July 2010 Issue

A complimentary publication of
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Solutions To Make Sales

Going online to get people to know you and trust you is not only the most cost-effective but the overall most effective way of selling products and services.

Of course, you cannot go about doing business online in a haphazard way. The third part of this newsletter will tell you what you must do to to sell successfully.

In This Issue

1. PopShops - To Sell As An Affiliate
2. Shopify - To Sell Your Own Hard Goods
3. But Before You Can Sell Anything ...

One of the most popular ways of making a Web site earn its keep - and more - is to sell affiliate products that match the context of your Web site and its individual pages.

Affiliate = No inventory to keep. No handling. No interaction with the buyers.

In many cases, your site's theme will lend itself to the sale of products and/or services. These can come from a variety of merchants that have an affiliate program. As an affiliate, you earn a commission on every sale made through you.

There is also a reliable solution if you have your own hard goods to sell.

PopShops - To Sell As An Affiliate

PopShops is a great affiliate aggregating service making access simple to a number of affiliate programs, such as:

• Google Affiliate Network
• Commission Junction
• ShareAsale
• Amazon.com
• LinkShare
• ... and many more.

PopShops simplifies considerably the selection of products from different merchants that best fit the context of your site or a given page of your site.

Best of all, PopShops does not take any portion of your commissions!

To learn more about making your Web site generate income with affiliate programs, click here.

Shopify - To Sell Your Own Hard Goods

Do you sell hard goods as a retail store owner? A small manufacturer? An official representative of a manufacturer or wholesaler with an exclusive territory?

Whether you cater to a local clientele or a global market, why not look into Shopify? Take a look at their FAQ page. You will get a very good idea of how to implement and use a Shopify online store.

It is one of the most all-around flexible and easy to use online store solution ...

• when you sell your own products

• or when you sell products for a manufacturer, wholesaler or retailer.

For complete details on how to effectively attract potential customers to your online store ... and generate sales, click here.

But Before You Can Sell Anything ...

Whether you are an affiliate or selling your own hard goods, you will need a steady if not increasing flow of potential customers. Not people idly passing by, but people looking specifically for what you have to offer.

It is better to have pre-sold people coming to your online store than unprepared individuals with other things on their minds.

You have seen me say, time and time again in this newsletter and on my Web site, that you stand a much better chance of being successful in business when you are already widely known to be honest and genuinely helpful.

The best way then to start in business is to build that very reputation which, in turn, will foster trust in what you have to offer (sell).

And the best way - that I know of - to build yourself such a prerequisite enviable reputation is to put the SBI business-building and marketing method to work for you ... because it just works. Here is unquestionable proof.

By the way ...

If you would like to meet who is behind SBI you can meet them on Twitter. All 130+ employees, and volunteers, share what they are doing to support the tens of thousands of SBI users like me.

I know of no other company that not only allows but encourages all employees to share what they do on Twitter. Most other companies limit their Twittering to their sales and marketing people.

You do not get to know a company as a collection of dedicated human beings ... when you can only read what their sales reps have to say ... officially!

As editor and webmaster I publish this newsletter monthly to help promote entrepreneurship on the web.

I sincerely hope that you have found this e-zine informative.

Best regards,

Claude Jollet  B.Sc.A.
Applied Knowledge Entrepreneur
Top-Web-Entrepreneurs-Plan-It.Com
"From the idea to the bottom line. My business is in the black by design!"