Internet Marketing Tools and Informations

100 Ways To Increase Your Online Income

1. Create two versions of your ezine.
Then people can choose if they want ads included with it or not. This’ll attract the people who hate ads to subscribe. You could also charge a subscription fee to the ezine without ads. This will make up for the lost advertising revenue.

2. Create a long-term relationship with your entire customer base.
You can stay in touch with them through an ezine, with greeting cards, opt-in lists, autoresponders, forums, chat rooms, email discussion lists, instant online messages, etc. When you stay in touch, people don’t forget about your business.

3. When you write and give away a free ebook you will become known as an expert.
This will enable you to gain people’s trust and they will buy your main product or service quicker.
You may get offers from other people wanting you to speak, consult, coach, etc.

4. Give your new customers free gifts as a surprise.
This will increase their loyalty and give you more word-of-mouth advertising. For example, your customer could tell their friend, "I just ordered this new advertising ebook and they gave five other ebooks as surprise bonuses! I really got a great bargain!"

5. Offer free classified ads on your web site that expire after a particular time period.
People will revisit your web site over and over to resubmit. You could have other things expire or be updated so they will revisit, like ebooks, articles, links, software, forum postings, etc.

6. Design your site so it will be worth bookmarking.
Your visitors will bookmark your web site if it’s full of free, original content like articles, ebooks, etc.
You could survey your target audience to see which web sites or what type of sites they visit a lot.
Then you could place those links all in one section of your web site. You could advertise it as a start page.

7. Give people a free subscription to your ezine.
Almost everyone is publishing an ezine nowadays so it’s important to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a weekly contest for new subscribers. For example, you could say, "Subscribe And Have A Chance To Win Our Latest Home Study Course!"

8. Create an extra revenue stream with your web site’ s articles or content.
Publish the first paragraph of each article and charge people to read the rest. You could also allow other authors to submit their articles to make money. You would just share the profits!

9. Email targeted ezines and ask them to do a joint venture with you.
Ask them to run your ad and in exchange they would get a percentage of the profits. You would just have to get them to join your affiliate program. To give them more incentive, you could offer them a higher commission than the rest of your normal affiliates.

10. Find a niche for your new free ezine.
There are thousands of free ezines; your ezine needs to be "extra-specialized" to attract new subscribers. It could be the type of content you offer, like you interviewing experts, having crosswords or word finds, reviewing products, having a question/answer section, etc.

11. Most people want to avoid or end pain.
Tell your prospects how much pain and the problems they will avoid or end if they buy your product.
For example, you could say, "Just imagine being able to go out in public without thinking you’re being made fun of behind your back."

12. Most people want to gain pleasure.
Tell your prospects how much pleasure or benefits they will gain if they purchase your product. For example, you could say, "Picture yourself lying on a beautiful sandy beach with nothing to look at but palm trees and a stunning blue ocean."

13. Most people don’t want to miss out on a major opportunity that they might regret in the future. For example, you could say, "After (date), we will be raising our price to $50 so order now!" Another example, "Order before midnight to make sure you have a chance to receive the 3 extra bonuses!"

14. Most people want to have good health and live longer.
For example, you could give your prospects free coupons to a fitness club when they buy your product. Another example would be to give your prospects a free ebook about healthy eating habits.

15. Most people want to belong to something or a select group.
For example, you could give your prospects a free membership into your club when they buy your product. Another example would be to allow them to subscribe to your private email discussion list.

16. Use more than one P.S. in your ad copy.
The post script is one of the most often read parts of any ad, so why not use two or three of them instead of one. The P.S. could remind your prospects about a good benefit. The P.P.S. could tell them about your limited time offer. And the P.P.S. could tell them about another free bonus.

17. Gain your visitors’ attention by telling them your problems.
People like to hear about other people’s problems because it takes away from their own. For example, you could say, "I’m so frustrated at..." Another example, "I’m very upset about our competition because..."

18. Use viral marketing to promote your business on the Internet.
Give away freebies with your ad copy included on them so others can give them away. It could be ebooks, software, reports, autoresponders, web space, email accounts, etc.

19. Survey your target audience to find out things you have in common with them and use them in your ad.
People like people who are like themselves. For example, you could say, "Like you, I also have been scammed in the past." Another example, "You and I both know that it sucks to pull weeds by hand."

