http://www.affsphere.com/ Articles by Kim and Charles Petty from AffSphere, the Affiliate-Friendly Article Syndication Service http://www.affsphere.com/Real-Estate/Condominium-Buying-Selling/Reward-Your-Customers.html http://www.affsphere.com/Real-Estate/Condominium-Buying-Selling/Reward-Your-Customers.html The formula for success for any business is to get your customers to make repeat purchases. There are a number of factors involved for getting repeat customers: pricing, quality of products and services, excellent customer service etc. One of the best ways is to reward your customers for their repeat purchases. Here are three effective customer reward programs you could implement: Number Of Purchases Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:15:47 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/5-SureFire-Ways-To-Attract-New-Customers-Now.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/5-SureFire-Ways-To-Attract-New-Customers-Now.html 1. Give Away An Electronic Information Product Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:15:02 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Get-Free-Advertising-By-Participating-In-Email-Discussion.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Get-Free-Advertising-By-Participating-In-Email-Discussion.html How To Get Free Advertising By Participating In E-mail Discussion Lists Posting messages to e-mail discussion lists is a great way to get free advertising. An e-mail discussion list is a group of people connected together via e-mail that can communicate with one another. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:25:58 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Paid-Advertising/10-Ways-To-Sell-Your-Ad-Space-Like-Crazy.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Paid-Advertising/10-Ways-To-Sell-Your-Ad-Space-Like-Crazy.html 1. Give your customers a discount when they spend over a certain dollar amount for ad space. You can also apply this tip to the amount of ads they buy. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:26:49 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/FollowUp-With-Freebies.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/FollowUp-With-Freebies.html It's important to follow-up with potential online customers. Following up with them can increase your traffic and sales. The more times people see your ad, the greater chance they will buy your product or service. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:18:39 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-to-write-Order-Pulling-Ads.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-to-write-Order-Pulling-Ads.html The most important aspect of any business is selling the product or service. Without sales, no business can exist for very long. All sales begin with some form of advertising. To build sales, this advertising must be seen or heard by potential buyers, and cause them to react to the advertising in some way. The credit for the success, or the blame for the failure of almost all ads, reverts back to the ad itself. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:15:54 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Tips-For-Running-A-Profitable-Web-Site.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Tips-For-Running-A-Profitable-Web-Site.html 1. Address your targeted audience on your business site. Example: "Welcome Internet Marketers". If you have more than one, address them all. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:21:54 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/6-Payment-Offers-That-Sell-Like-Crazy.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/6-Payment-Offers-That-Sell-Like-Crazy.html The way you structure your payment offers can increase your sales. I'm not talking about the way people pay like credit cards, digital payments, checks, and cash options. What I'm taking about is can your customers try before they buy, pay later, make payments, do they get a rebate, etc. Below are six payment offers that will sell like your products or services like crazy: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:46:02 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/16-Things-To-Check-Before-Joining-Someone-Elses-Pay-Per-Sale.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/16-Things-To-Check-Before-Joining-Someone-Elses-Pay-Per-Sale.html 16 Things To Check Before Joining Someone Else's "Pay Per Sale" Affiliate Program Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:38:36 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Profit-In-An-Uncertain-Economy.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Profit-In-An-Uncertain-Economy.html 1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:51:43 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Real-Estate/Make-Big-Money-in-real-estate.html http://www.affsphere.com/Real-Estate/Make-Big-Money-in-real-estate.html Real Estate is one of the oldest forms of investing known to man. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:18:18 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/42-Deadly-Ad-Copy-Sins-That-Ive-Made.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/42-Deadly-Ad-Copy-Sins-That-Ive-Made.html I have read thousands of ad copies online and offline over my lifetime. I have read excellent ad copies that made me buy right away and some that may have had a decent product, but had a poor ad copy that turned me away. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:04:11 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/How-to-write-General-Articles.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/How-to-write-General-Articles.html Let the readers know what is in store for them by the " blaze" in your first paragraphs of an article. There are two kinds of articles; those which cover things in general and can be published at most any time, and current events. The best place to start with these kind of articles is the local newspaper with a goal of syndication to many other media. