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		<title>Part 2c : Bundles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Small Business Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2c]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefit From]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Complementary Products]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Fitness Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bundling  is a marketing strategy whereby you combine 2 or more products in a single package for sale at higher price. Usually the price is discounted per bundled product so you would in fact pay more per item in the bundle if you where to purchase them separately. This strategy works well with complementary products [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bundling  is a marketing strategy whereby you combine 2 or more products in a single package for sale at higher price.</p>
<p>Usually the price is discounted per bundled product so you would in fact pay more per item in the bundle if you where to purchase them separately.</p>
<p>This strategy works well with complementary products that can usually go together and make it easy for the customer to purchase the bundle, at a discount, instead of purchasing the products separately.</p>
<p>An example of this would be bundling your personal fitness training sessions with a 3 month course of some or other supplement that will increase the results they receive from your training.</p>
<p>Now the customer has an option of getting the supplement directly from their trainer, who has obviously done the research into the supplement already (easy sale) as opposed to perhaps purchasing a supplement from elsewhere.</p>
<p>You then get the benefit from increase revenue per sale then if you didn’t offer a bundle, as the customer may have purchased their supplements elsewhere.</p>
<p>This will work with any type of business whereby you can offer complementary services or products, and if you are not already offering product bundles, try testing different packages straight away.<!-- odiogo-notts-begin -->
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		<title>Part 1d : Higher Priced Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Advanced Fitness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Profits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[R7000]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supplements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when we discussed that customers are much more likely to purchase from you again once they have already made a purchase from you, due to trust? Well we are going to make good use of this information to really maximize the profits you can generate from your business. A very effective strategy is to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when we discussed that customers are much more likely to purchase from you again once they have already made a purchase from you, due to trust?</p>
<p>Well we are going to make good use of this information to really maximize the profits you can generate from your business.</p>
<p>A very effective strategy is to offer much higher value and profit services or products on the back end, to customers who have already purchased from you one or more times.</p>
<p>Since we now already know you are more likely to get a sale from existing recent customers, it makes sense to take advantage of this and offer high value product or service to these customers, with the assumption that you will get a better conversion rate then if you had offered these high ticket items upfront.</p>
<p>These are the type of services or products that would be a very hard sell to a new prospect.</p>
<p>Imagine you see ad in the paper for a book on weight loss that costs R4500. You may think that there may be something of value to this product since it costs so much, however would you really invest this much in a product from somebody you know nothing about, who is making promises you don’t know if you can trust or not? Not likely.</p>
<p>However, let’s say you have been a fitness customer of Jim for 6 weeks, have started to see great results from his training sessions as well as the 2 supplements he has recommended so far.</p>
<p>This means you can already see the first 3 purchases you have made from Jim paying off and the “promises” made in the marketing of his original lower priced products have not been false.</p>
<p>In month 3 Jim now tells you about an advanced fitness training program he has for R7000, and shows you proof and testimonials of other satisfied customers that have completed the program.</p>
<p>You will be far more likely to do whatever is necessary to find the funds to invest in this program since you trust that Jims promises are real, since has delivered on previous promises so far!</p>
<p>The idea is to use lower priced products to obtain customers and get them into your sales funnel. You then begin to build their trust in you. If you do this by over delivering in every way on the purchases already made, you will be in a position to nurture a loyal customer who will truly trust in anything you say, and will buy anything you offer them. I promise you this (trust me J )</p>
<p><strong>Actions:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Take a look at your      current business and try and come up with ideas on an advanced product, course      or service you can offer on the back end to existing customers.</li>
<li>You may be thinking that      what you are already offering is as advanced and as high priced as can      create. This is usually not the case. If you’re selling something people      are buying on their first purchase, then there is always an opportunity to      create a new advanced version or complementary service or product you can      offer these customers on the back end. Use your imagination!</li>
<li>Before you begin offering      any higher priced products (or anything at all) on the back end, you need      to make 100% sure you are delivering (over delivering!) on your current      front end products.</li>
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<p>Obviously you won’t be very successful on the back end if you’re not delivering on your initial promises, as your customers will probably trust you even less then if they had never bought from you before.<!-- odiogo-notts-begin -->
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