The Winning AdVantage eZine

The Winning AdVantage is devoted to helping its subscribers develop their marketing skills and promote their Internet businesses and opportunities. This periodic publication features tips and how-to articles about such topics as ad copy writing, finding good free or inexpensive places to post ads, and other issues related to making money on the Internet.

Saturday, July 30, 2005

A Sneaky Little Technique That Can Boost Your Online Profits By Up To 330%!

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THE WINNING ADVANTAGE eZINE
Saturday, July 30, 2005
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The Winning AdVantage eZine is dedicated to your Home-based Internet Marketing Business Success.
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Published by Earl Savage
ES World Marketing
http://www.esworldmarketing.com/blog/ezine/
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In This Issue:
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1. Message from the Editor

2. Feature Article -
"A Sneaky Little Technique That Can Boost Your Online Profits By Up To 330%!"
by Dan Lok

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Dear Reader,

Thanks and WELCOME!

As always, I hope you'll enjoy and profit from reading "The Winning AdVantage".
Please feel free to post your comments at the bottom of this blog post. I am here
to help and welcome any help or advice you may offer.

Wishing you success,
Earl Savage, Publisher
The Winning AdVantage eZine
winning@esworldmarketing.com

P.S. If you like this ezine, please forward it to your friends, downline, upline, etc.
If you have ideas for improving it, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you.

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It is 100% free to join and gives you the ability to INSTANTLY
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... and take advantage of the arsenal of Internet marketing
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A Sneaky Little Technique That Can Boost Your Online Profits By Up To 330%!
Copyright © 2005 Dan Lok
Quick Turn Marketing International, Ltd.
http://www.WebsiteConversionExpert.com



Today, I'm going to teach you an extremely powerful, marketing
"secret" that will get your profits multiplying like rabbits.

But first. let me ask you something.

When is the last time a computer bought your product or paid for
your service?

The answer is never. No one sells to machines. And yet, because
of the net. because of the technology. because of the automation.
experienced entrepreneurs who take their business online, forgot
that they're doing business with PEOPLE.

The fact that your "store" is a website or that your marketing
message is delivered via email rather than snail mail doesn't
change who your target is: real, live human beings with thoughts,
emotions.and hopefully deep pockets!

Even though you're using a webpage, an autoresponder, or an
email, it's really YOU -- a person -- who's reaching out to a
customer or prospect. Success in selling happens when a one-to-
one personal connection occurs.

Relationship is the key.

You can't sell benefits to a computer. You can't get a computer
excited about how good it will feel after using your product or
service. It's so obvious; it's ridiculous. You're selling to a
person. And if you want that person to buy from you, you need to
put yourself out there.

So why do a lot of people act like they're criminals and
disappear when they're selling online? Are you guilty?

Do you use the Internet itself to create walls that hide "human
side" behind technology. Do you hide behind emails instead of
making phone calls? Do you peak out from behind your website
without offering a "hard copy" way to reach you?

And do you play a weird game of hide-and-seek with customers
using frequently asked questions and customer service "tools" so
that you never really have to connect?

I know, I know! You're saying that automation and technology are
the biggest advantages of the Internet. All these streamlined
communications processes help you do good business.

That's fine, if what you want is good business. But personal
communication can make your business great.

Sometimes just by adding that personal touch. that human factor.
to your site can boost your sales by 100%, 200% to as much as
330%!!!

What am I talking about? I am talking about a tangible
demonstration that your business is trustworthy because trust is
at the foundation of every sale.

So it turns out that this secret strategy is actually a simple
one, too. I'm talking about adding a phone number to your site.
and a mailing address.and a fax number. I'm talking about giving
your customer an option contact you one-to-one.

I'm talking about talking! Just talk to your customers and find
out what they want.

Now you might say, "Dan, this won't work for me. I'm a one-person
operation and I'd get so buried by phone calls that I wouldn't be
able to do anything else."

You know how important testing is in business, don't you? Well,
why not test my theory before you reject it. Do it my way. And
see if you will actually get a lot of calls.

I think you'll be surprised. I have a lot of clients who add
phone numbers to their sites, and they don't really get that many
phone calls.

