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Make money online with offline clients

by Internet Trillionaire
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After trying various methods to make money online, I have discovered that it is quite easy to send people with whom you interact with on a daily basis, who knows and trust you already to your online offers and make online sales these days.

Almost everyone has a smart phone these days and when you personally recommend your online offers to them, they could almost instantly read the sales page of the offer while you're standing or sitting down with them having a cup of coffee or something.

Recommending something you have on offer online works even better if you have sold something to them offline.

Let's say you currently work in retail & you sell a customer an item in the store you work in, you already know they have disposable income to spend in that niche on item/s you can refer them to an offer you are signed up to as an affiliate & hopefully your offer compliments the offline product they purchased from you in the store you work in.

Building repor with the client with the first sale instantly makes you seem like the expert in that niche.

I'm sure this will help you make more sales online
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Lafuddy
    Originally Posted by Internet Trillionaire View Post

    After trying various methods to make money online, I have discovered that it is quite easy to send people with whom you interact with on a daily basis, who knows and trust you already to your online offers and make online sales these days.

    Almost everyone has a smart phone these days and when you personally recommend your online offers to them, they could almost instantly read the sales page of the offer while you're standing or sitting down with them having a cup of coffee or something.

    Recommending something you have on offer online works even better if you have sold something to them offline.

    Let's say you currently work in retail & you sell a customer an item in the store you work in, you already know they have disposable income to spend in that niche on item/s you can refer them to an offer you are signed up to as an affiliate & hopefully your offer compliments the offline product they purchased from you in the store you work in.

    Building repor with the client with the first sale instantly makes you seem like the expert in that niche.

    I'm sure this will help you make more sales online
    Why add another layer, an obstruction like having to go online, to the process of buying from you?

    If they are in your store, HAND THEM SOMETHING RIGHT NOW - TODAY - to encourage them to
    buy again or come back and buy again.

    You cannot find a better prospect than this one.

    You cannot find a better method for reaching this hot prospect, than handing them
    something BEFORE they are allowed to leave your business.

    If I had a penny for every time a stupid, lazy, business owner ignores this opportunity
    I would be an Offline Trillionaire.

    Ron
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparkster
    "Let's say you currently work in retail & you sell a customer an item in the store you work in,"

    That's the exact point that they don't want to hear you selling them more stuff (like a warranty that they know you are trying to upsell for a commission). The customer also doesn't want to give you their name and phone number there at the register either, they want their receipt and to be on their way. So how are you going to get them to pull out their phone and type in some web address (knowing that they will probably thumb it in wrong at least 3 times)?

    Why not just hand them a small but informative card with what they need to know right on it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Robscom
      Originally Posted by Sparkster View Post

      "Let's say you currently work in retail & you sell a customer an item in the store you work in,"

      That's the exact point that they don't want to hear you selling them more stuff (like a warranty that they know you are trying to upsell for a commission). The customer also doesn't want to give you their name and phone number there at the register either, they want their receipt and to be on their way. So how are you going to get them to pull out their phone and type in some web address (knowing that they will probably thumb it in wrong at least 3 times)?

      Why not just hand them a small but informative card with what they need to know right on it?
      1. If the upsell is something they may need or want (like a warranty - I have certainly used some of mine), then offering it on the spot is a service to the customer. They won't forget. They won't put it off. They'll decide right then, yes or no.

      2. Customers give their name and phone number (and emails) all the time. It's a common practice. It's all in how you ask for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author DABK
      For simplicity and clarity, I'm going to use shoes as an example.

      Let's assume, no one ever sells shoes that have laces already in place.

      If I bought a pair of shoes without laces and the sales person said, our laces are these way, I'd go.

      My point, it what you upsell is a great match, they want it, they'll do reasonable things to get them.

      You're in a store, you buy a TV set. If they want to sell you shoes or a radio or a trip to Disney World with that, you'll say, No, thanks. But many people would say yes to a stand, to whatever it's needed to mount it on the wall.

      Not everybody, true, but it's not an unreasonable offer seeing how many people do mount their TV sets on the wall.

