If take a analyze closely at 118118.com one might well discover just how well they have finished & what 118118.com have amassed and in such a short space of time. the business of 118118 is not the single telephone enquiries service which is available to use, the new competition is growing. From 2002 the UK directory enquiries service industry opened up to competitors with the phasing away from the number 192 and replacing it with a choice of varying six digit number that are 118118. A a large number of different directory enquiries businesses have seized the opportunity to grasp a slice of a potentially successful sector, spending vast amounts of GBP on an advertising campaign that is going to be no where near to being as prosperous as 118118.com.
The 118118 business number is the prima telephone enquiries service offering in the United Kingdom. Each week the 118118 staff put through millions of their callers through to people, places and firms they were in need of, because of this the company 118 118 is now the most frequently dialled telephone number in the GB
Findings presently point out that Britain’s Directory Enquiries market is the largest in Europe. www.118118.com provide a wide range of functions inc. the basic which is the telephone telephone number service and then other added offerings such as film listings and places, train time tables and train and tube locations. 118.com directory enquiries have been running since 2002, they offer more than just telephone numbers, now get cinema times.
The telephone numbers remains the first UK 118 provider to provide a complete free phone telephone number company targeted at its service users from across any major non mobile networks. From the 18th March 2008, 118.com business are pleased to announce its service offering changes. currently 0800118FREE this offering is free from BT and major non mobile networks. Charges from mobile telephone networks vary. 118811 is these days 40 pence per minute and the business of 118 118 is 69 p per call, 25 p per minute, which is an enormous improvement when you regard it used to be expensive than a pound.
If you run an online store selling products, such as tools, jewelry, makeup, gifts, clothing, or any other products, you make more money when you sell more products. Since the objective of any business is to make money, online store owners know that the more products they sell, the more money they can make.
“How can I sell more of my products online?” is one of the most common questions I hear from my clients is. Here are several tips that will help you sell more of your products online and generate more revenue:
- Show off the products in the best possible light. When people buy a product, they want to know what the product looks like. If someone is buying a couch, they want to be able to see if that couch would fit with the rest of their furniture before actually buying it. If someone wants to buy a piece of jewelry, they want to see what the jewelry looks like before buying it.
Therefore, the best way for you to convince your web site visitors that your products are right for them is by showing the products in the best possible light. Have high quality, detailed pictures of your products on your web site so that people are convinced that they need your product as soon as they see it.
- Make your web site easy to use. If someone comes to your web site to purchase your products, make sure they can find exactly what you are looking for. Your web site should have clear and concise navigation that is exactly the same on every page of the web site.
An easy to use navigation ensures that your web site visitors find what they are looking for on your web site and purchase it.
- Optimize web site for search engines. Another good way to drive more customers to your web site and increase your online sales is by optimizing your web site for search engines. Search engine optimization is the process of modifying web page content and meta-information to improve the search engine ranking of the page. Meta-information includes certain HTML tags (title, heading, emphasized text, keyword and description meta-tags), as well as the internal (links between pages on the same site) and external (links between pages on different sites) link structure of a web site.
Optimizing your web site helps you improve your search engine rankings and drive more targeted traffic to your web site.
- Create a blog to promote your business. A blog is your business diary, in which you share the information about your business, your new products, different ways of using your products and much more. Your blog is an excellent tool to let the world know about your business and your products, to connect with potential customers and promote what you have to offer.
In order to bring the most online traffic and make money with your blog, make sure that your blog consistently and create blog posts that are of interest to your past as well as potential customers. Regular posts that are interesting to read is what will keep your readers coming back and buying from you.
The Internet is a great place to sell your products. When you know how to market your business online, you bring more web site traffic, get more product sales and make more money.
Biana Babinsky is the online business expert and author who has taught hundreds of people how to sell their products and make more money online. Learn all of her online marketing secrets in her Complete Online Marketing Course at www.CompleteMarketingCourse.com
A satisfied customer brings ten more. This old law of business is often forgotten by business people to earn some quick buck. Many companies still believe in the policy of ‘plunder with a tongue of honey’. Such companies are actually legal thugs and eventually earn the wrath of the customers. They publish juicy ads which make your tongue hungry with desire. Their marketing persons display all the charms they can just to hook you. Once you are hooked they don’t leave a chance to make more and more money from you. A common customer always feels cheated with such tactics and starts hating the company. As soon as he gets an opportunity he wants to get away from the company. Some companies don’t want to realise that dissatisfied customers are hitting them very hard. Seeds of future failure are being sown today. Such companies may succeed but only till there is a better and customer-friendly competitor. And to woo back the faith of a lost or angry customer is almost impossible.