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:48:15 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Gain-Your-Prospects-Attention-Using-Your-Picture-Alone.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Gain-Your-Prospects-Attention-Using-Your-Picture-Alone.html 1. Use a uncommon hair style. You could style your hair to stand straight up like you're scared or use a wig to wear a mohawk or huge fuzzy hair. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:28:39 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/10-Profitable-Ways-To-Recycle-Your-Content.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/10-Profitable-Ways-To-Recycle-Your-Content.html 1. Repackage your web site content in to different products to sell. You could create speeches, audio books, classes, and video tapes with your content. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:23:23 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Uncommon-And-Unusual-Free-Product-Bonuses.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Uncommon-And-Unusual-Free-Product-Bonuses.html 1. Offline Directory - Create an online directory of offline resources. You could include names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:22:15 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/10-Ways-To-Generate-Highly-Read-Article-Ideas.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Article-Marketing/10-Ways-To-Generate-Highly-Read-Article-Ideas.html 1. Participate in chat rooms related to your targeted audience. Watch what questions people are asking and ask others what information they're interested in. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:41:41 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Draw-Visitors-To-Your-Web-Site.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Draw-Visitors-To-Your-Web-Site.html How To Draw Visitors To Your Web Site By Holding An Online Contest Or Sweepstakes Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:29:55 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Benefit-By-Helping-Others.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Benefit-By-Helping-Others.html Many people don't have the time or skills to write and create ebooks to give away to their web site visitors. Giving away ebooks from your web site can easily increase traffic and sales. Why not create promotional ebooks for other people to use so they can promote their web site. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:06:53 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-Outsourcing-Can-Help-Grow-Your-Business.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-Outsourcing-Can-Help-Grow-Your-Business.html Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or services to take on part of your business workload. You may want to outsource part of your work because you don't have the room, you need an expert, you have periodic busy periods, or you need more production to get orders out on time, etc. The following are ten ways outsourcing can save your business time and money. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:27:57 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Survey-Says.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Survey-Says.html Do you have a list of e-mail addresses of your customers or prospects? Do you have a list of e-zine subscribers? If you have their permission, send them an e-mail survey to conduct market research. See if customers are satisfied with your products or services, or see if they enjoyed their visit at your web site. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:52:14 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Online-Joint-Venture-Ideas.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Online-Joint-Venture-Ideas.html A joint venture is when two or more businesses join together to work on a project for a set period of time. Doing online joint ventures can increase your chances of beating your competition, increasing your sales and profits, saving time and money, getting valuable referrals, and increasing your market share. The following are ten online joint venture ideas: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:01:33 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Bonuses-That-Will-Sell-Your-Products-Faster.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Bonuses-That-Will-Sell-Your-Products-Faster.html 1. Consulting-Give your customers advice on topics related to your product or service. You can consult via e-mail, message board or chat room. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:07:05 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-To-Sell-A-Fee-Based-Subscription-Ezine.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-To-Sell-A-Fee-Based-Subscription-Ezine.html 1. You will create residual income. For example, if you charge a monthly subscription fee, you will get recurring income every month. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:22:17 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Important-Things-To-Tell-Your-Prospects.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Important-Things-To-Tell-Your-Prospects.html 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. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:02:45 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-HypnoticLike-Sentences-That-Sell-Like-Crazy.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-HypnoticLike-Sentences-That-Sell-Like-Crazy.html Tell your readers what they are probably thinking, feeling or doing as they read your ad copy. This strategy will usually trigger their own subconscious mind to bring out these feelings or actions. