Affiliate Marketing For All

Hi everyone, it has been over one month since I posted last time. I have been very busy so I have not been able even to post a small post. But don’t worry I’m still here on the planet. No UFO’s have caught me yet

Anyway I have great news for anyone who wants to make money from their content. There’s a service going to be launched in near future called Flattr and I highly suggest to join for it when it launches because you can make money from your content.

How it works? Here’s brief video. Enjoy

More information at Flattr.

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It is sometimes amazing to think what kind of making money online opportunities there are available on internet and one of them is selling photos. In this article we are going to discuss about how to make money online by selling photos. It is very simple method and all you have to do is to take photos and put them online. Another question would be that are photos that you have taken enough qualified to be sold?

How I start?

First thing is that you need to know some networks where you can sell your photos. Those networks are usually called “royalty photo networks” or “stock photo networks” and here are listed some of them to ease your process.

• BigStockPhoto
• Dreamstime
• iStockphoto
• ShutterStock

You need to sign up to some of those networks or for all. Then you can place your photos on marketplace. However it is not easy as you might think. Lots of photos are not accepted unless they meet required rules. Each network has own rules and you can get more information when you go to desired royalty photo network.

How it works?

 Whole process is very simple. All you have to do is login to your account, place your photos that you want to sell and add keywords and description for each photo. Once they are ready you have to submit them and then they are reviewed by your royalty network. If your photos are accepted they will be placed automatically on their marketplace. Marketplace is place where all customers come and search for photos. Searches are done by keywords. Remember to pay attention to your photos keywords and description.

Some Tips

Tip #1 – Take Clear Photos

Add only those photos that are quiet clear meaning that they don’t contain any noise.

Tip #2 – Photos should not be too dark neither too light

Remember to check your contrast value and make sure that your photo is not too dark neither too light.

Tip #3 – Learn how to take proper night shots

Taking night shots is one of difficult thing in photography. You need proper accessories and experience with your own camera. You need to setup correct values according to place and atmosphere where you are shooting.

Tip #4 – Use all available space

Don’t worry to use all space available for you. As long as you use space so that it doesn’t bother others will be fine.

Tip #5 – Take many photos from your target

Take many photos from your target by shooting from different angles.

Tip #6 – Learn how to use your camera

Learn how to use your own camera by testing different kind of settings. Read some tutorials about your camera and about photography.

Conclusion

As long as you can take photos and you know what photos could sell very well this method is suggested for you. If you are still newbie for photography remember that you can practice photography by searching some tutorials and knowing your camera better. Making money online by selling photos can be very rewarding after you have got lots of photos accepted into royalty photo networks.

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One of the easiest ways to make money online is to use Amazon and/or eBay. You have two ways to make money with them.

1. Selling products.

2. Referring products. (Affiliate)

In order to have access to above ways you need to have account(s). Normal account for selling products and affiliate account for referring products.

I’m not going to give instructions on how to create accounts in Amazon and eBay because it is quiet self explanatory.

Let’s start by discussing on how to make money with Amazon and eBay by selling products.

Selling products

eBay

As I mentioned before the first thing you need to do is to have an account in order to be able to sell products.

Step #1 – Create an account

So the first step is to create an account. This can be done by clicking here.

Step #2 – Login to your account

Once you have an account, now you need to login to your account. So go and login.

Step #3 – Locate Sell button

 Now that you have logged in your account, look at the top right corner and you will see buttons.

Step #4 – Select Sell an item

Now it’s time to select option to sell an item. Click it. Once you have done it then you will be directed to following page where you see following section. Click “Start Selling”.

Then you will be directed to following page where are asked necessary information. Fill them and follow the instructions.

Amazon

This is done just like in eBay. So you need first to create an account and then login. Once you have loged into your account, you will see following box on the right side of your login page.

Now you need to click “Sell Your Stuff” button.  Once this is done you have to search for that specific product that you want to sell. To do that you will find following box and you need to choose category and title or keyword. Once that is done you need to click “Start Selling” button. If you have your book and it’s ISBN number you can add it in “Search by ISBN…” box then it would be easier to find.

Now I typed “Cook Book” for example. You will see following page. Now you need to find that book that you want to sell and click “Sells yours here”.

