1. Promote your affiliation as an eBags Ambassador
2. Increase your sales
3. Use eBags' search engine to help your visitors
4. Customize your links
5. Provide recommendations and testimonials
6. Promote your luggage and travel store
7. Promote gift giving
8. Speed is important
9. Highlight customer service and security

Promote Your Affiliation With eBags

Your customers will be more likely to buy from your luggage and travel store if they know that they'll be buying from an established, trustworthy store. eBags offers thousands of name brand products and is the leading online luggage and travel store. You will be proud of the selection, convenience, service and easy shopping that eBags offers.

Incorporating eBags logo into your luggage and travel store will help people know they're buying luggage and travel products from an established online luggage retailer. We've put our logos and artwork online for you to use on Reporting.net or CJ.com.

Describe the luggage and travel store as an association between your site and eBags. For example: Travel the World Corporation - in association with eBags.

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Ideas to Increase Your Sales

Place your link in an easily accessible and visible place on your homepage, travel or shopping page. Make it easy for your visitors to find us. You will be rewarded in sales.

You can also increase sales by increasing your traffic. Submit your site (every month or so) to as many search engines and directories as possible and make sure your metatags are in place. There are many free services such as Submit It that help you with this. It may take a little time but it is worth it.

Keep your visitors informed about your affiliation and interesting travel news. We recommend that you include information about your eBags affiliation in your newsletters, press releases and on your home page.

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Have Your Visitors Use the eBags Search Engine

Use the eBags product search box on your web site. Your visitors can search for specific items and brands and get the information they need to make a buying decision quickly. The search links directly into the relevant product page on eBags. We have seen this feature generate sales for our Ambassadors.

The search box is the MOST EFFECTIVE way to link to our site.

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Customize Your Links

If your web site is related to a specific travel or bag topic, including specific product categories is an easy way to increase sales. Our tag generator on reporting.net makes it easy to create links with product category images and descriptions. For example, if your web site is for business travelers showing briefcases or computer cases that you recommend will prove highly effective at increasing sales.

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Provide Recommendations And Testimonials

eBags offers thousands of luggage and travel products across many different bag categories. We have descriptions for all of the products we offer, but you may add to these. Your visitors value your expertise and judgment. They'll be more likely to purchase if you provide recommendations or comments about the luggage and travel products you're selling.

People always want to know what you or an expert thinks about a product. A great way to increase your click-through rate and sales is to use personal testimonials praising the products you or your customers recommend. You should find that such reviews increase sales dramatically.

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Promote Your Luggage And Travel Store

People need to know that luggage and travel products are for sale before they can decide to buy! Here are a few suggestions to help you highlight the fact that you're selling luggage and travel products: Call the area in which your luggage and travel products are for sale a "Luggage and Travel Store". If you are offering sports bags or backpacks feature "Buy Bags Here".

Show visitors to your home page or other key areas on your site that you have a luggage and travel store. As a rule, the greater the distance (or the more clicks) from your home page that you mention your luggage and travel store, the less likely your visitors are to see it. Let people know they can buy the luggage and travel products you list by using words like "buy," "for sale", "shop", or "luggage and travel store."

Use the eBags logo or banner to help you sell luggage and travel products. We've put some logos and banners online in our toolkit at reporting.net to help you promote luggage and travel sales on your site. A small eBags graphic can help people identify that your store is selling luggage and travel products.

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eBags Make Great Gifts

Encourage your customers to buy gifts from your site. Give the gift that keeps on packing. eBags are great gifts for life passages. Whether it is a graduation, wedding, retirement, or that long awaited trip around the world, there's an eBag designed to meet your special gift giving needs. Promoting gift giving on your site will provide your customers the ease and convenience of finding the perfect gift and increase sales!

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Speed Is Everything

Customers don't like to wait and cite speedy performance as the most important determinant of their satisfaction with a Web site. We recommend that you visit your own Web site using a 14.4 or 28.8 modem and evaluate your site's performance. Graphics enhance the look of your pages but detract from their speed. Use them sparingly and try to reduce them to 5-bit colors if possible to cut their loading time.

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Feature Customer Service And Security

eBags delivers excellent customer service, secure ordering and a wide range of shipping options to customers across the U.S. Highlighting these features of your luggage and travel store is a great way to reassure your customers that your site is a full-service luggage and travel store.

eBags offers customers a safe option for Internet purchases. The eBags Security Pledge protects you while you shop at eBags so that you never have to worry about credit card safety. We guarantee that every transaction you make at eBags will be 100% safe. This means customers pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to their card as a result of shopping at eBags.

eBags servers use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), an encryption technology that works with Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and AOL's browser so that only eBags can read a buyer's personal information. If customers prefer not to submit their payment on the Internet, they can fax their orders to (303) 694-9491.

Privacy is very important to your visitors, and eBags protects and does not resell personal information as a matter of policy. eBags shoppers may elect to not be put on mailing lists. If you want to assure your visitors that they can expect a secure purchase and that their personal information is safe, link to the page on our site explaining our security measures.

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