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Typically I don’t write about making money online because I think most sites about making money through online marketing or other means miss the point entirely.
That point being that no matter how great your invention is, if it’s not popular, it won’t sell. You’d be better off doing something mediocre and selling it really cheap. Or even something really great, really cheap.
Which brings us to the purpose of this post.
A long time reader of this blog and my newsletter, EJ Cooksey, wrote a post about the latest George Pluss sale on her blog about Making Money Online that I found when I was doing my daily work on my current StumbleUpon experiment. Here’s what she said:
Over 700 folks downloaded the BUM System and they are still coming in. Do you know why and did you take advantage of what they found there?
The explanation is simple: In this new Dime Sale he is sharing THREE proven methods to go from $0 to $100 in a matter of 30 days. And it will only take your time investment, nothing else.
And that clicked something in my head about why a dime sale make so much sense.
So many people are trying to make $10k online per month that they forget to try and make $2K a month first.
You may think, as I did, why should you have a dime sale? If you do 700 in sales a day, if each copy was ten cents, if the price never raised, that’s only $70. (It’s my understanding that the price goes up with each sale, but stay with me for easy math.)
If you could keep that pace up for 30 days, even at ten cents that’s $2100. And 21,000 people on your list that you could sell something else to later.
Even at 100 sales a day, that’s 3000 more people on your list- 3000 leads who have been through your sales process. What if you sold them something for $1?
In the interest of practicing what I preach, I’ll put together a simple traffic plan and put it on sale for ten cents too. Great job EJ!
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I personally have always thought that if you could learn to make just a few bucks online (of actual profit not just sales) then you could always figure out ways to leverage your efforts.
My first website cost me more money than it made me for years and still does but I just don’t want to let it go.
My other websites actually do make money because I generate traffic and the products cost much more than the advertising.
So my question is “How do you create a cheap product that provides value without giving it all away so you have nothing more to sell?”
The answer is, create a membership site that has a wide, speciality, consumer audience, and charge a membership fee so low that it wouldn’t be wroth it to unsubscribe.
I may do an article on this, just for you.
I have looked at setting up a membership site because I have products ideally suited for one - but the tecchie logistics
just floor me. Even the Wordpress plug-in is over my head. How does one do a very simple membership site ?
Hi Anne
The simplest way to do it would be to create a password protected directory. But the problem with that is it is easy to circumvent. If the techie details are over your head, you can probably hire someone inexpensively to install it for you.