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Turning online purchases into profit.
Dear Internet Marketer,
I have some tips to improve your bottom line, whatever it is.
It could be any number of things, from improving website traffic to increasing sales or even expanding your mailing list.
But whatever your end result, you have two options when you set out to achieve it.
Your first option is to employ a variety of free traffic generation, sales, or opt-in techniques.
These can be effective, but they usually take time and results are slow.
Most people who take only this option end up failing and frustrated. But at least they haven't lost their pants in the process.
The second option you have is to pay for services designed to improve your results. This will almost certainly speed things up and improve the results you achieve in both the short and long term.
If you choose 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. And if you're like me, you probably started using free techniques before switching to paid alternatives.
Enough of beating around the bush.
What is my advice? Just this.
If you are paying for any form of online advertising or promotion, do yourself a huge favor and explore services designed to assist in this process without attempting to influence your decision-making in any way.
Affiliate directories and customer acquisition exchanges, also known as "customer reciprocity," are 2 such services.
These are really an extension or enhanced version of link exchanges in that they can provide paying customers rather than potential traffic generation (leads, clicks, or visitors).
It's that easy. These paying customers generate sales or commissions for you, depending on whether they purchase your own products or products from your affiliate merchants.
So, what are you waiting for?
Every time you shop online and don't follow my advice, you're missing out on paying customers willing to buy through your own referral URLs.
Choose wisely and turn your online purchases into profit.
Side note: So far I've mentioned your online advertising and promotion buying intentions, but did you know that every online purchase you make can earn you paying customers?
This is because customer reciprocity services incorporate unrestricted global shopping directories.
A comparison with Ebay makes for interesting reading.
While Ebay connects buyers and sellers of products through an auction process, customer reciprocity services connect buyers and sellers through referral URLs through their own exchange engines.
In effect, they work like limited editions from Ebay.
The sharing process can only be completed by people promoting the product using the referral URL.
However, they extend the Ebay model in that with Ebay, sellers can only offer their own product, while sellers can offer both their own product and that of other merchants by using customer reciprocity services. .