Leveraged sales are no longer for the big boys anymore. Thousands of small businesses are turning to a different model to help increase profits and decrease overhead. Increased profits are always good, it doesn’t always have to come from the main product line. It can come from smaller supportive or secondary products. These are usually cheaper and easier to deliver than the main product or service. This is not a replacement for the main service or opportunity, but an enabler in the sales pipeline.

Leveraged sales are meant to sustain a business. Small businesses can use it to increase consumer awareness, education, loyalist and to develop a pull towards the primary opportunity. It has been easier for McDonald’s to sell all day breakfast items than to generate day long sales of its Big Mac. They offer breakfast food that is affordable all day long, which in turn draws more sales than its other food. You can develop your own opportunity to draw in sales.

Creating leveraged sales from information

Information sells and you can use it in a leveraged sales environment. There are different ways to bring prospects to your main opportunity, while making a bit of revenue in the meantime. You can use videos, eBooks, emails, workbooks, web conferencing, chat and others as premium offerings. You can use as many offerings as you want or as little as one. You can build your own online shop and sell them as digital goods.

Your leveraged sales tool bag is only as limited as you make it. The opportunities to make revenue are available as long as you’re willing to put in the time and effort. You don’t have to put advertising money behind a video series, unless you think it’s going to be big. Only do this if you have the numbers to back up your plan. This means promoting your offer for free for a while until it gains traction.

Moving forward with your leveraged sales plan

Pick a leveraged sales offer and move forward into the development stage. Take a look at your strategy and see how you can integrate it with your marketing. Once you rework the marketing strategy, you can develop your offer and then promote it. Don’t rush through the process. You may need to experiment with the marketing aspect of your secondary offer. Just don’t give up.