Created a product/website - what next?

Patience and promotion of your product are the key. Think about who might be interested in your ebook and try to promote it there. As I saw it is a craigslist guide from the domain, so obviously you need to promote to craigslist user and not lets say single moms looking for parenting tips... So you need to search where these people hang out and post quality content along with ur referral:

EX: hey guys, i wrote this ebook on how you can improve your craigslist revenue, check it out: link.

Anyhow it takes a lot of time and traffic does not come easy. You are able to write your own ebook so that is a big step already

So kudos on taking the initiative and getting things out there, a good first set of steps indeed.

A couple of points:

1. Your product - is it smart to try and tiger every single Craigslist advertiser out there OR is there a way you could publish a guide with special tips for certain advertisers (either Mom's trying to sell stuff around the home, people trying to sell high-ticket items, people trying to sell baby stuff, people trying to sell collectibles....do you get my drift?)

I would look into differentiating by having a guide by sub-niche, that will help you to stand out from the hundreds of other Craigslist advertising guides

In any case - the title could use some work. The best book in the World? Why not make it more meaningful to the customer...the "Craiglist 60-second Craigslist Guide" - where you can help them get something up and selling on CL within a minute or two -- OR -- "Triple Effective Craigslist Advertising Bible" -- something that hits home their frustration of too slow, too hard or too ineffective

2. Your website needs some SERIOUS attention. Once you iron out #1 and have a better title/angle/headline...then your headline should either be done as a graphic or done in a font such as Arial or Verdana instead of Courier or whatever that is.

3. Your feature bullets should be augmented with some benefit bullets (what will they see as benefits once they apply your training?)

4. Try and get someone to give you a testimonial - give it to someone you know who uses CL and ask them to try a few of the suggestions...then give you a testimonial if they work.

Regarding affliates - they won't touch this until your sales page looks better.

Then, it would be a matter of targeting some specific "money-making" list holders to act as an affiliate...but you need to have your sales letter humming first.

Jeff

From my experience, being on e-junkie doesn't automatically get you affiliates. You'd need to advertise it. You can write articles and submit them to article directories to show people the benefits of classified ads for improving one's business. It can also be something listed in your signature on forums. If you add more pages to your site you can target additional longtail phrases and draw in traffic that way as well.

Debbie

Thanks for all the advice so far! My main goal was to just get something out there, so I wouldn't stall, making excuses. However, I'm really glad to have some quality feedback.

About the website - haha, I looked at a couple sales pages that people touted as being really successful, and they all had a cheap, Web 1.0 look, so I figured that's what sells. Perhaps I was wrong - the good news is, seting up a new website will be easy for me. I'll start work on that tomorrow.

I'll definitely work on targeting a smaller niche for my next e-book, but at this point in the game, I want to take a break from writing/editing, and just focus on website creation. Maybe in a week or two I'll start working on my next e-book.

Thanks again for all of the input!

I remember CCmusicman having a great tips about everything being the IM niche.

Because that way you are likely to always have a bunch of potential affiliates only an email away. You might also be able to advertise in the classified section or JV section.

Just make sure to get your sales page converting well first... that's always good data to have.

Well done caseyfriday.

When I first started I promoted my
first products by visiting google groups.

Make some helpful posts and mention
your site.

I then made some youtube videos and
made sure the video file name was a
target keyword. The title was a keyword
and also add keywords to the tags.

Once those 2 methods created traffic I moved
onto getting my sites to convert better.

Then, and only then, did I spend some money
on adwords.

I still do much the same today and it works
great. Note that I have never done any
articles. I'm sute it works but it seems like
an awful lot of work

Good luck

Hi there and welcome. My personal advice is, you shouldn't create a website for just a single page. I see that you created it just the other day (July 11) correct? I think you should've created a blog instead about craigslist if you'll focus on this field. Anyway, if you increase your page number, Google and other search engines may recognize it as a real website. I don't think a website could only have 1 page. And one more thing, I'm not sure why Search Status don't recognize your meta tags. Can you check it?