Quote: (09-15-2017 05:33 AM)CleanSlate Wrote:
Quote: (09-15-2017 04:52 AM)Vladimir Poontang Wrote:
I'm having a really hard time. I've tried the following :
- I wrote 2 ebooks that are on kindle
- I created a digital product (course)
- Ebay "dropshipping" (getting products from amazon)
- Selling physical products on amazon
- Uploaded original designs on zazzle (similar to cafepress) to sell shirts
- Fiverr gigs
- I have a multi author blog which I will promote on twitter, gab and minds, and I plan to have advertising for affiliate products as well as my own stuff, on my blog
What site is your digital product course based on? Udemy?
And what physical products are you selling on Amazon? I hope they aren't just "me too!" products in a super-saturated market.
When I look at the stuff you've tried, I only see things that 1) are super competitive and 2) don't make much money by themselves. Selling shirts? Yet another blog? Fiverr gigs? Ebooks? Those aren't going to cut it. To make money, you need to 1) offer a service or 2) start a real business, or both.
I'm guilty of trying to make money off ebooks or a couple of blogs, and it has not made me more than lunch money each week. Like RawGod said, try to aim higher than what you've been doing. If you don't have a novel idea, that's fine. Just offer a service until then.
Maybe this will help: How to make money with an online service-based business
My course is on my own membership site, and listed on clickbank. I can't (as far as I know) have it on udemy because it's PDFs, and also the videos (over 100) are supposed to be downladed so that they can be sped up or slowed down.
I'm only selling 1 product, which is an accessory for a musical instrument.
The thing is, everything is competitive. And if it's not, it soon will be. So I don't worry about that. I just try to make sure that I do what I do well, because you can't please everybody. But I do take your point.
I'm not really a blogger. I wish I could do it, but after much thought I know that there's nothing that I can see myself writing endlessly about for years. I can write, but not like that. I prefer books. That's why my blog is almost exclusively for syndicating other people's content (which reminds me, check your email). The purpose of the blog is ultimately to use it as a platform for selling my own and others' products - udemy courses, clickbank courses, kindle books, etc.
As for offering a service, I've been pondering on that for a while. Although it involves directly trading one's time for money, at least it's something. The challenge however is to come up with something that I could teach or advise on that would earn me approx $300-350 per week, without having to do it full time. I've not come up with anything yet. I could do it on skype or praxey ( i.e.
https://praxey.com/home/user/assholeconsulting ), and promote it on twitter, etc, as well as my blog.
I don't know. It's a tough game. I'll check your thread, thanks.
That's not how we do things in Russia, comrade.
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