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by John Taylor, Joh

Are you running a website and just not getting the sales you were hoping when you first put it up? Are you wondering why people are not buying? Are you wondering what you can do to improve your site and prompt people to start buying your products? Are you starting to think that maybe you are not offering the right products or enough products? If any of these questions apply to you, you are reading the right article. This article will tell you how you can find out the answers to these questions.

The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a great website and a reliable host. It is important that when you are creating your website and pricing your products that you keep your customers in mind. There are many reasons a customer may not be purchasing from you at that very moment. For instance, they may find the price you are currently charging is too high. They may also be simply doing some comparison shopping before making a final decision, if you have great service, products, and prices they will likely return to you. They may have questions that your sales copy doesn't address.

You also need to keep your websites updated and maintained regularly. Make sure you never have any broken links or images; this can seriously hurt your credibility in visitor's eyes. You should never have any out dated offers or special on your page either. Make sure that all offers are kept current and fresh, right along with your website. Remember your whole goal is to get visitors and to turn them into paying customers.

Now, if you do all that regularly great. However, if you do that and you still are not producing sales you will need to implement another strategy. This strategy means asking your visitors outright why they are not buying. That is right; you can implement this technique into your website and take the guessing out of trying to figure out why people are not buying and what you can do to change your website or products to cater to your traffic.

You are probably asking, How can I possibly ask my visitors why they are not buying? No, you cannot physically contact them or speak to them to ask the questions, not that you would feel comfortable in doing that anyways. No the key here is make use of an exit survey. This is an excellent technique many websites are using, to improve their services, websites, or find out exactly what their visitors are looking for.

The survey is perfect, because if a visitor leaves without making a purchase, upon exit they will be prompted with a survey that asks them specific questions. You have the ability to define the questions and ask your visitors exactly what you want to know. You can ask questions about specific products; after all, it may generate interest. You can also ask the visitors what specific areas of the website appealed to them. This will give you a good idea of what areas of your website appeals to other people.

If your path takes you near a riverbed or across a stream, you'd best look out for Jenny Greenteeth. A water witch of greenish tinge with frog-like, yellow eyes as big as two lamps, Jenny dwells beneath the river's surface, darting like a fish across the muddy bottoms, and feeding upon the misfortunate who stumble and drown in her waters.

Tales of Jenny Greenteeth abound in Britain, where she is also known as Wicked Jenny, Peg O'Nell, and Peg Powler. In Ireland and Germany she appears as a beautiful woman in a white gown, and is called respectively Bean-Fionn and die Weisse Frau. Although her visage is changed, she is still the same dreaded Jenny Greenteeth, haunting river banks and dragging her victims to their untimely deaths. The moral of all Jenny Greenteeth stories is to stay away from rivers and lakes, and it is thought that she was the imagined creation of mothers who wanted to warn their children away from the water's edge with frightening tales. Her stories may have also derived from duckweed, an aqueous plant that wraps its tendrils around one's leg and traps them under water.

While most stories paint Jenny Greenteeth in morbid, unredeeming tones, some tales show a somewhat tender--albeit mislleading--side to the Greentoothed Woman. In these accounts she uses her long bony arms to embrace her victims, stroking them with her sharp fingernails until they fall into a deep sleep whereupon she devours them. Sailors of the past called Jenny Greenteeth the Sea Hag and believed that she sang as she neared her victims:

"Come into the water, love, Dance beneath the waves, Where dwell the bones of sailor-lads Inside my saffron cave." ~S.E. Schlosser

Upon hearing the sad melody, sailors had one last chance to turn back before she would strike. Sailors who disregarded the warning would never be seen again.

Superstitions regarding water have been passed down over centuries, and we may take part in some of these customs without even knowing their origins. For instance, throwing coins into a well in exchange for a wish resembles the custom begun thousands of years ago, when people tossed offerings into the wells to appease the gods and ensure the continuance of the water. The Tweed River in Scotland was said to be subdued by one casting salt over its waters with nets. There is a tradition of decorating wells with pictures of flowers that may have Victorian origins, or may even trace back to the days of the Black Death. Some villages credited their escape to their sweet water, and to this day they dress their wells to protect it.

There is no protection, though, against the wicked Greentoothed Woman once you are within her grasp. Like the tale of Jenny Greenteeth, all these superstitions are messages used by our ancestors to warn us against the danger of water.

Copyright 2006 Rob Daniels

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