How to Use Yahoo! Answers to Your Advantage

Chances are if you’re selling a product, there are people out there looking for it. The concept of selling a product is to provide a solution to a problem, whether that problem is building a deck, decorating a house, or just providing entertainment to a bored individual. Yahoo! Answers provides a good place for you, the vender/merchant, to find people with problems that could be solved by using your products (i.e. Your target market).

Lets say for example you sell monkey catching nets. Granted the market for your products is probably very small, but it’s good to have a niche. Now say instead of waiting for someone to come to you looking for a net to catch their newly emancipated primate, you go out and find them. It would be like being a door to door salesman without the worry of being chased off the porch by, lets call them, non-receptive potential clients or the “difficult sell.”

At Yahoo! Answers you can search for people with problems which you can solve by selling them your products. This isn’t as simple as just showing up saying, “hey here’s my site, buy a net a catch your monkey.” You have to show you know what you’re talking about. Many sales of products depended on the vender’s advice given before the sale. Remember that people on Yahoo! Answers are not looking for products, they’re looking for solutions to problems. So if you’re product could help this person, then give some helpful advice and follow it with a link to your premium monkey nets.

To get started you have to set-up a Yahoo! Answers account. After you enter all your info you can get started by searching for people who need advice. Use the advanced search and set the search parameters to look for “open questions.” These are questions, that are open to your input because the “asker” hasn’t chosen the best answer.

Now go out there and start giving advice. It might just lead you to your next sale.