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10 Killer Ways To Defeat Your Competition – Part 1

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:54:54 +0000

In any business including legitimate online businesses, two things are for sure: competition and the economy. Now there is not much you can do about the economy but as for your competition…here are the first 5 of 10 killer ways you can defeat them in your online business:

1. Offer free original content. It’s important to give your visitors information they can’t find anywhere else. If you’re the only source, they’ll visit your site.

2. Give people free software. Most people like to find good deals on software for their computers. If the software is free, that is even better.

3. Hold free contests or sweepstakes. Most people like to win things. If you can fulfill that need, people will stop by to visit.

4. Provide a free web directory. Create a directory of web sites on a popular topic that will attract your target audience.

5. Offer a free e-zine. Most people love to get free information that’s e-mailed to them regularly. This saves them time and money.

In the next post I will provide the other 5 ways to help you beat your competition in the online business world.

10 Important Things To Tell Your Prospects

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:36:57 +0000

When you start a small home based business in today’s economy, you need to be extra smart in order to get customers to buy from you. The competition is fierce and with everyone watching what they spend…it makes getting customers rather difficult. So here are 10 important things to tell your prospects that may help you get them as customers:

1. Tell your prospects that you offer free delivery. This may cost a little money, but, you will gain the extra customers to make up for it.

2. Tell your prospects that you offer a lower price. If you can’t afford to offer a lower price you could always hold the occasional discount sale.

3. Tell your prospects that your product achieves results faster. People are becoming more and more impatient and want results fast.

4. Tell your prospects you’ve been in business for a longer period of time. People think if you’ve been in business longer you have more credibility.

5. Tell your prospects that your product tastes, smells, sounds, looks, or feels better. When you target the senses you’re triggering human appeal.

6. Tell your prospects your product is compact or light. People may want to take the product on a trip or don’t have much room where they live.

7. Tell your prospects that your product lasts longer. People don’t like to spend more money purchasing replacement products all the time.

8. Tell your prospects that your product is easy to use. People don’t want to buy a product that they have to read a 100 page instruction manual.

9. Tell your prospects that your product has better safety features. People want to feel safe when they use your products.

10. Tell your prospects that you stand behind all your products. People want to know that you back-up any claims you make about your product.

The only way for an online business to survive, whether you are just starting a small home based business or you have been in business for years, is to have buying customers! Hopefully these tips will help you get those prospects…

Start A Small Home Based Business On e-Bay

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:16:43 +0000

If you want to start a home based business online, you will see thousands of options to choose from. One of the biggest issues you will come across is scams…there are a bunch of those on the Internet so you need to be very careful when deciding on or investing in an online business. However, if you want a legitimate stay at home business, then look into e-Bay.

There are many great benefits to using e-Bay as an online money maker. For starters, you control what you put on it and how much to sell it for so no investment there…except whatever e-Bay charges for a post but that is minimal. You can have outright buys or you can have bids for a certain time frame for certain items. Another benefit is a lot of people use e-Bay and trust it.

So if you want to start a small home based business, clean out your attic, garage or shed and start selling those items for a profit. If you run out of items to sell, then go to yard sales and purchase items for a cheap price and mark them up on e-Bay. You will be surprised how much you can make on what others think is junk! The hardest part of all this is learning what some of the tricks are to really making it big on e-Bay…but we got you covered with that, just click on legitimate stay at home business and learn all the secrets to selling on e-Bay!

5 More Ways To Maintain Profits In A Slow Economy

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:23:19 +0000

I gave you 5 good tips in the last post to help you with your online business. As promised, here are 5 more ways for your online business to maintain profits in a slow economy. Keep in mind, these tips can also be used if you are just starting a home based business online.

6. Trade advertising with other online businesses to save revenue. You could trade e-zine ads, banners ads, links, print ads, etc.

7. Outsource part of your workload. This can save on employee costs, equipment costs, taxation costs, expansion costs, etc.

8. Add low cost bonuses to your offer that have a high perceived value. It could be ebooks, members only sites, consulting, e-reports, etc.

9. Use viral marketing to promote your business on the internet. Give away free stuff with your ad copy include on it so others can give it away.

10. Follow up with all your prospects. You can use a free e-zine, a follow-up autoresponder, an update or reminder list, etc.

Hopefully these tips will help you continue to be profitable now and into the future. There are many other things you can do to maintain or start making money online, but these tips are a good starting point. For more information and steps to starting a home business, please see our web site.

How To Create Urgency So People Buy Now

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:16:50 +0000

Previously, I posted some blogs on powerful words that make people buy. To help you further with your online business advertising, here are some more tips on how to get visitors to buy from you. You must create urgency so people will buy your products or services now. They may not revisit your web site or see your ad again.

How do you do this? You must use a limited time offer. Limited time offers stop people from putting off buying your products or services. It stops them from procrastinating. There are many different types of limited time offers. Here are a few:

Limited Time Price Offers. For example, Order Now! While the price is still low. After Dec 23, 2010 this price will go up to…

Limited Time Discount Offers. For example, Order before Midnight, June. 25, 2010 and you will get 25% discount!

Limited Time Free Bonus Offers. For example, Order before July 2, 2010 and you’ll get a free bonus!

Limited Time In Stock Offers. For example, Order Now! While supplies last! After Oct. 31, 2010 we can’t guarantee we will have any left in stock.

I’m not saying everyone will order the first time they see your ad. They may not be interested in your products or services. It depends on your ad and the person reading the ad. If they are interested, usually, limited time offers will make them buy now. Having success with your home based business or online business depends solely on customers…so give them a reason to buy now!

