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ATTENTION AMERICAN IT MANAGERS: Within the next decade most of your best people will retire or die. Your senior staffers are baby boomers with twenty years or more of experience in their field. They built the systems: they learned the operating systems as they were created: they know what they know from real life experience that cannot be learned in school. They are also somewhere between their late forties and early sixties. They rose to the top while competing within the largest workforce America has ever seen. When they leave they will take a level of efficiency and expertise with them that will take twenties years to replace.

To make matters worse, the population of appropriately educated Americans coming up behind them is far smaller than the population getting ready to move out. Do the math. Start now. To try to buy that talent later will not only cost you a fortune but you will be competing for a very small population of such individuals, with the entire world.

In this corporate environment where everyone is disposable and so much work is done by contractors so that companies can avoid having to make a commitment to personnel, it is far too easy to miss this growing danger. Business Managers may have learned this—but probably not. However, IT managers usually have not had much exposure to this concept. They live in a world of projects that staff up for the project and then disband. How to you bring up the next crop of leaders in such an environment? This is going to take far too many companies by surprise! But IT is going to be hit much harder than most other departments. I know of no other area of corporate life that is so project oriented. In the IT world, you build a team and disband it a few months later–even when they do outstanding work. All in the name of avoiding long term cost. It also avoids long term success.

There is also an emotional and psychological component to this problem. After the Dot-Bomb debacle, many people with decades of smarts were kicked out due to layoffs, or companies failing, or being eaten by a bigger company that had its own staff. Why do we eat our seed corn? Those that survived are still concerned about it happening again. And it could. It makes them conservative. Possibly even a tiny bit timid and less likely to share their knowledge freely. I don’t blame them. Because our corporate mentality is to cut the expensive people and replace them with contractors—that we can easily get rid of when the job is done. What a vote of no confidence! This is considered to be a strategy. OK…I will accept that. It is a strategy. But it is a very short sighted one. Where is the mid-range planning?

So, what do you do? In this article and podcast, let us restrict our focus to Mentoring. Future articles and podcasts will explore other activities that are also proven and available.

Do you have a mentoring plan in place? I don’t mean the typical, “oh, we believe in mentoring around here” kind of plan. I mean a thought out purposeful plan whereby you determine which journeyman IT personnel have the potential to grow into those senior roles and have your baby boomer senior staffers truly mentor them to bring them along. I doubt it. It does exist; I know of a few such companies. But it is rare.

Part of the problem for those that want to create a mentoring program is that it is not so simple to identify candidates. Let me help with that. Not everyone is a candidate for mentoring and few people are cut out to be mentors. It’s sad but true. Don’t spin your wheels and exhaust your enthusiasm backing the wrong plan and/or individuals. You need to have some way to identify in whom you want to invest. And, please understand, it is an investment. You will invest money but not only money. You will invest the time of very busy and critical people. That will hurt a bit—but you don’t really have any choice. If you are responsible for future planning in your organization, ignoring this process is irresponsible.

Here is a handy way to help make these determinations. A friend once told me that he had learned in a sales course at IBM, decades ago, about a concept that went something like this—and I may be mangling it so please forgive me. It was not meant for IT or Mentorship purposes, but I have adapted it.

There are four levels of competence. They are listed in order from least capable to most capable in performing their job. Oddly, this does not represent the order in which they are most effective in a mentoring program.

- Unconsciously Incompetent
- Consciously Incompetent
- Consciously Competent
- Unconsciously Competent

UNCONSCIOUSLY INCOMPETENT: This person doesn’t know that they don’t know. They are not a candidate for this program—but may need help in learning to learn.

A famous story about Thomas Edison says that he used to test fresh new Engineers who wanted to work for him by putting them in a lab with a very unique and oddly shaped glass container. He would tell them to figure out the internal volume of the container. One time he watched a new graduate work out the problem by measuring all the diameters of the odd twists and turns of the glass and carefully making the calculations on his slide rule. When he presented the answer, Edison said, “You got the right answer, but I can’t give you the job.” The young man asked why and Edison responded by picking up the container, filling it with water and pouring into a graduated beaker, getting the answer in ten seconds. He said, “Son, I am glad you know the answer, but I’m afraid you just don’t know the question.” The Unconsciously Incompetent person does not know the question.

