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[MikePT]

Great stuff.

I am now focusing, again, on doing sales via Classified ADS, selling physical stuff + showing another products. I don't know the exact term to this Can be "Upselling"?.

My experience is what John Caples said about Classified ADS: it's like playing a the lottery, it can lose or win.

Anway, I know my reply is not direct related to this thread, but here it is.

Thanks.

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by MikePT

Great stuff.
I am now focusing, again, on doing sales via Classified ADS, selling physical stuff + showing another products. I don't know the exact term to this Can be "Upselling"?.
My experience is what John Caples said about Classified ADS: it's like playing a the lottery, it can lose or win.
Anyway, I know my reply is not direct related to this thread, but here it is.
Thanks.

So, the question becomes is there DEMAND for your products? And where is that demand currently being met? Classified ads, in the right MEDIA, can be very good, doesn't have to be a lottery ticket.

The old story about the guy trying to sell fishing lures in GOLF magazines sums it up. Even though a lot of golfers are also fishermen, it was out of tune in that magazine.

Classifieds in general media, like newspapers or online need to be seen by the demand...which mostly doesn't work.

So, it all comes back to the NPGS Formula:

Product-Prospect-Promotion-MEDIA

Locally, a golf company did decades of business selling golf tees in golf classified ad sections in GOLF magazines.

The ad has to meet the demand, if not, mostly a waste of money...the exception being a small cost of an ad and a front end that covers that, with a back end (upsell, add ons) to create the profits. Pretty standard marketing.

Also, classifieds used as lead gen, may work too...again, if the message matches the media.

Gordon

[MikePT]

Gordon, I was reading your reply and was thinking "DEMAND... Yeah, but what is the strategy to find it?"

And got this idea: type the word "looking for" at Facebook Marketplace.

And there are there ADS from people who are LOOKING for stuff.

And even we can choose the price range.

For the most stuff that appears is LOOKING FOR ROOMS FOR RENT and CARS. Not the type of products that I want. I want small trickets, maxim 20€.

So, if I see many identical products with the title "LOOKING FOR"...

Smells solid like there is DEMAND.

MikePT

[MikePT]

And let me also add:

Imersing and reading daily Classifed ADS, I believe it can be very helpful, it will get the reader an actualized DEMAND of products that are consistently being ADVERTISED.

And if we constantly see some products repeated and repeated being ADVERTISED, I assume there is a demand for them.

For example, I see a lot ADS of CARS. Not the type of prodcut I want to deal. To big and I cannot send them on a envelop by mail.

So... Let me focus on cheaper products that I can SEND by mail. I see quite of small electronics and home appliances. That's my type of products.

ON THE INFO PRODUCTS... I'm still on the battle... Very sadly with very few success

Want to add any value thoughts Gordon?

THANKS.