UNDERSTAND YOUR CUSTOMER’S WISHES
It is true that a person generally ventures in business with an aim to earn money. When you invest a lot you expect a lot more in return. Businessmen never consider themselves social servants. They are in business to earn big money to meet their immense physical and psychological needs. But when your business is customer-oriented you must learn to have tight control over your wishes for money. Because a customer too has a wish of his own and if you don’t satisfy it he won’t like to shell money out of his picket. Then how will you be able to fulfil your dream of earning more and more. Concentrating too much on big profit may lead your business venture to breakdown. Your business can’t afford the hatred of a customer. A customer neither knows nor wants to think about your wish. Instead he is obsessed with his own wishes. So never hurt the faith or the emotion of a customer with your greed.
GIVE MAXIMUM VALUE TO A CUSTOMER
Henceforward, forget your wishes and dreams and give top priority to the wishes of your customers. And you have got the secret of leadership in market. Make or sell a product that satisfies the emotional and physical needs of a customer. The customer will flock to you, and shower truckloads of money.
Every customer needs a good product. A product should not only have quality but it should also be wisely priced. A customer must be able to get maximum value out of it. Then comes the importance of service. If the service of a company is not good the customers hesitate to buy the products even if they are of super quality. Therefore a product must be customer-oriented in every way if it is to be sold successfully. In the jungle of business eventually only those persons survive who satisfy a customer like they satisfy their own hunger.
IMPRESSIVE BUT HONEST PUBLICITY
No one will argue with the fact that impressive publicity plays a good role in the sale of a product. The contents of an advertisement must be able to motivate a customer telling that he is getting a wonderful opportunity to get the best value for his hard-earned money. But advertisements aimed at fooling a customer prove very harmful in the long run. If a customer doesn’t get promised value he definitely feels cheated and defame the company everywhere.
THREE STEPS TO DEAL WITH A TOUCH CCUSTOMER
To sell your product or service you need to be proficient in the art of convincing your prospective customers. You talk to them politely and help them change minds till they become inclined towards the thing you are selling. For a newcomer it seems a very difficult task and thus most of the persons like to opt for a comfortable office job. Marketing is really a challenging job in today’s competitive atmosphere. It is also very remunerative.
The most difficult time for a salesperson is to convince someone who has already made his mind to buy a particular brand or thing. If a person has yet to decide you can sow the seed by highlighting the important features of your product or service. In brief you can easily make him willing to buy from you. Undecided customers also get interested in you once they get more information. But most of the salespersons want to know how to deal with a person who has already made up his mind, and constantly resists a sales talk.
1. Keep Patience
Many salespersons lose patience whenever they find a customer who has already made up his mind to buy a different product. Such customers often get irritated when they are pressurised with a sales pitch. At this moment a salesperson becomes hopeless and abandons his effort in the middle. If he ruthlessly tries he just ends up in severely antagonising a prospective customer. In this territory only those salespersons win who know how to keep their temperament cool under stressful situation. So the first step is to keep the hold of your patience.
2. Talk in his language
The second step is to understand the mind of a customer and talk in the language he likes. In marketing science it means talk on a subject he likes, appreciate his tastes, approve his decisions. Talk like a friend. If your customer is interested in cricket talk about it and admire his favourite cricket player. Admire his favourite movie star. Say a few words by appreciating his thinking and personality. As soon as you are able to create such rapport he will be able to respond in a positive manner. Now the ground of his mind is fertile and you can sow the seed of your idea.
3. What a Customer Wants
By acting according to the interests of your customer you are able to know what a prospective customer wants in a product. Then, as a final step, in casual manner (never press upon any thing) tell how your product or service is more valuable - cheaper, durable, of high quality whatever he needs. Slowly but surely the person will join you in your thinking as you have joined his. He will start showing his interest in your product. If a need arises be ready for a second, third or more visits.
