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1. Tell him what you lose

It is not enough to tell your customer what they earn when you buy your product. Tell him what you lose if you do not buy it. Many people react more to fear of losing that desire to win. For example, say that health insurance does not only help provide quality health care, but avoids the need to sell your home to pay for that care.

2. Give a pleasant surprise

Just as an unpleasant surprise can kill a sale, a nice can help you close it. This is the case of unexpected extras, offered immediately before your prospect make the last action to complete a purchase. For example, report that the car you are about to purchase will receive a coupon to make it free polarized glasses. This kind of surprises helps eliminate last-minute hesitations.

3. Delivers the product quickly

The faster you can deliver your product or service, more sales. If you can not deliver all or part of your product immediately, add something that can. It can be something simple, like a series of tips related to your product, only available on your site to new customers.

4. Facilitates Purchase

The easier and quicker procurement process, the less chance that your customers give reverse its decision to purchase. Every step is not essential should be eliminated. This is of great importance in online transactions, in which the prospectus is always one click to leave your site (not back), or car sales on credit, in which several agencies will investigate prospects and always There is the possibility that another has a more simple and fast protocol.

5. Test, test and test

Make marketing activities in parallel to see which is more effective. For example, if you are sending emails to a promotional event with two different subject lines to see what works best. Do the same with the headlines of the ads, or two different newspapers.

Lantaren, the only Spanish consulting firm specializing in implementing business intelligence solutions and information management, has been implemented in the real estate developer Taylor Wimpey Spain IBM Cognos BI solution, obtaining the complete, integrated and updated of the management key areas of sales, marketing and finance, can optimize the allocation of resources to locate in areas where they obtain a higher return, increase sales and ultimately profit and stay aligned with the performance of tactical objectives and strategic.

Subsidiary of the leading UK developer Taylor Wimpey PLC, the company operates in Spain for 50 years, building quality homes on the shores of the Balearic Islands, Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca.

After implementing an ERP and CRM to meet their growing needs regarding information management, the company decided to search for an advanced reporting and analysis to the various departments provide relevant information based on the large amount of data entered in their management systems. Until then, many reports critical of business were made up by hand and given the complexity of the investment required much time doing low value-added and high probability of incurring inadvertent errors, which are not could ensure the reliability of the information. Other reports were automated and made available on a simple Web application.

In a changing environment and dominated by the economic crisis, in which resources are scarce and management tools are critical to efficient allocation of investment, marketing management expressed the need to analyze the best interests of your prospects. “We needed to identify the best recruitment channels depending on the product, and measure the effectiveness of employees and sales force, among other priorities,” sums Pedro Moya, director of Information Systems in Taylor Wimpey Spain. Moreover, financial and general directions also demanded a lot of information due to the requirements of the parent newspaper in the UK.

Therefore, it was decided to implement IBM Cognos with standard modules Ad-Hoc Query, Reporting and Analysis, which was added scorecarding tool (control) Metric Studio. After a first experience with another partner of Cognos, Lantaren chose to implement the solution which provided guarantees to successfully address a Business Intelligence project such as Lantaren “had the highest certification and its core business is Cognos” Moya highlights. Next to human capital allocated to the project, strict compliance by Lantaren and budget objectives set, as well as performing in term (nine months) and no deviations have been key to the success of implantation. Read the rest of this entry »

In these difficult times is forced and not take extreme measures to improve sales but to maintain the level of activity. A reduction in purchasing power of employees is necessary to add a change in the mindset of consumers who have decided to limit unnecessary purchases and enforce every penny. Users are constantly looking for deals, discounts, benefits, and opportunities to enable them to take full advantage of the few purchases made online. Therefore, it must take some action to boost online sales.

Do not cut your advertising costs. If necessary, find other areas where they cut costs, excluding advertising and marketing. Failure to properly promote their products will further reduce their sales and this would be a fatal error. It must spend wisely rather than spending less. Today, perhaps a flat in a high circulation magazine, for example, do not yield the desired results in terms of massive, and most likely never recover the investment. In contrast other types of actions refine and focus more on your ideal target will represent a lower cost but with a greater comparative effectiveness.

Do not trim their production costs, specifically in terms of raw materials. Put another way would be a terrible decision to sacrifice quality for competitive prices.

Train your sales force, especially those employees committed to the development of new channels. Nor will have a person dedicated to “be” on Twitter, for example, large numbers of hours per day if it means that time and those contacts into sales.

