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How To Design Your Tool

How to Design a Product Advising Tool

Establish the Product you want to assist people with purchasing.
1. It can be most anything!
2. But it's best to think of items that require research before purchase.
3. Or, items that have many variations, models, or features.
4. Users of your tool want not only to find the product that fits their exact scenario, but they also want a real expert recommendation as well.
Establish the name of the tool.
Write out every variable that influences the product that will fit them best.
1. These are the input fields.
2. Really think about this!
3. This is important as only an expert, or someone with knowledge of this tools theme, would know every possible variable that would influence the decision. This is key to keeping our tools high quality and very personalized to the user.
4. Also consider the type of input field that would make the most sense for that variable.
5. Multi select options, text box area, dropdown style single select, checkboxes, number field, slider, etc.
With this consideration, now also determine the options that the user would need to select. Best to go very detailed here.‍
1. We will mostly know what we should use here so don't stress over it!
Most Important part:
1. Consider as many combinations and user scenarios as you can.
2. layer in your personal expert advice, and list out products that you would personally recommend based on as many input combinations as you can.
3. Ex) if user selects X (or X and A and B etc.) always recommend Y (or define in some way how we should continue)
4. In some cases, we may not need intense amounts of logic, and we will do our part in constructing this as well.‍
5. DO NOT stress over this, we are here to help you and make this as easy as possible for you!‍
Define what you want the output to look like.
1. What should the tool produce?
2. We default to 3-5 product recommendations, plus detailed reasoning behind every reccomendation.
Lastly, if you want the tool to have a specific persona we can get creative and layer in a personalized tone. Want it to sound like the way you speak? we can do that. Want it to talk like a pirate? we can do that too.

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Make sure you go through all of this information and provide everything as detailed as possible in an email or form submission. If you are a content creator, refer to the creator hub for an even more detailed checklist and potential benefits of creating these tools with us! You'll want to be involved!

Like stated previously, don't stress over this process, we will help you! Once you build a tool or two, you'll be able to construct one in no time!

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Is there a limit to how many product advising tools I can submit?
- There is no current limit!
Can I incorporate my own personal affiliate marketing programs?
- YES
- We are here for YOUR success! Helping you, helps us!
Can brands have tools built specifically for them and their products only?
- YES
- Brand deals will require additional negotiation with the owner of TheToolCollective.com.
- We focus on keeping our product advising tools as unbiased as possible, and made by real individual enthusiasts. Brand biased tools will require sponsorship agreements.
Can brands sponsor specific product advising tools or categories?
- YES
- If your company wants our current and published tools to incorporate their products, or have a bias towards their products, we will require negotiation and sponsorship agreements.
- Our users will know that this tool is sponsored by you and your company.
Can I make tools that advise on my own personal merchandise?
- YES
- As long as they fit our theme that is perfectly fine.
- Like brand deals, tools that have a bias to a specific brand or personal business, will require sponsorship.

Make product advising tools that truly help the user!
- Make them for products that have many models, variations, features, or are expensive and require research and thought behind the purchase.
- We want to give the user confidence and a real expert recommendation that they can trust and have tailored to their personal scenario.
If you are a content creator and have your personal affiliate program incorporated into your tool(s), you determine the tools success.
- SHARE YOUR TOOL, direct your audience to your tools webpage as frequently as possible.
- make sure your audience knows about it, make sure they know your expertise is coded into it, and will apply it to thier personal buyer scenario.
- Give your audience unlimited access to your expertise!

Working with us to design your own product advising tools can be a seriously beneficial opportunity for you!
Not only do they strengthen your own affiliate marketing efforts and earning potential, they give you access to a far greater audience and potential for exposure and growth.
Fellow enthusiasts or content creators may want to work with you.
Brands and companies may contact you with sponsorship or collaboration opportunity.
With more creators, and increased traffic across the platform, comes with increased status and authority for whoever is involved on the platform.

Having your own product advising tool only comes with benefits, as you should already know!

As the site grows, and as your tools age, they will only become more valuable for you as traffic increases.

You never know, your tool may get popular, and end up getting shared all across the interent.

There is truly immense value in just having a single high quality tool here at The Tool Collective, and it only gets better with time!

Product Advice Tool Submission Checklist:

Tool Name.
Tool Inputs, Input types, and Input options listed out in detail.
Tool Logic as detailed as you can be, this is where you provide your personal recommendations based on the user's selected inputs.
Desired output format.
Desired Persona if any.
List of all products that you want included in the tool. And their corresponding affiliate links.
1. Images in the form of Image URL's. right click and copy image address.
2. Prices.
3. Product names.
4. YOUR affiliate link for each individual product. (If applicable)
If you want to provide any meta information like descriptions, FAQ's, Pro Tips, etc. do so as well in the form of a paragraph.
Any other details that you want to be included or questions.

Gather all of this in the form of an email and send it to help@thetoolcollective.com

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Creator Profile Page Submission Checklist:

Full name OR social media username.
1. You have the right to provide your legal name, first name plus last initial, or use your social handle. Whatever you prefer.
Social media account links.
Contact Info: Emails, business phone numbers, etc.
Profile picture: Headshot preferably, or whatever image you want.
A paragraph for your "About" section: Who you are, what are your passions, what do you do, what kind of content do you make, are you an expert in any discipline, etc. Go crazy!
Links to any other personal or professional things like websites, sponsor sites, etc.
Your title: get creative, if you had to give your form of content creation a job title, what would it be?
A list of products plus your affiliate links for your "My Favorite Gear" section. pick 3-5 minimum.
1. images, prices, links. DO NOT FORGET YOUR LINKS!
If you want, we will include any images or video of your content at the bottom of your page, to show users what you create, and give your page some color and character. we recommend 3-5 images and a video, it can be short form video or we can embed a youtube video. We should just need the link if you choose to embed a youtube video.
We will include anything else that you may want, just let us know.
Also, if you have any design recommendations for your page or want soemthing specific let us know!

Send all of this in the form of an email to help@thetoolcollective.com

You have the right to choose what information you provide us and we will update or remove any information at your request.

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We are actively improving our product advising tools!
Primary limitations include:
- Missing recent or brand new products that have recently been released, we may not have the information to include those products in recommendations, but we update as often as we can.
Price variations: We cannot guarantee the product that is recommended will be the exact price that we stated. So always navigate to the recommend product link(s) to check the current price.
If we are provided a precise list of products and prices we can then incorporate the tool to fetch that data and layer it into the tools output.
We will soon incorporate API's, like through Amazon, that will allow for dynamic product and live price fetching.
In the future we can do this with specific brands API access as well as we work to upgrade our system in the near future.

"This platform is built on the opportunity for content creators to not only increase their earning potential, but drastically increase their outreach, audience, network, and business funnel. Our mission is to be the key resource for outdoor content creators to maximize their potential to do what they love for a living." - Jacob P. Owner of The Tool Collective

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