Hey guys, I am not new to the DigitalPoint forums; in fact, I have just been lurking for the past few months reading up on some of the best minds in the business. I just now decided to register and get your feedback on some things. There is two things that have been making me quite a bit of money on the internet in the last few months. Ive discovered a marketing technique which, for the last 4 months, have pulled me in $10K per month using Azoogle, Hydra, and MaxBounty. I work on this, I guess around 4 hours a day, and pull in $300-$400 a day. With much more work, and better targetted products, you could easily hit $50K a month. I dont use Adwords, Overture, or any other type of PPC network. I dont even advertise the affiliate products on my popular websites. In fact, I dont pay a cent for the targetted traffic. It's a secret I have been sitting on, along with my own special techniques, which make it work. Part of it requires some tools, but it will pay for itself in one day. Even though im making around $10K a month, im wondering if there is much more money with selling this information? Maybe in an ebook format on Clickbank? Not only that, if affiliates also sell it for me, I get more money with less work. Another thing, that I can consider myself an expert at, is web traffic. I actually run quite a few blogs right now (I sold a couple of them) which include celebrity gossip, technology, and other niches that might interest you. Month over month, I was getting over 300K visitors. It's a series of steps that I take everyday to make it happen, from where I get the info, how I post it, to how I market it effectively. In one month you will see huge results. I would also consider selling this as an ebook because I am not interested in running blogs anymore, just affiliate marketing. What do you guys think? Any suggestions, comments? Should I just keep what I have?
Keep what you have. Why sell it if your making 10K a month+ even more possible. 120K+ a year isnt bad for your spare time.
Absolutely, what you will want to do before packaging your information into an ebook is... 1. Line up a few case studies that demonstrate proof of your system 2. Align yourself with some good list owners to help launch your product with a bang 3. Have a "back-end" figured out - what else can you offer to customers who will purchase your ebook. Could be a high end coaching program, an alliance with higher-end product where you get commissions, etc... Jeff
No matter how successful you are, people will view your ebook with skepticism. The best way to SELL an ebook is to offer a insane amount of freebies. So you sell the ebook for $49.95.... but 'for a limited time get $1000 of free bonuses!' If the surfer reasons he'll get his purchase price back in the perceived value of the bonuses, they'll be more likely to slap their credit card down to buy.
"The best way to SELL an ebook is to offer a insane amount of freebies" I strongly disagree. Internet marketers are an extremely savvy group of people, and they see straight through the "thousands of dollars worth" of bonuses. If your product is really worth what you are charging for it, it will sell without bonuses and you shouldn't feel the need to load your sales page with tons of junk. moneymaster - if you could be making $50K a month, is an extra $3-4K from ebook sales going to make a difference other than saturating the market with your technique?
I say definitely sell it, I personally would be very intererested to read what you were doing. Before you go to a place like Clickbank I would sell your product at the Warrior Forum, they have a thread where you can sell ebooks and products that you have created, it's called the WSO forum. Note: The product has got to be something that you have created yourself. The Warrior Forum has so many well respected guru's that frequent the WSO forum, if they get wind of your product and like it then you are laughing, people always listen to the gurus at the forum. All you need to do is ensure the product you sell to the Warriors is at a better price than what you are going to sell it for to the public, if your product is that good and will help people make more money you will easily sell over 200+ in just 2 days. A recent warrior sold a $12 report to over 500 warriors. You can also ask people to leave testimonials which will help when you come to sell the product at Clickbank. What will also work is if you took someone who had never done what you are doing to make money, get them to follow the steps and detail how it has worked for them. I wouldn't mind being a subject *hint* Anywho, I hope whatever you decide something works for you and keep up the good work. Whatever you're doing sounds great.
I would have to agree with Bips and WillB... You will most likely never make the 300-400 dollars a day in book sales that you are now... But a very viable option would be to begin an affiliate program (especially if there is a trick to the sails which you wouldn't have to tell the affiliates). This is a great option b/c your affiiliates can expand your reach. But you do have to occasionally come out with new updates so that the users keep coming back (if that's possible).. Just my 2 cents worth.
