Selling your own products

When starting your own online business you will probably not have your own product so the next best thing to do is sell a product made by others.If you sell you get a commission.This is affiliate marketing.

As you build your list of email subscribers you can then move to Private Lable Rights or PLR products which are information products that someone else has written but which you can change and then sell as if you had written them.

These tend to be ebooks of 20-30 pages in length.You set the price and you get all on the money not 50% as is the case with most affiliate products.

My experience is that you offer one PLR product for sales and then have a pop up lightbox appear on your sales page after 10 seconds, which offers another PLR product for free.You will get many more email subscribers grabbing your free ebook than buying your paid product.BUT you will be growing your list.

This will in time become your most valuable asset.

In the meantime grab Tony Shepperd’s freebie“Quit Your Job in 90 days” ebook.It’s what got me started.

Best Wishes
Andrew Collinson

PS I’ve now sold two PLR ebooks,not many I know but all the greats started here.

Email list Building

“The money is in the list”

That being so I have started to build said list.I have bought some PLR products from the guru I am following.Cost was $97 for 12 products.They are well put together and relate to the make money on line niche.

I have used one to sell through Paypal and then added a free ebook via a pop-up webform.

So far no one has bought the main product but quite a few are grabbing the ebook  which gets me their email address.

So now the list is starting to build.I have 16 people on the list as I write this.Not many I agree but it is a start.

The important thing to remember is not to use every email you send out as a product pitch.You will get substantial opt outs if you do that.

The process is build a list,build a relationship with that list and then market to that list.

It’s the middle bit most people leave out.They so want to pitch products and make money they forget about building a relationship.The reader will just think “this person does not care about what I want they just want to sell me stuff”.

So give REAL content and give it free.You can introduce affiliate products from time to time but ensure they tie in with what you blog or websites is about.

Have your emails 4 days apart which is the default setting on Aweber the autoresponder I use.

After about 7 emails spread any subsequent emails out to seven days apart.

Follow this strategy and your own list will grow.

Best wishes

Andrew Collinson

Building a list

All internet marketers will tell you that the way to make money is to build a list.

You offer a free ebook or some other information product in return the reader gives you their email address.Then you start to market products which they have to pay for and you earn money off.

Well I am please to say my list is starting to build.

I now have three information products for sale now and two free ebooks.

So far no sales of the paid products but I have a total of 15 subscribers over three lists.None of them have unsubscribed yet which is good news.

I am now busy writing follow up messages and offering a mix of affiliate products and helpful content.

If you do this,mix up the offers with helpful advice.It will keep the unsubscribe rate down.

Time now to launch the fourth product on SEO.I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

Best Wishes

Andrew

PLR products

I have bought a year’s subscription to a Private Licencing Rights site for $97 which I think is good value,All the products are in the “make money on the internet” niche and come with a excellent sales page.This is easy to upload to my hosting service and then tweak before launching it on the internet.

Now I am using them to use as an upsell on my MLM site.This means altering the page any subscriber to my list sees after then have grabbed my free ebook.But right now I cannot configure my autoresponder so it redirects to the right page.This may be because the java script I loaded which generates the pop up window overrides the autoresponder  commands.

I am now investigating this with the guy who wrote the java script files.I will keep you posted.

Andrew

Pop up now live

Well the pop up for my free ebook is up and running you can see it here.i have tested the opt in and that works too.

A day later I got my first sign upwhich is a first for me.

Now I need an upsell product that will appear on the page which tells someone they have successfully subscribed to my list.This will be a one time offer offering a product at a big discount on the usual price.The idea is that if someone has opted into your list they are the frame of mind to buy something from you.

The heavy discount that is offered only once is a big incentive to buy now,so the chances of an upsell are high at this point.

But first I need a product and that means buying the PLR rights. So we will see what’s out there then I’ll come back to you with details of what I have chosen.

Bye for now

Andrew

Creating a free ebook

The next part of the course is creating a free ebook which would go with the sales page I have built.I would market it via one of the those pop up pages that appear after about ten seconds on a sales page.Only problem is the training on this uses Aweber which has great functionality in this area than Getresponse which I use.So I have found someone from Warrior Forum who is willing to write the code for the pop up.Now asked him what his charge will be,waiting for response.