10 Ways Focus Groups Can Propel Your Profits A focus group is a group of employees or current customers that discuss and brainstorm new ways to improve different parts of your business. 1. They can give you new ideas on how to advertise and market your product or service to your targeted audience. 2. They can give you ideas that could help improve your current product or service. For example, you could make it smaller, faster, heavier, etc. 3. They can give you ideas for new products or services to develop and sell. For example, a new gift wrapping service for your products. 4. They can help you solve lingering problems with your business. For example, you could give your employees incentives to solve slow production. 5. They can give you new ideas on how to cut costs and save money. For example, you could recycle damaged or old products instead of trashing them. 6. They can find new ways to improve your current customer service policy. For example, hire extra operators so you don’t have to put anyone on hold. 7. They can give you new ideas on how to get the most and best out of your employees in the less amount of time. 8. They can give you news ideas for upsell, back end and add-on products to sell. For example, you could upsell a video when selling your books. 9. They can help you find new ways to stay ahead of your competition. For example, you could give your customers free shipping. 10. They can give ideas for raising your employees morale. For example, you could hold a party, give them a holiday bonus, give them a free day, etc. Provided by:
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20 Super Hot Ways To Make More Money From Your Customers 1. Insert a brochure for another product in the first product package your customer buys from you. 2. Sell a basic product and tell people for a little more money they can receive the deluxe edition. 3. Give your customers a free subscription to your e-zine and include back end products in each issue. 4. Charge people extra money to get the reproduction rights. 5. Send your customers greeting cards at holidays with your back end product offer included. 6. Offer your customers a discount if they buy more than one of the same product. 7. Include a back end product offer on your online "thank you" page. 8. Give people a huge discount to your subscription product if they subscribe for a longer period of time. 9. Send your customer a free surprise gift with your back end product offer included. 10. Give your customers a discount if they buy over a certain number of any products. 11. Publish a back end product offer inside any of the information products you sell. 12. Group your products together in package deals to make more profit form each sale. 13. Include a back end product offer inside your "customer’s only" online club. 14. Join someone else’s affiliate program and use it as an upsell or back end product. 15. Follow-up with your customers to see if they’re happy and offer them another product. 16. Offer people a free sample of your product and tell them they will get a discount if they order now. 17. Send your customers a "thank you" e-mail with a back end offer attached. 18. Offer your customers add-on products like gift wrapping, batteries, imprinting, etc. 19. Allow your customers the option of signing up to your "future product offers list". 20. Explain to people that for extra money, they can extend the guarantee or warranty of the product. Provided by:
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10 Rarely Used Bonuses That Can Triple Sales 1. Announcement Alerts - Give customers e-mail alerts about critical information or product releases before your non customers find out about it.. 2. Discounts - Allow your customers to get lower prices on your products and other related products other businesses sell. 3. Expert Call Ins - Set up a date and time when your customers can call up and talk directly with experts that are related to your industry. 4. Private Invitations - Give your customers private invitations to customer events that non customers cannot attend. 5. Online Rolodex - Compile a list of web sites or online contacts that are related to the product. You could publish it on CD-ROM or on the web. 6. Archived Information - Bundle together some older information that’s no longer available. It could be e-zine back issues, articles, transcripts, etc. 7. Mentor Program - Give your customers unlimited consulting with their purchase. Allow them to contact you by e-mail, phone, fax, in person, etc. 8. Audio/Video E-zine - Give customers an upgraded version of your e-zine in online audio or video format. Non-paying customers could only get it in e-mail. 9. Freebie Announce Board - Offer your customers a message board were they can announce freebies they offer from their web site. 10. Barter Discussion List - Offer your customers the option of joining a barter email discussion list. They can barter goods and services with others. Provided by:
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10 Hypnotic-Like Sentences That Sell Like Crazy Tell your readers what they are probably thinking, feeling or doing as they read your ad copy. This strategy will usually trigger their own subconscious mind to bring out these feelings or actions. You can add these sentences into any ad copy. You may have to change one or two words so it relates more to the product or service you’re selling. 1. As you keep reading this ad copy, you are feeling more and more compelled to experience all the benefits of our product. 2. The more you understand just how valuable our product could be to your life, the less you think about delaying this important purchase. 3. After you read this short ad you will feel like your problems are almost completely solved, all you will have to do is order. 4. As you’re skimming through this, you’re beginning to think you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying out our product. 5. As you’re scanning over this ad copy, you are beginning to imagine using our product and enjoying all the benefits it brings. 6. The more you keep reading our ad the more you feel it would be a waste to let this opportunity slip by. 7. The more you review our ad the more you begin to find yourself getting very excited about our product and starting to feel the urge to buy now. 8. You don’t know it yet but, at the conclusion of this ad, you will feel driven to order and experience all the benefits of our product. 9. You don’t realize it yet but, in a few short minutes you’ll realize that you can’t put off this vital purchase and then you’ll be yanking out your credit card. 10. As every word you read travels from this ad to your brain, you start to understand just how much our product could benefit your life. Provided by:
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