Now it is time to describe your book condition. Fill all required information and hit “Continue”. Once this is done you will come to Price page. There you have to set the price, quantity and shipping method.

Then you need to click “Continue” once done. Final step is to confirm your listing.

Referring Products

This is also great way to make money online with eBay and Amazon. It is very easy to complete this step and all you have to do is refer products to Amazon.

Now eBay has new program for publishers. It is a program where you can make money by bringing high quality traffic that will click on eBay sites.  For more information please click here.

For Amazon users if you want to make money online with referring products please click here.

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Wow, now we have reached to final part of this series, “adding your product to clickbank”. You’re quiet lucky because this is not long article. Before we start let’s recap what we have learned this far. We have covered:

1. Introduction
2. Making a Clear Plan
3. Choosing Niche
4. Gathering Information
5. Making a Product
6. Creating a Website
7. Adding Your Product To Clickbank

Adding product to Clickbank

Adding product to Clickbank is very easy and fast process. Here’s how you can do it.

1. Signup for Clickbank account if you don’t have yet.
2. Login to your account.
3. Go to Account Settings.
4. Click My Products.
5. Click Add New Product button which is located in right side.
6. Fill information required and follow instructions.

You need to know that when you add your product it will be reviewed by Clickbank and usually it is done quiet fast. Also you need to pay one-time activation fee which is 49.95$. Not much when considering how much free traffic you really can get, especially when you have successful product.

This has been quiet journey. After having written totally 5695 word about this series it feels good that I have done something big to help people. Cool

Here you have it. I hope you have learned lots of new things on how to make money online by creating own product and selling it.

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It’s time to cover final steps of making money online with own product. We have reached now to the point of creating a website. If you know how to create a website, you can skip this part.

When creating a website usually we speak about sales letter, squeeze page or membership site. Squeeze page is a page where owner of that page is trying to get visitors’ basic information (name and email) in change of free eBook or something similar.

Now I’m not going to discuss about what kind of content you should have because I assume that you know what kind of content you want to include to your sales letter. Rather I will discuss about technical side.

It’s building time!

 Now that you have prepared your content to your website it is time to create other things such as banners, affiliate materials (JV), programming whole website and etc. Main thing in creating a website is that you make your website professionally looking, very clear, informative and that it will lure your readers to take action. To make that kind of website you need to understand construction of website meaning that what parts we need in order to create our website.

There are at least two parts that each website needs:

1. Sales letter.
2. Membership area i.e. page where customer can download product.

Third part that is highly recommended is to add Upsell and Downsell pages. Those are pages where vendor give special offers for those customers who have or are willing to buy vendors’ product. Those pages contain offers that are related to your product. Usually they are upgrades, other products or add-ons. Let’s discuss little bit deeply about sales letter and membership area page.

Sales letter

The aim of sales letter is to sell the product to customer meaning that it must make client to take an action by consistently assuring that specific product is going to solve customers’ problem and that it will be huge benefit for him/her. How to write this kind of sales letter? That’s out of this subject. But you need to understand the main idea of sales letter and for that you need to know what it should contain.

Sales letter should contain:

• Very strong headline.
• Important and useful information about product.
• Benefits of product.
• Proofs that product can work to anyone.
• Video proofs if possible.
• Testimonials.
• Bullet points.
• etc.

Membership area

This might be misleading term when we speak generally about it. What I mean with this is the page where customer can get the good for their payment. We can use another term about this kind of membership area and it is Thank you page.

Now you know most basic parts that we need. By the way those are not only things that we need in our website. Other things are as I mentioned before are images, banners, videos and etc.

Tell me how I can create a website?

You have two options, either outsourcing or making own self. Outsourcing would be easiest way but you need to spend money. If you want to make your own then you need following programs:

• Website building program
• Image editing program
• Files uploading program

For building website

There are lots of good website creation programs available. One that I recommend is called NVU. It’s 100% FREE and you can download it by clicking here. With NVU you don’t need to know HTML code because it has graphical interface.

I’m not going to explain basics of HTML programming because it will take so much time and I need to write so many pages about it in order to understand the basics. However when you consider to learn HTML programming I suggest W3Schools.com site. This is great website that teaches you everything about HTML from scratch without having any foreknowledge about programming till you understand all basic and advanced syntaxes and tricks.

