Selling Your Own Products

Another method of making money from your blog is to sell your own products rather than products that others have created. What's the benefit of this?

First of all, what if you can't find any good products to sell in your niche? Remember, we're trying to find TARGETTED products to sell, but what if there aren't any?

Naturally, the solution is to make your own product. This is also beneficial, because instead of making a commission, a percentage of every sale, you'll be making 100% of each sale, every single time!

With affiliate marketing, you might make a lot of money. But you'll always be making someone else even more money. With your own product, you don't have to worry about any of that. All of your profits go directly back into your pocket.

Once you have a product up and running, you can even recruit your own affiliates to do a large part of the marketing for you. In this way, you'll be making income on auto-pilot, and you won't even have to work for it. Others will be working their butts off just to pad YOUR wallet.

“But how on earth do I create my own product?!”

First of all, research your niche to find problems that other products / eBooks simply aren't solving. Browse Yahoo! Answers and popular forums to see the common concerns and issues facing every day people when it comes to your niche.

Basically, you want to find a tiny sliver of the market that has a problem that hasn't been addressed by any other products out there.

Once you've pinpointed this issue, you've found a good basis for your eBook (or software, service, etc. – I won't be getting into physical products here)

Now, you can go in many different directions here. You can write the eBook yourself. I would only recommend doing this if you are already intimately familiar with the subject matter – don't write a book about bamboo fly fishing rods if you've never touched a fishing pole in your life.

Once again, you don't have to be some kind of literary genius to write an eBook. What you're particularly concerned with is addressing issues properly – you want to make sure that your consumers feel satisfied with your eBook and that it helped them solve a problem.

To make it a little bit easier, you could use PLR content as a basis for your eBook. Of course, you'll need to rewrite and rework it into good, fresh content for your readers, since most PLR content is pretty crappy anyway. I would recommend just using it for research purposes and to make the writing come a little bit easier.

You could also hire a ghostwriter to write the eBook for you. Of course, you need money in order to do this. A 50-page eBook can cost anywhere from $200 to $2000 depending on the quality and expertise of the ghostwriter.

But if you have the cash and you feel confident that you will profit enough from your ebook to recoup your losses, then by all means, go ahead.