Profit Making Info Products Revealed:
A Special Report Brought To You By James Jackson
What This Special Report Is About And Who Its For.
I hope by the time you finish reading this report you will realize just how much opportunity there is on the Internet to make money. Not everyone of these information product ideas will be for you, some take a little money to start, some take none, some take a fair amount of time to start and some you can be making money almost instantly. I highly suggest you find one idea you really like, focus on it until its profitable then go onto the next one.
Dont try and do multiple projects at once, it really doesnt work though the temptation will be there.
Focusing is the key to success and its no different on the Internet.
*****Disclaimer*****
I talk a lot about FAQ lists here and where to find content you can research topics on. In no way do I condone ripping off other peoples work.
When I say you can go to an FAQ list and rewrite it into your own words, I mean just that. Do not copy any one elses work, but do use it as a base for research. Lets begin
Information Goldmine Idea #1:
SecretChessMoves.com
Everyone is in a hoo-ha about public domain content and how its an easy way to create your own products, and I couldnt agree more. Ive sold more then my fair share of public domain material, but I hardly sell it in ebook form anymore. Why?
Well why would I?
I love ebooks, more then any other way to make money online. Ebooks are great, but sometimes its a good idea to buck the trends. Everyone is using public domain content and turning it into digital content, but what Ive been doing is using various public domain texts and turning them into massive physical products.
The next project I was about to create in this format was a Chess product from text I found at Gutenberg.org. There are 3 or 4 texts in the public domain that are massive in size and as an avid Chess player, I found fascinating, so I was going to create a massive bounded physical product out of these texts.
This isnt hard to do and there are many ways to go about it.
You could on the basic scale just print off the public domain texts and put them into a 3 ring binder, you could create an AUDIO CD set with the text or you could create a tutorial DVD using the example chess moves they give you in the text.
A DVD would go down real well and you could sell it for big bucks.
****DISCLAIMER****
Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing ANY public domain content!.
Information Goldmine Idea #2:
ReprintRightsBroker.com
One of the hottest niche markets off the Internet marketing field is reprint rights. Everyone wants to have their own products without having to create them, themselves.
Basically, reprint rights are products people have created like ebooks or anything digital usually and they allow people to buy rights to sell the product as their own without having to give any money from the sales to the original owner.
Reprint rights sell from as low as $17 to as high as $15,000 and more. The idea for this business is to be the middle man when people are looking for reprint rights. You could create a site that allows people to advertise the type of reprint rights they are offering to their product and you could charge them a set fee or take a percentage of the sale. This is sort of like the first business idea, the difference really is the market.
You could even set it up as a membership site. I know I would pay to join a site that had honest reviews on reprint rights for sale. Become the central hub for people looking for reprint rights and for people looking to advertise their reprint rights.
Information Goldmine Idea #3:
GoalLists.com
This is a goodn of a business idea and I got the idea from a similar service called Mygoals.com.
Everybody has goals they want to acheive but sometimes they dont know exactly how to get there or they lose their motivation quickly. I know I do sometimes, everyone does.
The business idea here is to sell people access to a membership that shows them exactly how to acheive their goals and then gives them the movtivation to do it.
Lets say someone wanted to write a novel, but didnt really know how to get started and they also know they would lose motivation along the way, this is what I would do.
I would give them a complete day by day checklist of things they had to do that day and have completed by that night and so on, until you had a whole week of checklists for them to use for everyday of the week.
People want things done for them and while you cant write their novel for them, you can practically hold them by the hand and tell them what needed to be done to get to their goals.
There are a million and one ideas you could do with this one, I just mentioned one idea.
Information Goldmine Idea #4:
TakeAShortBreak.com
Everybody wants to get away for a weekend or long weekend every once and a while but no one really knows where to go or what to do and by the time they figure out what their plan is, they have usually run out of time and decide to do it at a later date.
This is where you come in. This business idea is all about selling easy to create ebooks about travel destinations that are close to home. This is very easy to setup. The first thing you would need to do is find out where Americans like to spend their free time. These would be the places you write about.
For instance, here are a few book titles you could use. Romantic weekends for 2
The best skiing holidays for the whole family on a budget 48 hours in Houston
The complete guide to 3 day cruises, etc .
Basically all you have to do is find out the hottest destinations people who are travelling to for short breaks, write guides for them all, setup a simple website and affiliate program, something like www.fabjob.com and youre set.
Information Goldmine Idea #5:
NicheOnlineRadio.com
This idea is probably going to set you back a few quid I admit it, but I think the long term forecast for this business will make up for that initial spending of money.
