What sells best on WSO?

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Don't forget words like, "SHOCKING" in the ad copy and phrases like, "NO BRAINER," and "NO WORK REQUIRED."

That's great advice thank you

That seems to be true for the most part, but I know some exceptions to the rule that have sold 1000+ copies on their first ever launch.
I believe that getting the right affiliates to promote your product is one of the most important factors to being successful. If you are well known and respected on top of that, then you are one of the TOP selling warriors on the forum :p

Agree with this post here. WSO's should be about offering value and solving a need,offering a solution instead of trying to make a quick buck

Hello Alexa,

I sort of agree with you. I left your post intact, because everything you said is so true.

The "sort of" is because I have found that the bigger the claim and the more shiny the object the better the sales...or at least the greater the participation.

And of course having a scadload of affiliates with big mailing lists doesn't hurt either.

Maybe the sales boil down to trust. It looks like most of the gee-whiz kids from a year or so ago during the great boom have mostly went bust. Thank God!

My one and only product for sale here surely fits your description, because even though it's the real deal, I'm neither known, or trusted as far as hawking tons of WSO's. And I don't have a mailing list either.

But I'm having all the fun promoting it in a humble way. I achieve a sale every so often and I'm darn grateful and I know the value for the client can be huge over time!

It ought to be worth something that I didn't set out from the position of saying," What sort of product can I sell..." Instead, it began with "This is working for me, and I'd like to share it with others at a reasonable cost."

I have no interest in "developing" WSO's. I'm more of a meat and potatoes kinda guy with websites and whatnot, more likely to give something away rather than sell it. But just not this time. Ha!

I did have ALL the fun doing all the stuff it takes to get the product to market though, and learned a ton of new stuff in the process.

Norm

I agree with that up to a point. I think it's also a good idea to see if you can connect the product you create (which should be on a topic you know something about) with a product or service that people are already buying. If you're selling information on how to rope a cow, you might want to see if there are any rodeos in town. (I have no idea where THAT analogy came from, but I HOPE it works! LOL. You can take a boy out the the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy!)

It helps due to the current nature of the WSO forum ($7 products).

Newbies tend to think these sell well because it is the type of sales pitch that they would fall for themselves. More and more though these scheme WSOs that don't deliver what they promise are getting shut down before gaining much traction.

If you have to ask this question, then you have a LONG way to go in your marketing career.

All marketing (online or off) requires the ability to do your own research.

We all can give you a million different answers here but it ultimately is up to you to research that particular section and come to your own conclusions.

I'm not saying it's wrong necessarily to ask in this main forum - but your odds of getting a definitive answer that will work with you and your abilities is slim to none.

You need to apply most of the same rules to any marketing campaign - be it in WSO section, classified, facebook, youtube, twitter, etc.

WSO section is just one of many advertising venues. It is most suited to promote/sell tools and guides suited for other internet marketers.

Every IM uses different tools, and methods - so narrowing down what you should sell or what sells best can be difficult.

There are some actual numbers and statistics you can find (like in WSO Pro (not formally part of this forum)) but even after you find those, a lot will depend on your knowledge and talents.

I'd forget about "what sells on WSO" if I were you and focus on "what is the best thing for me to sell."

Honesty and Integrity. Two things that seem to be lacking in the world of internet marketing, but are such a breath of fresh air. Thanks Mark.

About time you updated to a current photo.

First of all, you have to realize that the core target market for online bizops are basically idiots. WSOs that do well all contain three sales elements...

-> No skills necessary. None whatsoever. Even a hint of having to learn something and few are interested.

-> The perceived potential for the buyer to quit their day job next month.

-> Limited working hours required. An hour or two a day is best. If they wanted to work "real job" hours, they wouldn't be looking for easy money online.

Bingo. A certain type of person is looking to buy WSOs, and they aren't serious about running a real business. Not yet anyway.

WSOs get a lot of flack for generally being poor quality, but at the end of the day it is the contents of these very WSOs that the market demands. If people are lining up to purchase bizops with a very low upside and nothing else, I'm not sure what more there is to say about that than to sell it to them.