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	<description>Erica Douglass, &#34;temporarily retired&#34; after selling a successful business at age 26, writes thought-provoking blog entries challenging you to change your life and daring you to become more successful.</description>
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		<title>By: Marianne Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-51179</link>
		<dc:creator>Marianne Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>She KNOW the products were worth $75. That was a guess. Rather than saving 125, she missed out on being able to take stellar care of her teeth - and saving thousands at the dentist. This mentality that everything has to be cheap (er) and quality is irrelevant is major league stooooooopid.

I will put my trash in a Walmart trash can, but when it comes to my body, it has to be first rate.

Look at the fiasco we are facing because people eat cheap, processed food.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She KNOW the products were worth $75. That was a guess. Rather than saving 125, she missed out on being able to take stellar care of her teeth &#8211; and saving thousands at the dentist. This mentality that everything has to be cheap (er) and quality is irrelevant is major league stooooooopid.</p>
<p>I will put my trash in a Walmart trash can, but when it comes to my body, it has to be first rate.</p>
<p>Look at the fiasco we are facing because people eat cheap, processed food.</p>
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		<title>By: Marianne Cooper</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-51177</link>
		<dc:creator>Marianne Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not cookware you want to put your food in. The 175 stuff that is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not cookware you want to put your food in. The 175 stuff that is.</p>
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		<title>By: Orlando</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-17814</link>
		<dc:creator>Orlando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is literally one of the most awesome blogs in the world.  I&#039;m not into Starbucks because I&#039;m not a coffee drinker; however, I always did wonder how they managed to attract so many people.  Anchor is my new favorite term I will apply to my clothing line.  

Thanks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is literally one of the most awesome blogs in the world.  I&#8217;m not into Starbucks because I&#8217;m not a coffee drinker; however, I always did wonder how they managed to attract so many people.  Anchor is my new favorite term I will apply to my clothing line.  </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
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		<title>By: Bryan Knight</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-7152</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Knight</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are an amazing person. I have been reading your other posts and am awed st your accomplishments at such a young age and having battled disease.

This anchoring tip is brilliant. Not only am I going to implement it (especially on our virtual gastric band offer) but I am going to refer the people in my Registries to your blog.

Your wisdom and energy leave me breathless. And that&#039;s not only because I&#039;m 71 :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are an amazing person. I have been reading your other posts and am awed st your accomplishments at such a young age and having battled disease.</p>
<p>This anchoring tip is brilliant. Not only am I going to implement it (especially on our virtual gastric band offer) but I am going to refer the people in my Registries to your blog.</p>
<p>Your wisdom and energy leave me breathless. And that&#8217;s not only because I&#8217;m 71 <img src='http://www.erica.biz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Farouk</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-4602</link>
		<dc:creator>Farouk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>when i said i will visit this blog again i knew i was making the right decision, amazing post Erica :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>when i said i will visit this blog again i knew i was making the right decision, amazing post Erica <img src='http://www.erica.biz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: djoko purnomo</title>
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		<dc:creator>djoko purnomo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OK! I began to understand what you convey, though still need elaboration. There is no harm if the strategy is developed by adjusting the anchor setting the target market. In his practice, required a more subtle tactic to attract buyers, and this does need its own thinking with the adjustment type of product that we sell. All implementation strategies always a risk, for example, sell at cheap prices and quanta hopes sales will increase and it is the risk of fixed income or slightly increased and the biggest risk is market saturation could occur. If the strategy of setting the anchors carried out properly, then the price will be stable and allow for the addition of quanta of sales, even though we actually spend in other forms for the convenience of buyers.
Perhaps this understanding while I can catch and has started to open my mind to make a more appropriate setting.
Thank you for understanding this and for your success,
Best regards,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK! I began to understand what you convey, though still need elaboration. There is no harm if the strategy is developed by adjusting the anchor setting the target market. In his practice, required a more subtle tactic to attract buyers, and this does need its own thinking with the adjustment type of product that we sell. All implementation strategies always a risk, for example, sell at cheap prices and quanta hopes sales will increase and it is the risk of fixed income or slightly increased and the biggest risk is market saturation could occur. If the strategy of setting the anchors carried out properly, then the price will be stable and allow for the addition of quanta of sales, even though we actually spend in other forms for the convenience of buyers.<br />
Perhaps this understanding while I can catch and has started to open my mind to make a more appropriate setting.<br />
Thank you for understanding this and for your success,<br />
Best regards,</p>
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		<title>By: Anthony Smith</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-4228</link>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Erica,

