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Old January 2, 2020, 08:11 PM
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Default Help for selling info products (booklets) in Portugal!

Hello everyone,

I met this Forum on googling about Ben Suarez 7 steps to freedom and endend on Warrior Forum and found Gordon's replies there and so I arrived at this Forum.

I am in Portugal and I sell successfuly physical products via direct response and I want to start selling information products.

I don't think here in Portugal people feel safe on buying e-books, so the solution is to sell physical printed booklets by mail on C.O.D payment. I sell majority of my physical products on C.O.D payment. Probably 90%.

I trying to sell 3 different booklets but with no success:

• Teach Tricks to Your Cat
• How To Create a Garden With Economical Ideas
• How to Keep and Save on Your Car

My question:

What info niches/products you will test to sell ? I see there is an virgin area here to sell booklets via direct response. If there is anyone doing it probably is doing it poorly.

Thank you all.

MikePT
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Old January 3, 2020, 02:30 AM
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Default Great Question Mike - I S*ell Niched Information Reports, Ebooks, Mp3

Thanks Mike,

You May Want to Focus on the 4 or 5
MUST HAVE Categories
where People are ALREADY Spending the Most Munny in Lisbon, Portugal.

#1 - Health - PAIN RELIEF - Extra Energy

#2 - S*E*X - Dating - Flirting

#3 - Clothing

#4 - Jewelry

#5 - And I See a Lot of People Walking Their Dogs in Lisbon.

I Also Listened to and Translated some Top "Fada" Hits - but do not know Why
The Portuguese Want to Listen to Sad - Mournful music.

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I HAVE Years of PROOF that These 4 Categories of Information S*ales
are P*rofitable.

#1 - Health -

I have several Best S*elling info Products.

A - "How to Knock Out Pain In 60 Seconds."

A 2000 year old Ancient Chinese Exercise.

B - "A 5 Minute Exercise You Can Do From Bed That is 2X Stronger Than VIAGRA."

#2 - Dating - There seem to be A Lotta Pretty Girls out on The Cobblestone Streets of Lisbon.

I S*ELL Dating And Flirting Information to Men.

"Bartenders Guide on How to Make Women JUMP"

"How to Test & Tease Women BEFORE You Meet Them"

"How to Knock Women Down, From Across The Room, With Body Signals
Instead of Words." (I gotta Write this one up.)

#3-#4 - Dunno who You ALREADY S*ell to.

But Clothing and Jewelry are the #1 Categories at Ebay, Amazon and Etsy
so My Guess is that is a HOT Category in Portugal also.

But you need an ANGLE.

I Practice and Teach INSTANT HYPNOSIS. So one Angle would be To Parade
Young Women in The Top 3 Hottest Designs in front of men.

Different COLORS in each Design.

And then RECORD.

WHICH Color of Which Design the Guys are UNCONSCIOUSLY TURNED on By the Most.

Turn that into a Report or Video Booklet.

#5 - Dogs - Dog owners World Wide are bonkers over their pets.

Dog owners ALREADY b*uy everything they can Find
about the Breed of their Dog.

What about this?

Hire a Dog Psychic.

Feed a series of Dogs The Top 10 Dog Treats. And Write a book Based on
each dogs PSYCHIC THOUGHTS.

And the Best Tasting Dog Treats - Based on What Dogs Actually THINK.

IF
That is a Big too WEIRD.

You could Organize a HUNGRY DOG
Competition.

Organize 5 Doges. Each Dish With One of 5 Top Selling Dog Treats in them
in front of a Dog.

Put a Muzzle on the dog. Or Hold His Mouth Shut and Let him or her Sniff
each bowl.

Then Walk Back 10 Paces.

Record What food the Dog RUNS TO and Eats First.

BEST S*ELLER cuz the dog owners KNOW the
Dog Food Companies are LYING.

No meat in Dog Treats OR Dog Food.

(In The USA they have discovered Dog Food Manufacturing companies putting
ROAD KILL in the dog Food. Turns out half rotten Road Kill Contains PRIONS Which Destroy the health of The dogs Who eat it.)

"Road kill" is animals run over by a car.

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - IF You Know More About Your Current B*uyers - The Easiest-
Fastest C*ASH is to S*Ell them information About stuff They ALREADY B*uy.

So.

You Might offer them a THANK YOU REWARD (That C*osts You Nada) in
Exchange for Filling out a short Questionnaire.

I Regularly BRIBE My List of Customers to TELL me which
New Ebook they want to B*uy next.

Works Well.

If you do not Do this you End up creating info Products NOBODY will B*UY.
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Old January 3, 2020, 08:15 AM
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Default Re: Help for selling info products (booklets) in Portugal!

Hi Glenn, thanks a lot for your reply.

where People are ALREADY Spending the Most Munny in Lisbon, Portugal.


How do you know in terms of info products people are spending here in Portugal? Common sense and open eyes? Look at bookstores shelfs?

These topics, you know they are selling on Portugal or you are just generalize?

Those topics you refereed far as I know usually are a safe bet:

#1 - Health - PAIN RELIEF - Extra Energy

#2 - S*E*X - Dating - Flirting

#3 - Clothing

#4 - Jewelry

#5 - And I See a Lot of People Walking Their Dogs in Lisbon.


