8 Myths about Online Marketing

Written by E K Gann


8 Myths About Online Marketing

1.Hit = Sales You got hits; is Notrepparttar same as you got sales! Generating traffic or hits to your websites isrepparttar 140971 priority for any online business. Conversion of hits into sales would be on top of that.

2.Great “Content” Creates Great Sales. Creating a website with marvelous “content” has and still overwhelmed many online business. Great “Content” here refered to fantastic graphics, award winning designs and employingrepparttar 140972 latest state ofrepparttar 140973 art technology. Very impressive. Impression is important on a website, no doubt, but an online business have to emphasize onrepparttar 140974 conversion rate into real sales. “Content” have and should be onrepparttar 140975 “Emotional” State of Selling.

3.Over Spending on Technology. A successful Online marketing business is not all about technology. It is all on Selling. Concentrating onrepparttar 140976 marketing results in creation of sales.

4.6 Billion people onrepparttar 140977 planet, 900 Million have access torepparttar 140978 Internet. The potential ofrepparttar 140979 internet is ever growing. That is definite. Counting chickens does not equates to actual online activities; relevant activities. Relevant activities means conversion. And conversion to sales comes from qualifications, not quantity.

The Choice between Yes and Yes: A Psychological Revelation

Written by Sean D'Souza


Three year old Kara was throwing a tantrum. She didn't want to go to bed, of that she was certain.

"Do you want to brush withrepparttar red or blue toothpaste?" her dad asked gently.

"Blue," she says, glad to be givenrepparttar 140930 opportunity to make a decision.

Ten minutes later, Kara was well tucked up, wondering when she'd agreed to go to bed inrepparttar 140931 first place.

=========================== You laugh atrepparttar 140932 story, don't you? ===========================

The method used to get Kara into bed seems a bit like trickery. And who am I to say that it's not? Yet I want you to pay attention to one thing. Kara was glad to be given a choice between yes and yes.

=========================== Your clients are not much different ===========================

Clients come to you every single day asking you to give them a choice. A choice between yes and yes. Instead all you're giving them is a choice between yes and no.

Mah friend, your bank account will see far better days if only you'd step back, and userepparttar 140933 immense power ofrepparttar 140934 choice between yes and yes.

Of course, you don't have to believe that this choice factor works. You don't have to believe your sales will go up. All you have to see is proof. So inrepparttar 140935 article below I'll demonstraterepparttar 140936 psychological factor of choice.How it can work for you and how it can turn against you and bite you inrepparttar 140937 you-know-where.

=========================== It all started on one stupid loss-making November's day... ===========================

We were doing fine withrepparttar 140938 sales on our website when we made one change. I'm going to demonstraterepparttar 140939 change inrepparttar 140940 article below so it would help for you to haverepparttar 140941 page opena so you can see what I'm talking about.

If you look at this page at http://www.psychotactics.com/hiddenlink.php you'll find that you getrepparttar 140942 choice to buy two packages. One isrepparttar 140943 copy ofrepparttar 140944 Brain Audit andrepparttar 140945 other choice is a copy ofrepparttar 140946 Brain Audit +repparttar 140947 Brain Audit Rip.

Tillrepparttar 140948 middle of November, we had bothrepparttar 140949 offers up. Then one ego-driven morning we decided to pullrepparttar 140950 plug on one choice.

=========================== We gave customersrepparttar 140951 choice between a yes and um..NO! ===========================

Almost within 24 hours, our sales started going south for no reason at all. We ignored this sickening slack for about a week. Then we looked back at what was working. And we put backrepparttar 140952 choice between yes and yes.

The customer was back in choice-ville andrepparttar 140953 sales soared.

=========================== But here'srepparttar 140954 curious part ===========================

Amongrepparttar 140955 two packages, one has a much higher price. Yet over 97.5% of customers, when givenrepparttar 140956 choice betweenrepparttar 140957 two packages, choserepparttar 140958 higher priced package.

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