When setting up website for your website it’s healthy to understand at least basics of HTML code. HTML is easy to remember and use. When you understand the basics of HTML you will also save lots money because you don’t need to hire someone to make basic stuff for you when you can do the same in matter of minutes or hours.

For creating graphics and editing images

In order to complete the whole website you need also to have graphics. So you need a tool or software to edit photos. For this purpose I recommend a software called GIMP. GIMP is an open source image editing software that does almost everything what Photoshop can do. Well, photoshop is of course better but GIMP is also good solution, especially for beginners. You can download GIMP by clicking here.

For uploading files

You don’t need software that will upload files to your server because you can do it when you have webhost. They will provide file uploading service. However it is recommended to use some freeware software that will upload files to your server or to your site so that you don’t need every single time to login to your webhosting site and go to that service. One file uploading program that is much known around the world, most used and I recommend is called Filezilla. You can download FileZilla by clicking here. See documentation in their website if you need help in using it. It’s working same way like other programs.

What else I need?

Very important things that you need are web hosting and domain name. For web hosting you need only to register and then you can buy or get free domain name. I highly recommend joining to Bluehost because it provides unlimited space and bandwidth, one free domain and their cPanel is very diverse. Also their monthly price is very cheap, under $7/month.

When you have created your website the next thing you need is to upload all files via file uploading software or via file uploading service that your web hosting has provided. When that is done it’s time to test that everything is working properly.

No you know how to create a website, how to upload it and how to get free programs that are very useful. Also if you don’t know anything about HTML I recommend start learning it. I wish you much luck with learning. You will see in the end that it was worth of learning basics of HTML code. You will see and I can guarantee that .

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Let’s take our list from out of space to see where we are going.

1. Introduction
2. Making a Clear Plan
3. Choosing Niche
4. Gathering Information
5. Making a Product
6. Creating a Website
7. Adding Your Product To Clickbank

Till this far we have covered first four subjects. Today we will continue with making a product itself. So hold on because you’re getting big ride

Preparing ingredients

First thing that we need to do is prepare our ingredients. Those ingredients are all things that you want to include into your product. Those ingredients can be anything depending on your product. For example if we want to create eBook we need at least following things:

• Content
• Images         (Optional and very recommended)
• Graphics      (ecover)

Also if you have some videos that you want to provide make notes on paper that you want to mention. It will help you so much. This will make also videos clear and easy to understand because you know what to say. Do all preparations before continuing to next step. So briefly said prepare everything that you require in order to complete the whole product.

Creating a product

Now when we start creating a product itself you have two options. Easy or hard way. Outsourcing or creating own self. If you mentioned that I create my product own self then how in the earth you mentioned outsourcing?

Reason for why I mentioned is that you can outsource people to do part of your product or even whole product. Bad thing is that it is not free and good thing is that you don’t have to work so much and so you will save lots of time. If you want to outsource someone to do all work for you, you can use following sources:

• Elance
• Scriptlance
• Guru

If you want to create a product own self then create it according to your plan that you made in first step. Start to create your main product first and then add all related items later. With related items I mean bonus products. They are not compulsory but recommended. Here are some tips to create them.

Creation of eBook

For eBook all you need to do is prepare all those things that we mentioned in preparing ingredients section and then start to create it. Remember when we spoke about text that you gathered from other sources and I also said that fix it so that it would be ready but don’t make it unique yet? Now it’s time to make it unique by writing with your own style. Be careful on what you say. Don’t change so much original content. Write your new content based on that content you gathered from other sources but remember to not change main idea of that content.

For example I have found information which says “making money online is easy to do and it depends on yourself that how fast you can earn money” to make this unique you can’t write for example following sentence “making money online is easy to do and it depends not only about yourself but also from your coach”. If we compare those two sentences then you can notice that they are not same. In second sentence we bring coach from nowhere and it mislead reader.

How we can actually write same kind of sentence that is unique and easy to understand? One solution would be “making money online is easy and how fast you can earn money depends on yourself.” Doesn’t last sentence sound better than first two? It definitely sounds. So like this way you can write unique content. Write it with your own style but stay on main point.

Remember to add images into your eBook. Images ease so much reader to understand on what you are trying to teach or say. Especially use images if possible when you are make an example. Images are highly recommended when you teach something that need to be done by hand.

