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Since the sole purpose of opening a retail business is to sell merchandise to the public, you should be certain to know exactly what types of merchandise you plan to sell, and also to know which merchandise to include in your store. You don’t want to try and offer clothing and dog food in the same establishment if you are not planning on opening a department store.

This may sound silly, but many stores that fail offer merchandise that doesn’t seem to make sense when mixed together. You would be surprised at how many retailers make this mistake.

When thinking about your merchandise you should also consider the correct positioning of it. This can often be the difference between selling your goods and not selling them. For example, you should place your sales items in an obvious and easy to spot place if you want that promotion to be seen. As a courtesy to your customers, you should consider placing private items in a less conspicuous area of your store. It just shows that you care about your customer’s feelings.

When stocking your inventory, you should place like items together. If you were to open a car dealership, you would want to place your convertibles together and your vans together because it is a bit more slightly, but also because any consumer that is looking to buy a convertible would not want to have to travel all over the place just to find the one they like the best.

You will also want to place accessory items together and in a nearby position because they will be more likely to be purchased if they are near the item that it best fits with an din plain view.

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Use these as an example for how people like to be talked to and treated. Customer service is so important; if you fail in that department I don't know if you'll make it very far.

It is not polite to run a WSO and then 'disappear' and go to a movie with your girlfriend or boyfriend! This is perhaps the biggest pet peeve of WSO frequenters. They think to themselves (rightfully so...), "Why on earth would so-and-so run a WSO and then not be around to answer my questions?" or to send them their download link? Sometimes people have questions and they'll post them on the WSO itself.

If you are not around to answer that question, people will actually wait to buy your product until you answer. Either because they have the same question themself or because they want to see if you are reputable and reliable. If you take two days to answer someone's question, you will most definitely lose business.

Don't get angry with your customers either or have an attitude. This will hurt your WSO. The CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!

I have abided by that law no matter how hard I've had to bite my toungue in the past and it has brought me nothing but great success.

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You cannot achieve more success, earn more money, or anything of the sort if you don't seek out the opportunities and then grab them! There is a ton of prospecting for you to do from now and until you retire. Prospecting can come in many forms, you can do it small scale and seek out clients locally and on places like the Warrior Forum, who need services or products that you can offer them. Or, it can be done on a larger scale where you look to land some JV's (Joint Ventures) or invest in a business, find new niches, etc.

Prospecting can land you one extra deal this year, or it can land you 1,000 extra deals! How's that for increasing your profits? Even if you successfully obtain one client or make only one sale as a direct result of your extra 'prospecting' you will enhance your business and increase your profits.

Go out there and see what's hot -- and what people want. It's very easy to stick with what you already know and are routinely doing on a daily or weekly basis. But, if you take the time to prospect a little bit, and pretend like it is the beginning of your online career again and you are super enthusiastic about all the fresh opportunities and money making ideas that are surrounding you. You will surely find a thing (or two) that will lead to a long term income and profit stream.

Remember, we're beefing up your business here, I am not saying to do these types of things all the time. But once every year or couple years is a good time to update, upgrade and take your business to the next level, no matter how small or large your business is.

Prospect for new clientele, prospect for new business ideas -- Prospect.

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Successful internet businesses all depend upon one common factor. That common factor is traffic. Traffic equals sales. Sales equal profit.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that a successful business must make sales and a profit and in order to make sales and profit it is essential that there are customers.

Getting website traffic is exactly what all the fuss is about when marketers are discussing SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

The higher a site ranks in the search results that search engines provide to those using key words to find products and services, the more visitors will visit. More visitors = more sales = more profits. It is just as simple as that.

Blogs have proven themselves to be very, very useful tools in the drive to creating more and better website traffic. People love blogs. Web 2.0 is built upon the idea of a user driven web and users want a voice.

Blogs give them that voice. It is a simple technology and it can even be found free on the internet. If you don’t have a blog site or a blog on your website, you are simply missing the SEO boat.

The popularity of blogs has, of course, increased the number of blogs on the Internet many fold over this last year or so.

With the increase in numbers of blogs online comes an increase in competition for visitors to those blogs and, of course, stiffer competition for PageRank by search engines.

So, the question, “Why do I need audio/video/podcasting on my blog?” is one that can be answered rather easily. You want visitors. You want a high PageRank. You want sales and profits. That’s why.

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Keyword Research is the heart of all PPC campaigns and anything you are marketing online. It is very important to be targeting the right keywords, ones that convert into to customers/buyers.

