Advice: I've created a product to sell on Flippa. Shall I stick to the original plan, or keep it?

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I have spent a fair amount of time creating an e-book detailing the "ultimate blogging setup".

It contains advice on setting up a WordPress blog, installing relevant plug-ins and making it a "traffic magnet".

A lot of work and development has gone into it.

The sole reason for developing the product was to sell the whole thing on Flippa. I've done this before with good success.

It comes with 10 articles, 20 blog posts, sales page and affiliate center.

However, here's the quandary: since I put so much work and effort into it, I started to think of other options of earnin money from the product.

Here is the other options that have popped into my mind:

1.) Run a WSO
2.) Put it on ClickBank and approach other list owners
3.) Give it away as a free report for an opt in -- to build a list

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The initial idea was to make some quick cash by selling it -- but after putting in so much effort, it will be hard to do.

What would you do? Stick to the original plan and go after the quick cash, or sit tight for a few months and put some further effort into marketing it?

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BTW, I'd be happy to let send you a review copy if you'd give me your feedback on the e-book - to say whether the quality is good enough or not? Please PM me if so
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  • Profile picture of the author Desmond Ong
    Here's what I will do.

    I will definitely try to sell some copies of it on ClickBank (or I will try PaydotCom) and then once it's making some cool cash -- I will flip it on Flippa.

    Cheers
    -Desmond

    P.S. One tip here: outsource everything so you don't have to work that hard. ;-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Maximillion_Z
      Outsourcing is cool, but when you have limited funds to start with - there's not much choice

      Also, I've noticed that brand new product packages sell better than ones already on click bank?

      Perhaps I'm wrong, but it would cross my mind that the only reason they would want to sell is because it's not performing that well.

      Plus, don't customers want like three months proof of earnings?

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      Something else has come to mind - what about a WSO detailing the process of flipping a brand new site?
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  • Profile picture of the author CliveG
    You should look at your product with fresh eyes with a view to maximising the income from it. It is not relevant whether you have spent 2 hours or 30 days producing it - that is all water under the bridge.

    If you can sell it for a one off lump sum that is a better deal than running it yourself then that is what you should do. If it will produce a better ongoing income then keep it. If it's no good forget about it and move on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maximillion_Z
    If you can sell it for a one off lump sum that is a better deal than running it yourself then that is what you should do. If it will produce a better ongoing income then keep it.
    There's the trouble - not sure if it's worthwhile to pursue the idea of generating traffic and so forth in order to test whether it will be profitable or not...

    Sell it on Flippa: Quick $700
    Promote it: $?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by Maximillion_Z View Post

    Outsourcing is cool, but when you have limited funds to start with - there's not much choice

    Also, I've noticed that brand new product packages sell better than ones already on click bank?

    Perhaps I'm wrong, but it would cross my mind that the only reason they would want to sell is because it's not performing that well.

    Plus, don't customers want like three months proof of earnings?

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    Something else has come to mind - what about a WSO detailing the process of flipping a brand new site?


    Make cash with it by all the ways you mentioned and then flip it for much bigger bucks.
    Flipping it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not performing well, but you do have to research trends to determine if someone is trying to dump a turkey when buying. I flip profitable sites because I want money more than sites. That's what I do ... flip sites.

    I have flipped sites at large profit with less than 3 months earnings. You do need to post earnings, but not necessarily 3 months.

    I wouldn't say that a brand new site goes quicker than an earning site. I'm always looking for a site that has something besides just a pretty face, like traffic, pagerank, earnings, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author tacticalm
    Build your sales of the product, build solid traffic to the site, sell the site for a large lump sum when sales peak. The American Dream-know what I mean.
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