Running a successful online business will require you to be creative and create a few sales funnels that will net you and your business constant sales. Not all of your business ideas are going to succeed but it is important to take action and keep trying until you have a few that do.
As internet marketers, many of us are busy with day to day back linking techniques such as article writing, forum posting, blog commenting and social bookmarking to name just a few. Now this is all good and dandy and is going to create a nice steady flow of traffic for you in the long run but all of these tedious activities are not going to make you any immediate money or income and can lead to a lot of frustration. Here’s my advice to create some sales funnels that are guaranteed to make you some real money for your efforts…finally!
It is important not to get behind on the daily activities that I was just speaking of, so…what do you do?? How in the world are you supposed to create a sales funnel when you are so busy with your daily activities? The answer…outsourcing.
You can’t possibly do all these things yourself so you’ll need to find someone to outsource to. Keep doing the things you are good and efficient with and outsource the rest. Of course it’s going to cost you some money but you have to view this money spent as an investment that will result in you receiving more money back in the long run.
One sales funnel that will pay over and over again is creating an email marketing campaign. There are several ways you can do this. You can either sign up through an affiliate program and promote their products or create a product of your own. Once you decide what product or program you are going to promote, you’ll have to write a series of sales letters pitching the benefits of that product or service. It could be as few as one letter or as many as a hundred. It all depends upon what you are promoting and you’ll have to do some trial and error to see what the optimum amount is.
You’ll also have to create a squeeze page that people will view and want to sign on to your list. Once they are on your list they will begin to get the sales letters and hopefully convert those sign ups into real sales. Find a decent auto responder company to sign up for to run your email campaign. I use GetResponse and it works well for me. Aweber is another legitimate company.
Another sales funnel idea is to create your own Ebook and offer it to fellow affiliates to promote. They’ll be more apt to promote your product if their is an opportunity for them to make money as well. What you can do is offer the affiliates a 50% commission at a real low price, have the interested buyers sign on to a list, then back end them a more expensive product on the back end through another email campaign. Or you can offer a 100% commission to affiliates, then after every sale you make or they make, send the buyer to another sales page promoting a higher end product as well.
Whatever you decide to do, just be sure to do something. Money will not result without taking action. Don’t even worry about creating the perfect product or creating the perfect email marketing campaign. Just get it going and make the changes later. The money will come if you take action to make it happen.
Matt Helphrey