If you dont have a product or service that you can offer yourself, use others. During your research and surfing, you will see many products and services. Try not to go to traditional wholesalers, yes some may be of value, but your best bet is finding companies who make and sell the product themselves. Try to buy direct rather than drop ship.
Drop shipping is where you charge the order but you have the merchant your buying from ship the order. Yeah, its easier, but you are giving your customer information away, and the customer will see the merchants name, phone number etc. No big deal, but I prefer to buy, re-label, throw in my business card or letter with it. Youll get a better chance at repeat business that way.
Is it a product that you would consider buying. on the Internet
Ok, we all know that you can find and buy pretty much anything on the Internet, but what are the smart products to get involved in. What would you consider buying What would you not buy Sounds simple but use yourself as a typical customer. Where do you live If you live in New York City or Los Angeles, you can pretty much get anything you want right there. However, you have the world to consider. Can someone in Ohio get good Cigars, or a designer Golf Shirt Dont assume everyone has the same resources you do. Much of the world does not have access to the same thing you do at your local shopping center. As you are viewing different sites, take note. Lets look at a few choices and see:
Clothes:
No, unless its simple and very unique. Golf shirts with a logo or design that you know is not hanging at your local Macys store, but you think is really cool could work. Sports Jerseys, especially those that will put the persons last name on the back could work as well.
Basically clothing on the internet will sell if:
Customer can see a photo (obviously) Can check off Small, Medium, Large, etc. Wouldnt necessarily have to try it on (Jersey, golf shirt, hats) Unique enough that he doesnt see it in your basic clothing store Can be customized with names, logos etc.
If it doesnt pass these tests, than it wont work. Wal-Mart, Caldor, Macys have web sites, but their clothing section is mainly used for window shopping. They hope that the viewer will look at some photos and go to the nearest Wal-Mart and buy it there. See what I mean But again, if its simple, unique and doesnt require a fitting room, then it could work. This should only be an affiliation re-sell arrangement. Do not produce clothing your self. It is a major hassle and expense. Find that little out of the way site where you see one guy producing pretty unique stuff, and ask him if you were to buy 30 of whatever, how much would it cost Write it down, bookmark the site. Even if you dont pursue it now, get the info! You could always post a banner for each other later at least.
Food
No. Stay away. No exceptions.
Arts and Crafts
Yeah, its not very professional sounding, but youd be surprised. Type in some keywords, (crafts, designer crafts etc) you may see something you like. Get a price, Get a picture, and you may get some good things out of it. Anything unique, that is not on 100 different sites is your best bet. This deserves a look and some research. Again, it may not be your primary business, but if it peaks your interest, you could always link with each other or sell it as a side product on your site.
Designer Gifts
Sure. Clocks, engravings, corporate gifts. See who has some nice products.
Services Manufactured Items Books Tapes Outdoor Furniture Computer Supplies Financial and Mortgage
Type in anything. Let your mind go wild. GREAT TIP: go to amazon.com or other multi product sites. See what sells. Amazon ranks each item on sales volume. That will give you a good indication on what is selling out there. They also have customer reviews of the product as well. Search and read. If a product sells well, and has a lot of good reviews, go to their site. Do they have affiliate programs Can you buy and re-sell Always thinking, always learning.
Is the product priced where there is mark - up potential
Mark up potential means, is there room for real profit. You dont want to be a reseller for $5 or $10 profit. We have to assume that our sites are not going to get thousands of hits right away. Although making and getting our site(s) up wont cost much, we have hosting, listing cost, and materials and shipping to consider.
Secondary sites could offer cheaper products, because we are also using our secondary sites for free advertising for our main site. If you are producing something on your own, then $10 products could work well, and we could adjust those prices should demand warrant it.
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Nick Hunter is a marketing specialist and the President of American Investment Training (AIT). He also writes for
Well let me explain. Niche marketing is a process where youll find small but potentially profitable market segments and designing custom-made products to fill them.
What is a Niche Product
A Niche Product is the product that is specifically designed to meet the needs of that special segment.There are tons of eBooks which are related to Creating Niche Products or Finding a Profitable NicheIn this Article well cover what to do with niche products with reseller rights.What youll find out is How to make them more profitable.There are many niche products online with reseller rights some of them are also rebrandable. But you have to understand that thousands of people have similar products and are trying to sell them online.Thats why you have to make your version unique.
Here are some basic ideas you can use to make your product copy different and more profitable than the others.
1. Write A New Sales Copy
These niche products come with their sales pages most of the time and the other thousands of resellers are selling these products with the SAME SALES COPY.
If you want your own ebook copy to have a difference and stand out in the crowd you have to write a brand new sales page.
Most of the resellers do not have any idea what the product is all about.They buy it or download it somewhere and they do not even double-click and check the content of the ebook. If you double click and see whats in ityou are one step away from thousands of resellers.
What you need to do is not really that dificult.
Just check out the ebook see whats in it for the reader. And write a sales copy and tell the target audience;
- whats it about
- what they will find in the product
- how they will benefit from this product
- whats in it for them
- how this product will change their lives
- what they should expect
- why they should buy this product
These are the main things a sales copy should include.You have to come up with a great headline first. Your headline should grab readers attention in a split second.Did you know that just changing the headline can make your page more than 800% more profitableIf you can grab the attention then make them read through the sales page. You can do this with a sub headline And in the first paragraph of your sales page some copywriters use the Stir Up The Pain method.In your first paragraph you can talk about what problems these targeted individuals have.Unfortunately Copywriting is way too complicated to cover here.
2. Create new Graphics
I told you that there are thousands of people who are selling the same product that you have.
If you create a new sales page you have to create new graphics for this product to make it different than the others.
- Create new headline graphics
- Create new cover graphics
- Create new order buttons
- Create new background images
If you dont know how to do it just go and learn how to do it. Creating images is really really important and if you are serious about online marketing youre going to learn it somehow.
You can learn it free. There are bunch of free tools and tutorials online. t doesnt have to be free. Youll always get what you pay for. Once you learn how to create cover graphics or headline graphics you can apply your knowledge to everything you create or resell.
Best of luck with the future.
Regards Ryan Blake.
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