Creation of Videos

For creating videos it’s good thing that you have prepared everything before starting to record your videos. If possible show your face on videos. Usually people will have more confidence when they see who’s speaking with them.

Practice speaking by making test recording. Try to speak clearly and enough slowly so that your customers can hear and understand what you are trying to say. Remember not to talk too slow because it will getting very boring and you paint an image about yourself that you are not professional. This will take us to another important point which is give professional image about you. Show them that you know what you are speaking of.

Don’t be afraid when you record videos. They are not going to eat you. Be brave and start recording. Remember that you can record your videos as many times as you feel enough confident that they are enough good.

Check your video quality before you start to publish it on your website or in social site like YouTube. YouTube has one thing that when you submit your video into YouTube your video quality is very bad but later on after they have reviewed your video your video quality will be much better. So pay attention to this point and don’t delete your video from there if you see immediately that your video has bad quality. Usually you can see final quality of your video when it has been published. To check so you can quickly type your YouTube username on YouTube search field.

Creation of Audio files

When to come creation of audio files there are few things that need to be considered. First you need to know that what type of audio file you want to create. Do you want to create interview, explanation or any other kind of audio file? When you know what type of audio file to do then go for it.

When making an audio files remember to make written version of them. There are people who like to read rather than hear. So by doing so you are offering to your customers more formats to use which also show your professionalism and that you will notice every aspect of your customers. This will also show that you really care about them.

Creation of Software

When creating software some good things that you need to know is that how you can satisfy your customers as much as you can by providing good software. To do so you need to think what kind of features you need to add your software so that your customers can benefit as much as possible from your software.

If you don’t know or you want to add more features to your software but you don’t come to any new idea you can always use forums to ask people or check from internet people problems related on your topic of software and try to get some new ideas on how to make your software better.

Remember to test your software all features and give it to some trusted people to test it and ask feedback from them before you publish your software.

Conclusion

As you can see that creating own product own self is very long process but it brings satisfying feeling when you have accomplished that goal. You feel that you really have done something significant. Other thing will be that is your product going to be successful. It will be definitely successful when it is unique and provides lot of good information.

When you have prepared everything and created your product it’s time to move to next step. Where we create a website. This website is sales letter which include your download area.

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First let’s take our list out from behind of curtains to see where we are going.

1. Introduction
2. Making a Clear Plan
3. Choosing Niche
4. Gathering Information
5. Making a Product
6. Creating a Website
7. Adding Your Product To Clickbank

Till this far we have covered first three subjects. Today we will continue with gathering information.

So what I actually mean with gathering information? Just as the subject speaks, gathering information that is related to your niche. If you have already information and/or experiences related to that niche and you want to only use it then you can go for it and you can actually skip this part. But for those who don’t have an idea on what kind of information you should add to your product here are some tips to delight and ease your process.

Most Important Rule Of Niche

First of all we need to remember that what niche is for. If you remember what we discussed in earlier articles of this series we found that the aim of niche is to solve people problem. That’s also the most important rule of niche. People never invest on products that they don’t benefit from. Let’s imagine that you have $50 and you would be asked to buy any kind of product that you would be interested in, wouldn’t you buy a product that will benefit you and fill your needs?

Hey but that’s the aim of products, right? That’s correct.

How To Gather Information About Your Niche?

So to gather information about your niche there’s lot of research that need to be done. Here I have listed very important points that need to be done in order to find good and useful information.

• Read and gather information from different resources and not only one.
• Write down all important points.
• Write down main problem of your niche.
• Make bullet points of most important things.
• Gather images if possible, they will ease to understand your content.
• Write down author name, website address and article name so that you can add them into your content if required.
• Gather number of tips & tricks. They will help a lot.
•  Don’t copy and paste other people content because you want to make unique content.
• Use information that is got from other sources as support of your foundations and NOT as foundation.
• Don’t waste your time on complex information because you need to interpret them.
• Make interviews, they are very great source of information.
• Information sources can be internet, books, people, magazines, audio and video. Use them all if possible to gather as much information as can be. However remember that those information need to be related to your niche.
• Be careful of not reliable sources!!!
• Make sure that your gathered information is reliable and true!

Those are very important facts that need to be done and at least considered when starting to gather information from other sources.

