Break it down. How many Reports and eBooks do you own that earn you $1,000 a year

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Hi All,

Yep, break it down.

Do you think it is impossible to write a report or eBook that could earn you $1,000 in a year? I hope not.

So what are you waiting for? Write that report, get busy! Sign off this forum and DO IT NOW.

Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.

Bye bye for now, I wrote this for me.

George Wright
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    It's hard for people to realize what great info you just gave them until they actually try it. Hope that made sense and thanks for sharing. If anyone can dig in a bit deeper to what George just told you and apply it you will come back here and beg this guy for his address so you can send him a case of beer.

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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.
    Reality check: every report/product I write earns me more than $1,000 a year.

    But they take about six weeks.

    I'm pretty sure this could be compressed to three weeks, but doing one or two every week for a year? Not happening.

    Worth asking what needs to happen for a one-week product to do that, though. Lower cost, higher price, more customers... hard to lower cost below zero... and that leaves two options.
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    • Profile picture of the author George Wright
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Reality check: every report/product I write earns me more than $1,000 a year.

      But they take about six weeks.

      I'm pretty sure this could be compressed to three weeks, but doing one or two every week for a year? Not happening.

      Worth asking what needs to happen for a one-week product to do that, though. Lower cost, higher price, more customers... hard to lower cost below zero... and that leaves two options.
      Thanks all,

      To CD,

      To comment on your question (in red above) Numbers need to be adjusted up and down to make it happen, however to make it simple (for me to comment) 1 product that takes 1 or 2 days to complete and another day to have it polished by proof readers and back to me for final draft selling for $10 and selling 100 copies a year does the trick. (I suppose this is cheating but I have ways of getting proof readers for "free,")

      This years eBook can be resold as is next year for another $1k and/or rewritten for another $1k.

      I understand you, making more and working longer. I don't have that kind of patience. Once I start writing I'll stay up til my brain turns to mush just to finish.

      I write the sales letter first and then write a report that lives up to it. If the report doesn't live up to the sales letter I edit the sales letter.

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      • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
        Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

        I understand you, making more and working longer. I don't have that kind of patience. Once I start writing I'll stay up til my brain turns to mush just to finish.
        It's not the writing that takes so long, it's the planning. It takes me a week or two to hammer down what it is I'm going to write in the first place, and then another week or two to plan out what's going to be in it, and then one or two more to write it.

        And most of the writing time is re-reading, editing, layout, advance reviews, sales page... all that stuff.

        I think the big question for me is, how do you get to the writing part so quickly? I can do the writing part; in fact, my last product was written and placed up for sale in less than 24 hours. But that kind of inspiration is rare. How do you get that sort of thing to happen every week?
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        • Profile picture of the author paul wolfe
          Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

          . But that kind of inspiration is rare. How do you get that sort of thing to happen every week?
          If you have a list, email them and ask them what their problems are. Be honest and tell them you are writing reprots/eBooks/etc.

          That could generate a few topics to get you started....

          Or go to Amazon and search your particular market(s) using the 'Bestseller' filter. You could probably generate a report based on just the titles of the top 10 bestsellers (so we're clear....I'm not advocating you copy anything, I'm suggesting you use the title of a Bestselling Book as the start of a brainstorm session to produce your own product.)

          HTH



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          • Profile picture of the author DomenicoGrecojr
            Hey guys,

            Great discussion.

            While I don't think it's possible to write an ebook every week together with a sales letter, download page, graphics and marketing...with outsourcing it could be done.

            However, I think it would be great if you guys can mention how you would generate traffic to each of these ebooks before moving on to creating the next one.
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            • Profile picture of the author Keith Boisvert
              Originally Posted by DomenicoGrecojr View Post

              Hey guys,

              Great discussion.

              While I don't think it's possible to write an ebook every week together with a sales letter, download page, graphics and marketing...with outsourcing it could be done.

              However, I think it would be great if you guys can mention how you would generate traffic to each of these ebooks before moving on to creating the next one.
              I tend to disagree with the first paragraph except for the marketing aspect. A product, sales letter, graphics and download mechanism can all be done in less than a week, even without outsourcing, depending on your skillset of course.

              I have done this multiple times. However, marketing and traffic generation (for me) takes the longest and most certainly would take longer. Of course that is my week point in the process anyway.

              But I think the point here is no the semantics of one week, two weeks etc for product creation, but the simplicity of the idea. Hell, if you can generate a report that can make you $1000 a year, unless its going to take you 6 months, just do it. The next one will go quicker and so on. Just start. You will learn as you go, but if you sit there and ponder it forever then you will never know. Eventually you WILL have enough products to generate the kind of income you want.

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          • Profile picture of the author John Durham
            Originally Posted by paul wolfe View Post

            If you have a list, email them and ask them what their problems are. Be honest and tell them you are writing reprots/eBooks/etc.

            That could generate a few topics to get you started....