20. You could end your ad copy with a free bonus.
When you give people a free bonus, it increases the product’s perceived value. For example, you could say "P.S. You’ll get 7 free bonuses for ordering before (date)." Another example, "P.S. If you order this weekend only, you’ ll get the ebook (title)!"

21. Forward interesting emails to your online friends with your signature file included.
They may end up forwarding it to their friends and so on. It’s like a chain reaction; your message will just keep multiplying in everyone’s email box. It could possible reach millions of people.

22. Organize your web site into categories.
Visitors won’t get frustrated and leave your site because they can’t find what they’re looking for. For example, you might organize it with links on a side bar: Home, About Us, Free Ezine, Free Articles,
Free Ebooks, Free Affiliate Program, Chat Room, Guest Book, Message Board, Contact Us, etc.

23. Send your web site visitors a "thank you" email.
This’ll remind them to revisit. Just get their email address and permission. For example, you could say, "Would you like to be notified by email when this web site is updated with new information? Click here to sign up."

24. Advertise that your online business is for sale.
Try to sell it for $10,000,000. You’ll either get $10,000,000 or you’ll get curious visitors. They will want to see what all the fuss is about. Wouldn’t you? The people who visit just might decide to buy your products or sign up to your ezine.

25. Try auctioning off your products.
Set up the auction software on your web site. Give customers the option of paying outright or bidding. Some people think it’s more fun and competitive to try to outbid people than just hand over their credit card right away.

26. Add a free interactive game to your web site.
You could hire someone to create it. The game should be related to the theme of your web site. For example, if you were selling business products, your interactive game could be about running a successful business or investing in the stock market.

27. Train your employees as a team instead of just individuals.
Everyone must do his or her job in order for the others to do theirs. Think of it as the offensive squad on a football team. If everyone has a job and does it right, your business will score a touchdown.

28. If you make people feel like it’s their idea to buy, they will be less hesitant.
For example, you could say, "You are making a smart decision by buying our product". Another example, "You are doing the right thing wanting to buy our product to improve your marriage."

29. Start an affiliate program for your business.
You will be able to spend less profits on risky advertising and spend more money on guaranteed sales. Your only goal would be to persuade affiliates to sign up, train them and keep them selling for you.

30. Show your prospects a collection of testimonials that stand up for your product.
People are more likely to agree with a group than have a different opinion. This is because most people are followers and not leaders, so it makes sense they may be persuaded to buy your product after seeing a big collection of testimonials.

31. Maximize your advertising budget and don’t go broke like the big web sites.
All you need is a small group of loyal customers to sell back-end products to again and again. If you can’t create your own products you could join affiliate programs, join a drop shipping program or find joint venture partners who have products.

32. Sell to the people who join your affiliate program.
They are more likely to buy your products because they are interested in selling them for the commission. It’s important to train and support your affiliates so they will know you will be there to help them. Tell them it’s good to write ads about their personal experiences with your product so that it will persuade customers to buy.

33. Offer a deluxe product or service as an upsell or back-end product.
You won’t have to create a totally new product, just add on to your main one. For example, let’s say you’re selling an ebook with 100 business tips in it. You could write one with 50 new tips and use that as the deluxe version.

34. Add an extra profit stream by selling the reprint rights to your web site content.
They could be articles, ebooks, reports, etc. Allow people to compile them into an ebook and sell it.
Just have them include your ad copy and link back to your web site in the ebook. You could also have people give the ebook away.

35. Make your product offer very rare.
People perceive things that are rare as being more valuable. You could use a limited time offer or free bonuses. For example, you could have a countdown timer on your web site and say, "Order in the next 5 minutes and get 6 free bonuses!"

36. Attend trade shows and seminars that are related to your specific industry.
Pass out business cards or brochures about your business. Rent your own booth at the trade show.
You could use free items to attract people to it.

37. Swap articles with other ezine publishers.
You could get your articles published more often if, in exchange, you publish their articles. If they are hard negotiators, maybe you could offer to run two of their articles to one of yours.

38. Ask people to link to your site’s content.
Some people may not want to link to your home page but might want to link to your content. Just include an attention-grabbing link or graphic on the content page that leads people to your home page or sales letter.

39. Convert your web site into an ebook.
You could offer your ebook as a free bonus for your product or another business’ product. This will also allow people to view your web site offline as well. You could put it on a CD-ROM and include it in your direct mail packages.

40. Create ebooks for other web sites or businesses.
You could create them for no charge in exchange for an ad or a mention of your web site inside. You could also create them in exchange for getting the reprint rights to them. You would never need your own product to sell.

