This is a continuation of my article entitled "Five Easy Questions That Will Ignite Ideas For Your Business". Answering five more questions will surely indeed get your imagination pumping and ideas flowing!
The first five questions were: 1) What can I do in the next seven days to fill in the blank 2) What marketing ideas are successfully being used in your industry? 3) What are five new ways that I can acquire customers? 4) Who could really help my idea take off and how can I make it super easy for them to do so? 5) How could I wow blank for under $10?
We will begin right away with Question Six: How could I automate XYZ?
The stage in which some people get caught in is coming up with product ideas on a regular basis. That's why I asked Armand Morin, "Where do you get your ideas for all of your products?"
He laughed and said; "It's easy. I'm lazy, so if something in my business is taking up too much time then I ask myself how could I automate it? Ninety percent of my ideas for products come from recognizing what is draining my time. I really just want to automate everything."
This is a powerful question, that even the big internet marketers obviously ask themselves. How could you increase your productivity by automating XYZ?
Next question - number seven: How could you simplify XYZ?
From my own experience, some processes that you have to go through in order to purchase a product are extremely difficult. Have you ever tried to buy your own product? Is it complicated to buy from you?
In fact, recently I was in the process of buying a new server, a new dedicated server. The company that I was trying to buy it from were making me jump through all kinds of hoops. It got to the point where I got so frustrated with trying to purchase from these people, that I gave up and went somewhere else.
So they need to ask the question: How can they simplify the purchasing process for my customers?
You should really think about this question too. By doing so, you will spark a whole bunch of ideas about different processes you can use in your business.
Question eight: Are there problems my target market are experiencing and how could I solve them with a new product?
A great tool to use for this question is the Ask Database. Alex Mandossian created this phenomenal piece of software. If you have it, use it. Use it to constantly ask people what problems they are having and make products that will solve them.
A creative thinker is always on the hunt for problems because your future depends on solving problems. If you can solve problems for somebody else, you're always going to be in demand.
Write this down - www.Answer.Google.com - this is a great website and powerful tool to use to find problems that exist.
On that website you will find a variety of categories. Click on the one that best fits your business and you and there you will find what questions people are asking. It is these questions that are your problems.
If you see a common question coming up, that's a clear indication that many people are probably experiencing the same problem. That presents a need for a product to help solve that problem.
Ask yourself this question on a regular basis: What product can I create that will solve the problems my target market is experiencing?
Question nine: Watching Alex Mandossian present at a recent seminar I heard him bring this up, and it is a very powerful question. How could my current products or services by residualized?
This is the best senario, constantly getting paid every single month, or whatever time frame you lay out. You should be looking at how you can get paid more than once, over and over again. Instead of having to find new customers, you will be benefitting and leveraging your existing customers.
Ask yourself that question: How could I residualize my current products or services?
The last question I'm going to let you think about: My current offering, how could I increase its value?
Think about this and when you do ideas will come flowing out because you will now be thinking from your customer's point of view.
When you start to benefit the costumer, the most positive feedback you and your business will receive. When you have a happy customer the more likely they will come back to you again, bring in more revenue for you and spread praises about your products and services.
That one question helped me get a 100% satisfaction from my very first seminar. Before anybody stepped in to that room, I asked myself: How can I increase the value of what I'm currently offering? And the people who came to that seminar got bonus after bonus after bonus. By the end, they were so wow'd with the experience of being at the Idea Incubator, that I had all of them coming up to me saying, "When is the next one? When is the next one? When is the next one?" And now they're evangelists.
Heck, at the Big Seminar they were spreading the gospel, if you will, of what a great time they had and what great value they got at that Idea Incubator seminar.
The only reason that happened was because I put forth the effort and mentally asked that question. How can I increase the value of what I'm currently offering?
When you do that, it just opens up a whole new opportunity area for you, your products, and your services.
That's it!
Hopefully you got as much out of this information as I did.
May ideas come to you when you need them most.
Author Resource:-
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