CONSCIOUSLY INCOMPETENT: This person knows that they don’t know and is probably working to get better. They are a junior person with potential. Such an individual bears watching—and possibly a little testing. Don’t make it something too hard, but it should be a little scary, something that makes them stretch. See what happens. This is a good candidate to groom for middle management and in future years, senior management.

CONSCIOUSLY COMPENTENT: This is where the high performers stand. They will be in middle to senior management already. These people are two-for-one sales, all by themselves. They are both someone to be seen as a candidate to RECEIVE mentoring—for senior management—and the ideal person to PROVIDE mentoring for the Consciously Incompetent candidate. They have a high level of skill and consistently perform very well.

This person knows what they are doing, and remembers learning how to do it. They are not as capable as the Unconsciously Competent person. Nevertheless, they know what they know and they know how to transfer it to someone else–if they are motivated and are not afraid of losing their own place. If they know that they are part of something stable and long term and can afford to create their replacement—they are who you need. Because that is exactly what you want them to do. You want them to create their own replacement. You want them to bring up someone that will ask management for less, has a longer run in front of them and to know that they are not committing financial suicide by doing so.

Not all people in this category will make good Mentors as communication skills and a desire to teach are critical components to performing well in the role. I know many individuals who are extremely skilled and have the sort of knowledge that is transferable—but who could never serve this role with someone successfully. You need to keep other variables in mind.

- Communication Skills
- A temperament that tends toward explaining what they are doing, rather than keeping things “close to their vest.”
- Good people skills

The people that will make the best Mentors are already doing it. They are respected by their peers as someone that is very free with their knowledge. They are just informal about it as there is no real structure. Find those people and give them a mandate, the time and some guidance and they will do a wonderful job for you.

UNCONSCIOUSLY COMPENTENT: The highest level. This person doesn’t even know why they are so good anymore. Everything is so effortless that it is unconscious. This is the best you can get and you may only meet a handful of people like this in your career. Don’t touch this person! There are two very good reasons why.

1) They are not replaceable or reproducible. They really are unique. Give them whatever they want to keep them doing what they do and don’t distract them!

2) The other reason to keep them away from a mentoring program is because they make terrible mentors. They have no idea how they are doing what they are doing. They just do it–better than anyone else. But, they can’t teach what they themselves don’t really understand. Treat them as the gift that they are and get out of their way. Additionally, the probable failure in their attempt at mentoring will mess with their confidence. You don’t want that.

There is a lot written on mentoring techniques, so I will not belabor the point. You, the IT Managers, may not have the authority or sense of security to set up this sort of program. I understand. However, if you want to do it and you have the authority, it isn’t really hard to begin. There is a lot of material already in publication about various approaches. This is not a new concept. Available resources will probably not be specifically IT management related, but you can apply their lessons. My goal in this article is not to present something you have never heard of before. Rather, it is to remind you of what you already know–and to demonstrate how critical it has become to use that information.

Projects are also an opportunity. If you allow less capable people to work with more capable people, or more accurately, tag along, relationships can be created. Make the project oriented nature of our industry, which is its greatest weakness in this regard, become a new strength.

Barry Koplowitz founded Interpath Technologies Corporation in 1999. He was an instructor for Network General and NAI traveling around the USA teaching for Sniffer University and is a executive consultant to large enterprise environments in the area of Processes-Network/Application Analysis and Troubleshooting. He is the writer and host of The Sniffer Guy podcast. http://www.interpathtech.com

Take a quick walk down the corridor of your closest mall and you will find out that the appearance of a store’s front is a very important aspect of their business. Most stores use mannequins and highlight their latest outfits in the store window. The idea of highlighting what the store offers in the window fronts is to draw people into the store. If a potential customer walks through the mall and sees an outfit or a new gadget they may want to purchase, it increases the likelihood that that individual will wander into the store to shop around. The same can be said for online stores. The appearance of an ecommerce storefront can mean the difference between having customers and not having customers enter, shop and purchase products from your site.