            Or go to Amazon and search your particular market(s) using the 'Bestseller' filter. You could probably generate a report based on just the titles of the top 10 bestsellers (so we're clear....I'm not advocating you copy anything, I'm suggesting you use the title of a Bestselling Book as the start of a brainstorm session to produce your own product.)

            HTH



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            • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
              Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

              I think the big question for me is, how do you get to the writing part so quickly? I can do the writing part; in fact, my last product was written and placed up for sale in less than 24 hours. But that kind of inspiration is rare. How do you get that sort of thing to happen every week?
              I hope you don't mind me answering that for George ... if it doesn't help you, maybe it will someone else.

              You must create your own inspiration. For many, this is accomplished through goal setting. People who wait for inspiration to strike before they do anything usually don't get much done. Their productivity is sporadic at best. To be our most productive, we can't rely on being in the right emotional state to work, even for creative work.

              You have to be your own spark and light your own fire. Waiting for inspiration is just waiting. Life is now. Each day we wait is a day lost. We can never reclaim a lost day.

              Work toward your goals even when you don't feel like it. I find that once I get going, the inspiration is generated by my effort, or perhaps simply from my decision to make the effort, and inspiration builds as I give the effort. Either way, it may start off slow, I may have to rewrite the early words, but just getting started whether I feel like it or not always ends the same way ... with a triumph of will over feelings and some good work on record.

              Take charge! Waiting for inspiration is giving up control. You don't have to wait. You CAN light your own fire. Self-motivation isn't magic, it takes effort. Supply the effort and reap the rewards. That's my take on it anyway, based on my own experience, for whatever that's worth.
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              • Profile picture of the author John Durham
                Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                I hope you don't mind me answering that for George ... if it doesn't help you, maybe it will someone else.

                You must create your own inspiration. For many, this is accomplished through goal setting. People who wait for inspiration to strike before they do anything usually don't get much done. Their productivity is sporadic at best. To be our most productive, we can't rely on being in the right emotional state to work, even for creative work.

                You have to be your own spark and light your own fire. Waiting for inspiration is just waiting. Life is now. Each day we wait is a day lost. We can never reclaim a lost day.

                Work toward your goals even when you don't feel like it. I find that once I get going, the inspiration is generated by my effort, or perhaps simply from my decision to make the effort, and inspiration builds as I give the effort. Either way, it may start off slow, I may have to rewrite the early words, but just getting started whether I feel like it or not always ends the same way ... with a triumph of will over feelings and some good work on record.

                Take charge! Waiting for inspiration is giving up control. You don't have to wait. You CAN light your own fire. Self-motivation isn't magic, it takes effort. Supply the effort and reap the rewards. That's my take on it anyway, based on my own experience, for whatever that's worth.
                As a published songwriter I can say that there is a big difference between writing out of inspiration, and writing because you are on a quota...

                True professionalism starts happening when you write no matter what... I use to go to library's and movie stores looking at titles... anything and everything to get inspired with a line...

                At first you are like "But isnt inspiration the end all be all of good writing..." ?

                200 songs later I can clearly tell you the answer is "No".

                The last 50 of those 200 songs are the best... all 200 were written under pressure, and they blow away the ones written from inspiration.

                You dont have to feel inspired to say something inspiring, or find something inspiring to write about. Maybe you will even get inspired in the process.
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                • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
                  Originally Posted by John Durham View Post


                  You dont have to feel inspired to say something inspiring, or find something inspiring to write about. Maybe you will even get inspired in the process.
                  Very true. Some of my best writing began when I wasn't inspired. Sometimes what I write becomes an inspiration, sometimes the inspiration doesn't happen. In either case, the material is almost always of sufficient quality to be sold. That's because of professionalism, not inspiration.

                  By the way, in my younger days I used to play guitar and write songs, so I found your example to be personally relevant. Do you have any of your lyrics online?
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                  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
                    Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                    Very true. Some of my best writing began when I wasn't inspired. Sometimes what I write becomes an inspiration, sometimes the inspiration doesn't happen. In either case, the material is almost always of sufficient quality to be sold. That's because of professionalism, not inspiration.

                    By the way, in my younger days I used to play guitar and write songs, so I found your example to be personally relevant. Do you have any of your lyrics online?
                    I can give you some lyrics right here if you want!

                    Story thats relevent to the thread here:

                    One day I was under pressure to write and had NOTHING!!!! So I went to blockbuster and my wife rented this movie about the life of the great bullrider Lane "Frost"... and immediately after ward, I took parts and peices of the movie that inspired lines... and write this song...

                    Its called "Cowboy Up"

                    ( remember this came from a place of NO inspiration, but an obligation to write for my quota, and was written under pressure):

                    Verse 1:

                    He was born and bred, n
                    Raised on a farm.
                    Under the lonestar banner
                    You could tell by his manner
                    and his country boy charm.

                    His Daddy showed him the ropes
                    When he was just a little kid
                    Yeah he's tough n he knows it
                    and if he aint rode it
                    then it aint been rid.

