44 online business TIPS.

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Online Business tips

1. Most email programs will allow you to set up a signature file to be included with each out going email you send. These files are simply an explanation of you and your web site. Just by using a signature file you could be sending out your ad potentially hundreds of times per week. If not, you are missing out on those ads. Since these sig files are an acceptable form of advertising- you should be using them.

2. How to make sure your visitors stay at your site longer ?.

Make sure that your site is very easy to navigate. The best location for all of navigational links is on the left column. At this location they are both easier to find and they still do not distract from the main content.

If your visitors cannot find what they are looking for- they will leave. Make sure they can find it quickly!.

3. Getting a top ten search engine listing will require most of your time and efforts. Then once you get there, it will take all of your efforts to stay there. Get there indirectly.Go to the search engines and search for terms that surfers would find your site. Visit the top ten sites and sign their guest book or post on their message board. Don't forget to leave a signature file! There you are, visible on a top ten spot!.

4. It has been proving that seven is the most liked number. There fore you will most likely make more sales if your asking price is $17 or $7.

5. Always give a guarantee. Preferably a money back guarantee. This will help each the mind of your potential customer and make them realize that is safe to buy from you. If they don't like it they can always change their mind

In fact the longer the guarantee the more easier sales will be.

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6. Keeping your customers and building relationships - The most important way to do this is to reply to your email. All of your email!. After all, your customers are your bread and butter. Respond quickly and promptly! Within 48 hrs is acceptable but within 24 hours is best. Everyone deserves equal attention.

When you are contacting other webmasters or a customer for a proposal or whatever- remember to refer to them by their first name. It is the only way they will pay attention to you.

7. Make your link more visible on pages. You only have a short amount of time to get a surfer's attention.

8.Many people do not want to waste 15 min reading, so make your page short and to the point. Add a contact form too with an auto responder.

9.When starting your business, there are a variety of lists and groups you can post to to gain subscribers. This particular list is subscribed by thousands of people and announcing your business there can get you any where from 50- 500 customers.

10. For more sales of your product, use the right way of advertisement.

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11. To add credibility to yourself and to your website do Spellcheck. If your site is full of misspelled words, you will look like a second grader to your readers.

12. Never use fancy fonts. Stick with Times new Roman or Arial. Other fonts are hard on the eyes and sometimes difficult to even read the word.

13. To add credibility to yourself or site, 'Never make promises you can't keep'. On all of your pages include your real name, address, phone number, and email address.

14. To get a better listing in the search engines, Use a real, new title for every page on your site. Don't just use your company name. Use a real title that describes exactly what can be expected on that page.

15. Whether it is your product or on your website no body likes to have their time wasted by reading filler words. The best way to get your point across is to say it once, say it well, and move on!.

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16. Always use a headline at the top of your site. This will help the reader know what they can expect. It will also help them to remain interested and continue to read further.

17. Don't use difficult to understand terms or phrases in your sales page. No one wants to pick up a dictionary just to find out if they need your product.

Use cover art to help illustrate your products. It will also help to solidify your product and cause your viewers to see it as a real object.

18. No one has time to view a slow loading web page. So decrease your file sizes and help your page to load quicker. Use images that are relevant to your site or product, such as logos, cover art or screen shots.

19. To make the site appealing : Your best color choice is blue. It will provide a feeling of professionalism and solidity while remain pleasing to the eye. Take a look, most professional websites are accented with blue.

20. Create a mailing list for all of your customers / affiliates. Use this list to keep in contact with them and continually provide them with new tools and support.

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21. Devote your time to marketing your site every day - not once in a week.

22. Advertising solution : Reach a large number of readers for a small amount of money.

23. To promote a not selling well item, use package deal and sell them with running item. This will sell more of your products and the non selling well item will get promoted.

24. Use a short and catchy headline in your ads. People will read the advertisement for more information.

25. Never forget to sell on your thank you pages / email. Include a descriptive paragraph for another product. They bought from you once- they will most like buy twice if the product is right.

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26. Use bullets (<UL>) when stating benefits. They will always be read.

27. How to get your link on other web pages ?. Compliment the web master on their site. Sign the guest book of various site's web masters.

28. Participate in discussion boards with a sig file to get listed on the search engines indirectly.

29. To get more people to read your home page, use short paragraphs and allow for plenty of white space.

30. Make all of your affiliates top sellers by giving a higher percentage of commission for their efforts.

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31. On every page always include a link back to your index or home page.

32. In an business email use a catchy headline as subject.

33. To keep visitors on your site longer use the tag <A href="http://www.bizhat.com/" target="_blank">No. 1 Business Portal</A>

34. To get more sales of your products, each day offer a different product at a discount. The visitors will also get to see your other offers by visiting your site.

35. Have an action plan and start business NOW!. Act Now, get started today.

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36. Having your own domain name is the first step in Online business. Check out the availability of domain name.

37. Consider naming your company and registering a domain name starting with the digit 1 to get a high alphabetical placement in directories (Yahoo). eg - 1stcompany.com. Can get a pretty high alphabetical placement with A, B or C too.

38. Try to register a domain which contains a popular keyword applicable for your industry. Try to avoid using domains that contain '2' for "To', '4' for 'For', 'u' for 'You' and so on even if they seem to make your domain sound 'cool'. Your customers will easily get confused if you do so.