Internet radio has really never taken off big time and thats a shame because it has real potential.
The business idea here is, is to target small niche markets, profitable niche markets that could use an Internet radio station broadcast. But heres the kicker and where the idea really takes off and will make you the most money.
Instead of just going after one niche market, you go after hundreds! For every niche market you create a couple of hours a week content for your radio station.
There are two ways this could work.
1) You could run a live Internet radio station and tell people to tune in at certain times, or
2) You could create the online content and run it continually untill you create more content.
This way the content would have a chance to be heard at anytime and your advertisers would get more bang for their buck.
If you dont have advertisers, register an easy to remember domain name and plug a few affiliate programs in there as well.
Information Goldmine Idea #6:
HighPayingCareersForHighSchoolDropOuts.com
You really need an open mind for this business, but if you can think outside the box, I really believe this idea is a winner.
This an idea I had for a membership a few months back after seeing a news report on high school drop outs looking for new career paths and training.
In this membership site you would tell people about what kind of jobs they can go for without needing a degree or even a high school certificate.
Youd be surprised at what jobs are out there and are willing to train employees and pay rather large amounts of money to do so. Basically you would be providing people with information on high paying jobs they can go for without needing any formal education at all. You could also have a job notice board in your site as well where employers post job ads.
Information Goldmine Idea #7:
FiveMinuteGuides.com
This site will be the mother of all adsense sites.
Adsense is all the rage now, and there are so many different ways to make money from Adsense, but here is a method youve probably not tried and most people probably wont as it does take effort and time. Most people seem to want to keep switching from automatic software generators to bombs to portal sites to directory listing sites, which is fine, but I have and always will stick to creating unique content thats informative and of high quality.
My method is not the only way to make money with Adsense, but I feel this is the best method for long term success, simply because its been working well for me in different ways since I began Internet marketing back in 1998.
This is a business idea that Im doing right now and I believe it will make me a fortune in the long run.
What Ive been doing is creating a site like Ehow.com. Its a free site that shows people how to do a lot of different things. The best way to explain the site is just for you to go have a quick look now.
They have thousands and thousands of pages of content on all sorts of subjects and the way they get traffic to their site is through the search engines, which is all well and good if you want to wait awhile, but this guide is all about making money quickly.
Every page on their site has an Adsense box on it and thats how they make their money. They also have a Alexa traffic ranking of around 2000 which is great.
Trying to write that much content before making any money would be difficult, youd lose interest quickly and trying to write that much content or even buy that much content in one hit would be lunacy. Ive always preferred to make money constantly even if the project is only half done or in progress. I find it gives me incentive to keep going.
So this is what Im doing, and no Im not going to show you my site because I dont want everyone copying it.
I registered a catchy domain name, something like fiveminuteguides.com or learnitnow.com and I started writing little 500 to 750 word action plans on all sorts of topics and one happens to be on a favorite subject of mine, fly fishing. So my fly fishing page looks something like
http://www.fiveminuteguides.com/fly-fishing.html and its a small 750 check list on all things to do with fly fishing with 2 Adsense boxes, one in the middle and one of the right hand side.
When it comes to Adsense, you have to think like your website visitor. What is it they are looking to buy? There is no use putting something on my website about how to make money with your fly fishing passion because the advertisers with Adsense are selling fly fishing equipment not how to make money with fly fishing.
You need to make your content fit into the Adsense ads and I think thats where a lot of people go wrong with Adsense.
Back to the business plan. Okay, so youve got your site up, you have a page up on a certain topic that had a fairly high search rate and Adsense payout rate, now what? How do you make money with this page.
Write articles! For every one fly fishing type checklist write 10 to 20 articles on all sorts of subjects to do with your topic. I wrote close to 40 for mine and I havent become rich from it but if I can put up 500 similar checklists in the next year I will be earning a very nice income. But how do you get people from reading your article to going to your website?
Well, not only would you mention your site within your article, (slip it in subtlety) you also have your article byline you can use for that purpose.
For example
For a complete checklist for your first fly fishing trip visit blah.com or
For a complete step by step checklist for catching large Trout visit blah.com
So not only will you make money instantly from your website, you will also build tons of quality content over time and you will have hundreds maybe even thousands of articles all over the Internet working for you around the clock and your site will do a heck of a lot better in the search engines due to all the incoming links!
This is a very rough outline, but you smart people out there will be able to run with it and add new ideas I havent even thought of. This is one of those money machines that will make you money on demand pretty much for the life of the Internet.
