In desperate need of help!

You're definitely going in the right direction, you already got your own product and it's ready to be sold on Clickbank. What you should do now is concentrate on getting affiliates. You should stick to concentrating on your product and not being an affiliate yourself.

I think joining the War room should help you sell your product.

Thanks,
Adam

"Untapped niche" can often mean there is no market for a product

Ask Chris Rempel about the "Boomerang Niche"

I went thorugh the exact same problem, I spent 6 months creating a product , listed it on clickbank then had no sales for around 6 weeks.

So I spent some time sending traffic to my landing page by:

1) submitting articles to directories related to my product and linking to the landing page in the resource box at the bottom

2) sending out around 3-5 JV proposals for my product daily

3) sending tweets about my product daily to a list of around 2,000 followers

4) wrote a free report about my new product and gave it away with rebranding rights as incentive to make it go viral with a link back to my product

5) wrote posts on high profile blogs again with links back to the product..

I could go on but these were just a few of the actions I put in place and after around a week started making some regular sales via clickbank.

Hope it helps!

oh by the way I am also joining the WF member scheme and think the WSO will be a great place to promote your product.

Best if luck!

Steve.

Hi,

I am not one to advise new Warriors to do a WSO right out of the gate, however, you might be an exception. My advice: Join The War Room. Spend a day looking around. Look at successful WSOs in the WSO forum. Then, Look at the different Warrior Profiles until you find 3 to 5 long time members who you trust to give you an honest review/testimonial of your product and then run a WSO to make some money and give you a much needed confidence boost.

I'm Only Recommending this because you already have a product and you worked very hard on making it.

George Wright P.S. Everyone please don't confuse this with advice given to many newbies, "To make a quick buck do a WSO." This person already has a product and says he worked 18 hours a day. It might be something great. We'll see.

If you are down to your last $35 I wouldn't spend it on the war room.
I'm not saying its not worth it because it is but its probably not the most appropriate use of your remaining money.
You do have to eat!

On first impression to your sales page, you've done a nice job. Visually its attractive. I haven't taken the time to really read the sales page yet.

I would say you need to switch hats now and try to sell that product to get some cash flow going. If that means being the sales person yourself then go for it. Yes, continue to try to recruit affiliates but remember that less than 10% of affiliates make sales for you - it becomes a numbers game.

Have you had traffic to the sales page?

Just because you build it and list it with Clickbank doesn't mean people will flock to it and promote it.
You may need to see if you can get someone in that industry who would be willing to promote it. Do some research and contact these people personally. Do a few personal invites to promote your product.

Thats free - save your remaining money

Hi,
Have you checked out the market place? Is there actually a market for your product? If there's a demand and your product is great, the problems your marketing, I have have a feeling though you problem is possibly a lack of market research.

You need to start with the market and work backwards to the product.

Best of luck

When you've got more money, I'd suggest snapping up publicspeakertoolbox.com and/or publicspeakingtoolbox.com. Both say much more to me than 'avetiquette' does - I 'get it' immediately. You've even got the product with the catchy name already on your page, it's just buried way at the bottom.

Good luck! Perhaps finding and getting some Toastmaster reviews from others would help on the testimonial side of things?

Also, not to nitpick too much, but in your "earn more money" graphic, the phrase "better salesperson for your message" probably shouldn't end with a period, because you pick it up again on the next line. Given that your whole product is about professional presentation tips, that sort of awkwardness might be turning off some people, or hurting the credibility of the product.

Try to market them in related niche blog and forums. Tell people about the features and why should they buy your product. If possible clearly mention contact details for queries.

Jill, you ROCK girl!

Thanks for your posts, you help deliver solid content and value consistently and are a truly valued Warrior!

Hi there,

I've read all the other warrior comments and whilst there's some encouraging advice I must say that with all due respect I disagree with most of it.

Firtly, to your issue of being down to your last $35,.. I know how that feels,.. in fact,.. many times in the past I have had to scratch around for the $9.95 hosting fee just to keep my sites live. I'm not a member of the War room but I intend to be shortly. I think the $39.95 fee is more than a solif investment. But for now I'd say this to you,... if you're working with "scared money" (i.e. money you can't afford to lose and really should be spending on food perhaps) then you'll make wrong choices and the "scared money theory" will tend to prevail and you'll end up losing that resource as well. Someone said "call a friend" or "sell something" and I think that's great advice. Perhaps even get back into employment or freelance yourself out part time to those speakers that must surely know you after 4 years of industry involvement. You need more than $35 to sustain you at this stage and the reality is that whilst you do indeed have a great conceptual product here (IMHO),.. you need to free yourself up from the financial pressure by other means because I doubt that right now your ebook is going to "save your bacon"... here's why...