                    He's got a dangerous dream, out on the rodeo scene
                    He cant help it cause it's in his blood.

                    Well he works real
                    and he plays real rough
                    We're talkin kicked in the head
                    n stomped about dead
                    man he loves that stuff.

                    He could break a few bones
                    but you cant break his pride
                    he knows he might get hurt
                    or hafta eat a little dirt
                    but its all in the ride.

                    Some people say he's nuts, but the boy's shore got guts
                    a living 8 seconds at a time.

                    (Chorus)

                    Go bullrider, fly
                    got a date with a twister tonight
                    yeah you'll be layin it all on the line for that buckle again
                    Never mind the fear inside
                    son this ones gonna be rough
                    Cuz ole thunders bustin out at the gate
                    Good lord he cant wait
                    YOU BETTER COWBOY UP
                    COWBOY UP

                    V2:
                    Gettin stuck in the reigns
                    Sleepin out ion the cold
                    He's got bulls fer a life
                    and a truck for his wife
                    and his home is the road

                    Naw ya cant tie him down
                    and you cant make him feel
                    He likes his love on the side
                    but that 8 second ride
                    is the only thang real.

                    Out there makin a name
                    way too wild to tame
                    He's just lookin for that fortune an fame.

                    (Repeat cho)

                    Bridge:

                    An tonight he'll ride his last ride
                    Tonight the crowds will all be gone
                    and the last thing he'll see
                    is the glare in that bulls eyes...
                    before the riders in the sky come to take him home...

                    "Repeat CHORUS"
                    Tag: "You better cowboy up".



                    So "No" I dont think you need to feel inspired to write... you can GET inspired, and the results of your work may just inspire you more!!!

                    In this case, this particular song was worth about 5k to me (bout as much as a wso over time) ... but who knows someday maybe alot more.
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                    • Profile picture of the author WilliamBerg
                      Better to write a bit fewer that earn more and features quality you can be proud of,
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                      • Profile picture of the author John Durham
                        Originally Posted by WilliamBerg View Post

                        Better to write a bit fewer that earn more and features quality you can be proud of,
                        Why not just write alot of quality?
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                    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
                      Originally Posted by John Durham View Post

                      I can give you some lyrics right here if you want!

                      Story thats relevent to the thread here:

                      One day I was under pressure to write and had NOTHING!!!! So I went to blockbuster and my wife rented this movie about the life of the great bullrider Lane "Frost"... and immediately after ward, I took parts and peices of the movie that inspired lines... and write this song...

                      Its called "Cowboy Up"

                      -snip-
                      Very nice, John. The lyrics I wrote were mostly "story" lyrics as well. I might have been a singer/songwriter if I would have been a better guitar player.
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                      • Profile picture of the author John Durham
                        Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                        Very nice, John. The lyrics I wrote were mostly "story" lyrics as well. I might have been a singer/songwriter if I would have been a better guitar player.
                        Its never too late to pack up your guitar in a gunny sack and move to Nashville...!
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              • Profile picture of the author John Henderson
                Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                You have to be your own spark and light your own fire. Waiting for inspiration is just waiting. Life is now. Each day we wait is a day lost. We can never reclaim a lost day.

                Work toward your goals even when you don't feel like it. I find that once I get going, the inspiration is generated by my effort, or perhaps simply from my decision to make the effort, and inspiration builds as I give the effort. Either way, it may start off slow, I may have to rewrite the early words, but just getting started whether I feel like it or not always ends the same way ... with a triumph of will over feelings and some good work on record.
                Dennis, thanks for a genuinely inspirational post.

                Your advice reads much like Steven Pressfield's formula for overcoming procrastination in his book "The War of Art". Have you read it?
                The War of Art | Steven Pressfield Online
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                • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
                  Originally Posted by John Henderson View Post

                  Dennis, thanks for a genuinely inspirational post.

                  Your advice reads much like Steven Pressfield's formula for overcoming procrastination in his book "The War of Art". Have you read it?
                  The War of Art | Steven Pressfield Online
                  Hi John - Thanks for the kind words. I haven't read The War of Art. I have seen the title before because I remember thinking the title was a play on the title of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. Do you recommend it? If so, I'll look into it. I read 3-4 books a month so I can easily add that to the list.
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                  • Profile picture of the author John Henderson
                    Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

                    Do you recommend it? If so, I'll look into it. I read 3-4 books a month so I can easily add that to the list.
                    I do recommend it. I lent my copy to a friend's wife and haven't seen it since. So I have to assume that she would recommend it as well.

                    Joking aside, I think that Pressfield's attitude to work will be very much in harmony with your own views. If you click on the link in my last post, that page contains an "Excerpt" link that shows you the first few pages.
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                    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
                      Originally Posted by John Henderson View Post

                      I do recommend it. I lent my copy to a friend's wife and haven't seen it since. So I have to assume that she would recommend it as well.

