10 Things TV Shopping Networks Can Teach You About Making Money Online
Date: April 20th, 2011 | Author: Steve Longoria | Tags: Blogging, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, TV Shopping Networks | No Comments »
We’ve all seen them. Many of us know somebody who has bought from them at one time or another. The fact of the matter is… TV Shopping Networks know how to sell, period. So if we’re trying to improve our sales, it only makes sense to analyze what it is they’re doing right and implement it in our own sales copy.
“I found myself entranced recently by a “presentation” on a TV shopping network. I usually flip straight past these networks, as I was of the opinion that they were cheesy shows, presented by couldn’t-quite-make-it TV presenters, and that they pushed sub-par products onto poor, lonely, hapless, housebound consumers who didn’t know better. Not that I was judgmental about them in any way…
But this time I found myself stopping for a moment, just to see what they were about.
As the “presentation” (which is what they called it—at this stage, I was still thinking of it as a cheesy, garbage-pushing intrusion) unfolded, I found myself becoming fascinated by the sheer audacity of it.
These shows face an enormous sales challenge, the scale of which could appropriately be linked to climbing to Base Camp, possibly without an oxygen mask. While no-one could call their techniques sophisticated, they are effective. The home shopping industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and sales actually increased during the global financial crisis, when all other retailing was going down the toilet.
What can we learn from how the TV shopping networks sell their wares? Without becoming cheesy and surrendering all integrity, of course. Well, the short answer is: a great deal! Here are the top 10 tips that we can take away from those who sell from, and to, the couch…”
