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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