Make Your Site Sticky
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When you are building your online business, among the key constituents you want to cover is how to make your internet site sticky. This means that you not only prefer to get Web surfers to visit your site, but you want to be sure they spend time exploring what you’ve to offer once they get there.
If you have a situation where you are bringing a lot of hits to your internet site however it Is not converting to increased sales, have a look at your web site from the viewpoint of a possible buyer to try to find out where the trouble is. Then you are able to bring in corrections to make your web site stickier.
Is Your Site Easy to Navigate?
When you first click on your own web site, can you find your way about quickly and easily. If not, then you need to form a few alterations. Bear in mind that people who are browsing the web searching for information will click away whenever they do not find what they want to know in less than minute. They can lose interest faster than that!
Be sure that your web site visitors know exactly how to get where they are going by using a menu or tabs that clearly show the page they link to. You also want to be sure your web site visitors can return to a previous page or your Home page whenever they land up in the wrong section of your internet site.
Tell Your Visitors What You Want Them to Do Next
Make it easy for your internet site visitors to know what action you wish them to take. It is absolutely acceptable to put something on your web internet site that says, Click Here, Buy Now, or Learn More. Do not keep them thinking about the next step you want them to take. You are far better off (and will see additional income) whenever you tell your visitors what you want them to do than if you leave them to their own devices.
Make it Easy for Customers to Contact You
A few people are rather comfortable with browsing the web to look for information, however when it comes time to make a purchase, they would sooner place it by telephone or attend a brick and mortar location. If possible, give your buyers multiple alternatives to communicate with you. Offering up a live chat alternative may be useful, as well; the client can get the information they need to arrive at a conclusion right away, rather than clicking away from your web site to get it elsewhere.
Tell Your Visitors to Bookmark Your Site
A potential buyer will probably visit a couple of times before arriving at the decision to buy from you. Even if they were truly impressed with your web site, how are they going to find you again Tell your web site visitors without doubt to bookmark your web site so they may visit again. Internet surfers may believe they will recollect your URL, however chances are they will not. Otherwise, you may have lost out on the chance to do business with that individual entirely, which isn’t your goal when you are building up a business online.
It’s Not Just Me Then
Sometimes I think it’s just me that gets excited when John Delavera runs an on line event. Sometimes it feels very lonely and I think I’m wasting my time. But, I have to be honest, I’ve been a student of John’s for almost a couple of years now, and he has never given up on me 
His service and quality of the solutions he provides are second to none.
And occasionally, when he does get it wrong – he quite simply refunds any monies that you may have paid him without even prompting. An example of this recently was a new service he planned to launch that was to cost $27 a month. I duly joined and paid two months subscriptions, however for whatever reason the project did not get off the ground. I got my $54 refunded without even asking for it, with a personal apology from John on the lack of delivery on his part.
As we say here in Scotland, the guy is a legend 
Now as I was saying, I thought it was just me that felt this way, but clearly not. He does have an army of very keen followers, all who have been touched in some way by the way John conducts himself with his sudents, customers and affiliates.
One such person among many is Albert Hallado
With the launch of John’s 2008 Santa Deal Time has come a genuine, from the heart post on Albert’s blog (always a good read at the best of times) where he point out why he is promoting Santa Deal Time – although he rarely promotes launches.
I think it’s pretty obvious how Albert has been touched by the Delaverian magic, even when he was at his lowest point only a few short years ago, and how he is now continuing to build his own universe, without forgetting who actually managed to start him properly on his journey.
Today seem the opening of John’s Santa Deal Time for 2008 (it does only run for a week) and if like Albert you can see real value that John Delavera can bring to your internet marketing efforts, then you should not hesitate – get involved!
There are many cool “Christmas Give Away Events” running right now – but Santa Deal Time is NOT a give away, it’s quite simply something that will give you brand new, fresh, cutting edge Internet Marketing tools in the palm of your hand ready for your big push into 2009. The giveaways tend to be full of older products, and you need to spend a LONG TIME signing up to the many opt in subscriptions (and time in my book is money – so they are not really free), and then download and store all of the free versions of everything – many of which I can guarantee you will never look at again (trust me I’ve been there).