I don't know about that. It's not a question of trying to fool the surfer into buying, but cementing the want for the product by backing it up with bonuses. Getting more for your money. If you approach a hosting company saying you want to promote them by offering 3 months free hosting with a value of say $100... and they're on board with the idea... you're giving your surfer a $100 freebie. Some of surfers are no doubt looking for hosting, and a real $100 freebie would be of interest to them. Some surfers no doubt want to learn how to work the PPC search engines, so if you give a free ebook about it as bonus (wow a $20 value), that'll just increase the want of that one surfer to buy the product. I admit I could be wrong, but I think offering bonuses can only help increase conversion. (And that hosting company might even give you some referral revenue for the lead, or the PPC SE guide could be a free entry level ebook which pays YOU commission on the upsell of the full product!)
I would spend the time it would take you to make your ebook and expand what you are doing. If your system really works, it's sounds much more profitable than some crappy ebook that no one takes seriously anyways. Don't shoot yourself in the foot and give away your niche, unless you crave noteriety above profits.
Sounds like maybe the guy is doing some Geo-targeting on his visitors? What other kind of "tools" would be required, while getting free traffic at the same time?
Hey guys, Wow so many responses! Time to respond to all of them. "What other kind of "tools" would be required, while getting free traffic at the same time?" Listen, if you want to make $20K+ a month using my system, unless you want to sit at your computer for 24 hours a day, you will need some help of a computer program. You will need some tools that will do automative tasks, which I can provide, in the ebook, the whereabouts of. In fact, I only spend a few hours a day on my computer and let the programs work it self, and I make $10K. If I spent a few more hours, I can easily double it. I would spend the time it would take you to make your ebook and expand what you are doing. If your system really works, it's sounds much more profitable than some crappy ebook that no one takes seriously anyways. Thanks for the advice. You make perfect sense; my goal was actually to make a bit of money much faster than my original goal, and do some investing with it later on. Honestly, I dont need to offer thousands of bonuses for this product to sell. You know why? Because there are many things in this eBook that would make it sell like nuts : 1. I show you step by step, every nook, every cranny, how I set everything up, and what exactly I do EVERYDAY until the month ends. 2. If you pay a few hundred dollars for this ebook, you can make this up in a DAY if you do everything as I state in the book. Yes, a DAY. 3. There is NO money involved in investing in this (besides the price of the ebook of course). You dont need PPC engines, you dont need adwords training, you dont need overture or adbrite, and you dont need to have ANY cash on you to start. All you need is a Azoogle or Hydra account. I talk about Azoogle and Hydra because they are the companies i've used, and I know what offers work and what offers don't. If you dont have capital to invest in this (besides the price of the ebook of course), and want to make some serous money, than this is for you. Just so this method does not get oversaturated, I am thinking about selling the ebook in a limited quantity basis for a price affordable to those only who are serious. If I decide to release it, I will definatley let some gurus tear it up and review it so you can see what they think; i'm that confident about this method because it pays my bills every month, and some! Adwords is something I have tried and used, but was never very good at. In fact, if there is an Adwords Guru here who is willing to trade some good secrets and methods with me, I would be interested in doing so. This way, we can both milk money out of two things instead of one. I imagine that If I can make this much money of spending nothing, maybe I can make much more with a little adwords investment.
If your product is really so good, how about coming out with a subscription based site that you can build on and surpass what you are making now while building a huge list that you can make money off in the future?
I no longer market websites... 100% of my time is invested in our network... but if your ebook idea is as good as you claim, I'll be happy to give it an independant review and commentary.
I signed on to Warrior Forum, made some posts and then submitted a post to the WSO forum. It was up for a time, then got disapproved and deleted by moderators. It was exactly like any other posts in that forum, and not even spammy in the least. Offered a very special promotion for their members. Didn't realize it was a "Clique" site. Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. Please.