      Have you noticed that sellers of tomatoes also sell potatoes?

      That they sell apples next to other fruit?

      That they don't display apples, screw drivers, bicycles, mango juice, shoe shine brushes next to one another?

      Think like your customer, offer something that makes sense, many will buy.

      Do you want fries with that works.

      Find the fries equivalent to whatever it is you're selling, and you'll make a good number of sales.

      Originally Posted by Sparkster View Post

      "Let's say you currently work in retail & you sell a customer an item in the store you work in,"

      That's the exact point that they don't want to hear you selling them more stuff (like a warranty that they know you are trying to upsell for a commission). The customer also doesn't want to give you their name and phone number there at the register either, they want their receipt and to be on their way. So how are you going to get them to pull out their phone and type in some web address (knowing that they will probably thumb it in wrong at least 3 times)?

      Why not just hand them a small but informative card with what they need to know right on it?
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      • Profile picture of the author Sparkster
        Originally Posted by DABK View Post

        For simplicity and clarity, I'm going to use shoes as an example.

        Let's assume, no one ever sells shoes that have laces already in place.

        If I bought a pair of shoes without laces and the sales person said, our laces are these way, I'd go.

        My point, it what you upsell is a great match, they want it, they'll do reasonable things to get them.

        You're in a store, you buy a TV set. If they want to sell you shoes or a radio or a trip to Disney World with that, you'll say, No, thanks. But many people would say yes to a stand, to whatever it's needed to mount it on the wall.

        Not everybody, true, but it's not an unreasonable offer seeing how many people do mount their TV sets on the wall.

        Have you noticed that sellers of tomatoes also sell potatoes?

        That they sell apples next to other fruit?

        That they don't display apples, screw drivers, bicycles, mango juice, shoe shine brushes next to one another?

        Think like your customer, offer something that makes sense, many will buy.

        Do you want fries with that works.

        Find the fries equivalent to whatever it is you're selling, and you'll make a good number of sales.
        I don't disagree with anything you said.

        My point was this, hell I will use your analogy... They ask you if you want fries with that. They don't make you type in a web address at the register in order to purchase the fries.

        The examples I gave in my post were just to show that a lot of people don't want to do even little things, such as give their name and phone number or argue with a pushy person about a warranty. Those people sure as hell won't want to type in a web address into their mobile phone. Yet they may be willing to accept a brochure (as one example), put it in their bag, and take a look at it later when home.
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        • Profile picture of the author DABK
          The people who won't do anything, you ignore them. They're not going to buy. You're, should be, concerned with the ones that might buy. And you need to have a good offer or you're wasting opportunity.

          The point of 'you want fries' is that, if you ask, some buy. If you ask them to buy the right thing.

          I've seen upsell offers that made no sense in relation to what I had just bought, and offers that made me think: Then why did I buy what I just bought? (The offer made it sound like what I had bought was useless without the upsell).

          And a lot of things that fall in-between. I bought some the upsell some times, most often, though, I did not buy: either it didn't make sense or it pissed me off as it made me think I was being manipulated and/or what I had bought promised to do what they said I needed the upsell for.

          Originally Posted by Sparkster View Post

          I don't disagree with anything you said.

          My point was this, hell I will use your analogy... They ask you if you want fries with that. They don't make you type in a web address at the register in order to purchase the fries.

          The examples I gave in my post were just to show that a lot of people don't want to do even little things, such as give their name and phone number or argue with a pushy person about a warranty. Those people sure as hell won't want to type in a web address into their mobile phone. Yet they may be willing to accept a brochure (as one example), put it in their bag, and take a look at it later when home.
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  • Profile picture of the author onehalf
    Originally Posted by Internet Trillionaire View Post

    After trying various methods to make money online, I have discovered that it is quite easy to send people with whom you interact with on a daily basis, who knows and trust you already to your online offers and make online sales these days.
    Interesting observation. I think it's because of the trust that you have established on your first transaction with them that made them sign up or buy your online offers.
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