Increasing Profits

Double Check Your Testimonials Before You Post Them to Your Website

March 25, 2013 by Loretta · Leave a Comment

businesswoman_help Testimonials can be a big deal if you’re launching a course, a program, a product, or even if you’re offering a service of some sort. I personally use testimonials for my information products and for my transcription service business.

Think of testimonials as awesome little tidbits that let the rest of the world know that you’ve been doing what you do for awhile and you’re not going to steal their money and run away. They don’t really think you’re going to do that, but seeing that other people have worked with you is a reassuring sort of thing and it helps get past those little specs of doubt floating around in the back of their mind.

In the past few years the use of testimonials has become a bit – let’s say crazy.
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Should You Cancel That Monthly Membership?

November 28, 2012 by Loretta · 2 Comments

I think we all have these little monthly memberships that we collect up and frequently forget about or sometimes we grow out of them, but we don’t cancel them right away. Why do we do that?

Maybe you got a low price and if you unsubscribe you’ll lose that deal and have to pay a higher price if you rejoin at a later date.
Maybe you feel like it will get better or you’ll need it again and then it won’t be there.
Maybe you feel a bit of loyalty to the person that runs the membership program and you don’t want to let them down hitting cancel on your membership.

I spent quite a bit of time paring down my expenses this year and I realized during my evaluations that there were three memberships that I just wasn’t using at all. They were between $9 and $17 per month each, so collectively I saved $40 per month by cancelling all three of those memberships.
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Seven Simple Tips For Increasing Your Affiliate Income

September 22, 2012 by Guest · 1 Comment

a guest post from Susanne Myers of Daily Affiliate Tasks

Try the Product

Before you start to promote something as an affiliate, go the extra mile and try the product. You can either ask the owner for a review copy, or just buy it and try it out. Then write an honest review of the product including the good as well as the bad. Your articles, emails and messages will be more convincing if you actually have some personal experience with the product you’re selling.

Get Better at SEO

Sharpen your SEO skills to get more traffic to your affiliate site. It’s the least expensive form of traffic to your site. [Read more...]

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SkimLinks Is a No-Brainer Affiliate Marketing Solution

March 26, 2012 by Loretta · 8 Comments

One of the more frustrating parts of doing affiliate marketing is signing up for the various affiliate programs and affiliate networks, waiting for approval, etc… Programs come and go, terms change, networks close. It can honestly be a pain in the butt to manage all that information. And if they change their link structure – ugh, we won’t even have that conversation today.

Enter into the affiliate marketing world, Skimlinks.

I know I’m a little late getting on the bandwagon here. I had heard about Skimlinks in multiple places and avoided it because I was trying to be focused and didn’t want to go off to learn new things at the moment. What I didn’t realize was that it really is a no-brainer affiliate marketing solution. Seriously – it’s an easy button! Let me explain what I mean… [Read more...]

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Could a Tablet Device Help Grow Your Business?

March 19, 2012 by Loretta · Leave a Comment

samsung tablet devices Tablet devices like the iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Motorola Xoom (and loads of others) are quickly growing in popularity among casual users who like to play games, browse the web, watch movies and do general email checking on the go. Schools are even using the devices to get kids engaged with books and video to enhance the learning experience and hold their attention.

But, there’s also another growing segment of the market: small businesses. Well, surely big businesses too, but small business owners are really finding that tablets save them time and increase their productivity, and with a whole host of great reasons…
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