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Amaze Your Customers And Have THEM POSITIVELY “Raving” About Your Business!” - This Means MORE SALES 4 YOU !

(Advertising By Word Of Mouth & Keyboard Contact !)

Do you sell products online? Do you offer a service that you’re confident is as good as, if not better than your competition? If so, then I’m sure your website must be riddled with page after page of customer testimonials to prove it.

If not… Then without a doubt, you’re doing something drastically wrong! Authentic, detailed customer testimonials can be your greatest selling tool! Have you ever noticed how the vast majority of successful businesses - whether selling a product or a service - use this one extremely important selling tool in all their sales presentations - both online and off?

It’s a proven fact that genuine, verifiable testimonials convert more prospects into buyers! And your web site sales can definitely benefit from this hypnotic and powerful tool. Testimonials are the one selling tool that you can’t be without in ecommerce. Best of all, you can quickly and easily have dozens of testimonials loaded in your sales arsenal, firing your biggest guns, if you understand how the process of soliciting a quality testimonial works….

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“… I’m just writing to say that your product is wonderful! I’ve purchased many other widgets online, but your widget is by far the best widget ever. And it arrived so fast! Your customer service staff was also a pleasure to work with. I will be buying many more widgets from you in the future! Thank you for the excellent product and service….”

Susan B. Customer http://www.susanbcustomer.com

******************************************** As an astute business owner, do you sometimes wonder…

“Just how do these companies pull it off… … Why do their customers take such initiative to tell the world about their wonderful experience, while most of my customers seem to purchase my product or service and then fade away into a black hole somewhere in cyberspace?”

Well, there’s an altruistic question you need to immediately ask yourself…….

“How many times have I followed up with my customers and actually asked them about their shopping experience?”

The fact is, if you sell a product or service online, there’s no “sneaky little trick” or “magic formula” for obtaining authentic and powerful testimonials. The problem is… YOU HAVE TO ASK! And that’s where most online businesses fall short.

Here’s a perfect example…

Take a look at eBay. Here’s a marketplace where anyone and everyone is buying and selling goods and services. Ironically, a buyer usually finds that their only reassurance in making a purchase is by reading over a “Sellers Feedback”.

And guess what… everyone selling on eBay has feedback. Why? Because ebay sellers ask for it! And they keep on asking for it until they receive it. “It’s the ebay way of doing business” !

If you’ve ever bought or sold an item on ebay, you know that feedback is by far a seller’s most important selling tool, and most good sellers have hundreds, even thousands of testimonials from buyers telling the world about their wonderful experience. Do you think this would still be the case if EVERY seller didn’t immediately ask for feedback after a sale? Absolutely not! They too have to ask for it…. AND SO DO YOU!

So, how do you ask your customers for their testimonials without feeling like you’re desperately seeking their praise or approval? Actually, it’s quite easy and should be something you do methodically after each and every sale.

I’ve been known to pound the technique of customer follow up into the ground, and here again is no exception. You have to follow up with your customer to make sales, and you have to follow up with your customers to solicit their testimonials. Once again, it’s just another example to demonstrate the importance of customer follow up.

Here’s a guaranteed way to obtain the feedback your looking for…

After a sale (and you can incorporate this technique into a product sale or service), immediately send a confirmation email to your customer. In fact, most shopping carts will automatically do this for you. If selling a physical product, once their package ships, immediately send your customer their tracking number. Then, no longer than seven to ten days after their tracking number is sent, send another follow up email asking your customer if they received their package and if they have any questions or concerns that need to be addressed.

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One of the biggest questions people with products and services that they would like to market on the internet is revolves around how to get more traffic to your web site fast. Here are some explosive traffic magnets below that you can use to turbo-charge sales for your products and or services on your website:

Key #1 to Increasing Your Web Site Traffic:

Submit your articles to article directories. Below are a list of some of the directories receiving very high traffic:

-www.findarticles.com
-www.ezineArticles.com
-www.articlecat.com
-www.goarticles.com
-www.articledashboard.com
-www.articlehub.com
-www.articlealley.com

-Key # 2

Leave educated and informative comments on popular blogs that are getting high traffic with a link back to your blog. The key here is to share some good information with the readers that are of high value. Don’t just write: “hi.”

-Key #3

Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com

-Key #4 to Increasing Your Web Site Traffic:

Announce your website in the correct category on www.Craigslist.com

-Key # 5

Be an active member in forums and include a link to your website in your signature. It’s important that you read the rules first as some forums do not allow signature links. To find a forum of your choice type into the search engines your forum interest + the word “forum” and you will find a list of forums you can participate in. For example: “pets” + forum.

-Key # 6 to Increasing Your Web Site Traffic:

If you have purchased a product that has given you some great results then go ahead and write a testimonial for submission with a link back to your website.

-Key # 7

Start a blog and submit it to the hundreds of blog directories.

-Key # 8

Don’t forget to add an RSS to your blog.

