How to Get Customers to Flock to Your Home-Based Business

Written by Peggie Arvidson-Dailey


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12.Ask your clients to write testimonials for you. Your current clients are your biggest fans, so ask them if they would write you a letter describingrepparttar 116678 benefit you provide them. Once you haverepparttar 116679 testimonial use it on your one-page fact sheet, in your marketing materials and on your website. Make sure to get your clients’ permission to use their name and contact information in case potential clients want to ask them specific questions.

13.Answer all requests in 24 hours or less. When a potential client calls to find out about your service, chances are better than good that they need service soon. The chances that they are going to sit byrepparttar 116680 phone waiting for your return call are slim – so make sure you arerepparttar 116681 first business to call them back. Respond even sooner to e-mail requests.

14.Call people back and respond to e-mail even if you don’t providerepparttar 116682 type of service they request. Good manners translate as good business. By providing leads to companies that can help them – these ‘non-clients’ can become your fans and will recommend you to others.

For samples ofrepparttar 116683 FAQs, Spreadsheets, testimonial requests and benefit statements, email peggie@petcareuniversity.com and request more info onrepparttar 116684 Marketing Guide for Pet-Sitters.

Peggie Arvidson-Dailey is the founder of Pet Care Business University and the Pet-Care Business Success System™. She is the author of the “Maintain your Love Affair with Your Pet” Series and several articles on finding and maintaining happy customers for pet-care businesses. As a trainer and coach she has helped people across the country create and build the pet-care business of their dreams. Visit http://www.peggiespets.comfor more information


Different models for making money on the Internet

Written by Rob Rawson


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Strategy 6: Lead Generation. You create sites that generate leads for companies online. For example, you create leads for mortgage brokers; you give themrepparttar details ofrepparttar 116672 people who are interested in getting a new mortgage and you get paid for each person. The mortgage broker will then callrepparttar 116673 lead and try to sell them on their particular mortgage offer. Strategy 7: Email marketing. Of course you need to stay away from spam, and new legislation makes it more difficult for legitimate opt in email marketers, but this is still a highly effective way to make money onrepparttar 116674 Internet. Don't try email marketing if you don't know what you are doing - don't even think about buying a list of emails and sending out a promotional message unless you know exactly what you are doing. You have to know that any emails you have are legit and ‘opt in'. Strategy 8: Selling software or software services. …Another great way to make money online. Strategy 9: Selling services online. For example you could start a site providing niche legal services or doing web design. This is ok, but it is not as highly leveraged and automated as other Internet businesses. Strategy 10: Selling your own products online. This isrepparttar 116675 option that 90% of businesses pursue online. It also has less leverage and is more difficult to automate than other Internet businesses. Strategy 11: Domain name strategies. You can make money buying and selling domain names (although this strategy is quite difficult nowadays). You can also buy expired domains with existing traffic, you can buy domains with misspellings in order to get free drive-by traffic. Strategy 12: Buying websites. You can buy websites that have good positions inrepparttar 116676 search engines but are not utilizing their positions very effectively, and you can improverepparttar 116677 marketing and utilization of their site and make money. This is a very powerful strategy if you do it correctly. Other strategies: There are many other possibilities that you might not have thought of such starting an affiliate network. There are several other possibilities but most of them are a bit more towardsrepparttar 116678 more difficult end ofrepparttar 116679 spectrum. Have a think about which strategy you want to look at. Each strategy has advantages and disadvantages and each strategy has a lot of stuff that you need to learn to be able to apply it effectively. http://www.profitpuppy.com

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