Friday, September 22, 2006

Need to Give your Sales Business a Boost?

10 Amazing Ways To Boost Your Sales Business:

1. Joint Venture: You need to find a business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can email each other's leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.

2. Look at other successful business or people and figure out what they are doing to become successful. I'm not saying you should copy them, but practice some of the same habits that have made them succeed.

3. Brainstorm: with a colleague or someone who knows your business well. Remember to take a little time out of your day or week to do this. New ideas are usually the difference between success and failure and often another person can help to bring perspective.

4. Start an auction on your web site. The type of auction could be related to the theme of your site. You'll draw traffic from auctioneers and bidders.

5. Use your name, or think of a great name to describe your company, something exiting, and Brand it. You can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them to e-zines, blogs or web sites for republishing.

6. You need to take risks to improve your business. Sometimes businesses don't want to advertise unless it's free, sometimes you need to spend money to get good results.

7. Appeal to the emotions of your clients. Include emotional words in your advertisements. Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy, satisfaction, fun, etc. They create a warm and fuzzy feeling.

8. Ask people you meet online to review your web site. You can use their comments to improve your web site or you may turn the viewer into a customer or regular reader of your newsletters.

9. You may think this is a tough one, but in order to become efficient, you should out-source part of your workload. You'll save on your man hours as well as costs incurred if you should hire an employee. You could out-source your secretarial work, accounting, marketing, etc.

10. Look at combining a product and a service together in a package deal. It could potentially increase your sales. If you're selling an e-book, offer an hour of consulting with it. Make sure your ebook is branded as well and you can also look into offering affiliate commisions.

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