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:24:06 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Business/General-Business/10-Ways-Focus-Groups-Can-Propel-Your-Profits.html http://www.affsphere.com/Business/General-Business/10-Ways-Focus-Groups-Can-Propel-Your-Profits.html A focus group is a group of employees or current customers that discuss and brainstorm new ways to improve different parts of your business. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:35:34 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Business/General-Business/Use-Bundling-To-Increase-Your-Profits-And-Sales.html http://www.affsphere.com/Business/General-Business/Use-Bundling-To-Increase-Your-Profits-And-Sales.html An effective way to increase your profits and sales is to bundle many products or services together into one package. This gives people more reasons to buy your products and services. People also have come to believe package deals are a better value. You want all the products or services to be closely related. For example: if you're selling a computer you could add in software, hardware, computer furniture, etc. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:06:21 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Maintain-Profits-In-A-Slow-Economy.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Maintain-Profits-In-A-Slow-Economy.html 1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:17:12 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Increase-Your-Free-eBook-Downloads.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Ways-To-Increase-Your-Free-eBook-Downloads.html 1. Anticipate the objections your visitors might have about your free ebook offer. You should research your target audience's needs and wants. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:48:54 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/15-Creative-Ways-To-Make-Money-With-eBooks.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/15-Creative-Ways-To-Make-Money-With-eBooks.html 1. Allow other e-zine publishers or web site owners to republish small nuggets or excerpts of information from your ebook with your byline or ad included. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:12:27 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/20-Super-Hot-Ways-To-Make-More-Money-From-Your-Customers.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/20-Super-Hot-Ways-To-Make-More-Money-From-Your-Customers.html 1. Insert a brochure for another product in the first product package your customer buys from you. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:00:34 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Rarely-Used-Ways-To-Upgrade-Your-Ad.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Rarely-Used-Ways-To-Upgrade-Your-Ad.html 1. Tell your potential customers special events your business has sponsored. It could be charities, fund raisers, charity auctions, etc. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:48:11 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Web-Site-Design-And-Writing-NoNos.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Web-Site-Design-And-Writing-NoNos.html 1. Don't load your web site with a lot of high tech clutter. Your visitors may miss your whole sales message. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:38:35 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Free-Bonuses-That-Can-Ignite-Your-Profits.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Free-Bonuses-That-Can-Ignite-Your-Profits.html 1. Interview Articles - You could compile an ebook or report of interviews you've given to experts from your particular industry. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:22:42 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-Why-People-Wont-Buy-A-Second-Product-From-You.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-Why-People-Wont-Buy-A-Second-Product-From-You.html 1. You didn't follow up after the first sale. After the sale you could have introduced your other product on the thank e-mail. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:16:56 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Websites-Traffic-Promotion/20-Ways-To-Increase-Your-Traffic-And-Sales.html http://www.affsphere.com/Internet-Marketing/Websites-Traffic-Promotion/20-Ways-To-Increase-Your-Traffic-And-Sales.html 20 Ways To Increase Your Traffic And Sales Using Free Follow-Up Autoresponder Courses Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:24:50 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Web-Site-AddOns-That-Can-Catapult-Traffic.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Web-Site-AddOns-That-Can-Catapult-Traffic.html 1. Add a message board to your web site. People will visit your web site to ask questions and answer other people's questions. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:01:07 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Turn-Any-Product-You-Sell-Into-Residual-Income.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Turn-Any-Product-You-Sell-Into-Residual-Income.html The concept of this is for you to offer a subscription type product as an upsell or backend product. For example, if you're selling an ebook for $37 offer a subscription to a related e-zine for $9.95 a month. Instead of an e-zine, it could be monthly updated information for the ebook. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:17:58 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Concerns-To-Have-Before-Creating-A-Members-Only-Web-Site.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Concerns-To-Have-Before-Creating-A-Members-Only-Web-Site.html 1. What will be the title of your members only web site and will it have a subtitle? Will you have a logo, slogan or graphics for your members only site? Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:04:39 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Five-Breakthrough-Marketing-Ideas.