When you are just getting started online, everyone will tell
you to create your own product. They seem to forget that
product creation is more of an advanced strategy, and you
may not even have any idea at this point of what type of
product you will want to create eventually.
At the end of 2005, when I first saw that people were
selling products and making money on the Internet, every
product looked like a huge production to me. They had
elaborate websites and membership areas, and the
products themselves were far beyond the scope of what I
thought I would ever be able to do. Can you relate to this? I
wanted to start making money quickly, so being an affiliate
for others seemed like the smartest thing I could do while I
was learning how to create my own products and courses.
It's important for me to point out that I originally intended
to only do affiliate marketing until I had my own products;
I never dreamed it would continue to account for about
50% of my income years later.
As I began purchasing information on Internet marketing,
I would become an affiliate for that person and their
products. Soon I was signed up with more than twenty
programs, but I still needed to understand what to do next.
Finally, I chose a product on Clickbank about training
small dogs. (Clickbank is a marketplace of more than one
hundred thousand digital products, in more than a
hundred different niches. I'll explain more about how to