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Market an ebook? or promote clickbank products.

by Nicheguybob
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So the thread title is my question, should I write an ebook centered around computers or blogging, or promote clickbank productS? more successful? which pays off more?:confused:
#clickbank #ebook #market #products #promote
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Either can be very successful.

    Either can be a complete failure.

    It depends on a huge range of factors.

    Many people will tell you the exact opposite (and some will say "start as an affiliate and then produce your own products"), but I always think that for most people, most of the time (and especially for most people starting off), the big profits are actually far more likely to come from being an affiliate for other people's products than from creating your own.

    Here are just ten of my many reasons for thinking this.

    I'm as close to certainty as you can get that if I'd done product-creation at any stage of my IM career so far, I'd have earned far less than I do as an affiliate.
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    • Profile picture of the author J Bold
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I'm as close to certainty as you can get that if I'd done product-creation at any stage of my IM career so far, I'd have earned far less than I do as an affiliate.
      And you are probably the least qualified person to state something like that that as you've never actually done it, as you openly state.

      Almost everyone I've seen have huge success online does so with a healthy mix of their own products and affiliate promotions.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by J Bold View Post

        And you are probably the least qualified person to state something like that that as you've never actually done it, as you openly state.
        Indeed, I do (openly state it).

        Originally Posted by J Bold View Post

        Almost everyone I've seen have huge success online does so with a healthy mix of their own products and affiliate promotions.
        One could perhaps be forgiven for having the impression that there's an element of "self-fulfilment" about this observation, entirely valid and reasonable though it doubtless is, for the simple reason that one "sees" vendors' successes, and relatively easily, whereas the majority of affiliate millionaires, I think (other than in IM and MMO niches, in which they make a lot of noise) often tend to remain comparatively "hidden from view". What you're saying could therefore remain perfectly true and valid even if my own suspicions are also correct. "Just saying".
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        • Profile picture of the author MilesBaker
          I have been both an affiliate and vendor on ClickBank and overall I'd have to say I've made more as a vendor overall. However, I've made plenty as an affiliate too.

          One benefit of being an affiliate first is you can learn to market, learn what products sell best and why. Then, if you want you can create your product. Creating a product without knowing how you're going to market that product is going to set you up for failure. You'll have a great product, but no affiliates or sales.
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      • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
        Originally Posted by J Bold View Post

        And you are probably the least qualified person to state something like that that as you've never actually done it, as you openly state.
        I would say that certain affiliates, Alexa included, would be qualified, very qualified. Like a product creator that goes on to promote his creation, an affiliate needs to have full understanding of that product in addition to having the effective marketing methods needed to get the job done.

        I could draw the parallel to many things. Does a donut retailer need to be a donut maker to know how to market the snot out of donuts? Of course not.

        If certain product creators were one tenth as effective at marketing as certain very savvy affiliates I'd dare say most of them wouldn't be cutting strangers on the action. They'd do it all themselves and keep the lion's share of the money and only allow SUPER affiliates in on their action.

        Anyone with a word processor can become a product creator. Not everyone can successfully market.
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  • Profile picture of the author clean99
    Originally Posted by Nicheguybob View Post

    So the thread title is my question, should I write an ebook centered around computers or blogging, or promote clickbank productS? more successful? which pays off more?:confused:
    Depends on your skills and resources. But there are already so many ebooks in that niche that I think it would be better if you promote a popular product from Clickbank.

    Unless you can come up with some fresh ideas and will figure out a way to get people interested in your product (which might be hard because as I mentioned this niche is full of products), I would suggest promoting from CB.

    And if you decide to create your own product, then while you are in the process of its creation, post some CB product so you make money in the meanwhile

    Hope that helps
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    • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
      I would definitely suggest starting out as an affiliate, for cash flow and marketing practice. And to get a feel for what sells and what doesn't.

      That will help you a lot as you then create your own product. Make sure that it fills a gap of some kind, or at least explains some aspect of your subject a LOT better than the other books.

      Also, I would suggest that you spend some of your "book writing" time on creating pre-sell reports for the Clickbank (or other) products you plan to promote, and use them to get people excited about the product and also for building a list.

      Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris-
    Both can be challenging. Most clickbank products are hard to sell . . . I've had them beside other affiliate products, and now don't ever bother putting ClickBank products on any of my sites!

    Selling your own Ebook is a challenge too, unless you are the kind of person who can persuade anyone to do anything and thus can write strong sales copy naturally. I did a course, built a site, gave away lots of free relevant videos, built a list, and did everything else, and sold one copy in 2 years. Then I put the same product on JVZoo as PLR, and sell one every week or two now.

    Something like AdSense or Amazon affiliate work is MUCH easier than either selling your own Ebook or selling anything from CB, in my experience. Of course, there are people making big money on CB, and people making big money selling Ebooks, but if this is your beginning in IM, why not choose one of the easiest approaches, rather than trying something challenging.

    AdSense is one of the easiest of all, you just put content somewhere, either free content site like Squidoo (who monetize automatically for you) or WordPress.com etc.) or on your own site, and put AdSense next to it, and you will make some money. Try AdSense and CB with the same content, and find out which one makes you the most money (then delete the other one). It's easy enough to do a site that has AdSense, CB products and your own Ebook . . . test them, try changing locations (e.g., does the one at the top always make more money?) and see which makes most money, then focus on that . . . it is likely, from my experience, that AdSense will win in that test, but don't take my word for it, try it for yourself! AdSense and one of those automatic CB widgets take only a few minutes to set up. An Ebook might take a few hours to write, but that's the easy part, actually getting people to BUY it is the challenge, hence my recommendation of testing Ebook selling against AdSense, and see for yourself!

    Amazon is easy, if you do honest product-reports, based on a summary of what real buyers have said. There are lots of other great affiliate programs, with various advantages, but Amazon is one of the easiest, for many reasons.

    That's my advice


    Chris
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    If you want to make fast money, promote clickbank products.
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