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3 Overlooked Profit Opportunities on Your Website
By Yanik Silver

If you're already selling anything online, this article is going to show you how to add extra revenue you
didn't even know you had "hiding" in your website.

Overlooked Profit Opportunity #1: The Upsell

If you've been in marketing for any time, you've probably heard of "upsells," "cross-sells," or "bumps."
Car dealers are excellent at using this technique. Once you have agreed to buy a car, you go into the
finance office - another place where they try to extract as much money as possible from you. Dealer
financing, extended warranties, rust coating, a LoJack security system - these additions can represent
as much, or more, profit to the dealer as the original sale.

For another good example, consider late-night infomercials. Often, they offer an upsell along with your
purchase. For instance, you'll get a special deal on the third bottle of Super Grime Cleaner if you buy
2 bottles. And, again, this usually brings in more profit than the original sale.

And you can do the same online.

This little "magic trick" can instantly increase your profits - even without getting any additional website
visitors. It works great because your prospect is all hot and heavy and ready to buy. He's got his
credit card in his hand and he's already made the commitment ... and then you hit him with the upsell.

Here are a couple of ways that I've successfully used upsells on my sites:

1. Put the upsell on an "intermediary" page.

Once prospects click on your order button, they're taken to a new page (and not to the order form).
This page tells them about a special "today only" offer - perhaps a "deluxe" or "gold" version of the
package for X dollars more. You can make the upsell a big dollar amount or a small insignificant little
"bump." I do this on Instantsalesletters.com and my upsell numbers have been as high as 68 percent
using this technique.

Another way of doing this is by "recommending" a product. Any time you buy something from
Amazon, that's exactly what they do. Up comes a page that says, "Customers who bought X also
bought Y" - and then you see a slew of additional products for you to purchase.

2. Put the upsell right on the order page.

I've done something as simple as putting a check box on my order form. With this technique, we get a
25 percent upsell rate. Right after the customer has filled out his contact information, he can check the
box for the upsell: "You can get this special Y for only $X if you order now."

You have to play fair and let people get the original price and package you offered - but there's no
reason not to add a complementary upsell immediately. This is like the "Would you like fries with
that?" strategy. Unless you're offering "fries," you're missing out on tons and tons of profit. You simply
need to come up with one or two more compelling bonuses or packages that customers will get for the
upgrade.

Overlooked Profit Opportunity #2: Thank-You Pages

After upsells, I'd say "thank-you" pages are one of the most overlooked profit hotspots. Once again,
there are several ways to use this technique. First of all, anytime somebody buys a product from you
online, you should direct them to some kind of thank-you page where you give them a special deal ...
or where you at least give them links to your other products or to other people's products that you
make an affiliate commission on.

If you're selling a digital product, you can put some recommended resources right on the download
page.

And don't forget about the thank-you pages that come up after people sign up for your e-mail list. Of
course, where you want to send those people will depend on where they are in your sales process.
But why not have a list of recommended resources for them?

Overlooked Profit Opportunity #3: Thank-You E-mails/Confirmations

Finally, there's the initial e-mail confirmation that you send back to your customers. Most of them are
going to read it. So, in addition to the stuff you should always include (like customer service
information, credit card billing and shipping information), why not add a simple P.S. to the bottom of
the e-mail that offers additional resources (or even a special deal just for customers). That's what I do.

I guarantee that just putting these 3 overlooked techniques to work on your site will help squeeze out
even more profits for you ... without adding a single visitor. Give it a try.

[Ed. Note: Put Yanik's three strategies to work, and you could start seeing immediate results... in the
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