What Ways Are There To Attract New Prospects To Your Online Business?
Sep 30, 2009 in
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If you are running an online business and struggling to recruit new customers or distributors, what methods are there to improve this ?
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September 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am
A lot of the answers you have received so far are pretty good answers but they are missing the mark. Whether it’s a online business or a brick and mortar business you need to get the word out. One of the best ways for you to grow the retail side of your business is to talk to people. This may sound simple, but the reality of it is this. By going to your friends, family and past co-workers and your general sphere of influence you have a good opportunity to at least gain them as customers and to develop a source of referrals. On the distributor side, you need to be actively aware of the people around you. Be willing to talk to people as you will be surprised by the number of people who are looking to develop some sort of additional income through a home based business opportunity if that is what you are offering. Read self-improvement books and develop your people skills. If you can only relate to a few people you will be hard pressed to develop your business. Know your business and know it well.
Join the local chamber of commerce and network with other business owners. Join a local networking group as they can provide excellent leads for your retail business as well as potential distributors.
I hope this helps and good luck.
September 30th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
It is all about search engine optimization. Check out searchenginewatch.com
October 1st, 2009 at 1:03 am
When you found out would you give me an email. I am also trying to venture in online business offering services like accounting jobs, bookkeeping, copywriting, website services, research, etc…. Perhaps we can work together. Hope you do well with your venture. Take care
My email is vpanolin@yahoo.com
October 1st, 2009 at 2:34 am
ADVERTISING!
Make sure you appear top of the search engine results. Submit to yahoo, ask jeeves, google etc.
Advertise yourself in the local papers, wanted magazines etc etc
Get your name out there and contact the manufacturers directly. Any decent supplier won’t go looking for customers.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:42 am
To Get more customer, you need to have more traffic.
It can be:
1) Paid Traffic (Like PPC advertising)
Here is a Free (But excellent) Guide to start (PDF Format):http://www.makemoneyonlinehow.com/adword…
(Right click and save to your computer)
2) Free traffic (Search Engine Optimization)
Another guide:http://www.makemoneyonlinehow.com/SEO_ma…
Also, you can start:
1) Article Marketing for residual traffic.
2) Set up a blog (Google, Yahoo and MSN love blogs)
3) Solo E-zine ads
4) Join Forums related to your online business
5) Write a good Presse Release at http://www.PrWeb.com
6) Offline advertising (Newspaper…)
Something I want to ad:
* Start a newsletter for repeated sales.
There is only two ways to increase your profits, for any business: online or offline:
1) Increase the SPV (Sales Per Visitor)
2) Get New customers
Keep in mind that the first is easier and cheaper.
To your success.