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 The Internet has revolutionized the way we do business in America. Now, small businesses can take the same products they sold to their local customers and repackage them into infoproducts that can be sold worldwide over the World Wide Web (WWW). It's the lightening quick speed of electronic media that is one of the reasons that infoproducts make ideal online sales. In a culture where the customer demands instant satisfaction on their purchase, it is hard to beat the ease of download from your website to someone else's home personal computer for instant access. But, if you are thinking that infoproducts only consist of ebooks and the written word, you will be limiting your potential for making money.

Infoproducts are generally anything that is a vehicle to carry
information from you, the vendor, to your customer. That means that infoproducts aren't just about ebooks, but can also encompass newsletters, reports, online classes, music downloads, and even videos. It doesn't necessarily have to be about the written word, although this is what most people think about when they hear the word “infoproducts.” In the world of iPods, sometimes the most viral content for infoproducts can end up being a short music video.

We will explain why infoproducts are the best choice for you to make BIG money selling on eBay. For this, you have to understand a little about conventional marketing and how the introduction of infoproducts turns the marketing cycle into a high-powered money-making machine, that not only reaps current sales but establishes a future net worth as well from repeating, residual, sales of infoproducts. So, let's do a comparison on the cost versus benefits of conventional products and marketing to those using infoproducts and online marketing.
Virtual Products

For starters, infoproducts tend to be virtual products (unless you decide to ship them in hard copy format. In conventional sales, a product usually consists of some tangible good that a buyer has to wait to receive in the mail or purchase through a retailer store. Not so for infoproducts! These virtual products consist of nothing more than a few bits of information that are packaged to be downloaded and read online or printed from the user's own printer, not your own! Since you are not dealing with any hard copies, you don't have to pay for materials or shipping of those materials. This can be a significant cost savings, not to mention it makes hassle-free, for the most part.

As long as you package the product into some format that is widely acceptable like a PDF file or a mp3 file, you have the advantage of providing the information without having to provide or support the gadgets that read those files. Since your information if virtual, you don't have to buy paper, printer ink, covers, and computer hardware. All of that is the responsibility of the buyer. How much sweeter can it get?
Low Overhead/Good Profits

In a conventional retail business that sells products, whether you are Wal-Mart or Avon, you have to buy inventory to use to resell your products to the customer. Then, you have to have a system in place to track your inventory and move it, depending on what is selling best. That's why retailers often hire clerks to help them manage their inventory. Sometimes, you even have to store the inventory until a buyer shows up who wants your product.

With infoproducts, you may need to store one copy of each of your products, but you don't have to rent space to store them and you don't have to make multiple copies to allow many customers to buy the same product. You will want to manage your inventory, but it can usually be done from a server that automatically allows a paying customer to access the download area after payment is made. This is totally independent of you being around to help the customer or even having a hired clerk to move the product around. This makes infoproducts a marketing cycle with very little overhead. The money that you save on overhead can then translate into profits down the line.

Infoproducts are easy to create and deploy over the Internet. They do not require expensive manufacturing processes. They do not require specialized computer programming skills. On the whole, the marketing streamline is very lean and mean. It provides the optimal return on your investment with very little startup costs in overhead or production costs.

Easy And Cheap Delivery

If you look at any news source recently, you will see that the thing on everyone's mind these days is the price of gas. It is now approaching $4/gallon in some states. This can be particularly hard on small businesses that require delivery of their products either from their suppliers or to their customers. Typically, as the price of the delivery of goods and materials increases to their retail store, they are forced to pass the cost of the delivery increase to their customers. This can mean a loss of loyal customers who are price-sensitive. It may seem contrary to what most people perceive as greed in the capitalistic system, but many small business owners are loathe to raise their prices solely to compensate for higher costs. It doesn't pay to raise a price without giving added value or some benefit. Paying for gas just doesn't cut it with many customers who will look to other vendors who find more innovative ways to maintain their costs without burdening the already heavily burdened consumer.