Whether a business owner is just starting out or looking to revamp their online store, a store’s appearance can make a big difference. The first step in building a business is to make sure that the store’s online appearance fits with what is being sold at the store. You do not want to mislead customers on your site by having an ecommerce storefront that does not match with what is offered at your particular store. It is important to showcase items that you have and that are in high demand by customers. If you sell something that is unique and it is your specialty, then by all means put that on the front page of your website somewhere to show case it. It will draw people to your site and entice them to continue to shop throughout the store.

Another thing is to make sure that the ecommerce storefront is ascetically pleasing. A quick lesson in visual communications can tell you what colors work for particular things and what colors to stay away from. For instance, the color red is thought to be a warning sign and may cause people to stay away. You also do not want to have bright colors that make it difficult for customers to shop for a long time. If customers get a headache because of the color scheme you picked out, chances are they will not come back to visit very often even if they like what your store has to offer. Earth tone colors tend to bring a warmer feeling to a website and can make customers feel comfortable. While it may seem small, the color scheme can make a big difference.

To help with the appearance of a store, there are tools that can aid in decisions that need to be made. It is important to be unique and have your own appearance when it comes to setting yourself apart from other online stores. Therefore ecommerce storefront applications are completely customizable so that you can be sure to set yourself apart from the competition. Whether it’s the layout of the items displayed or how the pages are designed, the storefront application let the business owner completely dictate these decisions.

The nice thing about these ecommerce storefront tools is that they do not solely take into consideration the appearance of a storefront. The companies that develop these applications also have resources to help increase revenue for the business owner. These resources include consultants to help advise with marketing and any other decisions that need to be made. They also offer development groups to help bring an idea and a concept into a real entity. In addition, there are also designers to help with the site’s appearance to help increase traffic.

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The use of creative digital media has become very common for serious players in the retail industry. Those wonderful advertisements that people see almost everywhere are so amazing because within a few seconds, they are able to impart to the customers the massages that they want to send.

The use of creative digital media, in the beginning, may sound expensive but it doesn’t take very long for advertisers to realize that it’s actually cheap in the long run and the benefits that it brings are immediately noticeable.

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The Internet provides so many different opportunities to people who utilize it, especially when it comes to shopping. There is nothing easier than sitting in your house on your computer jumping from store to store to compare prices and different styles. It sure beats having to get in your car to travel from store to store, especially in the middle of a cold winter or sweltering hot summer. Not only does it take more time to do so, but it also costs more. In addition to the convenience of not having to travel, stores also make it easier to shop with tools such as the online shopping cart.

Much like a real shopping cart that you walk around with when you go out shopping to a grocery store, or any other store for that matter, an online shopping cart helps customers keep things organized and in order. While customers are shopping for items at a particular store, all they have to do is add items to their cart that they are thinking about buying. Once the customer is done shopping, they can go straight to the shopping cart to view all the items that they selected and check out from there.

Not only does the online shopping cart benefit the customer, but it benefits the business owner as well. In addition to the customer benefits of organizing a customer’s shopping experience, it offers numerous benefits to the business owner. One of the benefits of this application is that the shopping cart features are completely customizable. It is not a once size fits all application, therefore depending on a store owners particular needs, the shopping cart can be customized to fit those needs. Whether it’s simply the color of the text and the fonts, or as intricate as the process of checking out or how a payment is processed, these particular features can be customized to meet the business owner’s needs and wants.

The goal of the online shopping cart application is to draw people to a particular website and Internet store and to make it easy for the customer to purchase. The amount of traffic you have coming to visit your website and online store is crucial. It is hard for an online store to survive if you don’t have the traffic visiting the website. The higher amount of people that visit your website, the higher the chance is that people will buy something. Without customers, an online store cannot survive. That is why increasing the traffic to your website is crucial to the survival of the website.

Along with high traffic directed toward the website, it is also important to keep customers in your store long enough to shop around and purchase items. If a customer comes to your store and leaves right away, it is a sign that something on your website needs to be changed. The site may not be set up so that it is easy to navigate or is not user friendly. It is important to keep customers coming to your store. The added convenience of an online shopping cart can help keep customers coming back time and time again because it helps organize the site and make shopping and purchasing easier.

