Boost Your Sales To A New Level
January 2, 2010 by Brian Tubbs
Filed under Affiliate Marketing
Here are 10 easy to implement, ways to increase your online sales in no time at all
1. Once a product has been purchased, make sure to do a follow up with the buyer. Compose an e-mail to the buyer and thank them for the purchase, then include an ad for other items that you are selling. You could follow-up with them regularly. The main objective of this approach is to build a relationship with the buyer, so constant correspondence is needed.
2. You could upsell to your customers. When they’re at your order page, let them know you have more products that are related to the product they are purchasing now. Then add a button so they can add the new products to there order if they are interested.
3. Tell your customers if they refer four customers to your web site, then you will give them a complete refund of there purchase price. This will turn one sale into three sales. Because most of your customers will only refer a couple of people you won’t have to give away to many refunds.
4. When you sell an item to a customer, offer your customers the chance of signing up for your affiliate program, then they can make money by promoting your items. This will help you multiply your sales without putting in any more effort.
5. Offer your buyers the chance to purchase the master resale rights to this product. You could include an ad on or with the product for other products you sell. You will make more sales both with a one time offer and as another purchase from the same customer.
6. You could cross promote your product with other businesses’ products in a package deal. Build a fly in add for the special package that you can place on every page, for every product you sell.
7. If shipping a product to your customers, include a discount coupon for other like items that you may be selling. Doing this will boost your return sales from customers that you already have.
8. Send your customers a catalog of add-on products for the original product they purchased. Include in your catalog all items that you sell and include an upgrade to the product the customer has already purchased. If they liked the first product they will buy from you again.
9. Use gift cards or gift certificates for your website. You will receive extra money from the sale of the gift card. If the receiver of the gift certificate cashes this in, you also have the chance of selling more products from your site to the new customer.
10. Send your customers free products with their product package. The freebies should have your ad printed on them. You can have baseball caps made up that has your website printed on the front. This works great because people advertise your products or website like a walking billboard.
That should do it. The great thing about these powerful strategies is that you can implement them immediately. These are very simple steps and setting them up should be easy as well and the outcome of using these tips can make you a lot more money. It is extremely important to make your customer and/or prospect feel special and to provide them with additional value-added items that will keep them coming back.
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