There were times that people get too busy and bored of reading sales letters. Some already mastered the outline of a newsletter, some may have seen the words you used a hundred times before. So these words are not that effective anymore from the time most internet marketers use that in their sales letters.

But there were still who became successful in their business using sales letters, writing on the right track and some of the best sales are those that tell a story. Yeah, telling stories can get the attention of people. Just remember the times back you were in college. Listening to stories are more entertaining than lectures. When listening to a story you are curious to know what happened and what is the outcome, whereas in lectures, it is not that exciting that you would want to fall asleep, no matter how you battle the situation.

So when you write a sales letter, don't use the same words over and over again. It will just bore your readers. Instead use this strategy to get their attention, tell a story. It will excite them and would want to know more about your product. Telling stories is like injecting energy into your sales presentation. Selling online is very different from selling face to face. It's more difficult convincing people to buy your product and it's harder to get their trust. Telling stories somehow will gain their trust.

Consider this also, people may not need your product not interested during the time they received your letter. But you have to make sure that they would remember your letter when the times comes that they would need your offerings. Using interesting stories would make people easily recall your letter when the time comes.

So in your next sales letter, think up a great story to share. It can be about you or someone you know. It could even be one you just came across online. Whatever it is, make it relatable, and you will get a great response.

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Having a website nowadays is a must in any business. If you run a small business, it is best if you have a website to make it grow faster and bigger.

Part of designing a website, there are steps that you really need to give attention to. IF you want to have a successful website, follow these 5 phases and its implementation solely depends on you.

   1. Knowledge About Your Customer
      You need to collect as much information as possible about your potential customers. Find out who they are, and what they will need your website to offer. It’s got to pull them in and catch their interest. The more you know, the more successful your site will be.

   2. Content Development
      Now it’s time to decide exactly what your website will contain. This phase is typically related to all non-design aspects of building your site, such as the writing mark-up, and the organization of all of your information. Once you have that all figured out, the fun part begins.

   3. Graphic Design
      The face of your company is very important. The first impression is the key. This phase includes the logo, brand development and anything else requiring graphics on your site. Be creative and have fun!

   4. Coding
      Once you have created your graphics template, you can now begin constructing the html and css templates. Including the backend programming or integration needed for your website, such as a content management system.

   5. Launch Time
      Move all of your web files to your server and launch your website.

Next time, try following these phases when creating a website and for sure it will be a success!



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Starting your internet business seems so hard especially when you don't have any idea at all. But in this post let us simplify the process. It is not really that hard as what you think.

When you have decided what niche you may be good at, here's how to get started. Creating your system outline is the first thing you need to do. Here how it works:

  • First, create an outline. The most important recommendation here is not to base your outline on your own thoughts only. Solicit customers’ feedback. Find out the number one question they have about the topic. You can do this by posting messages on related forums, and you’ll be amazed at the different kinds of responses you will get.
  • Next, make sure your outline is very modular. Break down the main topic into different modules or chapters. This will come in handy later on.
  • Then, give each module a headline such as “Discover the Secrets of…” and “How to …” just as you would do in a sales letter.
  • Lastly, make sure that each module can become a product in and of itself. Your sections should have big enough ideas that each can be a project that stands alone if needed. This is going to be very important later when we talk about ramping up and making more and more money.
Now that you have this guide, basically you now know how to start. So start jotting down notes now if you want to reach the success that others are enjoying now.



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Here's an easy way to get more traffic to your website, turn your headlines into a question. If you are trying to make your adwords clickable, then make a compelling headline. Asking questions that focuses on the needs of your target customers, most likely you will get more clicks and more visits to your site.

Why make your headlines a question? It is because questions can easily attract attention. Especially when you ask questions what your target customer wants to be answered.

So to bring more traffic to your site, try improving your adword campaigns with a question headline. Get the attention of your target customers with your question headlines. For most people, they are searching the web to find answers for their questions. So grab their attention and make them want to know more about your business.


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Most companies spend too much on advertising their products or services just to create a long-term branding. They need to do that to keep people posted about their product or service. But why do you need to have a long term branding if you know you have a good product or service and no doubt people would always choose the good ones.

With all the hype out there in marketing, most people go with the latest and with what they commonly see everyday. That's why you need to build a long-term branding to always remind people about your product or service. They may not need it right now but when they do, they'll know where to look.

That's the importance of long-term branding, you don't need to ask people to come to you instead they are the ones who come to you to get your product or service. Because you have established a long-term branding, people are kept reminded about your product or service.

