What kind of products can I sell while I build my info-business?

The easy answer to this is sell other people’s products. Do this by contacting other businesses in your market, preferably by phone, and let them know you are building a list and would like to offer their product to your list.

Now, there will be some challenges with this because you don’t have much to offer this partner. You have little or no list, and no way to reciprocate unless there are sales from your offer.

So, the better way is to open up a free account at Clickbank.com and CJ.com (Commission Junction). Clickbank offers digital products and CJ.com offers mostly physical products. So depending on your market, you can offer one or both. Once you begin to investigate, you’ll see how much there is to offer your list. 

Note – you won’t get rich doing this on a small scale. People who make big money doing “affiliate marketing” treat this as a business and spend a lot of time and money building a list and promoting all the time.

For my money and effort, I believe it’s in your best interest to have a product of your own, so no matter what, focus on the needs of your market and develop a product to solve their problems.

One last idea – you can always offer consulting or coaching to your list if you have some expertise. This is a good way to build rapport in a market, but also gives you a chance to generate some cash and will probably be forced to generate content and it can also help you build product!

But remember my post from last time — don’t ever create a product unless you’ve done the Research!  You need to know who your customers are, and what they are willing to pay for. 

Let me show you the type of Research you need to do. I’ve posted a video for you on http://www.ResearchMyMarket.com

Till next time.

Bob.