My 1st Success w/Internet Marketing & How I Did It

I've learned a bunch here and have met some good people in the process. I thought I'd give back by sharing how I made my first success with internet marketing years ago in hopes maybe it sparks an idea within you...

I cut my teeth with online sales with eBay. It was easy as the buyers came to me and all I needed was a good headline, description, pictures, maybe a "Buy It Now" price and let things happen as it may. Then I started thinking of the fees that were piling up:

Insertion fees
Auction addition fees(pictures, bold, border, etc)
Set time of auction fees
End of auction fees
PayPal fees

Then I decided selling my own stuff by my own website. Then I had an idea. I was selling physical products and saw how people were selling information and wondered how I could do it.

I got the idea to find a professional in a small niche industry to write down what he knows in that field and I would pay him. I had him supply pictures and his copy. Good for me he knew MS Word, so this made it easy for me. I then finished up the eBook and turned it into a PDF. Then I hired an eBook designer to create the eCover and the same for the design of the header image for site. I then used a service that packaged the PDF into a secure file that is only viewable on one computer... the buyer's. It could not be transferred anywhere else to be read. I created a small one page website with good selling copy, headline, sub-head, body, etc. I used PayPal for the buy buttons.

I paid the guy about $155 and sold the eBook for $9. Not long I got my money back and then some! So that is an idea that isn't totally unique, but I thought of it, pursued it, worked at it and implemented it. It worked! One of the main reasons it worked is because I found an untapped niche with little competition at Google results.

So if you don't have enough material yourself to write an eBook, borrow.... or buy!.. someone else's knowledge and create an eBook from that!

Enjoy.

LastWarrior