When it comes to internet marketing, it's a big challenge to on how to reach your customers long-term and provide them with updated information. But like many companies, they have created ways on how to do that aside from paying expensive advertisements. If you have noticed some other companies give out stuffs that are useful for customers and are something that they'll be looking at consistently, like pens, shirts, calendars, ref magnets, mugs, etc. with their logos, contact numbers or pictures on it.

Giving something for free like these things mentioned, is an excellent way to reach your customers long term. In this way you can get away with those costly ads and plus the fact you are providing useful things to your customers. The challenge is how are you going to make your product stick to customers' minds. So provide something that your customers will be consistently looking at. You just have to be creative. As a business owner, you want to have a product that will last and eventually earn more profits from it.

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Video marketing is really an effective way of promoting your business online. It's a good marketing strategy in driving traffic to your site. I know some of you have heard about Traffic Geyser, if not, it is tool used in submitting videos to different video publishing sites. It is a Video Traffic System that automatically submits your videos to tons of different video submission sites for you. But this tool can cost too much for internet marketing newbies. The good news is that there is a FREE service that works closely to Traffic Geyser but on a smaller scale. It is called TubeMogul.You can submit your videos to twenty video sites including YouTube, AOL Video, Viddler and a lot more by uploading your video only once on TubeMogul and distribute it for you.

If you want a free service in submitting your videos online TubeMogul is a very good tool. There are times that you want to do other stuff but submitting a bunch of videos can be a time consuming task. Now you can have a chance to maximize your internet marketing using TubeMogul to save time.

Using TubeMogul not only give you the ease in uploading videos to different video sites, but also it provides you valuable data about the performance of your videos uploaded on those sites. You will be able to know how many views a certain video has, when, where and how videos are watched.

For more features and benefits of using TubeMogul you can check it here.


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StumbleUpon.com is really a cool site where you can submit your site to make it visible to search engines. Before you can start stumbling, you need to download the toolbar and be ready to give a thumbs up or thumbs down whenever you come across to a site that catches your attention.

Using stumble upon to boost traffic and seo is free and you can search for other sites that you might find interesting too at your fingertips! First stumble your site and always put a description what is your site all about. StumbleUpon lets you rate other sites and determines your likes and dislikes and then recommend you the sites that you might get interested in based on your ratings.

So you need to rate other sites that is related to yours so that other stumblers will have the opportunity to rate your site too. The more you get positive feedbacks the higher your site gets ranked and the more traffic you'll get to your website.

So download the toolbar now and thumbs up or thumbs down websites now.


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If you are looking for ways to quickly grab the attention of your Joint Venture partner's attention, think of creative ways on how to impress them. Come up with creative ways to contact people instead of just using the same old email or phone book methods.

Grabbing your Joint Venture partner's attention could be challenging, considering a tough competition out there with people seeking joint ventures. If you are one of them, make your offer unforgettable.

If you are sending a letter, make it personalized, send gifts and for sure they will thank you for that. For example,  I was trying to get in touch with someone, but I just could not track him down. So I came across his home address, called Pizza hut, and had a bunch of pizzas delivered to him. I also had them write a note for me to stick with the pizzas. Sure enough, he called me that same day to say thanks.

So that's it, just be unique. Be creative in grabbing your joint venture partner's attention and for sure you'll find more success.

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Squeezing more profit out of your customers can be done. It takes more planning and effort. But the fun part is you will benefit all the profits you can generate from your business. With a healthy profit, you can use that as a resource for business expansion and for the improvement of your business making you more competitive and stable.

If your business is struggling and you need to improve your ways on how to earn more profit, you need to study every detail of your business. While you pay much for your advertising and other marketing campaigns, follow these four ways to increase profitability. All your marketing efforts is a plus factor in generating more profits after this.

One of the best ways to increase profit is to increase your price. Easier said than done. When you do this, there's one thing you should consider though, you have to make sure that your customer will get an equal value to what they give you. Since you have increased your price, they will be expecting more value.

Next is to increase the number of your customers. This will look back to your marketing efforts. So think about your customers, who are they, what they do and reach the same people. Think how did you get your first 100 customers. Expand your reach and give more time and increase your budget in marketing.

Then you have to increase the usage rates of your products. Increase the average order value of your customers. Think of ways how you can increase the usage of your product. If you have noticed, part of promotional campaigns of some products is to educate people about the things related to the usage of that product. Then they recommend the frequent use of that product.

Lastly, decrease costs. Take a look on all options where cuts can be made or things that can be minimized to decrease your production and all company expenses.

Using these four ways to increase profitability, you will be able to generate a steady income and provide enough resource for your business.


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