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Dial one if you have your credit card handy and would like to speak to an intelligent person, in your own country, who can really help you!
I’ve recently have had some incredibly bad experiences when I have tried to phone some very well-known banks in the UK.
On the first occasion, I was trying to make an inquiry about my father’s bank account. My father is no longer able to look after his own affairs and I have power of attorney which has been registered with his bank.
I dialled the telephone number shown on the statement and my call was answered by a very friendly lady called Anna.
I asked Anna for some information about my father’s accounts. But I was told that I did not have the required authority to be able to access this information. I knew that this was wrong but Anna was convinced.
Anna suggested that I would have to visit the branch where my father’s account is held and see one of their representatives.
I explained to Anna that my father’s account is held at Dorking and I live in Stevenage.
Anna was insistent. “If you can just pop into the Dorking branch and see one of the assistants, they will be able to help you.”
I asked Anna where she was based. And she explained that she was working at a call centre in India. Little wonder then that she did not appreciate that for me to travel to my father’s branch is a journey of about 75 miles and would take approximately 2 hours each way!
My second experience came when I needed to speak to somebody at the Stevenage branch of another bank.
I had not telephoned this branch before and went to directory inquiries to get a phone number.
It soon became clear that the phone number I had been given was for a call centre in the North of England.
Although my call could have been handled quite easily over the telephone, the operator was not able to help. And once again suggested that I pop into the branch. She explained that one of the personal bankers at the branch would be able to help me.
I asked her if she could put me through to the personal banker by telephone. “No,” she said. “I can’t do that. Our personal bankers are not allowed to take telephone calls.”
What an incredible situation!
What is the point of having local branches if we cannot make a telephone call to those branches?
How can it be that the banks expect us to make visits to these branches but not to make telephone calls?
Is there something wrong with my thinking? Or have the banks got this wrong?
After discussing this with some of my colleagues we came to the conclusion that we would like to have an additional choice when we phone the banks.
We would like to hear, “Please press one if you have your credit card handy and are prepared to pay a small charge to speak to somebody at your local branch.”
And incidentally, I was helping some people just this week with their telephone communication skills. One of the ladies on the course is Indian. And I asked to how she felt about phoning a UK business that her call being received by a call centre in India.
“I just hate it!” She said. “Especially when they give a false name and try to pretend that they are based in the UK.”
Now isn’t that interesting.
Derek Williams is creator of The WOW! Awards and Chief Executive for the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Europe.
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Receiving phone calls is a part of business. As a business owner you should know this; however, do you know that those phone calls could be having a negative impact on your business? It is hard to imagine how a simple phone call could negatively impact your business, but many businesses don’t just receive one phone call.
Excessive phone calls can be damaging to any business; however, they are most damaging to businesses that have an office setting. This is because when multiple phone calls are received it takes an employee away from something else that they could or should be doing. This decrease in productivity could lead to a large number of business problems.
It may sound ironic that phone calls to a business can be bad, especially when it is clients who are calling. Since these clients are often the sole purpose for a business’s existence it often becomes a no win situation. You can’t very well ignore phone calls coming into your office, but at the same time you want and need your workers to stay focused and on task. Many business owners are left trying to decide which is more important, the care of customers or getting work completed. As previously mentioned, this situation may appear to be difficult to handle, unless a telephone answering service is used.
A telephone answering service is comprised of a group of individuals who are trained in customer service. Their job is to answer phone calls when someone else can’t. A telephone answering service can be used when an office is shut down for the holidays or due to employee vacations. In addition to being used for an extended period of time, a telephone answering service is also used when an employee cannot get to their phone. This often occurs when an employee may be away from their desk or they are in the middle of another project.
When a telephone answering service picks up a phone call they try to assist the caller in any way that they can. Telephone answering service workers who are familiar with your business may even be able to answer common customer questions. Once a call has been forwarded to a telephone answering service the representative will often take a message and then later forward that message on to you or your workers. This feature is often effective at eliminating meaningless phone calls that may keep your employees occupied longer than they should be.
Whether you are the owner of a law practice, medical practice, retail store, insurance agency, or another business there are a number of benefits to using a telephone answering service. Why keep your employees busy answering phone calls when there is another individual or company who is willing to do it for you?