If you're really stretched to the limits time-wise, you could
hire someone to handle it for you in-house or outsource it.
although I think outsourcing almost defeats the purpose by
putting you one step further away from your customers.

Personally, I urge you to talk to your customers once a while.
It's time well spent.even if time is money. You'll learn a lot
from the conversation -- what people want and how they want it.

And that, I assure you, can be worth millions (literally) to your
business.

Do you know that a lot of people actually have a fear of picking
the phone and calling a stranger? So it's unlikely that you're
going to get flooded with a lot of Chatty Cathies and Talky
Teddies you've never met before who just want to shoot the breeze
for ten minutes.

So why will people pick up the phone and call you? Probably for
one of four important reasons that make these valuable calls that
you'll want to take.

1. They have an urgent problem, and they need a solution now! If
your product/service will solve their problems, they'll buy from
you - NOW.

2. They want to buy from you, but they might just have a few
questions and you answer them well, they'll buy from you - NOW.

3. They might have a comment regarding of your product or
service. This could be helpful to your business and make them
more likely to buy from you in the future.

4. They might have a problem, and they're mad. But even if they
are, you can fix it for them. Then they'll love you, and they'll
buy from you again and again. You may not have realized it
before, but every telephone inquiry from a customer or prospect
is a money call. And when money calls, you want to be sure to
answer. Because each one of these money calls mean sales in one
way or the other.

Personally, I love it when my phone rings. Because it's either
one of my deep-pocketed mentoring clients who wants to run
something by me OR a prospect who wants to give me money.

Ching-Ching! How can you NOT love those calls?

And here's a special message for you if you're selling a luxury
service or a high-end product. It's tough to sell big-ticket
items offline, and even tougher online. It's not impossible. but
it's tough.

Think about it. Someone who's looking for a marketing consultant
and sees your site is probably NOT going to plunk down $5000.00
in an electronic payment just based on nothing more than your
online sales copy.

And don't be fooled that an autoresponder series will do the
trick any better. It's tough to close a sale for thousands or
tens of thousands of dollars just through emails. Not impossible.
but tough.

But, you can easily close a $5000.00 sale via the telephone. (If
you know how to "give good phone," that is).

A lot of copywriters don't do it the "easy way." They avoid the
telephone. They only communicate via emails. Or they charge
exorbitant "consulting fees" for phone calls as a way to
telegraph that they don't want to speak to people.

Now, that's their personal preference. But perhaps they should
put themselves in the shoes of their clients who say, "This means
I'm going to hire a copywriter and pay thousands of dollars to a
service provider -- an employee -- that I won't even be able to
speak to by phone? That stinks!"

Worse than annoying a prospect, lack of accessibility makes
people suspicious. They might feel like you're hiding something.
that you're not being totally upfront.

Take the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. The mayor's
office has a website, but his home phone number is listed in the
telephone directory. And, while it sounds unbelievable, he
actually does pick up the phone when he's home and talk to his
constituents.

They love him for it.

Take me for example. I am actually one of the very, very, very
few experts who can be reached by phone. If I'm not on a call
already or working one-on-one with a client in my office, I
always pick up the phone.

And when I can't pick up before the machine does, I try to return
all my calls promptly. (Unless, they're trying to sell me
insurance or some crap.)

Accessibility is, in a way, my unique selling proposition. People
are actually very surprised when I call them back. They know how
busy I am. And my prospects respect and appreciate that I
prioritize them.

Is every call a walk in the park that ends with a trip to the
bank? Well no. Sometimes I do get calls from some jerk who just
wants to "bust my balls" or waste my time.

But really. the whackos are few and far between. Most of my
callers are good people. They're calling me because they want me
to help them with their conversions, not because they want to BS
the weather.

I'd say 95% of the people who call are very serious and I'm happy
to have the opportunity to speak with them. As for the other 5%.
once they "reveal" themselves, I get off the phone very quickly.

So how can you use this sneak technique to beef up conversions on
your site? To borrow the old phone company slogan: "Reach out and
touch."

Add a telephone option to your site and take orders via
telephone. If you think this could be overwhelming, you could
test just taking calls within business hours.

