Well, so much for updating this daily. My plan was to use this as an actual diary to keep my thoughts straight, but I guess I’m not just the diary type.
So after much messing about with my two Adwords campaigns, I’m changing tactics yet again. Yes, I know. You’re supposed to take one thing to completion at a time otherwise you’ll never succeed. And it’s true.
But I had the thought that, if I’m to be an “affiliate marketer,” am I not sort of back in the “dayjob” philosophy again? I’m promoting other people’s products. I’m still kinda an employee. I was always scared of having my own product, because it meant actually producing something and having to do customer service and so on.
But I’ve realized I LIKE creating. I like creating ebook covers from scratch. I like writing an instructional course and turning it into a polished PDF file. This is all fun for me. What’s not fun is writing article after article after zombie article for a website, and then even more to promote the articles I already wrote. Ug. It’s so… monotonous. Really.
So I’ve been diligently working on a sales page and a product. I’m going to become a merchant! Affiliate will be working for me! Maybe. Hopefully. It’s my first shot so we’ll see. But when I get bored with writing, I can switch to Photoshop. And when I’m bored with that, Camtasia. And so on. There seems to be so much more variety in product creation.
My ebook will be on something I know: website building. It’ll sort of be a PLR site. Sort of not. Complete packages. Guides to blogging and forums.
And for my sales page, I just stole it. Sort of. I downloaded another ebook merchant’s sales letter and wrote mine side-by-side to make sure mine hits all the same trigger points his does.
So we’ll see what happens. I’ll update again when I’m ready for launch…
Eddie Wolfe said
if you have ideas on setting up an easy (and I do mean easy!) membership site using PHP, I think that could be a good seller. I am so fed up of being told this ‘money is in the list’ sales pitch …and not being able to build a membership site to sell all the downloads I’ve accumulated. I am not interested in spalshing hundreds of pounds on a pre made one. I really think I am not alone in this!
Bookmarked this…thanks.
mkulp said
Eddie,
Well, now you’re giving me all sorts of ideas. Thank you! I may just have to sit down and really LEARN php now.
Martin
Gary said
Ok back to the thought of product creation. Isn’t it easier to be an affiliate of, say, CB and promote other peoples products instead of trying to create your own?
Tim said
Probably, but I like the idea of creating a product and throwing it into CB and letting affiliate do the work for me. And if you can set up a successful advertising campaign, you make twice as much money if you’re selling it yourself. There are also some easy ways around the creation problem, such as buying rights to a book you can sell.
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Chris Morris