Test Your Marketing Knowledge With A Free Quiz From Quizmoz.com!...
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Taking a small quiz for different thing you know or want to know is a great way to do three things:
See if you have what it takes to be in the market or career you are following.
See the areas where you need to improve or need to outsource for help.
By taking a quiz is a forward step to put yourself in a learning environment.
I recommend you to go to Quizmoz (where you can test yourself, or create polls for others to take) and take a free quiz, this is a fun way to learn and...
To help you identify topics that you can turn into content for your niche business.
And To help you get to know what people is asking about a specific topic, this data can help your product creation effort, which can turn into developing a valuable product or service.
My Score.
The small marketing quiz I took was very good, it wasn't as challenging as I wanted to be. But, it was good enough to actually make me think for a minute or two on one of the questions.
So, don't wait go and test yourself... And let know how you did, by sending me a tweet to @Luis_Galarza or posting your score in the comment area of this article.
Here is another way to put yourself in a learning environment, just check the Internet Entrepreneurs Club where you not only learn from top experts by you can also be part of an elite forum full of online marketers to share and get advice!
Do You Think The Street Fighter Movies Failure's Can Teach You Some product creation Secrets?
Well, let see! If you are familiar with the Street Fighters classic video games, cartoon show, and comics, you may already know that the franchise released two movies one in 1994 starting one of the top action actors in that time Jean Claud Van Dann, and the second one was release this year (2009) title "Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li". Both films make money, but didn't hit the jockpot like they expected, which was really estrange, because the games are one of the most popular video games in the world and are consider classic collectibles.
Now is time for the good strategies and the bad strategies!
Good Product Development Secrets.
Something good you can learn from their movies failures is that they created multiple type of products that could be sold to the same and larger targeted fan based, all from one single product "The Video Game". First they turn the game into a comic, then they broadcast the TV show all over Japan and the U.S.. And them when they saw that the buzz about the franchise was still strong they decide to make a film.
This is great advice for any new or advanced online marketer who are focus on information products publishing and software development.
For example, as an infoproduct publishing company you can create an ebook or report, them after or during transaction you can offer your customers the opportunity to buy the video tutorial to get step by step demonstrations, also you can develop the software that will make the whole process even easier for your students, and why stop their, now you gut the opportunity to offer a membership base service where you and your team will do all the dirty work for them and make things way more easy. You see the picture... all started with one product!
Quote: "A successful product is never successful until you expand the profit possibilities of such a product." Luis Galarza :-)
Well, as yo can see you can apply this same strategies to expand the profit generation potential of a product or service. Like Donald Trump said "Think Big, Think Expansive".
So Why The Movies Fail!
There can be different factors, and many experts will try to go deep into the analytic part of the situation, which is is completely irrelevant to what really happened. The movies failure can happened to any kind of information product like ebooks, reports, video tutorials, teleclasses, webcast, podcast, etc., they fail because the creators or publishers didn't provide what their audience wanted.
In the game, the comic, the TV show the main characters were Ryu and Ken, so when fans heard about the production of a movie they got exited, they were waiting for a long time, they when to watch it, and BOOM! The movie crash against the ground because they completely change the story that everyone already knew, and was expecting to see, but instead they got a different plot that put the main characters in second or even third place inside the story. let me tell you that was a killer... The movie was good if it had a different name, not Street Fighter.
Then 2009 comes with another episode of the film that offer another B.S. story, and killed the potential of the product.
Here is exactly what help the movies fail:
1. - Not enough market research.
2. - Not giving what their customers wanted.
3. - Not listening to their current customers.
4. - Not knowing how to spot opportunities from current data.
5. - Bad risk management.
6. - Trying to reinvent the product idea without strong market data.
Secrets To Fix This Developing Problem.
Well done market research is crucial to the success of any Internet marketing campaign or online business idea. Also, you need to learn how to manage the risk, how to analyze the data, and how to spot or find hiding opportunities inside your niche or company. Some thing you can do to help you in your product creation process are:
- Surveys to current customers and leads to know how to improve your offerings, and see what else they want you to provide.
- Polls on site are a fast way to get instant feedbacks on different topics.
- Social networks, leverage the large amount of people in top networks to gain market insights.
- Keyword research, from organic search results and PPC advertising.
- Ask for testimonials to know what people like about your product, so you improve other things. - Research feedbacks and customer service inquiries to better understand the need of your audience.
- Keep in top of trade news to spot new trends that may help you find ideas to improve your current product or to come out with new ones, depending on where the market is moving to.
product creation can be simple if you know the secrets to provide exactly what your potential customers want. So, even if you don't have money to invest on research, is OK, the web is now full of free and low cost services that can be use to research a niche based on keyword search counts, hot web topics, news, etc.. you can use tools like the free Wordtracker tool for top search keywords, Affiliate Elite to spy on your competition PPC campaings and more, and IE Club.
Remember to always do keyword research and to keep a file with all the results you get. This is essential to help you come out with new ideas for porduct, articles, and new Internet business ventures.
