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Internet Marketing Research Paper - Understand What People Want To Buy So You Can Sell It to Them
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Phil Donaldson
philGuerrillaRetail.co.nz
Guerrilla Retail
http://www.GuerrillaRetail.co.nz
by Phil Donaldson
Before the Internet, you had to spend a lot of time and
money to find out if people would buy your product.
Traditional Methods Require Traditional Investment
You didn't want to learn your product was not quite what
people wanted after you had gone to the expense of
developing it.
So you had to survey people on the street, run telemarketing
campaigns or hold focus group discussions.
But now, with the help of the Internet, you can understand
how people think when they search for your product.
Understanding without the Expense
Imagine typing in a few keywords and finding out how many
people are searching for those keywords.
You could quickly get an accurate idea of how popular your
product would be.
If you knew there were 11 searches for "diesel radio control
boat" in the major search engines every month then you would
also know that people are trying to find information about
them.
So they probably want to buy them.
Now image this place could look up a thesaurus and give you
hundreds of variations on your keywords and tell you how
many people are searching for each variation.
You could easily understand exactly what people think of
when they search for your type of product.
You might discover that while there are 11 searches for
"diesel radio control boat", there are also 184 searches
for "gas rc boat".
Do you still want to sell diesel radio control boats?
Carve Out Your Competition
What if there are already 15 websites selling diesel radio
control boats and only 3 websites selling gas radio control
boats?
You would know that demand is high and competition is low
for "gas rc boat". So carve out your niche market in gas
radio control boats and suddenly you are no longer
competing with the diesel, sail or electric radio control
boat markets.
And now that you are focussed on gas radio control boats,
your message is not diluted by diesel, sail or electric
radio control boats. It's much easier to become known as the
first place to look for gas rc boats.
Vote The Name You Know...
Tacky political campaigns aside, now you know the words your
prospects think of when they look for your products. So if
you can, use them in the name of your product.
When you choose between 10 products and the name of one of
them contains the words you're thinking of, which product
would you look at first?
Wordtracker
You probably guessed that you don't have to imagine this
place. It's called Wordtracker, and it's one of the most
useful tools I've ever seen.
You can try it for free, or get a paid subscription.
As with all free services, the free version of Wordtracker
doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the paid service.
But unlike most paid subscriptions, Wordtracker is available
for as little as US$6 for a one day subscription.
So throw out your surveys, telemarketing campaigns and focus
groups and give Wordtracker a try:
<a href="http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/wordtracker.html
">http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/wordtracker.html
</a>
You won't get the detailed analysis of traditional market
research, but you will get a very good understanding of what
your customers are looking for.
And you can do it in a few hours or less.
What's Next?
Get more detail: understand who your customers are and what
they really want:
<a href="http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/startinginternetbusiness.html#step2
">http://www.guerrillaretail.co.nz/startinginternetbusiness.html#step2
</a>
© Phil Donaldson
<a href="http://www.GuerrillaRetail.co.nz">http://www.GuerrillaRetail.co.nz</a>
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