If you're doing huge volume, add a toll-free number.

If you're doing big business in the international market,
outsource so that you can accept phone orders 24/7.

The Internet is the Land of Opportunity, although some online
entrepreneurs think they're in Lazy Land. and don't understand
why they're not succeeding.

They want to live the ultimate Internet marketing lifestyle
dream. They want everything to be automated. They want their ads
to find the prospects, they want their site to sell the prospect,
take the money, and forward a deposit directly into their online
bank account.

That dream can be real, but too many business people are relying
too much on the technology to do ALL the work for them.
Sometimes, it's good to go back to old-fashion communication.
Silence may be golden, but in business. talking is pure platinum.

We'll "talk" more soon.

Dan


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Dan Lok is known as "The World's #1 Website Conversion Expert",
with a proven track record of selling over $25.7 million dollars
of merchandise and services. Dan has resuscitated copy that was
previously in "critical condition" and helped his clients to
double and triple their conversion rates. some as much as 417%!!!
More than 200 websites have been "Lok-ed" and loaded for Internet
action. Go to: http://www.WebsiteConversionExpert.com

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Your success is our success!
(c) 2001-2005 ES World Marketing

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writing, finding good FRËË or inexpensive places to post ads, finding the
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

5 Strategies to Boost Your Affiliate Sales

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THE WINNING ADVANTAGE eZINE
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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The Winning AdVantage eZine is dedicated to your Home-based Internet Marketing Business Success.
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Published by Earl Savage
ES World Marketing
http://www.esworldmarketing.com/blog/ezine/
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In This Issue:
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1. Message from the Editor

2. Feature Article - "5 Strategies to Boost Your Affiliate Sales"
by Diane Hughes

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Dear Reader,

Thanks and WELCOME!

As always, I hope you'll enjoy and profit from reading "The Winning AdVantage".
Please feel free to post your comments at the bottom of this blog post. I am here
to help and welcome any help or advice you may offer.

Wishing you success,
Earl Savage, Publisher
The Winning AdVantage eZine
winning@esworldmarketing.com

P.S. If you like this ezine, please forward it to your friends, downline, upline, etc.
If you have ideas for improving it, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you.

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5 Strategies to Boost Your Affiliate Sales
Copyright 2005 Diane Hughes

Are you promoting affiliate products?

This article will show you 5 strategies to boost your
Affiliate Sales, so make sure you read it and put in
practice what I'm about to reveal you.


The KEY to affiliate marketing is to take action!


1. STOP joining NEW affiliate programs

If you really want to generate more sales, then JOIN a
reputable affiliate program and focus your marketing and
promotion on a single affiliate product or service.

Unless you receive thousands of visitors a day to your
affiliate links, there's no reason why you'd want to JOIN
more affiliate programs.

Most do it because they think will make more money.

Others promote an affiliate product for a few days or weeks
using weak advertising tactics, give up and then JOIN
another 'HOT' program due to the fact the commission is a
nice attraction.

That's the wrong way to play the affiliate marketing 'game'!


2. Register Your Own Domain Name

People purchase online from those they like and trust, so
owning a domain name is the first STEP to building trust
with your Web Site visitors.

Try to register a domain name related to the affiliate
product you're promoting. If you promote mobile phones you
can register newmobilephones.com.

Where to register domain names?

There are lots of places on the Web where you can register
domains for less than $10 a year. Just do a search on
"register domain names" or "domain name registration" on
any search engine.


3. Build Your Own Web Site

You can build your own Web Site using html editors or hire
others to build it for you. Just make sure you have a Web
Site of your own where you can promote the product you're
affiliated with; all TOP affiliate marketers own a Web Site.

If you don't know html, you can use TOOLS that help you
create Web Sites by drag-and-drop (WYSIWYG editors).

Having your own Web Site is the second step to building
trust with your Web Site visitors and a GREAT Way to boost
your Affiliate Sales. The more CONTENT you add to your
site, the more FREE targeted traffic you could attract from
major search engines like Google.


4. Create Your Own Affiliate Promotion Materials

If you want to boost your Affiliate Sales you must do
something different, you must stand out in the crowd.

