So what did the company do? They came up with a new plan: Healthy Breakfast.

The products didn't need to change, they were based on nutrition already, they just changed their "basic level" plan.

Good health starts every day when we wake up, we all know the importance of breakfast, so the company started promoting the ideals of a healthy breakfast. Who needs breakfast? Everybody. How long do they need breakfast for? Their whole life.

Now the criteria for somebody to try the products worked like this:
  1. They needed to be a person.
Of course the success was still down to how well the individual distributors could pitch the new plan, but now it was universal, it could appeal to everybody. Not only that, people weren't going to stop using the product once they had reached their goal weight, they were now product users for life.

This 'healthy breakfast' plan became the "Google search" of that company, the basic entry point.

Next up is an example closer to home. (This is the final example and will hopefully put a few light bulbs over your head)


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This post is very good.. now I'm wondering how to position my little shopping portal and market like Google.
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DABK Premium
What's your little shopping portal about? Between the bunch of us, we might be able to come up with something good.
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bryonbrewer Premium
i find when I have a question like "how can i (whatever)?" the best thing for me is just muse on it for a few minutes every day, if I do it enough, eventually the answer will come when I least expect it, like I will have a train of thought or see something and suddenly think "wait, that's how I can do it!" maybe this will help you
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DABK Premium
Interesting post. A little change in perspective can take you a long way.

You can use the idea (enlarge the pool of buyers, change the pool of buyers without changing the product, with getting it universal being the best) every day.

I mean, you can sell a treadmill as an exercise machine to get you in shape; you can sell it to women to get trimmer legs. It's still a treadmill.

But it is best if you pick things that can be wanted by everybody.
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bryonbrewer Premium
yeah, exactly my point! glad i got it across well enough
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PMV Premium
Really liked this Dom, the examples really show the real world validity and ready application of what you are saying. Thanks :-)
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JohnnyMark1 Premium Plus
Yeah Dom, that was thought provoking. Well done.
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bryonbrewer Premium
glad to help, when I first discovered this concept it was pretty inspirational
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kapp Premium
Interesting read Dom. Thank you.
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bryonbrewer Premium
no prob! thanks for reading
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