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Did you know that an online business forum could pay significant dividends in customer service?Customer service is a very important aspect of your online business. Some businesses err on the side of too little interest shown to customers while others can be extremely overbearing and smother a new client until they consider a restraining order.There is a middle ground that can show your customers you care without pushing them to make an additional purchase. The struggle we all face in customer service is being able to adequately meet the needs of valued customers.Certainly one of the best things we can do is respond swiftly and in the consumers best interest if they have a complaint. Future sales rest on the success of your ability to manage consumer complaints.One of the ways to minimize consumer complaints is to allow customers to take an issue directly to other customers through a forum. At first blush t
When you're deciding whether or not to hire someone or invest in their product, doesn't the image they project go a long way in making you feel good about parting with your hard-earned cash?So, for example, if you're looking for a nutritionist, it's unlikely that you'd hire the one who offers donuts in her waiting room, right? :)Well, the same is true when YOUR potential client or customer is making the decision whether or not to invest in you or your offerings. If you have an image that is congruent with your claim, you've made it much easier for your prospect to say yes to you.And living your message makes everything about building your business with integrity and authenticity that much easier - and more fun - too!Here's an example from my own client files: I was working with a life coach who came to me because she wasn't getting ANY clients and was about to give up her business dream and go back to work
A visitor to your site buys your product; for example an e-book. Soon after downloading her purchase, she visits a forum and supplies the link to the page containing your download information to all the members. Before you know it, thousands of people are downloading your e-book! These people are stealing from you and you are unaware of your loss!
Many of these would have bought your e-book, so you could have lost hundreds of dollars!
Or take another case. You set up your sales page using PayPal. Now your simple PayPal button script is visible on your sales page if someone bothers to "View Source". They can see where to download from and bypass the Payment page. Now PayPal will let you encrypt the button so only gobbledygook shows up in the source. But I have found a problem in that you cannot include redirect and thankyou pages inside that script, so you can force people to pay you, but then the supply of their goods is messy and involves email back and forth and so on
"In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running. If you stand still, they will swallow you." -WILLIAM NUDSEN JRYour online business gives you the opportunity to sell products/services cost effectively anywhere in the world but your competition has the same opportunity. You should be forward thinking always seeking to improve on your strength against the competition. Seek out new opportunities and devise strategies to take advantage of these opportunities so that your online business will stay ahead.Attract prospects/customersOnline customers have so much choice of websites,products,services and suppliers this is why you should spend some time,effort and money to attract customers/prospects.One of the most effective ways to attract people is the search engines. Over 70% of online visitors use the search engines;and a huge percentage of these people are buyers.One of your objective in to get list
Many of these would have bought your e-book, so you could have lost hundreds of dollars!
Or take another case. You set up your sales page using PayPal. Now your simple PayPal button script is visible on your sales page if someone bothers to "View Source". They can see where to download from and bypass the Payment page. Now PayPal will let you encrypt the button so only gobbledygook shows up in the source. But I have found a problem in that you cannot include redirect and thankyou pages inside that script, so you can force people to pay you, but then the supply of their goods is messy and involves email back and forth and so o
It is the fantasy of most businesspeople to develop a product that is so unique, or a patent that is so ironclad, that we end up with a 100% market share—with, in effect, a monopoly.But if you look at the history of monopolies, they’ve ended up being decadent and remarkably non-innovative. Customers have paid the price, by getting stuck with obsolete products, and the monopolists, themselves, could have fared better by pushing themselves to invent yet the next, big thing.Without vibrant competition, unfortunately, we stagnate.Recently, I was reading an ezine author who lamented that he was, by far, the most prolific writer on the web. He asked, in so many words, “Is there no one out there, to challenge me?”At first, this sounds arrogant and self-congratulatory, but if you take a closer look, he’s onto something really important. All of us do better when we have rivals who drive us forward.Remember,
Many of these would have bought your e-book, so you could have lost hundreds of dollars!
Or take another case. You set up your sales page using PayPal. Now your simple PayPal button script is visible on your sales page if someone bothers to "View Source". They can see where to download from and bypass the Payment page. Now PayPal will let you encrypt the button so only gobbledygook shows up in the source. But I have found a problem in that you cannot include redirect and thankyou pages inside that script, so you can force people to pay you, but then the supply of their goods is messy and involves email back and forth and so o
With so many free autoresponders out there, you might wonder why on earth you should pay for one. If you plan to really get serious about internet marketing, paying for an autoresponder is the way to go.A free autoresponder is just fine when you are starting out and aren’t sending out any product information. The free service will place ads in your outgoing emails, so it’s a good idea to upgrade once you are sending out solo ads or product announcements. You don’t want another unrelated ad interrupting yours!Most of us start our e-businesses up on a shoestring and can’t afford to pay for a service that could be found for free. A good alternative would be to find one that offers a free service with the option of upgrading your account at a later date. Or, if you are confident you will be earning within a few weeks, choose one that offers a free trial. Aweber offers a free 30 day trial, if you like it, you just sign up at
The Registration of domain names is a thriving business on the Internet today – this is evident by the high bids that companies are willing to pay in Per-Per-Click (PPC) engines to attract potential customers for domain name registration.The business of domain name registration is sometimes referred to as “Internet Real Estate”. Just like we can occupy high traffic areas in the central business districts of major cities in the real world, we can register domains for commonly used words or sought after keywords to generate traffic more easily to our websites. While most common words and abbreviations have already been taken for the most widely used top level domain names, with a little bit of creativity we can still register an endless number of promising domain names.While there is no clear indication to what extent .com, .net as well as country top level domain names such as .co.uk, .de, .fr and so forth influence sear
In another case I have seen, the PayPal page was encrypted to prevent access to a download page, but the payment amount could be changed, so an expensive item could be purchased for 1 cent!
Fortunately, there are ways to prevent this download theft. The simplest method which I have come across recently involves using a third party that provides an encrypted script that secures your PayPal or other payment links and download information that you copy onto your website.
All your downloads are managed using a secure and automated process, There is no need to confirm orders and send download links to customers in email manually. On top of this, the system will send you a confirmation email each time a successful buyer downloads your products. This is excellent for your record keeping; you will know how many people actually downloaded your products. Your confirmed customers can download the product within minutes of order
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