Actually I sell jewelry. Maybe a info product on about jewelry could be an idea.

Thanks!
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Old January 3, 2020, 08:22 AM
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Default You can't go wrong following Glenn's advice. Here are a couple of sites to look at.

Quote:
Originally Posted by MikePT View Post
Hello everyone,

I met this Forum on googling about Ben Suarez 7 steps to freedom and endend on Warrior Forum and found Gordon's replies there and so I arrived at this Forum.

I am in Portugal and I sell successfuly physical products via direct response and I want to start selling information products.

I don't think here in Portugal people feel safe on buying e-books, so the solution is to sell physical printed booklets by mail on C.O.D payment. I sell majority of my physical products on C.O.D payment. Probably 90%.

I trying to sell 3 different booklets but with no success:

• Teach Tricks to Your Cat
• How To Create a Garden With Economical Ideas
• How to Keep and Save on Your Car

My question:

What info niches/products you will test to sell ? I see there is an virgin area here to sell booklets via direct response. If there is anyone doing it probably is doing it poorly.

Thank you all.

MikePT

Here is an eBay site I keep an eye on:

https://www.ebay.com/str/solarvisionpublishing

Showing over 11 thousand transactions, at roughly 15 bux each. This might be a good model for you. It is a print on demand business for his info products.

Another thing in addition to the mainstream ideas, the big markets, look for fringe groups too, the "nut jobs"...like those into UFO, Alien, Conspiracy and secret financial...these people prefer hard copy over digital...

And the survivalists, bomb shelter builders. I suggest a Print On Demand model so you don't need any inventory, but can offer a catalog of information.

Also, I would ask how you plan to advertise? I would advise you to add a sheet catalog, a one piece of paper to all your orders you send out, and give your customers a chance to weigh in on what they want. And a web site, or even an eBay store like the one I linked to, could be useful.

Take note of the many cookbooks he offers as well as all the mystical, magical, other stuff...and he also does the jewelry thing too. Feel free to ask more questions, we're here to help if we can.

Gordon
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Old January 3, 2020, 11:09 AM
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Default Re: Help for selling info products (booklets) in Portugal!

Hi Gordon, thanks for the reply.

Esoteric stuff I wouldn't sell.

But i understand your recommendation to see the business model, thanks.

Anyway, I think here in Portugal people are resistant buyers. I know Reader's Digest magazine sells books through mail here.

I plan to advertise on Facebook . I advertised on FB and Google and got more visitors on Facebook.

By the way one question: on selling info is really almost obligatory to do lead generation? I am not doing lead generation, i just advertise to a sales letter to buy now via C.O.D.

I ask this because I sell jewlery online and is a direct sell, I don't see any need to do lead generation to sell jewelry.

I don't believe e-books sell here, yet to my market. Maybe to young techie savyy kids e-books sell well. People here, in my opinion, are more resistant and conservative, that's why I don't know what info i should try to sell.

Thank you.
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Old January 3, 2020, 12:37 PM
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Default I'd stick with jewelry. Bread and butter product.

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Hi Gordon, thanks for the reply.

Esoteric stuff I wouldn't sell.

But i understand your recommendation to see the business model, thanks.

Anyway, I think here in Portugal people are resistant buyers. I know Reader's Digest magazine sells books through mail here.

I plan to advertise on Facebook . I advertised on FB and Google and got more visitors on Facebook.

By the way one question: on selling info is really almost obligatory to do lead generation? I am not doing lead generation, i just advertise to a sales letter to buy now via C.O.D.

I ask this because I sell jewlery online and is a direct sell, I don't see any need to do lead generation to sell jewelry.

I don't believe e-books sell here, yet to my market. Maybe to young techie savyy kids e-books sell well. People here, in my opinion, are more resistant and conservative, that's why I don't know what info i should try to sell.

Thank you.

NO, as to the obligatory lead gen. Info publishers like scoopified.net (I get their catalog in the mail) and toolsforfreedom.com (get this catalog in the mail too) don't do lead gen.

Very general rule of thumb, under 50 bux, sell direct, over 50 or a bigger backend, list and lead gen. Check your supermarket checkouts, are there any booklets selling there? Also check libraries.

Cookbooks, tips booklets, how to stuff are good for booklets.

Gordon
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Old January 3, 2020, 01:00 PM
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Default Re: Help for selling info products (booklets) in Portugal!

Thanks for the tips and attention Gordon.

Regards.
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Old January 3, 2020, 09:43 PM
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Default How 3 of My Jewelry Clients PRE-Test To Guarantee S*ales

Thanks Mike,

A Current Client is winning NORDSTROM Department Store B*uyers Competitions.

A - Client Found a Lady Making Several Hundred Thou at a NYCity Flea Market.

B - P*aid her to Teach him. And for The Rights to S*ell outside the Flea Market Circuit.

C - Client Persuaded his wife to make the Jewelry.

EVERY QUARTER a New Nordstrom Dept Store - Jewelry B*uyer
Forces Jewelry Makers to Show up at a warehouse.

