Description – You are the “vendor” or the owner of the rights to sell these products. You create books, products, courses, videos and software and then build a website to sell those items for you. You could also add your own affiliate program where others could sell your products for a commission from your business to them.

This is the sort of business model that the “startup” guys are in to and what we lie in bed at 3 am dreaming about.

It is not actually that hard to set up or start but requires a lot more capital and commitment than just trying to earn residual income in your pyjamas.

You can compete with the very big boys if you like and even succeed easily. This model is simply creating a decent product and pricing it correctly for a hungry market.

(As opposed to a social media site – this is much more fickle)

COURSES

This is the most likely to be what you can use as a business idea.

If you know anything about a niche or topic that people are looking for information online, then you can make a course.

I have made many over the years and currently have a few that are still active.

Your topics can be almost anything. Go search google for a list of Dummies books. Each of those has been sought out enough for the topic to be turned into a book for how-to-for-dummies.

SOFTWARE

This could be apps, it could be e-commerce things that you found a gap and see a need for a specific function or plugin for their sites.

But it could also be a complete software service like video bookmarking, or Creating RSS feeds from URLs and more. It could be something that gets millions of hits a month, like checking how fast a mobile site loads, or checking for broken backlinks to websites. 

Again, the ideas here are endless.

How to carve wooden spoons, or bowls.

How to start a garden service business

How to do weaves (hairstyles)

How to sell more jewellery (one of my courses)

How to make paracord products.

The ideas and opportunities are almost endless.

YOUR OWN PRODUCTS

Now that I am deeper into telling you about the opportunities here, I can see that this section is in fact very badly titled. 

You see, your own products should fall under at least three other big categories, like E-commerce, local marketing and drop shipping.

All of these have become massive since I first wrote out this report that is now pages on this site.

My bad.

Let me just say that if you actually make a physical product, you should follow the following steps. (Ja, it is a LOT of work, but once all this is firing on all cylinders your business will be making you so rich you will want to buy me a holiday home for pointing you in the right direction)

1. Set up a decent local search WordPress website.
2. Set up your GMB (Google My Business) profile properly
3. Set up decent social media – especially Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook. Publish your products like a crazy person there. BUT please do it properly, don’t spam randomly.
4. Do a lot of content – pages, posts and videos.
5. If you can ship your product, look into Etsy, FBA, drop shipping and more.
6. see my courses on this – I do have some. Follow the links at the bottom of the page

HOW TO DO THIS?

You can do it as videos, PDF’s, membership websites, physical courses, digital downloads, podcasts and more. Better still, do it as all of them. You could also just do it as a Kindle book too. Many, many options.

On a small scale

You produce a course, an app, a plug-in for WordPress etc and market it as a standalone item

Easy to do and can work very easily. The research will show you exactly what people are looking for and then you build it/write it/design it and offer it to them via marketing methods that are proven to work.

On a Bigger scale

You design stuff like Adobe, Skype – on the software side or produce massive college-level courses and promote on a large scale.

Also easy to do, just takes more time and money.

Do you need a website?

Definitely and it might need to be custom coded

Do you need any skills at all?

Definitely – unless you hire the experts

Do you need complicated skills?

Definitely – just your business skills need to be top-drawer, as you will be in business competing against the best out there

Do you need to spend money?

Yes

Do you need to have detailed knowledge of that subject?

If not you personally then the people you hire

How much income potential does this niche/method have?

Unlimited

Want an example? This guy learned how to build WordPress custom themes. When I discovered him about six years ago he had a website with about 500 members, and we were all paying him $29 a year.

So his income a month back then was $1200 a month (Ok – I admit I am not 100% sure of these early numbers)

BUT today he has 200 000 customers @ $39 a year. That translates into about $650 000 a month. Nice going huh?

UPDATE. 400 000 now and @ $89.00

Even newer update 500 000 plus members.

Want to know who he is? 

http://robertbruceanderson.com/elegantthemes

How fast would I likely start to earn money?

Could be a year or two, the smaller scaled stuff will start to earn as fast as you promote it which should be around three months.

You could put together a three or 4 video course in a day, run ads on Facebook or Google and start making money in a day or two after that.

It is dependant on how you go about your marketing.

LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE

I wanted to write a freebie for my things-to-make-and-sell website. It was supposed to be three pages. In the end, it was 50 or so pages. Fine. But now I have the opportunity to actually sell it, or give it away for free to build up an email list, and could make a video series attached and sell that for $99 (or $49, or $ 500 my choice)

Perhaps by the time you are reading this page you will find that very freebie added to my list of product and suggested links here below and if you downloaded it, you might find an up-sell for that video course in there. If you don’t, email me and remind me to go and make the damned thing. It might buy me an extra house if I actually did it 🙂

Would I need one or many websites?

One should be enough.

You could build small marketing niche sites for your product.

Each product should have its own website.

Local Business Lead Generating Cheat Sheet

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