                      Joking aside, I think that Pressfield's attitude to work will be very much in harmony with your own views. If you click on the link in my last post, that page contains an "Excerpt" link that shows you the first few pages.
                      Just ordered it. I do most of my book shopping online. Life is good!
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            • Profile picture of the author paul wolfe
              Originally Posted by John Durham View Post

              Check out what I got last week: untitled1

              John

              Looks nice! (I'm a 4 string warrior myself!)

              One of my goals next year is to get the Fender Custom shop to build me a 'James Jamerson' replica bass.


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              Being a person who also own an american tele deluxe... I never thought I would get an mim, my wife was even shocked, but something about the sparkle orange was just screaming at me... Im gonna customize it some.
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      • Profile picture of the author Lance K
        Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

        To comment on your question (in red above) Numbers need to be adjusted up and down to make it happen, however to make it simple (for me to comment) 1 product that takes 1 or 2 days to complete and another day to have it polished by proof readers and back to me for final draft selling for $10 and selling 100 copies a year does the trick. (I suppose this is cheating but I have ways of getting proof readers for "free,")
        So when is that report coming out?
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    • Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Reality check: every report/product I write earns me more than $1,000 a year.

      But they take about six weeks.

      I'm pretty sure this could be compressed to three weeks, but doing one or two every week for a year? Not happening.
      Sorry CD, but if it takes you 3 to 6 weeks to write an ebook that makes you a mere $85 a month ($1000 a year), then you're being VERY inefficient either with your ebook production or with your marketing means. That's not a viable business practice.
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      • Profile picture of the author tedwood
        Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

        Sorry CD, but if it takes you 3 to 6 weeks to write an ebook that makes you a mere $85 a month ($1000 a year), then you're being VERY inefficient either with your ebook production or with your marketing means. That's not a viable business practice.
        Well i mean it could be viable if you did it in your spare time and it took 3 weeks. Okay so 52/ 3= 17.3*1000 = $17,333 recurring income for the year. What if one of your ebooks was a big hit and made you $5000/$10,000 then you could probably work at home if the others were performing ok as well.

        I have only just started making money from my website and its likely to be consistent now. If i were to write an ebook should i do it on what i know about affiliate marketing or should i do it on my niche?

        The only problem is i don't want to be seen as a newb that has only just started making money and wants to jump into the product creation bandwagon.
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        • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
          Originally Posted by tedwood View Post

          write an ebook should i do it on what i know about affiliate marketing or should i do it on my niche?
          If your niche is one which buys ebooks, then it is where you should start.
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      • Profile picture of the author Barry Unruh
        Originally Posted by Anonymous Affiliate View Post

        Sorry CD, but if it takes you 3 to 6 weeks to write an ebook that makes you a mere $85 a month ($1000 a year), then you're being VERY inefficient either with your ebook production or with your marketing means. That's not a viable business practice.
        lol, or else he is being highly efficient at his writing business and does not have massive time to spend on these projects. I'll bet I know which one it is.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Durham
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hi All,

    Yep, break it down.

    Do you think it is impossible to write a report or eBook that could earn you $1,000 in a year? I hope not.

    So what are you waiting for? Write that report, get busy! Sign off this forum and DO IT NOW.

    Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.

    Bye bye for now, I wrote this for me.

    George Wright
    You wrote it for me too!

    My first report went up for sale about 6 weeks ago and has sold around 300 copies in that time at $17.00 per copy.

    The first 100 copies went for 10 bucks so its at around $4,400. worth of sales so far.

    It took all of 3 or 4 days to write.

    Sales are slowing down now to 2 or 3 per day, but what I learned from this is that I will N-E-V-E-R write an article for $5.00 per 500 words!!!
    Not on your slave driving life!

    Great Post George!
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    Wow! I could never write an ebook in 2 weeks. My first one took me 3 months. For me it is a long, gradual, thought provoking process.
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    • Profile picture of the author inter123
      Thanks very much, a great post.

      How long is it going to take to generate the relevant traffic traffic though? If its on PPC or even sold on various forums then traffic and customers potentially instant but SEO is going to take a while or is it?
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      • Profile picture of the author Hogni
        Thanks for sharing this.

        I, as well as a few others, have a question about driving traffic to the sales page. What's your 'main' traffic source? PPC? SEO? eMail Marketing? Clickbank?

        I've actually got a 'half done' report lying around... never finished it. Think I'll do that now.

        Thanks again, for this wonderful, inspiring post!
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        • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
          Originally Posted by Hogni View Post

          I've actually got a 'half done' report lying around... never finished it.
          (puts on best Marlon Sanders voice) HALF DONE - AIN'T DONE!!!!
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      • Profile picture of the author George Wright
        Originally Posted by inter123 View Post

        Thanks very much, a great post.

        How long is it going to take to generate the relevant traffic traffic though? If its on PPC or even sold on various forums then traffic and customers potentially instant but SEO is going to take a while or is it?
        There is not much SEO to do when your goal is only $1,000 for an entire year. A couple of mailings to your list, forum marketing and an occasional sale from natural traffic.

