In this issue:

1) Tip of the Week

2) FEATURE ARTICLE: Freebies can help YOUR small online business! by Joe Reinbold

3) CLASSIFIEDS

4) FREE Resources

5) POWERQUOTE

6) MARKETING MINUTE: Don't Get Complacent! by Simon Vause

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Today's feature article offers up a great list of resources for building and/or enhancing our sites. Here are a few more for the list:

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Freebies can help YOUR small online business! by Joe Reinbold

There are thousands of locations on the Net to get free information, help and services. You just need to spend some time online and at one of the major search engines. If you are trying to build a business online, you might need some help with html to build your page or site, a way to check the html out once you have your page set up and ready to go, some graphics, logos, fonts, buttons, bullets, cgi scripts and more. There are sites that offer these items or services for free. So if you are not a programmer don't let that stop you. Get that mouse going and start clicking and studying!

Here are some sites that will get you started.

These can help you with basic HTML: - http://www.bfree.on.ca/HTML/index.htm - http://www.htmlhelp.com - http://www2.imagiware.com/RxHTML/index_noframes.html

Check if your HTML code is working properly and if it is working in different browsers: - http://www.anybrowser.com - http://www.websitegarage.com - http://www.cast.org/bobby/

Here are some sites where you can get free resources to enhance your site: Build free banners: - http://www.animationonline.com - http://www.quickbanner.com - http://www.zyris.com Free scripts: - http://cgi-resources.com/Programs_and_Scripts - http://www.infohiway.com/javascript/indexf.htm - http://www.BigNoseBird.com - http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts - http://javascript.internet.com Free Graphics: - http://www.webgfx.com - http://www.cooltext.com - http://www.3dtextmaker.com Free page templates: - http://the-toolkit.com - http://home.netscape.com/browsers/templates/index.html - http://desktopPublishing.com/template/web/sitekits.html

Those should keep you busy for awhile. One of the amazing things about conducting business online is the tremendous amount of help you can get not only from sites like those above, but you can go to discussion boards, join chat rooms, and email discussion lists. At these you can ask questions and get answers to any problems you might have. Many of us who are well established on the Net today started with little or no knowledge of how to get our business started online. But we did it and you can to!

Having access to the Internet is like having your local library at home. There is no reason to try to re-invent the wheel, there are many good writers online who share their experiences everyday with millions of readers. That is why it is also a great idea to subscribe to the many online newsletters (ezines) like this one, so you can take advantage of those experiences. See you online! Go for it!

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Don't Get Complacent! by Simon Vause

Are you happy with your online sales? I hope you're not! Being complacent is one of the top ways for your online business to fail. Nothing lasts forever. For you to continue making sales you must constantly test new methods and techniques. Here are a variety of tried and tested techniques that can increase your online profits.

Before I start here's a few ground rules:

1) Don't implement every strategy at once otherwise you won't know what's worked.

2) Don't remove your current copy from your Website! You should test the new version of your copy on a new page. Test it with an advert in a newsletter that you've already tried your original copy on, to see if it pulls better sales than the previous copy.

The First Paragraph ----------------------------- One of the most important links to you making a sale is your first paragraph. If this doesn't grab the readers attention you're wasting your time.

Your first paragraph has to grab the reader. You have to make them want to read more. Tell them how your product will help them. A good way to do this is to start with a problem. Use the problem that your product solves, then construct a paragraph around it. If you do this right your reader will want to know more, after all your product solves their problem!

Tell Them What It Is ---------------------------- I've read so many sales pitches that go on and on and on, but never clearly tell me what it is they're selling. If your visitors don't know what you're selling they sure aren't going to buy it. Always explain what your product does, build on what you'll say in the first paragraph by going into detail on your product. If someone is interested in your product they'll read long copy. If you just have brief sales copy the chances are they'll never find out enough about your product to be interested.

Add Testimonials ------------------------- If you've already sold some of your products contact the people that purchased them to see if they'll give an unconditional testimonial on your product. As an incentive it's a good idea to point out to them that you will feature their testimonial along with their name, email address and Website address, thus bringing them traffic. By providing full contact details with the testimonial you're adding confidence to the product.

Load Your Product ---------------------------- As an added incentive you can add further products that support your product. These don't have to cost you any extra, they could be a report you've written, a free advert in your newsletter, etc. It's a good idea to add these to the end of your copy as bonuses. Assign a value to each bonus to increase desire. If it's a newsletter advert assign the value of that advert. If it's a report assign a value to it that you believe is suitable for the information.

Loading your products with bonuses can provide that little push that turns a maybe into a sale.

Give A Guarantee -------------------------- Stand behind your product by providing a minimum 30 day money back guarantee. If you're offering a money back guarantee your visitors will be confident in your product. They'll think it's good because you're willing to give them back their cash if they're not happy. Now you're probably thinking, "Can I afford to do this?" In reality you will get very few returns (if any), especially if your product is as good as you say it is ;-)

Increase Your Price ---------------------------- Does your product provide value for money? If you're in a highly competitive market have you tried to cut your price to compete? Don't do this because it's marketing suicide! You're product is only as good as its perceived value. If this is high and your price is low, chances are that your visitors will think there's something up.

Do a test by increasing your price by 50%. Don't think that it'll never work! I tried it and was amazed at the results. The sales increased and the profits soared.

Undervaluing a product is a way to lose you sales, increase your price and you'll be smiling all the way to the bank.

Ask For The Order --------------------------- You must ask for your visitors to order otherwise they won't. Don't be coy about this, at the end of your sales pitch re-cap the benefits of the product then ask for that sale. To do this I'd recommend a short sentence to ask for the order, followed by a large ORDER NOW in a bigger font than the rest of your text.

If you don't ask for the order the chances are you'll never get one, so start asking your visitors and increase your sales!

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