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Your clients are the number one reason why your business is successful, because after all, a business cannot exist without money, and money comes from your customers. So once a customer uses your business, how can you keep them coming back for more? The secret is simple, keep in contact with them, and give them reasons to come back to your business.

Each business is different, so you will want to look at what will work best for you. Here are a few ways that successful businesses keep in contact with their previous clients:

1) Start a client list. Unless you record each one of your clients information, you will have no way of getting into contact with them. You can do this a number of ways, from as simple as getting a customer to sign a guestbook, all the way to as complicated as requesting your client to sign up for a newsletter. Once you have a list of clients, you will be able to contact as often as you wish.

2) If add a new product, service, or expand your business is anyway, inform your previous clients first. You can achieve this a few ways:

-If you have a newsletter, include it in your newsletter.

-Do a mass mailing using postcards, letters, etc

-Call any client that has willing included their phone, but only use this idea if the change would directly relate to them.

-Post the change on your website.

3) Start a website. Websites can be accessed by any of your previous clientele, and provide a great link of communication. Not only should you provide information about your business, but you may also want to include information such as tips, and articles.

4) This one is simple: write thank you notes to your clients. A handwritten thank you note shows the client that you truly appreciate their business. If a client feels that they are appreciated and welcomed, then chances are they will come back to your business before doing business with one of your competitors.

5) The use of marketing materials can keep you in contact with your clients. You would be surprised how much impact a simple pen with your logo and phone number can do. Other marketing materials include: magnetic business cards, Key rings, and notepads. These marketing materials are typically fairly inexpensive, and can be ordered in mass quantities.

6) If you do not want to directly ask for contact information, you may need to get a little creative. One idea is to hold a contest. Require the client to fill out a card with their information, or drop in their business card. Make sure that you tell the clients that you will be contacting them about your services or products(this can be accomplished by writing it on the card, or displaying it near where they have to their business card or information card once they are finished). Give away something that would be of great interest to your type of client, so you can get the maximum number of entries. Change this contest frequently to gain maximum exposure.

7) Discount coupons are a great way to bring your customers back. Will 10% off hurt your business, especially if it means whether or not you get that client to come back in? You may want to mail these coupons out, or supply a code for use upon checkout if you have an online business.

You may want to consider starting a referral system. A referral program will not only get your previous clients to come back, but it will also help you obtain new clients as well. For example: for each referral, you will give the client a 10 dollar gift card to use in your store. Be careful not to give out cash, as this may or may not be used for products or services for your business.

Take care
Jeff Casmer
Work at Home

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Even though affiliate marketing is an excellent way
to earn money, there are several pitfalls that you’ll
need to be aware of.  As long as people have been
earning money, people have also tried to figure out
how to earn more by doing a lot less.

All you need to do is a quick online search for
“work from home” or “making easy money”.  You’ll
instantly find millions of websites, simply click
on a few and you’ll notice that they all start off
the same.  You’ll see a guy with a big house and
a lot of money saying if you sign up, this could be
you - how far from the truth!

The only way you can earn a good, stable income is
to put in the hard work it takes.  Before you join
any affiliate program, you need to do the proper
research.  That’s one of the best benefits of the
internet - finding the information you need.

All you need to do is search for the name of the
affiliate program that your intested in, adding
the word scam to it and see what pops up.  You
should also join some work from home forums, and
don’t be afraid to ask the right questions.

There are a few ways that you can tell what
program is most likely a scam.  If a program
doesn’t tell you their compensation plan unless
you sign up, watch out.  A lot of programs won’t
tell you what you’ll be doing unless you buy a
kit for a set price.

With any program, there should always be 100% free
disclosure.  You’ll need to know what you are
going to be doing before you even start.  If a
program doesn’t tell you what you are going to be
doing or if you have to pay money first, you
should avoid it.

Take care

Jeff Casmer 

Work at Home

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The The PlugInProfitSite is an affiliate program that is made up of affiliate marketing and network marketing programs. It appeals to the niche of people coming online and looking for ways to make money. Whether you are searching online for a home business opportunity, a way to work at home, or just a way to earn more money, the The PlugInProfitSite is geared to all 3.

Here is an explanation of how and why the PIPS Program is still going strong today.

1. It is inexpensive to join For less than $80 you are set up with your own domain name, money making website, and customized 400 day email marketing newsletter.

2. Because this is your business everything about is can be changed to the way you want it. You can add new programs to your website or newsletter or just keep it the way it is for now. You can change the appearance of your website and ad a blog to it to make it easier to add fresh content if you do not know how to build web pages. Customization is a great feature of the The PlugInProfitSite.

