Credit card processing is something even small online businesses should take advantage of.
The other day I saw something that I haven't seen in quite a while, and I'm not talking about black and white television. I found a new online shopping site and their checkout page had directions on how to send in a check for payment.
I had two immediate thoughts. First, this might be an old version of the site because in my experience no one does paper checks online any more. Two, if it was current I didn't trust it. With merchant services so easy to establish why would anyone not accept payments online?
You shouldn't ever harrass your contacts (who will soon unsubscribe from your communications if you do), but connecting with them multiple times can help to move customers / clients from the "vaguely interested if I get time" state, to "yes, I really should investigate that", and finally to "okay, I will take action". Whereas just one communication may leave your contact in an "interested but too busy" state.
Multiple Connections Increase Response Rate
One of our eNudge subscribers, Jay Abraham Asia Pacific, routinely uses multiple connections – i.e. communicating more than once, often using different methods or technology, with your contacts regarding the same topic or event – to significantly increase the response rate.
Hardly a day goes by that I don't get an email from someone saying:
"Michael, I just don't know what to do. We are not getting sales, nobody is signing up, we are not making any money. What is going wrong?"
They start thinking about search engines, more marketing and expensive advertising. When what they SHOULD be doing is taking a step back and saying;
"Why aren't the people who are already finding my website doing what it is I want them to do?"
One of the most frequently asked questions on
the Net is: "What should I sell online?"
Many people know what products they want to
sell. However, they don't know how to do this.
Should they physically stock the products
themselves or promote other companies through
affiliate programs?
Drop shipping may be the answer for some website
owners who want to become stockless retailers,
whereby they keep no stock themselves.
Instead they promote products on their website
and get a drop shipping company to despatch these
products for them.
Here are the steps involved in drop shipping: