Christmas is here, shopping hysteria has begun, and it is estimated to break new records this year...AGAIN! Especially in the United States.

First you might think this does not concern you. It is so far away, right? Wrong! It is just one screen away and it might be exactly what you need.

The US is a highly diverse and complex market but also enormous in size. There is room for everyone, as long as you have something interesting to offer that this hungry market wants. Even a small share is huge. Using the Net is one of the cheapest and most convenient ways to reach these new customers. Especially since a large portion of the Christmas shopping is done right here, online.

I just read an interesting survey how visitors act when they come to an online store, look here:

• Just over 4 minutes is the average time visitors spend at an online store.
• 19% uses the search function to find products (an increase with 3% from previous year).
• 10% adds something to the shopping cart.
• 58% of those who add something to the shopping cart completes the purchase.

  Sources: SVD, Jupiter research, DoubleClick, and Internetworld.

If you are not online this Christmas, make sure to be ready for the next one. Start preparing on time. Keep in mind that December is the year's most important shopping month, after all it gives 25% of the annual sales for most retail companies.

Observe. Think. Prepare. Begin. Enjoy!

Have a wonderful day.

All the best,
Erik G. Olsson, Editor
eolsson@redtienda.com

• Look Outside Your Market for New Opportunities
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One of the best ways to add an additional income stream to your business has always been to diversify into other markets other than your own. The same holds true on-line, in fact even more so. If you have your own domain it can be as simple as adding a few new pages along with a bit of promotion.

For little or no extra cost you can be in business with a whole new set of products . Compare this with the costs associated with running an additional off-line business and you will see there is simply no comparison. Your premises size and location does not matter, you now sell world wide instead of to the local area or nation-wide, your business can operate 24 hours a day 365 days a year--get the idea!.

Their are many ways to find new products. You can use existing mail order products and sell them on-line and arrange for a dropshipping setup with your supplier. This means you do not have to hold an additional stock and so costs are minimal. There are numerous supply directories for goods around the world that you can locate quiet easily. You can contact local businesses and offer to put them on the web for free, with you acting as a reseller for their products online. This can be extremely lucrative as the business owner will be only too happy to have additional sales at no additional cost to their business. Again you can arrange a dropship arrangement quiet easily. The point I am trying to get across here, in case you haven't already noticed, is diversify! diversify! diversify!. This way when one of your existing markets becomes to competitive or saturated, you have already added additional products and services to you your business and are less dependent one particular source of income.

Once you have got one additional new product online it then requires very little additional maintenance other than to fulfill orders and some monthly promotion.

Now you can look at adding numerous additional products and goods, again all for little or no additional costs. Best of all, you can use the credibility of selling for existing businesses and manufacturers to get a good discount level for your new products by using them as leverage to gain further discounts.

Give it a try and see for yourself.

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1. Spend money on targeted advertising instead of mass media advertising. You don't want to waste your ad dollars on people who aren't interested.

2. Increase your profits by concentrating on small details. Improving small things like text size, color, or graphics can really make a positive difference.

3. Keep your offers flexible. If you offer a set price for your product, you could offer the people that can't afford it an optional payment plan.

4. Offer your knowledge or consulting as a bonus product. You could offer a free 15 or 30 minute consultation. This will add value to your product.

5. Personalize all your e-mail messages so they get read. Include the recipient's name in the subject line. This will grab peoples attention quickly.

6. Keep your web site consistent. You don't want to keep things on your web site that are unrelated to the theme of your web site.

7. Attract more subscribers to your free e-zine by giving them free bonuses like e-books, software, online services and other incentives.

8. Sell advertising space in your e-zine and on your web site. This will create an extra income stream for your business.

9. Make your web site ready for the public. Have an "About Us" page and clear descriptions of what actions you want your visitors to take.

10. Don't just start advertising everywhere, plan out your marketing. Locate places and publications that your target audience would congregate around.

  Santiago Mencías V., smencias(a)websystems.com.ec
  Web Systems, http://www.websystems.com.ec

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