12 Ways To Increase Sales

If you're here at this blog, chances are, you have an online business. These strategies will assist your growing business.

1. Make your web site a resource center on a certain topic. Choose one subject and expand. You will get repeat visitors that are interested in that topic.

2. If you claim to have something free, make sure it's 100% free. If it's not, you will lose the confidence of your prospects.

3. Add a online chat or forum to your site.

5. Make sure your site looks good in all browsers, especially Firefox and IE. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted in some web browsers. Take into consideration that IE6 is still popular in some countries.

6. Invest a percentage of your profits into your business. Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, etc.

7. Give your visitors a good time so they will visit your web site again. Use a few jokes or puns, and funny stories.

8. Build trust with your prospects by them teaching them something. Give them free ebooks, articles, tips, and the like.

9. Keep each page of your web site consistent or similar. Use similar text fonts, colors, graphics
and background on every page. This is also a good web design practice.

10. Create traffic generators that people can add to their site without doing all the work. It can be an article directory, freebie directory, web tool, etc.

11. Challenge your visitors to find fault with your product or service. People love challenges. Tell them if they can find a flaw you'll give them a refund.

12. Form alliances with other related but non-competing businesses. You'll be able to beat your competition by selling to a larger audience.