Today I want to share with you a few tips on how to get people more excited about what you sell. Wouldn't it be great to have customers so excited to buy what you have that they're tripping over each other to get it? Well then, the one thing that can really make or break your ad or sales letter is the offer. My aim is to create the most irresistible offer I possibly
can, so that people would feel silly if they didn't take
advantage of it!
Let me give you an example: Let's say I want to offer you a $30,000 car. It's $30,000, so it's a pretty good car right? The problem is, you've already got 1 or 2 cars, and you don't really need another one. So I'd have a hard time making a sale, because it's quite expensive and you don't really need it.But what about if... I threw in a $400,000 house, FOR FREE, for you? As a bonus, for buying the car. That car is looking pretty good right now, isn't it?
You would buy the car, even if you didn't need it, just so you could get the house right? And if you didn't take advantage of this offer, you'd feel pretty silly wouldn't you? There's no doubt, because the value on offer is... IRRESISTIBLE!! This example is way over the top of course, but it still
proves a point. You would buy the car anyway, even if you didn't need it, just to get the bonus house. And there's many ways to adapt it to your own business.
The key is to use bonuses that have a low cost to you, but a high perceived value to your customer. If you're selling something for around $100, then why not offer a free report, free cd, or free dvd which explains to your customers the benefits of owning your product? You might have to go out and create these things, and it will still cost you some money. But if you pay a couple of bucks to put a cd together, you could then value the information
on the cd at $20, $50, or even $100 if you like.
It will all come down to the solutions they provide - the benefits - to your customer. Put a few of these bonuses together, and suddenly your $100
product now comes with $300 worth of free bonuses. And this is how you start to create an irresistible offer!
Now let's start to look a little further outside the box. What if you went to a local non-competing business and said something like this to them - "I'm about to start an advertising campaign, and I'd like for us to grow out businesses together. Please give me a voucher for 50% off, or 2 for 1, or whatever you prefer, and I will promote you by giving these vouchers to my customers. That will give you a chance to get new customers you would never have had and possibly turn them into long-term clients, plus it won't really cost you anything because you'll only make money that you otherwise wouldn't have when they use the voucher. You won't lose, you can give great value to your customer without expensive advertising, and it looks great for your business."
Do you think any business owner with any savvy at all would refuse that offer?They can rest assured that any advertising costs will come directly from the sales they make from customers they would never have had, and you get to give your customers possibly $30 or $40 worth of value, or even more if you want! Now what if you could get a few local businesses together in on the deal, say a restaurant, a video store, a gym, mechanic, cinemas and the hairdresser?
That would be a great little bonus package to offer your customers, right? And it wouldn't cost you anything! Can you feel you customers starting to get excited now, knowing that you could give them hundreds of dollars worth of extra value, compared to the next guy who just offers the basic service for the same price?!
How To Get Customers
When you own a business of any kind you quickly learn that getting new customers is the number thing you have to focus on. Depending on the size of your business it becomes hard to do it all. Having an internet business helps solve this dilemma because you are able to automate so much of it. Bust you still have to work all of the time on getting traffic before you can get new customers.
In this article we are going to talk about how to get new customers for an Internet based business by first concentrating on getting more traffic.
1. First of all do not forget word of mouth advertising. A satisfied customer can be your best form of advertising because they are not selling anything. They are just letting their friends and family how happy they are with you and your product. Adding a simple tell a friend form to your website can get you a lot of new customers from your current ones.
2. Banner ads, search engines, social marketing, and other methods must be a part of your overall marketing efforts. This is an ongoing project that really never will stop. For example if you choose to do some pay per click advertising you can never just let it run by itself, because the price per click is always changing. If you are not aware of where you rank for various keywords and how much you are paying for a click your traffic will suffer.
3. Ask yourself this question, "who am I trying selling to. You must know your market before you can put together an effective advertising campaign. You will never sell anything or get any new customers if you do not research and learn who your target market is.
4. Concentrate on benefits. Many ads miss the boat in that all they do is go on and on about how great their product is. If you do not translate all of the features of a product into the benefits your customer will realize you will not get traffic to your website. Put yourself in the customers shoes and view your ads and websites as though you were them.
5. In today's Internet marketing world it is all about fresh content. Blogging is the best way to keep your site fresh. It is important that your new customers and your old ones are given to things to buy. You do this by offering new information and products and then keeping in touch.
6. Following up is a great way to get new customers and keeping your past customers. The easiest way to do this is via an autoresponder which is an automatic way to send email. Offer everyone a chance to give you their contact information every chance you get. Giving away a free report or money off coupon would be examples of incentives that someone would be willing to trade their name and email addresses for.
When you get right down to it the new customers dilemma is all about focus and follow up. By putting the emphasis on your visitors and catering to them you will convert them into new customers and repeat customers.
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