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What if I'm unsure about my product / Testing the market.

JohnBuffet

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Hello all,

After getting some great help here I recently launched my website and instagram for a fitness product. It has been on sale for 3 weeks and I have not only gotten 0 sales, but I have also gotten NO interest in it whatsoever. I bought the inventory as a sample/test run to see how much interest I'd receive (I bought 10 units, each cost around 110 including shipping from China, and I am selling them for $200) . I spent the past 6 months creating a book for the product, along with video tutorials of it.

From the lack of interest, and from some of the feedback I've received I'm starting to doubt my product, and I am starting to wonder if this is possibly not the way to go. Now, I don't know if I'm just feeling frustrated from lack of sales (and I know it's only been up for 3 weeks and the instagram has just a little under 1000 followers, but still), OR if I truly think that my product doesn't provide that much value.

I don't know if I should throw in the towel, and move onto something else and the next idea, or if I should put a lot of effort, and intensity and time into doing everything I can to make this possibly work. Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks !
 
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What is your product?
 

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It is a portable gym unit

If other people are having success selling them then its likely not a problem with the product itself.

Are you doing any actual marketing outside of promoting it to your followers?
 
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Hello all,

After getting some great help here I recently launched my website and instagram for a fitness product. It has been on sale for 3 weeks and I have not only gotten 0 sales, but I have also gotten NO interest in it whatsoever. I bought the inventory as a sample/test run to see how much interest I'd receive (I bought 10 units, each cost around 110 including shipping from China, and I am selling them for $200) . I spent the past 6 months creating a book for the product, along with video tutorials of it.

From the lack of interest, and from some of the feedback I've received I'm starting to doubt my product, and I am starting to wonder if this is possibly not the way to go. Now, I don't know if I'm just feeling frustrated from lack of sales (and I know it's only been up for 3 weeks and the instagram has just a little under 1000 followers, but still), OR if I truly think that my product doesn't provide that much value.

I don't know if I should throw in the towel, and move onto something else and the next idea, or if I should put a lot of effort, and intensity and time into doing everything I can to make this possibly work. Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks !
1000 people is a pretty small audience. Can you throw a few bucks at a facebook marketplace ad to test it in front of more people?
 

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you need to market the product and get people to your website. Facebook ads, Instagram ads, Google ads, Amazon, Ebay, get it out there, 1000 followers on Instagram is not enough people to have any idea if the product has legs or not.
 

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What others have said, you haven't spent a dime on advertising yet. What is your sales funnel like? Where are people dropping off? Are they downloading the book? Are they reading it? Liking it? Have you put it on Amazon?
 
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broswoodwork

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Can we get an update on what you're going to try out when you have a chance?
 

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Link your website
 

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