I&#039;m new to your blog and have never posted a comment before, so first, I&#039;d like to say &quot;Hi&quot; to you and all of your readers.  Hi!  :-)

Next, I&#039;d like to pass on a really good tip.  A tip that could have you drop the whole anchoring process all together (because who really wants to spend that much time and effort doing all that when they can do this).

Break your product into pieces!

This works especially well with info-products and software.

Instead of offering a complete ebook on an entire concept (like internet marketing, weight loss, etc.).

Break your ebook into reports.  If you have an ebook with 10 chapters, then you now have 10 small reports.  Assuming you would be charging around $1 per page, you&#039;d probably normally sell your ebook for $97.

Now, you can sell 10 small reports for $9.99 a piece!  The cool thing about this approach is that all you have to do to sell these is eliminate the parts of your copy that pertained to the other chapters of your ebook.  You may have to re-write the headline and pre and sub headlines a bit, maybe tweak a few senteces.

But it is all pretty easy and takes maybe two to three hours to do.

Your customers who wouln&#039;t buy before, may now most likely buy all 10 of your small reports, PLUS, you&#039;ll get a bunch of customers who now know how valuable your small reports are, and can now easily sell them a $29, $49, $100, and even $299 product.

It&#039;s ten times easier to sell to someone who has already experienced your buying process and enjoyed than it is to sell to a first time customer.

This method works very well for situations like what you&#039;re speaking of, and again, it doesn&#039;t take much more than a few hours of one-time work.

If you&#039;re selling software it&#039;s the same process.  Instead of selling software that does a ton of stuff, break it up into software that does one thing well and automatically.

For example, there are a number of sofwares available online that will submit press releases, submit your articles to forums, etc.

The softwares I see making most money are the ones that just submit your articles to the article directories with one-click.  Software that just does one thing or is for one aspect of a bigger tactic.  Instead of creating one promotional software and selling it for $397, sell an SEO software, article writing software, article submission software, affiliate software, and press release submissions software, and a keyowrd software for $77 to $97 a pop.  Now you make more money in the long run (because if customers buy them all for a lower price per software they end up spending close to $500 instead of $397 ;-))

Hope you get what I mean as it works very well not only for me, but also for the &quot;big names&quot; in our industry (such as Allen Says of the Warrior Forum and others).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Erica,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m new to your blog and have never posted a comment before, so first, I&#8217;d like to say &#8220;Hi&#8221; to you and all of your readers.  Hi!  <img src='http://www.erica.biz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Next, I&#8217;d like to pass on a really good tip.  A tip that could have you drop the whole anchoring process all together (because who really wants to spend that much time and effort doing all that when they can do this).</p>
<p>Break your product into pieces!</p>
<p>This works especially well with info-products and software.</p>
<p>Instead of offering a complete ebook on an entire concept (like internet marketing, weight loss, etc.).</p>
<p>Break your ebook into reports.  If you have an ebook with 10 chapters, then you now have 10 small reports.  Assuming you would be charging around $1 per page, you&#8217;d probably normally sell your ebook for $97.</p>
<p>Now, you can sell 10 small reports for $9.99 a piece!  The cool thing about this approach is that all you have to do to sell these is eliminate the parts of your copy that pertained to the other chapters of your ebook.  You may have to re-write the headline and pre and sub headlines a bit, maybe tweak a few senteces.</p>
<p>But it is all pretty easy and takes maybe two to three hours to do.</p>
<p>Your customers who wouln&#8217;t buy before, may now most likely buy all 10 of your small reports, PLUS, you&#8217;ll get a bunch of customers who now know how valuable your small reports are, and can now easily sell them a $29, $49, $100, and even $299 product.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s ten times easier to sell to someone who has already experienced your buying process and enjoyed than it is to sell to a first time customer.</p>
<p>This method works very well for situations like what you&#8217;re speaking of, and again, it doesn&#8217;t take much more than a few hours of one-time work.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re selling software it&#8217;s the same process.  Instead of selling software that does a ton of stuff, break it up into software that does one thing well and automatically.</p>
<p>For example, there are a number of sofwares available online that will submit press releases, submit your articles to forums, etc.</p>
<p>The softwares I see making most money are the ones that just submit your articles to the article directories with one-click.  Software that just does one thing or is for one aspect of a bigger tactic.  Instead of creating one promotional software and selling it for $397, sell an SEO software, article writing software, article submission software, affiliate software, and press release submissions software, and a keyowrd software for $77 to $97 a pop.  Now you make more money in the long run (because if customers buy them all for a lower price per software they end up spending close to $500 instead of $397 <img src='http://www.erica.biz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> )</p>
<p>Hope you get what I mean as it works very well not only for me, but also for the &#8220;big names&#8221; in our industry (such as Allen Says of the Warrior Forum and others).</p>
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		<title>By: Diane</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Erica,