DEMO their Designs.

We did a 5 Minute - "How to Make Copper Jewelry Video".

Set a TINY TV with the looped Video - on The counter in front of The Jewelry.

WINS Every Contest.
And
Outsells other Jewelry in 2 Nordstroms Stores.

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#2 - Affluent Lady in Switzerland - Customizes Jewelry Designs For Each Client
at 25K each.

Each Design ATTRACTS PROSPERITY.

New Clients and More Munny.

We sent her to An OPERA FANATIC - Friend.

A - She Designed a F-r-e-e Golden Pendent for Her.

B - Went with her to the Opera

C - Took orders from All of This OPERA MAD Woman's R*ich friends. As She Bragged About Her Jewelry.

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#3 - CHAIN MAILE Jewelry Designer I Met at 10K Event.

Young Guy was Trying to S*ell his own Chain Maile Jewelry Designs.

And

FAILING.

I asked him to send his Girl friend to College. And into The Cafeteria.
And Student Union...

Wearing a DIFFERENT CHAIN MAILE Jewelry Design Each Day.

The DESIGNS Coeds RAVED ABOUT.

And Demanded to B*UY.

Roger made more of.

And Posted on his website.

The other FAILURES. And 9 out of 10 DID FAIL.

He QUIT making.

Roger Made 90,000 Bucks in 6 Months. Working Part time. While Going to College.

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - Mike - Do You Know Any Young Ladies who Would LIKE To PICK Out SHINY Jewelry - To Wear For F-r-e-e?
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Old January 4, 2020, 08:52 AM
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Default Gee, now I want to get back into the jewelry business.

Thanks Glenn,

Somewhere in the archives, maybe 15 years ago, I wrote about starting a business in response to a question. IF I were starting over, what would be the business? I, of course, wrote about the NPGS Formula, which is from Ben Suarez and has the four parts:

PRODUCT, PROSPECT, MEDIA AND PROMOTION.

There is a formula which says they all have to be 10's, and you've given an example with the college student and his TESTING to get to the 10 on Product.

But, anyone reading this, jewelry is as Evergreen a market as there is. And with our recent discussions here, I would focus on "health" jewelry, copper bracelets, Anti RF waves (Earrings would be good).

And the Lindenwold Brand of SCI has been a cash cow for Ben Suarez for decades.

Thanks Glenn for showing us how to make a lot of moolah in this market.

Gordon


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Thanks Mike,

A Current Client is winning NORDSTROM Department Store B*uyers Competitions.

A - Client Found a Lady Making Several Hundred Thou at a NYCity Flea Market.

B - P*aid her to Teach him. And for The Rights to S*ell outside the Flea Market Circuit.

C - Client Persuaded his wife to make the Jewelry.

EVERY QUARTER a New Nordstrom Dept Store - Jewelry B*uyer
Forces Jewelry Makers to Show up at a warehouse.

DEMO their Designs.

We did a 5 Minute - "How to Make Copper Jewelry Video".

Set a TINY TV with the looped Video - on The counter in front of The Jewelry.

WINS Every Contest.
And
Outsells other Jewelry in 2 Nordstroms Stores.

=======
=======
#2 - Affluent Lady in Switzerland - Customizes Jewelry Designs For Each Client
at 25K each.

Each Design ATTRACTS PROSPERITY.

New Clients and More Munny.

We sent her to An OPERA FANATIC - Friend.

A - She Designed a F-r-e-e Golden Pendent for Her.

B - Went with her to the Opera

C - Took orders from All of This OPERA MAD Woman's R*ich friends. As She Bragged About Her Jewelry.

==========
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#3 - CHAIN MAILE Jewelry Designer I Met at 10K Event.

Young Guy was Trying to S*ell his own Chain Maile Jewelry Designs.

And

FAILING.

I asked him to send his Girl friend to College. And into The Cafeteria.
And Student Union...

Wearing a DIFFERENT CHAIN MAILE Jewelry Design Each Day.

The DESIGNS Coeds RAVED ABOUT.

And Demanded to B*UY.

Roger made more of.

And Posted on his website.

The other FAILURES. And 9 out of 10 DID FAIL.

He QUIT making.

Roger Made 90,000 Bucks in 6 Months. Working Part time. While Going to College.

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - Mike - Do You Know Any Young Ladies who Would LIKE To PICK Out SHINY Jewelry - To Wear For F-r-e-e?
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Default Do You Mean Like Brian, In NORTH DAKOTA, Who Sells EMF Jewelry?

Thanks Gordon,

Your ESP is Showing - once again.

Brian and his EMF Jewelry shop In NORTH DAKOTA - are Growing Like A Weed!

Brian and His Family Make EMF Jewelry.

Brians Sister Can SEE EMF Radiation waves. And HEALS people over the phone.

They sell a LOT of Woo Woo
Jewelry and tools to Dowsers And Energy Healers.

Brian says he has a Office in Australia.

So.

So Down Under Dien - I can Tell you what I bought to Transmute my EMF
Radiation on my Mac Computer.

https://shop.twistedsage.com

Thanks,
Glenn
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