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May 23rd, 2008

Making a Living with Ecurrency eXchange: A Scam?

Perhaps you’ve heard of people making a living with ecurrency exchange.

Perhaps you’ve already read about it on someone’s dxinone blog. If this is so, chances are you are looking for the best e currency exchange program to learn this system from.

Basically, there are two types of people when it comes to the dxinone system. The first type, are the people that hear about the dxinone system and how it works, they may even hear stories from people Making a living with ecurrency exchange, but they just don’t believe it’s true, they assume dxinone = scam that there is no way such a system is possible to make money. It’s not in their reality so they just assume that the dxinone system is not possible for you make a living with e currency exchange.

Then there is the other type of person, the one who believes in this opportunity and thea person that believs it is possible to make a living with E currency exchange. These people are the ones who took the “risk” to get started and invest a little bit of their money, and are the ones that are making all the big money with the dxinone system today.

If you are reading this it means you are the second type of person, and you’re looking on how to get started in making a living with ecurrency exchange, or at least getting a nice second income with it. I know because this is the way I got started, and I can tell you two things:

1) Owning a website that deals with ecurrency exchange, I have access to many people interested in the dxinone system. I can tell you that to this day, I have heard only positive testimonials.

2) If you are interested in making a living with ecurrency exchange, then this is the time to get started, since dxinone is barely getting started, and they are coming with new exciting ways to make money, so if you start the ecurrency exchange system now, you’re going to get a lot of benefits along the way.

There are two paths you can take to learn how to make a living with ecurrency exchange. The fast and secure method, which is getting a course and learning it directly from a pro. And if you’re on a tight budget, asking around and learning about the system by yourself. Either way the end of the road ultimately leads to you adding a second stream of income, and who knows, maybe even making a living with ecurrency exchange.

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May 14th, 2008

Customer Service Problems–Help Employees Look at Customer Complaints from the Customer’s View

Posted in Commerce Marketing

Most employees, business owners and managers are so close to the problems that they frequently miss what’s right in front of their eyes. As a customer service consultant and trainer I frequently get to come in to help pick up the pieces and get to see the causes behind the scenes.

What I see the most frequently is the technical staff, those that have created the products or services and understand it so thoroughly that they can’t understand why a customer doesn’t see what they see. The usual result is that the employees say “Stupid customer” when they should be asking why the customer is even asking for help.

Let’s look at an example:

The employee checked the download. It worked for him so his response back to the customer was “It works here.” A CYA answer, internally focused. Not a hint of getting what the customer wanted, the files.

After sending several emails one of those customers sent an email to the president asking why they had not gotten the problem resolved. The president looked into it, got an assurance from the employee that there was nothing wrong and that this was one of the really stupid customers that didn’t know how to download. So, the president let it drop based on the employee’s assurances.

Let’s analyze what just happened.

Customer’s View
Company View

There are two clear issues missed here:

Not meeting the customer’s needs (getting the files). Help your employees to always look at it from the customer’s perspective before they respond. Always deliver what the customer was looking for before taking any other step. If you don’t know what the customer wants, ask, and then deliver.

Not resolving the problem. Even though it had been checked by an employee he was so used to push this before pushing that while standing on the left foot that he wouldn’t recognize a problem that was caused by someone standing on the right foot while pushing the button. And, believe me, if 4-5 let you know there are others out there having problems and you’ll never know it.

When I checked the website statistics, the website had thousands of viewers on that page, and no one had yet downloaded a single file on that page. Does that say something?

And, of course not one person had ever called to buy that product from the website.

What would happen if we looked at this from the customer’s viewpoint?

A better answer from the employee might have been,

Do you see how different that is. First it meets the customers needs, and 2nd it attempts to resolve the customer’s problem, and the company’s.

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May 12th, 2008

Customer Relationship Management For A Higher Level Of Customer Service

Posted in Commerce Marketing

For businesses large and small, their profitability and success depends upon customer retention, customer relationship enhancements and customer acquisition. This is often known as Customer Relationship Management or CRM. CRM is the managing of all business and interactions with customers. The main purpose of Customer Relationship Management is to allow businesses to better manage their customers through the introduction of reliable systems, processes and procedures for interacting with those customers. A good CRM program helps the business acquire customers and service the customers. Good CRM also helps retain good customers, and identify which customers can be given a higher level of service.