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Five-Breakthrough-Marketing-Ideas.html 1. Offer to insert ads into your product package for other businesses. Just ask, in return that they do the same for your business. You should only trade insert ads with businesses that have the same target audience. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:51:34 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Business/Entrepreneurship/10-Fool-Proof-Ways-To-Intensify-Your-Profits.html http://www.affsphere.com/Business/Entrepreneurship/10-Fool-Proof-Ways-To-Intensify-Your-Profits.html 1. Create benefit intensifiers for your list of ad copy benefits. Example, The Benefit: "Save More Time", The Benefit's Intensifier: "Never Seen Before". Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:48:25 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Amazing-Product-Selling-Formulas.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Amazing-Product-Selling-Formulas.html 1. Sell your products at a wholesale price to retail web sites. You could sell them individually or in bulk. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:43:36 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Business/How-To-Create-Urgency-So-People-Buy-Now.html http://www.affsphere.com/Business/How-To-Create-Urgency-So-People-Buy-Now.html 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. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:06:13 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Increase-Traffic-By-Offering-A-Free-Course.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Increase-Traffic-By-Offering-A-Free-Course.html If you have extensive knowledge on a particular subject, why not create a free course for your web site visitors. The course should be related to the theme of your web site. If you're selling business related products, you would want to giveaway a free course about business. You could offer the course in html, autoresponder, and ebook format. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:18:59 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/When-You-Give-You-Shall-Receive.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/When-You-Give-You-Shall-Receive.html You can increase your marketing exposure effortlessly by placing your ad on free stuff, then allow other people to give it away. The more people that give away your free stuff the more your ad will be seen. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:33:15 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Flaming-Hot-Ways-To-Catapult-Your-Sales.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Flaming-Hot-Ways-To-Catapult-Your-Sales.html 1. Create an email discussion list. The list should be related to your web site's subject. Place your ad on all posts and it will remind people to visit your site. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:11:58 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Magic-Ways-To-Boost-Your-Ezine-Subscribers.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Magic-Ways-To-Boost-Your-Ezine-Subscribers.html 1. Show your potential subscribers a sample issue of your e-zine. Black out some of the important info; this will make them more curious & subscribe. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:11:11 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Six-Ways-To-Create-Income-With-Your-Web-Site.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/Six-Ways-To-Create-Income-With-Your-Web-Site.html 1. Sell advertising space on your web site. You could sell banner or classified ads. If you want to make more money, sell sponser ads that get top placement or the best exposure. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:01:38 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-To-Survey-Your-Visitors-Subscribers-And-Customers.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Reasons-To-Survey-Your-Visitors-Subscribers-And-Customers.html 1. You'll find out what type of content visitors want to see at your web site. This will attract your visitors to revisit and read the content. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:47:52 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Amazing-Ways-To-Jump-Start-Your-Sales.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Amazing-Ways-To-Jump-Start-Your-Sales.html 1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:05:46 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Blazing-Ways-To-SkyRocket-Your-Profits.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Blazing-Ways-To-SkyRocket-Your-Profits.html 1. Use a "P.S." at the end of your ad copy. This is were you either want to repeat a strong benefit or use a strong close like a free bonus. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:48:42 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Spellbinding-Ways-To-Light-Up-Your-Sales.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Spellbinding-Ways-To-Light-Up-Your-Sales.html 1. Specialize your product or service if you have too much competition. If you're selling an advertising book, rewrite part of it and target it just to pet businesses. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:43:48 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Nifty-Ways-To-Prolong-Your-Visitors-Stay.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/10-Nifty-Ways-To-Prolong-Your-Visitors-Stay.html 1. Offer a free ebook that's published right on your web site. They would have to stay at your web site to read it. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:06:09 EDT http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Get-An-Extra-108160-Hits-A-Year.html http://www.affsphere.com/Web-and-Internet/How-To-Get-An-Extra-108160-Hits-A-Year.html Most of you have seen those little award graphics on web sites. They are given to the web site by another web site or award association to reward the web site for a specific reason. They usually link right to the site that has given the award. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:21:59 EDT