Santa Deal Time is a simple trade – it will cost you some money (less if you get there quick – now opens at 10am EST 7th Dec 2008) but you get the cutting edge stuff that you will see used against you in 2009 – so choose wisely between this and the giveaways 
Got a comment? (don’t be shy!) I’d love to hear from you…
Black Friday is WEENIE Compared to This…
Do YOU Know the Number One Rule???
The Number 1 Rule of marketing is to…… give people what they want.
Period.
Give them what they want, and you get what you want.
So what DO they want???
You’ve read the headlines… More and more people are being laid off in this economy.
Bottom line, people want Financial Security.
They want a business that they KNOW will make them money in ANY economy.
In a nutshell, they want what YOU’RE already building…… an Internet business of their own.
That’s why more and more people are turning to the Internet to make money.
And that’s also why you don’t hear about Internet marketers going broke…… because they have one of the HOTTEST commodities on the planet right now, …information and tools to make money online.
I predict that 2009 will see a MASSIVE surge of online commerce…… especially in the sales of information products and software related to making an income online.
So let me ask you a question… Are you ready?
Are you ready to take full advantage of what will be one of the biggest growth booms in online marketing history?
This will be huge…… in fact, I’ve already noticed a surge in online traffic looking for Internet marketing information.
So how do YOU profit?
You know the market. You know the trend. You’re in on it from the VERY BEGINNING (Sort of like being the first one in the California Gold Rush, or maybe the first to buy Walmart(R) or Microsoft(R) stock.)
Yes, I know those are old cliches, but they have NEVER been truer than RIGHT NOW.
So again, how do you profit?
By having the products, info and software people are hungry to buy.
And where do you get them?
My favorite source…… in fact, my SECRET source until now…
is… Santa Deal Time.
Every year, once a year, for only ONE WEEK, John Delavera brings all of these top marketers together to offer products you can find…
…No Where Else.
Most come with resale rights. Some even come with private label rights. Some of them have been created JUST for THIS event!
Which means you can offer your traffic, prospects and customers hot new products available no where else.
The timing is perfect – this trend towards Internet Marketing will be the biggest one of 2009.
Jump on board and decide just how much you want to earn.
What would that mean to you in income, considering that…
…YOU keep
ALL the profit?
Figure it out, and then GET READY.
The doors open December 7th at 9am Eastern Time.
Don’t be late.
Get on the advance notification list here…
This sale is so valuable, it’s going to make “Black Friday” in the States look like a tiny blip on the retail radar.
Trying Something Different
If you are anything like me, you probably look at a ton of offers and ideas about making money on the internet that appear in your email every day. And I’m sure that, also like me you dismiss most of them. I know I do mainly due the fact that I simply cannot afford to jump onto every “100% guaranteed money making scheme” out there.
Having said that, affiliate marketing still has an attraction – you know, no stock, no customer service, no delivery problems…
My problem is that I, like many others, am promoting internet marketing products to internet marketing types and – damn – it’s competitive and there are some BIG pumped up Gurus that are just simplt better at it than me.
So, I’ve decided to try something different. Something away from information products.
Based on a product I picked a couple of weeks ago, I’m experimenting with an “Christmas Gifts” strategy and first impressions are good. The method covered can actually work all year round but right now, despite a cooling of the economies around the world, there is still going to be a last minute Christmas rush for toys and gifts – and by all accounts the on line sales will increase against his year on last year’s figures. So is it time to try and make something of that Christmas rush, and back off from all the freebie give-aways that are looking to capture my email address again this year (and then push their costly internet marketing products at me)
So as part of my experiment I published this site dedicated to the girls Christmas gift of My Life Portable Simulator. Now if you look at that site, you may think “yuk it looks awful and pretty tacky and it’s UK based” but I can assure you that it’s serving a very special purpose – to help desperate parents quickly choose a Christmas gift for their child and at the same time generate some affiliate commissions for me. Simple really. The site itself has not taken long to produce (using XsitePro2) and I now have a template for other sites that I am going to build around this strategy.
Part of that strategy is to get that site indexed quickly by Google and that is the main reason for this post. However – and this is not a product push, I’d rather not have the competition in Google – if you want to investigate futher exactly what I’m doing, I think that despite the very hyped up sales page and graphic imagery, you will be pleasantly surprised when you click here.
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