CRM is a complex mix of business processes, enterprise strategies and information technologies, which are used to study customers’ needs and behaviors to help businesses develop more substantial relationships with them in order to get greater results.

In the late 90’s, customer relationship management mainly consisted of just an index file, an answering machine and a telephone. Today, an advanced CRM system has evolved into an Excel spreadsheet and more. CRM systems normally consist of email and/or snail mail, marketing campaigns, contact manager programs, sales tracking program, and multi-media contact center or voice mail system.

A successful CRM strategy doesn’t just mean simply installing and integrating a software package; it also involves a wider approach including modifying business processes based on the needs of customer, training of employees, adopting relevant IT systems and software, and IT services that allows firms to track their CRM strategies.

Good CRM software can help run an entire business by allowing companies to maintain all customer records in one centralized location that is accessible to the whole organization. Front line offices have systems that are set up to collect data from the customers for processing at the data warehouse where data is stored, orders are filled and tracked, and sales data analyzed.

One of the most common causes for customer relationship management system failure is poor data quality, which can be easily avoided. CRM systems are as useful as the information it provides. The old saying “garbage in, garbage out” can be applied to CRM data quality. To ensure good CRM data quality, be sure to input the data accurately; check data entries twice to minimize the possibility of duplication; if there is an error in the provided information or if the information is not complete, then re-establish contact with the customer to recheck the data. Customers generally do not get annoyed at this; instead it makes them more appreciative of the extra customer service.

For a more comprehensive look at CRM visit top-crm-solution.info. Susan also enjoys writing at health-and-fitness-hub.info.

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April 30th, 2008

Are You Being Ripped Off By Clickbank Merchants?

Posted in Commerce Marketing

I see affiliates from two perspectives.

Firstly as an affiliate, I see myself as a business partner to those merchants that I promote. I send them traffic, and if I make sales for them, I expect to be paid for my efforts in the form of a predefined percentage or lump sum.

As a merchant, I see my affiliates as partners and value the traffic they send me. My utmost priority is to make sure that any sales that are made are credited to the affiliate that sends me the traffic. This is essential if my affiliates are going to trust me and put effort into promoting my products. This is essential if I want my business to grow!

Most of my own products are related to internet marketing and webmaster tools. Because of the nature of these products, those visitors are likely to be knowledgeable of affiliate programs and probably Clickbank as well.

Imagine this scenario:

Joe goes to Google and searches for “webmaster tools”. Something caught his attention over in the Pay Per Click ads, an affiliate link to a product that promises to make link exchanges easier.

“Hmmm” thought Joe. “That looks like a great tool”.

Joe clicks on the PPC link and is redirected to a sales page. Scrolling to the bottom of the page, Joe sees that the product is $97.

“I want this”, thought Joe, “but $97 is a bit steep”.

Joe searches the webpage for that magic link, and he finds it easily.

“Great” says Joe out loud. “A link to a Clickbank affiliate program, and this program pays 50%”.

After a few minutes, Joe has signed up for the affiliate program, created his own affiliate link, typed it into his browser, and revisits the sales page.

Joe’s mouse clicks the buy link. He fills in his credit card details and clicks the purchase button. Closing his browser, he checks his e-mail. He watches as two e-mails are downloaded to his machine. The first is the download information for the new software he purchased, the second one is an e-mail with the Subject “Congratulations Joe, you have made a sale”.

Joe checks his stats online for this new affiliate program and sure enough, he has made $48.50 commission on this purchase. In other words, he only paid $48.50 for the product.

OK, what is wrong with this scenario?

Is it fair that Joe used his own affiliate link to make a
purchase?

What about the affiliate who advertised this affiliate program at Google? That affiliate paid for the click that started the sale process, yet did not get the commission.

What is going through the minds of merchants who place links to their affiliate programs on their sales page?

I would imagine that some merchants think about these points:

* I want to make $48.50 per sale minimum.

* If I offer it for $97 and give 50% commission to affiliates I will make my goal of $48.50 per sale.

