What would you promote to random 5 million people?

by Krix
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Hello guys,

So my question is all theoretical.
You have the ability to promote a product to 5 million people.
You don't know anything about these people, not their age, nor their sex.
Only thing you know is, that they are from the US and you have the ability to build an email list from them.
What do you think would be the best product to promote to them?


Here's what I am thinking:
Fat Loss Factor would convert pretty good with these people, because 30% of US are obese, so about 1.5mill is for sure interested in your product.

But what if most of these people are youngsters and male? How about promoting Tao of Badass?

Or maybe just product something that everyone is interested in. Google Sniper, or something to do with online money making.

Or maybe promoting a physical product is better? Maybe a fat loss pill? **** Berry? Stuff like that?

My order:
#1 Fat Loss Factor
#2 Tao Of Badass
#3 Google Sniper
#4 **** Berry Weight Loss
#5 Your own Ecommerce Store

What do you guys think? Give me your list of 5 products.
#million #people #promote #random
  • Profile picture of the author sprice
    Freebie CPA offer would probably be the best way to go.

    Email submit for a Free iPhone, Walmart Gift card, restaurant gift card, etc..
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Krix,

    Originally Posted by Krix View Post

    So my question is all theoretical.
    My answers are theoretical.


    Originally Posted by Krix View Post

    Fat Loss Factor would convert pretty good with these people, because 30% of US are obese, so about 1.5mill is for sure interested in your product.
    Nothing is further from the truth. What you're assuming is that every one of the obese in this group are interested in addressing their situation. No, they are certainly not "for sure interested in your product."


    Originally Posted by Krix View Post

    Or maybe just product something that everyone is interested in. Google Sniper, or something to do with online money making.
    Again, "something that everyone is interested in" is an extremely faulty generalization. I'm guessing Google Sniper would be on the minds of almost no one.

    Originally Posted by Krix View Post

    What do you guys think? Give me your list of 5 products.
    No offense Krix, but real Internet marketing is not done this way.

    I know the promoters of the offer to market to 5 Million email addresses make it sound as though you will make gobs of money regardless of your offer - you can't help it because even if only 1% convert to sales you'll be rolling in dough.

    Whatever time, effort, money and dreams of wealth you spend on this offer are going to be a pure waste. Forget even considering this and spend some time learning what Internet marketing is all about. You'll be way ahead in the long run.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author Leonhart
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    What would I promote to random 5 million people? Lol, obviously, NOTHING. :p

    You're wasting your time here, pal.
    If you could find only 5 people that are really interested to see and hear what you have to offer, they'd make you more money than; not only 5, but 50 million random people.

    It just doesn't work that way..

    But if you still think it's worth it, try some free CPA offers. Build a landing page related to your offer and get their e-mail, only then, forward them to the actual offer. And if they don't convert at first, you can still promote to them over and over again. :rolleyes:

    Cheers,
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  • Profile picture of the author Krix
    Guys, I already tested my idea with 200k people from Hungary. I am not sending emails to random 5million people. That is not what I am asking.
    200k people from Hungary saw my adverisement, From that 10k people visited my website, and I had a 1/450 conversion rate, with a weight loss product.
    Problem is: Hungarians don't have much affiliate products, only a few products, and this was one of them. Hungarians are afraid of purchasing online. Hungarians are poor as hell.
    So in theory if I advertised the same product to 5 million people I would get 250k people on my site, and US would have a lot better conversion rate, but for the sake of the argument lets say it's the same: 250000/450 = 555 products sold
    So once again. 5 million people. any product. What to promote? Go!
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    • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
      Originally Posted by Krix View Post

      So once again. 5 million people. any product. What to promote? Go!
      Nothing. No knowledge of age or sex or anything? It's a waste of time.

      You said "random."

      You are better off investing time to figure out a niche and what they're looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Krix,

      Since you aren't inclined to listen to experienced people who are trying to help you, the best I can suggest is to test your theory.

      Go buy random traffic and send it to any random product. Buy 5,000 impressions. If your theory is true, you will make 11 sales.

