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    Sales Funnels and SA

    So the other day i attended a great webinar on sales funnel,
    fired up I decided to look around and see if I could find any successful businesses locally.
    And after a decent session behind google... nothing*

    I lot of the successful sales funnels operating overseas are single products with simple up-sells.

    So what are your thoughts, is it a gap in the market or the absence of a market?

    *very little of value

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    It depends on what you mean with sales funnel.

    There are many successful businesses in South Africa. SABMiller, Remgro, Vodacom, Anglo American, Bidvest, Discovery, Tiger Brands, Richemond, Naspers, Capitec - too many to mention. Four SA companies made it into the Forbes top 500 – including Sasol, mobile operator MTN and FirstRand – with Sanlam, Steinhoff and Naspers listed in the top 1,000.
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    What I Mean by sales funnel is a online only based business with a small group of products.
    yes there are successful companies in SA no doubt,

    But from the perspective of building a product based business with a near passive business model, I could not find much, you will find most of the high revenue business on clickbank use a funnel system to boost sales.

    Why can I not find businesses based in SA operating in a similar fashion?

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    Online business requires volumes. To compete with the likes of Amazon may not be viable for a small South African market.
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    Yeah that was the sense I was getting, was curious on other peoples take. do you think the market could develop here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David McG View Post
    Yeah that was the sense I was getting, was curious on other peoples take. do you think the market could develop here?
    Maybe with a specialist niche product or service, but it appears as if online buying is still limited in most communities.
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    Peter Carruthers 'Earnster Ninja' offers to set up an efficient sales funnel for individuals joining his webinar and support group
    His reservations are that by simply offering the funnel is not enough, once you get a number of inquiries most business fail by first not replying to them, weeding through them and converting the hot prospects into sales and the interested only inquiries into future prospects, that is why he also offers the support necessary to do the conversions and future follow ups.

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    My initial thought is that such a business may be able to be based here but need to appeal to international clients as well as / instead of SA clients.
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