher of ขThe Iscaweb eZineข a weekly eZine dedicated to increasing your online profits, no matter what you are selling. Julie also uses the ขPlugInProfitข system to GREAT effect!

To subscribe to the eZine, or to learn more about the PlugInProfit system visit: http://www.iscaweb.com

This article was posted on August 16

by Julie Martin

10 Super Offers That Build Up Sales

10 Super Offers That Build Up Sales

by: Ken Hill

The following special offers, deals and bonuses will help you to successfully increase your sales:

1. Offer a coupon.

You could have people follow a special link or enter a special code to redeem your coupon.

2. Offer free shipping.

You could offer a limited time free shipping deal, or you could offer free shipping on orders over a specified amount.

3. Offer a buy one get one free deal or a buy two and get one free deal.

You could use this kind of offer to get more people to purchase products from you or buy advertising from you.

4. Offer a special lower price if your visitor buys two of your products together.

5. Offer a free consultation as a bonus.

Depending on your product, you could offer to consult your customer on her ad copy, marketing plan, ezine, or web site.

6. Offer a transcript of one of your web casts as a bonus.

Increase the value your visitors place on your transcript by telling them how much it would be worth if you were to charge for it.

7. Offer an ebook as a bonus.

Offer an ebook that is either available exclusively through you or that is hard to find as a bonus.

8. Offer a free trial.

You could offer a free 30 day trial of your web hosting, blog hosting, or affiliate program software.

9. Offer a free sample.

You could mail your visitors a sample of your nutritional or cosmetic product.

You could also send them a free dvd in your series of dvd tutorials, or a sample of your candies, spices, teas or coffees.

10. Offer free software.

Create a powerful incentive by offering software that complements your product as a bonus.

For example, if you sell a manual on ebook publishing, you could offer a free ebook compiler as a bonus.

About The Author

Article by Ken Hill. Want more valuable tips? Visit Kenกs article directory at: http://www.netpromarketer.com or visit Ken at http://www.netpromarketer.com/blog.html for effective marketing and ezine publishing tips.

This article was posted on January 08

by Ken Hill