I watched an Oliver Roland’s video  and I learned good stuff.

It’s necessary to think of 2 things :

• How to find the right time to offer a paid product while usually everything is free

• How to handle fear and criticism about a paid product while usually everything is free

The right time

The right time varies depending on the sale mode and type of product. The approach to proposing a product is different when you do a webinar, a product launch  or a sales page.

The easiest way to sell a product is to make a sales page because you don’t need to worry about the minimum subscribers number to have in your mailing list.

What is extremely important to understand is that you need to stop being obsessed by the number of subscribers on your social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, etc.) because it has not value. Let’s me explain, what is really important is the subscribers number of your mailing list (newsletters).

A lot of people have success on Youtube but unfortunately they need to stay on Youtube’s platform to keep their success. It’s really difficult to bring Youtube’s subscribers to another platform or another website. It’s even worse on Facebook because people are so used to the social media’s graphical user interface that they really have to give them an interesting reason to go elsewhere.

Survey

Yes, with a survey you can attract all your social media’s subscribers to your own website. I advise you to do a survey when you reached 500 subscribers in one of your social media.

With a survey you can know :

Your audience reactvity

• Your audience’s reactivity

• What product wants your audience. This reduces the risk of creating an unsaleable product. The mistake entrepreneurs make is to create the product they want to do. For 1-2 years they work on it and when it’s ready, nobody wants to buy it because it doesn’t solve a problem of the audience.

When you reach 500 subscribers in one of your social media, you can say to your audience : « Hello, my friends, the community develops and it’s thanks to you. I would like to help you in a more efficient way that is why I propose you to answer a small survey where you’ll be able to tell me how I can help you to solve one of your problem ».

People who answer to this survey will show you the real reactivity of your audience. By exemple when you have 1000 subscribers, you have an average of 100-200 people responding to the survey.

The result of this survey will help you to create a product that will interest your audience.

Mailing list

Buid your mailing list (newsletters) is more important than having the maximum number of subscribers on your social media because they’re qualified potential customers. This what is make the difference between your subscribers who consume your content for entertainment and your subscribers who consume your content because it improves their lifestyle.

To build your mailing list (newsletters), offering an interesting free bonus to your audience is an effective way to collect qualified emails from people who are likely to buy your product. If you have no idea to make a bonus, you can make one by intuition and after adjust or change after conducting a survey.

eBook

By exemple if you have a Youtube channel or a Facebook Page about hamsters, by intuition you can imagine that the main problem of people is to ensure that their hamsters are well fed and long live. So you can write an eBook (digital book) like : « 5 tips for having a well-fed hamster and long live.

The concept is to offer something free in exchange for an email from someone of your audience. You really have to give something interesting so that people are : « Wow, it’s cool. I gave my email and I got it all ! ».

Criticism

I’ll be simple. All people who aren’t happy because you offer a paid product are supporters of slavery. Usually people aren’t aware of it. When you see a critic like : « It’s was great before, you offered a lot of free content and now you want to sell a product, it’s horrible ! ». What do you think ? Me I’m thinking of a person who wants me to work for him/her for free for life. And how do we name it ? A supporter of slavery.

Don’t be afraid ! You continue to give free content to your audience and in the same time your offer paid content. You don’t blackmail with your audience, your propose and people make their decision.

By having paid product that filter out people who recognize that your work deserves salary and people who are unconscious supporters of slavery.

Don’t worry, critics hurt at the beginnings but then it goes better and you gonna laugh at it.

-Steph

P.S. Smartphone apps :

To track my calories, I use MyFitnessPal 

To track my workout program, I use Jefit