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10 Proven Ways To Accelerate Your Profits
1. Make copies of your web site in many differentlanguages. This'll allow foreign speaking people toread your web site and advertisements. 2. Give your customers a surprise bonus for buying.When you give customers more than they expect,there is a good chance they will buy from you again. 3. Send greeting cards offline or online to customerson holidays. You'll get the chance to increase yourorders by including your ad inside the card. 4. Market your products or services to your targetaudience. For example, don't try to sell a footballin a cooking magazine. 5. Give people the option of buying other productsor add on products when they decide to buy yourmain product or service at the point of sale. 6. Think of new ways to attract people to buy yourproducts or services. You could add on extra freebonuses, delivery options, payments options, etc. 7. Give other businesses the option of selling yourproduct. It could be a simple joint venture deal oran affiliate/associate program. 8. Follow-up regularly with all your prospects andcurrent customers. When people see your ad morethan once they are more likely to buy. 9. Learn sales ideas from reading and studying otherbusiness' advertising and marketing material. Itcould be ads, brochures, tv ads, sales letters, etc. 10. Educate yourself with new strategies to increaseyour sales. You could take classes, subscribe toe-zines and magazines, read books or ebooks, etc. Steve Li is the webmaster of http://pushbuttonincomes.comYou can read more articles like this by subscribing to his twice-weekly Newsletter. Send a blank email to: mailto:pushbutton@pushbuttonincomes.com?subject=subscribeget a free course "Online Advertising for the Completely Clueless!"
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