Category Archive For "Marketing"
Make It Easy For Customers To Buy: How Offering Free Trials/Demonstrations Can Boost Your Sales
Sometimes it’s hard to see the benefit of something we haven’t seen in action or tried first. Offering a free trial period, or a demonstration of your product, can be a great way to alleviate a potential customer’s fears and make them confident the product will work for them. Also, once someone has tried something …
How Adding Physical Products As A Bonus, Especially For Your Digital Offers or Services, Can Increase Conversions
Selling digital products like e-books or videos (or even services) can be great, as they often carry much higher margins than physical products. However, people often place a much higher value on physical products that they can touch and hold. This doesn’t mean that you have to offer all your products as physical ones – …
Why Businesses Need To Use Social Media?
In the past few years, social signals have become an essential part of a business’ website ranking. These trends have only increased as the use of social media has become highly popular around the world. A well-executed social media marketing strategy can greatly boost your business. Social media is essential for businesses to keep in …
How to Use a Sense of Urgency to Increase Your Sales: Offering a Limited Time Deal
A sense of urgency can be a great motivator, both in encouraging a sale and in life. To use urgency in business, look at offering limited time deals, especially ones that don’t last more than a few days tops. And if you have an e-mail list, mail them a lot more on the final day …
What Should Be In A Good Blog Post And Why
It would not be wrong to say that people’s interest in blogging has hit the highest point in recent years. Some people believe that blogs are dying, but more accurate they’re evolving. Make no mistake, blogs are here to stay, but they’re more competitive than ever. With social media, freelancing, and SEO becoming widely used …
How to Go From Having Customers Balking at Your Price to Being Ready to Buy – the Power of the Word “Only”
How items are described and the words we use to frame situations can have a big impact on how we then think about a scenario. Just as saying, “I cut my finger, but there’s only a little blood” versus, “I cut my finger and there’s blood everywhere,” paint two very different pictures, the words you …
How to Convert More Sales By Using The Power of A Guarantee
Offering a guarantee is a great way to make it easier for customers to buy. It takes the risk out of the purchase for them, as it gives them an out if they don’t like the product. Psychologically, it also gives them confidence in your product – as why would you be offering a guarantee …
How Split Testing Can Massively Increase Your Conversions and Sales
Too many business owners and marketers will only create one version of an offer, sales page, opt-in page, ad, etc., and simply hope that it works. If it does, they’re happy. If it doesn’t, they think that the offer simply doesn’t work. That’s a horrible way to go about it. If your first attempt doesn’t …
How Listening to Your Clients Wants and Needs Can Help You Land More Sales
Business owners often do more talking than listening. When it comes to making sales, often it’s best to do more listening than talking. Instead of overthinking and brainstorming what your prospects might want, why not just ask them? You’d probably be surprised at how easy it can be to sell them what they’re already telling …
How To Build A List of Customers You Can Market To Over And Over Again: The Benefits of A Membership Program
A membership program is where your customers sign up, either for free or for a fee, to be part of a community or elite club. As an incentive to sign up they often receive special discounts, invites to product launches, early access and other rewards. The benefit to you is that by offering incentives and …