For more information and home based business ideas and opportunities, please visit our site…

Mind Altering Words That Make People Buy

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:04:29 +0000

You have your own online business with a great product that you want to sell and make money with. The way to do that is through advertising and marketing. Almost all online business owners advertise their product so when you do the same, you need to be better and stand out from your competition. Here are some words to use in your ads to make customers buy from you…

1. Use the word “fast” in your ad. People want fast results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays, we usually value our time more than our money.

2. Use the word “guaranteed” in your ad. People want to be assured they are not risking their hard earned money buying your product.

3. Use the word “limited” in your ad. People want to own or receive things that are exclusive or rare because they are considered to be more valuable.

4. Use the word “easy/simple” in your ad. People want easy ordering, easy instructions, easy to use, easy payments, etc.

5. Use the word “testimonial” in your ad. People want to see believable proof before they buy your product. It should be reputable and specific proof.

6. Use the word “discount/sale ” in your ad. People want to find bargains. They could be rebates, one time sales, percentage offers, get one free offers, etc.

7. Use the word “free” in your ad. People want free incentives before they do business with you. They could be free books, accessories, services, etc.

8. Use the word “you/your” in your ad. People want to know that you are talking them. This’ll make them feel important and attract them to read the whole ad.

9. Use the word “important” in your ad. People do not want to miss important information that could effect their life. People will stop and take notice.

10. Use the word “new” in your ad. People want new products or services that will improve their life like new information, tastes, technology, results, etc.

Using any one or more of these words will catch the attention of the person looking to buy in the market you are in. If you want to start a small home based business online, then these words will help you get a good start with advertising your business. If you are looking for home based business ideas and opportunities, please visit our site for more information.

10 High Powered Ways To Increase Your Traffic – Part 2

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:08:56 +0000

The other day I gave you the first 5 high powered ways to increase traffic to your site for your online business. Here are the rest…

5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This will increase your ad exposure and attract people to your web site at the same time.

6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic.

7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you’re offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.

8. Participate on message boards. Post answers to other people’s questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings.

9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it.

10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc.

There are many different ways to run a home based business or online business but having a web site of your own is a very important part of the success you will have. But even if you have a site, you need to have traffic coming to it in order to succeed. Hopefully these 10 high powered ways will help you accomplish this.

10 High Powered Ways To Increase Your Traffic – Part 1

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:58:49 +0000

Having a web site for your home based business or online business is crucial. But having a site is only half the battle…getting traffic to your site is what will make you successful. So today I will give you 5 of 10 high powered ways to increase traffic to your site. The other 5 will be in the next post.

1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.

2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they’ll be reminded to revisit your web site. They’ll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders.

3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others.

4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article.

5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This will increase your ad exposure and attract people to your web site at the same time.

Remember that an increase in traffic should give you an increase in profits for your online business! Look for the other 5 in the next post…

Why You Should Have A Web Site For Your Online Business

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:48:17 +0000

When you have an online business or home based business, there are many aspects that go into making it a success. One of the key elements is having your own web site. When you have your own site, you are able to be flexible as to what you want to do or how you want to promote a product or products. If you have your own product that you want to sell, then having your own site is a no brainer. However, if you are promoting other people’s products (affiliate marketing), you can have links on your site to the site of the product you are trying to sell. This is important because a good way to get traffic to any site is through article marketing and a lot of article directories wont allow you to link directly to an affiliate site.

Another great aspect of owning a site is you can sell advertising space on your site. Also, if you know how to use good keywords and web site SEO (search engine optimization) then you can get your page ranked high in the search engines and get lots of free traffic to your site which can mean a lot of sales of the product you are selling!

The important thing if you have a site is to make it look good and get visitors to stay on your page. So choosing a good theme is critical. The theme I am using is called Socrates and is available for you to use. You can visit my main web site where I provide some ideas for starting a home business and look for the banner Socrates to appear on the upper right side of the site or scroll all the way down to the bottom right and click on the other Socrates word there. This theme is very flexible and easy to use with many options and preloaded headers to fit whatever topic your site is about.

If you want to own a legitimate online business, then having your own impressive web site can mean the difference between success and failure!

Why You Should Start A Small Home Based Business

admin — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:02:02 +0000

Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody and welcome to summertime if you live in the northern hemisphere. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to spend a lot time outdoors in the nice warm sunny weather? Ah, but you can’t…you have to go to work for someone. For some of us, “work” is turning on our computers, checking emails, writing a post, making a few phone calls or maybe placing a few ads online. The “some of us” are the home based business owners of the world. Now I made it sound like it is easy and you don’t have to do much when in reality, you do have to put the time and effort into an online business for it to be successful!

However, when you put the time in is totally up to you…can’t do that with a regular job! So go ahead and enjoy that sunny day by the pool or lake and do your work at night. That is one of the great benefits of having a home based business, and there are many, many more!

The hard part of it all is just getting started. It takes drive and dedication to want to be successful with an online business. If you are the type of individual who has these qualities and you want to have some financial freedom in life, then go ahead and get started. The next question is…what online business should I start? If you are totally new to an online business, then look for a company that has a proven track record and a good tech support department that can help you get started on the right path to success.

Making money online isn’t that easy so the more help you can get when you start can mean all the difference in then world. You can have that freedom to work when you want and how much you want and achieve financial freedom if you want it bad enough! Start an online business today so you can enjoy the summer and live the way you want to…