Dear internet marketer,
I have some advice for improving your bottom line, whatever that may be.
It could be many things ranging from improving website traffic to increasing sales or even just expanding your mailing list.
But whatever your bottom line is, you have two choices when setting out to achieve it.
Your first choice is to employ an assortment of free traffic, sales, or opt-in subscriber generating techniques.
These can be effective but generally take time and results are usually slow.
Most
people adopting solely this choice end up failing and frustrated. But
at least they haven't lost their pants in the process.
The second
choice you have is to pay for services designed to improve your bottom
line. This will almost certainly speed things up and improve the results
you achieve both short and long term.
If you find yourself
choosing this second option, make sure you can measure quantitative
results as you need to know what ROI (return on investment) is being
achieved for each paid service.
Most of you are probably a
combination of both choices. And if you're anything like me, you
probably started using free techniques before moving to paid
alternatives.
Enough beating about the bush.
What's my advice? Simply this.
If
you pay for any form of online advertising or promotion, do yourself a
big favour and explore services designed to assist this process without
attempting to influence your decision-making in any way.
Affiliate directories and Customer Acquisition Exchanges also known as "Customer Reciprocation" are 2 such services.
These
are really an extension or improved version of link exchanges as they
can provide paying customers instead of potential traffic generation
(leads, click-throughs, or visitors).
It's that simple. These
paying customers earn you sales or commission, depending whether they
purchase your own products or products from your affiliated merchants.
So what are you waiting for?
Each
time you purchase online and don't take my advice, you're missing out
on paying customers willing to purchase through your own referral URLs.
Choose wisely and turn your online purchases into profit.
Side
note - I've mentioned thus far your online advertising and promotion
purchase intentions but did you know that all online purchases you make
can gain you paying customers?
That's because customer reciprocation services incorporate unrestricted global shopping directories.
A comparison with Ebay makes interesting reading.
Whereas
Ebay matches buyers and sellers of products through an auction process,
customer reciprocation services match buyers and sellers through
referral URLs via their own exchange engines.
In effect, they work like limited versions of Ebay.
The exchange process can only be completed for people who promote product using referral URLs.
However,
they expand on the Ebay model in the sense that with Ebay, sellers can
only offer their own product whereas sellers are able to offer both
their own product and those of other merchants through the use of
customer reciprocation services.
Regards
Michael Lever
About the author:
Michael Lever is a co-founder and CEO of SpinningTornado.com , an
independent company offering unbiased tools and services to help
affiliate and network marketers build profitable online businesses .
http://www.SpinningTornado.com
Partnering affiliates the world over .
