If you’ve been trying to get an online business started, but just haven’t had any success yet, have you asked
yourself why? At a minimum, have you looked around,
done research on the people who are successful in their online businesses? If
you haven’t, you most certainly should! Take a look at people like Allen
Says, Paul Myers, Anthony Blake, Willie Crawford, Bryan Kumar, Cory Rudl,
John Reese, even me…can you spot the one thing they all have in common?
They all have their own products.
Sure, a lot of them are making some
pretty good money telling their subscribers about other people’s products now
and then, but the heart of their business was originally, and still is, built
around their own products. Does that tell you something? It ought to. Let’s
start where lots of people start—with affiliate marketing. That means promoting
somebody else’s product n exchange for a cut of the profits, which is called
your commission. Sounds pretty easy, right? Well, it is easy.
There are plenty of very successful
affiliate marketers out there. These are people who know how to make that
business work for them…and they make some great money. They don’t have to put
in the work to actually create a product, but believe me, the great affiliate
marketers have to put in a lot of work in order to make that great living.
But, what happens if the product you’re
making all of those affiliate commissions from suddenly disappears…falls off
the face of the earth?
What happens if the company starts
having financial problems and can’t pay affiliate commissions?
Or, as happens much more frequently,
what happens if you see that $100 product you’ve been getting good commissions
from suddenly show up on e-Bay for $10?
We all know this happens, sometimes
more frequently than it should. But, if you’ve built your business on somebody
else’s product, what can you do?
