Archive for the ‘sales’ Category
7 Tips on writing good web copy.
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So what are the best attention grabbing headlines?
A good one has words relating to price for example: “Get Three for Only £3” and then there’s the special incentive headline, “Buy now before the price goes up!”
Another of the tried and tested headlines are specific questions that can relieve the reader’s “pain”: “Do You Need To [...]
April 26, 2010
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Pat Sutton · 
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Tags: internet, marketing, writing headline · Posted in: how to guides, sales, writing
Email Marketing using Auto Responders.
Sales letters through your letter box are hated by everyone. It’s unwanted, uninvited and fills your re-cycling bin. But it’s pretty clear that it’s also incredibly popular with advertisers. Why? Because while most potential customers throw away their junk letters with barely a glance, enough take action to make it all worthwhile.
They do buy—and in [...]
February 15, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 66 Comments
Tags: blog, internet, marketing, pat sutton, selling, website · Posted in: how to guides, marketing, sales
The best affiliates for your blog.
A lot of people ask me to suggest affiliates. They want to know which ones are the most effective at monetising their blog. I suppose it would be safe to say that I have done a hell of a lot of research on this subject as bad choices can make the difference between a profitable [...]
February 14, 2010
· Pat Sutton · One Comment
Tags: blog, Guest Blogs, internet, marketing, pat sutton, selling, website · Posted in: how to guides, marketing, sales
How To Plan The Perfect Website!
According to Wikipedia – The Internet actually started in 1969, (yes, only 1969!), as the ARPANET, a Defense Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear attack. From being available on just a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to millions and millions of users.
And it’s still growing. According to a [...]
February 9, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 5 Comments
Tags: account, internet, marketing, networking, pat sutton, selling, website · Posted in: business, how to guides, marketing, sales
Has your business suffered due to the credit crunch?
It’s not often that I blatently promote something but for once our government has made the right decision to help ailing businesses in the West Midlands in The UK. It is a fact that the West Midlands has suffered more than any other area in the UK and at last this is being addressed. So [...]
February 4, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: communication, marketing, pat sutton, website · Posted in: business, sales
Don’t wait for Business Opportunities to knock – you’ll wait forever!
If you’re sitting at home on the sofa watching Law and Order and you hear a rat-a-tat-tat on your door! Don’t get excited, it’s not a business opportunity knocking!
If you’re comfy in front of your computer chatting to someone on Facebook then your attention is in the wrong direction to notice a fleeting business opportunity [...]
January 30, 2010
· Pat Sutton · 5 Comments
Tags: account, communication, marketing, pat sutton, website · Posted in: business, marketing, sales, tips
How to market your website so that people buy from you!
It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living.
The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to [...]
December 7, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 2 Comments
Tags: blog, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, selling, tweet, twitter, website · Posted in: Blogging, how to guides, marketing, sales, writing
Selling to the taxi driver!
You know, one of the easiest things to do on the internet is to assume that people are not being honest and that they are only talking to you because they have something to sell. Who do you think is to blame for that? We are of-course!
Have you noticed on the social networks how many [...]
November 18, 2009
· Pat Sutton · One Comment
Tags: account, blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, personal development, selling, taxi, website · Posted in: FrontPage, marketing, sales, tips
6 steps closer to monetising your blog!
I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging.
Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme.
But it’s not impossible.
To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills:
1. Patience
2. Resilience.
3. A great imagination.
4. Knowledge.
5. The discipline to learn.
6. Multiple Income streams?
Why patience you say?
If you do everything right.
Join blogging [...]
November 17, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 9 Comments
Tags: account, blog, communication, internet, marketing, pat sutton, relationships, website · Posted in: Blogging, FrontPage, how to guides, sales
Put a sandwich board out to drive traffic!
The content of your website tells your visitors all about you and your business; it is your shop window. The problem is that if your shop is on a back street and you have no passers by then you need to get people to take a detour down your street! It’s easy, you put a [...]
November 10, 2009
· Pat Sutton · 12 Comments
Tags: blog, communication, internet, marketing, motivation, selling · Posted in: how to guides, marketing, sales, tips
