Thursday, March 3, 2011

Techniques to Increase Your Business’s Profits


 
Whether you have suffered a downturn in your business, have never built it to the level you are aiming for or if you are just starting out, your goal needs to be using online marketing strategies to increase your profits. There are four basic ways to improve profits:
  1. Increase customers
    1. Increase traffic to increase customers
    2. Add to product offerings to make them more compelling
    3. Use PPC, SEO, local business results, article marketing, etc.
  2. Increase number of transactions per customer
    1. Build mailing list
    2. Increase customer communications through autoresponders, newsletters, broadcast messages
    3. Offer them upsell opportunities—pitch something seasonal
    4. Send out reminders for services and specials
  3. Increase the average dollar amount per transaction
    1. Offer bundle packages and upgrades, strong reasons to purchase

  4. Decrease costs, finding free traffic, lowering cost per click
    1. Increasing conversions, decreases costs.
    2. Offer a bonus, change a headline, offer a free consultation.
    3. Even converting from 1% to 2% is a 100% improvement and cuts costs for buying traffic in half—pure profit!
By putting an online marketing plan in place and following through with it, you can achieve all of these goals. You can easily improve your profits through the strategic use of online marketing techniques that will increase customers, increase the number of transactions per customer, increase the average dollar amount per transaction and decrease costs while finding free traffic which leads to a lower cost per click.
Take the time today to investigate if your website is doing all it can to attract new clients for you. If not, get started putting the simple online marketing plan into place on your own or with the help of a professional.
Get started now on your online marketing plan to rescue your business. Good luck!



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