Back-End Products... The Key To Lasting Profits

Written by Dan Brown


A back-end product is a product you attempt to sell your customers after they have recently purchased a related product from your business.

If you're not trying to sell back-end products to your customers, you're making a big mistake. It is easier to sell to existing customers than it is to sell to new ones who don't trust your business yet.

Below are ten killer strategies you can use to sell your back-end products to your existing customers:

1. When you ship peoplerepparttar first product they bought, insert a flyer or brochure for your back-end product inrepparttar 142424 package.

2. Give customers a free subscription to a customers only e-zine when they buy your product. You could include your ad for your back-end product in each issue.

3. Send your customers greeting cards on holidays or on their birthday. Include a small advertisement insiderepparttar 142425 card for your back-end product.

4. After people order your first product from your web site, take them to a "thank you" web page and include your back-end product ad on that page.

5. Send customers a free surprise gift after they order your first product. You could attach another ad withrepparttar 142426 free gift for your back-end product.

2 Step Marketing

Written by Joy Gendusa


Do it Right.

I receive postcards allrepparttar time. The other day I received a postcard trying to sell me a copy machine. It had tiny, tiny lettering slathered all overrepparttar 142305 front and a large portion ofrepparttar 142306 back ofrepparttar 142307 card.

It was extremely hard to read, so hard in fact that I threw it away.

Several days later I received a postcard with 32 words on it telling me that I could get complete information on unrestricted long distance telephone service for 5.5 cents a minute with no additional monthly fee by callingrepparttar 142308 800 number onrepparttar 142309 card.

I did call. I gotrepparttar 142310 information, had my questions answered and ordered my long distance service changed.

The company who offered merepparttar 142311 long distance service was using a time tested 2 step selling process:

Step 1. Generate a lead - Get me to call their 800 number.

Step 2. Providerepparttar 142312 requested information - Provided to me onrepparttar 142313 phone by one of their sales representatives, who was able to answer my questions and make me feel confident that I could save quite a bit of money on my long distance bill and thatrepparttar 142314 service would be as good or better.

What's So Good About 2 Steps?

It is much easier to create interest (a lead) than it is to get a person through an entire buying process (a sale).

You aren't gettingrepparttar 142315 prospect or existing customer to part with any money just yet.

You can use postcards to inexpensively promote to your target prospects and customers and generate leads (inquiries about your products and services) to then be followed up on and converted to sales.

This 2 step process also helps you to create a list of people who were interested enough in what you offered to contact you. You can then recontactrepparttar 142316 one's who you didn't complete a sale with when they first inquired, preferably until they do buy from you.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to getrepparttar 142317 information you will need to recontactrepparttar 142318 people who responded to your postcard offering. Repetitive follow-ups withrepparttar 142319 people who contacted you will result in increased sales. Make it a company policy to follow up with those people who contacted you about your products and services.

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