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Turning online purchases into
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by: Michael Lever
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Copyright
2005 Michael Lever
Dear internet marketer,
I have some advice for improving your bottom line, whatever that may be.
It could be many things ranging from improving website traffic to
increasing sales or even just expanding your mailing list.
But whatever your bottom line is, you have two choices when setting out
to achieve it.
Your first choice is to employ an assortment of free traffic, sales, or
opt-in subscriber generating techniques.
These can be effective but generally take time and results are usually
slow.
Most people adopting solely this choice end up failing and frustrated.
But at least they haven't lost their pants in the process.
The second choice you have is to pay for services designed to improve
your bottom line. This will almost certainly speed things up and
improve the results you achieve both short and long term.
If you find yourself choosing this second option, make sure you can
measure quantitative results as you need to know what ROI (return on
investment) is being achieved for each paid service.
Most of you are probably a combination of both choices. And if you're
anything like me, you probably started using free techniques before
moving to paid alternatives.
Enough beating about the bush.
What's my advice? Simply this.
If you pay for any form of online advertising or promotion, do yourself
a big favour and explore services designed to assist this process
without attempting to influence your decision-making in any way.
Affiliate directories and Customer Acquisition Exchanges also known as
"Customer Reciprocation" are 2 such services.
These are really an extension or improved version of link exchanges as
they can provide paying customers instead of potential traffic
generation (leads, click-throughs, or visitors).
It's that simple. These paying customers earn you sales or commission,
depending whether they purchase your own products or products from your
affiliated merchants.
So what are you waiting for?
Each time you purchase online and don't take my advice, you're missing
out on paying customers willing to purchase through your own referral
URLs.
Choose wisely and turn your online purchases into profit.
Side note - I've mentioned thus far your online advertising and
promotion purchase intentions but did you know that all online
purchases you make can gain you paying customers?
That's because customer reciprocation services incorporate unrestricted
global shopping directories.
A comparison with Ebay makes interesting reading.
Whereas Ebay matches buyers and sellers of products through an auction
process, customer reciprocation services match buyers and sellers
through referral URLs via their own exchange engines.
In effect, they work like limited versions of Ebay.
The exchange process can only be completed for people who promote
product using referral URLs.
However, they expand on the Ebay model in the sense that with Ebay,
sellers can only offer their own product whereas sellers are able to
offer both their own product and those of other merchants through the
use of customer reciprocation services.
Regards
Michael Lever
About the author:
Michael Lever is a co-founder and CEO of SpinningTornado.com , an
independent company offering unbiased tools and services to help
affiliate and network marketers build profitable online businesses .
http://www.SpinningTornado.com
Partnering affiliates the world over .
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