There are other affiliates promoting the same product like
you so you should think of ways to CREATE your own original
affiliate promotion materials.

Let me give you 2 examples:

- create your own articles, ads, courses, ebooks, reports,
etc.

- offer EXCLUSIVE Bonuses to any order that came from your
affiliate link (e.g. a Special Report or ebook)


5. Get more quality TRAFFIC to your Site

You can't generate any Affiliate Sales if you receive ZERO
traffic (visitors) to your Web Site.

You can generate ZERO Sales if you receive lots of
untargeted visitors (people not interested in your
affiliate product or Web Site).

Want more Affiliate Sales? Get more quality TRAFFIC...
visitors that are 100% interested in your Web Site
content/affiliate product.

Here's how to GET more quality TRAFFIC:

- register a domain name that is a perfect match for the
affiliate product you're promoting;

- use a SIG file (a 3-line text description of your Web
Site plus your domain name url) to all posts
(answers/questions) in some popular online forums related
to the topic of your Web Site;

- send testimonials to others who own Web Sites in the same
category of yours and let them know that you like their
ezine, product, service or Web Site.

Let them know that you appreciate what they are doing and
tell them to include your comments as a testimonial on
their Web Site with your name & Web Site link included.


About the Author:

Diane C. Hughes * ProBizTips.com

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Ways To Skyrocket Your Sales And Build Your Business
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Sunday, July 24, 2005

10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...

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THE WINNING ADVANTAGE eZINE
Sunday, July 24, 2005
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The Winning AdVantage eZine is dedicated to your Home-based Internet Marketing Business Success.
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Published by Earl Savage
ES World Marketing
http://www.esworldmarketing.com/blog/ezine/
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In This Issue:
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1. Message from the Editor

2. Feature Article - "10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap..."
by Ron Hutton

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Dear Reader,

Thanks and WELCOME!

As always, I hope you'll enjoy and profit from reading "The Winning AdVantage".
Please feel free to post your comments at the bottom of this blog post. I am here
to help and welcome any help or advice you may offer.

Cordially yours,
Earl Savage, Publisher
The Winning AdVantage eZine
winning@esworldmarketing.com

P.S. If you like this ezine, please forward it to your friends, downline, upline, etc.
If you have ideas for improving it, please let me know. I'd love to hear from you.

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10 Minutes to Your Google Sitemap...
Copyright 2005 Ron Hutton

Google's calling your name...

Hi, Google here. We want to index your website...

Is anyone there?

This article has a free corresponding online video tutorial
that shows you how to summons the magic Googlebot to spider
and index every page on your website, and it will only take
about 10 minutes of your time.

Go here now to watch exactly what to do,
step-by-easy-step...

http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm

What you have access to with the new Google Sitemaps
program is truly a gift from the Google gods. They've
offering you a tool that you can use to keep your site
constantly indexed and updated in the search engine
database. With Google Sitemaps, webmasters can now take
charge and make sure that their entire site is crawled and
indexed.

One important note to make is that the Google Sitemaps
program will not necessarily improve the ranking of your
site's pages. It only ensures that Google knows what you've
got online for them to look at.

Before reading the following statement, promise yourself
that you won't stop reading if you see a term that seems a
little scary. OK? Promise? Good. Go ahead and keep
reading then.

The format specified by Google for "their" sitemap is XML
(extensible markup language). Did I loose you yet? No?
Good again.

You do not need to understand how to code XML to
participate in the Google Sitemap program. There are
plenty of free online tools that will create your XML
sitemap for you with no XML knowledge required on your
part. More on this in a second.

What information is including in this XML sitemap?

1) The URL for every file on your website.

2) A relative priority rank that you can assign telling
Google which pages on your site are most important for them
to look at.

3) The date last modified for each page.

4) Anticipated change frequency per URL. This again is a
variable that you control.

According to Google, your XML sitemap can include up to
50,000 URL's. If your site is a real monster and has in
excess of 50,000 URL's, then you'll need to create a
hierarchy of sitemaps with one leading to the next. This
way you'll be able to lead Google to all of your pages.

