3. Reinvest This step is to determine how to use income wisely once you start receiving them. First I must congratulate you for getting as far as you have since you are reading this step, and if you are not there yet, don’t worry, you can read this for future reference. The first thing that comes to mind when receiving your first check might be "lets go spend it!!!". This course of action, however enjoyable, might not be fully advisable. I suggest taking at least 50% of your income and reinvesting it into your online marketing campaign, even if one comes to a point where business is self sustaining, it would still benefit from more power to increase its marketing efforts. In essence more hay you give your cash cow more milk it will produce, and thus it will be profitable and very advisable to follow this course of action.

4. Networking Once again it is time to emphasize on power of networking and why you should continue to pursue it. Through networking, opportunities, ideas, tips and tricks about business can be obtained, and down road even well profitable joint ventures could be established which would benefit all parties involved in it. Networking involves everything which has to do with communicating with other parties, be it talking to a friend, a person in your downline, or just simply posting on a message board. The ways are many and future opportunities are infinite, or to quote a friend I know; "your opportunities are all that you want them to be, if you want them bad enough".

4.Set your product order numbers at one (1). In other words, when someone clicks a purchase button, have cart say one (1) item purchased when they preview their cart instead of zero, making them select “1” again.

5.Include a no-cost gift in shopping cart, with receipt or in Thank You email, especially with large purchases. Let your customers know you appreciate their business. And ask for referrals!

6.Test special product and package prices with offers on a “Thank You” page or with a “Thank You” email.

7.Accept multiple payment options when possible; credit cards, faxed and telephone orders, print checks, money orders, echecks and 3rd party solutions like Paypal. Note: many businesses use American Express.

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* From research (Fall, 2001) by Vividence Corporation, specializing in Customer Experience Management (CEM) products and services.