      Do it right now and see what happens.

      Steve
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      • Profile picture of the author Krix
        Originally Posted by Steve B View Post

        Krix,

        Since you aren't inclined to listen to experienced people who are trying to help you, the best I can suggest is to test your theory.

        Go buy random traffic and send it to any random product. Buy 5,000 impressions. If your theory is true, you will make 11 sales.

        Do it right now and see what happens.

        Steve
        No, that is totally different.
        Let's put it this way.
        You are promoting a weight loss product on a news site, read by 5 million people on a daily basis. Age unknown, Sex Unknown.
        Not all 5 million will click on the advertisement, but the ones, that do are indeed interested in losing weight.
        What you guys are telling me, that everyone who ever advertised on a website before is stupid, because they are advertising to random people...
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        • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
          Originally Posted by Krix View Post

          No, that is totally different.
          Let's put it this way.
          You are promoting a weight loss product on a news site, read by 5 million people on a daily basis. Age unknown, Sex Unknown.
          Not all 5 million will click on the advertisement, but the ones, that do are indeed interested in losing weight.
          What you guys are telling me, that everyone who ever advertised on a website before is stupid, because they are advertising to random people...
          No, I think what we are telling you is if you can advertise on that kind of a site then you are going to spend a LOT of money which will translate into you hopefully getting your investment back.
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          • Profile picture of the author Krix
            Originally Posted by Jill Carpenter View Post

            No, I think what we are telling you is if you can advertise on that kind of a site then you are going to spend a LOT of money which will translate into you hopefully getting your investment back.
            I can advertise to 5 million people anything for FREE, and I am putting the product in front of their eye. Whether or not they will continute to my site is up to them, but what product has the most highest chance that will get them interested?

            For those saying to do CPA offers, how much does an average CPA offer pays/ person?
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            • Profile picture of the author Alast
              Originally Posted by Krix View Post

              but what product has the most highest chance that will get them interested?
              That's impossible to answer. We could tell you to promote weight loss products, only to realize the main audience of the 5 million people are under 18 healthy individuals. What I would do is slowly try and understand what they're into by asking questions, writing articles etc. Whatever gets the most attention is what I would sell.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrMonetize
    Those top 4 products have been hammered to death, especially in the US market. They are also pretty targeted niches, which won't be as effective if you don't know the demographics of your audience.

    Sure, you'll get some of those 5 million interested in weight loss, but to say 1.5m of those 5m are obese and interested in losing weight is a complete guess. And if they were obese, how many of those actually want to lose weight? Some people are quite happy at a larger size. This is all subjective and not something to base a campaign on when you don't know the audience.

    If you have 5 million random people, you need a much broader niche to capture their attention. Think sweepstakes, lottery, surveys, freebies, giveaways etc. These types of niches appeal to a much wider audience and you're more likely to see success. There are plenty of these offers on the CPA networks as mentioned above.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    You'd probably have better luck sending them to an offer wall that has 4 or so different CPA email submit offers they can choose from. Win a free iphone, starbucks gift voucher, etc, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author YungNic
    i would promote some type of low cost merchandise type product to a wide range of people
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  • Profile picture of the author gcozzens
    The Big Three

    HEALTH - WEALTH - RELATIONSHIPS (Happiness)

    However: I agree with the others, it's a super long shot not knowing anything about the list. Where did the list come from? If there are people under 18 on the list I would avoid it. People always want to know how to be more attractive, make more money and be happier. The question is can you capture their attention?
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  • Profile picture of the author Lokahi
    There's little chance you could actually get legitimate five million emails, so I'm guessing this would be for a random massive spam mailing campaign. So my answer would be that I would not participate (even hypothetically) in such a campaign as it would be fruitless since spam is rarely ever well received.
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    • Profile picture of the author Viktor Vedmak
      It does not matter what you send out to 5 million random people if it all ends up in spam box.
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    • Profile picture of the author Krix
      Originally Posted by Lokahi View Post

