This is a continuation of my article entitled "Five
Simple Questions That Will Help Spark All Kinds Of
New Ideas For Your Business". Within this article
we have five more questions that will get your
wheels turning and into idea producing mode.
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?
As always, I like to use real life examples to help
illustrate my points so it is beneficial for you to
give that article a look.
So without further ado, lets begin with Question
six: How could I automate XYZ?
I asked Armand Morin one time, "Where do you
get your ideas for all of your products?"
He said, "It's simple. I look at what I'm doing and
how much time it's taking me. If it's taking me too
much time, I ask myself How could I automate this
process? Ninety percent of my product ideas come
from my ability to recognize what's draining my
time. I'm lazy. I want to automate everything."
That's where his product ideas come from.
Powerful question, so ask yourself that question.
How could you automate XYZ?
Next question - number seven: How could you
simplify XYZ?
Is it complicated to buy from you? Have you ever
tried to buy from yourself and gone through the
process? There are so many products that I've
purchased that are absolutely painful to actually
buy from somebody.
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?
It's the same question you could ask yourself, and
it can be a very powerful piece of stimuli to spark
all kinds of new processes for you.
Question eight: Are there problems my target
market is experiencing and how could I solve them
with a new product?
Alex Mandossian created a phenomenal piece of
software, a phenomenal tool called the Ask
Database. For those of you who have it, use it.
Constantly ask people what products they're
having. Find out what problems they're having
and 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.
Another place I want you to go - write this
website down because it is extremely powerful
when it comes to finding problems -
www.Answer.Google.com.
When you go there, I want you to click on the
category that is most applicable to you and your
business, and find out what questions people are
asking. Those questions are 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.
So constantly ask yourself the question: Are there
problems my target market is experiencing and
how could I solve them with a new product?
Next question - number nine: This one Alex
Mandossian brought up in his presentation at the
most recent Big Seminar, and it's a powerful
question. How could I residualize my current
products or services?
In today's day and age, look to get paid not once,
but more than once. Time and time again. Every
single month or whatever. But if you look to
constantly residualize your products or services,
you're going to have a constant stream of cash
flow. Rather than fighting to try to get new
customers, you really benefit and leverage your
existing customers.
Ask yourself that questions: How could I
residualize my current products or services?
Next question, and the final question I'm going to
leave with you is: How could I increase the value
of what I'm currently offering?
When you do that, your mind and your brain is
just going to take off because you're going to
start to think in the customer's favor.
When you do that, you're going to start to
generate all kinds of great ideas that work and
benefit the customer. And the more you benefit
the customer, the more they're going to come
back to you, the more they're going to spread the
word, and the more revenue you're going to be
able to generate from your existing customer
base.
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!
If hope you got as much out of this information as
I did.
May ideas come to you when you need them
most.
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