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Affiliate Marketing:Promoting Your Own Web Presents

Affiliate Marketing is the promotion of anothers products or services. If this process is done right,it’s the ideal work at home business opportunity. The key here is to promote your own website that links to affiliate products, services and information that you will make a profit from.

Most off-line businesses are affiliate Marketers.They offer another’s products and services from a location that they own or lease. It’s no different on the web to be successful long term you must have your own piece of real estate, your own website {a themed content rich website} that will establish a internet present for you as you promote your affiliate programs.

How do you establish a internet present. By having your own domain name and”Branding” The term ‘branding’ is often bantered about the Internet and often thought to be proprietary to only those ‘big’ outfits like IPO’s and multi-national companies.

NOT TRUE! ‘Branding’ is every bit as important to small companies and individuals alike. In simple terms a ‘brand’ is something that starts becoming recognized with a product or service. On the BIG side, some ‘Brands’ are, YAHOO, Kellogg’s, Ford, IBM, etc. It’s not likely the average person taking this course will ever develop a ‘Brand’ of this magnitude of recognition, but all the same, a personal ‘Brand’ is vital to your own recognition.

For an individual Netrepreneur, placing your own photo on every page you promote can be most beneficial, add your name and a telephone number and before long people will start to: 1] recognize your face 2] develop a comfort zone around you 3] join programs and/or purchase from your webpage(s)

Sure you could spend a lot of time and money creating a ‘Brand’, but most of the great ones are gone or in the very least already on a drawing table somewhere.On the other hand, a photo of your head and shoulders is already copyrighted to you, people’s natural curiosity compels them to look at faces, and faces ALWAYS last in the mind’s eye far longer than any name or phrase.

For Affiliate Marketers, having your own theme,content rich website is important, and you should be promoting affiliate products and services that are revelent to your themed website.

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Common Areas for Improvement When Delivering Presentations

It is very common for sales staff to use tools like PowerPoint to deliver information to sales prospects during a sales cycle. What is also very common are areas where we can tighten up our message and execution while giving sales presentations to deliver huge improvements in our sales effectiveness.

Below are a few examples of areas where tweaking our approach could be the difference when delivering presentations:

Number of Slides

It is very common for us to include too many slides when we build presentations. This is very natural because there is so much that we want to share with the prospect and so much that we think they are interested in. And we maybe correct that there prospect is very interested. But what is also correct is that they are likely very busy individuals and have a limited attention span. If you factor that in as you finalize your presentation, it can be helpful to trim any slides and tighten the message to make it as concise and powerful as possible.

Amount of Words on Each Slide

Not only do we typically put too many slides in our presentations, we also often put too many words on each slide. The problem with this is that most people cannot read and listen at the same time. When you put a large number of words on each slide, you are creating a competitor for yourself when trying to keep the audience’s attention when delivering presentations. If the audience is reading the slide, it is likely that they are not fully listening to you.

Focus the Presentation on the Prospect

It is also very common for us to build presentations that are too focused on ourselves We start out talking about who we are, what we do, where all of our offices are, our history, etc. While this is important information for the prospect to have to ultimately make their decision, if you are at an early stage of the sales cycle, you can make a bigger impact on the prospect by shifting the message from being on you to being more on them. The way to accomplish this is to talk more about their challenges and their interests and how you can help with those.

Shorten the Introduction

As sales people, we can be very good at being hosts when delivering presentations. This is where we perform very thorough introductions, detailed agendas, and then sometimes roll into our corporate overview. The challenge with this flow is that there are two points where you have the highest level of attention from the audience and those are the beginning and at the end of the presentation. In the middle of the presentation is naturally a lull or low point in terms of attention and comprehension and it is during this lull where we often deliver our key messages. Trim up the introduction portion so that when you are taking advantage of the high level of attention that you have at that time.

Trial Close Regularly

Trial closing is checking in with the prospect to see what their thoughts are and we can often not do this enough while delivering presentations. This is such a powerful sales tactic to use as it will give the sales person very valuable information. When applying to presentations, if you trial close regularly through the presentation to check in and see what the prospect’s thoughts are, the feedback provided could help you to tailor your message and flow throughout the rest of the presentation to improve your sales effectiveness.

Present an Evaluation Plan

We often wrap our presentations by asking for questions and then try to get the next meeting. If we present an evaluation plan when delivering presentations, we can map out all of the needed steps and actions that remain and get the prospect’s agreement or feedback on the direction forward.

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A Baby Gift Basket Can be a Perfect Present

When a close friend or relative is having a baby, there are always presents and baby shower gifts to think about getting. The new mother is going to have an intense period of adjustment before she gets settled into the routine of having another human being to look after, so she will need all the help possible from family and friends to make that transition as easy and memorable as possible. This should be a celebratory time for the new family, not a time of worry or stress, and a gift basket to commemorate the new addition can be just the thing to brighten their spirits even more, and maybe even supply them with some things that will end up coming in handy.

A baby gift basket can be one of the easiest way for you as the gift giver to be creative, and show the person your giving it to just how much you care about them. Instead of one big gift, you get to give out a plethora of trinkets, toys, and other fun items, wrapped together in a beautiful package which, in itself, can be a gorgeous thing to receive. A popular thing to do when buying a gift basket is to let the company who makes it fashion the wicker basket as a bassinet, within which are all the things you want to bestow upon the new child, making your gift all the more thoughtful and appropriate. Better yet, there are so many companies out there that are experts at making these sorts of things, so even if you’re not exactly Martha Stewart yourself, you can let an anonymous craftsperson make it seem like you should have your own cable show.

Within the gift basket, you’ll want to include the basics, those simple bare necessities. This means, teddy bears and or dolls are a given, as any parent will know a young child can never have enough teddy bears. If you want to be gender specific, you can go for the standard pink or blue color palettes to appease notions of femininity and masculinity, but many people nowadays are shying away from such black and white notions of sex, so your best bet is probably to stay as neutral as possible. This also means that you can go nuts and include just about anything in the toy department that you want to give the new baby. No longer do Tonka trucks mean ‘it’s a boy’ nor do Raggedy Ann dolls indicate the infant is a girl, so take advantage of this freedom in creating a truly unique and baby gift basket. Baby oil or baby wipes can be the new parent’s dream as well, since they’ll surely be running through plenty of both, so don’t be afraid to include the practical as well as the sentimental.

In addition to the variety of contents you can include in your basket, you also have the luxury of having a wide range of prices and sizes to choose from, as crafting gift baskets for babies is a burgeoning market right now. Obviously, if the expecting mother is only a co-worker or a casual acquaintance, you don’t want to present them with an elaborately fashioned and ornately packaged baby gift basket [http://www.westminsterweekly.com/category/home-news], as you’d probably be shelling out more money than you really want to spend. A nice, small gift basket can say everything you want to say, and do it in a classy, memorable way, without costing you the proverbial arm and leg.

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