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Five More Easy Questions That Will Ignite Ideas For Your Business

By: Stu McLaren

This is a continuation of my article entitled "Five Easy Questions That Will Ignite Ideas For Your Business". Answering five more questions will surely indeed get your imagination pumping and ideas flowing!

The first five questions were: 1) In the next seven days what can I do that will fill in the blank 2) Regarding marketing strategies, which of them are being used successfully in your industry? 3) What would be five new ways to attain new customers? 4) How do I make it really easy for people to help me and who do I know that could really help my idea take off? 5) For only $10, how could I wow blank?

So without further ado, lets begin with Question six: How could I automate XYZ?

I asked Armand Morin one time, "Where do you get your ideas for all of your products?"

He said, "It's simple. I look at what I'm doing and how much time it's taking me. If it's taking me too much time, I ask myself How could I automate this process? Ninety percent of my product ideas come from my ability to recognize what's draining my time. I'm lazy. I want to automate everything."

Wanting to automate everything is where he gets his product ideas from! It is a powerful question, so make sure you ask yourself it.

Question seven: How could XYZ be simplified?

Is it complicated to buy from you? Have you ever tried to buy from yourself and gone through the process? There are so many products that I've purchased that are absolutely painful to actually buy from somebody.

In fact, recently I was in the process of buying a new server, a new dedicated server. The company that I was trying to buy it from were making me jump through all kinds of hoops. It got to the point where I got so frustrated with trying to purchase from these people, that I gave up and went somewhere else.

The first company needed to ask themselves; How could they simplify their purchasing process?

It's the same question you could ask yourself, and it can be a very powerful piece of stimuli to spark all kinds of new processes for you.

Question eight: Are there problems my target market are experiencing and how could I solve them with a new product?

Alex Mandossian created a phenomenal piece of software, a phenomenal tool called the Ask Database. For those of you who have it, use it. Constantly ask people what products they're having. Find out what problems they're having and solve them.

Being able to find problems and solve them is an attribute that all creative thinkers should have and use. Being able to solve someone else's problem will always keep you in demand.

This website is extremely powerful and useful when finding problems. Make sure you write this down - it is www.Answer.Google.com

When you go there, I want you to click on the category that is most applicable to you and your business, and find out what questions people are asking. Those questions are problems.

If there is a commonality in the questions, that will be a clear sign that many people are experiencing the same problem. Those problems need a product in order to solve them.

Ask yourself this question repeatedly: Could a new product solve one of the problems experienced by my target market?

Question nine: Watching Alex Mandossian present at a recent seminar I heard him bring this up, and it is a very powerful question. How could my current products or services by residualized?

This is the best senario, constantly getting paid every single month, or whatever time frame you lay out. You should be looking at how you can get paid more than once, over and over again. Instead of having to find new customers, you will be benefitting and leveraging your existing customers.

How could my current products or services by residualized? -Ask yourself that question.

The last question I'm going to let you think about: My current offering, how could I increase its value?

When you do that, your mind and your brain is just going to take off because you're going to start to think in the customer's favor.

Thinking from your customer's point of view will really ignite ideas that benefit your customers. Your existing customer base is a fantastic source and you really should take the time to think about how you can benefit them. If you do, they are more likely to buy from you, tell others about your products and services and therefore create more revenue for your business.

Planning my first seminar a few years back I stopped and asked myself how could I increase the value of what I am offering before any of the attendees even got there. By doing this they were wow'd when I gave them bonus after bonus throughout the course of the seminar. This led to 100% satisfaction and all of them were asking when the next Idea Incubator would be. I still have some of those attendees still come every year to it and they are now all willing to spread the word about what a great time it was.

Even at the Big Seminar they were telling eveyone about the amount of value they received at the Idea Incubator and what a great time it was.

By asking myself how could I increase the value of my current offering, I now have a group of individuals praising my event. This only happened because I asked myself that question and put forth the effort to do so.

When you do that, it just opens up a whole new opportunity area for you, your products, and your services.

That's about it!

Processing the ten questions I hope you got a lot out of it, just like I did!

May ideas come to you when you need them most.

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Author Stu McLaren has found out how real people all over the world are turning Unusual Business Ideas into magnificent moneymakers... and How You Can Too! These ideas will stimulate ideas and inspire you to get your own profitable Business Idea Off The Ground... Today! 227 Unusual Business Ideas

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