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Are you chasing the money? Are you buying every expensive
Internet marketing course, software application and $47 e-book
you can get your hands on? If you answered yes to that question,
it means you are not thinking straight, don’t really know what
you are doing or have lost the way in what you are doing.
If you spent your days checking your Inbox every 2 seconds, you
are swimming in other people’s thoughts about what you should be
doing. You know the old saying, if you don’t know what you are
doing, someone else will find something for you to do. All those
emails are finding things for you to do.
I will remind you that you have been given the brainpower to
think and to analyse your own thoughts and their consequences.
Thought is not an unknown concept to you. Thought is the force
that drives your world. Your thoughts have shape, quality and
have an influence on your daily decisions on how you spend your
time. Thought can originate, develop and create things, YOUR
things. These thoughts affect your present or future living.
You can project thought, visualize and create things to satisfy
all of things you crave. The only way to do this scientifically
and effectively it is essential to organize your thoughts into a
plan. This article is an example of a plan.
Until you actually sit down, decide what you are going to do,
regardless of what the latest fad is, write it down and commit
you will only ever see half of what could really be.
Listed below are the 5 basic disciplines you can use to really
stay on track for what you want.
1. Get up in the morning.
Do this without question, regardless of the fact that the online
experts are telling you they are getting up at midday and are
only spending 2 hours a day on the Internet in their underpants.
If you had the life you desire today, you would get up to enjoy
it. They do, they just have to make out to you that life is easy
in the fast lane, so you can buy what they are selling.
2. Have a plan when you get up. Plan your work and work your
plan.
Your plan is the method of action you are going to take to get
what you want, it’s a procedure or an arrangement of your ideas.
It is a program to be done. It is a design or a blueprint to
give effect to your ideas or thoughts.
3. Write it down.
You have heard many times that when you write something down you
are reinforcing your subconscious mind. There is also another
reason. When you wake up in the morning and read your plan, you
are reminded of what you have to do instead of trying to figure
out what you are trying to achieve - AGAIN!
4. Finish what you start.
Do one thing on this plan of yours at a time, without exception.
This will help you to finish. All the entrepreneurs you read
about do several things at a time: you are not at that level
yet.
The people you admire who always seam to have a new product out
every week have teams of people working for them behind the
scenes; most of their work is outsourced, you don’t have such
luxuries yet. You will do one thing and do it well. One job
finished will give you more returns on your time than 6 or 7
’sort of’ finished products.
You will have to stay focused on the plan or task at hand until
it is finished. This requires discipline. In very plain words,
this means do a bit of what’s on your plan everyday, even if you
don’t feel like it. Sometimes we hit brick walls and we can’t go
on anymore. This is the hard part. This is where you are tempted
to start another project. Don’t. Go back and read your plan and
carry on where you just left of. There is no other way to finish.
5. Market your idea.
If you have reached this far into your plan, you are way in
front of the pack. Write one article, put up a Google ad, post
to a forum or put an ad in an ezine. Do at least one thing with
your idea in the market place. This is where it really starts.
Get a result and then go back to the beginning of your plan and
start all over again.
Remember that you are not Donald Trump, Madonna, John Reese or
any other person. Mr Trump has spent more money in a single
transaction than you will ever see in your lifetime. You cannot
compete with that. Deal with it! Stop worrying and wasting time
over things that are completely outside of your control and work
at your own success with your own plan.
Your success will start with your single idea added to your
written plan. You are where you are because of your thoughts and
what you did with them. Stop babying yourself for what you
didn’t do or can’t do. This doesn’t mean that you are not going
to be a success. The future will only complete the plans you
have made in the present. So get to it.
by Jamila White, “The E-Commerce Diva”
In the rush to keep up with technology, many African-American business owners are so busy trying to add the latest bells and whistles to their Web sites, get to the top of the search engines, and learn the latest database technology that they often forget this simple fact: people do business with other *people*, not computers. Understanding the importance of relationships is key to attracting African-American buyers online. Here are a few practical tips to getting Black customers to buy more
from your Website.
Step 1: Make a personal connection… put a face on it.
