Me & the Boss

Me & the Boss

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Guide To Selling Balloons And Maintaining A Highly Effective Business

By Arthur Crown


Irrespective of what business you do, and whether you do it in the real world or online, the rules for success are always the same, you just need to change them a little to suit your online. We have compiled the tricks that have worked for millions of people both online and in the real world.

If you are dealing with expensive custom made balloons you may want to think about using an online escrow service. Those similar to Alipay are a third-party between the seller and buyer. They will hold the money from the buyer and the item from the seller until the deal is deemed legitimate. Some customers may want this service and others may not so discuss this before a deal is made.

As backwards as it sounds you might want to stop asking them to buy from you in order to sell more. Instead focus on delivering tips and hints on how to get the most from your custom made balloons. Include a link to your shop so they can buy again when they are ready. People don't like pushy salesman. They don't like pushy websites, either.

If you want your site to be easily searchable, it is best to optimize phrases for your site. You can find the best phrases to use by going to Google. Once you are at Google go to their search box and type the phrase you are thinking about optimizing. Follow the phrase by a space and then yoururl. The first page listed is probably the best for you to use.

Try to be honest. If you have an online balloon business, make sure you have a good image in the eys of your customers. These days, people have started preferring online shopping. So, the factor of reliability plays an important part in building the reputation of an online balloon business. This will help you establish better connections with your customers.

You can add functions that will tell your customers what the other customers bought in addition to one they just bought. For an example when you sell a phone, you can show that others also bought a cover. This will make your customers want to buy it as well. Another option is to give discounts through email to your past customers to make them return back to your site.

Take advantage of any direct and indirect sales opportunities by making sure that your custom made balloons are readily available to customers who visit your store and also on well established third party sales sites. This way people who do not know about your store can still buy your custom made balloons from the third party sites.

You will appear higher in the search engine results if you have more links to your page. There are two types of links you can use. Inbound links will direct users to your site and outbound links on your page will direct users to another page. These links can increase the traffic on your page and will help you to get a higher search engine ranking.




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