Increase your sales by being Sticky

Most of the time, we try to avoid sticky situations in our lives. In Home Based Business
Increase Sales by Being Sticky.

ECommerce, sticky is good.

People usually think of something that’s sticky as something you can touch. Peanut
butter, things that your kids find to smear on their bedroom walls, the mysterious
substance that accumulates under your refrigerator, and so forth. (What is that stuff,
anyway? I’ll have to ask someone) Anyway, in EBiz, sticky doesn’t touch the physical
senses. It touches and sticks to the awareness of the buying public; your potential
customers. Making something sticky in EBiz means that you make it memorable. Something
people will remember and want to come back to.

That’s a very important component of your EBiz success. You need people to see your web
site or internet auction and remember you. You need them to want to come back to you for
more. So, here are some ways that you can make your sales pages sticky:

1. Your page should be clean and easy to follow. For example, a lot of the conventional
sales pages you see on eBay actually shout at the customer, with lots of very large
letters, bright colors, and so on. In real life (on a physical billboard, for example) that
IS noticeable, but when I see it, it cheapens my opinion of the business that created it.
Ask yourself this: What will you remember longer? (a) A billboard for a personal injury
attorney with lots of bright colors and outrageous claims, or (b) a big, solid black
billboard with a Nike logo in the center, and in small print, the words Just Do It? The
big companies have it down; clean and simple. Follow the lead of those who have spent
millions figuring out how to attract customers.

2. Contact information is critical. Your first impression on your potential customer must
be the impression that they can trust you. If they know right away who you are and how to
reach you, they’ll be comfortable that they’ll get what they buy from you without a hassle.
That impression helps you to stand out above the crowd.

3. Always give them value-added content. If you sell camping gear, set up a page where you
link to places that tell them where the best campsites are. Create a blog where you talk
about your experiences camping, and using the different kinds of gear you sell. Create a
page that gives them an easy reference for contacting the warranty departments of the
makers of your products. you get the idea the more info you place on your pages that they
will want to refer back to, the more they will visit your product pages.

4. Repeat contact is very important. Send an email to your existing customers once a month
or so, where you thank them for their purchase, talk about your products, tell them what’s
new on your pages, etc. Nothing with too much of a sales flavor; make it conversational and
give them info they can really use.

Do these things, and your product sales pages will become sticky. As a result, your
product sales will increase.

BIOGRAPHY: Chris Malta and Robin Cowie are the CEO and president of WorldwideBrands.com,
Home of The Internet’s Largest Source of Genuine, Factory-Direct Wholesalers for online
sellers.