The options for generating and maintaining your Google
Sitemap range from complex systems that are highly
automated to very simple systems using online sitemap
generators that require nothing more than clicking a few
buttons.

Google now keeps a list of these 'third party suppliers' of
generators on their site. Find them here:
http://code.google.com/sm_thirdparty.html

The program that's demonstrated in our free video tutorial
(http://www.gothrive.com/google-sitemap-video.htm) is found
here: http://www.auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

In a nutshell, here are the steps involved with using
online generators:

1) Start the program.
2) Enter your site's URL
3) Click the "Start Crawling" button
4) Customize URL priorities and change frequencies
5) Save the site map to your local hard drive
6) Upload your new Google XML sitemap to your website in
the root directory (where your home page resides)
7) Validate your new sitemap
(can be done here:
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/internet/google/submit-va
lidate-sitemap/)
8) Submit your XML sitemap to Google.

You can access the pages for the Google Sitemap program
here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

8 steps in about 10 minutes. That's all there is to it.

One question that you might ask is whether or not you still
need an HTML sitemap, and the answer is "Yes, you still
need your conventional sitemap". XML sitemaps are not
intended for human visitors. To see what I mean, take a
look at the two following sitemaps:

HTML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.html

XML sitemap: http://www.gothrive.com/sitemap.xml

Which version do you prefer? Your visitors will like the
HTML and Google prefers XML.

When you add pages or new content to your site and you want
Google to go back to have a fresh look, just log in to your
Google Sitemaps control panel, select the sitemap to
revisit, and click "Resubmit". It's never been easier to
get Google to spider and index a website. Don't miss your
opportunity to use this tool to your advantage.


About the Author:

Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a
passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to "GoThrive
Online", for big juicy marketing tips in small,
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

More Marketing Dope

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Tuesday, July 20, 2005
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1. Message from the Editor

2. Feature Article - "More Marketing Dope"
by Joy Gendusa

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Thanks and WELCOME!

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by Joy Gendusa

Direct marketing can make you very successful, but you've got
to understand the basics. Here are some more gems of the
industry that can take you from being a diamond in the rough to
the luminous bling-bling.

When advertising your product or service, honesty is not only
the legal and ethical path, but also the path to the highest
amount of repeat business.

Many times companies fall into the trap of trying to "lure"
customers in to their store. They make claims that are
technically true but are worded in a way that make them sound
better than they actually are. The company may not be
consciously trying to deceive their customer, but none the less
if exactly what is advertised is not delivered the customer will
feel deceived. This customer is not likely to do business with
this company no matter what their advertising offers in the
future. List the benefits of your product factually and deliver
what is promised and your customers will keep coming back.

When advertising, it is best to outline the benefits of your
product or service. Simply naming the features that it has may
not show what it can actually do for your customer.

Example: A car company releases a new model of car that
features "new indestructible porcelain brakes". This fact is
touted in all of their commercials but the cars aren't flying
off the lot. It is very likely that the customers in their
target market, mostly families that are concerned about safety,
have no idea what difference these brakes make in the
performance of the vehicle. If they had instead advertised the
benefit that the car is "equipped with brakes that can stop
your car three times faster" it would have given the customer a
compelling reason to be interested.

Think about what the benefit of your product or service is and
focus on that. If you are a computer maintenance company your
product may be "server management and database maintenance" but
you will be better off saying that you can help "increase office
productivity by allowing easier access to client files". Many
times your customers don't understand your business. That is
why they have to hire you. Make sure to explain to them not
only what you do, but how it can help them.

When a customer gives you their email address you have one more
way to get your message to them.

One of the best ways to supplement Direct Mail Marketing is
Direct Email Marketing. However, unlike direct mail marketing,
unsolicited email marketing is illegal. You can't just go out
and buy a list of email addresses and start sending to them.
There is one way to purchase lists for emailing called "opt in"
lists but this method is not recommended because the rate of
people on the list that actually "opt in" to receiving your
promo is very low. This is why you should always collect
customers' email addresses as you are getting their physical
addresses.

Also be sure not to slam your customers with too much email
promotion. I recommend not sending more than one email per week
to each client. Not only will this keep you from angering your
customers, it will also keep up the interest level and keep
your emails from getting deleted before they are even opened.