39. Avoid using hyphens in your domain name. Make your primary domain too short. Always use ".com".

40. Title is the most important part of your advertisement (ad). So spend more time on it. Write a convincing sales message for your product.

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41. The twelve most powerful words in English language are : Discover, Easy, Guarantee, Health, Love, Money, New, Proven, Results, Safety, Save, You, Free. Add other atttention catching words to this list to make your ad more appealing to the customer..

42. Free Money making facts.

'Free' is the most powerful and often used word in advertising today. Give a FREE sample of your product to potential customers.

Fourth FREE, with the purchase of three !. Use it FREE for 30 days (Software for trial use). Offer a free sevice with the purchase of a product (Free Home delivery).

Use the mobile free for 3 months.After that, the customer become a lifetime member with the mobile company.

Free catalog costing $20 FREE - it is free for one who asks. More sales results!. Our product comes with an unconditional money back guarantee !! - if you are not satisfied with the software, you can return it within 45 days for a full refund.

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43. 90 words with sales appeal for a successful ad

Absolutetly, Amazing, Approved, Attractive, Authentic, Bargain, Beautiful, Better, Big, Colorful, Colossal, Complete, Confidential, Delivered, Direct, Discount, Easily, Endorsed, Enormous, Excellent, Exciting, Exclusive, Expert, Famous, Fascinating, Fortune, Full, Genuine,Gift, Gigantic, Greatest, Guaranteed, Helpful, Highest, Huge, Immediately, Improved,
Informative, Instructive, Interesting, Largest, Latest, Lavishly, Liberal, Lifetime, Limited, Lowest, Magic, Mammoth, Miracle, Noted, Odd, Outstanding, Personalized, Popular, Powerful, Practical, Professional, Profitable, Profusely, Proven, Quality, Quickly, Rare, Reduced, Refundable, Remarkable, Reliable, Revealing, Revolutionary, Secrets, Security, Selected, Sensational, Simplified, Special, Strange, Strong, Successful, Superior, Surprise, Terrific, Tested, Tremendous, Unconditional, Unique, Unlimited, Unparalleled, Unusual, Useful, Valuable, Wealth, Wonderful.

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44. Avoid threatening words in your advertisement like Occasion, occurred, equip, disappoint, proceed, inconvenience, accept, business, necessary, personal, seperate, questionare, criticism, effect, extension, similar, undoubtedly, immediately, omitted, appearance, practical, preferred, unnecessary, incidentally, apparent, already, coming, original, probably, cancelled, really, sincerely, experience, benefited, omission etc.

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Customer management

Retaining customers is a challenging job than acquiring customers.

Relationship marketing aims at long term and never ending relationship with customers.

Acquire customers by understanding their requirements, retaining customers by fulfilling their requirements more than their expectations (delight) and attracting new customers through customers.

Selling is a tough job, so one has to rely on cost effective and far reaching marketing.

A quality product always sells, don't forget the after sales service / customer care too. Improved quality often results in lower costs. After sales service must be prompt & economic.

Get feedback from customer to improve the performance (of service/quality of the product). There should be follow up action to improve the quality of product.

Right criticism should be taken in a positive way and try to improve the performance.

If one wants to grow in business, customer delight should be the motto.

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Customer management

Customer care occurs at three phases - pre sales, during sales and after sales. Customer should be provided with quality product with minimum delay (serve the tasty food hot, without delay), opportunity to inspect the product, treat and listen them with courteous attentiveness, prompt reply etc.

Customer auditing and financial auditing is to be done for accessing the growth of business. Attempt methods of cost reduction without compromising quality. Before fixing the price, the paying ability of the customer and the market condition has to be taken into account.

An organization must provide services of all varieties with price variation.
A complaint must be well attended so that the customer will be turned more royal.

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Customer management

Relationship based price scheme :

Discount on repeated purchase. In this scheme, a relationship is made due to the discount/reduced rate. Thus a chain relation can be set up.

Advertise in potential customer locations - festivals, exhibitions, main places etc. Banners at religious places, national days, sponsoring, pasting posters with permission. Creating a sense of addiction to the brand by excessive advertisements, making promises to customer with no intentions to perform ( Free London air tickets with every purchase, * conditions apply), by forcing (By 5, get one free) Canvassing potential customers through telephone, E- mail, visit or through marketing representatives.

Moving objects catch more attention, an animated banner advertisement in web will help a lot to boost the sales.

Skills to tame a customer are communication, listening, tolerance, foresee, convince, advise, convert, induce, impress, minimise uncertainty, doubts etc., generate desire, add satisfaction, recognise individually, provide positive experience, help, receptive, fulfill needs, keep up promises, to be available, develop expertise, co ordinate, confidence, provide compensation, be high tech, apply cyber laws etc. Use a comparative chart to convince the customer.

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Customer management

A customer is not dependent on us, we depend on him - Mahatma Gandhi.

Customers are valuable spokespersons and patronise the service provider. Every relation must be win - win type. Whether it is of employer - employee, vendor - customer, husband - wife, both must be winners of the transaction. Thus creating a 'WE' feeling to the customer and it leads to excellence & prosperity of the service provider.

Customer is the lifeblood of every business. Make working time, location etc suitable for easy reach for the customer.