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In today’s economy more and more business owners are finding it hard to stay open for business. So I’ve decided to share with you 10 ways to profit in today’s economy.

1. Sell more back end products to your existing customer base. You already created rapport, trust and proved your credibility to them.

2. Make it a practice to up sell to new and existing customers. After they decide to buy one product, offer them another product.

3. Cross promote your products and services with other businesses that aren’t competition. You will reach a wider audience at less cost.

4. Create joint venture deals with other businesses. You can expand your product line and target other profitable markets at a lower cost.

5. Start an affiliate program for your business. You will be able to spend less profits on risk advertising and spend more money on guaranteed sales.

6. Trade advertising with other businesses to save revenue. You could trade e-zine ads, banners ads, links, print ads, etc.

7. Outsource part of your workload. This can save on employee costs, equipment costs, taxation costs, expansion costs, etc.

8. Add low cost bonuses to your offer that have a high perceived value. It could be ebooks, members only sites, consulting, e-reports, etc.

9. Use viral marketing to promote your business on the internet. Give away free stuff with your ad copy include on it so others can give it away.

10. Follow up with all your prospects. You can use a free e-zine, a follow-up autoresponder, an update or reminder list, etc.

Good Morning Guys and Gals,

Customers are stalling more and more each day. If a competitor drops their price they run to them. Like I stated on an earlier post it’s your job to build credibility with current and new customers through various techniques to ensure that you keep them.

I’m not telling you to drop your prices, but you should offer something more of high quality value that your competitor isn’t and it is also a good idea to be friends with your competitor for a better benefit for the customer.

Check The Video! I will await your feedback

Cheers,

Charlotte

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Charlotte Howard is a Business Consultant and Founder of Charlotte Howard Consulting LLC. Grab Charlotte’s FREE click by click training for Traditional Business Owners and Home-Based Business Owners.

Copyright © 2009 Charlotte Howard Consulting, LLC. All rights reserved.

Article Marketing is a very great way to explode your business building efforts for free. There are two main ways to make money with articles. You can direct your clients to a product you whole heartily believe in or a service you are whole heartily providing.

When you are directing your clients to either options above, you need to only refer affiliate products, and resources that you trust. Because when you do provide value it will allow you to build credibility.

Most people go online for 2 reasons:

1. They need to solve a problem that they are currently experiencing.

2. They need to solve a pressing need or challenge that they are experiencing.

So all in all these people want relief and your job is to help them solve their problem or pressing need. This is what we in the consulting industry call a consultative approach.

About the Author:

Charlotte Howard is a Business Consultant and Founder of Charlotte Howard Consulting LLC. Grab Charlotte’s FREE click by click training for Traditional Business Owners and Home-Based Business Owners.

Copyright © 2009 Charlotte Howard Consulting, LLC. All rights reserved.

Writing good quality articles is very important if you plan on building a business with credibility. Articles are by far one of the most productive, yet unique way to gain quality visitors to your website without paying for it.

When you use articles to gain targeted traffic to your website, we call it Article Marketing. Article Marketing has been used for ages for businesses to use leverage in building their company on a budget.

There is a very simple method you can use to create a good quality article fast. I’m going to share with you today how to create an article based on your knowledge.

We all have something that we can educate people about, that can be helpful. It is just a matter of taking the time out to compile it in a way that others can understand it effectively.

Here’s a Simple Article Fomula:

1. Choose a question or concern you want to answer in your article.

2. Introduce your question or concern within your first couple of sentences. It should be about five to seven short sentences at the most.

3. Answer your question or concern, using about five to seven short sentences in summary.

4. Give your final thoughts on what you just told your targeted audience.

With these simple steps you can certainly crank out high quality articles and be very helpful to others who may be struggling with writing articles.

About the Author:
Charlotte Howard is a Business Consultant and Founder of Charlotte
Howard Consulting LLC. Grab Charlotte’s FREE click by click training for
Traditional Business Owners and Home-Based Business Owners.

Hi Everyone,

Here are 10 Benefits Of Submitting Articles to Ezines:

1. You’ll brand your web site, business and yourself
by submitting articles to e-zines. You could include
your name, business name, your credentials, web site
address and e-mail address in your resource box.

2. You will become known as an expert on the topics
you write about. This will give you and your business
extra credibility which will help you compete against
your competition.

3. Your article might also be placed on the publisher’s
home page. If they publish each issue on their home
page this will give you some extra exposure.

4. You might get extra exposure if the e-zine publisher
archives their e-zine on their site. People might want
to read the back issues before they make the decision
to subscribe.

5. You will get free advertising. This will allow you to
spend your profits on other forms of advertising. You
could buy advertisements in other e-zines that don’t
publish your articles.

6. You might get extra income from people wanting to
hire you to write other articles, books, or even ask to
speak at seminars. This is a great way to multiply your
income.

7. You could allow e-zine publishers to publish your
articles in their free e-books. Since people give them
away, your advertising could multiply all over the
internet.

8. You will get your article published all over the web
when you submit it to an e-zine publisher that has a
free content directory on their web site. They’ll allow
their visitors to republish your article.

9. You’ll gain people’s trust. If they read your article
and like it, they won’t be as hesitant to buy your
product or service. You will then be able to increase
your profits.

10. You could get your article guaranteed to run in
an e-zine. You could agree to run one of their articles
in your e-zine if, in exchange, they run yours in their
e-zine. It’s a win/win situation.

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Charlotte Howard is an expert in the internet marketing field. She helps individuals turn there hobbies into income. To learn more on how you can turn your hobbies into income go to:

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