        Plus, in every eBook you sell you are going to have a page or two or three where you mention, "If you liked this eBook you will LOVE this one (name of eBook) and the link leads to a nice page where more than one of your eBooks are for sale with a shopping cart button so they can buy more than one.

        You could do this without Google at all. In fact the occasional sale I make from "natural" traffic is always a pleasant surprise.

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    • Profile picture of the author Lance K
      Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom View Post

      Wow! I could never write an ebook in 2 weeks. My first one took me 3 months. For me it is a long, gradual, thought provoking process.
      3 months?
      • Make yourself an outline
      • Do an audio brain dump (yes, invest in a microphone)
      • Transcribe (Or hire a transcriptionist, or use Dragon naturally speaking in conjunction with your audio brain dump)
      • Cut parts from the transcript and paste under the appropriate section of your outline
      • Edit/Add/Polish
      • Proofread
      • Compile PDF (or whatever format you choose)
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  • Profile picture of the author spudnick
    Great post.

    In essence, I think this post is very accurate and very useful.

    At the same time, it involves a bit of 'hand waving' which seems to be a bit of a problem on this forum sometimes. Newbies (such as myself) get the impression that all you have to do is write a good report for a desperate market and then the $$$ roll in.

    I am finding that product creation is easy.

    Traffic and marketing is really, really hard.

    So, could you provide some detail to fill in the gaps here? How do you set up the product once it is created so people can find it?

    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rufus Steele
      Originally Posted by spudnick View Post

      Great post.

      In essence, I think this post is very accurate and very useful.

      At the same time, it involves a bit of 'hand waving' which seems to be a bit of a problem on this forum sometimes. Newbies (such as myself) get the impression that all you have to do is write a good report for a desperate market and then the $$$ roll in.

      I am finding that product creation is easy.

      Traffic and marketing is really, really hard.

      So, could you provide some detail to fill in the gaps here? How do you set up the product once it is created so people can find it?

      Thanks.
      Spudnick,

      I can tell you what has worked for me on getting traffic onto the sales page - hopefully will do the same for you!

      It's quite easy really, just needs simple hard work - I got the sales off the ground simply through Article Marketing.

      Wrote a number of articles about the topic myself, focusing on the keywords that Google Adwords Keywood tool listed and making good titles to draw people in.

      Submitted them all to EzineArticles and Buzzle.

      Once approved there, submitted them to another 15 article directories on a rolling basis (i.e. whenever I had the time or energy to do a few submissions!).

      In all, wrote about 40 articles over a month, submitting each one when it was done.

      After a week or so of the articles hitting, I started to get the odd sale.

      By the end of the first month, had made about 30 sales in total.

      Took that money and used it for two things:-
      • Paying Warriors to write more articles for me.
      • Hiring a VA through a Warrior to do forum posting in related forums and blog commenting, using a number of different keyword based links, all pointing back to the sales page. Also have her do a few article submissions each week. (Cost is $75.00 per week and I get way more than that back from her work!)
      This specific site and product has been on sale now for about a year and a half:-

      Circa 40 - 45,000 hits a month.
      0.5% conversion rate - about 220 - 250 a month. (Next area to look at and test!)
      Product price is $14.99 - I'm UK based so after conversion and cost I make £10.00 per sale.
      Number 2 on Google with just under 10,000,000 competing pages.

      All done through article marketing to start and consistent link building through blogs and related forums.

      Have also used this exact method for other products with the same sort of result - put it this way, so long as I choose a niche where the market has potential customers, i get sales - more than $1,000 a year for each product, some of them much more.

      There is no magic bullet answer to traffic - least I don't believe so. Article marketing works and works well.

      Write content, quality content and you attract interested visitors, some of whom buy.

      HTH

      Regards

      Rufus
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      • Profile picture of the author inter123
        Cheers Rufus. This stuff becomes easier and easier with experience and ownership of established virtual estates and knowing which places are of use for promotion.

        Originally Posted by Rufus Steele View Post

        Spudnick,

        I can tell you what has worked for me on getting traffic onto the sales page - hopefully will do the same for you!

        It's quite easy really, just needs simple hard work - I got the sales off the ground simply through Article Marketing.

        Wrote a number of articles about the topic myself, focusing on the keywords that Google Adwords Keywood tool listed and making good titles to draw people in.

        Submitted them all to EzineArticles and Buzzle.

        Once approved there, submitted them to another 15 article directories on a rolling basis (i.e. whenever I had the time or energy to do a few submissions!).

        In all, wrote about 40 articles over a month, submitting each one when it was done.

        After a week or so of the articles hitting, I started to get the odd sale.

        By the end of the first month, had made about 30 sales in total.

