Motivate Customers With Time-Sensitive Offers It just might entice people to buy.

Apr 24, 2003

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It's amazing to see how compelled people can become to buyproducts when the time to purchase is limited. To make this work,contact a list of customers who have shopped on your site before.This list might consist of only a select group of people, or it maybe everyone who has ever shopped on your site. Let each customerknow that the offer is being made to only highly valuedcustomers.

Excerpted from 101 Internet Marketing Tips For YourBusiness

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