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The Interactive Offer (strategies that did not work for me)

Two weeks ago I tried to test a new strategy to find out if I can launch a product like a free eBook based on a strategy that is now sold on the Internet as "the interactive offer". I found their system very interesting and fortunately, their videos were free at this time (now they charge about $1000 dollar for it).

The first step seemed to work fine for me. I posted an article where I asked my readers to fill out a survey to tell me what product (like eBook/tutorial) they would like to get for free; a product that would help them in their everyday work.

Here is the link to the blog post.

And here is a link to another blog post on my other blog secondpresentation.com.

I've got some replies, indicating interest in moodle and WordPress, so I decided to do the second step. I set up another survey for a follow-up, because I needed to know what exactly the people like to have in this product. Unfortunately I haven't got any replies for this follow-up so far.

Here is the link to the follow-up blog post.

I'm not sure what I have done wrong, but I know that I would really be upset if I had paid money for this method. Fortunately I caught the videos while they were free. I still think it might be a good method to find out customer's needs very easily, but unfortunately it did not work very well in my case.

It seems that I need to continue to publish stuff that I'm interested in writing about, until I find out what people really needs.

06/17/2010 17:14:53, von Marian , 277 words, 1710 views   Categories: Articles, News

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Free eBook survey: What would you like me to write for you?

As you may already know, I am offering tutoring and programming on the Internet. You may have seen some of my work already on my blog, on youTube or on WizIQ's virtual classroom. Here are some examples that I have already published:

Free eBook: Introduction to PHP
Free Video: Blender - first Steps
Free Video: Gimp - first Steps
Free Video: Become a Webmaster using Wordpress.com
Free Live Class: Google Calendar Demystified
Free Live Class: The Firefox Web Browser: Useful Add-Ons

Now I'm planning on writing a new eBook that I want to offer for free but I need your help with this because I want to make sure it's something that people really need and appreciate. I have prepared a simple survey that you can fill out, so that I get an Idea what's the most required topic for such an eBook. If several people request the same or a similar topic, I will prepare a tutorial eBook that you will be able to download for free.

Edit: Thanks for all who did participate in the survey. Please check out this blog post for a follow-up.

Edit: This attempt has failed so far. Thanks for all who responded to the first survey, unfortunately it did not work for the follow-up. Maybe I did something wrong. Still not sure what it was. See this updated post for more information.

06/04/2010 19:42:18, von Marian , 228 words, 69604 views   Categories: Articles, News

Free eBook: Introduction to PHP5

As you may know already, I offer eLearning courses about web development on my site lernpilot.de where I sell interactive courses like HTML, PHP and MySQL. These courses have been sold quite good within the last years but I never could sell them in English for whatever reason. So I decided to make the English version of my PHP course a free eBook instead (because it's already translated in English and would be a pity to throw it away).

=> Read more! (Free eBook: Introduction to PHP5)

06/02/2010 16:30:21, von Marian , 247 words, 3481 views   Categories: Tutorials, News