        Took that money and used it for two things:-
        • Paying Warriors to write more articles for me.
        • Hiring a VA through a Warrior to do forum posting in related forums and blog commenting, using a number of different keyword based links, all pointing back to the sales page. Also have her do a few article submissions each week. (Cost is $75.00 per week and I get way more than that back from her work!)
        This specific site and product has been on sale now for about a year and a half:-

        Circa 40 - 45,000 hits a month.
        0.5% conversion rate - about 220 - 250 a month. (Next area to look at and test!)
        Product price is $14.99 - I'm UK based so after conversion and cost I make £10.00 per sale.
        Number 2 on Google with just under 10,000,000 competing pages.

        All done through article marketing to start and consistent link building through blogs and related forums.

        Have also used this exact method for other products with the same sort of result - put it this way, so long as I choose a niche where the market has potential customers, i get sales - more than $1,000 a year for each product, some of them much more.

        There is no magic bullet answer to traffic - least I don't believe so. Article marketing works and works well.

        Write content, quality content and you attract interested visitors, some of whom buy.

        HTH

        Regards

        Rufus
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      • Profile picture of the author John Henderson
        Rufus, thanks for the really useful information in your post. (I've bookmarked it at Delicious )

        Originally Posted by Rufus Steele View Post

        Number 2 on Google with just under 10,000,000 competing pages.
        May I ask approximately how many exact searches there are for your keyphrase per month?
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        • Profile picture of the author gilesb
          @ George - thanks for the inspiration to just take action and write some reports and ebook material on what I know about already.

          @ Rufus - thanks for the confirmation that this strategy will work, but also for setting out the sheer volume of work to be put in to make this successful. Work I do not fear, ignorance I do, thanks for shining the light on what's needed to see it through.
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          • Profile picture of the author wordwizard
            Originally Posted by John Durham View Post

            You wrote it for me too!

            My first report went up for sale about 6 weeks ago and has sold around 300 copies in that time at $17.00 per copy.

            The first 100 copies went for 10 bucks so its at around $4,400. worth of sales so far.

            It took all of 3 or 4 days to write.

            Sales are slowing down now to 2 or 3 per day, but what I learned from this is that I will N-E-V-E-R write an article for $5.00 per 500 words!!!
            Not on your slave driving life!

            Great Post George!
            And an excellent report it was too! If your next ones offer that kind of insider info broken down in how to steps on other topics I could use help with, I'll be your customer for life!

            Originally Posted by DomenicoGrecojr View Post

            Hey guys,

            Great discussion.

            While I don't think it's possible to write an ebook every week together with a sales letter, download page, graphics and marketing...with outsourcing it could be done.

            However, I think it would be great if you guys can mention how you would generate traffic to each of these ebooks before moving on to creating the next one.
            Uhm, yes. That was exactly what I was thinking. If writing reports was all it took, I could do that. But each report also needs a lot of marketing to make the sales. I was just thinking about how many articles I had to write to get the sales of any one of my reports up to $1,000 in sales.

            Then again, as the list grows, there's more of a built-in market for future reports, so things should grow ...


            Originally Posted by Keith Boisvert View Post

            I tend to disagree with the first paragraph except for the marketing aspect. A product, sales letter, graphics and download mechanism can all be done in less than a week, even without outsourcing, depending on your skillset of course.

            I have done this multiple times. However, marketing and traffic generation (for me) takes the longest and most certainly would take longer. Of course that is my week point in the process anyway.

            But I think the point here is no the semantics of one week, two weeks etc for product creation, but the simplicity of the idea. Hell, if you can generate a report that can make you $1000 a year, unless its going to take you 6 months, just do it. The next one will go quicker and so on. Just start. You will learn as you go, but if you sit there and ponder it forever then you will never know. Eventually you WILL have enough products to generate the kind of income you want.

            keith
            Great point, Keith. I'm feeling quite inspired, actually.

            Also, if the reports/products are pretty much aimed at the same market, the traffic can serve double duty, and you can also sell them more products on the thank you page for more profits, which is something I've only recently started really taking advantage of...

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        • Profile picture of the author Rufus Steele
          Originally Posted by John Henderson View Post

          Rufus, thanks for the really useful information in your post. (I've bookmarked it at Delicious )


          May I ask approximately how many exact searches there are for your keyphrase per month?
          Hey John,

          Adwords keyword tool shows, on an "exact" search 18,100 per month globally for the main keyword, 128,000 on the broad search.

          Total for the top 100 keywords is about 50,000 on "exact" searches.

          I never know if to believe the Google figures or not - to be honest I tend to go with a hunch of what would have people interested, who have money, who would want to pay to learn something.

          I aim more for the medium size topics that are more specific to people - so instead of targeting something like 'Weight Loss' I'd go with a more defined, smaller niche - Deer Hunting or Build a Hovercraft Plans for instance . I find that people in these smaller niches tend to be more intent on buying something when they search specifics subjects within their niche - subjects that start with 'How to.....' or 'Learn to.....'

          Regards

          Rufus
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  • Profile picture of the author ItsDubC
    While I can see creating reports or eBooks within two weeks being a plausible task, how do you make these profitable if they're all in different niches? Don't you have to take time (at least a month?) to establish yourself as an expert in the niche w/ a blog or something before you can start making sales off of each infoproduct?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Ranger
    I've been doing this for a long time!