      There's little chance you could actually get legitimate five million emails, so I'm guessing this would be for a random massive spam mailing campaign. So my answer would be that I would not participate (even hypothetically) in such a campaign as it would be fruitless since spam is rarely ever well received.
      It would not end up in spam, and this is not email campaign. You can collect emails, once you grabbed their attention with an ad. Sending out spam messages are useless. I get a lot of those.
      This is like advertising on Facebook.
      You can have 5 million impressions on Facebook for free, what would you advertise to make the most money? Is this a better question?
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    Pornography
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    • Profile picture of the author Viktor Vedmak
      Originally Posted by T086 View Post

      Pornography
      That would have worked in 90's, today there is so much free porn around I keep reading profits in that market are declining rapidly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Beni1994al
    1.Create a Blog
    2.Posts some hot girls news
    3.Put google adsense ads
    4.Make Money

    I use to make €70-€100/day from Facebook like that ...
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  • Profile picture of the author williamstraus
    I think you might have phrased your question wrong but the responses here are pretty strange.

    You're basically asking "What works well with cold traffic? All US based, probably working-middle class"?

    Go with the following:

    - Financial - Work from home, Biz Opp (NOT Google Sniper - which is an affiliate product - think of people who don't even know what the term affiliate means).

    - Weight Loss - Fat Loss Factor does convert well on cold traffic but even better are CPA offers - look at the latest "hot" CPA offers/niches

    Of course the more targeting you do the better off you are.

    But cold traffic conversions are possible with good video sales letters and products.

    So what is this fictional 5 million US users? How does one get that many US visitors on the cheap?
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    • Profile picture of the author xohaibx
      A "make-money-from-home-in-your-pajamas" kind of an offer/product can sell well since most of us (if not all) will get *curious* about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Rosmer
    Just for fun I'll play along.

    The second wealthiest person in Canada when asked by a friend of mine "what business should I go into" answered "you should go into a business where if people don't buy your product they'll die...I'm referring of course to the grocery business".

    Let's assume randomly that you can reach 5 million random people for free (don't do it if it's not free because targeting offers so much better value). Let's assume you don't have a pre-existing business and just want to capitalize as much as possible off a general market. What's the best thing to promote to those people, by which I mean what is likely to result in the largest percentage conversions? On average it's reasonable to assume this would be things that EVERYONE needs such as:

    - Food
    - Gasoline
    - Utilities (phone, water, power, gas)
    - Entertainment (if very board for example a Pixar movie)
    - Financial services of some sort (credit cards, financing, discount or loyalty programs, high interest savings accounts, etc.)
    - Broad based medical services/medical insurance (ie. "enter your information to receive a lifetime 10% discount on all your future medical services for free!"

    Of course this is all purely theoretical and wouldn't happen in reality but assuming it did I'd be aiming to get as many people engaged as possible and learn as much about them as possible in the process so targeting broad like "10% off your next grocery purchase no matter where you choose to make it, individual coupon will be provided for the grocery store of your choice". Now this might be somewhat difficult to coordinate, but then again the whole conversation is theoretical so...
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  • Profile picture of the author KenThompson
    Since the traffic is untargeted and truly cold, then make multiple offers at the same time and see what happens. Like this...

    Send them to a page with offers for free reports, optins, in the top 3-5 broad markets. Health, wealth, relationships for example. I recommend using reports that offer good and specific information. Avoid highly generalized PLR reports. You could buy good PLR and then improve them with your own research.

    Obviously this means you'll have autoresponder sequences in place. Create a page in which people can choose one or more report offers.

    Ken
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Since it sounds like you have already decided that "weight loss products" is the correct answer, here you go:

      Take the top 5 weight loss products and send a million to each. Next time around, send all five million to the one with the best response.
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  • Profile picture of the author mycomics
    Just wanted to say that you guys have a lot of good ideas. I'm sure a lot of members here were helped by them!

    Just want to say thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author wesawu
    I believe you will be wasting your time and money. You know nothing about the 5 million people. The email addresses may not even be real. Even if they are real, the people may not be obese, and even if they are obese they may be happy with their weight or simply don't care about their weight.

