Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 1 of 2)

Written by Gary Gray


Online shopping continues to grow at leaps and bounds. Depending on who you ask,repparttar numbers for increase in e-commerce have been consistently coming in at 20-30% year over year. These numbers present a great opportunity for online stores of both products and services. But despite these staggering figures, increasing competition continues to diluterepparttar 119587 marketplace. One great opportunity for sellers to increase traffic and revenue in their virtual stores is to offer online coupon codes and discounts through an affiliate program and their advertising. Coupons and discounts have always been a great way to motivate buyers in brick and mortar stores, and now that opportunity has migrated to web shopping!

Coupon codes with expiration help motivate buyers into taking advantage of a one-time discount. Suggesting creative such as “10% off home and garden orders over $50,” for instance, gives not only buyers a great opportunity for a deal, but it allows sellers to push a sale or take advantage of seasonal fluctuations inrepparttar 119588 marketplace. Online coupons can also be a great way to push a specific product in excess inventory or a service that is high demand. By offering a coupon like “Save 20% on Rossignol Zenith Ski’s,” or “Web hosting only $3.99 a month – hurry expires in 5 days,” sellers are able to create a real or fictitious supply or demand by offering these deep discounts to their website visitors. A great place to find examples of these online coupons for some ofrepparttar 119589 web’s top merchants can be found at Coupon Chief.

Another great opportunity to use coupons is with free shipping discount coupons. Many smart online shoppers are beginning to realizerepparttar 119590 incremental cost to purchasing online due to shipping, sometimes increasing their end price by 10 – 20%! One source of substantial motivation to these buyers can come from giving a free shipping deal. This allows those customers who can’t leaverepparttar 119591 house or prefer to shop inrepparttar 119592 privacy of their home to realizerepparttar 119593 same (or even discounted) cost to making their purchases online.

Can Pay-per-click Really Increase Blog Traffic?

Written by John Taylor


You want to know if Pay-Per-Click really can increase blog traffic? The answer is: Yes, it can. Thanks for reading this article. Have a nice day.

Wow, wouldn't it be great ifrepparttar answer really was that easy? Of course pay-per-click is a great way to get a new pair of eye-balls in front of your world-class blog, but it's not as easy as depositing some money into a PPC account and then watching your traffic counter spin out of control ten minutes later even though Google's web site claims that their Google AdWords campaigns can deliver results in an amazing 15 minutes!.

With a new blog appearing onrepparttar 119586 Internet every 7.8 seconds, you've got to have a solid PPC strategy to winrepparttar 119587 hearts and minds ofrepparttar 119588 people who are looking for a new blog to identify with. PPC is a strategic investment and, like all strategic investments, it requires expertise and knowledge of how that investment works.

The first barrier to running a successful PPC campaign is money. If you are looking to buy traffic for any ofrepparttar 119589 "hot property" key words then you might end up paying as much as $5, $10 or even an unbelievable $50 per click. At those prices you'd better be running a blog that has a great monetization potential or you could find yourself inrepparttar 119590 red atrepparttar 119591 end ofrepparttar 119592 first day. Of course, there are words available for as low as a dime, and many of those words COULD be as valuable asrepparttar 119593 $50 ones if you know how to pick them.

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