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How to increase your internet sales without investing a lot . . . by Raakesh Blokhra.
July 28, 2004 -- Raakesh Blokhra, Rase Solutions, discusses some tips and steps to promote and encourage your business and increase your sales over the internet. In this article you will get the basic idea of the trends that you should follow to sell your services or individual products to the multi million information seekers over the internet.
For all companies currently selling or planning to start selling their products on the internet, Rase Solutions, offer corporate selling and advertising plans. Rase can help you sell any products online. Eversince the internet boom, more than 80% of the buyers searching for any goods or items refer to the internet for details and latest prices. Even users that go to the stores to buy things usually check for the best prices on the internet, so that they dont end up paying extra. "How about making an offer that they come back from the store and find you to place the order, if however we cant stop them from going", says Dr. Ratan Lal Blokhra, Advisor, Rase Solutions.
The process is simple although its implementation may seem a little complex. For best sale promotions, we need to focus on five main things:
- Making the products visible
- Pricing them competetively
- Making shopping convenient for the clients
- Ensuring instant and careful shipping
- Providing easy payment options
Making the products visible is the first and the most important step after the website has been made. Your sales increase as you get more clients and more clients would only see you if you are visible. Very rarely would clients search specifically for your site, unless they are acquinted with your services and want to buy stuff from you. Remember, when we say online sale and visibility, we are talking about being seen among atleast a 100,000 other websites competing with you. More then 80% of the internet users search products through search engines which means, if you are listed on the first two pages of major search engines, your chances of being considered are much more. You need an ADVANCED SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to be listed on the search engines and the attempt to have yourself listed on a lot of other websites is necessary. Rase Solutions offers you unlimited visibility, making traffic (searching for you) reach your website from as many sources as possible, out of which search engines obviously on the top list.
Once your products are searchable through the search engines and you start getting traffic means that people have started visiting your store and you have to make sure that they dont leave without buying anything.
Pricing your products appropriately is the only thing that can keep you from seeing the slient go back disappointed. Your prices should be such that even if the client is doing a price comparasion with other products, he has no choice rather than buying through you, unless there are variations in the product specfications and the client is looking for the other ones available. Pricing of the product does play a very important role in sales, irrespective of it being online or 'offline'. Therefore the manufacturers or dealers should always price their products after doing a market research of the similar products. "You give them the price that they cant refuse, and you'll get the results you cant believe" - Dr. Ratan Lal Blokhra.
Convenience in shopping should be very seriously be considered. Although credit cards are used without any hassle these days still remember, there are still more than 40% people out there who dont want to give their credit card information on the internet as they dont feel safe to do so. Dont blame them for this, they are unaware of the security provided by the payment gateways, but you MUST keep them in mind. Not a very difficult task, if you think of it . . . dont you accept checks ? even better, offer pay on receipt. There are services offered by the post offices and private companies as well which collects the payments from the clients before handing over your products to them. It can be a little bit of hassle for you, but very convenient for the people who want to do online shopping without giving their secret information like credit card numbers, validation codes, expiry dates to anyone on the internet. At the worst, if the client changes his mind and doesn't accept your delivery, it will be returned to you, so you have nothing to loose. You can think of more payment options that makes it easier for the client.
There are other options that you can offer making the client's tour, to your online store, beneficial and memorable.You can offer them some discounts on other products of yours, why not sell more than what he has to buy? give other information on your site which may be beneficial for the customers...
Shipping has to be safe and quick at the same time. This department of your office should be strongest. You must make sure that all orders you get should be shipped the same day. The packing must be safe and secure and should be lawfully optimized (especially for some other products like chemicals or medicines or electronics). If the delivery of your products take more time that usual, this might not be very encouraging for the clients. Remember, that your clients can very conveniently drive to the nearest store of your competitor and buy the stuff from there. Even if not, be sure that they can definately collect the items the same day from anywhere. AND this is for sure that under no circumstance can you get all orders delivered the same day, therefore the best you can do is to ship them the same day to ensure a quick delivery which in the long run DOES benefit you and builds up a nice impression on the clients helping you to strengthen your brand.
As mentioned in the Pricing your products section, you should encourage as many payment options as you could.
These are the tips on making your business strong and increasing internet sales. Anyhow, to constantly keep working on Internet promotions, you need to have a full time employee (local or telecommuting), who can work everyday to promote your company over the internet or you can give the Internet Promotions to companies professionally working to make your sales increase. Rase Solutions provide oustanding consultation as well as solutions to promote your business over the internet without any overheads. You can give them a 6 months to 12 months contract for increasing your visibility, traffic or sales. Remember, whatever products you have, internet is the only 'departmental store' that can sell it. Starting from a pin to an aeroplane, salt to reagents and buffers, batteries to automobiles and from nothing to everything. Rase Solutions has been promoting various products and businesses over the internet and has increased sales from 10% to 300% over the internet.
Specialising in Search engine optimizations, Rase Solutions, gives you the hassle free services and solutions that makes your business grow. As consultants, Rase Solutions also give you information on internet marketing and secrets of the growing over the internet.
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