After you have gathered your information it’s time to make them clean by looking for misspells and/or typos. Then you need to prepare information for next step. This can be done by taking up all important content to your product. At this point don’t worry about making it unique because that would be part of next step. So gather all information that you would like to use in your product.

Is There Other Methods To Gather Information?

Well there’s other methods to gather information if you don’t have time to do so. Solution is outsourcing, so it’s not free. If you want to outsource someone to make research and gather information about your niche you can use following sites to add your request/project.

• Elance
• ScriptLance
• Guru

After you have done that you’re ready to move to next step.  So there you have it. If you have any question(s) please contact me at contact page and I’m ready to help you.

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Now it’s time to start to choose a niche and make some research.

When you start to choose a niche there’s few things that you should notice. First you want to make the whole process very easy to complete, secondly you want to find a niche that has potential of high traffic, and thirdly you want to find a niche that has high potential to get sold. In order to complete those three points we use tools that will ease your process and also we will discuss more deeply about them.

Starting Point

Good way to start is to write down all topics that you are interested in. For example work at home, lose weight, playing golf, dating and etc. When you have gathered enough of them the next step is to identify that for which niche you have most knowledge of. This will ease your whole process when it comes to writing an eBook or making videos or whatever your product will be, it requires knowledge somehow. The next step is to start make research about your topic. If it is good niche that has lots of traffic it means also more sales.

Research Niche Market

There are lots of ways to make research of niche market. In the end of this article there’s link that shows lots of researching methods. I highly suggest visiting at least that site. Here I have listed five sites/tools that we are going to use in making research:

• Google Insights
• Google Trends
• Yahoo! Answers
• Amazon Bestsellers
• Ebay Pulse

Google Insights

We will start researching by using Google Insights. Google Insights is tool that shows what is currently most searched topic based on keywords that you want to find on. You can specify your search by search type, region, time and category.

So for example let say that you have picked work at home topic based on your interest. Now you can simply write Work At Home. When we type that keyword we will get following results:

To analyze search result you need to understand what each field tells. Here’s they are explained briefly:

• Interest over time – shows interest of people over time meaning that how much people have searched current keyword
• Regional Interest – how much people have been searching that specific keyword in specific region.
• Search Terms – top search terms that have been searched and are related to that specific keyword.
• Rising Searches – current rising keywords that are related to your keyword which are rising.

So how you should analyze each step? Here’s explained:

• Interest over time – this value should be rising or at least staying quiet same all the time.
• Regional Interest – according to this you can know where your traffic is coming according to your keyword. For this I highly suggest that you try to look for keyword that has high values for USA, Canada, UK and Australia regions. Reason for this is that those are the countries that internet business is rolling very well meaning that from those countries most buyers are.
• Search Terms – write them down because when you make SEO to your product you need to make some research by using these keywords. They are very beneficial.
• Rising Searches – very important point. Write all those keywords down because they are need for SEO research too.

When you have found main keyword that is related to your topic of interest which is in our case Work At Home which has high values in Google Insights you will definitely see that this is a niche to go for.

Click here to go to Google Insights.

Google Trends

Another good tool is called Google Trends. This is similar to Google Insights but the difference is that in Google Trends it gives more specific information about location where that keyword has been most searched. Also it shows that what language is used for searching that specific keyword.

To take an example we need to type again Work At Home keyword because that’s the main keyword in our case. So the test results were:

Now it’s time to analyze each field. Because this is similar to Google Insights tool I’m not going to explain each step but I will tell you how to analyze them. So let’s start by analyzing Searches field. As you can see that our work at home keyword has been searched quiet same way. Gap between two “needles” means quarter. For example when we check results we can say that work at home keyword is not so much searched in last quarter, especially in December.

Rest of fields is quiet self explanatory so I’m not going to explain them.

 By using this tool you can find what most searched keyword is. This means that keyword is related to most searched topic and according to that you can start to build your product small part of foundation.

Click here to go to Google Trends.

Yahoo! Answers

Another good method to make research is to use Yahoo! Answers site. Main idea in this method is to see that what people are most talking about and what they are looking for. Niche is a product that answers to people problems. Remember that rule.