With infoproducts, gas prices and stamp prices can go up all they want, but you don't have to change your prices! The price of delivery stays the same regardless of what happens in other economic sectors, unless there are additional surcharges added to your vendor account on eBay. There are costs for listing a product or even shipping fees you can add for any additional physical products being mailed through eBay, so if you had to you could charge extra. We will go through the different pricing options available in eBay in future blog posts, but really, shipping will be optional. Other than that, however, it's not going to make much difference how high gas prices get, unless you decide to start shipping physical copies of your infoproducts (which we will discuss in future blog posts). 

In addition, you don't have to fuss with old-fashioned delivery methods when you are selling infoproducts. You can automate the entire process so that once a payment is made, the customer gets directed to a secure login page and they receive information on how to download their product. This is done with autoresponders, which will be discussed more in depth in Chapter 3.

Instant Self-Promotion

Unlike products that get shipped and lose the reference to your company, infoproducts are an excellent way to establish a constant self-promotion engine that primes your marketing sales. That's because it's very easy to link your infoproducts to other online website sales offers that can help you reap repeat customers. In future blog posts, we will go through a sample online sales pipeline and how to use each step to sell your infoproducts quickly and effectively.

The beauty of self-promotion is that it is uniquely suited to the Internet where self-made experts can reap very big profits, even though they've never gone through conventional business channels. For instance, if you are trying to get published with a major publishing house, you will probably face the Catch-22 where they will only publish well-known authors or those people who have already made a name for themselves in their business. Using the WWW you can make yourself the expert and start to build a marketing platform AND print your ebook to an audience of interested parties, without having to get the approval of a major publishing house. Then, after you've convinced everyone that you really are an expert on something, if you want to go through the official channels, it will be much easier to convince them to publish your books.

Great Exposure Worldwide

Another reason that selling infoproducts is so powerful has to do with the exposure of customers all over the world through portals like eBay. In a conventional retail store, you might be able to place your item on commission on their shelves for a period of time, but the exposure that gets you is not the same as if eBay allows you to put your product in front of their  members.

There are literally hundreds of millions of registered users in eBay and every single one of them could potentially be your next customer. Obviously the level of exposure you get with eBay for your infoproducts will far exceed printing your book at an independent publisher and then trying to get it put on the shelves of local independent bookstores. Instead, you bypass that entire process and save money in time and effort.

With that number of potential customers out there, you can afford to start pricing your products competitively. Your aim should be to become an eBay Powerseller with your own eBay store to maximize the exposure and help you save costs on listing fees. We will discuss this possibility in future blog posts. To generate this amount of product choice and sell effectively on eBay, we will introduce you to different ways to generate infoproduct content that you might not have considered.
Modern Ways Of Doing Business

Now that you've made the choice to become a modern business, you shouldn't have to do everything by hand. Learning how to either buy or generate new content using slick methods can be one way to increase your product line without significant investment. We are going to discuss in future blog posts how to use private label products to generate your own infoproducts in a fraction of the time it would take to do them from scratch. Even if you decide not to go that way, you can also hire third party ghostwriters and use them to generate infoproducts for your online business. 

In addition, you will learn about various electronic tools that can make your job of listing and selling much easier. We will discuss eBay templates, CD cover templates, and website templates too. In future blog posts , you will learn how to market online versus doing so face-to-face and how important email harvesting is to starting a pipeline for your business. From there, you can start to generate revenues not only with your products, but also through affiliate marketing, partner or sponsored offers, and even advertising revenues, if you are smart.

Finally, we will discuss the role of pricing to create viral products and to generate profits , you will see an example of how much money can be made from following an example of pricing, factoring in pricing, when you sell infoproducts on eBay for profit. Once you have a good idea on how to use the Internet and eBay to your advantage, all you have to do is locate or create infoproducts that can help you start marketing online. To make it fun as well as potentially profitable, you should pick a niche that you love and that excites you. This will carry through in the subject of the infoproducts yourself, where your enthusiasm can spread like wild fire.

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