Let’s face it; if a customer does not have a good shopping experience, they are not going to come back to that particular store. Customers want to be able to go and search for items that they want and buy them with ease. They do not want to be bothered with shopping tools that leave out items and search engines that do not work. With an online shopping cart, business owners increase the chance of customers coming back because of the convenience factor.

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You have an interview scheduled. This means so much to you because you have been without a job for too long. You have a family and whatever money you had saved for emergencies like this is almost at an end.

On the morning of the interview you ready yourself and dress in your best clothes. You sit in the waiting room and pretend to read a magazine while you hope you don’t sweat too much. You pretend to be mildly interrupted when your name is called. You lay the magazine down and will forget what magazine it was.

The person interviewing you has your resume sitting front of them. They invite you to have a seat while they continue to pour over the contents of your file. You feel like screaming, but you manage to hold the stress in as you hear the steady tick of the clock.

“So,” the interviewer begins, “what can you bring to this position that would qualify you more than any other candidate?”

“Well, I like football and playing video games with my kids,” you begin. The interviewer looks confused, but you hurry on, “On Saturdays I like to wash my car, except of course when it rains, which of course it always does in April.”

“But we’re here to talk about the possibility of you working for our firm. Why should we hire you?” the interviewer redirects the question.

“I hate vegetables and my favorite color is blue,” you say with a smile. “Is there anything else you need to know?”

I hope you found this illustration disturbingly strange. It makes no sense for a person who really needs a job to go into the interview and talk about anything other than what the interviewer wants to know. That potential hire will do their best to address every question and answer every concern. Why? They want a job and their words mean something.

Since this is true why do so many email-marketing campaigns follow the same course as our hypothetical interviewee?

Many email marketing campaigns are disjointed and off target. I think sometimes the originator of the message is hoping to develop friendships with potential customers by telling jokes or expressing personal opinions about issues that have little to no relevance to the product they are pitching.

We should take a cue from quality interview preperation techniques.

1) Value other people. No one has to read your email marketing pitch so keep it simple.

2) Stay on target. You are using the email to market a product or business. Don’t stray from that objective.

3) Know who’s in control. The email recipient can easily hit the delete key so work to impress them with the clarity of message and quality of product.

4) Invite feedback. Allow the potential customer to let you know what they think. This may not always be positive, but it does convey that you are interested in a two-sided conversation.

Email marketing can be an effective tool that has the potential of making your product appealing to potential customers – as long as you stay on target.

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Is your system crashing unexpectedly? Have you been suffering from PC crashes for as long as you can remember? Does the computer crash at least once every day? If you have said yes to any one of these questions, you should listen up. Although a crash can occur at anytime and for virtually any reason, it doesn’t mean you should just ignore the problem. Hitting that restart button may solve the problem for the time being, but what will you do when it no longer works and your computer fails to boot up? Hopefully, it won’t ever come to that, as you will undoubtedly choose to take a more active role in your PC’s long term health. Right?

You have to understand that your computer doesn’t just “work”. In order for your PC to operate and remain functional, all the little parts and systems inside of it must work together and in perfect harmony with one another. If that doesn’t happen, well, the computer simply won’t function correctly. However, those are merely the two extremes — perfect or broken. In reality, most computers are somewhere in the middle — meaning that the systems and parts “usually” work together but occasionally conflict with each other. This “conflict” results in what you know to be a system crash.

With all the different parts and systems constantly running on your computer, it can be quite difficult to determine the root cause of a system crash; especially if there is more than one root cause and more than one crash. Having said that, the best thing for you to do is to come at the problem from every conceivable angle. Eliminate what isn’t the problem until you find what is.

Hopefully, this short list can get you started in the right direction.

- Run your basic spyware, virus, & adware scans to determine if malicious software is the cause of the system crashing. Many people assume the worst when actually, the crashing is just the result of a virus that slipped through the defensive cracks.

