Being Affiliate Or A Owner ?

Being an owner you will need to put the hard work before you start earning cash. If you want a niche crushing product, then you will need to spend weeks even months of creating it.

Being an affiliate you can start earning tomorrow but it is not really scalable, untill you have enought money to spend on your advertising.

Beginners often find it easier to be an affiliate, as they might find creating a product quite intimidating.
In the long term, it's better to create your own product. You can make more money by getting others to promote your product whilst building your list at the same time.

u need lots of money to be the owner,,,,,,,,,, and experience

I've only ever been an affiliate. I think being an affiliate has many advantages, and being a vendor has many disadvantages and risks (some obvious and some very much less obvious).

I don't agree at all with people who imagine (and sometimes say) that becoming a vendor is the only way to start earning "big money".

Here are just ten of the advantages of being an affiliate, from my perspective: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7588476

You don't need lots of money to be the owner (or creator of a product) if you can do a large majority of the work yourself. Sounds like you have created a product and just need some guidance on how to set up your sales funnel. Sure being an affiliate is easier, but in the long run you are just making someone else money. Nothing wrong with this especially if the product is a good converting one.

Even if it takes a month or so, do your research and set everything up right. In the end, you are promoting your own product. You can then list it for others to become affiliates. It may sound like a lot of work, but if you want to make more for yourself in the long run, learn the process now!

Good luck.

If you know how to market the product towards the target group and if you know how to drive traffic and make sales, be an affiliate. If you don't know how to market it, create your own product and let the affiliates take care of the marketing part (you probably need to market your affiliate program though).

Jimmy

I have always been an affiliate, but will soon create a product in spanish, it is indeed a lot of hard work in creating your own product.

As an affiliate I make a very decent income, but the advantages of been the owner will be that other affiliates will promote my product, and if it converts well as I think it will, my advertising cost will be zero to none.

Thank you all for your valued suggestion, I am still thinking to own website enough of promoting for others lets do something for myself, I am selling an ebook which gives some tips & rite now thinking to hire somebody to write it for me.
Rest I need an website developer & all the marketing & bringing traffic thing will be on me. This is where I am expert at & helps others , Now would love to see if I can handle everything by myself Cheers !

If you have a decent capital, it is better to own the product. Experience and expertise can be bought. You can always outsource things that you do not know. If you are still struggling for money then become an affiliate to rake some cash to fund your product creation.

I'm not sure why you have to do one or the other. Why not both? You can put your own product on a site and have ads on that site for affiliate products as well. Just make sure they are both relevant to the same viewing target. Not everything is a question of either/or. Sometimes it's more of a "how to combine to make the most returns from the combo."

you already said it yourself. You don't like selling for others. So set aside several hundred dollars and have your own product!!

This could be due to how you have your marketing funnel set up. Smart affiliates put up their own websites and build their own lists to increase their conversions (of course this also depends on what type of products you're promoting).

Just because you send 500 traffic and only got two sales doesn't really mean anything unless you've done extensive testing to increase your conversions.

I like being both. Who says you have to be one or the other? Generally, if we're talking information marketing, I like to create one LEAD product that will sell at a loss or a breakeven point and then I will promote no less than ten affiliate offers over a period of time.

During the first 90 days I'm doing a TON of testing. I'm actually not too concerned making a profit during this time because I'm trying to maximize my profits. So as I'm taking data in and making sells, if I see that the market is going to be a winner I then make more of my own products and look for additional affiliate offers.

This has worked like gangbusters for me for that past 12 years and shows no sign of slowing down. But you have to be committed to studying copywriting or hire someone to set up an effective sales funnel for you.

Do both and make more money.

RoD

Short term = affiliate
Long term = owner

To me, anyways.

I like having the control of my own product but with that comes customer service & clerical work ( busy work which I don't like lol ) so for me I like being an affiliate and creatively putting my spin on it

You should always strive to have your own product. Look at all the "gurus" in internet marketing that are filthy rich. Almost all of them have their own product line.

It's a better business model.

Being a Owner or An affiliate , both have there ups and downs.

With being a affiliate you do not have to spend so much money as you do if you was the owner of the product.

With being the owner of a product you have to know what you are writing about or pay for a freelancer to write one for you, you then have to make a sales page , squeeze page ect if you don't know how to do web design you will have to get a freelancer to do this , both will cost you a lot of money to get started, hence your not 100% guaranteed you will even make your money back on the product if paying for a freelancer to do the writing and web design, inless you have a great product everyone wants or would be intrested in.

Where if you was a affiliate of a product where you do not get payed 100% of the profits but maybe any where from 25-75% of the profit for just promoting and getting sales from promoting the product its a lot less cheaper than being the owner of the product.

At the end of the day its more a less what you can afford to spend.

In the long run having your own product is the way to go , and the more products you make the more people get to know your name and your products.

It all depends on how much you are willing to make , invest and how much work you are willing to do.

to me it all comes down to if you can
write a higher converting sales letter
than your competitors or not...

OR

Able to afford ($100,000+) a
historically proven copy writer who
can.

If you cant bring in higher conversions
than the competition, why would
affiliates switch to your offer.

Honestly, I am both a vendor and
a affiliate. Why only be one or the
other when you can make money
doing both?!

If you can think outside of the box, be an owner all the way. Here are 5 reasons why you can be an owner.

1.) Create an LLC so you can have an established business to protect your assets, your family, and yourself.

2.) You can get paid very quickly especially if you are selling online. I sell about 8 special products and services and they all pay me instantly because I do not have to wait on someone else to pay me.

3.) You can hire affiliates to do the marketing for you. Don't choose any affiliate, but only hand pick professional marketers that do not need you to waste your time taking them by the hand through every single sale.

4.) Be very very organized with your sales and your expenses. Have a good accountant show you how to make as much of your business efforts as a tax write off.

5.) Finally build business credit. I am huge into this right now, but the more you build business credit, the more leverage you will have to start another business.

Good Luck

Don't listen to anyone who tells you being a product creator is more difficult or risky than an affiliate. It's really not. Especially if you're just creating an info product.

Both are good. I was making my full time income from just being an affiliate for a long time.

Creating your own products really scales everything up and puts you into a whole new ballgame.

I only promote my own products; I never had the intention to sell anything else online.

However, I believe that it is better to start selling affiliate products so that you may understand what sells online, and how to create your own products.

I definately prefer to be the product owner - it gives you complete control of your brand and customers in a much more sustainable way.