7. Free 30-day trial. Get their credit card information at time of order, but don't charge them until month is up. Another variation is 30 day trial for $1.

8. Pre-publication sale. Start taking orders before your product is even ready. (Seeing orders come in is also a great incentive for you to finally finish creating that product!)

9. VIP discount. Give a special offer to a certain group. Show your e-zine subscribers, your clients, your speaking audiences, etc. that they're special.

10. Buy one get one free! Yes, this can even work for information products and services. The purchaser can give extra copy to a colleague as a gift, or two people can split cost and essentially get your product or service at half price.

11. Special bonus. Give something extra if people purchase before a certain date. (This is a great strategy to up your sales without cutting your prices.)

12. Package discount. Offer a big discount if they order all your products/services or a select combination thereof.

13. Birthday sale. Or any fun occasion... Valentine's day, your anniversary, groundhog day, your dog just had puppies, your kid just lost his first tooth -- have fun with it!

BONUS TIP: Many of these options for coupons, discounts, cutoff dates, etc. can easily be set up with a good shopping cart system. QueenCart.com links you to one I use and recommend.

Now that you have a reason for your sale, you need to know how to write a promotion that SELLS. My program "E-mail Promotions That Sell" gives you simple, step-by-step formula. (www.ezinequeen.com/emailpromo.htm)

© 2004 Alexandria K. Brown

What's important to understand is that this is NOT a one-time occurrence. I've had this happen many times over last year. In fact, if I had to identify one single technique that has consistently increased my traffic by over 15% for last 12 months (I mean every month), it is simply writing an article a week.

To repeat, I invested maximum 20-minutes, and NO greenback writing these articles. The return on investment is in 1000%+ range....a pretty nice technique don't you think.

If you want some help writing articles, making them magnetic so they get picked up by biggest online sites, branding yourself and generating major traffic, here's a terrific resource that you just HAVE to see...

http://www.highertrustmarketing.com/part/wordstraffic

But remember, this information only gives you formula for generating an ongoing stampede of traffic and sales, it does not write articles for you.

Like any successful system - it requires a solid formula that works with action to feed formula.