How to Use What Your Competitor is Doing Well to Improve Your Business
It’s time to check out the competition!! In school it may have been called cheating, but in the business world it’s just good old-fashioned market research! Find out where your competitors are advertising, spy on their sales funnels, and see how you can replicate any of their good ideas that appear to be working well. […]
Why Some Businesses Fail?
Business is a complex concept that many fail to gasp. A business only emerges to be successful if it is implemented after thorough planning with passion, discipline, and after a great deal of research. Sustaining a business can become extremely difficult after a certain period of time due to budget constraints and poor planning. According […]
How to Create Repeat Customers Using Future-Use Coupons
How can you encourage customers to make their second, third, and fourth purchase with you? How can you entice them to keep coming back and buying from you, changing them from a once off customer to a regular? Future-use coupons are one great strategy to employ to incentivize customers to make that next buy. So […]
How To Position Your Offer To Increase Sales
In many cases it can be a wise idea to offer multiple similar packages when selling something. However, instead of offering drastically different offerings, which might make your prospects hesitate more due to not being sure which option to get, you can offer similar options where the “value buy” seems like an amazing deal. For […]
Why Does Everyone Lose Money on Facebook Advertising
If you haven’t tried Facebook ads already and you know a lot of people who have, you probably don’t want to. They’re uncharted waters, and many before you have failed. At least once or twice, sometimes even from business professionals, you’ve probably heard plain and simple that Facebook ads don’t work. Everyone who tries just […]
How A Themed Promotion Can Boost Your Sales
Any special promotions can help you drive sales, especially those sitting on the fence as to whether or not to buy from you. However, offering seasonal or holiday themed promotions can help even more, as prospects not only immediately understand that it’s a limited time deal for a good reason, but you’ll also hit them […]
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 Sell To Other Businesses
Business to marketing seems like a foreign language to many people who are trying it for the first time. The consumer markets seems so much plainer and easier, after all, we’re dealing with every day people. With businesses we feel we are dealing with some mysterious entity or some divine VIP, a thing whose persona […]
How Creating A Sense of Urgency Can Help Improve Sales: Reducing/Offering Free Shipping Within A Certain Time Frame
Don’t you hate it when you’re searching for an item, find it at an amazing price, then see that shipping is going to cost you an arm and a leg? One way to increase your sales, especially over a short period of time, is to reduce the cost of your shipping, or offer a sale […]
Using Trust To Build Your Business: What You Need To Know To Use Referrals To Your Advantage
Have you ever tried a product or service based on the word of a friend, colleague or family member? Many of us have, because we trust that person and are more likely to take their recommendation over someone we don’t know. This is the power of referrals. Ask your current customers if they have friends, family, […]