Internet Marketing – Why You Need Your Own Product

Yes, it’s true–you can make money simply selling other people’s products as an affiliate online. Lot’s of people do that. But if you don’t have your own product to sell you are leaving a big portion of your potential profits on the table.

Aside from earning money from the sale of your eBook, a huge part of potential earnings come from the list building that can occur as the result of the opt-in page on your pitch page.

List building can take many forms. One can generate traffic and opt-in names as the result of pay-per-click traffic. Another option is to get traffic from organic search results on search engines and try to opt-in some of those names. Beginners often try to get traffic to their pages by posting comments to blogs and forums. And, of course–traffic can be generated through article marketing.

All of these techniques can generate traffic. And by opting in some of that traffic to your list you can grow and begin marketing to that list. That’s the easy money.

But by far and away the single fastest way to build your mailing list is to launch a product of your own and get some big super-affiliates in your niche to send promotional emails to their list for you. This can create a huge flood of traffic to your sales page.

By offering a free download: a report, a video, some software–you should be able to opt-in a good number of names to your list during the first 30 days following your launch. This is how the pros grow their lists. They launch new products 2-3 times a year to make sales, but also to keep their list bulked up with fresh names.