Keeping Direct Marketing Information Products Up To Date
Direct marketing information products are some of the most popular – and profitable – online products you can sell. By capturing your knowledge and experience, you can create powerful direct marketing information products that appeal to tastemakers in your industry niche. However, trends and best practices in direct marketing change quickly and frequently.
If your direct marketing information products don’t reflect the needs of today’s audience, you could face a tough sell. Likewise, you could lose customers if your direct marketing information products don’t show your prospects how they can support them over time. Use these tips to produce high quality direct marketing information products that attract business from industry newcomers and veterans alike.
Make upgrade and update offers clear. As the direct marketing industry copes with changes by regulators and service providers, the marketplace for direct marketing information products has grown skeptical of e-books and teleseminar recordings that can quickly become outdated. By assuring your audience that your direct marketing information products stay fresh, you can attract more buyers. For example, you can add a series of updated “special reports” at planned intervals over the course of six months or a year. Avoid promising “lifetime” updates, however – you can’t guarantee that you will always be able to keep a particular product fresh, and you’ll close off potential upgrade and upsell opportunities.
Blend current case studies with evergreen information. If your direct marketing information products lay out some best practices, use some timely examples to illustrate your arguments. Over time, you can update your products by plugging in more current examples into your presentation. You can highlight the quality of your timeless ideas while keeping your contents fresh.
Offer a members’ forum. Your own customers can help keep your direct marketing information products current with the latest trends and ideas by contributing to a members-only forum. Depending on the kind of direct marketing information products you sell, you can offer a combined forum for all of your customers or a niche-focused forum for each of your individual products. Make sure you give yourself some time to get your discussions off the ground – forums can take a little encouragement to get off the ground. For many industry niches, however, a tightly focused forum is an excellent bonus that can sometimes attract more business than the product it was designed to support.
Make clear connections to your other products and services. As with any solid business, your direct marketing information products should work to form a “product funnel” that moves your customers from free or inexpensive offerings to deeper, richer, and more expensive products over time. Once your purchaser has exhausted their updates, be sure to offer them either a renewal package or a “step-up” to your next level of service.
Joe Taylor Jr. helps professionals turn their knowledge into direct marketing information products. He writes about how to create and sell your own information products at [http://www.infoproductexpress.com/direct]
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