You do need to have a website to drive the traffic to.

When someone reads your article, you get to include a “resource box” at the end where you can tell people they can get more info at your website … this then drives traffic to your site.

You can do this with affiliate links for some article directories, but I know for EzineArticles.com you need to have your own domain.

Richard

Carol

If you have a list you could email them about the affiliate opportunity (a lot of people set it up to give 100% commissions on the front end) so telling them about it could get people motivated to promote.

Other ways are to use articles to drive traffic, ezine solo ads, or even ad swaps with other list owners.

For Clickbank, I’d leave that until you get a slightly higher value product. Their fees are pretty steep so for a $7 product it’s not going to be very profitable - CB affiliates like high commissions (both $ value and % value).

But it’s definitely something to consider for a future product.

Hope this helps,

Richard

What would you recommend as the best way to promote my product when it is finished? And, how should I go about handling the purchases? Do I need to get a merchant account to accept credit cards orders or can I simply sign up with a service like PayPal and put their button on the order page? What’s your thought on listing it on Clickbank and using their army of affiliates to market it for me?

Thanks again,
Larry

First of all congratulations on being pro-active. Just getting up and doing something is the hardest thing for many people.

Here’s what I would recommend you do…

1) Go to http://pdf995.com/ and use that free PDF converter - I used it before I got Adobe and it worked perfectly for me. The one problem I had was that if you want to insert a URL in the document, you have to write the full URL i.e. it wont convert anchor text URLs from a word document.

2) Grab a copy of the $7 secrets script - it’s $7 from this address: http://7dollarsecrets.com/

That will allow you to easily set up a website to sell your PDF.

I’d recommend selling it for anywhere from $7-$17 and then the script has a built in one time offer so then I’d offer the resale rights for $37-$47.

That way you can easily make sales, build your list and make backend sales too.

If you put some affiliate links in the report then anyone who buys the rights can send you some free traffic through those

Hope this helps

Richard

I’m one of probably many “inactive” members of your list. I have gotten into a little bit of article marketing and have written and submitted several articles that seem to have been well received. At least, they’ve been requested by other website publishers well over 200 times.

My problem has been monetizing these results. I first tried directing traffic to my blog and posting other content and Adsense ads, as well as using contextual advertising with affiliate links. I was able to generate some organic traffic, but no sales. (My blog is currently inactive due to a computer crash).

What I am doing now is taking all of those articles, adding some new information, and combining and re-organizing the information into an E-book. My first draft has been completed and numbers some 30 pages of content. A little editing and polishing and it should be ready to go, after I set up some affiliate text links and a “Recommended Resources” page.

My question now is, “Now what?”. I was going to offer it for sale on Ebay, but they aren’t allowing these types of items any longer. I’ve read that I will need to create a website in order to handle the requests, capture email addresses, offer OTO’s and backend, and as a place to park my download page. I have NO CLUE on how to do all this. I’d also like to be able to offer this as a pdf, but I can’t afford that software and have heard negative comments about the so-called “converters” available for free on the net.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Sincerely,
Larry Black

P.S. I am currently in the midst of a divorce, so available cash for investment in software is practically non-existent.

Best,
E. Pizano
;)

You can also outsource all the parts of your business that you don’t enjoy or aren’t very good at to others. Imagine having someone that loves doing the things you hate doing…what would that mean for your business in terms of time, focus, and money? Jeff Mills wrote a free 70 page eBook called Outsource Compendium to tell you exactly how to do this. I wrote a chapter by chapter review of it on Squidoo. If you’re interested, just click the link up above where my name would normally be.

Todd

Just put up a blog site, Buying Your First House Bulletin Board. If you have any advice for the first time home buyer, you could leave a comment.

Thanks,

Have A Great Day!

Norine Peardon