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5 Powerful Tips To Generate More Online Sales Than You're Doing Right Now Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect. - W. Clement Stone, businessman How do you really create a win-win situation where all your customers enjoy great deals while you maintain comfortable profit margins as an ecommerce site? It’s all in the sales process you manage to perfect. Study the following tips to gain an advantageous sales position. 1. Increase Your Customer Base: There’s nothing new in businesses wanting to attract more and more customers each passing day. Make yourself marketable and shoppable. Use SEO techniques to drive qualified traffic and conversions. Explore every avenue to get yourself found with increasing frequency. Reach out to different segments of population with attractive offers. 2. Pay Attention to Sales Funnel: Devise an ideal sales funnel to lead your customers through a seamless sales process. Ready guidance should be available to let them get what they want in the shortest possible time. It should pass through all the phases of a sale including awareness phase, decision phase and repurchase phase. 3. Inflate Order Size Through Upselling: Every organization should come up with their own version of McDonald’s Would you like fries with that?” Get them to buy more than what they originally intended to by winning their trust and convincing them why certain products are suitable for them. For example, you may offer them a pair of socks when buying shoes. Without upselling culture, any sales figure won’t look very impressive. 4. Go For Free Shipping: This one shouldn’t really be a problem for ecommerce portals. This is the least you can do for your valuable consumers who order innumerable items from you. Free shipping should serve as an incentive to do business with you. At the most, you may set a threshold purchase amount to avail this opportunity. 5. Ensure Repeat Purchases: There can’t be better news than your online store enjoying a footfall of repeat customers. It indicates that you’re running a reliable ecommerce portal. This is the kind of reputation you build around your existing customers who are easier to retain than attracting new ones. Identify some of the reasons why they should return to you again and again. Give them superior support and service.

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5 Powerful Tips To Generate More Online Sales Than You're Doing Right Now Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect. - W. Clement Stone, businessman How do you really create a win-win situation where all your customers enjoy great deals while you maintain comfortable profit margins as an ecommerce site? It’s all in the sales process you manage to perfect. Study the following tips to gain an advantageous sales position.

1. Increase Your Customer Base: There’s nothing new in businesses wanting to attract more

and more customers each passing day. Make yourself marketable and shoppable. Use SEO

techniques to drive qualified traffic and conversions. Explore every avenue to get yourself

found with increasing frequency. Reach out to different segments of population with attractive

offers.

2. Pay Attention to Sales Funnel: Devise an ideal sales funnel to lead your customers through a

seamless sales process. Ready guidance should be available to let them get what they want in

the shortest possible time. It should pass through all the phases of a sale including awareness

phase, decision phase and repurchase phase.

3. Inflate Order Size Through Upselling: Every organization should come up with their own

version of McDonald’s “Would you like fries with that?” Get them to buy more than what they

originally intended to by winning their trust and convincing them why certain products are

suitable for them. For example, you may offer them a pair of socks when buying shoes. Without

upselling culture, any sales figure won’t look very impressive.

4. Go For Free Shipping: This one shouldn’t really be a problem for ecommerce portals. This is

the least you can do for your valuable consumers who order innumerable items from you. Free

shipping should serve as an incentive to do business with you. At the most, you may set a

threshold purchase amount to avail this opportunity.

5. Ensure Repeat Purchases: There can’t be better news than your online store enjoying a

footfall of repeat customers. It indicates that you’re running a reliable ecommerce portal. This

is the kind of reputation you build around your existing customers who are easier to retain than

attracting new ones. Identify some of the reasons why they should return to you again and

again. Give them superior support and service.

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If you’re drawing a blank from your sales efforts, maybe it’s because you’re missing the above

measures. Give sales the amount of attention they deserve before they become a serious

matter.