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Suggestions Please??
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Online marketing is a breeze. the best thing is the net is full of info on how to market. the first thing you want to do is to know who your customers are. how they will buy your product. get your self your customers shoes and spend a day in them :O) knowing how they shop will give you the edge you need. the pros and cons of website advertising. the good news is that anyone with a few bucks can set up a website. the bad news is anyone with a few bucks can set up a website! your mission is to stand above the rest. your going to have to rise above your instinct human ego. :O) and forget about posh graphics and fancy stuff. for a. they take a age to load and b. does nothing for the web customers "whats in it for me" mind set. which leads me to say . ensure your site is orientated around whats in it for the customer. So for instance dont headder your web page " Jacks tea making widget website" make it customer benefit driven, call it " How you can make tea in 3.5mins for you and 7 guests …" or " You can have sexy shiny hair that men just cant stay away from. Secret revealed " so you see instantly the customer/surfer knows whats in it for ME. this is just one thing. your learn more at a webpage I’ll give you. some of the most expert selling website today are really nothing more than an simple sales (well written copy) letter. with give benefit after benefit after benefit,. you’ll learn… * this *that *other *benefit.. but of course you can have the best website on the face of this planet but if no one can find it – it wont make a dime. your chalange is to get your target market to your site. You will need to submit your page URL to all the search engines. you can download submitters off the net. you can post classified ads, post your link on FFA pages. you can have your own FFA page etc. you can run ads in e-zines. you can create doorway pages to your site. Everything focusing on bringing customers to your webpage. most sales are made after the 7th contact. so get your customer to sign up to your autoresponder which sends them 7 or so messages reminding them of your website. heres some links for you. www.myfreeofficelinks.com/enrichpr this has a banner to get you free marketing tools. How To Get 10,000 – 15,000 Visitors to your website within ONE week http://www.marketingtips.com/27312 Hope this helps you. ..ooh another tip get a FFA poster/submitter. ffablaster.com should do the trick. Jonathan O’Brien MLM Pro Consultant http://FreeLeads.com/team/mlmLeadsFree MBMM *DIGEST VERSIONS* MEM Go to http://markethink.com/lists/ to subscribe Markethink Digest http://markethink.com/digest/
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Check out the site linked below. Includes free ezine subscription for weekly tips and info and free articles. Wishing you success, Sara Hardy Co-Owner of Millennium Marketing 2000 www.marketingtrendz.com
> I am starting an online business and need to also accept credit cards > from our web site. Does anyone have any suggestions as to who to > contact to set up a merchant? Also I need advice on the best ways to > market my web site to get visitors to my site?
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The best ways to get visitors to your site may depend in some ways on what your site is all about and exactly what kind of visitors you want to attract. However, here are some general suggestions: Provide content of real interest and value. Articles pertaining to the subject of your website, directories of suppliers or providers of goods, services, or information important to your target market, and bulletin boards where your visitors can participate in discussions where they can trade tips, stories, talk about problems unique to the special area your website concerns, and so on – these kinds of valuable services give people real reasons to visit your site. Include your URL in your regular marketing methods, such as classified ads in magazines, print ads, business cards, stationery, etc. Contribute articles about your specialty to online newsletters and e-zines. Send out news releases about the unique nature of your site and the valuable content it provides. Capital Books: Used, Out-of-Print and New Books Specializing in Business & Entrepreneurship, Personal Development, Education & Home Schooling, and Books for Writers Visit to search or browse: http://www.capitalbooks.com MBMM *DIGEST VERSIONS* MEM Go to http://markethink.com/lists/ to subscribe Markethink Digest http://markethink.com/digest/
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> I am starting an online business and need to also accept credit cards > from our web site. Does anyone have any suggestions as to who to > contact to set up a merchant? Also I need advice on the best ways to > market my web site to get visitors to my site?
Lee, the three points I covered with Nelson Nieves concerning "Need help on marketing an entertainment service" also apply to marketing your web site profitably. If you receive MBMM in digest form the reply longer have a copy of that message and I’ll email a copy to you. [MOD: Actual newsgroup post is: search on message-id or subject.] As far as accepting credit cards through the Internet goes, a company I have been referring people to for more than a year now is AIS Merchant Services. I have not received a single complaint to date and they seem to be one of the few on the up and up. I am one of their many resellers so there’s always a chance I may be biased a little — but I don’t think so 
AIS allows online processing of your orders through your web page and deposits the money into your business checking account in 48-72 hours, not weeks or 30 days. I don’t know if you need them to process your orders for you or not but that is a nice feature. Whether you go with ais or some other firm you’ll want to be careful of the agency you contract with to handle your credit card processing. Many merchant service companies have fallen by the wayside and others have had their sites and assets seized by the federal government due to fraud. I have conducted a bit of online research on ais over the months and have not turned up a single complaint. If you want to know more about ais’s merchant services my reseller page is http://www.aismedia.com/home/e_commerce/merchant_accounts/merchant/id… 4687xmbmm Andr