FREE What Is That?
August 28th, 2020 by JoAnne Bassett
I started offering free shipping to make it easy for people to say yes in the shopping cart. To make a purchase. Whether that was a $6.00 sample or a $100.00 perfume or something else. Looking at the statistics of sales made due to free shipping and a reduced world wide shipping fee of $15.00 I can see it really just cost me a lot more money.
As I know from selling on Etsy… when you offer free shipping or free shipping when you spend $35.00 like Amazon, you have to recover your costs. They suggest raising your prices to cover the shipping fee. They actually can tell you for each transaction how much you need to raise your prices to cover the costs. So what we all know is that there is NO FREE SHIPPING. There is only hidden costs of shipping buried in the prices.
Today the USPS has informed me that they will have a temporary price increase over the holidays this year.. How special…
So today I have started charging shipping at flat rates based on what you spend. This is for the US and World Wide. This year has been the worst year for sales since the 2008 recession. My sales look very similar to that time. During quarantine I was not able to do any live events…and did not do any telesummits or teaching natural perfume courses. It was a time of rest and regroup… and a lot of thought about what the future hold. What I wanted to create…I bought a bunch of new roses and had flowers and vegs growing on my deck. That is what brought me joy this summer.
I want to thank all of you who bought perfumes this year.. new clients and old clients. Once in a while I bring out new offerings. I regularly bring out perfumes for the portals.. like Fall Equinox and Winter Solstice that will be coming up.
My intuitive readings have been popular since I brought them back…lots of people wondering what their next step is.. in this changing world.
This is what I say every morning: Thank You Universe for giving me a billion dollar idea to serve more people and the steps to do it! Recently I posted about a Divine download I had to serve my clients… I shared it with you all in a post. I heard this and felt resistance to the affiliate aspect of it. Then I touched in and the confirmation was absolute… So I offered it. See my earlier posts…
What I received from that was a tremendous win- win. I had signed up for the free version that allowed you to have sales funnels (in place of having a new website built) and other items for you to start a business. There was also an affiliate program where you could make 20% commission on sales of people signing up. So to my surprise I had people signing up.. purchasing the life time platinum membership for $1,397. I immediately signed up for the platinum version also. I was now able to make 40% commission on sales.. that is I make $558. on every $1,397 sale.. wow. As I posted I spend over $2,000 a year now on all of the programs I need to run my business. So the $1,397 saves me money and I never have to pay another monthly fee..
So some of you are now saving a lot of money.. making money as affiliates.. and I am happy to have shared this with you. One woman who is in her 60’s like me.. sold 100…that is $55,800… just promoting the offer like I shared with you all in the 3 posts.
Heads up! The price of $1,397 is going up $500 on September 1.. You can make monthly payments also. The links are in the blog posts..
The other point I want to make is in life when you see an opportunity you have to make an investment! It’s all in or all out.. Make payments if you have to… if it is something you feel resonates. I started my business in 1993 with $10,000.. all the money I had. Start somewhere..
Enjoy the weekend… and be aware of the Full Moon coming up next week.