So how to do it? First we need to remember that our topic is work at home and that it is related to business. So when we go to Yahoo! Answers site you will see on left side all categories that are available. Then choose Business & Finance (in our case). From there you can start to explore all kind of questions. Now you need to find what people are talking about.

When you have found lots of questions that is related to some specific topic you know that it is the one where people want to get their problem solved from.

Good thing in this site is that there are people who are asking and you can make lots of notes of people problems.

Click here to go to Yahoo! Answers.

Amazon Bestsellers

Amazon Bestsellers section can be also used for researching market. Main idea here is to find many bestsellers books that are related to your niche. Reason for this is that because those books are bestsellers it also means that they are most bought. This tells us that there’s high demand on that specific topic. When you find lots of bestsellers books that is related to your niche you can go for it.

Click here to go to Amazon Bestsellers.

Ebay Pulse

Finally we have Ebay Pulse which is also very great site to see what people are looking for. Even in Ebay Pulse most searched things are usually stuff meaning physical things you can still use it to benefit your research.

All you need is to choose the category that is related to your main keyword and in our case because our main keyword is work at home we will choose category Businesses & Websites For Sale. This is closest category that is related to our main keyword. From there you can see TOP 10 searches.

The way that how you can use that top 10 searches list, is that you need to see if there’s any keyword that is related to your main keyword. This will indicate that people are searching something that is related to your main keyword.

Click here to go to Ebay Pulse.

Other Research Methods

Here’s a link that I promised in the beginning that has lots of research methods listed.

Click here.

Conclusion

When you have done enough of researching and you find lots of searches and that people are having problems in main keyword that you have picked up that is definitely the topic to go for. Remember to use as much time as you need in researching phase because it is vital part of this process and it is so crucial that if you don’t make enough good research of niche market then you are wasting your time in further phases.

Reason for this is that when you are making research process it is part your product foundation. When foundation is not established well then your product is falling apart just like when building a high tower.

Here you have it. I hope that it has helped you very much or at least somehow.

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In this part we are going to speak about making a clear plan and before we start here’s all parts listed again so that you know which step we are in.

1. Introduction
2. Making A Clear Plan
3. Choosing Niche
4. Gathering Information
5. Making A Product
6. Creating A Website
7. Adding Your Product To Clickbank

Second step when creating a product is to make clear plan and stick on it. I don’t know how much I need to stress this step but believe me that if you have clear plan and you stick on it your creation process is going to be so easy that you might think “hey, I wanna make another product later on”.

A clear plan is plan that has steps that must be completed. Each step should be defined, described and time allocated. Clear plan should be realistic and author abilities should reflect into it meaning that what parts you can do yourself and what parts you need to outsource people to do them.

When you make a clear plan you need also to make schedule and estimate required time for each step. Don’t worry about estimation but make it anyway so that it will ease your progress. Also you will see that how much it will take you time to complete each step.

Best way to make a plan is first sit down for few days to think all step that you need to complete and write them down. Sometimes it is difficult and sometimes it is extremely easy. When you have written all steps down that you think would be required the next step is to estimate how much time they will take. Finally you can make timetable. Here’s an example of timetable that you could. Of course if you know better then use it.

Most important thing in making a clear plan is to make realistic one and you will stick on it from beginning till finish.

If you have some issues or advices related to making a plan you can share them here or by contacting me at contact (at) affiliatemarketingforall.com.

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Creating a product is a huge process and it requires lots of time, effort, knowledge and clear plan. When it is done it is time to sell it. One good place to sell it is Clickbank because there are lots of affiliates that can promote your product. Your product can be total hit or big flop. So there’s a big risk in doing own product and selling it. The big thing is that if your product is going to success you’re going to have river that flow cash into your account.

Now in this series I’m going to cover on how to create own product from scratch and sell it. I’m going to provide you resources that you can use so that you can do each step easily own self. Because this is quiet wide topic to be covered I have decided to cut this big topic into 7 parts. They are:

1. Introduction (this article)
2. Making A Clear Plan
3. Choosing Niche
4. Gathering Information
5. Making A Product
6. Creating A Website
7. Adding Your Product To Clickbank

This first part is already introduction part. I’m not going to cover on all methods of promotion but in last part when you add your product to Clickbank there will be lots of affiliates that will promote your product as it is mentioned in first paragraph.

Next time we will cover how to create a clear plan.

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