-Key # 9

Look into banner and link exchange programs.

-Key # 10 to Increasing Your Web Site Traffic:

Start your own newsletter or ezine.

-Key # 11

Purchase multiple ads on other sites.

-Key # 12

Use a autoresponder or an email campaign to spur people to keep coming back to your site.

-Key # 13

Place classified ads on www.eBay.com with a link back to your site.

-Key #14

Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review. Taking the time to do this will have a powerful impact on your traffic.

-Key #15

Exchange reciprocal links with other related sites.

-Key #16

Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link right back to your site.

-Key #17

Buy advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.

-Key #18

Mingle and network with other people at seminars or other live events. Have your website name on your business cards to hand out.

-Key #19

Write a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook” sites.

-Key #20

Advertise on other product’s “thank you” pages.

-Key #21

Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and products that you have ordered.

-Key #22

Choose a memorable domain name.

-Key #23

Seek referrals form similar but non-competing sites.

-Key #24

Create a lens on www.Squidoo.com.

-Key #25

Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights. Be sure to include a link to your site in it so others can pass it around for you.

-Key #26

Email your list. If you do not have a list…..it’s never too late to start one.

-Key #27 to Increasing Your Web Site Traffic

Learn how to properly set up a PPC search engine advertising account. Start with google adwords. This is the FASTEST way to get MASSIVE traffic but you need to know what you are doing or else you will lose a lot of money. So be sure to read an ebook/guide on how to properly do this as doing so will set you up to win and explode your product sales by leaps and bounds if you do it correctly. Having this knowledge will help you to dominate your market and beat out your competition leaving them in the dust where they belong.

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Once you are comfortable with working online, you should buy a domain name for your site or sites. The right domain name is memorable, and can get your site to rank higher than other names. The wrong domain name won’t do you any good at all.

The Basics of Domain Name Registration

The first thing you have to do is come up with a good domain name for registration. Don’t even think about a one-word domain name; they’re all gone at this point. Instead, come up with dual-word combos. If you’re putting together a professional site, try your name before anything else.

Don’t get fancy with spelling when selecting your domain name registration, or use 2s and 8s to represent their sounds. You can try the number 1; that sometimes works. You can also try the names of products you offer, or a description of your site content offerings: Romanceforgirls, popcornpalace, fluffykittens. Memorable is always better; short and memorable is best, but very difficult to accomplish.

Come up with a couple of dozen names that will do for your site, and test them on a registry. Don’t buy a domain name for which the .com extension is gone, but you have access to the .net or .info. These domain names are not by any means as valuable as the .com. If you pick up the .com, though, and you expect the site to be lucrative or have a lot of competition, it’s not a bad idea to pick up the other extensions as well. Domain name registration is NOT expensive, and if you register in bulk you can get an even better price.

The .UK Extension

This doesn’t mean you should avoid anything but .com. If you have a business in the United Kingdom, you have access to the .uk domain name set, which UK customers are likely to look at before anything else for UK-specific businesses.

If you anticipate most of your business will come from British customers who are aware your business is in Britain, the .uk extension may be a better choice than the .com; and if your customers are unhappy with Internic’s control of Internet domain registration or they are very pro-Britain, the .uk extension is certainly a better choice.

If you’re fortunate enough to find both extensions for your domain open, and if you run a British company, it doesn’t cost much to buy them both, and you definitely should.

It also gives your online presence an immediate “identity” geographically which can be crucial in building online relationships- where trust is a key component. By being a .UK domain, you are very likely to gain UK clients.

The .UK domains market is one of the fastest growing and lucrative registration areas on the internet.

Tips for Domain Name Registration

Have a website ready to plunk into your domain as soon as you buy it, and submit it immediately to the search engines. The search engines take time to index new sites and your domain name registration is only as valuable as the search engines make it.

You can also have more than one domain name pointing at a single site. If you’ve bought multiple extensions for your domain name (as in the previously-suggested .com/.uk combination), you can set up your site under one domain name and then direct traffic from the others to the main site. This is called web traffic forwarding and has been around for years. It may be as simple as parking your domain name on a server and putting a line of code on the page, or as complex as going through another website to use their online web forwarding services.

When you do register a domain and start building traffic to it, go out and renew for multiple years before your renewal is due. It is surprisingly easy to forget to register your domain name on time, and if someone else sneaks in and registers it, you’ve just lost a ton of work on that domain.

By making your domain name memorable, you will help other webmasters remember your site easily when building anchor texts in their links- a crucial component of SEO.

Final tip: don’t just think about price when looking for a domain registration company- also think about quality of service. While you shouldn’t be paying over the odds, it really is better to be safe than sorry and go with the more established registrars. Then you can have peace of mind that should any problems arise, you will be well looked after.

About the author:

Adrian Lawrence is the webmaster for http://www.discountdomainsuk.com a leading
Domain Registration Service.

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