Let's take a quick look at what can be done with your own product.

My journey into Internet Marketing was very much influenced by that nastiest of words-----the ECONOMY! There probably is not very many people who do not equate that word with a substantial decrease in income, followed by a significant increase in expenses! Well, being almost as old as dirt, disabled from physical labors, yet not quite ready to curl up and die, I had to do something! While I was mostly self-employed throughout my working career I could no longer perform those functions which would earn me any money worth speaking of. So, the computer became my best friend in my search for additional income.

Naturally all the "guru's" pointed me in the direction of affiliate marketing their products for them. Ever wonder why they pay up to 75% commission on a sale of their stuff? Such an attractive number, isn't it? Take a short stroll through Clickbank's marketplace and you are inundated with hundreds (thousands) of digital material you can sell and create that needed SUBSTANTIAL income! All you need do is write articles, buy PPC advertising, post on a never-ending list of marketing forums, create a landing page or two, join Squidoo and make a lens or two (or ten or twelve!), create a Hub page or eleven, and then when you have the time---isn't there another article or two that you should be submitting to a few dozen directoies to improve your traffic flow?

The guru? While this is going on he is busy creating another product. This means that as you are spending your time and money promoting HIS product, he is brainstorming with his partner about what else they can place on the market for their affiliates. Sure, he is paying out a large percentage of each sale to the one doing the work, but when there are hundreds of affiliates selling---and they each sell a few per week or month what happens to his income? That's right!

As an affiliate I have cashed more than one check from Clickbank. I have received more than one payout through PayPal for various affiliate programs. I have cashed checks from more than one CPA Affilaite Network. The income HAS been available to me through marketing---but something was DARNED SURE MISSING! I did not feel full filled with what I was doing. Something was missing. That is, something was missing more that the great feeling of creating as sale (always for someone else's ebook, marketing course, or set of videos!)!

Down I sat myself and within days I now have a couple of products for sale on line. The very first of these is www.mySEOsecrets.com, now online for a short period of time. Now, there is no way I can say that when I got out of bed the first morning my inbox was full of PayPal deposit notices. There are a few. There is almost as many from the sale of this book as there are from affiliate accounts. The difference?

Well, my day still consists of writing articles. I still visit most of the forums that I am a member of, and when I have something intelligent to say I post on these forums. I still have some of those ppc accounts, although not using them right now. And I still cruise the marketplace at Clickbank and PayDotCom. The difference is that while I am doing these things I, my efforts are going to the sale of MY PRODUCTS. And when the sales improve a bit I will have a list of affiliates that will market this for me. Of course, they are going to take quite a bit of my profit, but let me ask you something?

As an affiliate you can get that fantastic 75% commission on each sale. You also get to pay the invoices for your PPC "spendings", for any traffic you purchase and direct towards your products, and of course you always are thinking about competition. Isn't it obvious that the more profitable and popular a digital product becomes the more it attracts affiliates to promote it? Yep...you strive to make an ebook popular and your reward is increased work and cost to promote as the affiliate list grows and grows (and GROWS!) Now you know why all the gurus keep developing products.

After all, isn't 25% of something much easier to accept than 75%? Your first answer might be no---but that 25% comes to you through the actions of another. And as those "another's" keep increasing so does the number of times your recieve that 25%!

Your product is yours. It is an asset. The only way it will go away from your control is when you sell it for a LARGE profit! Then you create another, sell, create another, sell it---have I said this enough times? An often stated quote in Internet Marketing is---"Find something that you are passionate about. Research until you find what sells and what it takes to sell it----then "rinse and repeat"! THAT IS HOW PROFITS COME YOUR WAY!

I have created three products now, and expect to add at least 2-3, or more, per month. All mine! Sounds selfish? Not a bit. I am happier, have less stress, sleep better and find that the writer's block I suffered from while working for others is GONE!