If your company is planning on emailing specials or a Monthly
Email Newsletter you will need to have this list for them to be
effective. If you are not planning on contacting customers and
prospects via email, you should be!


About The Author: Joy Gendusa founded PostcardMania in 1998,
her only assets a computer and a phone. By 2004 the company did
$9 million in sales and employed over 60 people. She attributes
her explosive growth to her ability to choose incredible staff
and her innate marketing savvy. Visit
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Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Increase New Customer Traffic To Your Business

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1. Message from the Editor

2. Feature Article - "Increase New Customer Traffic To Your Business"
by Joy Gendusa

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Dear Reader,

Thanks and WELCOME!

As always, I hope you'll enjoy and profit from reading "The Winning AdVantage".
Please feel free to post your comments at the bottom of this blog post. I am here
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winning@esworldmarketing.com

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Increase New Customer Traffic To Your Business
by Joy Gendusa

One person tells another, who tells another, who tells another
and so on. You get the idea. Let's see how to make that an
actuality.

You have a great company and you provide the highest level of
customer service. But as the old cliché says: "A happy customer
tells a friend, an unhappy customer tells 10 friends." You don't
have to worry about the unhappy customer telling 10 friends
because you always do a great job and keep your customers
happy. But how do you increase the number of friends that your
happy customers are sending your way?

Plain and simple: You are going to have to reward them.

The reason that happy customers don't tell many other people
about your service is because most customers EXPECT good
customer service so the companies that provide it aren't at the
front of their mind. They have too many other things to worry
about on a daily basis.

By starting a Customer Referral Program you will give your best
customers a reason to want to tell other people about you.
Offering discounts or special incentives to customers who refer
another person or company to your business is a win-win
situation.

You may have medical licensing boards or other ethics
committees for your profession that restrict you from certain
types of rewards and rightly so due to conflicts of interest
that may arise. But you can always find something that you can
do to reward your customers when they refer someone to you.

Here is an example of a Customer Referral Program for a Direct
Mail Company and how it works:

"When you refer someone, and that person places an order, you
will receive a $25 credit that can be used toward any of said
company's services.

Each time this happens you will receive the $25 credit and
there is no limit, so feel free to go crazy referring your
friends to us. If you refer enough people who become customers
you could end up getting your next order FREE."

When you set up your own referral program you will want to do
two things:

First, make sure that the incentive you offer to your customers
is in proportion to the price of what you are selling. If your
least expensive service is $5000, then a $25 discount is
probably not going to be enough to get them interested in
spreading the word.

And secondly, you need to promote it. Make sure that your
customers know
about the new reward program by:

1) Having your sales associates mention it whenever someone
places an order.

2) Posting notices in your business if you have customer foot
traffic.

and

3) Sending out announcements to your customer address list on a
regular basis.

All of these things will help you to increase the number of
customers that you receive through word of mouth, and at the
same time help keep down your marketing costs. Is this a great
idea or what?

Offering discounts or special incentives to customers who refer
another person or company to your business is a win-win
situation.

Reward the customers that reward you. One of the greatest
compliments is when someone refers another or others to your
business.


About The Author: Joy Gendusa founded PostcardMania in 1998,
her only assets a computer and a phone. By 2004 the company did
$9 million in sales and employed over 60 people. She attributes
her explosive growth to her ability to choose incredible staff
and her innate marketing savvy. Visit her website at
http://www.postcardmania.com

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Sunday, July 03, 2005

An Internet Marketing Secret: Using Tie-Downs to Increase Sales

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Thanks and WELCOME!

As always, I hope you'll enjoy and profit from reading "The Winning AdVantage".
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winning@esworldmarketing.com

P.S. If you like this ezine, please forward it to your friends, downline, upline, etc.
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An Internet Marketing Secret: Using Tie-Downs to Increase Sales
Copyright 2005 Mike Adams

If you could get your prospective customers nodding their
heads in agreement with every major point in your sales
copy, that would be likely to increase your sales, wouldn't
it?

