Archive for August, 2009
How To Get More Customers
Unfortunately many business owners get so focused on how to get more customers that they overlook the importance of simply increasing their revenue with the customers that they already have. It’s been proven time and time again that the easiest person to sell is an existing customer. Instead of focusing on generating new customers it’s [...]
Free Social Traffic
Having your website included in the top search engine results is not the only way to drive more traffic to your website. Search engine optimization still helps, but it’s not the only alternative. With the growth and popularity of social websites it’s important that your website gets a piece of the social traffic cake [...]
New Twitter Business Product Expected
According to the “Business Journal” Twitter Inc. will very likely roll out paid accounts by the end of this year that businesses can use for marketing, customer relations and other strategies.
Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder apparently indicated to the Business Journal that the new accounts will include statistics and analytics that aren’t now available, helping [...]
Facebook Faces Challenges
Facebook faces many challenges as it continues to grow and become a household name with families throughout the world. Recently they have been drawing sharp criticism from privacy advocates, lawyers, and governments over how it uses the data that members regularly post onto the site. For instance, five California Facebook users joined the chorus of [...]
Basic Traffic Tactics
There are numerous ways to drive traffic to a website, but today I’d like to mention just a few basic traffic tactics that you can use to start getting traffic to your website right away. I am assuming that you already have a website and that you are in search of getting the additional traffic [...]
Outrageous Advertising
Have you ever heard of Bill Glazer? Just in case you haven’t he’s Dan Kennedy’s business partner, one of the top Marketing Strategists in the world and one of the highest paid and OUTRAGEOUSLY successful copywriters alive today. In fact, he’s written 23 sales letters that have EACH generated one million dollars in sales.
If you’d [...]
Here’s How Some Top Marketers Make A Lot of Money
There are lots of different ways to make money, but here is how some of the top Internet marketers have made a lot of money:
They offer a very low cost product or service
They get others to promote it and pay at least 50% commission on the up front fee
They get clients to join [...]
Selling Traditional Business Products On Line
You may be wondering what I mean by selling Traditional Business Products Online. For purposes of this article I’m referring to what have typically been brick and mortar businesses as opposed to (distributors for MLM companies, or affiliates of Internet companies). When it comes to marketing strategies and techniques they all have a lot in [...]
The Top 8 Direct Marketing Offers of All Time
Offers are the heart of all direct response advertising. An offer is not just a statement of your price, it’s the deal you’re making. It’s the total of what the customer gets plus what the customer has to do or pay to get it. By making an offer, you’re saying, “You do this for me, [...]
Increase Response Rates With Premiums
Over the years in our insurance business we have offered a variety of rewards (premiums) to entice people to respond to our direct mail campaigns. We have given away everything from crisp new $2.00 bills to accident kits that included a camera, pen report form, whistle, etc. Some direct response advertisers say that simply by [...]