41. Make sure your classified ads don’t sound like ads.
Don’t ask people to buy anything or they won’t click, give something away instead. You could also mention a major benefit. For example, "How To Lose 5 Pounds In Two Hours." Another example, "How To Write Ebooks Fast!"

42. Give your free bonus products extra perceived value.
Don’t use the phrase "Free bonuses", use the phrase "You will also get". People won’t assume they’re free and it will make the person think they are worth more money. People usually assume free bonuses are just leftover things from your business that are not worth much.

43. Keep your visitors at your web site longer.
The longer they stay, the greater chance they will buy. Just hold a treasure hunt contest on your web site. Have them try to find something like a graphic, picture, word or link. You could give them a freebie or cash as a prize for finding it.

44. Make sure you’re always creating new products and services or improving old ones.
Most products or services won’t stand the test of time online. You could hire a focus group to get ideas on how to improve one of your existing products, or to think up ideas for new ones.

45. Try out new business opportunities.
You could combine them with your current business. It could add an extra profit stream to your web site. You could join affiliate programs, MLMs, drop ship selling programs, etc. Another idea would be to joint venture with other businesses.

46. Customize your product or service if you have too much competition.
For example, if you’re selling an advertising book, rewrite part of it and target it just to pet businesses. Another example, if you’re selling an accounting software, you could change part of it to sell it as business-to-business accounting software.

47. Sell a lead-in product super cheap, even if you lose a little money.
If people like it, you’ll have a greater chance to sell your higher priced product. For example, someone might buy your low priced product, then buy your medium priced product, then your high priced product.

48. Give people a free version of your product.
If it does what you say, they will pay for the upgrade or deluxe version to get more benefits. You could also use a full free product as the lead-in product. If they like it, they might buy one of your related products.

49. Ask your visitors outcome questions in your ad copy.
For example, "Where do you want to be financially in the next two years?" Another example, "What do you want your dream spouse to be like?" This’ll persuade them to buy so they might have a chance to experience what’s in their mind.

50. Give your product away for free to people who will agree to influence your target audience to buy it.
They could be experts, famous athletes, actors, etc. You could ask them to write a persuasive endorsement or testimonial for your product (if they like it). It could be one for your ad or one for them to send to their ezine subscribers for affiliate commissions.

51. Purchase reprint rights to other people’s ebooks and combine them in a large package deal with your own product.
You should check with the reprint rights owners to see if they will allow it first. If you can’t afford to buy reprint rights, you could always trade for them.

52. Sell your products at a wholesale price to retail web sites.
You could sell them individually or in bulk. You could charge normal consumers a monthly or yearly subscription fee to buy your products at wholesale prices. You could also sell them for wholesales prices if they link to your web site or run your ad in their ezine.

53. Set up joint ventures with other businesses to sell your product to new customers.
They can introduce it to their customers for a set price or join your affiliate program and earn a commission on each product sold. This is one of the best ways to promote a business if you’re just starting out too, because you don’ t need a customer list or an up front ad budget.

54. Hold a free contest or sweepstakes at your web site.
Ask them to give you their contact information to enter. Just get their permission to send them new product offers. You could also announce the winners to them, as well as sending new contest announcements.

55. Assume your potential customer is going to buy.
For example, you could say, "Dear Future Millionaire". They will want to buy in order to feel that way.
Another example, "I know when you start reading this book you won’t be able to put it down."

56. Create an alliance with 3 or 4 web sites. Include each of your ads or banners on the other web sites.
You will all share targeted traffic with each other. For example, you would instantly have 3 web sites selling for you without paying them an affiliate income. You would just be giving them ad space on your web site.

57. Give your visitors a different free bonus for each link they click-through on your web site.
For example, you could say, "If you click on this link you’ll get a FREE course!" Another example, "If you click on this link you’ll get a free ebook!" You could also place a picture or graphic of the freebie beside the link.

58. Make money from web sites that don’t have an affiliate program by doing a joint venture.
Set up the affiliate program through a third party for them. By doing that for them you could require that you become their only affiliate. You would instantly become a super affiliate because you would be the only one, with no competition.

59. Offer a search option on your web site.
People will stay longer because it gives them the option of searching through your web site using keywords. They also won’t get frustrated when they can’t find something. It’s a good idea if you have an organized navigation bar.

60. Provide a chat room on your web site.
Your visitors will want to chat with other people who are interested in a particular subject. They may also talk about how they enjoy your products and services. Your new visitors and prospects may see everyone chatting and that might persuade them to buy.