- Determine if the PC is regularly overheating by checking it’s internal temperature. The sheer number of computers that crash due to overheating is truly staggering. If it is the problem, add a few fans to the case and see if any improvements are made.

- Use your system tools to repair your computer. “Scan Disk” and “Disk Defragmenter” can be very useful for clearing up files and restoring valuable disk space — both of which can increase performance and speed.

- Check the registry for errors. A corrupted registry is probably the number 1 cause of system crashing; not to mention, everything else that can go wrong with a computer. The registry is the central processing center for all PC related information. So, if a monkey wrench gets thrown in there, the whole system will likely suffer. Keeping a close eye on your registry is very important — so be sure to run a thorough scan with reliable registry repair software at least once a week.

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Are you trying to figure out why your computer keepings crashing? Well, don’t fret. The problem isn’t nearly as complicated as some people think it is. Truth be told, fixing a PC crashing problem can be quite easy with just a little bit of information & some simple know-how.

As you know by now, crashes are never good for a computer. Not only are they extremely annoying & frustrating, but they’re also potentially dangerous in the grand scheme of things. The more the PC crashes, the more data thats gets lost — the more data lost, the more stability the PC loses. So, in a sense, every time your computer crashes, it gets closer & closer to complete instability. With that being said, the goal of every PC user should be to find the root cause of the crashes and then fix the problem before it worsens. Luckily though, finding the reason behind a computer crash isn’t too hard, as most crashes are usually an after affect of the all too common registry crash.

In case you didn’t know, the registry is what governs the information flow on your computer. It isn’t some mystical force that allows everything to run smoothly — it’s a complex system made up of thousands of files that tells the computer what to do and how to do it. Having said that, when this particular information management system becomes corrupted with errors, things start to go a bit haywire. The computer slows to a crawl, it becomes unresponsive, and it begins preventing the user from using certain software applications. Not long after these symptoms, the registry will begin to consistently crash — and if the registry crashes, the computer crashes. It’s a simple fact, the computer can not operate with a broken registry; so, fix the registry and you fix the computer.

The best way to fix your computer’s registry is through the use of registry repair software. A reliable registry cleaner will allow for quick & effortless scans that require minimal user interaction. All you have to do is click a button and the software will begin scanning and repairing the registry within seconds. The best part about this is, mistakes are kept to a bare minimum! If a mistake is made by the software and something important in the registry does in fact get deleted, you can simply use the “backup” copy of your registry to restore the computer’s functionality. And don’t worry if you don’t know much about creating a back-up copy, most registry cleaners come equipped with an automatic “Back-up” feature.

The benefits of running weekly registry scans are too great to be ignored. Besides the obvious “crash protection” benefits, you also get to take your PC’s performance to a whole new level. By eliminating all the errors within the registry, you will enhance the computer’s speed, performance, as well as it’s overall stability. In short, it will be like getting a brand new computer. Honestly, why would anyone not want to use registry repair software?

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Generation of leads is daunting task faced by many people, because success of any online network marketing depends on it. When entrepreneurs start an online marketing business, initially they try to locate leads in their own way. However, after realizing that their sale is not reaching the expected mark, they approach any lead providing company and buy leads from them.

It is quite a natural thing to do so. However, the biggest disadvantage is that numerous online entrepreneurs approach these companies. It is often seen that a lead sold to one individual was earlier sold to some other entrepreneur. In addition, such companies do not pay attention towards the grievances of online marketers. These companies also sell leads at exorbitant prices.

If at all, individuals want to buy leads, then make sure to purchase leads from some reputed company. Their leads are not counterfeit and they constantly keep updating their database. However, by putting in little effort, it is possible to locate prospective leads.

How To Generate Quality Leads:

To excel in any online network marketing venture, entrepreneurs need to market their products immensely. Check the quality of the website. Is it that, the prospective customers find the website lacking in information, or does the site appear dull? These are the common questions which entrepreneur has to ponder on.

So why not make an effort to improve the standard of the website. It is possible by implementing inexpensive methods. Hire a professional web designer and redevelop the website. Make it more informative by adding video or audio file that tells customers, as how they can benefit by joining the online marketing program.