* By adding an affiliate sign up link to the sales page, I can encourage people to sign up for my affiliate program, buy through their own link and get the software for the real price of $48.50, but the customer will be happy thinking they saved $48.50.

*Great plan!

I am sure that a lot of merchants don’t see things this way - they just don’t think hard enough about their affiliates.

A merchant that uses a link to his/her affiliate program on the sales page is using affiliate traffic as free traffic (whether they intend to or not). After all, the merchant does not need to spend time optimising pages or buying traffic - their affiliates will do that and send the traffic to the sales page for free. If an affiliate sends someone who becomes a customer, the merchant will make their money.

The big problem here is that being an affiliate is hard work. You do have to create content, buy and review products, possibly even pay for advertising. If YOU are doing these things as an affiliate, is your merchant doing their bit to protect your you? Unfortunately the majority of Clickbank merchants don’t, and affiliates waste their time building pages and buying advertising to promote merchants who don’t deserve it.

The bottom line
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If you are promoting products aimed at webmasters, the traffic you send will likely know how to “steal” your commission. In this situation it is vital to only promote merchants without the affiliate sign up link.

If on the other hand you are promoting products to the general public, e.g. weight loss products, dog training eBooks etc, this affiliate sign up link poses less of a problem since most of the traffic you generate wont be affiliates themselves (most wont even know what an affiliate is) and wont have the necessary skills to sign up at Clickbank, create a link and purchase through their link just to get a commission.

What can you do?
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If you find a merchant that you want to promote and they have an affiliate sign up link on the sales page, contact them. Tell them about your concerns and that they should treat you as a partner, not the source of free traffic. Suggest that they remove this affiliate sign up link.

The usual reaction I get
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Merchant: “I get a lot of affiliate sign ups from this link,
there is no way I am removing it!”

Ask the merchant how many of those affiliates ever make a sale or ever send any traffic. This is exactly my point. The merchant is getting a lot of sign ups purely to get a discount. For every person who signs up as an affiliate to get a discount, there is one affiliate somewhere being robbed of his/her rightful commission.

Most of the “affiliates” you get via a sign up link on the sales page are only signing up to get a discount, they are unlikely to ever try to sell that product.

The only affiliates who will promote the product, are those that buy the software, use it and like it. They see the benefits and can sell it well to their visitors. These are the only affiliates worth getting, and you wont get them from an affiliate sign up link on the sales page.

The best way of getting hard working affiliates is to protect your affiliates from this type of link hijacking, gain their trust and do everything you can to help them out. Build a relationship with your affiliates and most of all, make sure they are rewarded for the traffic they send. To this end, remove that affiliate sign up link, and when someone buys your product, send them an e-mail outlining the benefits of your affiliate program. Active affiliates respond well to knowing their merchants are protecting their interests.

A final thought
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If there are two similar products, similar price, similar commission, one sales page with an affiliate sign up link, one without, which would you prefer to promote? If you want to make money online with affiliate programs, take it seriously and start contacting merchants.

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Andy Williams is author of the free, ezSEO
internet
marketing newsletter, offering subscribers up-to-date
information on all aspects of internet marketing.
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April 6th, 2008

7 Key Steps To Reduce Refunds and Chargebacks

Posted in Commerce Marketing

One sure-fire way to loosing out big time on your business profits is from incidences of excessive refunds and chargeback requests. If the number is high in any period you could risk loosing your third party merchant account altogether. So what do you do when there are some who will request a refund within 15 minutes of purchasing your product? Or even more pettier are those who will wait until the last possible moment to request a refund. Well not all is lost because merchant account providers are very well informed as to the credit card numbers of persistent refund and chargeback claimants. Just like their list of fraudulent credit card users, stolen credit cards etc they have a database of what I call “Refund Junkies”. There appears to be no end to the unethical tactics some people will use to get your product for free.

Use the following tips to further safeguard against refunds and expensive chargeback costs. The good news is that refunds are easy to process and do not carry any additional fees. However as a merchant you want to ensure that refunds are kept to a minimum.

1. Clearly State the Billing Name

First and foremost state the name of your third party credit card processor on your sales pages and include them in your terms and follow up email receipts so
that customers are fully aware of what company name will appear on their billing statements. This will reduce the number of customers who do not recognize the billing name on their statements from contacting their credit card issuers for a chargeback. This one factor can lead to an unprecedented number of chargebacks claims.

