Sometimes I am thinking about my second attempt to become a Clickbank publisher, because I have some nice ideas about creating a new product. However, if do that, then it will about making money online, affiliate marketing and all that stuff. I am not sure, if there is a point of creating such ebook, because unless you have a huge list or lots of JV's, your product won't go up the rankings in this niche... What do you think?
Keep in mind that most people just want to because publishers simply because they think its easy money and it does not require any work. However, then they suddenly find out that in reality being a publisher is much harder than being an affiliate since it require more experience and skills. A successful publisher needs to be a successful affiliate in some different niches first, then at one point in time it would be easy to take over one of them and make your own product while taking in consideration the points that make the product you are promoting to convert... If you make a product that converts well, with a little work lot of affiliates will join to take a piece of the pie Persistence is the key..never give up! cheers!
Well, to be honest, I think that being a publisher is much easier than an affiliate. The difference is that, affiliate always make little steps to make more money, but a publisher has to make a huge step and create a decent product to attract affiliates and make sales. Creating a product it self with landing page, graphics, content and affiliate tools is quite complicated and expensive. That's what scares affiliates to become a publisher.
I have made the transition from affiliate to publisher. That's not to say we don't still promote some stuff but we don't actively search out new campaigns now. Once you get your supporting cast in place i.e. developer, designer, writer and such it can be quite fun and exciting. We are about to launch our second product and I find it much more profitable than being an affiliate. The good thing about being a publisher is that once you have developed the product and it's out there your investment is almost done. Now, there are things you'll have to do along the way to promote it and keep it competitive but for the most part you won't be sinking big money into it anymore. Affiliates constantly have to be spending money to find out what works and to stay ahead of other affiliates. I would rather sell 50 items at $6 each than 4 items at $25. And that is exactly what happens once your product takes off. I say go for it. If I've learned one thing from the affiliate side of the business it is that you can still make money in niche even if its very competitive. good luck...
I got to tell you that it is tough. That niche is so dominated by the lists and Jvs that it is difficult to even get people to try and promote your product. They actually have some of the lowest conversion rates but have so much traffic (from lists and jvs) that it makes up for it. I got a couple of IM "gurus" to blast my site to their lists and did well on those but have never been able to break into the inner circle and have a massive launch. don't get me wrong I have made a lot of money with my daily profiting product but I can assure you that it took much more work than any affiliate campaign I have ran. good luck either way. Greg
Sorry man, Nope. I've worked way way way harder as a publisher over the last couple of months - just getting my thing off the ground than I've ever worked in 3 years as an affiliate. There's so many more things to consider as a publisher. So many more aspects to work on. I still have like 87 things on my to do list. --- There may be some truth to once you get a successful product - it's mostly smooth sailing. When I get my gravity over 100 I'll get back to you on that (It's 5.62 at the moment.)
Maybe it's a bit early for me to become a publisher I just thought, that the most difficult part is to create the actual product, sales page and affiliate tools. Then the rest should be not that complicated...
I haven't tried to publish any products yet, although it does appeal in the long run. I'd like to think I've become very good at promoting other products, but being a great salesperson is a different story altogether. I'd probably have to hire somebody to put together sales copy, graphics and etc. And of corse, you have to be able to put in the initial workload of building a product from scratch.