|
|
 |
Success Is Simple: Five Steps to Online Success
The Internet can be a confusing place to do business. It often seems like there are a million 'gurus' on the Net, all speaking at the same time, and telling you how they have "the" road map to success. The truth is ... there is no one map. There are many roads to the destination we call success. How long the trip will take depends a great deal on the choices you make. They say that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. So here are five steps to get you started on your road to online success. 1. Sell What People Want To Buy. For a thousand years (or more) small business has thrived on one motto. Find a need and fill it. The Internet is no different that Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart didn't sell what people want they would go out of business in short order. The best way to find what people want is to ask them. Contact the people you know and ask them what their #1 problem is today. Then tally the results and look for a pattern. Once you find the pattern, find a product or service to meet that need and contact them again. When you do, good things will begin to happen. 2. Follow Up With Everyone The people who come to your website will fall into two broad groups. Those who buy and those who don't buy yet. Create a follow up system for the people who don't buy and you will make time your ally, not your enemy. You don't have to be a great writer to do this. Just jot down the five top reasons people should buy your product and create a short message for each reason. Then put those in an autoresponder and offer people more information. Over time, many will buy your product. It's equally important to follow up with those who do buy. Be sure to offer them products and services that compliment your own. For example, it's only logical that someone who buys a car will eventually need their oil changed. In a like manner, people who buy your offer may want products or services that enhance your product's benefits. 3. Use A Simple Sales Site There is a lot of discussion about how many words should be on your web site. While this debate will continue to rage on, the sites that sell the best seem to be one-page, very simple sales sites. After all, why use more words than necessary. People are in a hurry today so give them what they want. Tell them clearly why they should buy your product, ask for the order and offer them more information if they choose not to buy now. Simple. 4. Use Automation To Your Advantage 'Automation' is simply a fancy term for letting a computer do the work you would normally do. Perhaps the best example is an autoresponder. A sequential autoresponder is a program that sends emails out over a period of time. Rather than having to remember who should get which message when, the computer remembers and sends them for you. That is how you are going to follow up with the people are aren't quite ready to buy yet. And you'll use a separate sequence for your customers - to offer them complimentary products and services. There are ways to process orders, send email follow ups, ask for referrals, place ads and more - all using the power of automation. While it is important to maintain a personal touch, automating everyday tasks means you will be able to respond faster to inquires and have the time you need to follow up with clients and expand your business. 5. Give Yourself Time Just as in any business, it takes time to succeed in an online business. Since time is going to march on anyway, why not make time your ally? Using tools to automate your business will help you save time every day. Having clearly defined goals and objectives will help you have 'staying power' for the long haul. Using time wisely and being committed to long term success are both vital to your online business. Success is simple if you keep it simple. One key is to find people who are successful and learn from what they are doing. When you are offering a popular product using a simple sales page website, are following up using automation to your advantage and are patient enough to let your business grow, you will find that the path to success is short indeed. Dr. Jeanette Cates is an Internet strategist who works with experts who are ready to turn their knowledge and their websites into Gold. Her reputation as a speaker and trainer has earned her the title of The Technology Tamer. Jeanette shares her news and views in OnlineSuccessNews.com
MORE RESOURCES:
Site-Promotion - Google News |
|
|
|
RELATED ARTICLES
Online Website Promotion: Five Fantastic Breakthrough Marketing Ideas To Enrich You Good Ideas.They are the stuff that form the foundation of wealth. Keeping It Clean Could Give You A Boost Keeping it clean could give you a boost.By Mark WhiteEveryone is striving to be at the top of thepile, we all want to get a better google PR and want thisto reflect in more visitors to our site. Building Online Visibility: A Three-Point Plan For Any Business The latest trend in online marketing focuses on local search. While there are plenty of business site directories that act like online telephone directories, local search is more than a telephone directory or classified ad site. Website Submission to Open Directory Project - DMOZ As an authorative hub a link from a DMOZ directory category to your website will give your site a boost in PageRank? and