2. Provide Your Customer Support Details

Provide your email address so that customers can contact you regarding any queries about their order. Make sure that you answer them in a timely manner to avoid unnecessary delays. If a customer is not responded to promptly they are very likely to make a refund request.

3. Offer Lifetime Updates

Offering your customers lifetime updates to your product and services to add value and will encourage them to remain customers in the knowledge that they will always receive your most current edition of your goods.

4. Reward Loyal Customers With Exclusive Privileges

Offer your customers a product that can be used freely as long as they are fully
paid members, as part of a membership site. Or use a tool which is only available to customers and cannot be accessed after a refund request is made. As long as your offer is valuable to your customers and members you are will substantially reduce the number of refund requests.

5. Provide The Best Guarantee
Your guarantee could become a thorn in your side if you have a very short time span before customers can test out and use your product. But studies show that the longer the guarantee period the less refund requests are made because customers are more comfortable with their rights to cancel if the product or service does not meet their needs.

This is at your discretion as a merchant so testing is important to work out what is best for you. Remember to take into account that some third party processors have a limit on the maximum refund time their merchants can issue to customers.

6. Accurate Product Descriptions
Avoid making bold claims that are “too good to be true” if you cannot deliver the results. You could be setting yourself up for a big fall and your customers will request refunds if your product description does not fulfill their needs. You could also be breaking the law and be liable to charges if a law suit is brought against your company. Make sure your sale letter accurately reflects your goods for sale and highlight the TRUE benefits of owning the goods.

7. Surprise Bonuses

It is a great surprise when you buy something and receive additional unadvertised
bonuses. This can warm your customers to your company and can only please them. It also demonstrates that you do not need to publicize your bonuses because you believe in your product so much that it will sell on its own merit.

Dispelling Myths

All too often I have read articles and statements claiming that with third party merchant accounts there are no chargeback fees and that you never have your company name display on customer statements. These claims are inaccurate.

The facts are that some do not have chargeback fees. I have personally researched 90+ third party processing companies and have contacted them to verify certain key points in their terms of contract and fee schedule. There are some third party processors that do not issue chargeback fees or refunds, such as can be found with some digital gold currencies. In this case the merchant must initiate a refund directly to the customer.

There are some third party processors who do not levy chargeback fees but you will find that these are very few in number and they will typically have a higher processing fee to cover their costs. Don’t be mistaken in thinking that third party processors do not pass on chargeback fees to their merchants. You only have to read their terms in full to find out exactly what you can expect to be charged for per chargeback incident. I highlight these important facts in my book The A-Z of No Merchant Accounts for your convenience.

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April 2nd, 2008

The Powerful Punch of Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Posted in Commerce Marketing

Pay-per-click advertising is an incredible internet marketing
method that can truly result in loads of traffic to your
website. Driving traffic to your website is essential to
generating revenues from it. So, pay-per-click advertising is a
preferred option for internet marketing gurus because it is very
effective in driving targeted traffic which results in increased
revenue for the internet-based business.

Pay-per-click advertising, sometimes called cost-per-click
advertising, is a way of advertising your website through the
search engines. Search engine marketing is highly effective
because the majority of internet shoppers use the search engines
to find what they are looking for on the internet. Getting
listed with an adequate search engine rank without the power of
pay-per-click advertising is difficult because of the raging
competition on the net. Pay-per-click advertising empowers you
to side-step that problem and to get top listings in sponsored
advertisements in the search engines.

The way that pay-per-click advertising works is, you bid on
keywords or keyword phrases that are used by your target
audience to search for the information or the products and
services that you advertise or sale through your website. When
you outbid competitors for a particular keyword, your ads will
appear above theirs in the sponsored ad listings that come up
with the search results for that particular keyword in the
search engine for which you advertised. The one exception to
this rule is the Google search engine. They consider the
popularity of your webpage along with your keyword bid in
ranking their advertisements. This is good in a way because the
top ranking isnt necessarily the one that spends the most
advertising dollars. The relevance and desirability of your
website offering is also considered in the ranking decision.

Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) and Google AdWords
are the most commonly used pay-per-click services currently in
existence. MSN is supposed to be launching a pay-per-click
program in the near future, but at the time of writing it is the
test phase and hasnt yet come to fruition. Yahoo! Search
Marketing is a good choice for pay-per-click advertising because
it contracts with several of the major search engines in which
your advertisements appear. Google AdWords is awesome as well
because Google is the most widely used search engine and your
advertisements appear on websites in Googles network as well
as in the search results. Both pay-per-click programs will
provide your website with maximum exposure which in effect is
sure to significantly increase the traffic to your website

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April 1st, 2008

Seven Strategies How to Begin and Running Affiliate Program

Posted in Commerce Marketing

Beginning year of 1996 internet is very popular in the world and communication between many countries become so easy and fast. Many companies have done manually became change to use information technology. By using internet technology, many peoples could access every think that they wish. The changing way of life, made people created internet home business. Every company and owners of internet home business have created affiliate program. By implemented this strategy, every one could sell products and programs. They would receive commission from the company and the owner. Although affiliate program is so popular now, but not every one know about that. How to begin and running it, it is because not many person eager to learn it.

They sign up to be affiliate program are only interested in gaining much money. The laziness to learn, less work hard; less motivation and limited knowledge become main obstacles for new comers on affiliate program. The questions come to us, is it extra difficult to implement affiliate program? Let us explain to you. Just seven strategies we should pay attention:

1. Choose the best affiliate program.

There are many business opportunity available every day. Some are good, some are frauds, and some are absolutely prefect. As new comers of affiliate program should know first what the business reputation is. You should learn much about the company, the guarantee, business planning, residual income etc. Many new comers never read the prospect of the company, but just sign up and finish.

2. Learn much.

Learning much is the key of success on affiliate program. After you find the best affiliate program and sign up, your next step action is learning. You could enhance your knowledge from e book, ezine that talking about internet home business. There are many ezines available today. You could be subscribers free. Choose ezine that talk about internet home business, business marketing solution etc. After you know much about marketing on line, prepare to run your business. The company usually publishes a newsletter for period time. Read and learn it. Form the newsletter; you would know much about the company itself.

3. Try getting leads.

Leads are important key to run affiliate program, without leads your affiliate program is nothing. Try getting leads as many as possible, because only few of them are serious to implement your program. How do you get leads? Promote and place advertisement on ezine. However, there are many ezine offer free ad. You can also promote your affiliate program to people that live around you, to your family, relatives, coworkers or neighborhoods. Writing article is the best promotion choice to choose. By writing article will create the best image that you are professional on your field.

4. Contact your leads.

Many new comers on affiliate program forget to contact their lead after getting them by hard work and spend much money. They let them free without take care, suggestions, and contact. They think to leave them free will work by themselves. You should contact your leads continuously. Give personal assistant to them. Try to give information in order to duplicate your successful.

5. Create the newsletter.

You could create the simple newsletter for your leads. The content of your newsletter about strategies how to market affiliate program, business tool, marketing tool that belong company that you have joined.
Taking article from others ezines is the best idea. There are many ezines that offer article free. You can select the article that appropriate with your affiliate program.

6. Give motivation.

Motivation can influence some one to do that we suggest. Give motivation continuously to your leads. Give appreciated to your leads every step that they have gained. Warm thanks make them motivation to do the others action. Give them understanding that to gain successful on affiliate program will take time, patient, and passion.

7. Do not give up before success.

You should be ready to be leader on affiliate program. The successful of affiliate program depend of the leader. The leader should have strong motivation and never desperate to face obstacles. There is a wisdom word, there is sow, there is reap. There for the conclusion is as the leader of affiliate program should have the simple words should follow, do not give up before success.

Erny Setyawati - EzineArticles Expert Author

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Dejections

Making a Living with Ecurrency eXchange: A Scam?

Customer Service Problems–Help Employees Look at Customer Complaints from the Customer’s View

Customer Relationship Management For A Higher Level Of Customer Service

Are You Being Ripped Off By Clickbank Merchants?

7 Key Steps To Reduce Refunds and Chargebacks

The Powerful Punch of Pay-Per-Click Advertising

Seven Strategies How to Begin and Running Affiliate Program

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