    And there's no better time to get started than now!
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    • Profile picture of the author George Wright
      Originally Posted by nigelwhittaker View Post

      76 reports and even more products. Your point is?
      I guess you only read and answer subject lines. The "Points" are usually in the OP and thread.

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  • Profile picture of the author tedwood
    When you say write reports do you mean ebooks on clickbank or warrior forum special offers?
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    • Profile picture of the author George Wright
      Originally Posted by tedwood View Post

      When you say write reports do you mean ebooks on clickbank or warrior forum special offers?
      What I mean is first of all QUALITY information. I'm not talking about cranking out tons of garbage.

      Now with that in mind all means of traffic and selling can be used.

      ClickBank, PPC etc.

      I personally do not use much more than List Marketing and forum marketing. I need to get with it and practice other methods.

      Keep in mind my OP was RE: Earning $1,000 dollars a year per eBook/report. Not a very lofty goal at all.

      George Wright
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      • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
        Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

        Keep in mind my OP was RE: Earning $1,000 dollars a year per eBook/report. Not a very lofty goal at all.

        George Wright
        Hey George,

        I know where you're coming from - but a lot of people here really don't know how to make $1000 a year with an ebook/report.

        So getting them to make 100 isn't going to mean they make $100k a year - it'll just mean they have 100 ebooks.
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        • Profile picture of the author abhi1
          Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

          Hey George,

          I know where you're coming from - but a lot of people here really don't know how to make $1000 a year with an ebook/report.

          So getting them to make 100 isn't going to mean they make $100k a year - it'll just mean they have 100 ebooks.
          I completely agree with your point. It's not ONLY about
          create ebooks/reports but also about promoting them to
          the correct market and right people.

          If they don't know who exactly they've to promote and
          make money from their ebooks/reports, it'll only demoralize
          them...
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        • Profile picture of the author George Wright
          Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

          Hey George,

          I know where you're coming from - but a lot of people here really don't know how to make $1000 a year with an ebook/report.

          So getting them to make 100 isn't going to mean they make $100k a year - it'll just mean they have 100 ebooks.
          True Andy,

          However, notice I ended my OP with "I wrote this for me." I do make $1k per report and I don't have 100 reports yet. I'm working on it. I didn't realize so many would come inside my head with me this weekend.

          George Wright, P.S. However if anyone wrote several quality reports, say 25 or more by the end of that project they would know how to make $1,000 a year per report. A well known person right on this forum has stated that they learned IM by ghost writing reports for the "Gurus." This person got tired of seeing "Them" making big bucks off of his/her writing. So they just started writing and selling their own material. Learn by doing.
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          • Profile picture of the author John Durham
            Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

            True Andy,

            However, notice I ended my OP with "I wrote this for me." I do make $1k per report and I don't have 100 reports yet. I'm working on it. I didn't realize so many would come inside my head with me this weekend.

            George Wright, P.S. However if anyone wrote several quality reports, say 25 or more by the end of that project they would know how to make $1,000 a year per report. A well known person right on this forum has stated that they learned IM by ghost writing reports for the "Gurus." This person got tired of seeing "Them" making big bucks off of his/her writing. So they just started writing and selling their own material. Learn by doing.
            Maybe I am naive but how could one not sell 100 copies?
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  • Profile picture of the author xxdksxx
    This is amazing, from your guys point of view do you think it is better to start in affiliate marketing or Making your own product. Then once you have that list of customers recommend them other peoples products from time to time for a little extra?
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  • Profile picture of the author mr2monster
    My problem is "letting go" and feeling like the product is done.

    I have 31 different reports on different topics that I could probably sell in the $10-15 range.... and none of them are (or have ever been) for sale. I just can't seem to bring myself to call them "finished", so they sit there and collect virtual dust.


    That needs to change.
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  • Profile picture of the author paul wolfe
    Here's some inspiration quotes:

    "Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. (Chuck Close)"

    "Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working. (Henri Matisse) "

    And THE WAR OF ART that was mentioned in the thread is a fantastic little book - you'll enjoy it Dennis. There's also an Audio Book version available from Nightingale Conant which is a bit pricier, but if you like to consume your content in audio form it's also very good.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Lange
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hi All,

    Yep, break it down.

    Do you think it is impossible to write a report or eBook that could earn you $1,000 in a year? I hope not.

    So what are you waiting for? Write that report, get busy! Sign off this forum and DO IT NOW.

    Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.

    Bye bye for now, I wrote this for me.

    George Wright
    You are absolutely correct!!

    Most people are looking only for the BIG SCORE and they fail to realize that the most successful people build their business one small step at a time.

    There aren't too many people who can make a living off of just one ebook however the majority of people will write just one ebook then get discouraged and never try again if it doesn't earn $10,000.00 the first week.

