Monday, April 14, 2008

Overcoming the Five Obstacles to Affiliate Success


by Bill Platt

Link and Traffic
http://www.LinkAndTraffic.com

Nearly every mass marketable product or service available online sports an Affiliate Program or MLM matrix to encourage small business people to sell those products or services to others.

For beginners in the online marketplace and even some pro's, these programs offer the best opportunity for earning substantial incomes to their participants.

Yet, despite the promise of Affiliate Programs and MLM's for making money online, fewer than 5% of all participants will ever be successful with them! Only one out of a hundred will ever earn more than $1000 per month from the programs!


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Fine Tune Your Sales Copy And Increase Your Sales




































Your sales copy is your most important part of your business. It does not matter how hot your product is, if you do not have good sales copy you are not going to sell anything. Now that we are in the midst of the busy season for selling many products online, it is time to take a second look at your sales copy. Always remember, no sales copy is ever set in stone.

Split testing:Once you have targeted traffic coming to your site, it is time to do some split testing on your sales page. Here is how you can do it:


How to Maximize Account Penetration and Jump-Start Sales




































by Alan Rigg

80/20 Sales Performance
http://www.8020salesperformance.com

Maximizing account penetration is one of the most critical functions in sales. Why? The depth of account penetration has an enormous impact on revenues and profitability.

Think about it – if every one of your company's salespeople sold every product and service in their portfolio to every business unit, department, and division of every account, what kind of number would they produce? Something huge, right?

From a sales management perspective, few things are more frustrating than having a bunch of "one trick ponies" on a sales team. These are salespeople that have developed a comfort level with one product or service, and that product or service makes up 80% to 100% of their sales.


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Sunday, April 6, 2008

Sales Leads - Three Things Every Website Should Do



































by Alan Rigg

80/20 Sales Performance
http://www.8020salesperformance.com

When I started my company in 2002, I knew I needed to have a website. Why? To provide credibility! How can a company be "real" in this day and age if it doesn't have a website? So, like many companies, I published an informational website that explained "here's who we are, and here's what we do".

I didn't spend a lot of time worrying about my website. I certainly didn't think of it as a strategic weapon in my company's marketing arsenal. That started to change in the spring of 2004 when a newsletter was forwarded to me by a fellow member of the National Speaker's Association. The subject of the featured article was something called "internet marketing".


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A Whack Up Along Side Of The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership Imperative






























by Brent Filson

The Filson Leadership Group, Inc.
http://www.actionleadership.com

When we perceive the simple center in the seemingly complex, we can change our world in powerful new ways. Albert Einstein perceived the simple E=MC2 in the complexities of physical reality and changed the history of the 20th century.

Big Daddy Lipscomb, the Baltimore Colts 300 pound all-pro tackle in the 1960s perceived the simple center of what was perceived to be the complex game of football. “I just wade into players,” he said, “until I come to the one with the ball. Him I keep!” — and changed the way the game was played.

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Increase Your Sales By 25% By Implementing One Small Change























by Bill Platt

Link and Traffic
http://www.LinkAndTraffic.com

How much would you be willing to pay to learn how to implement a guaranteed 25% increase in your online sales? Given the current sales situation on your website, how much would that 25% increase in sales add to your bottom line? $250 per month? $500? $25,000?

The good news is that I am not going to charge you for this information. I am just going to give it to you. Granted, it may require some work on your part to implement this little jewel, but you already spend untold hours searching for new business, right? While implementing this suggestion might require a few hours work on your part, it will continue to pay its dividends through the long-term future.


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