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(c) Internet Marketing Profits Center - All Rights Reserved http://www.internetmarketingprofitscenter.com1. You don't have a Unique Web PositionWhat do you think your site have special than others? Haveyou offer to your visitors enough motives to come backagain? Do you have something to stand out from the crowd?Did you offer better information, services, free stuff,marketing tools? Take some time to define your position -look at your competitors and discover how you can be morerelevant they are.2. Spread your advertising to the whole worldYour website will never satisfied all the people... and thisisn't your goal. Now face it: only the big guys try to deallike this and only couple of them succeed (like Yahoo!,Amazon, e-Bay, Google).Start by finding people with problems and solve them. Getyour niche market, become an expert adviser and dominate it.Please understand: focus on a specific prospect or group.3. You have in love with your own product or serviceThis is one of the main reason people failed online: theyget "in love" with a bad product or service they develop. Iknow, it's very hard to quit your "baby", but the only wayto have a healthy business is to offer a product or servicethat people really wanted.Don't blame Internet because you failed. The 'Net is a BIGmedia source that changes every day, so you must to. My bestadvice is to throw away your hard selling product/ serviceand get a new one as quickly as possible! Look at yourcustomers/ subscribers needs. Ask them about their problemsand try to fix them with a great product or service.4. Show people BENEFITS not FEATURES- Benefits hit the prospects.- Features are about the product.Your prospects will buy from you IF your offer solve theirproblems. Tell them about their benefits - how you can solvetheir problems - and you already make a sale!5. You don't have a solid long-term business planIn these days now one start a business without a writtenbusiness plan. Do you have one? If not, proceed as quicklyas you can.What do you want to do with your internet business? But withyour prospects, or customers? Are you designing yourbusiness counting this concept? Sit down now and think. Thispoint is crucial for your future e-business.6. You must accept online payments with credit cardsAccepting credit cards on your web site can increase yourprofits by as much as 370%. Statistics shows that more than85% of ALL online shopping's are made using credit cards.What do you need? A merchant account, which these days arevery easy to obtain. Not to mention the third party creditcard service processors. Accepting credit cards on your website is the best thing, but don't forget to use anothertypes of payments (snail, fax, #800, etcetera).7. You didn't qualify - yet! - your prospectsThe results? Spending a lot of money on advertising andfinally get very poor results. The next logical question is:"Why this happens to me?"Simply because you didn't ask your prospects (or askyourself about what kind of prospects do you have!) if theyare:- interested in your product/ service;- if they would spend money to buy it;- if they NEED your product.8. No follow-up messages, no profits for your businessThe first and most important thing is to track e-mailaddresses. Than follow-up your prospects with good ad copy.Statisticaly, you'll need between 7 and 10 messages beforeyou probably close a sale. The more targeted and biggest isyour e-mail list, the better your profits will increase. Buthow to get a targeted list('s)?Read the Internet Marketing Profits Newsletter, issue 30 (http://www.internetmarketingprofitscenter.com/is30/) formore information on building huge, targeted, e-mail lists.Now the best part: you can automate this process by usingautoresponders. These are wonderful internet marketing toolsthat literally skyrockets your profits. Remember: no follow-up, no profits! There is nothing left to say here.9. Get NOW your prospects motivated to act immediatelyIf you'll allow prospects time to see another offer, youdefinitely lose your sale. What is the best approach?Tell your prospects you have a solution for their problemsand use as a method to catch them quickly. Use things likeexpiration dates, cash discounts, bonuses, special limitedoffers, coupons, etc.10. Deadly Web Site SinsYour web site creates a first impression of you and yourbusiness to the world. It is an insane to have a greatproduct/ service but a lousy web design. On the Internettime is money. You work hard to get prospects to your website. Wouldn't be a great loss to send them away because youhave an ugly and inaccessible website?Some important elements a good web sites must have: fastdownload time, correct spelling/ grammar, easy and logicalinternal navigation, good and useful content, workablelinks, browsers compatible, control of graphics andanimation, contact information, a good balance betweengraphic and text, use of the right colors and text fonts.11. You don't know very much about your customers orsubscribersWhat your customer wants NEW from you? Did you ask them howthey are, what other problems they have? Did you built agood relationship, treat them correctly EVERYTIME? Do youknow the value of a life-time customer? How much they areeager to buy from you? How much time they are ready to spendon your website? What's the best price they are ready to payfor a new product or service? How they feel, where theylive, what bothers them?...If you don't have certain answers to these questions, let metell you this: you'll losing big money online! Start findinganswers to these questions TODAY, before it's not too late!12. Are you a quitter?"My best was never good enough!" - this must be your logofor the next months. Even you failed in one direction thinkpositive: you lose only a battle, not the whole war.There can be no success, no achievement without sacrifice!Above everything, you must fix your mind on the developmentof your plans, strengthening on self reliance. And thehigher you lifts your ideals, the greater will be yoursuccess and achievements.Please go back and read again about these 12 mistakes. Stepinside one of these fatal traps and you'll be finished...even before you'll get started! 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