Adding photos of realistic-looking people to your Web site will
increase your sales. Photos jump out from a page, so even if someone just skims over the words, the photo will create a lasting impression. If you don’t have photos of your actual employees or customers, use stock
photography.
Here are a few of my favorite sources for photos:
o FotoSearch: http://www.fotosearch.com
o Getty: http://www.gettyimages.com
o Corbis: http://www.corbis.com
Royalty-free images start at around $19-35 per image and are much less expensive than rights-managed images. If you have a bigger budget, you can purchase CDs with entire collections of African American stock photographs and illustrations.
Step 2: Establish trust.
When you walk into an establishment, you usually can tell right away if you feel comfortable doing business there. You can see if the place is clean and well maintained, brightly lit, and whether someone friendly is available to greet and help you. On the Internet, your Web site has to do all the talking and all the handholding. If this is a potential customer’s first
visit to your Web site, they may be uncertain if you’re a legitimate business and if they can trust you.
There are a number of ways to alleviate these fears and give your
customers peace of mind. First, provide full contact information — including a telephone number — on your Web site. Second, show a picture of your location and employees, if applicable. Third, if you are a member of any professional organizations, such as the Better Business Bureau and/or professional trade organizations, this is a great time to display your membership logos. Most importantly, display quotes and testimonials for your current happy customers to show how what great quality
products and service your company provides.
Step 3: Use the “word of mouth” network.
From the griots of Africa to barbershops and hair salons to the chat rooms on BlackPlanet.com, at the center of African American culture is the oral tradition. Use this ready-made network to your advantage, and give people the tools to tell their friends and colleagues about your products. A greatway to do this is with an instant “Tell a Friend”
button on your Web site. Constant Contact (see Step #6) includes this service as part of it’s e-newsletter management program.
Step 4: Network with other Black Web sites.
One way to jump-start the flow of traffic to your Web site is by
recruiting customers from other high-traffic sites. You can buy ad space on a well-trafficked site that also attracts a high percentage of your target market. A cheaper alternative is to swap ads with a business that offers products or service that complement, but don’t compete with, your own offering. For example, if you offer Web site design, look for
someone who offers Web site hosting or network services. This strategy can work both with ads on a Web site, but don’t overlook swapping ads in each business’ promotional e-mail newsletter. (NOTE: Do *not* swap customer databases or lists of email addresses unless you have specific permission from your customers to do so.)
Step 5: Give your customers a reason to act now.
How many times have you visited a Web site and thought to yourself:
“What a great product! I’d like to buy it, but I think I’ll come back later.” Did you actually go back and buy it? Perhaps not. Help your customers make their decision today: make them an offer they can’t refuse. For example, use promotions like “limited time only”, “this week only”, “act today and take $10 off,” etc.
Step 6: Keep in touch.
Remember, it’s about relationships. Did you know that customers who buy online usually do so on the fourth to eighth visit to your Web site, and not the first visit? So you’ll need to come up with a strategy to get them back to your Web site a second, third, and fourth time. The easiest, simplest, and cheapest method, hands down, is an e-mail list. It isn’t enough just to collect e-mail addresses on your Web site and at your vending events — you have to actually *write* and *send* messages to the list! Strive to get your newsletter out at least twice a month, but if you’re just getting started, do quarterly, then build up to monthly, and then build up to every other week.
Here are a few e-mail list services I like:
o Aweber: http://www.aweber.com/?203887
o Constant Contact: http://www.roving.com
o YahooGroups (free): http://www.yahoogroups.com
Essentially, what successful online marketing boils down to, regardless of ethnicity, is relationships, relationships, relationships. Find meaningfulways to connect with your customers, and they will not only reward you with their loyalty, but they’ll be happy to spread the word about your Web site as well.
© Copyright 2004 Jamila White. All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jamila White, “The E-Commerce Diva”, is an Internet Strategist, Web
Designer, and E-Commerce instructor in the Washington D.C. area. For a FREE subscription to her “Sell More Online” e-newsletter, go to http://www.ecommercediva.com.
[NOTE: You are welcome to “reprint” this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the “about the author” info at the end and the copyright notice), and you send a copy of your reprint to info@jamilawhite.com.]
