Creating Information Products – A Goldmine?
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Profits From Information Products
Creating information products is one of the best ways to make money online. A lot of affiliate marketers may not agree with this, but let me explain.
When you try to sell a product on the internet, whether it’s a physical product, software or ebook, what is the major factor that will determine how many sales you’ll get?
The answer is not the product, not the sales letter and not the pretty graphics.
The deciding factor of how many sales you will get is web traffic. You need to targeted traffic to your web page that is advertising the product to generate sales. No matter how ground breaking your product is, without traffic, it’s nothing!
So what is the best way to get traffic?
If you’ve been reading my blog for some time, you know that I’ve gone into detail with a lot of methods such as article marketing, directory submission, email marketing, solo ads, search engine optimization etc…
You can use any one of these techniques or if you have the time, you can use all of them. However, it takes time to build the traffic you need. Unless of course you have a lot of money to throw at pay per click.
The quickest way to get traffic to your website so that you can test how well your product will sell is by creating an information product. Let me explain.
Once you create an information product of your own, get an affiliate program for it and start to market it to affiliates. You can do this by submitting your product to Clickbank or Paydotcom and then promote the hell out of it. The objective is to get as many affiliates as possible.
What I will do is to give the majority of the commissions to affiliates. Something like 70 or even 90%. What this does is motivate the affiliates. They will do their best to drive traffic to your product and earn a good commission.
With several of these affiliates promoting your product, you’ll get a shit load of traffic.
Remember that in Clickbank, if your product sells well, it will be ranked higher in their search results. This means that you will attract more affiliates.
Here’s the interesting part. Once you have a lot of customers and people who have signed onto your list as a subscriber due to the affiliate promotion which you’ve got, you can sell to them on the back end. Offer products which you’re an affiliate of and make some commissions. You now have a big enough list to make money with.
Next, you need to create another information product that is related to the first one you did. When the product is complete, you can now email all the customers and subscribers which you have collected from your previous promotion and then sell it to them. You don’t need to pay commissions anymore.
This product also needs an affiliate program. Your affiliates should be notified of your new product and then offer them high commissions again.
The cycle repeats itself. Your affiliates will send you more customers and more prospects and you will add them to your database of contacts. Release another product and sell to your list of contacts without paying commission. The more products you create, the more profits you’ll make.
To make this business work you need 3 things:
1. An excellent information product.
You can get your own information product created at http://www.bestinstantsites.com who have a business in a box package that has everything you need to sell a product online.
2. Offer marketing tools
You need to provide as many marketing tools as possible to your affiliates to help them to promote your product. Give them examples of solo ads, banner ads, tweets and articles.
Affiliates are lazy so if you provide them the material, they are more likely to promote your products.
3. Maintaining relationships
You need to maintain a good relationship with your affiliates, customers and subscribers. Offer them valuable content for free that will help them.
Contact them regularly to know that you exist.
Once you consistently do the above, it’s very hard for you not to make money online.
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PLR Products Membership – With A Business Blueprint
PLR Products especially membership sites are plenty on the internet.
Many internet marketers that produce these kind of websites are outsourcing the products and content to freelancers. The problem is, a lot of these freelancers are non-native English speakers.
This seemed like an opportunity to produce a membership site with quality PLR products. Something which people would be proud of to own and sell.
This made me partner with a good friend of mine, Dee Ferdinand of http://www.minisiteguru.com
We’ve been working together over the past 3 months on creating a quality PLR membership site. Products with well written ebooks, professional minisite graphics and high converting video squeeze pages – something that is hard to find in the market.
Well this project has finally launched. It’s called Niche Empire.
It’s a limited unique PLR membership with products that you can change and sell in your own name. There’s training in the members area that teaches you what to do with the products, step by step.
To add something really special for the members, there’s a business blueprint included which shows how to use the products and training to build your own internet empire.
To get a simplified copy of this business blueprint, you can download it at http://www.niche-empire.com/gifts.htm
Tags: recommendation, business, business plan, internet marketer, internet marketers, plr, plr membership
Directory Submission Service For Ghostwriting Services Website
I am currently thinking of ways to promote my ghostwriting services website and I came across a site which I found to be pretty good and inexpensive
The name is DirectoryMaximizer. It’s a service to improve your search engine rankings by submitting your website to free or paid directories.
I just bought their service for $5.00 which includes submitting my website to 36 free directories. The time for me to do this myself would probably take one whole day. So $5 justifies it.
The good thing about Directory Maximizer is that your website is submitted manually and you can also schedule when the submissions will be complete. I’ve chosen to submit to 36 directories in a span of 2 weeks.
