In the early eighties, Coke was about to lose a marketing trump card to Pepsi. Coke’s market share had been in free fall since the end of the war, declining from 60% at that time, to just 24% in 1983. Pepsi was about to be able to claim that not only did it taste better than Coke (as proven in blind taste tests), but that it was actually more popular. This would have added even more fuel to Pepsi’s already significant marketing momentum.

While Coke was also losing market share to other new market entries, and increasing consumer preference for diet, citrus, & caffeine-free beverages etc., Pepsi’s marketing strategy was continuing to win new customers.

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Obviously, people preferred the taste of Pepsi! Better taste was the main thrust of their advertising. Why else would anybody drink such an otherwise worthless mixture of ingredients?

This fact was further born out with the runaway success of Diet Coke. Coke actually developed it from the ground up to taste more like Pepsi, rather than simply replacing the sugar content of the original recipe with artificial sweeteners.

All of the facts & evidence pointed to Coke having a taste problem with the original recipe. Coke had in fact been working in secret for years on a new one.

Drawing on the success of Diet Coke, Coke’s marketing strategy called for the modification of that recipe to a sugar based drink. They felt they could finally turn the tide by introducing ‘NEW Coke’, based on that formula.

In pre launch blind taste tests, people thought the new Coke tasted sweeter & smoother than the original. Extensive research revealed that people preferred the New Coke to both the original Coca Cola recipe & Pepsi.

Statistically speaking, the taste of New Coke was significantly preferable.
New Coke was the solution, but what to do with the original? If they kept both on the market, it was a sure bet that Pepsi would be able to claim that it was more popular than both, at least for a time! And a marketing strategy that called for the promotion of a new & an old Coke would only confuse the public & dilute the brand.

The original recipe was dropped.

So what happened when new Coke was introduced?

It bombed completely, & utterly! Here’s the brilliant tag line that they used to introduce it. ‘The Best Just Got Better, Coke Is It!’ Gee, that looks like a winner.

People hated the new Coke, many without even having to taste it. And they were incensed that the original had been ‘stolen’ from them.

One hundred years, & countless millions of dollars in advertising had made Coke Cola a part of people’s very identity. Drinking Coca Cola wasn’t about taste at all.

It was about mental association.

Emotional Opium!

The act of raising that funny looking spiral bottle to your lips. The cane sugary fragrance that followed. The sharp carbonated bite that set your throat a blaze with each vigorous swig. For many people, it was anchored deeply to fond, albeit sometimes even imaginary memories.

Coke had no choice but to bring back the original recipe, amid a huge fanfare of publicity, as though it were the second coming.

What a hullabaloo about nothing. Sugar water.

For god’s sake!

If nothing else, this story should prove to you once & for all that it’s not what you do that counts, it’s what you say & how powerfully you say it. And, that your customer’s buy, or don’t buy, for all kinds of seemingly irrational reasons. What’s critically important is not your product, but how your marketing strategy relates ownership of that product to your buyer’s beliefs, feelings, & desires!

It also demonstrates that ‘me to’ can be a very dangerous marketing strategy.

While huge companies like Coke can afford to blow through billion dollar advertising budgets like there’s no tomorrow, as a Guerrilla marketer, I urge you to avoid expensive frontal assaults & one-upmanship like the plague.

Be creative instead, & seek to outflank the enemy!

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Search Engine Optimization is the backbone of traffic generation and this concept helps in direct utilization of the marketing strategy of traffic building.

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If your Network marketing opportunity does not have a compensation plan that includes vertical acceleration you should question why not.

Building a list is not something that happens accidentally or in an unplanned fashion. By having a list building strategy, and breaking it down into components and setting them up to run on auto-pilot, you can slowly and steadily build it up into the biggest asset of your infopreneur empire.

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Here are 7 ways you can grow your list and make more sales.

Give Away Special Reports

Create a short document with high quality content of interest to your niche. Sprinkle it with links pointing back to your website. And on the pages of your website, place opt-in forms where visitors can sign up to join your list.