Entrepreneur magazine has volumes of information on starting a successful online business. An online business can be fun, challenging and a great way to make some extra money. There are lots and lots of websites that sell everything from jewelry to online dating.
One thing you can do to guarantee your online business will be a huge success is to offer outstanding customer service. Recently, I received an email from the Napoleon Hill Foundation that said, “With the dearth of outstanding service that exists in the world today, you can instantly differentiate yourself from the competition simply by providing good service.”
If you can instantly differentiate your online business by offering good customer service as the Napoleon Hill Foundation says, why not offer outstanding customer service, and guarantee your online success.
In order to provide great customer service to your clients, you first need to get those customers to your site. Once they are there, they will make an instantaneous decision about your site. If they feel your site is worthy of a little attention, you may have twenty to thirty seconds to make sure your online business appears credible.
One of the most important things you can do to improve the credibility of your online business is to have your contact information clearly posted on the site. I don’t mean having a link on your site that says contact us, which is nothing more they a hyperlink for an email contact message.
If the only way your customer can contact you is though a generic email, then you are not offering great customer service. If you are starting an online business and you want to build instant credibility with your customers, then you should have your phone number and civic address clearly posted on your site.
If a customer has a question about your product or has a complaint about your service, make sure it is convenient for them to be able to find your contact information right away.
When your customers call you, deal with them in a respectful and polite manner. If they have an issue, listen to their concerns. Perhaps their issue maybe a misunderstanding, or perhaps it maybe a legitimate complaint but the important thing is for them to be able to speak to a real human being when they have concerns.
Mickey MacDonald, a local entrepreneur in the Halifax area, has turned a small business into a thriving multi million-dollar empire. If you ask him, he will tell you the secret to his success has always been providing great customer service. It’s not surprising his motto is, “Customer service, it doesn’t cost, it pays.”
Gary Kelly is co-creator of the online dating website for golfers, http://www.DateAGolfer.com and http://www.PuttingForPar.com, a golf website specializing in personalized ball markers.
In 2004, Enquiro.com conducted a study of the search behaviors of men vs. women. They found that women spend more time in their searches and at specific sites. The study also revealed that women tend to be more deliberate in reading search results, linger longer at sites and have a greater satisfaction in the overall shopping experience. Another study conducted by iProspect.com revealed that women are more apt to click the paid search advertising because they find it more relevant to their searches than do men (WebProNews - July 14, 2004).
What does this mean? It means that if we understand the searching and shopping patterns of our target audience we are better able to create marketing strategies to effectively drive traffic to our sites. Don’t yet have a website?
Electronic commerce or ecommerce is used to describe doing business over the Internet. Selling products and services to customers over the Internet can be accomplished a number of ways and various levels of sophistication.
The first thing you need is a professional Web site with its own domain name. You need to design and promote a Web site. You’ll need access to expertise that can regularly design and maintain this Web site for you. A good website which gets visitors to return is constantly evolving and therefore, require ongoing attention. There are thousands of resources available for you to take advantage of, many of which are free. You can surf the Internet for what you need or you can simply visit www.WECAI.org to see the many resources we have listed. We have resources for guests and if you are a member we have even more resources to help you get started. In fact, you can search our domain registry and purchase your own unique domain name at www.wecaidomains.com.
Developing a business over the Internet requires many of the same major activities as starting any other business. You need a business plan, something to sell such as a product or service; you need customers and you may even need financial backing to get started. In addition, you need to market products to your customers, exceptional customer service practices and many other resources just as you do with traditional bricks and mortar enterprises. They may include inventory, fulfillment, shipping banking relationships and more.
Your store will need a “merchant” account, or the ability to process your customers’ credit card transactions over the Internet. This includes needing a “secure server,” (security certificate such as Versign or Geotrust) so that thieves cannot gain access to your customers credit information. Your merchant processing can be as simple as accepting payments through PayPal or as complex as a custom designed shopping cart system you pay for.
Getting a Merchant Account - If you have a good relationship with your bank and they don’t require a security deposit this may be your best option for setting up a merchant account. Alternatives to getting a merchant account through your bank are to go through a broker, a fulfillment house, or using third-party billing.
