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I need a new product idea or a way to get orders. So far I haven't had ANY orders! Please HELP!
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Your product may not suck (I'd give it about 50/50 odds of being something really stupid, or something kind of neat) but you'll never sell it to anyone trying to market it online.
NOBODY looks around for board games on the internet. Nobody! Maybe someone might look for fun family activities, but talk about a tough market to break into! You'd have to compete for attention against behemoths who would squash you just by looking at you.
No, friend, you have market potential but do NOT bring your stuff to market online. It will never get anywhere. Do this- make phone calls and personal visits to game stores (especially the really geeky ones that have all sorts of off-the-wall board games, you are RIGHT up their alley!), family activity retailers (don't bother trying to get into large corporate retailers though, at least not for a while), senior centers, churches, day care centers... heck, see if Milton-Bradley and other companies have greenhouse type programs for people like you to get their ideas heard.
From a business standpoint, the main priority you should have is getting onto the shelves of retailers who sell games. Other, more altruistic fun could be had by pursuing other venues :) and these could go toward some credibility. "Well yeah, John, but the Happy Hills Nursing Home just got five of them and Jesus Jammin' Baptist Church up the street is ordering a game for their high schoolers. Wouldn't that be fun at an overnighter-type thing? Give it a shot. Set one up in the store, that'll attract attention. Then your customers will come back and tell you how much fun it is!"
its too easy for people to make a bingo game on their own.you're going to have to come up with something on your own
Yeah Bingo is Bingo, try something else.
Start a blog at Blogger.com and put links to your site in it. Make regular posts about your games and you will soon attract traffic to your site.
Your site could use a more professional touch - looks like a first year web designer created it. That would tend to have people not stick around.
As fir the product - yeah - not very cutting edge
How many people have actually visited your website. You might consider checking the webtrends analytical profiling of people who visit your website.
Does it have any online games that people can try out, and that will hold their attention? Do you want to try giving out something for free as promotions, and allow the word of mouth to spread? Do you want your advertisements to appear on popular sites or email sites. Do you not want to attract a specific audience instead of hoping that people visit the site? Try the company - webtrends who will at least provide you with data of who is visiting your site, and how long are they staying on the site.
Finally, it would be better if you invested in some physical retail thing, rather than online. Selling something online is cheap, but its only for the big ones. The small ones vanished with the dot com bust.
For starters, I cannot tell what your site is about. I cannot tell what makes your cards unique. You may want to clarify it it a little with some closeup pics. Also, people probably aren't seeing your site. You need to practice Search Engine Optimization.
Search Engine Optimization is a very tricky business and cannot be easily understood in just a few paragraphs. I used to give long answers to this question, but got tired of repeating myself, so I just wrote a 13 page guide that you can download for free and read over. It will tell you everything you need to know about SEO.
http://www.idomainportfolio.com/seol.zip... - This has some extra stuff with the eBook for resellers
http://www.idomainportfolio.com/seol.pdf... - This is just the plain eBook
I hope this helps, as it covers much more than I could go into in the word limit alloted by Yahoo!
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