Keyword research used to be a very time consuming task, but with the advancement of technology that is no longer the case. I will be listing all the top keyword research tools and how to use them to dominate your competition.

Keywords are very important when deciding your PPC campaign; they can make your advertising campaign much more successful. Finding your keywords however can be very difficult, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Before choosing keywords it is very important to choose your budget. Not all people that are setting up PPC campaigns have the same size budgets. Big companies may be able to afford thousands of dollars per day running their PPC adverts. It is very important to carefully monitor your online adverts to make sure that they are performing correctly.

If you are a sole trader, or small company then you probably handle all of your PPC advertising requirements by yourself because you can’t afford to hire an external agency to run it for you. Almost everyone will run their campaigns themselves at least at first, after which point they may look at automating their PPC adverts.

It can be very time consuming to monitor your keywords; however it is something that you should do. An advertising firm might be beneficial; however they will normally charge 15% fees and have a $1,000 per month minimum adverts. Few people will be able to afford to pay for this.

When choosing keywords you should be careful not to use general keyword phrases. These are often too broad and will not target your adverts closely enough. If you sell patio furniture for example then many people might want to use phrases such as patio furniture and outdoor furniture. However it’s not a good idea to use these general terms as they cost more, and do not yield targeted results. Advertising on PPC adverts costs different prices depending on the keywords you choose, the more competitors for the chosen keyword, the more expensive the advert will cost.

There are also other problems associated with choosing general keywords, and that is that they attract many more clicks than normal. Quite often people that aren’t buyers will click on these links, which means there is little chance of converting these clicks into sales. Using too broad keywords might get lots of traffic; however few people will choose to purchase anything.

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#24 Taped Bonus

Award your prospects with a recorded high priced or exclusive event. Most people don't dish out the money for high priced events so they'd rather see it on video. it could be a huge seminar, a mastermind meeting, a closed door conversation with an expert, etc.

#25 Free OTO

Issue your prospects a chance to get the one-time-offer for no cost. You would make commission on the front end offer and give them the one-time offer for free. You would just need to ask the product owner for this special request.

#26 Group Bonus

Reward your prospects with a group affiliate bonus. You could get a bunch of other businesses to donate products to your affiliate bonus package. In exchange, the businesses could use the bonus too or get opt-ins from the buyers.

#27 Free Trials

Grant your prospects a free or low cost trial to the product if they purchase through your affiliate link. You would just need to ask the product owner to give you this special option through his/her affiliate program. Another idea would to be offer free shipping.

#28 Someone's Discount

Present your prospects with a discount to another businesses product when they buy from your affiliate link. You would just need to ask another business to give your prospects a discount and in return you could possibly give them new customers.

#29 Retired Product

Furnish your prospects with a previously retired product as an affiliate bonus. The retired product could be from you, the product owner or a totally unrated business that you made a deal with. People like to get bonuses that weren't previously available to others..

#30 Community Bonus

Provide your prospects with an affiliate bonus that gives them an online community to chat with other like minded customers. Some ideas are a forum, social network, chat room, discussion list, etc. It could be one you provide or the product owner provides.

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So you have finally decided to take that first big step in your career change towards the world of freelancing, but there is just one hitch – you have no idea where to find your first clients and customers.

A few years ago you would have to act solely by means of local businesses and private residents of your community in hopes that someone, anyone you know could lead you to a potentially high paying client for your freelance work.

Writers always had it easier because there were hundreds of magazines and newspapers who always needed freelancers on a day to day basis – but if you were a web designer or a software programmer, chances are you were out of luck. But that was back before the internet wove its way into homes across the world.

Finding customers for your fresh freelancing operation has never been easier thanks to the internet. People and companies looking for freelancer workers to help them with a project or two are all over the place and can help you get started in the freelance world if you are lucky enough to find a client that will work with you time and time again.

Furthermore, as a freelancer you can also use the internet to your advantage to advertise your services on various forums and other freelance web resources. In these situations, instead of you looking for some prospective clients, they look for you – allowing you to focus on whatever tasks and projects you are currently working on for others.

As an up and coming freelancer, the first thing you must do when looking for clients is to get your name out there. Let people know who you are, what you do, how well you do it, and what you can do for them.

Potential clients love a freelancer who is willing to get the job done right the first time on a timely manner, and if you have no prior experience, you may have trouble getting high paying customers to trust you right off the bat.

However, if you start with a few low paying jobs, you will quickly find that you can advance through the ranks very rapidly and soon be able to net all of the projects that will allow you to keep your freelance business self sufficient.