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5 Ways You Can Show Your Prospects You Are A Real, Trustworthy Person And You Know Your Stuff


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Phil Donaldson
philguerrillaretail.co.nz

Guerrilla Retail
http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/personalprofile.html


If you want people to buy products from your web site, they must

believe they can trust you. Having an "About" page that tells

people all about you can go a long way towards that.



1. Create a personal profile



New customers don't know you from a bar of soap and they want to

ensure they're not giving their hard earned cash to a fraudster.

So having a "Personal Profile" or "About" page that reassures

them is good for sales.



When someone buys something from my web site I like to look

through the web site logs. They show me each page my customer has

visited on the way to their purchase.

Customers often visit my "About" page before they buy, so I know

they want this information.



2. Show your prospects how you can help



Remember that all your prospect cares about is "what's in it for

me?"

Start your "About" page by telling your visitors how they benefit

from doing business with you.



It could be that you have very specialised knowledge or the best

local knowledge, so you can help your customers make the best

choice of product. Or maybe you have free nation-wide delivery,

the widest range, the lowest prices or the best quality in town.



3. Tell your life story - as benefits



Tell your life story and few will read it with interest.

But tell it in a way that shows your prospect how your skills and

experience can help them, and you may convince them you are the

person they should buy from.



For example, I don't mention how I used to feel like a sardine in

my corporate cubicle when I worked for someone I had never met.

Telling my prospects how great it is now to be my own boss now,

able to write an article sitting on a deck chair in the sun, does

not show them how I can help them.

I do say how I've always wanted to work with small businesses and

how I'm using my skills to help people like you increase your

sales.



4. Prove that your experience helps them



Your prospect doesn't want to know about every task of every job

you've ever worked on. But some of those tasks have developed the

skills you can use to help your prospect.



So if it shows your prospects how you can help them and

reinforces how good you are at what you do, consider telling

about your experiences.



5. Show your face



Opinions vary about putting your photo on your web site. Some

think this is seen by your prospects as an ego trip.

I really don't know if that's a problem or not. I do know that a

photo proves you are a real person, and a lot of web sites will

benefit from that.



So build yourself the type of profile we've just discussed. Add a

friendly looking photo of yourself (I prefer a casual one, but it

probably depends on what you sell).



Now back it up with several ways to easily contact you, and

you'll look like a real person who's an expert at what you do and

easy to do business with.





Phil Donaldson

Since 1998, Phil has helped clients like ZooDoo

(www.zoodoo.co.nz) and Creative Energy (www.creativeenergy.co.nz)

consistently increase Internet product sales every year.

Phil's "e-Focus" web site and shopping cart package comes

standard with the best features of his most successful clients

web sites. It includes secure shopping cart, pages optimised for

search engines, professionally written sales copy, and a level of

support that will stack the odds of success in your favour.

We highly recommend it: <a href="http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/e-focus

">http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/e-focus

</a>

Copyright 2003 Phil Donaldson. Please feel free to pass this

article on to your friends, or use it in your ezine or

newsletter. It's a shareware article.








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