Here's a few basic strategies you can put to use straight away to see your sales make that upward turn you've been looking for.

1. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a "thank you" email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. You could follow-up every few months.

2. Start you own newsletter with links to you products or affiliate products. Put a sign-up box on you web site as well as inviting your customers in a follow-up letter. I recommend GetResponse.com for a full-featured autoresponder.

3. Upsell to your customers. When they arrive at your order page, tell them about a few extra related products you have for sale. They could just add it to their original order.

4. When you sell a product, if it's one of youur own, give your customers the option of joining an affiliate program so they can make commissions selling your product. This will multiply the sale you just made.

5. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to your products. You could include an ad on or with the product for other products you sell. You could make sales for the reproduction rights and sales on the back end product.

6. If you don't have your own product yet consider joining one of the Private Label Rights resellers such as InfoGoRound.com. Download one of the products on offer, plus the ready-made sales page. Go through the product, make any changes, add an attractive 'cover' page and sell it. This way you multiply your profits because you keep all of the sales price.

7. You could cross promote your product with other businesses' products in a package deal. You can include an ad or flyer for other products you sell and have other businesses selling for you.

Final thought: "Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory." -- Norman Vincent Peale