To your sales page and sales strategy:
1) your sales page presentation (style and graphics) is great,.. but in terms of actually "Selling" or motivating an urgent call to action.... it sucks!
2) You've told us warriors here more about yourself and your personal expert background than you have in your sales letter! I mean... even then we don't know who you are personally (not even a first name such as John, Steve, Tom Dick or Harry,.. we only know you as "AVetiquette".. the same as your sales page visitors know you!). So how can you expect your potential product purchasers to believe in you or have any faith in the expertise you say is inherant in your course?
Tell people who you are,... show them your photo,.. you talk about AV... but WHERE'S YOUR AV??,.. I mean there's no Video on the page at all!

Frankly,.. you're wasting your time trying to sell this neatly boxed product on clickbank or hoping traffic will gravitate towards your sales page. You can only get traffic either by paying for it (which you cant do right now and I wouldn't recomment it) or by organic means which is your best bet but even then you REALLY need to know what you're doing and get stuck into keyword research and keyword mining and then plug the daylights out of it via the article directories and Youtube and video directories as well as the Web2.0 networks such as Digg Sphinn, Facebook, etc etc.

My concluding advice to you is that you should forget about trying to sell a $29.95 product. It's too hard that route and also you can only hope to sell it once and then what? Let's face it brother,.. the type of people that you're aiming at are usually making lots of moola on the speaking circuit or getting ample salaries from their companies. They can afford wayyyy more than $29.95 and probably would be more comfortable paying $297 or even a lot more than that.
You need to turn your product into membership site continuity content in which you offer the content by way of the very AV medium that you speak about,... use video.. incorporate Powerpoint, add graphics and music and then get the members to pay at least $47 every month ($97 is better!) to access your content.... which you drip feed to them. You can and should also set up an affiliate program through which members can introduce their colleagues and get paid for it (at least 50% of revenues),.. that way it can spread by word of mouth and you'll be giving members a way of virtually getting free membership because of the affiliate credits they earn.
I wish you the best with this my friend.
If I can be of further assistance please PM me.
Cheers,.. Russ

Hey T.R

Love your passion and you did more than 99% of the people in this country. But you have FAILED to learn the MOST IMPORTANT thing about marketing. AND THAT IS... You are WAY BETTER OFF finding a LIST or a GROUP of people who WANT SOMETHING...

The LIST is WAY more important than the product. Also, you have created only one product. All you have done up to now is TEST.. Marketing is about doing things over and over until you find the thing that works. Hope that helps.

Manny

Who is your target audience?

You've got to zero in on exactly who would buy this product.

I think you should use those keyword suggestions.

Also . . .

I agree that the headline doesn't address a problem - it's just a boring claim.

The Most Comprehensive Guide for Any Type of Presentation - who cares?

Try something like this: Did Your Last Presentation Bomb Because People Were Nodding Off?

Add Pizzazz to Your Next Public Speaking Gig With Our Complete Audio Visual Guide

Good luck.

The quick way to start article marketing would be:

Take those keywords that Rob gave you.

Go to the WSO section and start looking for affordable article writers that do high quality work. Commission about 5 - 10 articles for an agreed upon price. Give them the list of keywords phrases that you'd like to appear in your articles.

Meanwhile, join some article directories like: Ezine Articles, Go Articles, Articlesbase, etc. It's free to set up an account. At some like EZA, you can set up one account, then have as many pen names as you want.

Get the articles back from the writers and make sure they're to your liking.

Post the articles on the article directories.

You should ask that the title of each article contain at least one keyword phrase like:
Effective Presentation Skills: 7 Ways to Create a Memorable Talk

Hire a writer that's knowledgeable about how to insert keywords into an article.

In a few weeks, those articles will show up in the search engines like Google and Yahoo - hopefully on the 1st or 2nd page.

Someone will come along and type into the Google box "effective presentation skills" this means that they are someone who does presentations and wants to improve - your target audience!

This person will scan the results and in an ideal situation, click on your article. When they reach the bottom of the article, they'll be inspired to read your author bio or signature box and click on the url link to your website. Your signature box is where you can promote your product. You want to highlight a big benefit of what kind of problem your product can solve for them in 1 - 3 lines. It's important for you to get good at this part.

Back to the searcher . . .

This person lands on your site and sees exactly the kind of product they need to boost their skills.

Cha ching!

You just made a sale.

This is, of course, is an ideal scenario, but it happens every day.

The whole PPC thing will have to be explained to you by someone else.

It does seem to me to be quite a sophisticated high level product that should be priced more and be sold to an audience that is not on the Internet, as most on the Internet are buying more of a product that is for the mass audience. Yours is a niche market that could address companies that specialized in presentations and sales groups. For our company, the presentation takes about 15 minutes because we have a simple product offering FREE money with a free tax audit amendment what the Big 4 use to do for Ford Motors. So, this is an easy sale but selling, for instance, a computer setup to do ERP for hospitals would take elaborate presentations. Sales groups and teachers that specialize in this sort of stuff would be one of your targeted markets, as a previous warrior just mentioned above.