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How Often Do YOUR Customers Say WOW?

Friday, March 30th, 2007

If you want to truly succeed in business long term you need to consistently over deliver.
You need to make your customers and clients say…   WOW!
When you exceed customer expectations several wonderful thing happen in your business.
1.  You reduce or even eliminate returns and refunds.
2.  You increase the likelihood of repeat business and dramatically increase [...]

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Raise Your Price and Reduce Your Refunds!

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

When I’m conducting testing campaigns or Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) projects for my clients, one of the (many) metrics I always try and track is refund rates.
As I’ve discussed before on this blog, refund rates that are too low can actually be a sign that you’re not “selling hard enough” and are leaving money on [...]

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Repent Ye Sinners! Marketing God, Jim Edwards Proclaims “The Ten Web Site Commandments”!

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

My friend an mentor Jim Edwards has done it again with a great post to his blog in which he identifies the “The Ten Web Site Commandments”.
I loved this post so much I’ve reprinted it in it’s entirety below.
“What makes a good web page?”
People ask me this all the time, though they often encounter
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How to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment and Improve Conversion Rates By Downselling…

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

You’re probably familiar with up-selling and cross-selling. Perhaps you even employ these profit boosting tactics in your marketing.
But how about downselling?
After reviewing and evaluating hundreds of websites, I would have to say that less than 1% of all online sellers are using this powerful conversion booster.
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