I finally fixed the Testimonials page – thanks all that sent them in, I’d been busy and forgot to put them up. If you want to send in more, feel free. :)

All of you are ’selling’ something if you run a website – it may not be directly for money, but if you plan to run a profit money will be an end goal. Some of you may have simple aims for your readers – just to keep them coming back, or capture their emails addresses. Others may want their visitors to click ads (Adsense etc), sign up for something (CPA etc) or even buy a product.

What most people recommend to others trying to sell anything is to do what they call ‘market research’ … take a look at what 5-10 of your competitors are doing, take what you think are their best ideas and use them for yourself.

This is bullshit.

Firstly, you don’t know whether the ideas you see on other websites are successful. For example, there are plenty of bloggers preaching about how to get loads and loads of traffic… and then on the off chance they post a traffic report, you see they’re getting 50 – 100 visitors a day (or even less in some cases).

Secondly, all strategies are different. Funny posts about where he ate lunch may work for Blogger X because his readers are morons his readers like that kind of thing, but post up a picture of where you snacked yesterday on your internet marketing blog and you’ll get laughed at. I dare you.

For me, the best way to find out what your market wants is also the easiest one… to ask. If you have a list, send them an email; if you have a blog, write up a post (like I’m doing now). If your list or blog isn’t big enough for you to get answers, use relevant forums as people that visit them will be the same that could be buying your product (whatever it is).

By just asking, you save a) time and b) money. It took me around 30 minutes to write this post – now think if I had to analyse ten blogs or sales pages, how long that would take me. And we all know I was born lazy :razz:

Does this work?

I only give you guys stuff that works… if it doesn’t, and is just a theory, it comes with a huge disclaimer. There’s no disclaimer with this post, so yes – it does work.

Over the past two months, I’ve sold three different main products, in three different niches – one cost $27, one cost $47, while one cost $97. In total, they’ve made over 200 sales till date (combined).

Total refund requests?

3.

One person didn’t want a refund anymore after I explained something to her, so that’s 1% of refunds. Whereas for standard products, the refund rate can be as higher as 15 – 50%.

How? All I did was send an email out before hand, asking what people wanted… and when they told me, I tried to deliver.

Anyways, here’s where the asking comes into play – I have a couple questions I’d like answers to, and it would be killer if you guys could help out. :razz:

1. This blog. I’ve got post ideas, but I ramble on here quite a bit.

I want to know what exactly you guys want. You see, the less crap I put out that no one’s interested in, the more time both you guys and I save, so let me know what you want to see on here and I’ll try to oblige. The more specific, the better – for example, don’t just say ‘money making ideas’, say the topic you’re interested in.

2. The site flipping course.

I picked up a decent domain as well as vBulletin today, and will be getting ready.

There will be two courses – a cheaper one, aimed at the masses (around $37 – $47) which includes forum access and the like. I want to know what exactly you want to see on there – what sites, etc. I might be getting some JV partners on board, not necessarily to help me promote, but to help out in the forum, answer questions etc. What kind of websites do you most want to learn how to flip? If it’s ‘easiest’, don’t worry; I got that covered. :razz:

The second course will be more personal, and will come with a double your money back guarantee. I’m confident in my abilities, and know that if people take action they’ll make money. It will also be higher priced. :razz:

Let me know guys, would be a great help. To make things easier, *best* reply to this post gets 1 x free lifetime access to the former course. :)

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