If the results are good, I will be submitting to another 36 directories in two week’s time. $5 for at least one day’s work is a no-brainer. I’m hoping I to see some positive results for http://www.bestinstantsites.com
Get your websites submitted to Directory Maximizer
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Ghostwriting Services – Squidoo Lens
I just finished writing up my Squidoo lens on ghostwriting services.
Let’s see what the power of Squidoo can do to traffic.
I do hope you like the information in the lens. I’ll be driving traffic to it by article marketing and other marketing methods. I’ll be posting to let you know the results. So far, this lens is not even indexed.
Check out the lens on ghostwriting services at:
http://www.squidoo.com/ghostwritingservices
Tags: internet marketing, ghostwriter, ghostwriting, ghostwriting services, squidoo, squidoo lens
Ghostwriting Services – Ghostwriter Offers A Complete Ghostwritten Business-In-A-Box
Ghostwriting has always been one of my strong points. I can do detailed research and write in good English quickly. Essential qualities for a ghostwriter.
I have never considered ghostwriting as a business until the beginning of October, when I spoke with Bev Clement, a professional ghostwriter from the UK.
She knew what my strengths were and gave me suggestions on the possibility of turning that skill into a business. I was thinking about her suggestion and decided to go ahead, considering Bev knows what she’s talking about.
I decided to make a presence in this field.
A week later, I released a special offer to a forum of internet marketers where I offered my ghostwriting services. However, I wanted to make the offer special and decided to throw in a few extras.
My special offer which was posted on October 15th, included:
- a custom written 20 page information product (~5,000 words)
- a professional formatted mini-site (header graphics, footer, ebook cover and order button)
- a video squeeze page (a video with an opt-in form to capture email addresses)
- 7 follow up emails (autoresponder messages)
- a short-copy web sales letter
- and installation of all the above on your website
All this was offered at $297. No I haven’t gone mad. I just wanted to test out my idea and collect some testimonials.
Well the offer was limited to 10 people but it was sold out within 5 hours. I was very pleased.
I increased the price to $377 for 5 more people, and that sold out as well.
Good cash, but now the work.
What followed was a month of pure, concentrated hard work. I was working 5 days a week for 8 hours and sometimes on a Saturday. I was drowning with requests.
Receiving the feedback from the customers was uplifting. They seemed very pleased with the quality of work I produced.
So What Did I Learn From My Ghostwriting Experience?
1. People were not that concerned about the time line. They were more concerned about the quality of the content delivered.
2. I can manage to ghostwrite a complete turnkey system for 15 clients in a month. Although I will not offer that many services with the package anymore.
3. The video squeeze page and autoresponders were bonuses which took up a lot of my time (they need to be taken out)
4. The personal installation was not needed by most people. I will also take this out this service.
5. I’ve learned so many things from researching the niches. I felt so knowledgeable after a month.
6. People will pay for quality ghostwriting. I just sold 2 packages after I marked up the price and offering less.
7. Ghostwriting does not have to be about writing cheap articles at $4 each. The market will pay you more if you can deliver quality.
Overall, I am overjoyed with this new business model I have. I get paid good money for it and it’s something that I can do well.
For information on my ghostwriting services at Best Instant Sites visit
www.bestinstantsites.com
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Internet Marketing Selling – How To Give Away Free Stuff To Sell
Internet marketing selling is so easy to do compared to the usual brick and mortar selling. It’s because you can give out free information to people in sites such as article directories, blogs, forums and video sites.
So how do you sell when by providing information free to other people?
You can do this by giving them incomplete content. Let me explain.
Say for example, you go to a forum and tell everyone that you have a free report for them to download which is related to what they are interested in. Ask them that you appreciate some honest feedback for the product and that there is no opt-in required to download the report. You’ll have many fanatics downloading that report in no time.
In your report, tell them of several solutions to solve their problems. Then for a more detailed version, they can opt-in to another free report which you have. Since the readers have a taste of the good information that you’ve provided, they won’t hesitate on giving their emails to subscribe to another report of yours. Using this technique you’ll find that you can increase your subscribers a lot more than using the usual standard ways.
Next in both of your free reports, tell them of a paid product of yours which has further details of what your free report has. Tell them that it describes everything in a step by stpe format and goes into much detail. If your report is good, you’ll increase your subscribers and customers greatly. This is internet marketing at its best.
Oh and by the way, download my book Article Marketing Strategies It’s free 
Tags: internet marketing, article marketing, article marketing strategies, giving away free stuff, internet marketing selling
3 Ways To Use A Blog For Traffic
One of the easiest ways for you to add content to your website is by running a blog. There are plenty of blogging systems, the most popular being WordPress that can be added to your website in a matter of minutes.