Recently completing my first e-book &quot; Everything you need to know about the security clearance process, but are afraid to ask, I have never thought of the anchor process when trying to come up with a price for my book.  I finally settled on the price of 19.95.  

Thanks for the GREAT information, I have been struggling with this....

Any suggestions on how to market the ebook?

Diane Griffin</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erica,</p>
<p>Recently completing my first e-book &#8221; Everything you need to know about the security clearance process, but are afraid to ask, I have never thought of the anchor process when trying to come up with a price for my book.  I finally settled on the price of 19.95.  </p>
<p>Thanks for the GREAT information, I have been struggling with this&#8230;.</p>
<p>Any suggestions on how to market the ebook?</p>
<p>Diane Griffin</p>
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		<title>By: Suzanne Muusers</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-3807</link>
		<dc:creator>Suzanne Muusers</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This post has given me food for thought about the pricing I have done for several products I&#039;ve created over the years. While subconsciously I am aware of the &quot;anchor&quot; strategy, I did not put it into practice. I&#039;m going to change this today. Thanks! 

Suzanne</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post has given me food for thought about the pricing I have done for several products I&#8217;ve created over the years. While subconsciously I am aware of the &#8220;anchor&#8221; strategy, I did not put it into practice. I&#8217;m going to change this today. Thanks! </p>
<p>Suzanne</p>
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		<title>By: Tyler WebCPA</title>
		<link>http://www.erica.biz/2010/arent-buying/#comment-3525</link>
		<dc:creator>Tyler WebCPA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love the discussion as much as the post!  Pricing yourself can be difficult, especially if your product is new or unique or a different twist on an old product (Starbucks).  Hayley from TotalHeliski is on the right track with her enthusiasm.  To entice new customers you need to sell it as one of those once in a lifetime before you kick the bucket experiences, like skydiving or climbing Everest that people will pay the big bucks to do.  Make sure you send them away with great photos and video so it is unforgettable.
Selling luxury in Mexico like Eric I presents a different challenge because Mexico isn&#039;t synonymous with luxury like Europe is.  Although it definitely has an amazing beauty, it is very under-appreciated and not well known in the States.  I have seen some ads for resorts that actually didn&#039;t emphasize or even mention the country they were in!  Perhaps emphasizing the experience over the location might be the best option.
Best of luck!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the discussion as much as the post!  Pricing yourself can be difficult, especially if your product is new or unique or a different twist on an old product (Starbucks).  Hayley from TotalHeliski is on the right track with her enthusiasm.  To entice new customers you need to sell it as one of those once in a lifetime before you kick the bucket experiences, like skydiving or climbing Everest that people will pay the big bucks to do.  Make sure you send them away with great photos and video so it is unforgettable.<br />
Selling luxury in Mexico like Eric I presents a different challenge because Mexico isn&#8217;t synonymous with luxury like Europe is.  Although it definitely has an amazing beauty, it is very under-appreciated and not well known in the States.  I have seen some ads for resorts that actually didn&#8217;t emphasize or even mention the country they were in!  Perhaps emphasizing the experience over the location might be the best option.<br />
Best of luck!</p>
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