I created a great product, now what?

TV spots + retail distribution - If you can get this into a unique form other than a pill (like 5HourEnergy did with popularizing the energy shot idea - chews, strips, drink mix, something that stands out). If you remember the original 5 Hour Energy commercials, they mainly ran in the cheaper timeslots, were fully composed of stock images & footage (aside from the hand with the shot + the available at list), and had limited distribution at first. Get some prime placement in a few chains (might be pricey at first), find a good distribution partner/retail consultant, and see what you can do. Now people are buying energy shots like crazy, and they cost $2-4 each. Not an easy task, but it's something to explore.
 


Freaking sweet project!

1. I concur with changing the color from black to something brighter.

2. I also agree with adding some pictures of people. But don't replace the testimonial! Definitely keep that shit somewhere prominent.

3. I'd change "Our Mailing List" to something more like "Stay Informed of Discounts" so that there's incentive to actually sign up. Better yet, think of an even more clever way to get their email address. Maybe a free tips PDF or something.

Have you researched how hard it would be to get it onto a site like bodybuilding.com?

How is your product better than the other stuff out there?
 
3. I'd change "Our Mailing List" to something more like "Stay Informed of Discounts" so that there's incentive to actually sign up. Better yet, think of an even more clever way to get their email address. Maybe a free tips PDF or something.
Coupons always work as a great incentive to sign up, and marketing coupons in the future to an in-house list can usually provide good results.
 
put a Caucasian women, not overly sexy but attractive and 'bubbly' looking on the page.

also above the dropdown for quantity put something in red / another bold color like "Select Your Desired Quantity" or some call to action so people who don't care to read everything know what they need to do to buy immediately.

Never make the consumer hunt for the buy button under the guise of trying to sell them, you'll alienate tons of idiots who are as ready to buy as paris hilton is to do a line of blow and stick a meat sausage in her mouth.
 
I look at the ingredients list (supplemental facts) which stands out a lot by the way, and I see no special ingredients in your product that stand out from any other energy product, in fact there is less stuff in this, therefore I do not buy.

Yes by law you need to have that shit on your LP, but it doesn't have to be so prominent.
 
Make it a rebill, film a personal trainer, and GIVE AWAY the DVD for opting into your rebill. Then send them some useful shit every month along with their bottle. Maybe a report with all the most healthy foods, shit they can put on their fridge, etc...
 
Do you have an affiliate program started yet? What do your margins look like?

I would definitely switch to a lighter color scheme.. White background, blue header backgrounds, testimonials, 1 time trial option (can you produce smaller packages, maybe 1 week supply?).

Who do you have as web partners? Have you done anything with overstock / amazon / drugstore / ebay?

My personal suggestions (for cash generation purposes only):

1.) Go with a rebill that is disclosed in front to the customer
2.) Package a smaller trial package if you can
3.) Offer a forum support board
4.) Offer an ebook nutrition pdf or other type of upsell
6.) Modify Landing Page
7.) Test Offer with CPA cost in search
 
First off, congratulations on creating your first product! Feels awesome does it not?

Overall the site looks you are off to a good start, but of course its marketing so you can always be tweaking something.

I would start off by tweaking the size of text, its MUCH too small. Look at this page in a Macbook, if you can't read it there, then size it up.

Someone in this thread mentioned that there is too much text, i disagree, long copy sells. Just if you get long beyond a certain point make sure to have two readership paths, ones for anal people who read everything and then a path for skimmers.

The benefits of the product can't be stated clearly enough. You need to get it out there that this is "energy and focus without the jitters." Flesh it out.

With bigger front and more text, don't be afraid to put the checkout button 3 or more times on the same page.

Get a copy of one of the "replay" analytics tools tapefailure, clicktale, robotreplay etc... See how real visitors interact with your site. I am working on a FOSS tool called Freetale, but its going to a month or more before its ready.


I also agree that having a continutity program is _essential_ to your products success, let me tell you, many people do want there glop comming in every month. I would make the pain page have a optin to continutity at checkout (giving a great discount). At any rate make sure you are following up with your (e)mailing list to remind them if there supply is likely getting low. Of course give them the option to get two or more bottles a month if need be.

Feel absolutly free to make a seprate landing page for a continuity only on a seprate domain. energysupplementreviews.faux which gives special "never before seen" discounts for "getting plugged into your bodies natural potential for focus and energy."

Get affiliates and train them AND get them to send out email blasts in unison. Give your affiliates email templates to send out when you need a nice quick boost in income. Its an effective way to build buzz. Give your emails value, by adding at least these three ingrediants.

1) A quick and easy way to be more healthy about 3 sentences.

2) A _narative_ of someone (real person) who is using your product and has had a positive results

3) Some Call to action (including having them FWD this email to friendS (plural).

Start thinking about how you are going to make this suppliment part of a corriculum of products, ASK your list what other problems they have (not getting quality sleep, too stressed out, not enough stamina, etc...) Then build products to solve those products. Make the products in levels, silver, gold, platinum versions of the products or subscriptions. Silver members get the product, plus a ebook, gold also get online videos and discounts, platinum also get a DVD- direct emails with nutrition expert, etc...

Good Luck!
 
The design of the website looks very slick, but as mentioned before gray on black is a poor choice for readability (which is more important).

Also I'd revamp all the text on the homepage. Change explanations and what you want with your product to what your product can do for your customers. Talk about THEM and how your products benefits them.

Also it can't hurt to start an affiliate program and get yourself listed by some big affiliate networks. Make sure to convince your affiliates that your products is different than other products and hence is worth promoting.
 
That is exactly what I thought

and if you haven't Nick you should, Tim Ferris does a (reported) $80k a month net with a very similar product. you might pick something good up there. definately the way he has his system automated with fulfillment houses etc..

plus its a good read.
 
hmm, needs more ZING. gotta make it SIZZLE.

all those acai advertiser pages = SIZZLE. bunch of beautiful people, skinny bodies telling about how the exotic ingredients changed their life forever and they couldn't believe they had never heard about or tried it before. consumers are dumb and need to see "results". make the page really long so they get sick of reading and just say "fuck it" and sign up. throw some half naked bodies and other "points of interest" in every now and then to break up the monotony of the long text.

lol @ tag
 
Online-
Free sample packs are a great way to get interest in a product. Dropping $40.00 on something you've never heard of is a leap for a lot of people (unless they are told to by Oprah).
Send out a sample pack to everyone who signs up to your list (if your confident in the product) , then follow up with a coupon/discount and ask for a testimonial/review.

Offline-
Need to know your advertising budget.

I'll drop you a PM.