Building Your List Of Customers
July 23, 2009 by Tyrone
It’s time to attract visitors to your Internet business and to build a list of customers. Your customers will be your lifeline and without them, your Internet business cannot survive.
Build Your Foundation – The Email List
In the online world we communicate with our customers via multiple mediums and ultimately we need to collect their email address. Email addresses are used to send orders, updates and more information from your e-commerce website. Building an email list is very important because you will be able to deliver more information and convince your customers to buy more from your website. I strongly recommend you start building an email list at the beginning.
Here is a simple process of how collecting an email address is used to create sales:
- Sign up subscribers to your online newsletter through your website and send updates of new products and promotions
- Build rapport with these people who will be interested in receiving your online newsletter. Be sure you offer great advice and resources they can access.
- They become a customer of your website because they trust you and will recommend friends and family to buy from you.
This is a short process that is quite simple but very powerful. If you can build strong relationships with your customers via email, then imagine what your e-commerce business could achieve.
ActiveCollab Review: Helps You Manage All Your Projects
July 13, 2009 by Tyrone
In today’s post I would like to share with you an excellent piece of software that I use in my business. I had been struggling in the past to manage multiple projects all at once and when you have 3 staff working for you full time, you need to have good systems in place to manage them. Furthermore, it can be a real disaster when you take on more work without having a project management software in place. You will receive more emails from your clients and programmers and before you know it, you will have forgotten who sent what.
This is why I turned to ActiveCollab. A few weeks ago I did a podcast with Adam Lever from Big Screen Promotions and on the topic of How To Outsource Your Internet Business. In the podcast we discussed about how to outsource your Internet business and also mentioned a few software products that were freely available. One we mentioned was Dot Project and this is an open source software that is quite basic. I personally felt it wasn’t enough to manage the projects and opted to another option.
ActiveCollab – A Project Management Software I Love!
When I found ActiveCollab it was originally open source and was free up until Version 1.0. Then the team decided to charge a license fee starting at $199.00 which I believe is well worth the price. A lot of times I don’t buy software or recommend it unless it either:
- Saves time
- Saves money
- Easy to use
Podcast: Three Steps To Creating Your Membership Site
June 17, 2009 by Tyrone
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If you haven’t read the previous post, you need to read Our Internet Secrets: How To Create Membership Sites. This podcast continues on and shows you how to create your own membership site that has helped Andrew and Daryl Grant make over $500,000 a year alone.
How To Create Your Membership Site In Three Steps
Today, our podcast is with my good friend Adam Lever from Big Screen Promotions. We both met each other at an event a few weeks ago and teamed up to bring to you some very special podcasts on topics to help you profit from your Internet business. In the upcoming weeks we will be doing regular weekly talks and sharing with you lots of detailed information on how to profit from your Internet business.
Adam Lever and Tyrone Shum
Jumpstart And Increase Your Targeted Email List
May 26, 2009 by Tyrone
Building an email list is one of the most important aspects within an e-commerce business. The reason why I emphasize the importance of an email list is the impact it will have on the future of your business. Read Why Your Internet Business Needs An Email List? as well. Your email list will comprise of subscribers that are segmented in the following:
- Browsing and want free information
- Have purchased from you and is a customer of your business
- A loyal customer who regularly buys and refers your business to others.
Your goal is to move all your subscribers into the 3rd segment – which are customers who buy and refer business to others. But firstly, how do you get people to subscribe to your email list?
