Category: Life & Work

As a online store manager, I always think about this question: Why some of my product sales good, but others not. After research of the recent user data. I found something interesting. Users always not affected by the price or rate of the product. Or saying not only the  low price motivated the user to perchance.

Think as a user want to buy something online.

I want to buy a new keyboard online. “Groupon” is the hottest word recently, so I will try Groupon sites firstly. After a search in Groupon sites,  unfortunately there is not any keyboard in there list. Maybe there will be, but i can’t wait for that.

Then i put the words “keyboard” in Google, So many results. I have no time dive into it. So i tried again: “gaming keyboard”. It seems all results are for my purpose. Select one from them.

After reading the detail of gaming keyboards of different brand, different online stone. I will chose from there different gaming keyboards. They are in different price, different color, different brand.

Finally i chose a product in highest price, but with a brand recognized, and the detail listed on the stone seems good in quality.

From the above story we can find what is important during the buying process:

1. Conception: Users always affected by conception. After “Groupon” told by friends again and again. They may begin the process from Groupon but not the typical online stone.

2. Expectation: Users always has a expectation of the target product to buy. These expectation may be in different level, of different price. Not only the price affected him. They buy something  just for that meet the expectations. A higher price always show a better quality or more functional.

3. Short and hot keywords do not work. That must be a sequence of keywords meet the expectation.

4. Details and price of the product: These are the classics ones.

创业团队4条箴言

很多人太急功近利

团队要有有长跑意识。游戏是个跟电影一样的波动性很强的行业,上一款产品的成功不能确保下一款热卖。怎么办?他们相信核心团队要耐心在一个领域坚持4、5 年。比如《侠盗猎车手》做到3代才大成,《使命召唤》是第四代。《吉他英雄》的团队则做了5年音乐游戏相关生意,对此领域理解深刻。

客户是最佳信息来源

做《吉他英雄》时他们说服老婆抵押了房子,借了亲戚的钱,最终凑了100万美元。孤注一掷?不。他们之前大量的音乐游戏相关客服经验让他们相信产品至少能 卖出15-17万套,相信至少可以回本,公司不会挂掉

聪明人一定能为公司找到方向,但不要提前死掉

多听用户的,产品里面80%的功能都是用户提出的

好的产品可以用有创意的方法营销(例如他们产品的缺货,或者用来办party)

不 要认为大公司一定可以把你踩死,大公司内部问题很多

创业者不能怕累。

有意义的事情都会很难,也会 很累。美国肯尼迪总统曾经说过:”我们下定决心登陆月球,不是因为那很简单,而是因为那很艰苦。”

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