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Do you need software like ezine announce to submit your articles? Or a service there are several services out there that will announce your articles for you to 80 or more directories.

Your budget may help you answer many of questions above. Smaller budgets may mean you complete a lot of work in-house.

Finally, establish criteria for measuring program. An awareness program may call for some baseline research so you'll know how you are doing. How you measure your sucess is measured by what your objective were. Were you looking for increased subscribers to your ezine. Then measure would be an increase in subscribers. Were you looking for increased traffic to your sales letter? Then did traffic increase?

Were you looking for more sales then did your sales increase?

The bottom line is this: a little time spent planning your program is important because your sucess rate will increase 300% with a little planning.

After you have built a relationship you can then recommend to them products, and services. But even then you cannot sell to them if they do not need your product. If you don't believe me try selling ice in artic. So try and target your market. Find out what your customers need and then fill that need.

The last thing you are going to do is to send your prospects to your product page. This is one of most important pages you will ever write. It has to tell them what your product can do for them. How it will change their lives to use your product. In other words make them really want to buy product.

Now you are at a point in your sales that you will be sucessful. But to recap you can not go from get customer's attention to sales selling is a relationship between two human beings and relationships take time.

About the Author: Judi Singleton is the publisher of Jassmine’s