3. It offers the best back end training on the internet today. This is available to you through a training guide called “30 Days To Success” which is a lead you by the hand online training that gives you step by step things you can do to promote your new business. The other training is access to the top internet marekting forum online called the “Warrior Forum.” The Warrior Forum includes several different categories including a forum just for PlugInProfitSite members where you can ask questions and share stories on what is and what is not working for you.

4. The PluginProfit Site is for veteran internet marketers as well. Many of the top gurus on internet marketing promote the PIPS program as an income stream for them, It is a great way to expose people to internet marketing and help them start their own internet busienss. Because everything is all set up for a new person as a internet marketing expert you can concentrate on promoting you site and letting all of the back end training be handled for you.

5. One other reason the PIPS Program continues to work today is the back end support offered by their customer service department. You are able to call a 1-800 number or send an email support ticket that actually gets answered. This is not always common online where smaller affiliate programs do not have the manpower or the commitment to follow through after you have purchased their product.

To earn money online with your own home business you are going to need 2 things.

1. A website

2. A lead capture system

The PlugInProfitSite will continue to be built around these 2 essential elements for your success. This is just the starting point however. Your ability to build your own business and drive visitors to your website will ultimately determine how much money you make. The nice thing about this is you control your own future. If you have a strong desire to earn money and will stick with it then you can join thousands of other successful PluginProfit Site members all over the world.

Take care

Jeff Casmer

http://www.24hourwealth.com

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If you have a website then you already know the importance of traffic. Traffic is to Internet marketing as location is to real estate. It’s the only thing that really matters. If you cannot generate targeted visitors to your site, you will not make any sales.

Usually the owner or designer of the website is the person designated to drive traffic to the site. The chief ingredient in generating traffic is the search engine. Of coarse, you can use advertising, but it’s going to cost you. Using the search engines to generate targeted (interested in your product) traffic is the least expensive method known.

Unfortunately, many website owners do not understand the importance of search engine visibility, which leads to traffic. They place more importance on producing a “pretty” website. Not that this is bad, but it is really secondary to search engine placement. Hopefully, the following list of common mistakes, made by many website owners, will help you generate more targeted traffic to your site…after all, isn’t that what you want.

1. Not using keywords effectively.

This is probably one of the most critical area of site design. Choose the right keywords and potential customers will find your site. Use the wrong ones and your site will see little, if any, traffic.

2. Repeating the same keywords.

When you use the same keywords over and over again (called keyword stacking) the search engines may downgrade (or skip) the page or site.

3. Robbing pages from other websites.

How many times have you heard or read that “this is the Internet and it’s ok” to steal icons and text from websites to use on your site. Don’t do it. Its one thing to learn from others who have been there and another to outright copy their work. The search engines are very smart and usually detect page duplication. They may even prevent you from ever being listed by them.

4. Using keywords that are not related to your website.

Many unethical website owners try to gain search engine visibility by using keywords that have nothing at all to do with their website. They place unrelated keywords in a page (such as “sex”, the name of a known celebrity, the hot search topic of the day, etc.) inside a meta tag for a page. The keyword doesn’t have anything to do with the page topic. However, since the keyword is popular, they think this will boost their visibility. This technique is considered spam by the search engines and may cause the page (or sometimes the whole site) to be removed from the search engine listing.

5. Keyword stuffing.

Somewhat like keyword stacking listed above, this means to assign multiple keywords to the description of a graphic or layer that appears on your website by using the “alt=” HTML parameter. If the search engines find that this text does not really describe the graphic or layer it will be considered spam.

6. Relying on hidden text.

You might be inclined to think that if you cannot see it, it doesn’t hurt. Wrong…. Do not try to hide your keywords or keyword phrases by making them invisible. For example, some unethical designers my set the keywords to the same color as the background of the web page; thereby, making it invisible.

7. Relying on tiny text.

This is another version of the item above (relying on hidden text). Do not try to hide your keywords or keyword phrases by making them tiny. Setting the text size of the keywords so small that it can barely be seen does this.

8. Assuming all search engines are the same.

Many people assume that each search engine plays by the same rules. This is not so. Each has their own rule base and is subject to change anytime they so desire. Make it a point to learn what each major search engine requires for high visibility.

9. Using free web hosting.

Do not use free web hosting if you are really serious about increasing site traffic via search engine visibility. Many times the search engines will eliminate content from these free hosts.

10. Forgetting to check for missing web page elements.

Make sure to check every page in your website for completeness, like missing links, graphics, etc. There are sites on the web that will do this for free.

This is just a few of the methods and techniques that you should avoid. Do not give in to the temptation that these methods will work for you. They will do more harm than good for your website.

Not only will you spend weeks of wasted effort, you may have your site banned from the search engines forever. Invest a little time to learn the proper techniques for increasing search engine visibility and your net traffic will increase.

Take care
Jeff Casmer
http://www.24hourwealth.com/

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