Follow these two golden rules to maximize your earnings from selling information products online.
When selling information products online like e-books, ads, manuals, membership sites, job opportunities and more there are two golden rules you should follow to maximize your online earning potential.
Make Sure You Receive 50% Commissions
Unless you are selling an incredibly popular information product online, to make real money you should always make sure you receive at least 50% cash commissions on everything you sell. In fact, except under unusual circumstances, I will no longer sell information products online that do not pay me at least 50% cash commissions. This was not always the case.
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When I first started selling information products online I used to be happy to get 20% cash commissions. I sold stuff for $7.00 and received $1.40 per sale and thought I was doing good. Luckily I made online friends who quickly told me that selling anything for less than 50% was dumb considering how many people will pay you 50% cash commissions to sell their information products online. Over the last year I’ve started selling products going for over $100 and I receive at least $50 per sale. I cannot stress the importance of this. One $50 sale does a ton more for the bank account and psyche than dozens of $1.40 or $3.50 sales do. Taking anything less than 50% cash commissions to sell information products online is a bad deal for you except under unusual circumstances.
The More Links You Have The More Sales You Make
The key to making sales is no secret. You have to have your affiliate links with your ID attached in as many places as possible online. The more places your affiliate links are the more sales you will make. The real big sellers have their links in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of places on the internet and that is how they make the big money.
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Figuring out how to do this is the key to selling information products online for money. From article marketing, to free classifieds, to traffic exchanges, to safelists, to blogs, to Forums and to any other place you can think of to place your affiliate links, the more work you do here the more money you will make.
To maximize your online earnings from selling information products make sure you receive at least 50% cash commissions on every sale and make sure your affiliate links are in as many places as possible on the internet.
March 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Joe you are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to money issues. Thx for another helpful and informative write. My only c/o is that the branching pic wasnt very visable.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
hi Joe, more of a question than a comment:
Do you have an article on “setting up an affiliate scheme for complete novices” and also, how do you get the double lines under words (which scheme do you use?)
Thanks – revivor
March 18th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Joe Man!
Thank-you for the tips. I am a Web designer. A few points -
Real IT firms have no worker controls, the pay is shocking the hours awful. I have chosen to work my own hours on Triond and ebay to make it. As a new industry exploitation is rife.
Ebay is the only place I have found to make good cashflow
Triond is pocket money unless, as you say, you can increase your links.
The big names in Triond have zillions of friends. I think they add friends as a job to increase readership. I still have to do this. Check Mervin – he preaches Jesus to 1027 pages of friends.
I really like your article – very informative. Great work. Thank-you. j
March 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
My question is, if you manage to make that many friends what brings them to your site?
March 19th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Thanks for the comments. I’ll try to answer the questions.
Revivor – I’m in the process of publishing an e-book that will show you what I do to make money online and how anybody can do the same. You just have to know the tricks I’ve learned, most of them the hard way. The lines under words is done by the site.
James – Friends are great for article views but in the end you have to get your articles indexed by the search engines to make a continuous flow from them. That’s my opinion anyway.
Ruby – I literally have over 10,000 “friends” online. But online friends are not like offline friends. Only a small percentage will ever really do anything and all are looking for the same things you are. So in my book the “scratch back” philosophy applies heavily and works most of the time.