    You say 30% of the US population is obese. Given of email count of 5 million random people, 1.5 million will be your potential market.

    How many of those emails are real?
    How many of those emails belong to people 18 years of age and older?
    How many of those emails are interested in your offer?
    Of those that are obese, how many will open the email?

    Since you seem committed to marketing to these people, you may be better off testing a sample of 100k or so. My guess is that you will have zero sales. You are better off making a squeeze page, giving a way a high quality product, and building your own list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Will Edwards
    Why not let Google figure out who they are and what they are interested in?

    In other words - Adsense.

    Will
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexGeorge
    I would probably try different offers with them such as email submits and sign ups, but I would mainly promote products to them in the fitness niche because its one of the more popular niches. I would test different niches though, as there isn't much telling what will convert. After a while, you could get a better insight of who your list is made up of and be able to monetize to them easier.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Krix,

      I am very skeptical about your claim to advertise for free on a news type web site that gets 5 million visitors. Can you explain more about this? That's the way we can best help you.
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      I suggest, even if you have found such a thing, that your assumption about the amount of interest you'll get by advertising on the site is not realistic at all.
      "Fat Loss Factor would convert pretty good with these people, because 30% of US are obese, so about 1.5mill is for sure interested in your product."
      You're dreaming in fantasyland. You're saying you can get a 30% conversion of people interested in your product with a single free add on a news web site. Excuse me for saying, but this tells me you have no idea or concept about the reality of Internet marketing.

      Everything you're saying in this thread points to the fact that you need to stop theorizing and start learning the realities of actual Internet business. Newbies that fantacize about huge easy profits just set themselves up of game-ending crashes.

      I hope you will listen and learn.

      Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author infogenius
    random 5 million pple to make d most money?cool.I'll offer something different.No digital products rather i'll offer physical items .Here's my order, --phones,--laptops,--homes,--video games & movies,--fashion (clothes,shoes,bags etc.).These items are very important and i'm very sure they'll sell well.
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  • Profile picture of the author PolkaDotMarketing
    If you have a list of 5 million and know nothing about them, there's no point in taking risks promoting something you think they might like, but rather promote products that are already doing very well (statistically).

    You have a long list of people so your best bet is to go with something widely accepted as opposed to focusing on any specific niche.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bobby Guerilla
      I couldn't tell you what to promote. But whatever you choose, make sure it goes through a landing page (your own site) before the affiliate.

      DO NOT SEND THEM DIRECTLY TO THE AFFILIATE IN EMAIL WITH AFF LINK!

      Considering the fact that you don't know what to promote only tells me this list was either downloaded or purchased.

      In that case make sure to include a link to a landing page first because what you will be doing there my friend is technically considered "SPAMMING" and you won't get paid a dime when the aff realizes you're spamming emails.

      They frown upon spammers BIG TIME.

      A landing page is key for purchased email lists or downloaded list.

      And as for your list of 5 products.

      1. AMAZON
      2. AMAZON
      3. AMAZON
      4. AMAZON
      5. AMAZON

      JUST SEND THEM TO A COOL LANDING PAGE WITH AMAZON SHOP NOW OR SOMETHING. ONCE THEIR IN, THEY'VE GOT 24HR TO PURCHASE ANYTHING AND AZON AS YOU ALREADY KNOW HAS IT ALL AND THE COMISSION IS YOURS!

      Hope this helped and wishing you all the best.

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  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    This might be shocking, but if i really don't know who are these people, I will not promote anything to 5 million random people because it doesn't matter how you made the list "theoretically as well", whatever you will be emailing to them will be spamming.

    You have the niche, then you make the list, and not the other way around. If someone give me the option to send an email for 5 million people that I don't even know what niche their interest in, I wouldn't bother sending the email.
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  • Profile picture of the author BocaKenK
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    I think fitness and weight loss is, and always will be one of the best things to promote to a general audience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Hopefully you won't actually go and test this theory. I can see thousands of dollars lost within the first week of the campaign launch.
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    Bread and water.

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