Monday, August 25, 2008

Five Questions That Will Help Spark New Ideas For Your Business

By Stu McLaren


The five questions I will get you to answer are going to ignite an idea reaction that will benefit your business, your products and services and yourself. With the amount of new ideas you will be generating I suggest that you either print off this article or grab a pen and paper before we begin.

Number one question: In the next seven days what can I do that will increase the number of people opting in to my squeeze pages? To increase my conversion rate? To increase the number of people promoting my products? What can I do in the next seven days to let my customers know I appreciate their business? In the next seven days how can I overdeliver to my customers?

Just think: In the next seven days, what can I do...and add in all those things. Decrease refunds? Increase response rate? Increase traffic?

Anything you want to improve, would be valuable if it increased can be substituted in there. Once you ask yourself that question allow it to sink in and your imagination will start to spit out ideas. Make sure you write them down!

Question two: In your industry, what marketing ideas are being successfully used?

Look at a business in your industry that is very successful and ask yourself what marketing strategies are they using that you could apply to your business?

Question number three: What are five new ways that I can acquire customers?

Five new ways, think about it. Usually we only use one method to aquire customers. Imagine what using multiple methods could do for you and your business. Remember to record your ideas as the idea reaction begins and when these ideas are implemented your business will only continue to expand and bring in more revenue.

Question number four: Who could really help my idea take off and how can I make it super easy for them to do so?

Throughout my career I have asked myself this question over and over again. If you really think about it and apply it, this question can be extremely powerful. I cannot even begin to explain how powerful it really can be and how I have been able to apply it to my business.

Let me repeat it again. Who could really help my idea take off and how can I make it super easy for them to do so? Very, very good question.

Question five: How could only spend $10 and still wow blank?

Spending only $10 how could I wow my customers? For only $10 how could I wow my affiliates? My joint venture partners? Why not use this everywhere, spending only $10 how could I wow my girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, friends?

It's an awesome formula. Use it to grow your business. Use it to take your money makers and turn them in to profit empires.

Look for Part Two of of this article with five more questions you should ask yourself to spark all kinds of new ideas for your business, if you got as much from this article as I did.

Until then

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