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Creating A Sellable Product
Hi, this is Don. Welcome back to the EZ4Newbies Blog. Thanks for coming by again!
Many marketers have created or acquired products that they thought would sell well and, in their enthusiasm, set up everything from sales letters to websites to getting traffic. However, a lot of these marketers have forgotten the single most important factor that will affect their product sales ? the “sellability” of the product.
When you begin creating products or buying rights to a certain product to sell, the most important factor you must take into account is the demand of the product. Do people want your product? It is simply stupid to waste a month’s time preparing a product, setting up the website and required sales techniques only to find that people do not even flick an eyebrow at your product!
Your final goal is to deliver the product to your customer and collect his or her money. In order to do this, you must make sure your customer wants to buy your product in the first place. How do you find out if they want your product? Simple. Just ask! Ask in forums related to your niche. Hold a survey or public poll. The Internet is a flat playing field, and you have the power to reach just about anyone in the world who has an Internet connection.
Let’s say you have this brilliant idea on creating a step-by-step instruction on how to cook Malaysian food. First, you must find out if anyone is interested (or even heard of) Malaysian food. To do this, go to a food-related forum and ask tactfully if anyone would be interested in learning Malaysian cuisine. Do not ask blatantly whether anyone would like to buy an ebook with instructions on how to cook Malaysian food, or you might be in danger of being accused of spamming.
On the other hand, you can give out a few samples of your Malaysian recipes to test the waters ? see how the forum members react to them. If they show enthusiasm for learning more, then you definitely have a market in this. If they show no interest, then it is time to look for a new idea to market. You save time in the long run because you don’t have to find out the low demand for your product the hard way.
If your idea is welcomed by the forum members you surveyed, you can go ahead and compile your extensive ebook on cooking Malaysian food because there is interest in the information you possess. Where there is interest, you can easily build up desire for your product, and with desire (plus good marketing), your purchases will arrive naturally!
Viral techniques to increase web traffic
The term viral marketing seems to have a negative connotation due to its identification with the word virus, something that no one would want to catch ever. However, viral marketing is one of the most efficient tools made available to internet email marketers nowadays.
Viral marketing is an internet marketing tool which is made in such a way as to be capable of being passed on from on e person to another. It is called viral due to its ability to be passed on to a growing number of internet users through the email. Through viral marketing, an email message can reach thousands if not millions of people.
To the layman, viral marketing can be equated with network marketing or word of mouth. The use of viral marketing can be likened to a small fire but which catches everybody?s attention due to smoke which reaches every nook and cranny.
To be successful, viral marketing makes use of a product that has a universal appeal and which is freely and readily available to most people. Aside from easy transmission, the product must also be easily accessible to the receivers, for it to become viral.
Marketers who avail of viral marketing usually offer free products like e-book or e-videos which cater to the needs and interests of their target market. The product is usually passed on by the original target to his own set of friends or clients and the clients do the same until the product has reached millions of email users.
Viral techniques can be as easy as sending free email courses to target clients. Wanting their friends to benefit from the said service, the original targets pass on the free email courses until it creates a multiplier effect. Using email signatures can also increase traffic to your website. This is easily done by adding your website address and some comments below your name.
Offering free screensavers to computer users is also one way of creating an email database since those who want to download free screensavers are required to register using their email addresses. Once the client has logged in his email address, the internet marketer can do his job by sending emails redirecting the recipients to his website,
Setting up an affiliate program is also a viral marketing technique. This can b e accomplished by allowing users to refer customers to your site and giving them a certain percentage for each sale. Affiliate programs can be easily searched in the internet as these sites are submitted to affiliate directories.
Other website owners hire people to participate in discussion boards and forum and require them to use signatures that are linked to their websites. This method is quite effective because people from all walks of life participate in the forums and most often, they are redirected to the signature link. However, make sure you use forums that are related to your website to keep the interest of the forum posters. To achieve the desired goals, you respond to questions affixing your signature link.
One of the best viral techniques is the use of articles to increase website traffic. Under this technique, numerous articles of different topics are created and are redistributed for reprint in other websites but with a resource box which serves as a link to the original website. This way, the website owner who lacks articles and materials for his website benefits from the free articles. On the other hand, the article owner gets to advertise his website link for free in exchange for the article.
Among the most popular articles are do it yourself articles, how to articles, self employment articles and usually articles about beauty, health and money. People will always be drawn towards anything that will give them the most benefit at little cost.
Having a good website is a start but it is not the be-all and end-all of internet marketing. A website owner has to take advantage of email marketing tools to generate more traffic to his website. These marketing tools like the viral technique, does not cost much but requires creativity and persistence.
Another method to increase website traffic is to exchange links with other website owners who have products that are different from your website. By agreeing to interlink your websites, both websites benefit from the exposure they will get from their own clients.
No matter what viral technique you have chosen for your email marketing, you have to make sure that you generate enough interest to increase traffic to your website.
Warrior Forum – Your Great Resource
The unrivaled Internet Marketing forum that’s withstood the “test of time” is the“Warrior Forum” at:
There is some good news and some not so good news about that forum. The good news it really is a place where you are able to get your questions resolved. It’s also a place where you can present new products in a special section called “Warrior Special Offers”. As such, it’s a base you can use to “get the word out” about your own new product releases.
That brings us to the bad news. Since the world of Internet Marketing can be a “bit spammy”, shall we say, with people bounding in with offers everywhere, it tends to bring down the quality of the discussion whenever that happens.
So, the Warrior Forum “patrol”, as I call them, will be sizing up every post of yours. If you even suggest that you’re promoting your own product outside of the “Warrior Special Offers” section, the entire “thread”, including your initial posting will be eliminated.
One thing you should keep in mind is that folks tend to be a bit too favorable or excessively unfavorable about particular products when they’re asked an opinion about them. It can get to the point that it’s hard to pick out the good from the not-so-good. Remember that some of these folks may have an interest as an affiliate in one product or another, so take it all in with a little caution.
Even so, the Warrior Forum is still the best spot online to find possible partners. And it’s an outstanding place to simply ask questions and learn about what might be stumbling blocks for you. Utilize the Warrior Forum and it will turn out to be a terrific resource for you.
