I don’t know how many other people you know in IM, but over the years I’ve gotten to “know” a LOT of them. One of them is Spencer over at Niche Adsense Challenge.

Spencer has started a challenge to build a quality content site that earns income from adsense only; as I’m following along he’s revealing everything that he’s doing, exposing his own near mistakes, and you can even visit his challenge site to watch it progress. I have to say, it’s progressing nicely.

This is all rather fascinating to me, as I started out way back when trying to build a couple of authority sites and make money from them, but I didn’t do very well. Of course, I knew virtually nothing about keyword research, so that’s the main reason why. I didn’t know how to write articles for keywords, I barely knew how to build backlinks, I was really fumbling along.

I have started my own quality content site along with Spencer’s niche adsense challenge, but unlike Spencer, I’m not going to reveal my niche. Actually, I’ve started two of them, and I’ve hired a writer to write articles for one of them, while I’m writing for the other one.

Donna is running a special right now for articles specifically for this challenge, and she’s filling up fast, so I’d encourage you to act on it now if you want to get in.

I’m also working on my next special for you guys, but in the meantime, head over to Spencer’s site and read how he’s doing on his newest challenge!

Terri

I’ve always offered these blog designs, but they’ve sort of gotten lost in the shuffle.  So….  I’ve created a brand new site that is ONLY for Business Blogs, Edgy Blogs and MLM Blogs.  It’s called Exquisite Blogs – and we’re pretty excited about it!

Blogs by FlipDiva will stay right here – but now this site is going to be dedicated to Internet Marketers!  So here’s where you’ll find all the tips and tricks of internet marketing, as well as pre-made starter niche blogs for only $50, $7 downloads for how-to’s as well as my Easy Guide Series!

So this is THE place to be for niche bloggers – order your custom blogs here, buy pre-made niche blogs, learn about website flipping – just hang out and see what’s new.  Check back often!

Consider this: What’s the biggest reason millions of people log onto the internet each day? You probably already guessed that it’s to find information. Information seeking is so huge that Google alone hosts 400,000,000 searches every day! So what does this mean to you? This quest for information is an opportunity for you to fill a need. And to earn some cash for doing it!

Info marketing explained

This is by far the simplest business you can start. You create a product that provides information. And other people buy this product to get the info. It couldn’t get much simpler.

How does it work?

You’ve got the basic concept – exchange info for money. But to make it a successful business you’ve got to provide information people want. So step one is to discover what kind of info people want. How can you find out what people want?

One very simple method is to do a little research. Head over to ask.com or Yahoo! answers and see what kinds of questions people are asking. You want to find something a lot of people are asking about. That people are having trouble solving. And solve the problem for them by writing an info product on it.

Think about this:

Don’t worry! Info product creation is easy… Think about this: An info product is just a bunch of articles strung together. Don’t try to write a whole ebook. Just write some articles for your blog. And when you’ve got a few finished, refine and expand on them and voila! You’ve got an ebook.

Why info products? Well, that bring me to the tile of this article Here are the seven reasons

1. Simplicity

As soon as you have the pieces in place, it’s virtually maintenance free. Custom support is all but non-existent. So it’s nearly a 100% hands-free business. It’s like having an automated cash machine.

There’s no inventory. You don’t have to ship anything. It’s all delivered online.

2. Repurposing

When you have a created a few information products. You can combine them together to create new high ticket products. It’s nothing to combine the content from several ebooks. Then you can sell it for a lot more. There’s greater perceived value in a single big course. Versus multiple smaller ones.

3. Private label right

Since it’s your product, you can offer other people the resale rights. Recently, resell rights have become extremely popular, because people just don’t want to invest the time and money into making their own. And the best part is you get to charge two to three time as much for these rights.

4. Leverage

Leverage means doing something once and reaping multiple rewards. Break it apart and create a multi-part email series with it. And build your list with it. A list is it’s own reward!

5. More leverage

Utilize your content in as many ways as you can – like creating a few reports from parts of the ebook. These reports can then become lead generators for your ebook. They can be free or low prices. Either way, you win because you’re feeding your funnel. Taking this technique to the max, you can let your affiliate give the reports away for you. Which brings us to…

6. An affiliate army

This one is huge. When you own your own products. You can get other people to promote it for you. How would you like to have an army of affiliates selling your products? Well, you *need* your own product to get affiliates.

7. Joint Ventures

OK, this is by far the biggest reason why. Joint ventures are the biggest short cut to success known to man. And this is probably the number one reason to create your own product. Without your own products, you can’t do JVs.

Summary

If you don’t want to sell digital products by now, then you’ve probably been sleeping. You’ll become the ruler of your own fate. Because you’re the boss! So, don’t waste any more time:

• Visit an “answers” site
• Find out what people need to know
• Write about the answers

Information product development really is that simple. And in short time you’ll have the foundation for your own info product.