Stress on the quality of the product and tell visitors, as how they can earn profit from online marketing program. For that purpose, create a lead capturing webpage on the site. Download any automated software that tracks the customer’s data. This software captures the emails and names of the customers, who had visited the website.

Otherwise, include a form in webpage that asks for the name of customer and their e-mail. However, make the form shorter, so that more customers will fill up the form. Other area of improvement is the domain name. Purchase a domain name and forward it to web destination of the capture form. Register the domain name. Entrepreneurs can purchase a .net domain or .biz domain name. Do not purchase a dot com (.com) domain name.

Now businesspersons have to advertise this domain name, which they have forwarded to the landing webpage. Place advertisements in few major sites, include links of website in articles and submit these articles to online publishers. Other methods of advertising include blogs, forums and podcasting.

Follow Up:

Entrepreneurs need to keep in regular touch with the leads they have generated. Send them e-mails and motivate them to increase their lead in turn. In addition, the fortune lies in follow ups. Trace those people, who promised to join the program few days ago. There is no guarantee that they will always join, but at least make an effort to reach out to them. Thus, implement these few techniques in online network marketing business and generate quality leads.

John Earl Herndon is an expert in developing leads for marketing on the internet. There are many ways to develop leads, John Earl shares these through his website below. http://easy123go.com

Out of all the personal qualities and professional skills an internet entrepreneur can have, what is the most destructive, most powerful weapon?

Think about it. An entrepreneur can’t survive without it. Without this quality/skill, you’re walking the plank.

What is it?

Persuasion is Your Nuclear Warhead of Online Business

Before you go anywhere, hear me out because this could end up being the most inspiring message you’ll ever read.

Not only is persuasion the most important skill and quality you can develop in life in general, it’s the chair legs of an internet business. The beauty of persuasion is that you only need words to persuade. You can be unestablished and broke and still persuade other online marketers with big lists to add your product to it, or you could persuade a more established blogger into joint venturing with you (sending you traffic and backlinks while you do the same back).

This doesn’t mean you can e-mail John Reese and get him to promote your ebook to his enormous list, but it’s possible… After all, how do inmates get prison guards to sneak drugs into the prisons? The inmates have nothing to offer except persuasion, so how could they possibly get prison guards who know they’ll lose their jobs and possibly serve time to do this?!

It’s the art of persuasion.

* You need to persuade others into joint ventures.
* You need to persuade web surfers to read your articles.
* You need to persuade prospects into signing up to your e-mail list then buy.
* You need to persuade those around you so that you can live a more fulfilling life.

How to Persuade People to Do Whatever You Want

Appeal to Emotions

Your words need to hit the person’s hot buttons, strike their emotional chords, resonate with them… How is what you offer going to benefit them emotionally?

People make decisions based on emotional satisfaction, not reason or logic. Logic and reason are only used to backup your claims that hit emotional hot buttons.

Instead of saying, “Buy my ebook and you’ll learn how to treat your acne with ingredients lying around your house”….

Imagine your prospect’s strongest emotion about this subject is a baseball. You want to knock the cover off the thing. You want to really lace into the emotion.

So you say something like, “Imagine you wake up in 3 days from now and your face is as smooth as silk. The hottest guy in school gives you his number. The popular girls invite you to their lunch table. The cheer leading coach thinks you have potential and that you should try out this year. The thought of acne doesn’t even come across your mind anymore.”

This example is a little extreme, but that’s good because I’m trying to drive home my points. You actually want to communicate this kind of stuff.

See the difference? You can’t get people to take action in your favor unless you play their emotional chords like a damn guitar.

Magical Emotional Appeal Persuades

This is one of the most important concepts in the art of getting people to do what you want because everybody wants magical solutions to their problems or magical benefits.

You know, I could tell you in 9 words how to lose weight. Get off the couch and quit eating so much. Everybody knows that’s how you lose weight, but people looking to lose weight want a magical solution that allows them to…

* Still eat a lot of bad food.
* Not exercise.
* They want the weight to be gone by tomorrow morning.
* They want to go from unattractive to supermodel in 60 seconds flat.

