Creating your Own Product for Profit!
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by Wes Blaylock
Creating a product is much easier than people think it
is. A lot of people have been on the net a long time and are still marketing affiliate
programs. Although I have nothing against affiliate programs, I just think it
would be much more profitable for you if you created your own product and started
your own affiliate program.
Think about how hard you work
for that affiliate program you are promoting. Now don't you wish you had somebody
like you promoting YOUR product? I bet you do. Look how far Cory Rudl came. He
created a $27 book. He learned how to sell his book and then came out with a marketing
course. He now has one of the most successful affiliate programs on the net. Thousands
of people advertise his site for him everyday. Can you create something worth
$27?
So how do you create your own product Wes? Well ask yourself
what you are good at. Can you cook? Are you a good speaker? Do you really know
how to save money? What are you good at? If you have one thing you are really
good at that other people would be interested in, you can have a great product.
If you don't have anything your good at, then think of friends
that you have that are good at something. Heres an example: I can't cook worth
a hoot, but my mom is one great cook and I have 2 friends that are head chefs
in good restuarants. Right now I have them working on a "Kitchen Tips" booklet.
Now this won't sell for much, but it is a 2 step process.
I
would sell the tips booklet for about $5 and make a $3 profit on each book. The
plan is to sell them by the hundreds and keep every customer's address. Once I
have a big enough database, I come out with a cookbook from my friends and mom
that sells for $39. See where i'm going here? If they bought a $5 info packed
tips booklet, they might think "Wow I wonder how much great info I would get for
$39."
Creating a book isn't the only way to go. If you know
somebody that has a great talent in a specific field, do an interview with him/her
and record it. Now you have audio tapes.
Have somebody else
build you a product. There are plenty of programmers out there that would build
you something you could sell,as long as the programmer gets some money out of
it. Either buy the resell rights, or give him/her a percentage of every product
out the door.
I knew a guy who used to go to business seminars
every weekend. He kept telling me how good they were and that if only he could
have their information in a book, he could sell it and make a fortune. Well I
told him to go buy some video equipment and get to the seminar early. I told him
to ask the speaker if he could video tape the seminar, duplicate it,and resell
it. He did and the speaker said yes but I want 20% of all profits. Thats pretty
reasonable if you ask me. They wrote up a quick contract and there he was, sitting
in the back of the seminar with his video camera. He made 2, two hour tapes on
business building and sold them for $69.
Think you could gather
up enough info to charge for a monthly newsletter? You could become your own internet
researcher and put together a 2 page report on a specific topic in a niche market.
You don't actually have to know anything, you just have to find information about
that specific topic and make sure that it is something people want to know about.
You could charge $1 per month for a subscription. You might be saying "1 dollar,
is that it?" Well would you pay me $1 a month to get this newsletter every week?
I have about 3,500 subscribers to this newsletter. If I got $1 out of you, I would
make $3,500 per month. Thats not bad at all for writing about something I like.
Hell, I haven't even let out the big marketing secrets yet.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when creating your own product. So reread
this article and think of a product you could make that people would want. Now
get off your butt and put it into action. You will thank me later.
See
you at the bank,
Wes Blaylock