What kind of products should I sell?

This is an age old questions for marketers whether online or offline. You want a product that works best across multiple networks. Have you ever thought about testing your product in a public place? You don’t have to actually do it but think about if you were standing in New York and people were walking by and you stopped ten people; how many of those people would be potential buyers for your product or service?

What are issues everyone has? Weight-loss, education (one of my favorite markets) like making money online, cellphones ( the Iphone especially), clothes, food, things to help you sleep, you get the idea. Naturally the greater your prospective buyer is, the greater your change of conversions and accruing wealth.

The Right Product Or Service Solves A Problem

Does the offer provide a simple, inexpensive solution to a problem that irritates millions of people worldwide?

Does the offer enable customers to easily solve problems that would normally cost them a high dollar amount if they did it themselves or even used someone else?

Does the product easily solve messy chores without the hassle normally associated with it?

If yes, you are on the right track to a great idea. If no, keep thinking. If you can show that your product makes life easier you’re still in the game.

The best product or service relieves a perceived problem that your client has but in many cases, people aren’t always aware of the problem they have so you have to show them their problem.

For example, are your credit card interest rates high? Most of the people I speak with have no idea what their interest rate is. Nor do they realize that a 20% interest rate assumes some 80% of their monthly payment they send in which is why the credit card companies make hundreds of millions of dollars off people making the minimum payment on their cards.

So you must ask the question,  How do I make my clients lives easier? Finding the answer to your question helps you determine the problem they are experiencing.

I Want It and I Want It Now - Instant Gratification

The need to have it now is ingrained in our culture. Instant messaging, email, microwave ovens, pizza delivery, 24/7 open grocery stores and gas stations, people want results and quickly. Lately  I have been reading about  continuity programs which is simply a word for some product or service where you pay a reoccurring monthly fee to gain that service.

Many people get bored of the long-term commitment. The average continuity program lasts 3 months long so consider if you are selling that type of service that you find a shorter way like 30 days to accomplish a goal.

Keep in mind that a product does not have to be necessarily better than its competition; just different. Look at the variety of cellphones out there today. So many of them really aren’t any better, but in fact just look “cooler”.

The Right Product At the Right Price

If you watch infomercials, you already know that 95% of the time its going to be $19.95 and if you act now, you get a bonus, right?

Books are a little different. From conversion studies I’ve read you have the same conversion at a $47.00 price as you do a $29.95 or less, so why not charge more? Keep in mind that is typically for “front end products” Back end products or down sells are typically 50% of the price at half the value, unless you have a great offer.

Perceived Value

Perceived Value is critical for any product. Naturally your consumer has to want it. Unique products always have a higher perceived value, so try to set yourself different from the pack.

Test Your Product

You should always test your product prior to a launch to see how well it does. No matter how well you sell a product or service, if it doesn’t come through on your guarantee, what good is the effort?

The same is true with affiliate marketing. You always send a sample of your product to your affiliates prior to them promoting it so they can know if their word is good behind it. You stake your reputation on every single product you endorse and you need to protect it accordingly.

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If you have maintained a blog or website of any kind you have the obvious realization that without targeted traffic to your website, your website is an obscure digital dust collector. Maybe as a newbie you have even paid for the cheap offers of sending 500,000 to 1,000,000 hits of “people” to your website for $50. (That is a total hoax by the way; its complete spam that no one reads or its bots that “hit” your website but its not actually a human visitor.)

This is the beginning of a series of blog posts I will provide to teach simple web 2.0 tactics to start driving traffic to your website, and yes for free. All you have to invest is some time.

What is Web 2.0 and How Can It Help Me?

Its been speculated that only 40% of emails are read by suscribers on email lists, and that email is becoming something used only by the younger generation to respond to parents or “older” people. So what is the younger generation using now? Social networks of course.

Popular websites like:
Facebook.com,
Myspace.com,
Linkedin.com
LiveJournal.com
Ning.com
Bebo.com,
Friendster.com,
Ecademy.com,
Ryze.com,
HubPages.com,
OneWorldTv.com
Wordpress.com (what I’m using),
and many other social networking websites out there allow users to interact with friends, post links and videos, and easily share information with each other. With the Iphone and other cellphones making it easier to share information with each other, its no wonder how quickly technology changes to shift the new generation into sharing information with such ease that email seems like an extra task at times.
Then consider social bookmarking sites like:
* Balatarin
* BookmarkSync
* CiteULike
* ClickHereDummy!
* Connotea
* Delicious
* Digg
* Diigo
* Faves
* GiveALink.org
* IBM Lotus Connections
* Jumper 2.0 Enterprise
* Linkwad
* Ma.gnolia
* My Web
* Mister Wong
* Mixx
* MSDN
* Newsvine
* oneview
* Propeller.com
* Reddit
* Simpy
* SiteBar
* StumbleUpon
*Squidoo
* TechNet
* Twine[1]
* Windows Live Favorites
* Yattle
and you’ve got quite an opportunity to generate profiles, all considered “authority” websites by the search engines as high ranking due to the large amount of traffic and visits by robots indexed the millions of pages online.

Simply taking the time to create profiles that link to your website will generate an enormous amount of pagerank and traffic to your website. Its not rocket science folks. If you even create 5 of 10 profiles that link to your site, you would be amazing at how much it can help you send traffic to your site.

Tomorrow will be day 2 of traffic building techniques on how to use video to boost your traffic and conversion rates. Here’s a little secret: Some 52% of web traffic today is video. What would you rather do, read a long sales page, or just watch a video with someone explaining their product or idea?

If you enjoyed this article, please post a pingback or vote on one of the many social networking and bookmarking sites I shared with you tonight!

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