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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.
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standard with the best features of his most successful clients
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support that will stack the odds of success in your favour.
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">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
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