Then give away the report to everyone. List it on all free ebook directories you can find. Offer redistribution rights to others in your niche, so they can spread it around. You might even put a price tag on it to heighten the perceived value. If the quality of your content is high, the ebook could get distributed and passed along virally, driving even more traffic back to your site, and growing your list.

Run Contests

It works best if you can tie the contest in to any event in your niche. As a prize, you can offer one of your own information products. A neat twist on this model is to give everyone else who joins your list within a particular time frame a discount on the product – as a consolation prize. To make it more powerful, you can involve new subscribers in the contest, and give prizes to the person who refers you the most new subscribers.

Conduct a Quiz

Create a set of 7 to 10 questions relevant to your niche subject. Invite people to test their knowledge or skills in the area. After they answer the questions, invite them to sign up to your list and receive the correct answers – so they can score themselves against their peers who also took the quiz.

Run a Survey

Instead of a quiz, you might conduct a survey and include questions on topics that are of interest to your niche audience. Then ask respondents to opt-in to your mailing list to receive the compiled results of the survey when it is finished.

Your Biggest Questions

Asking prospects in your niche a question and getting their feedback lets you combine market research with list building. You can do this with visitors arriving at your site from search engines, from joint venture promotions, or any other source.

You can promise them a discount (or free copy) when you create your information product in exchange for answering the survey – and then get them to join your pre-launch announcement list.

Set Up Your Affiliate Program

If you sell a product or service, you can set up an affiliate program where partners benefit from selling your goods to their lists. By inviting new affiliates to join your list, you are growing your subscriber base with partners who will help grow your business further.

Do List Building Joint Ventures

You can tap into other people’s lists by offering their subscribers a valuable gift – in exchange for a name and email address. It helps if the gift you are giving away has a real dollar value, rather than simply a freebie. Once you have built your list with prospects from other lists, make sure you work extra hard to establish a relationship with them, so they begin to trust you and will become future customers.

These are just 7 out of a whole range of methods to grow your list. Try them out. Find the ones that work best. Then integrate them into a system so they continue to work automatically, steadily growing your list over time.

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One good way in which to approach any niche product research phase is to setup multiple content sites that are monetized with Adsense ads. I am pretty sure you have already heard this word, “CONTENT IS KING”! Well my dear friend, it still is. The best way to do this is by writing a 400 – 600 words article and put it into your website. If you can’t write one, just hire a ghost writer but you have to spend some of your money for them to produce your desire article.

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If a given site starts generating a considerable amount of natural traffic, test out some affiliate links. You might be surprise when people start purchasing your affiliate product. Once the traffic is in, you have the power in your hand to make money by not doing anything. That is kind of cool, isn’t it?

Once you are making lots of profit from your affiliate product, then begin working on your own product for that niche. At first, it might be hard for you to do this but if you put your heart into it, you will make more money than you could possible imagine.

Make an attempt to brand your niche product. For instance, you could use an interesting concept in Butterfly Marketing written by TOP Internet Marketer, Mike Filsaime or you could use your own name, especially if you have a considerable amount of knowledge in your own industry. Branding will help your product gain notoriety; and will also facilitate the creation of pre-launch ‘buzz.’

If you feel lost, re-read the section above about the importance of content and ‘buzz’, once you have done that, we will move on to the next step on approaching any niche product.

Purchase a program that allows you to create your own software. This will help you to expand your niche product creation abilities beyond simply creating an executable e-book or a PDF. Additionally, software has a higher perceived value, which means it is likely to convert better than other options. However, this will vary from niche to niche. If you are wondering how the top Internet Marketer make their money online, the answer is they used or purchased themselves a good software to expedite their sales.

If you do not currently have potential customers for your product, all you need to do is performing a preliminary scan of the market to determine whether or not a product launch will be viable. For instance, is competition far too dense? Do competing sites refuse to participate with each other out of fear that it will dwindle their customer bases to nothing? Keep on asking yourself a few questions before you decide to join any niches product.

If you have sites that already receive natural search engine traffic for a given niche, consider setting up polls on those sites to determine what your best course of action might be in terms of product creation. For instance, ask your visitors what type of product they want – software, e-books, videos, audios, or something else entirely.