In order to persuade, you have to get as close to these magical appeals, dig out the emotions underlying them, and capitalize on them.

I don’t mean be unethical and lie about your product or service.

Say you’re selling Dietrine Carb Blocker as a Joe Bucks Affiliate. The magical part of this product is you can eat all you want and the carbs will literally be blocked from being stored as excess fat.

So let’s say you’re trying to sell this thing…

You don’t say:

“Dietrine Carb Blocker contains blabady blah, and it’s the hottest weight loss pill on the planet. Click here to order now.”

You say (something magically appealing like):

“90% of users have discovered that they can still enjoy tasty foods while watching the pounds fall off like an avalanche of fat. You forget you’re even watching your weight. You’ll fit back into those old clothes and it’ll seem like you did nothing to get there. Click here to order now.”

More examples…

If you’re selling a skateboarding instructional video online, you’d say “Imagine grinding rails and kick flipping like Tony Hawk by tonight. Imagine all your friends calling you a skateboard god the next time you go skatin’.” (The Magical Appeal: Skate like Tony Hawk by night.)

You’re not selling a skateboarding video, you’re selling the benefit that seems like magic to your prospect’s emotions and desires.

If you’re selling an ebook on promoting your restaurant, say “You’ll discover the one secret that will completely fill your restaurant’s capacity by tomorrow night. You won’t have to worry about advertising again. In fact, don’t worry about worrying again because you’re going to find out how easy it is to explode your restaurant sales today.” (The Magical Appeal: Fill your restaurant with little effort.)

You’re not selling an ebook on promoting your restaurant, you’re selling an easy, magical solution to your prospect’s biggest problem.

Psychology in Persuasion

There’s an entire realm of persuasion you can explore. That’s the psychology of influencing others. It’s used in sales all the time and in any real life situation in which you need to influence others to get what you want. One of the best books on the subject is Joe Sugarman’s Triggers. You should also read anything by social psychologist Dr. Robert Cialdini.

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As the internet continues to mature, so does the attitudes of individuals, people are now purchasing more and more on the internet. Many businesses exist that will deliver merchandise to almost any specific address, they specialize in shipping goods and products to any where in the world. This creates opportunities for selling just about anything to anybody at any address, any one who posses some know how can capitalize on this opportunity with just a little initiative and the willingness to do some work on the internet.

One of the biggest problems with a retail website, is you end up becoming the seller, shipper and buyer all at once. When you are offering products for sale on the internet you are opening the door to an international market and you will need to have enough inventories. If you have to constantly send out apologetic letters informing customers that their choice is either on back order or discontinued will not bring many repeat clients and will eventually go to another website.

Allot of drop-shippers work along with internet auction sellers who list their products on their auction website and then the wholesaler takes over all the shipping and handling of the product. For auction items there are risks to the seller, if a product is listed that does not sell, the seller is will still be responsible for any and all listing fees for advertising and putting the item up for auction.

In addition, once a product sells, the seller will be charged a value fee, this is a percentage of the total price at which the product is sold. Consequently, the seller must sell the product at a price that is higher than the unit cost plus advertising and listing costs before they earn any money. Selling directly off your own site may not produce as much business, but by the customer paying for handling and shipping, everything that is paid over the asking unit price is yours to keep.You could also choose to purchase small inventories of products you think would have high demand then list it on your site along with how many items are available. Being up front and honest with customers will make it simple for you to make money online.

Another good idea is to align yourself with good Affiliate Network Marketer who carry large inventory of goods who gives you permission to sell them on your site. When you receive an order, it would go directly to your wholesaler who would pack it and then ship it and will also deal with all the finances. You earn money based on the commissions from selling items, For example if you promote and advertise a VCR player on your website for $69.99 plus taxes, handling and shipping, when a customer purchases it and places an order once they make a payment and the wholesalers receive it the item is then shipped. If you purchased the VCR player from your wholesaler for $40, your commission paid to you would be the difference of $29, it is that simple to make money with affiliate marketing. If you would like to know more on this topic check out Dotcomology the art of making money online in the attached link.

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