61. Start your own Internet radio station.
It could be related to the theme of your web site and you could advertise your products over the station. You could also charge other businesses advertising on your station. You could start a music station or something like a talk radio station.

62. Add a "FAQ - Frequently Ask Questions" section on your web site.
People won’ t email you a question and leave. They will stay to find out the answer. You could also publish an ad for your main product or service on your FAQ web page. If their question is answered, they may buy that day.

63. Make your site’s text easy to read.
Most people will strain their eyes trying to read text that is too small, light or bright. You could ask some of your friends and family members to read your web site to be absolutely sure. They will tell you about any other things they don’t like too.

64. Form a strategic alliance with other related but non-competing businesses.
You’ll be able to beat your competition by selling to a larger audience, sharing advertising costs, trading business strategies, bartering both goods and services, gaining new products to sell, packaging products together, etc.

65. Offer free online tools your visitors can use right at your web site.
It could be a search engine submitter, ad or letter templates, ebook compiler, etc. If they like them, they will revisit your web site again and again to use them and tell all their friends about them.
 
66. Make extra profits from selling monthly updates of your free ebook.
You could also back-end sell the extra, never-before-released chapters of your free ebook. You’ ll have a lot more people reading your ebook and seeing your ad because it’s free and because you allow others to give it away. Plus you can make more profit from it by selling extra content.

67. Negotiate with ezine publishers.
You could get free or discounted ads by letting them join your affiliate program and earn commissions on the ad you run. You could also offer them other incentives like a free product, a reciprocal ezine ad, a membership to a business club, etc.

68. Get your products or services evaluated for free.
You can give your product for free in exchange for evaluations and even testimonials. You will find out any problems with your product before you sell it. You might also discover new uses or selling points for your product too.

69. You could highlight keywords throughout your ad copy.
The keywords should be attractive to your target audience. You could highlight them with color, underlines, italics, etc. You could also repeat keywords one after another. For example you could say, "This is a soft, soft, soft rug."

70. You could bullet or indent your benefits in your ad copy.
Most people won’t read the whole ad copy, so make your product’s benefits stand out and you won’t lose the sales from all the skimmers. You can also indent other things like your guarantee, post-scripts, testimonials, closing, etc.

71. You could change the size of your text in your ad copy.
You want to make your text large enough so it’s not hard to read. You also want your headline and major points to be larger so they will stand out. You could also use more space in between important parts of your ad copy to make them stand out.

72. You could raise or lower the price in your ad copy.
A higher price could increase the perceived value of your product and a lower price could lessen your product’s value. Either way, you need to test which price will pull the most orders. Another idea would be to use an odd number like $19.46 instead of $19.99, $19.95 or $19.97. It makes it look like there is a specific reason you priced it like that.

73. Educate yourself with new strategies to increase your sales.
You could take classes, subscribe to ezines and magazines, read books or ebooks, etc. Internet business and technology move at lightning speed. You need to keep up so you don’t get left behind.

74. You could add special offers in your ad copy.
It’s usually easier to sell the offer than the product. You could use discounts, free bonuses, volume sales, etc. For example, you could say, "You’ll get 5 bonuses when you order by Aug 24, 2006!"
Another example, "Buy one, get the second one for half price."

75. Allow other ezine publishers or web site owners to republish your content.
This could be small nuggets or excerpts of information from your free ebook (with your byline or ad included, of course). That is another way to market your business with the use of a free ebook.

76. When you ask someone to sign up to receive a freebie, don’t ask for really personal information.
This is a fast way to lose a potential prospect. For example, if you ask them for information they want to keep personal, they might not want to sign up. Another example, if you ask for too much information, they may not have the time or patience to fill it all out.

77. Advertise your online business by dressing in clothes that are imprinted with your ad.
It could be a T-shirt, ball cap, coat, etc. You would want to especially do this if you are going to a crowded event, like a football game, a county fair, party, dance, a social club, etc. Be sure to have a supply of your business cards on hand to pass along to anyone that asks about your online business.

78. Trade links with other web sites.
They should be related to the subject of your web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc. If they turn down your trade offer, you could offer them some extra incentives like free things and extra free ad space.

79. Outsource part of your workload.
This can save on employee costs, equipment costs, taxation costs, expansion costs, etc. You should keep the work you enjoy doing and get rid of the rest. You need the extra time to enjoy life.

