Hello Potential Affiliates, I just wrote my first eBook titled: How to Buy Your First Home with Confidence: A Practical Guide to Home Ownership I am offering a 45% affiliate commission! This is a real world real life practical guide that everyone will be able to read, understand, and enjoy! Real Estate is a hot topic right now! People are looking for guidance! I am a vendor on ClickBank. username FirstNet1
* Do some internal promotions. * Prove the thing will convert for YOU first. * Show proof, improve conversions * Offer at least 60-75% lol at 45 Good luck.
Thank you. I admit I am new to this. I just want to sell my eBook because I know it's a quality eBook and people will not regret purchasing it. I will try some more ideas and offer and higher comssion. Thanks again. I noticed you are are offering 65%. I will try that.
where is your website? how are people supposed to market this if you don't show off your landing page?
www.homewithconfidence.com is the web address. I just set up this digital point account. I thought it was automatically available to readers. Here it is either way. I will get the hang of this soon enough. Thank you for the reply.
This product is bit confusing for me. Is it guide how to buy house or guide how to make money? Almost your whole sales letter states that you have debts, you have to sold everything...so I really don't see how man without money can get a house, before making a lot of money...which leads to my original confusion...is this money making guide?!?! I think you should rewrite most of your sales letter and to be clear what kind of product you are selling.
Powfada, I havent sold any yet but I just launched the site two days ago. I am trying to promote it. I thought affiliates would be one good way to do that. Centarec, It's a guide that takes people from preparing their finances (even before they buy a house which includes paying off credit card debt and saving money) all the way through the rest of the process. I appreciate the feedback though and I will look at my sales letter for any way to make it clearer. I really appreciate the replies. I feel that I have a good product here but I need to get traffic to the site and get people to buy it. I'm new to this whole thing.
Another note, my eBook focuses on keeping people motivated through out the home buying process along with helping them stay on track to buy a home and providing techniques and tips. People often get discouraged throughout the home buying journey and want to give up and just rent forever because it's easier. This eBook is from a real person (that's me) showing them and telling them that hey... I did it... you can to.
You sent me a PM, I'll reply here so others can benefit. 1. You have taken a lot of time, effort, and are emotionally attached to your ebook (as you should be but only to a point). Hate to say it but 'I haz my first product ready' is only maybe 15% of the equation here. Why? Because you can buy PLR for $20 and the book will be close to your quality (or better). So now I too have an ebook, I can sell it, it's something I know a lot about so I can add onto it, no shortage of having a unique spin on a book/product/software... but again, this is only a tiny % of the big pic. 2. Instead of studying a course on how to write your own .pdf file with some formatting/pics/etc., you should have spent much more time on the marketing process. Can't just show up to market and hope affiliates promote you 'just because' you spent a lot of time, and think the book is great... That doesn't make sales, researching your markets and doing tests is what makes sales. You reallllllly have to prove there is a demand for this, and that it WILL convert. If you don't do this step you fail miserably 99% of the time. 3. I've actually structured sales pages in the past with NO product to deliver. Why? Because if it converted I say "Thanks for your pre-order!" and it's not to make money it's to prove my idea is viable, even if they refund who cares the point is to test your idea and see if it will convert (more than just once too). Once it does, it's a good sign that you are on the right path (another good method is to promote something similar that's already out, then make your own/better version). But more importantly you do these tests so you don't go down the path of building a website, product, aff area, and launch only to find you fucked up on the market research step and your product isn't really needed or viable at all... 4. Be your own marketer, you said you weren't sure about internal promo < Real shame - you should be doing nothing but heavy internal promo i.e. articles, 2.0, linkbuilding, any/everything possible to get backlinks and relevant traffic while you watch your site like a hawk and split test your sales page (try a few different versions like hardsell vs softsell, different titles/calls to action etc.). Once you convert the thing on your own, and improve on your conversion rate, you will start to naturally be found by other affiliates. Not to mention right now if a few big guys came on board and started asking you for customization server side, your best keywords that performed for you, or anything semi-sensitive you'd be lost and probably lose them. Where as if you do your own campaigns for a while you'll start to understand this business from the inside out (and will be looked as a reputable vendor vs. someone with passion that wants others to take the risk re time + money associating themselves with promoting your unproven product). 5. NEVER be scared to boot your project to the side and start over. Going back to not being emo with your product = very important. You may have spent good money and time producing this, but don't be too proud to walk away vs. promoting for a year and tweaking and convincing yourself that if enough people just see it or enough promoters just pick it up, it might fly... If it shows NO signs of growth or success after a few thousand quality uniques and some split testing, it's time to press the reset button and call it practice for that round. .02.
Thank you for all of the helpful information. I'm sure you're right about my lack of advertising knowledge. My thing was that I wanted to write an eBook and get my thoughts onto paper. I'm not putting all of my eggs in one basket with this thing. I have other employment but I am just hoping that it will sell and I think it will. The problem is, like you said, that I am so new to promoting that I have no idea how to properly promote. The course I purchased on writing the eBook though does mention the same things you do. I think I just need to spend more time doing heavy promoting before I can fairly judge whether this thing is a winner or not. Does that make sense? I didn't do any pre-launch promoting and I made my sales page after I had written the eBook. I am also trying to use Google Analytics to track my site traffic but I'm having issues with it so I can't even see how many hits I've gotten yet. Like I said, I just launched a couple days ago. I see that I should have done more pre-launch prep but this is my first eBook and I am learning. I am using pitchmagic.com for my sales page and thank you page also. Anyway, I really appreciate you taking the time to reply and for so much good info. I am going to keep promoting and see what happens.
Funny, I am almost done with an eBook on how to Short Sale your home. More people going into foreclosure than buying now. I think each product will do great though.... With me being a Realtor the "how to buy with confidence" is a good product. Buyers are so weary to buy now that they just, well dont buy. Maybe if they have a vote of confidence they would????
rjd1265, Thank you for the vote of confidence. Funny you are about short sales. The condo I recently bought was a short sale. I didn't about buying short sales in my eBook because I thought I could write an article on that or maybe do a smaller "bonus" on my experience with buying a short sale. Either way, I appreciate the kind words and I think that both products will do well also. I really think it will help people. I didn't write it in a boring technical manor. One of the people I gave a review copy to said it reads like I am "talking to a friend or having a conversation" and it's easy to read. It's more of a matter of lack of experience getting product exposure for me. My site is online but I need to get quality traffic to it. Once I do that I am sure it will sell. I am also testing the price point of $29.95. Did you get a chance to check out the sales page? Thanks again.
Also, that's the main theme of my eBook... to guide them through the process while giving them the confidence they need and reminding them not to give up and not to get discouraged at all of the points people usually get discouraged. thanks again.
Make sure you note that with the new Fannie Mae guidlines, a condo in foreclousre is quite impossible to get a loan for, cash only. You can buy a short sale but if the condo development is in litigation, you will not get a loan...at least in WI.....
I did see the page. It looks good, simple. I dont have the book but make sure most of your chapers are financing. That is the #1 problem in buying a home now. Let them know the things they need upfront and the things they need to do to beef up the credit score to at least 680. Give a lender a $100 to review what you wrote and add/edit anything. Trust me it will be worth the money.
First home Guide - good luck with the launch - stick with it - you'll get the hang of it all in short order. @rjd1265 - hey - hit me up when you are ready to release this