Interactive Marketing--Your Key to Success in 2005

Written by Al Hanzal


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Try a bunch of marketing techniques and test them and retest them. When you find something that works run with it. It will work for a period of time. Thenrepparttar market moves on and you must move on. The work of testing isrepparttar 119782 only way to succeed in today’s market place.

4. Haverepparttar 119783 mindset of an inventor. Thomas Edison did not have 9999 failures on his way to inventingrepparttar 119784 light bulb. He had 9999 waysrepparttar 119785 light bulb did not work. Interactive marketing is not a straight line. It zigs and zags. When you recognize this, you will not be frustrated by marketing efforts that do not producerepparttar 119786 results you want. You realize you must try again to unlockrepparttar 119787 keys of your market.

An Example of Interactive Marketing

Everyone will agree that today’s markets demand more credibility, more proof. Look at any marketing manual and you will learn aboutrepparttar 119788 various forms of credibility. There are testimonials, written proof, expertise, guarantees, awards, credentials, etc. The critical question for interactive marketing is what proofs or credibility does my market need?

If your customer is a school system that wants you to teach a class, they may ask for a teaching certificate. They may even requirerepparttar 119789 status of graduating from a certain university. If you are going into that same school to fix a water pipe, they may want to see your plumber’s license to see that if you haverepparttar 119790 expertise to dorepparttar 119791 job. In some schools, they may ask you for a union card because they will not accept just any plumber.

It makes little difference what you think is good proof or credibility. What your market place wants for proof and credibility isrepparttar 119792 only thing that really counts. You identify what your market place wants by interacting with it, going back and forth, testing, asking, failing, succeeding, repackaging, experimenting, creating new offerings and making your pitch! When you use these skills withrepparttar 119793 market place it begins to teach you what you need to be successful with it.

Conclusion Joe, interactive marketing is not a cute new phrase. It’srepparttar 119794 way your business must relate with today’s market place if you want to get your business a chance for success in 2005.

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Selling To Your Affiliates

Written by Jerry Lunsford


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If you are in a marketing program that offers one time sales products then you can only sell to that customer once. For instance ebooks. There great but once you sell it to a person, that's it. Their not going to buy it again. Affiliate programs that offer a wide array of products will afford you a greater income especially ifrepparttar products are things that people use on a regular basis. And when something gets used on a regular basis it gets used up. And after it's used up they will need to order more. Such things as cleaning products, phone service, internet provider, health care items, food items just to name a few.

Just tell your customers that since they already use these products why not buy from within their own store, that way helping you out to attain your financial goals. And in return they can then dorepparttar 119781 same to their affiliates helping themselves to attain their financial goals. And that my friends is what capitalism and internet marketing is all about.

Other products that may not be something people use regularly or at all are informational products, health food, vitamins, increased health care coverage...etc. Try to convince your customers howrepparttar 119782 product can improve their life by providing better health or peace of mind. Butrepparttar 119783 key again is to tryrepparttar 119784 product first.

So buyrepparttar 119785 products that you are trying to sell. (At leastrepparttar 119786 ones you can use.) Then try them out. If you like them, then your own passion forrepparttar 119787 product is all you will need to convince your customers (affiliate base) to buy them for their own use. An after they try them for themselves they will then be inclined to try and sell them to their own affiliates. Thus, your sales efforts are rewarded with bigger commission checks. Depending on how deep your affiliate base goes, sales to just one affiliate could spiral into hundreds of dollars in commissions a month. And if you have hundreds of affiliates?

Just remember this when running your business. Whatever you do for others will be done for you. Help someone to achieve their goals and in doing so your goals will be met. Userepparttar 119788 products first, then you can successfully sell to your affiliates.

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