- Toyna Chin, San Francisco, CA
Top Tips for Marketing Products Online
You might think that you know what marketing is, but when it comes to marketing your products online, it's not as easy as you think it would be. It's always a great idea to add a product to your website and watch your inventory disappear, but we know that that's not always how it's going to work.
It's important that you know how you can market your product online so that you can reach the right audience. Your online marketing strategy should always include. The product marketing because without that you're not going to get it out there to your customers. With that in mind, we've got some top tips to help you with marketing your products online.
1. Talk to influencers. One of the most popular ways of getting products out there these days is to pay influencers to market them for you. If you've ever turned to friends for advice on a product that you are going to sell, you need to think about doing it in a professional setting, and that's what influencer marketing is. Your business will pay somebody who has a large online following to promote your product using their platform which gives them a bigger reach. Also, you have to consider that the followers have said influencers would be interested in the type of product that they are going to influence them with. The biggest key is to find influencers in your niche and the best way to do that is to head over to social media and get your research going on. Partnering with somebody popular is going to help you to get the name of it out there, and then you can add your holographic stickers to your packaging and send them out to be more memorable.
2. Make your packaging memorable. We just talked about adding holographic stickers to your packaging, but it's one of the things that you need to include as part of your product offering. Don't forget that when you're marketing your product online, you're marketing and experience as much as anything else. So you need to make sure that the unboxing process is also an experience. When you're talking to influencers especially, having all of those little additions such as ribbons and tissue and holographic stickers are going to make a big difference to the way that they sell. The more impressive the packaging looks, the more people will want to buy the product inside.
3. Sell on more than one marketplace. It's always a great idea to sell on your website, but if you want to get your product out there, then look at selling on additional platforms as well. Amazon, Etsy, and more will be able to get your product out there and they're popular it is, the more you'll be able to market it to retailers like Walmart, Target, or Kmart. Even Facebook has joined the online marketplace race, so you can always post on social media if that's where your customer following is.