Starting over from scratch please advise how I should begin

Hi,

If you already have 6 e-books written yourself why not see if you can
bundle them together and create your own product from it.

You could then use that product as a vehicle for adding buyers into
your list and then you can look at re-investing some of the money
you make back into more advertising.

You'd be much better off creating and selling your own products
and building your own buyers list rather than just sending them to
an affiliate offer.

It all depends on your experience level too I suppose.

If you're a complete beginner you may want to start as an affiliate
so that you can get a feel for how sales funnels are put together
by other experienced marketers.

But it seems to me you're already creating information products
with your 6 e-books.

It just seems a shame not to put those to good use.

All the best
Gavin

You may have created the product first before selecting the market. That's a no-no. You may want to re-select a different niche that has a problem that you can easily solve with an ebook.... and then run ads to drive mad traffic to your squeeze page.

Ya I realized that. I wrote my eBooks on topics that I wanted to write about rather than based on a problem. My eBooks and website is basically in the "lifestyle design" niche...I explain how I was able to quit my job and still afford to pay the bills. It's not the most lucrative of niches though (or it could be that I just suck at marketing my stuff).

Anyway, this other product that's totally unrelated to the lifestyle design or "make money" niches is a great one for a great deal. I'm just looking for advice as to the best way to market it.

Thanks fellas!

I would do the following:

1. Create a new blog and share stories/content about aspects of this "new" market for you including how you have used the product you speak about - try and blog once a day for the next few weeks (even if it's just a few paragraphs) targeting keywords that are in line with what people would use to seek out the product you speak about online.

2. Build a social networking presence around the market (Twitter, Facebook at least - LinkedIn possibly as well) and also use your Twitter/FB accounts to launch social bookmark accounts with Digg, Delicious, SU, Reddit, etc... then each piece of content you can share via FB and Twitter, bookmarked with Digg, etc... to help drive some additional traffic plus legit backlinks

3. Post in related forums a couple times each day with helpful advice and post a link back to your site (either affiliate link or ideally your site where you capture contact information)

4. Create squeeze page (basically a landing page with a giveaway - hard to know what that could be without knowing your market or product, but there is always a way to put together a quick report, listing, video, etc... to capture name/contact info of those you send toward the page (from your blog, social networks, forums...)

5. Develop an email follow-on sequence (start with 5-7 emails) that follow up on the offer from your landing page and in each one, link back to your affiliate offer

6. Youtube - your unique perspective is that you already use the product and know how it can benefit others - create a series of 3-5 minute videos where you can share information and utility of your products. In your YouTube description, link back to your squeeze page.

That should get you off and running...

Jeff

If there's a decent demand for the product you've been using then run with it. Build a site and write a bunch of quality content. Build a list. It's ideal because, unlike so many marketers, you actually buy and use and love the product. There's nothing that comes across as sincere (and is actually sincere) as a legit user recommending something. It's ideal. Good luck.

I wouldn't worry about promoting an affiliate offer, especially since you already know the niche.

Create a content heavy blog and direct traffic to it through forums, and over time you'll get traffic through serps.

If you are starting over, I would think really carefully about building your audience and picking out a specific niche. Doesnt make sense to build a new blog around one product. What if the product gets pulled and that's your only source of income.

Ideally you want multiple income streams. Build your audience and following, create content relevant to that audience, provide value, start building your list and communicate with it.

maybe bundle your products and always have that for sale along with other products in a specific niche.

Thanks a lot for this! Much appreciated!

I'm stoked!!

Jeff's suggestions are great.

You can create a simple report from your existing 6 ebooks, and take it as the free giveaway gift, and build a squeeze page to collect e-mails, then add some followup messages.

Now you can promote your squeeze page, you can try paid methods, such as banner ads, PPC, PPV, etc. or free methods, such as making videos and publish on youtube, or social medias.