In today’s post I want to talk about a few things that can better prepare you on how to sell information products. With the ever changing evolution that surrounds Affiliate Marketing, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the best way to go would be to create your own information products. I say “increasingly apparent”, but I do not mean that “it is a requirement”. I was and still am a successful affiliate marketer. When I started creating my own products though, I saw a whole new venue of earning online open up for me.

I believe that one of the key steps of developing your own product is to actually write about it before it even exists. Sound crazy? Well maybe just a little, but hear me out ok? When you start writing your own product, it should be essential to either A. Have a website or B. Have a blog. Social interaction can lead to great things, and in the case of product creation, your going to find out how to identify EXACT problems and what people NEED as far as a solution goes. If you have a topic but do not know the “ins and outs” of the niche and/or problem associating with it, then it only makes sense to get started talking what you DO know and ARE familiar with. As readers start to interact, your going to find out that all the marketing insight your going to need is coming at from all directions. Let the people explain their specific instances and your going to be armed with a very valuable arsenal to attack the problems associated in the niche.

Just sharing my joy :)

Hope he gets a kick out of that,

I am going to do a video marketing series, but this should get you going for now.



I got some “dirty tactics” that I am going to throw out there as well. These mainly have to deal with traffic generation and how to make a cool video site. I won’t go into too much about monetization as you can figure out what you want to do with your video sites yourself. I will show you how to get some awesome automated traffic coming.

Video Marketing is becoming quite huge. Heck just the other day, I saw Darren Rowse from Problogger had a video up on his blog. Videos are a huge source of entertainment and news. They are so much better to view than sit and spend lots of time reading text.

Promoting niche video sites is a step of the evolving affiliate marketer. Yes, there is HUGE changes taking place in the marketing world, and if your not staying on top of it, then your only limiting yourself.

Stay Tuned,

It has been confirmed that Pligg is up for sale. I am generally kept up to date on this site as I have seen bunches of this open source content management system passed about all over the net. I actually had not even heard about TechCrunch and Mashable reporting the sale until I visited the Digital Point Thread this morning. I was a little shocked actually by the announcement.

Here are a little domain and page statistics I found on Sedo.com. This is where all actual bids are supposed to go.

Pligg is known to be a popular but very disputed content management system. It can spit out Digg site clones like it was nobodies business. I have seen tons of these myself. In a post at DP a person who seems to be in close contact if not employed by Pligg has reported this from an email.

The Pliggcommunity has grown larger than ever expected, with over 10,000 registered users sharing and trading tips, more than 60,000 Sourceforge downloads and 2 IRC rooms that are active 24/7. It’s become an extremely large project and community to manage. We all have day jobs and struggle to find enough time to keep up the pace. We’ve seen many online businesses develop products to support Pligg recently. Selling everything from custom templates and modules, to support and installation. This is a clear example that with the proper team in place, Pligg.com could easily dominate the other markets in this area. Pligg has even created a shop where users could purchase modules, templates and services, but this feature has yet to be launched.

All serious bids should be made through the Sedo.com listing or by contacting me through the forum.

In my post the other day Make Money With Yahoo Answers, I had stated that I would be open for a Q & A session. I have received all the questions and will answer them now based on my experiences and speculations I have.

Question 1. When answering your questions do you send them to the
CPAs direct link? Or are you making a landing page
with the link on it?

Looks like a strategy based question from someone who looks serious on implementing with Answers :). Based on my own experience I have not used landing pages. In the beginning, I was sending traffic to my own sites with a my domains. Since using this with lead generation networks, all I really do is use a generic domain and make a sub-domain on it. I then setup redirection for the subdomain via CPanel. This is the fastest way for me to handle it, and the staff member who I have working there just has a set of links to the various offers, making their job easier to answer questions.

Question 2.  Are you seeing what other people are asking and then
ask the same type of questions?

In a way yes and in a way no. I am a really quick learner, but I have also been in the industry a bit now and I feel I have a pretty good understanding on what will work and what will not, before I even try it. If your going to go that route, you could probably phrase your questions a bit differently, and still achieve a popular amount of answers, granted that the question you had just researched was a popular one.

Question 3. When answering other people questions are you sending
them with an affiliate link?

While I was making my nightly rounds and reading what my beloved blogroll was writing about, I happened to come across Jason Moffatt’s Blog. When I got there, I was really shocked. For one, it wasn’t the same usual cool, kickass vibe I get when J-Mo writes something new. The man is unique, there is no doubt about it, and that’s what really makes him stand out, and has me reading everytime he writes.

Well, tonight was a bit different. Jason brought a personal and sincere message to his audience. I won’t go into all the details as he blogged and vlogged the whole ordeal and you can read it there. The thing that really hit me like a sledgehammer in the face was I just read an almost spitting image of childhood. My dad was a bit rough at times with my mother as well. Add on the fact that Cy has 4 kids and my mother had 3, it really paints a hurtful reminder and a disgusting taste in my mouth.

Now I will admit. Most of the time I probably come off as a prick. That’s fine, it keeps my wife wanting more (LMAO) and it actually has increased my business 10 fold. Unfortunately, what is true is the exact opposite. My friends, marketers I associate with that know what I am about, know exactly that I am a very down to earth, and I am very aware that everyone faces problems in their life. It seems, Cy has befell a big one.

Jason blogged that Cy had a $250 negative balance. After reading the post and watching J-Mo flaunt that long ass hair around in his sincere video, I took upon myself to send $250 via Paypal to Cy to wipe that problem up. I sincerely hope it helps.

On my super quest for knowledge and tactics I am constantly finding some really cool ways to make money online. I would not consider this tactic as a business building venture, but I do consider it an easy cash  method. I have been telling people in the forums that I was going to bring a lot of cool things their way this year. I have had a super year so far. Things have happened that I never really thought was possible, so giving back like this is the least I can do.

Here are the 2 videos. In the first video I will explain the tactic to you face to face. In the second video I will present you how to find the programs to promote. I am just getting rolling with this, so your getting it free and at the start of this tactic. Hope you enjoy and look forward to your feedback :). Sorry about the damn train at the end, I tried to hurry.

Alright now that you know what your dealing with, here is a short Camtasia on how the Clixgalore Interface works. It was a little confusing at first, so I have saved you the trouble of looking around. Here you can just watch me point and show you how to find these programs to use. I apologize now for the quality, as Youtube converts horribly as we all know. But you can still see it and will know exactly what to do once you get in there.

Like I said, this tactic is in its infancy as I am just now rolling with it. It is by no means a business, it probably could be, but I leave it up to you as to what you want to do with. I gave alot of options, so there’s no reason to spend time thinking about what your going to do. Enjoy!

I am taking a Q & A session from now until tomorrow night. If you want to ask any questions hit me up at the email in the video. I will answer everyone to the best of my experience and knowledge.