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How To Create FREE Polls Online And Share The Results In Real Time

Here’s a handy FREE tool you can use right away in your business.

If you use Twitter, which you should, you can easily create, share, publish, any number of polls.

Here’s a working example of an embedded twtPoll right here on this site.

So…

Let’s here it, how much time do you spend online or in your online business on a daily basis?

You can create your own poll at http://twtpoll.com

Adding a poll to your website or blog is super easy to. Just copy and paste the provided embed code that they provide for you. Brilliant concept.

Keep in mind, your polls are PUBLIC…

This site is worth monitoring even if you don’t create your own poll. You can get good ideas from other peoples polls to come up with product creation ideas.

Fore example, if you saw a poll asking “what’s your greatest fear?” and found that 85% were afraid of public speaking as their number one answer….that may trigger an idea for you to do some more research and see if others feel the same. Then, you could interview some experts (psychologists, social workers, etc) and co-create an audio product to help people overcome their fear.

Obviously, there is a lot more research you would need to do but I think you get the idea here.

I hope you enjoy your new find o twtPoll if you didn’t already know about it.

Before you launch a product, it’s extremely important to launch with the confidence that comes from testing your sales process before you do a launch.

JV partners and affiliates are much more responsive to an invitation to join a launch if they can see evidence that you’ve at least worked out the kinks in your sales process and at best optimized your sales process for maximum conversion.

I would say that no one likes to be a guinea pig, but that’s not true. If you ask close partners and friends to help you test, they will. But they like to know that it’s a test.

If your promotional partners feel that you are attempting to launch a ‘green’ untested system, they will shy away from your launch or they won’t get behind it with the gusto that you would like.

There are ways to test in *any* niche, but since I do my testing in the IM niche, let me share with you some ideas that will help you do effective beta testing.

After you build and do functional testing on your sales system, you will want to put some controlled traffic through it to see how things work.

So beta testing your sales process should come after you’ve created your sales page, back end offers, autoresponder series, download pages, etc. and after you have tested the complete process to make sure everything works.

I usually like to create a special deal for beta customers — this allows me to be up-front with them and let them know that we are in the process of testing the sales process and collecting testimonials from real customers (as opposed to reviewers who got a free product).

When your system and offer are ready to go, you can now bring some traffic into your system.

For me, I (at a minimum) do three things:

1) Promote to ‘inner circle’ customers with the best possible deal.

If I’m going to make anyone a great deal for beta access, it’s going to be people who have purchased from me in the past. This allows me to test the offer with my ‘warm’ market — if it doesn’t convert with my customers, it won’t with anyone elses.

2) Promote in the Warrior Forum with a WSO (Warrior Special Offer).

For $20 I can get my offer right in front of my target market because a large percentage of them hang out in the Warrior Forum.

3) Promote through one or more close JV partners.

This varies by the project, but I like to include at least one close marketing partner in my beta testing. This allows me to get a feel for how the offer might convert for other JV partners and affiliates.

I can do all three of those things within the course of 2 weeks, maximum.

After the test, I just log in to my VisiOlo account (see the Recommendations section of this site) and collect the statistics I need to measure my results.

I’ll evaluate a few key conversion metrics for each traffic source.

• Impressions to Clicks conversion
• Clicks to Sale conversion

Then I’ll lay out an optimization plan for improving the results and plan my next test.

Ideally, I would cycle through this process three times before a major launch, but frequently I only do it once because I’m usually under time pressure to get the project launched on schedule.

It’s a simple process, and imperfectly implemented, but it still gives me a lot of very valuable information and helps build buzz and the confidence level of promotional partners.

This post was submitted by Doug Hudiburg.