80. Use blue, underlined text links.
People have been conditioned to think that blue, underlined texts are links. You do not want to lose visitors by using a different color. I would also use text links over banner or graphic links because they have been proven many times to out-pull banner ads. You could place the graphic beside the text link though.

81. Set up a cross-promotion deal with another web business.
Allow them to sell your product as a back-end product to their existing customer base. The web business’ product should be related to your product or service. If not, it may not sell that well to a different target audience.

82. Sell your product in a package deal with other web businesses.
You can both advertise it and split the profits. For example, if you are selling tennis rackets, maybe you could partner with a tennis ball business and package them together. It’s a win/win joint venture deal.

83. Rent your products out for a set period of time.
It’s like selling but you get the products back to rent again. You could make more profit in the long run renting your products or services. People today have less money and would rather rent than buy something and only use it once.

84. Allow people to subscribe to your products.
It works best when selling information products, services or memberships. You could charge them per week, per month, per quarter or per year. It will bring in secure residual income. Plus you can sell your subscribers back-end products for single sales.

85. Allow people to lease your products.
It’s like renting them but they have the option of buying at the end of the lease. For example, if you were leasing out computers, the customers would pay you a monthly fee. If they returned the computer at the end of their lease, you could lease it out again to someone else, or even sell it.

86. Add a forum to your web site.
People will visit your web site to ask questions and answer other people’s questions. Some people will just participate on forums so they can leave their link but those people may end up buying your product too.

87. Add a directory of web site links to your web site.
People will visit your web site to find related web site links for the topic they’re interested in. This saves them time and effort searching for all those links personally. If you update it often, they will come back and revisit and maybe buy one of your products.

88. Add an article section to your web site.
People will visit your web site to read and learn new information related to their interests. You want to have original content so people can’t go anywhere else to get it. You also want to update it regularly so they will want to revisit your web site over and over.

89. Add an archive of past ezine issues to your web site.
Your new subscribers will visit your web site to read the past issues that they’ve missed. Your old subscribers might want to look up some information or ads they remembered seeing in your ezine.

90. Add a free ebook directory to your web site.
People will visit your site to download, study and read new information. If you do add one, offer ebook related products. Those people might decide they want to create their own ebook and submit it to your directory.

91. Add a free classified ad section.
People will visit your web site to place their own free classified ad and to read other offers. You can encourage them even more by telling them you will pick a few classified ads to run in your ezine. This may influence them to subscribe to your ezine or to revisit your web site regularly to submit new classified ads.

92. Add a free link page to your web site.
People will visit your web site to place their own link and to look at other people’s links. You could say to the link submitters that you’ll run their link once in your ezine if, in exchange, they place your link on their home page for one or two months.

93. Add an "About Us" page to your web site.
People will visit your web site to read about you and your business. This will help to make your relationship with your prospects more personal and persuade them to buy. Include some of your non-business information too on your "About Us" page.

94. Add a guest book to your web site.
People will visit your web site to leave their opinions about your business and to list their signature file. Yes, they may only be doing it to get free advertising but it could be a visitor who might eventually buy your product.

95. Add a free software download page to your web site.
People will visit your web site to find new software that will make their life easier. Your software could be your own, freeware, submitted shareware or demos. The software should be related to your target audience.

96. Show your potential ezine subscribers a sample issue of your ezine.
Black out some of the important information; this will make them more curious and get them to subscribe. Use a really juicy tip they haven’t probably heard of. You could just tell them where to find your ezine archives or that sample issue after they subscribe.

97. Give away a free follow-up autoresponder course.
Publish your ezine ad in each lesson. The more people who see it, the higher the chance they’ll subscribe. Your ezine needs to have a lot of original and quality content for this to persuade them to subscribe. Of course you could also mention one of your products in each lesson.

98. Offer your potential customers a discount on a particular product you sell if they subscribe to your free ezine.
For example, you could say, "Subscribe to my free ezine and get a 40% discount off my latest ebook!" After they subscribe you could tell them about your secret discount order page in the ’thank you’ email you send them.

99. Give other businesses permission to give away a free subscription to your ezine as a bonus for a product they sell.
You want the product or service to be related to your ezine though. Just think, you could have a lot of businesses offering your ezine to their customers.

100. Ask your potential subscribers questions that’ll persuade them to subscribe.
For example, you could say, "Would you like to be able to retire before you’re 40?" Another
example, "Does the idea of working at home appeal to you?"