Begin testing this idea right away and start making money online with a niche product. Trust me, if you follow this simple guidelines, your dreams of earning 5 to 6 figure incomes and fire your boss at the same time is just right at the corner.

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Launching a product can be a turning point that takes a business to the next level. Or it can be the failure that causes a once hopeful business owner to throw in the towel. One important aspect of doing it the right way is to educate oneself through a program like Walker’s Product Launch Formula or through significant personal research. While the education piece is undoubtedly important, the key may actually be to study other’s mistakes.

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By knowing where other people have tried and fallen short of their goals, you can recognize and avoid these mistakes, potentially saving you time and money. After all, everyone knows that many, many people have failed in the attempt to make money online. Often times, these failures are a result of moving forward too soon without learning about their field and knowing what makes a success and what makes a bomb in their particular industry.

Extensive research and planning are needed in order to give your product launch the best chance possible for making it and bringing in the money. However, below are a few common mistakes you can avoid as you begin to set up your launch the right way.

1. Focusing on the product more than the launch. While it may make sense to devote time and attention to developing an excellent product, the truth is the success of a product launch depends much more on the launch plan and techniques than the product itself. Some people are even focusing on learning all they can about launching right before they select the product they want to sell.

2. Rushing into the launch. When someone is excited about a product, they are often ready to launch—yesterday! But it will pay off to wait until you know the ins and outs of your industry and have a solid launch plan in place. When you experience the success a good launch can provide, you will be glad you waited until the time and buyer conditions were right.

3. Neglecting an emergency plan. While no one likes to expect the worse, in the case of a product launch it is wise to consider the things that can go wrong in order to be prepared and have a back-up plan. Just like life, businesses do not always run as expected. Servers crash. Product glitches happen. Poor economic factors cause problems. Consider such issues and know what steps you will take if the worst happens.

4. Forgetting the importance of your target market. A key aspect to any product launch is the target market. Focus on building your e-mail list in order to keep increasing your numbers, even until the last moments before the launch. Many people who have experienced launch success are recommending a pre-launch on a small portion of your list in order to see what the reaction to the product is. If the response is extremely low, it is a good indication that you need to do some work on your product and marketing strategies.

A product launch is a proven way to take your business to the next level as long as it is conducted the right way. Know your stuff and avoid mistakes in order to boost your online money making potential.

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I was told a long time ago that you will make money when you provide a service or a product that everyone wants and needs, is not expensive and solves a problem. The e41biz does just that and it passes my personal test.

E41biz is in pre-launch, this means that you are not joining years after the business was started and the market is over saturated (supplement mlm companies). What makes e41biz pre-launch special is that they are building a huge customer base and buzz that will produce paying customers when they launch. Most other biz opportunities do not pay you while they are in pre-launch but they will pay you to advertise or if you do not have any experience in internet marketing tell them how many members you want and they do all the work. You will make money advertising! After they launch they will help explode your down line by TV commercials. Every hear of Blockbuster of Net-flicks? Soon you will hear of E41Biz. Ever hear in the right place and the right time or opportunity knocks only once. Well it’s knocking and you are at the right place.

The niche of e41biz is entertainment products that you can get for the lowest price anywhere on the net or at a retail store because we are an entertainment club How about a new DVD release that sells for 29.95 almost everyone. You can buy for our club for 15.95 or even 12.95. Everyone loves entertainment. It is the biggest seller in the US and Canada.

E41 Biz will pay you two ways. Everyone that buys a product that is in your down line (customers) you get paid. Remember, e41biz is an entertainment club selling everything from DVDs, video games and systems to home theaters. There is a 3×7 matrix (over 3200 people) buying products from you. Plus e41biz has a matching bonus. What is a matching bonus? Let’s say you personally sponsored 10 people and those 10 people made $1,000.00 each in a month. Good for them right? Yes, but better for you. Since you personally sponsored them you get a 100% matching bonus. You will get paid from all the sells from those 3,200+ members plus you will receive a $10,000.00 bonus!

E41 Biz for a limited time is offering a free lifetime paid membership so this really does not cost a fortune to do.

E41 Biz is exactly what I am looking for. A way to make extra income, selling products people want at cheap prices. This will change my life why not yours?

John P. Luciano

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