The fact of the matter is, a blog can be one of the best ways for you to pull traffic into your website consistently. Here are three different ways that you can use blogs to receive that traffic. You should make sure that you are doing these on a regular basis and you would be surprised with how quickly your traffic will grow.
Search Engine Optimization – A blog is one of the easiest ways for you to begin using search engine optimization to pull in free traffic. After the initial keyword research is done, you can begin writing short articles and adding them to your blog automatically.
You can even stack up these articles within the blogging platform and have them added on a daily basis without actually having to go in and add them. Because people tend to give credence to blogs and the linking is something that is done automatically through the pinging process, you may be able to rank well for your keywords in a short period of time.
Leaving Comments – Traffic from blogs does not necessarily need to only come from your blog. If you are subscribed to somebody else’s blog that receives a lot of traffic, you may be able to get direct links from them by adding comments to their new posts. It doesn’t even matter if they have the no follow attribute enabled on outbound links, you can still get direct traffic from clicks.
The real secret is to know whenever they add content quickly so that you can be one of the first to leave a comment. The higher on the list your comment is, the more clicks you are going to get.
Guest Blogging – Here is another way for you to get traffic from somebody else’s blog. Find blogs that are related to your niche and offer to write some unique content for their blog in exchange for a link back to your website.
Most people will be more than happy to allow you to do so, especially if you have a reputation for knowing the niche. Try offering to be a guest blogger at least once per day, you would be surprised with how quickly this can grow your traffic.
Tags: blogging, blog, blogs, internet marketing, web traffic, webtraffic
Back To Blogging And Losing The Rhythm
Back in Hong Kong on August 20th and now I’m back blogging. I had a fantastic time in the UK with the family. Scarborough, Alton Towers, Light Water Valley, Birmingham, Cramlington and Carlisle. The kids enjoyed it more than me though 
The fascinating thing is the amount of changes that I’ve noticed. I used to study in Birmingham about 14 years ago. This was the first time I went back with my wife to look at the place. I was gobsmacked.
The place had changed so much I was lost a lot of the times. Good job China Town is still there and my favorite restaurant, China Court. I always used to think that Hong Kong was very advanced until I went back to the UK. It seems that everything has changed so much.
Much more restaurants, huge shopping centres, internet cafes etc… Now imagine what would happen if everything had stayed the same? Would the country still be as attractive as it is now? Would tourists like it? Would people return?
The point I’m making is that continuous improvement is vital. Just like your marketing and your online business. You need to keep up with the trends otherwise you will be left behind. If I compare Birmingham to Newcastle (where I was born), I much prefer Birmingham. Newcastle has changed but not much.
Many marketers are creating videos with their products and salesletters. Are you doing the same and keeping up with the trend? Remember photos? It’s all digital now. What would happen if a shop owner still stuck to developing photos the old fashioned way and ignored the digital photo wave? Yes he’ll be out of business.
That’s something to think about for today.
By the way, it’s been about 9 days since I came back from the UK and I haven’t blogged till now. The reason? I lost the rhythm. As soon as the habit is broken for a while, you’ll lose the rhythm and it’s hard to get back. This is what happened to me. I hope I’ll be blogging again tomorrow.
Tags: internet marketing, blogging
Watching The Beijing Olympics
I’m busy watching the Beijing Olympics over here in the UK and also traveling to different cities so I haven’t updated Traffic Beast much. I’ve been to Alton Towers with the kids which was amazing. I never imagined I could walk a full 10 hours non-stop around the park.
As for the Beijing Olympics, I was absolutely stunned with the opening ceremony. Everyone was talking about it. Imagine having a product launch with something that can reach that level of excitement!
I’ll be back in Hong Kong on August 20th so busy will be normal then. In the meantime, I’m going to enjoy my month’s stay in the UK. Cheer your own country in the Olympics and have a fantastic time. I’ll be cheering on China and Hong Kong.
Tags: internet marketing
Clearing My Mind
I’m in Newcastle Upon-Tyne in the UK now. The weather is excellent compared to Hong Kong. UK’s weather rules. A lot of people will think I’m nuts.
It’s been quite relaxing these few days. Funnily enough, I had a lot more time to think about things. Important things of course.
Things like, what tasks am I doing that are effecting my business. And what direction I should take etc…
I never had a chance to think like this in Hong Kong. Everything seems so rushed and I’m always so busy. Looking at the people in UK taking a more relaxed approach slowed me down considerably. I no longer feel so rushed during the day.
Good or bad?
Tags: internet marketing, clearing my mind, hong kong, uk