For more information on establishing an ecommerce presence check out the e-book entitled: Show Her the Money - The Woman’s ECommerce Handbook for Online Transactions (www.showherthemoney.com). If you are, or become a member of WECAI - www.wecai.org, this resource is yours with your membership.
Excerpted from The PMS Principles - Powerful Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Business © 2005 - Heidi Richards
Heidi Richards is the author of The PMS Principles, Powerful Marketing Strategies to Grow Your Business and 7 other books. She is the owner of Eden Florist & Gift Baskets and the Founder & CEO of the Women’s ECommerce Association, International http://www.WECAI.org (pronounced wee-kī) - an Internet organization that “Helps Women Do Business on the WEB.” BASIC Membership is Free. She can be reached at http://www.HeidiRichards.com or heidi@wecai.org. You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.
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No wonder many people are still cashing measly $7.28 affiliate
checks, when they should be earning thousands of dollars.
Here is our offer to you:
Two-tier commissions
50% payout on direct sales, 10% on affiliate sales
Commissions are easily earned passively!
Excellent marketing materials
Real-time statistics and reporting
Premium support you would expect from the company behind our
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Would you like to receive fat checks every month, simply by
telling others about our amazing line of products, software,
tools and services? You will send your visitors to our websites
through your unique Affiliate URL and get a hefty 50% commission
on each sale. Be advised that it is a repeat business — you
will continue to receive your commission, as long as customers
you referred are billed by us.
Wait, there’s more! When your visitors sign up as our
affiliates, we will pay you an additional 10% commission on
their sales! We are sure this will encourage you to tell your
online friends and partners about everything we have.
You are paid a 50% commission on each sale and 10% commission on
the sales referred by your downline. (This means that we are
giving away 60% of our earnings to our affiliates!)
Your earnings potential is unlimited with this program.
What is great about it is that the commissions are ongoing. This
means that if you just place our banners at your site, or do
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you recruit an entire army of sub-affiliates who will do
likewise, building you a series of never-ending super-income
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We will pay you commission on both the regular price sales AND
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What About FREE Newsletter Subscribers?
Many of our affiliates wonder what happens when their visitors
sign up for our free autoresponder newsletters for at every one
of our sites, and later order instead of right away. When any
visitor visits our site(s) through your affiliate link for that
particular product, we hard code your Affiliate ID into our
database, attached to that particular customer’s IP signature.
When the customers order months (or even years) later, you will
still get the credit for this sale.
Payout Schedule
You will receive your checks (drawn by an American bank in the
United States dollars) every month , provided that your
commission is at least $100. If your commission is lower than
$100 in a particular month, it will be added to your next
month’s check.
Tracking System
Our state-of-the-art tracking system was created with your $$$
commissions in mind.
After you sign up, you will be assigned a special Affiliate ID,
which you can use to promote any one or all of our products,
software, tools and/or services:
http://www.MyNetMarketingCenter.com/ProductCode/ XXXXX
(where xxxxx is your unique Affiliate ID).
Once your visitors come to our site via the link above, your
Affiliate ID will be saved on their computer as a cookie. This
means that if they come back and buy many months from then, you
will still receive your commission.
A good percentage of visitors you refer to our sites will sign
up for our FREE autoresponder newsletter service located at any
given site. When they do, your Affiliate ID will be hard coded
into our database forever and you will be paid if they buy
anything at any point in the future. This is more powerful and
reliable than cookies, which can expire or be deleted.
Nevertheless, our database will contain your Affiliate ID.
That is not the end of good news! When your visitors come to any
one or more of our sites, the autoresponses sent out by our
autoresponders will sales messages designed to recruit them also
underneath YOU! This way, you get us building your sub-affiliate
organization for you, which makes you more and more money
indefinitely!
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Your referrals start by enrolling as your sub-affiliates Your
referrals’ prospective customers will then buy from then in
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This viral process repeats until end of time (jump to point 1.)
As you can imagine, the word will spread like a virus. In
addition, it will be you who will reap the benefits of this
profitable ‘infection’.
Associate Member Site
When you sign up, you will be granted access to our exclusive,
Associate Member site, where you can:
Check out your statistics real-time Edit your profile (i.e. make
changes to your address) View your downline (associates that are
signed up under you) Broadcast a message to your downline Get
banners, text ads and other marketing strategies
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