Online Parties with a Twist
We know once you have a room full of
guests at your online party, getting them to play games is the easy
part. While hunting for answers to your game, a guest has the chance
to see some products they simply cannot do without, thus making you
sales!
We also know from experience that getting
the visitors to the party in the first place is like pulling teeth. We
have given some ideas to increase your party and really being able to
talk with your future customers in a chat room is the best. However,
for those that you'll never see in the chat room here is a way to
increase some party-like sales without having to hold an actual party.
After you build your list of potential
customers (and if you don't have one - stop right here and do that
FIRST. YOUR list of potential customers is your most valuable asset in
business!), play a game with them via email. Announce on a Monday or
even Friday (and you can test which days get the best responses) the
start of a contest by email. Focus on a specific type of products like
you would at your party, and set up some type of questions that can be
emailed to you. Be sure to cover some good points about your products
in a casual way (you know your subscribers want to get down to the
contest part of this, so don't overload them with ads!). You can set
this up in any way you wish really, just as long as it's something
interactive you can do with them.
At the end of the week, send out another
email with the answers (this might grab a few that didn't participate
before, or maybe got stumped and you never got an entry from). Give
the details again of the products, which the answers were related to,
and also be sure to announce the winner. You can possibly even give a
special incentive to buy the products you featured in the contest,
since many of your subscribers have been eyeing these products all
week - a special might just give them the extra push to buy.
You can do variations of this, such as
having weekly-featured products and instead of giving away prizes each
week having a monthly drawing where those that win the weekly contests
are entered in. Just as long as you are doing something other than
just "weekly sales" you will stand out of the crowd and increase your
sales!
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