I pictured the perfect lifestyle biz many years ago – sitting on a beach earning money – a laptop lifestyle business! I would be doing nothing for this money of course! It would be money I was earning because of having set up an automated business from my laptop.
Around 15 years ago I was working on eBay, buying and selling. I was using a little eBay business system and I thought I was being very clever! But there were people who were far cleverer, I just didn’t know it back then. I was getting a little fed up of all the work involved in shifting eBay items back and forth. Even though I effectively had an internet business, what I really had was a job that I owned.
Perfect Lifestyle Biz – Automation
I came across an ebook which taught me this eBay strategy; but I was more interested in the automation of the ebook sale than buying and selling items from eBay. What I had was a business model which meant I could work for myself and use my laptop – but it didn’t set me free! I was trapped by the need to always be around; collecting and delivering parcels.
I decided I needed a business model which allowed me to automate the sale of digital products. I just didn’t know how to make it happen, yet! So I started creating my own ebooks and trying to sell them. This took rather a long time to do and led to exactly nowhere! I learned how to build a website, create an ebook cover, create a sales page and automate the delivery of an ebook. But I didn’t know how to sell any of them! So I put myself on a marketing course to learn how to sell my own ebooks.
Perfect Lifestyle Biz – Affiliate Marketing
The first course I took led me to a business model known as affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you can sell other people’s products for a percentage of the sale. With certain products it’s as much as 50%! I quickly abandoned my own ebooks and started learning how to sell other people’s digital products. I took several courses on the subject and many of them contradicted each other! One course taught one strategy and another course taught another!
It took me a long time and a lot of hard work and struggle before finding the real deal – a course which actually had a community of like minded entrepreneurs on hand to help me! (Access the free video series by signing up on this site).
What I Didn’t Know
There was plenty that I didn’t know about what the perfect lifestyle biz really was. At first I made plenty of mistakes. I chose the wrong products to sell, I worked hard at the wrong activities. I spent years struggling because I didn’t know which direction to work in and who to ask for help. The internet is a daunting place and there’s many who will take your money. So trust is a pretty valuable commodity online.
One thing I didn’t know is what products to use. I started out promoting physical products from Amazon. I later realised that these products only paid 3%011% commissions. So my hard work only amounted to little in the way of financial compensation. I also worked hard building websites which would, by and large, produce no useful outcome.
What a waste of time! Don’t make that same mistake. Learn from my mistakes!
Best Products To Sell
Physical products from Amazon (for example) pay 3%-11% commission.
Digital products tend to pay 30%-50% commissions.
Some affiliate products even offer a recurring commission too. Recurring commission affiliate programs can give you a lifetime of income, rather than a single commission. These are products like software products and memberships.
High ticket digital products can give you the largest overall commissions too. With high ticket products, you can earn much larger commissions than the standard digital products you will find. High ticket items will also give you more opportunity to use the more expensive marketing platforms and get more traction with an online business more quickly.
Best Marketing Strategies
For years I struggled with getting people to my content and selling affiliate products. I followed a few strategies but because I was out of work a lot, my income was very unstable. So I wasn’t able to access the paid marketing platforms or purchase a high ticket sales funnel.
Blogging is certainly a cheap marketing strategy. But it’s also a very slow one. If you plan on spending months and years working away diligently at your blog, it can work really well and give you a constant supply of free traffic. However, there’s no guarantees and many affiliate marketers quit before the even get 1000 subscribers on their email list. See why affiliate marketing does not work.
Getting The Right Help
Getting the right help is vital for anyone who wants to build a viable online business from scratch. There’s just too much to learn and so many things can get in your way, or go wrong. Join an online community and learn from others who have taken the right action steps to achieve a real and transformative lifestyle business.
It’s not as easy and fast as I once thought, but I’ve now found a great community and business strategy which works. It uses automation and other people’s products to help others achieve the same kind of lifestyle which many people dreams about.
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