Here a good video that will open your mind about the furute of product placement, creation, and effective marketing through social media:
Hope you enjoy the video and the post, if you have any question or want to share your own opinion please just click on the comment link below this post and express yourself.
Did You Know That Ebook Marketing Is The Best Way To Take Your Online Income To Higher Level Of Success With No Money Or Low Investment Budget. Top Marketers Knows That... Beginners Should Follow!
Today I want to address some basic and easy to follow steps for a successful ebook marketing plan... Yes, you need a business plan for any venture online or offline you are getting into. Don't worry if you don't know how to start or how to write your own ebook here I am going to post some videos and resources I really recommend and are related to this beginners guide to ebook marketing. Before you continue to the step-by-step plan view the next video that answers the question "What's An Ebook?"
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Step 1: Research the marketplace to find problem on demand.
Don't ever jump into any industry expecting that a some magic potion is going to bring unlimited target customers to buy your un-tested infoproduct... Always do a good research with results base on the hot on demand trends for any niche, this will ensure that your digital book give you the results that you want. Remember that sales conversions is the name of the game.
Step 2: Create a information product (ebook) or get one Private Label Rights of a related book.
Writing an book or any type of information products can be really difficult if you don't know how to make the process simple and easy... There are many ways to write an electronic book or create an information product.
Step 3: Locate and build a group of potential customers.
To build a lucrative long term online small business you need to locate as many prospects as you can with proven list building tactics and then keep in touch with those prospects and turn them into customers by using top notch email marketing strategies.
Step 4: Find the best ebook marketing tools for a successful start-up.
Like many marketing beginners you may don't have the minimum investment budget you need to start an online business on a better level. But, with many free and low cost services available on the web, you can have a decent start-up that can still generate a good online income if those tools are use right, off course.
Step 5: Find a way to sell and deliver your infoproduct online.
You wrote the ebook, know your target market, your building a list, you found the tools you need at a price you can afford. What now? Well, you need to find an online merchant account or payment gateway service to sell your ebook, also you need a way to deliver your ebook file electronically to your customers automatically. I said automatically, because you need to let your customers access the information they bought from you instantly, meaning today, right now.
Step 6: Create a marketing and advertising strategy plan for your book.
Having a strategic ebook marketing plan for your infoproduct is crucial for the success of your business. If you have some money to invest and want to blast as many prospects to your book sales letter you can PPC, CPA, Contextual Advertising, Co-registration, and banner advertising on top web sites or blogs related to your niche.
But, if you are an Internet marketing beginner with no money... There are a few things you can do to still get as much web traffic as needed to make all the sales you need to make a profit and build your brand. View the next ebook marketing video to help you understand why videos and how to make money with them.
Step 7: Acquire joint venture partners to maximize your marketing exposure.
Finding joint venture partners may seem like a hard task specially for Internet marketing beginners or for those that never try to use business partnerships and networking as a method to increase sales and reach more prospects than you can get without partners.
The best places to find joint venture partners on the Internet are forums, online business associations or clubs, social networks for entrepreneurs or small business owners, and joint venture secret networks for online marketers.
Step 8: Develop a multiple stream of income with your e-book and online business.
This is something I learn from my grandfather Captain Enrique Ramirez who was a wealthy man in a country where you need to do 100 times more work than in the U.S. or Europe to achieve success the way he did. He told me one time the only way to be wealthy is by thinking of the business world as a cow, and all those opportunities are their tits, so for someone to never run out of milk (money) they need to suck milk from as many tits as necessary... until you find a comfortable zone where wouldn't matter if one of those tits "opportunity" stop giving you milk "money", because you made sure that your future is secure and the milk will still come to you no matter what. And off course, never stop finding more business opportunities outside or inside your on company that can be turn into another source of income.
Step 9: Increase your ebook marketing profits with good back-end offers.
Well, now you have a list of subscribers and you keep sending them quality content to keep them hook to your list. So, What now? Now is time to keep generating a revenue from that list by promoting back-end offers which are products or services related to the interest of your list members. This back end offers can be a product from an affiliate program you join or a product you created to sell to your list... Remember that even if they didn't by the first product you presented to them they are still hot prospects, simple because they haven't unsubscribe from your opt-in list. So, keep promoting another products (affiliates or your own) at least ones per month, but don't do it before you deliver as good information that will build a strong relationship between you and your subscribers.
So, the code here is:
QUALITY CONTENT + MAIN PRODUCT + BACK-END OFFERS = PROFITS
Step 10: An eBook Marketing plan communicate your mission and get you closer to your goals.
Setting small goals for your e-book business and marketing plan is a great way to keep your efforts accountable. Remember that the name of the game is "Results." So, go ahead and right a list of realistic goals for each part of your ebook Internet marketing plan and make it your daily task. And don't for get to track results, and test, test, test, adjust your online marketing and advertising strategies and then keep testing...
About Author: Luis Galarza is a respectable Internet Marketing and Small Business Consultant in the area of Leominster and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Also, he had teach 100's of entrepreneurs how to make money online and offline without their own product.
