The Three Words Your Web Site Can't Live Without
- Terry Dean -
There are three words which are major keys
to success of any web site. Understand these three words and you will find yourself
halfway to success on the Internet. Disregard them, and you will always be struggling to
find any type of financial success through online marketing.
1. Free
The key word that the entire Internet is built on is the simple word "Free." It
is a word that you will need to get to know if you want to create a successful Internet
business.
The easiest way to get people to visit your site and to keep coming back is to offer
something for free there. It can be a free report or a free service such as a free-for-all
links page or a free search engine submission program.
Although everyone out there is trying to tell you exactly how to get traffic, the secret
to getting traffic is contained in that one word...Free.
You have to come up with something interesting that is full of benefits for your targeted
market and give it away for free on your site. This will be your hook for fishing out the
right prospects continually 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Here are some "hooks" I have used very successfully to constantly get traffic to
come to my site and to keep coming back: Free Reports, Free Electronic Books, Free-For-All
Links Page, Free Classifieds, Free Discussion Group, Free Newsletter, Free Real Audio or
Real Video, Free Recommend a Friend Script, Free Postcard Site, and Free Search Engine
Submissions.
The best free thing that you can provide though for most markets is a free report that
leads into your product. For example, create a free report on 11 Traffic Generating Tips
if you sell a Internet Traffic Generation report. Or create a report on how to get dogs to
stop chewing up your stuff if you sell dog training courses.
If you create a free report which is a natural lead-in for your main product, you can use
one of the automated follow-up systems such as http://www.zinfo.net
and create an automated follow-up system for your sales letters to follow-up on
those who requested your free report.
So, you would put your free report on the multi-responder as the autoresponder's first
message. Then, you would have it programmed to automatically deliver your sales letter the
next day to anyone who requests your free report. Each of your next 8 or so follow-up
messages would then be programmed to complete the sales process.
The Free Report which is on the first autoresponder message will be the key to getting the
hits on the autoresponder. The follow-up sales messages will be the keys to getting
automated sales for your site.
2. Lead Product
A key to any successful site is that they have one main product as a lead product. You DO
NOT want to focus on all of your products to each new visitor to your site.
Too many choices will confuse the average prospect. Give them one main choice that you
focus on continually throughout your site and all of your materials.
I have tested both methods...offering one product mainly and having a web site which
resembles a catalog approach. The one product approach actually outsold the catalog
approach by around 2 to 1.
Too many products only caused confusion for my visitors, and confused prospects that can't
decide what they want usually don't buy anything. Although a few major companies have been
able to get away with the catalog approach, it is just too difficult for the average small
business.
Use your other products as backends for multiple streams of income.
3. Backend
The principle of the backend sale is so neglected by most businesses that many people
don't even realize how powerful understanding it can be.
If you develop a good backend product which many of your first time customers go on to
purchase, you almost have an unlimited money machine for your business.
For example:
Let's say you are in an information business selling a low cost audio tape set and a
larger video package. The first product you have sales for $50.00 (and costs $25.00 for
dropshipping from the owner) while your second package sales for $300.00 (and costs
$150.00 dropshipping from the owner).
If the first product you sell to customers salls for $50.00 and costs you $25.00 to
fulfill, you have $25.00 potential earnings from it where you have to pay advertising
expenses from. If it costs you on average $20.00 advertising expense for each new
customer, you would only be earning a $5.00 profit on every new customer.
What would happen though if you included a sales letter for your $300.00 course in every
$50.00 package people bought?
If 1 out of every 5 customers you brought in on the first product would also buy your
second product for $300.00, you would be earning an extra $150.00 off of every 5
customers. Your front end profits would have been $25.00 for these 5 customers and your
backend profits would have been $150.00 without spending more than a couple of cents extra
for the sales letter included in the packages.
The money is in the backend sale. Don't forget about it.
Successful Internet Marketing can be accomplished by just understanding these three words:
Free, Lead, and Backend. It may sound a little too simple, but these words are the three
major keys to creating a profitable Internet business.
The more you understand about each of them, the closer you will come to the dream business
you are continually creating online...
Terry Dean is the webmaster at
http://www.bizpromo.com Visit today for turn-key web site solutions, turn-key products you can sell, and answers to all of your Internet marketing questions. For "115 Internet marketing tips" please send an email to..
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