    Build your wealth one brick at a time! If you build it all on one product it can disappear quicker than it appeared. If you do it one brick at a time you will have several avenues of income and therefore more security and long term success.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gregster
    Maybe I am naive but how could one not sell 100 copies?
    Hi John.
    What is being said here is not 100 copies, but 100 e-books. I,e selling 100 different e-books per year, EACH of which makes $1000. It would depend on how much you sell each book for. To make $1000 you would have to sell 500 @ $20 each;
    about 350 @ $30 each etc.
    The point that is being made here, is that most people are not focussed on a step-by-step approach, because they want to make a big amount at one time; Or they are unable to maintain consistency. I,e 1 book, then another, then another etc, until after 50-100 books (over 1 year) they have reached their goal.
    "Brick by brick"; or in this case 'book by book.

    Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hi All,

    Yep, break it down.

    Do you think it is impossible to write a report or eBook that could earn you $1,000 in a year? I hope not.

    So what are you waiting for? Write that report, get busy! Sign off this forum and DO IT NOW.

    Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.

    Bye bye for now, I wrote this for me.

    George Wright

    George, Great advice...

    I took this decision a few weeks back...

    My first product out of the gate has put nearly $1500 profit into my bank account. If sales stop here -- and I have no reason to believe that they will -- I earned about $375 each for the four days I invested in the creation of this product...
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy Daugherty
    this is certainly amazing but thanks for the share....
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  • Profile picture of the author angela99
    Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

    Hi All,

    Yep, break it down.

    Do you think it is impossible to write a report or eBook that could earn you $1,000 in a year? I hope not.

    So what are you waiting for? Write that report, get busy! Sign off this forum and DO IT NOW.

    Now, do that once or twice a week and within one year you will have a treasure chest full of products that will earn you $50,000 to $100,000 a year.

    Bye bye for now, I wrote this for me.

    George Wright
    Outstanding, George.

    Anyone who takes this advice to heart WILL succeed.

    If you're "not a writer", then hire one, right here on the Warrior Forum...

    If you do write 100 reports however, your life (no matter how successful or unsuccessful you happen to be right now) will change -- for the better.

    I'm taking your idea as inspiration and making it a practice for myself. I've been getting a little slack and lazy lately, time to turn up the volume and get it DONE. :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    Making a report and selling it where?
    to whom? What if folks don't have an
    audience yet?

    Working on producing a lot of content
    give us the illusion of progress. But
    being busy is not the same as being
    successful.

    I'd spend more time marketing and less
    time producing content.

    Tyrus
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    • Profile picture of the author AndrewCavanagh
      Originally Posted by Tyrus Antas View Post

      Making a report and selling it where?
      to whom? What if folks don't have an
      audience yet?

      Working on producing a lot of content
      give us the illusion of progress. But
      being busy is not the same as being
      successful.

      I'd spend more time marketing and less
      time producing content.

      Tyrus

      Very good point.

      Ideally you'd invest some time and effort in finding a niche and a hungry market you can sell to then generate a pile of content to that niche.

      Your product creation effort really needs to be focused towards creating something useful and saleable to specific prospects you have easy and economical access to (access to a list or lists, access to pay per click prospects you've already tested, etc etc).


      The idea is sound enough.

      I had a product I released that was nothing like as successful as I would have liked on launch.

      But after a year it occurred to me that it had made a few thousand dollars in sales...it was still an income and as an experienced marketer I should be happy that that product has made me a good profit over effort.

      Kindest regards,
      Andrew Cavanagh
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      • Profile picture of the author jan roos
        I think the best way to do it is to build your reports upon each other.

        Each report will build on your previous one for instance.

        You create a short report on niche blogging for instance, then u create a traffic generation report to help people with their niche blogging, then you can create a list building report to help your customers get more money out of the traffic they are generating etc.

        This way you can have a full blown sales funnel which will pay you for years to come.

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        • Profile picture of the author Robert Boduch
          This is terrific, George! Thank you.

          Brilliantly simple... and simply brilliant.

          It's so easy to get caught up in excuses, or distracted by all those other things. But what we sometimes need to be reminded of is to simply roll up the old sleeves and get it done. Craft one report at a time. Knock it out... write a sales letter... turn on your marketing machine... and you're off to the races. Then get busy writing the next one.

          Of course if you invest some time figuring out niche markets and a solid concept for each, you increase your odds of success.

          Jan Roos hit on a neat idea. When you can write multiple reports targeted to the same audience, you'll get a better return on your traffic. Since information buyers tend to buy more information, having additional, related products ready to go can only help.

          One way to simplify the planning stages is to use mind-mapping. You don't need fancy software for this to work well. I prefer to get away from my laptop during the planning stage, with a blank pad of paper, my favorite Pilot Hi-Techpoint V7 liquid ink pen an a fresh cup of Starbucks French Roast. In five minutes of focused mind-mapping, you can easily generate a rough outline on a subject you know.

          Keep it simple and continue to move forward. Don't get in your own way.

          Robert
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