HOW TO EFFECTIVELY SELL YOUR PRODUCT ONLINE
Many people nowadays start putting up their own business. Many of those take advantage of social networking site like Facebook, Twitter and etc. Among the reason is it can easily reach target market and the potential for buying your products are high. So how can we effectively sell our product?
Before engaging to your marketing or strategy on selling. You should consider first your selected product by asking these question.
1. Are you well informed about your product? Did you use it then? Are you confident about your product? To market a specific product you should first have pride on marketing it. Many consumer or client select specific product they make reviews first and do comparison before buying.
2. Do you have a great story about your product? It is basically difficult to sell if you don't have a great testimony about the product you chose. People won't buy unless they think they had a good deal about it. You should be passionate about it.
3. If you can answer the two first question. Next thing is selling those idea in the market.
SELECTING A MEDIUM TO MARKET THE PRODUCT ONLINE
This would take patience and numerous hours on the internet. You need to spend some time or look for people who has knowledge about it. You need to set up account on social networking sites, blog site etc. Among the site I used to market a particular product are the following in the Philippine setting:
1. Sulit.com/OLX.com.ph or Ayosdito.com
One great thing about is it's cost no amount of money to market your ideas there. Here's my story how made profit using it as a medium to marketing. I have a small rental services of soft ice cream, we use machine to produce these kind of ice cream. These are perfect for package in catering service, birthday party and any special occasion. You just need to describe your business or product very simple and easy to review. Put your contacts there and wait for them to reach you. I maybe employed right now but I receive frequent inquiry about the services I made. You should also have a trust worthy business partner if you have the same situation as I am because you can't freely move when you have an 8 hour job. In sulit.com almost any transaction works and be professional handling those potential client who inquired about your product or services.
Note: When doing advertisement on Sulit.com do a noticeable key word on you product title for the client to easily search you in google or the internet. Do plenty of advertisement to experiment what is working. After that try to review the content you put in the advertisement. People may find your ads lack of information and details.
2. Facebook
I don't basically market on public using your personal account. Try doing a Facebook page instead for business. Try setting up blog first then and include an add page menu for them to liked your page see setting and tools for that. You could easily gather potential market for your products there. From the views of a client, I only subscribe to the thing that is worth it for me, when product or services has values I bookmarked on them and subscribe or like them. You can easily reach your market anytime. Same also do for twitter. Once you establish your brand or the impression you want customer to see you, It's time to improve and be consistent at doing it.
3. Blogging
Actually I only started these last year 2012. What you need on blogging is selecting the Platform using a google account. You can choose Platform like Wordpress or Blogger.com. There are good platform out there and that's the one I prefer. You can do great story and articles here when blogging you don't need to be so good at English but just try putting the content simple so reader or client could understand you. Then put a menu for them to subscribe or follow you. Every platform has these features. And you can easily share your articles through email and by sharing to social networking sites.
And lastly don't let these technical matters overwhelm you because if you want something done you'll be learning the whole process and keep searching, reading, watching how it was done. I don't have any background on the computer but it wont stop me on learning a lot.
Before engaging to your marketing or strategy on selling. You should consider first your selected product by asking these question.
1. Are you well informed about your product? Did you use it then? Are you confident about your product? To market a specific product you should first have pride on marketing it. Many consumer or client select specific product they make reviews first and do comparison before buying.
2. Do you have a great story about your product? It is basically difficult to sell if you don't have a great testimony about the product you chose. People won't buy unless they think they had a good deal about it. You should be passionate about it.
3. If you can answer the two first question. Next thing is selling those idea in the market.
SELECTING A MEDIUM TO MARKET THE PRODUCT ONLINE
This would take patience and numerous hours on the internet. You need to spend some time or look for people who has knowledge about it. You need to set up account on social networking sites, blog site etc. Among the site I used to market a particular product are the following in the Philippine setting:
1. Sulit.com/OLX.com.ph or Ayosdito.com
One great thing about is it's cost no amount of money to market your ideas there. Here's my story how made profit using it as a medium to marketing. I have a small rental services of soft ice cream, we use machine to produce these kind of ice cream. These are perfect for package in catering service, birthday party and any special occasion. You just need to describe your business or product very simple and easy to review. Put your contacts there and wait for them to reach you. I maybe employed right now but I receive frequent inquiry about the services I made. You should also have a trust worthy business partner if you have the same situation as I am because you can't freely move when you have an 8 hour job. In sulit.com almost any transaction works and be professional handling those potential client who inquired about your product or services.
Note: When doing advertisement on Sulit.com do a noticeable key word on you product title for the client to easily search you in google or the internet. Do plenty of advertisement to experiment what is working. After that try to review the content you put in the advertisement. People may find your ads lack of information and details.
2. Facebook
I don't basically market on public using your personal account. Try doing a Facebook page instead for business. Try setting up blog first then and include an add page menu for them to liked your page see setting and tools for that. You could easily gather potential market for your products there. From the views of a client, I only subscribe to the thing that is worth it for me, when product or services has values I bookmarked on them and subscribe or like them. You can easily reach your market anytime. Same also do for twitter. Once you establish your brand or the impression you want customer to see you, It's time to improve and be consistent at doing it.
3. Blogging
Actually I only started these last year 2012. What you need on blogging is selecting the Platform using a google account. You can choose Platform like Wordpress or Blogger.com. There are good platform out there and that's the one I prefer. You can do great story and articles here when blogging you don't need to be so good at English but just try putting the content simple so reader or client could understand you. Then put a menu for them to subscribe or follow you. Every platform has these features. And you can easily share your articles through email and by sharing to social networking sites.
And lastly don't let these technical matters overwhelm you because if you want something done you'll be learning the whole process and keep searching, reading, watching how it was done. I don't have any background on the computer but it wont stop me on learning a lot.