# 093: Selling Products Direct to End-Customer Online

- Show: [Product Startup](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup)
- Published: 2021-09-15
- Length: 30m
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online
- Listen: https://productstartup.com/

## Summary

Toccara Karizma, founder of Karizma Marketing, explains how inventors and small manufacturers can sell directly to end-customers online by leveraging digital marketing strategies. She details the 'Cow method' (Customers' Own Words) for extracting keywords from competitor reviews to craft benefit-driven ad copy, and emphasizes the importance of video content and micro-influencers for building social proof. Karizma outlines a four-tier audience strategy—from cold traffic to loyalty—and advises using tools like the Facebook Ad Library to reverse-engineer successful competitor messaging.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=0) Introduction: Toccara Karizma and Karizma Marketing
- [2:13](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=133) Karizma Marketing's Origin and E-commerce Evolution
- [4:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=286) The Cow Method: Using Customer Reviews for Ad Copy
- [11:33](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=693) The 'So That' Exercise: Features vs. Benefits
- [17:40](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=1060) Micro-Influencers and User-Generated Content (UGC)
- [20:56](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=1256) Video Demos and the Four-Tier Audience Funnel
- [26:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/product-startup/2021-09-15-093-selling-products-direct-to-end-customer-online#t=1598) Using the Facebook Ad Library for Competitive Intelligence

## Topics

- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Marketing & brand](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/marketing-and-brand)
- [Crowdfunding & preorders](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/crowdfunding)
- [Pricing, margins & unit economics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pricing-and-unit-economics)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Karizma Marketing (company)
- Shopify (tool)
- Facebook (other)
- Instagram (other)
- TikTok (other)
- Amazon (other)
- YouTube (other)
- BuzzFeed (company)
- Mako Design + Invent (company)

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- [Thinking like a Marketer: Reframing the Sales Mindset w/ Chris Luecke](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-manufacturing-executive/2021-02-23-thinking-like-a-marketer-reframing-the-sales-mindset-w-chris-luecke) (The Manufacturing Executive)
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