Research. Try to define as precisely as possible the needs of their audience, their habits, their expectations. This will help you better customize both the advertisement and to adapt the product to what his audience expects of you.

Implement a proper CRM system. Remember to always be easier for a customer loyalty with new customers. It is also necessary to correctly track all business contacts, both those who have become sales, who have made a query, you have subscribed to our newsletter, or had some contact with our company. In short you need to know if they bought, why they buy, and if not what stopped them bought to complete the purchase process.

Of course, the sine qua non for enhancing online sales is that you believe in their products. Be critical and try to improve the aspects that can be optimized. Compare your products with those of its competitors. Use this information to make things better and provide value to their goods.

In this article I want to share my opinion the most important person in your company as this applies to any business that you are either physical or online business, and as time in my title in my opinion is your best Bill of Sale. Internet Business

I do not know if you already picture what I’m talking about but you want to share it takes a long time to achieve, but when you lose you can go in seconds and make sure everything worked as we fall.

For this reason it should take care as the greatest treasure we have in the Internet Business.

From what I’m talking about is your image as a person and professional, and as I mentioned in my opinion is the best sales letter that you have. A picture or a video of you when having a scan of represents the kind of person you are in this industry and you can afford to take yourself a person who only sell their image.

And that you just mentioned do not say it because it occurred to me to tell you, is because it is a fact and I can mention to hundreds of people sell their image by actors, models, athletes and why not … .. in Internet Business and surely you know some or you are one who has an image positioned in this industry.

But what happens when we lose that image in Internet Business?

This is one of the worst mistakes we can make, as I mentioned earlier takes time to get that image but it’s easy to lose, which is why you should take care of it as your greatest treasure because businesses come and go but your image will always stay with you and depends on you and want to be remembered in Business on the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

I imagine that many of you, but all have been receiving emails from companies promoting their products. That is what is known as email marketing campaigns.

If the campaign is done wisely and carefully, following the laws about sending emails, you can become a very effective tool to sell more and earn more money.

In an interesting study published by the Small Biz Trends credited as companies with between 1 to 20 employees effectively used in email campaigns when they plan to expand.

Overall 46% of small businesses that use email marketing and planning 36% more to do in the next 12 months?

Statistics from the United States but very instructive for any other reality in other countries.

Among the companies using email marketing tool, the budget used is between 15% and 22% of the total marketing budget. One of the main challenges that entrepreneurs have been in this type of campaign is to overcome the perception that their customers might have against spam.

Interesting statistics that show how this tool can still be very effective in increasing sales of a real business facts to see a large number of companies that use these resources.

DELL does not become the biggest seller of computers only. Established a sales network across the screen.

AMAZON is not a top seller of books in the world without assistance. Amazon transfer millions of dollars or euros per month to 400,000 “members.” The places we have seen is an affiliate.

What is affiliation? Is a person who sends clients to the site and then receive a commission. But you do not have customers? – No problem, Google will bring.

One of the richest people in the world is callouts Gulbenkian. He was named “Mr. 5%.” What did he do? Placed on the oil field owners and oil c. And receive 5% on all transactions. You will do the same. GOOGLE will take the customer, directing them to places that accept members, and receive commissions.

For example: he knows that a company has an affiliate program has a new product: a software Pam resistance. Register as a member, receives a “link” specific, such as: Read the rest of this entry »

The first thing that comes to us or brought to mind many of us (including me) is: How much money can I win? How long can I be a millionaire? Or maybe, how can I get thousands of hits on my web page to be able to sell my product?

However, beyond the answers to these questions can be resolved, our thoughts and actions must be raised in other countries are very different, with a focus on: What do I need to satisfy those who visit my Web pages? How can I resolve doubts people to visit and find some information on my blog or webpage?

Well, let’s step and analyze:
1. Many people (if not most), the time to browse the web, do not want to buy your product or anything, what you want no doubt, meets the current needs are, I mean switching to examples such as: How can I stop smoking? How can I Lose Weight? How can I make money? How to learn to play guitar, Etc.?

If we identify each of these questions, none of them require a specific product or brand, or price, or name or whatever. All they want is some information to fulfill this need in time of need.

2. When I started in Internet Marketing, it was always my intention is to learn how to earn money quickly, because I will stop working on a full-time paid work, income from the comfort of my home and part-time, etc. But unfortunately the reality is different, because like any other business, the Internet and Internet business, requires planning, dedication, commitment, and not just focus on selling products or services offered in my Blog, wait for sales. Read the rest of this entry »