Are you selling "this" to boost sales?

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Use Convenience as a Major Selling Point

It is well known that one of the biggest reasons someone buys your information product, is because they want to solve a problem. People will gladly pay for a solution to a gut-wrenching problem they are having.

However, there is another thing that people will eagerly pay for and that is convenience.

It is said that all information is available for free somewhere online. Even the information that you are trying to sell. If this is the case, why would someone pay you for information they can get themselves for free?

This is where the benefit of convenience becomes one of your biggest selling points. Yes, the information is freely available yet people will still pay to get the information from you because of the convenience factor.

Finding information online takes work. You have to search for it using search engines and other online resources. Not everyone is good at using the internet for research. Not everyone wants to spend time doing research.

People who are inexperienced when it comes to searching for information online find it an excruciating chore just to find what they are looking for.

What the experienced marketer knows how to do is put the desired information in front of the people who want it. They make it easy for this information to be found. They also make it easy for the information to be utilized.

Instead of spending hours of their own time to locate the information they are looking for, people will gladly pay to get this information quickly.

In short, they will pay for convenience.

This applies to paying for a service as well as an information product.

As an example, almost everyone would be familiar with the experience of having a repair man come to your home to fix an appliance like your washing machine.

The repairman is not doing anything special to fix it. They are simply applying their knowledge, which they spent countless hours to obtain, to fix your washing machine.

You could take the time to learn the same information that the repairman already knows. However, this would take hours of reading or schooling.

Therefore, it is more convenient to spend money to have the repairman fix the washing machine immediately.

In fact, you may already know how to fix the washing machine, but you simply do not have time to or just do not want to.

You would rather give someone else money for the convenience of having someone else do the work for you.

Do not underestimate convenience as a selling point when trying to increase sales of your product or service. In today's world of instant gratification, it may just be the biggest selling point you have to offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author RGallowitz
    You are right. A few years ago, some dude sold an ebook that had all his personal bookmarks in it. People gladly paid for it including me. When you compile hard to find info into one easy to digest medium...it's a hot seller.
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  • Profile picture of the author alamest
    You are also right that people are selling information where that information can be get free some where else in online..

    But I think you forgot the time, Time Is Money we all know that, that is the exact reason people can sell just information and make huge profit or increase there sales volume.

    Now a days people are not selling information, they are giving away information for FREE and collecting only Lead so can sell in future..

    Thanks for sharing it..
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Powers
    Well,it seems reasonable.But I can't agree to every point.The problem lies in "convenience".Of course,lots of guys tend to get convenience.But somestimes,if they do not want to have such convenience and plan to do it themself,it does not mean they can do it well.For example,if you are not familiar with the hardware or circuit of the motherboard,you will feel at a loss when something wrong with your computer.Then instead of asking somebody to mend it for you,do you plan to do it yourself?Reading booking or searhing information on the Internet?How can you guarantee that you can get the necessary information you want?How can you promise that you can solve the problem after reading related books?I still prefer to think you can't do well in all areas.Therefore,here convenience should be replaced by technology uniqueness.
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