may assist in getting search engine spiders to crawl your site faster and more often. Google also uses DMOZ data for its Google directory. The 5 Key Steps To Promoting Your Website Promoting your website can seem like a daunting, complicated task. The truth of it is that it's not a trivial undertaking. Get Ahead on the Web: How To Bring Visitors To Your Website - For Free! Search engine optimisation - it's the holy grail of website design, or, put another way, a buzzword which means "get listed on Google." Because lets face it; if your website doesn't show up on a Google search, you may as well not have one. Freebie Promotions - How Giving Away Free Stuff Can Boost Your Business Everybody Loves A Freebie!It's true! Who doesn't like to get free stuff, no matter how cheap, lame or otherwise undesirable? You know it, I know it and you can be darn sure the marketing departments at the big boys out there know it and thrive on it.So why aren't YOU getting in on this?Giving away promotional freebies is a great way to get people to buy from you, to sign up for newsletters, to get a heap of free advertising and to generally boost the profile of your business both in the online and offline world. SEO 101 - The Basics of How to Get to the Top of the Search Engines Depending on your site's subject matter, you might even be able to start earning a significant income purely from the popularity of your site. For example, if you have a site on jokes you might be able to get a substantial amount of traffic, but you're unlikely to earn a huge income. Ten Heavy Duty Online Sales Grabbers How to improve conversion rate for your website? How to get more traffic to your website? How to turn your traffic into profit? Here are some techniques you can use: 1. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will order quicker. Website Promotion - The Stakes Are Rising - And So Is The Cost Over the past couple of months it has been quite noticeable that the amount of time and effort that is going into website promotion is rapidly rising and therefore so is the associated cost of keeping ahead of the competition.More and more people are devoting more and more time to website promotion and it is becoming a feature of nearly all website promotion campaigns that they are embracing all known search engine promotion techniques instead of exclusively relying on one or two methods. Get Listed at DMOZ When you are deciding on the major search engine directories that you want your website to be listed in, you should not overlook one of the most important ones: the DMOZ (short form for Directory Mozilla). DMOZ is just another name for the Open Directory Project, one of the human-powered submission directories. Link Building Secrets - Promote Your Website with a Proven Tactic Building links to your website is of huge importance and something you should focus on significantly if getting ranked high in the search engine results is important to you. If you have a website, then more than likely getting a high ranking is of utmost importance. Do We Need Web Directories? WEB DIRECTORIESDirectories play an important role in aiding a site's web visibility. Crawler-based search engines will, upon finding your site on a directory, or series of directories, consider these directories as one-way links. The Best Way To Promote Your Website Everyone would like an increase in traffic to their website or an increase in their PR rating. There are many companies and websites offering promotion and optimisation services, however how much should you spend?I have found two ways; which have had a huge impact in the amount of visitors I have to my websites and of which has pushed up the PR ratings of my sites. I Need Real Visitors, NOT Search Spiders! The answer to the first question is simple, the difference between spiders and visitors is dollars. Good old fashion sales, cha ching! ring the cash register. DIY SEO Part 3, Advertising We have dealt with the tags so the search engines should be happy when they find you, now you have to shove your site in a few places that get indexed on a daily basis.This ensures that your website will get indexed by google, yahoo and alike as quickly as possible. Branding With Banners You might have heard that banner advertising is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth! If you can find a banner exchange that gives you a decent ratio you can begin branding of your site, and branding may be the one thing you MUST do to get and keep business. Website Promotion: 10 Reasons Why People Dont Visit Your Web Site If you are not getting traffic at your website and wondering what is the problem, here are a few reasons:1. You don't offer free original content. Website Promotion: 10 Nitty-Gritty Tactics To Increase Your Orders If you master these nitty-gritty website promotion tactics, you'll be able to increase orders at your website:1. Express the same views as your target audience. Complimenting Your Site With Others Consider for a minute my son's website for grass mowing, grassattacker.com.
|
|
Home | Marketing eCourse | Online Marketing Kit | Web Hosting | Links | ClickBank Portal Advertising Information | Blogging & RSS | Branding Information | Copywriting | Traffic Building Email Marketing | Ezine Publishing | Site Promotion | PPC Advertising | E-Books |
| Copywrite © 2006 www.AdAdvantageSuccess.com All Rights Reserved. |