If you could get people saying "yes" to almost any
marketing statement of your choosing - long before they
even get to the close - that would be valuable to you,
right?

Did you find yourself agreeing with the last two questions?
You've just experienced a sales technique called
"tie-downs." One very old direct sales principle is to get
people to say yes to multiple little questions. This gets
them agreeing with you and also gets them used to saying
yes. Psychologically, they will then be more likely to say
yes when you ask for the sale. One sales technique for
achieving that is the tie-down.

Why use a technique from direct sales in direct marketing?
In a famous advertising and marketing story, Albert Lasker
was a junior partner at the Lord and Thomas advertising
agency in 1905 when he read a note from John E. Kennedy
declaring that Kennedy knew the secret of what advertising
is. Kennedy, a former Canadian mounted policeman, was new
to copywriting and not yet known in advertising circles.
But by an interesting quirk of fate, this was the question
Lasker had been trying to figure out. Lasker met Kennedy,
and Kennedy declared that the secret is, "Advertising is
salesmanship in print." Lasker and Kennedy went on to
revolutionize advertising and marketing forever with those
words, and Lord and Thomas became one of the most famous
advertising agencies of the day.

No matter how many people are visiting your website and
reading your marketing material, you are still talking to
only one person at a time. You are still selling one
person. This sounds like a simple concept, but many
advertising and marketing people still don't get this
secret. That means that if you understand this, you have
an advantage in Internet marketing. You understand that
advertising is salesmanship in print. And you know that
you just need to talk with this one person and get their
agreement to purchase your product. And with the power of
the Internet, you can do this with dozens, hundreds, even
thousands per day.

Tie-downs are one of the first tools to add to your new
salesmanship toolbox. A tie-down is a short phrase that
can be added to a statement to turn it into a question.
You use a tie-down to turn a point that you want to make
into a question that your prospect will agree with. It's
one way of getting your prospective customer to start
saying yes long before you go for the close.

A few examples of common tie-downs include:

Isn't it?
Wouldn't it?
Wouldn't they?
Wouldn't you?
Aren't they?
Aren't you?
Wouldn't you agree?
Don't you agree?
Can't you?
Couldn't it?
Doesn't it?
Right?

If you have been marketing for very long, you have heard
about the concept of "features versus benefits." Features
are what your product has or does. Benefits are why your
prospective customer would want those features. What will
your product do for them? For example, if you have
something that is metal instead of plastic, metal might be
a feature. But the benefit might be that it is more
durable, longer-lasting, or unbreakable.

A common practice on web pages that are written as sales
letters is to use a bullet list to present features or
benefits. Let's just imagine a couple bullet points for
some imaginary "tie-down creator" software. Most people
would write the bullets as features. A couple features
might look like this:

- Creates tie-downs automatically
- Adds tie-downs to the end of every statement in a list of
statements

Not very exciting bullets, are they? (Wow... there's an
example of a tie-down that I want you to say "no" to!)

Now let's imagine how someone might write a couple bullets
as benefits:

- Get your prospective customers nodding their heads in
agreement with every major point in your sales copy!
- Get a prospect to say "yes" to almost any marketing
statement of your choosing - long before you get to the
close!

That's an improvement over writing the marketing bullets as
features, isn't it? But although that might get their
interest and even get them thinking of how they could use
the product, it doesn't build agreement yet. Let's try
wording them a little differently:

- If you could get your prospective customers nodding their
heads in agreement with every major point in your sales
copy, that would be likely to increase your sales, wouldn't
it?
- If you could get people saying "yes" to almost any
marketing statement of your choosing - long before they
even get to the close - that would be valuable to you,
right?

Would you agree those bullets do a better job of building
both interest and agreement? (And did you catch that
example of a tie-down at the beginning of a sentence?)

Now for your homework. It's time to go look at your
website with a critical eye, while this article is still
fresh in your mind. Are you selling features or benefits?
Are you using tie-downs on marketing statements where they
would help build agreement that will lead to sales? If
not, you know what you need to do!


About the Author:

Mike Adams has been building web sites and playing with
Internet marketing since 1996. Visit his site for Internet
marketing tips, tools, news, articles, and resources:
http://www.timberway.com/

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