Information Goldmine Idea #8:
BecomeAFighterPilot.com
The phrase Fighter Pilot gets searched for nearly 9000 times a month. Whether that relates to people wanting information on being a fighter pilot, I dont know, but I sure as hell know I want this information.
A good way to get content for this information product would be to interview either ex fighter pilots or pilots still currently employed within the armed services.
I honestly had no thoughts of even marketing this product, I was solely going to create it to sell to another company like Fabjob.com, who buy ebooks from people.
Information Goldmine Idea #9:
ClickbankBestSellersList.com
This is something I was going to create and market myself today while writing this report, but I thought no, I want to give my customers a chance to start their own profitable business right now.
At the end of this book you will find a chapter called Bonus Chapter 2. Here I give you a list of all the ebook topics I saw selling well in the clickbank.com marketplace.
Here is what I would do with that list. Register the domain name above, go to CBmall.com (where I made this list) and go find all the sites I mentioned in that list and write down the URLs, what type of product is being sold, how it is being sold and how your customers can improve on it.
Tell them how to make money in that market with their own products. The sales letter would be easy to write for this product. The product really sells itself. You could charge anywhere from $97 to $197 for this type of product. Its like a blueprint to success.
Information Goldmine Idea #10:
ExtremeSportsLovers.com
Extreme Sports are becoming huge business, especially in the US and Europe. What this site is about is creating small guides that you sell on all sorts of Extreme Sports.
In other words, for every possible Extreme Sport out there, create a small guide on how to get started in that sport.
You could sell these for anywhere from $9.95 to $29.95 Want a list of just about every Extreme Sport out there? http://www.extremedreams.co.uk/partners.htm
A great way to get free traffic to your website would be to start a free forum on all things Extreme Sports.
Another idea if you wanted to target people already started in these Extreme Sports would be to interview top athletes in these Extreme Sports and get them to give your readers a more detailed look at each sport.
You could either do this via text or audio or even video. You could sell a DVD on any Extreme Sport on that list above with an expert showing you how its done.
I can tell you now this has not been done anywhere. The possibilities are endless.
Information Goldmine Idea #11:
RetireIn.com
People want to retire, but they are not sure where. People want to retire but they need help deciding where to retire to, to enjoy the rest of their days in comfort.
There are so many different types of people, which means there are so many different types of retirement choices.
In this site I would create a bunch of short reports that you can sell on all the different retirement choices people have. You could write a report on retiring in Mexico. You could write a report on retiring in Costa Rica.
You could write a report on retiring and travelling around the US in an RV
You could write a report on retiring in Florida The list goes on and on.
Want to know where to find a great source of content for this type of site?
AARP.org/boards/
This is the largest 50+ forum on the Internet. All day 50+ couples, Men and Women are asking questions about retirement. All you have to do is tap in on this market.
Information Goldmine Idea #12:
OutdoorPatioFurnitureGuide.com
Ive already started creating this site but I got distracted by other business ideas. I never realised just how deep you could go with keywords for this market.
There are thousands and thousands of keywords you could target in this niche.
Put patio furniture into Nichebot.com and see what you can find. I really recommend you get a subscription to Wordtracker.com for all of the content site ideas I give you in this book.
You will find keywords you didnt even know existed but are really profitable.
Who knew Patio Heaters are big business.
Information Goldmine Idea #13:
HobbyIn2Cash.com
This is my favorite business idea of them all. Just about everyone has a favorite hobby yah? And we all wish we could turn this hobby into a full time income right?
Well this is what you would teach people in this membership site. How to make money with their love of . How to make money with your love of golf
How to make money with your love of scrapbooking How to make money with your love of baseball How to make money with your love knitting Etc .
What you could do is setup a membership site called
Hobbyin2Cash.com that teaches people how to make money with their chosen hobby.
The best way to go about this would be to have different categories in your membership for different hobbies.
You could then update your membership site every month with articles specifically for that hobby.
So for instance you could have 2 articles written about making money with scrapbooking, and to keep your members coming back paying month after month, you would add new articles every month on how to make even more money with their love of scrapbooking.
You could do this with just about every hobby known to man, and in 1 or 2 years have one of the largest paid content sites on the Internet. You could easily charge anywhere from $29.95 a month for this information. You would only need 1000 subscribers and you would be earning nearly $30,000 a month!
Information Goldmine Idea #14:
BeeKeepingForProfits.com
This is something I was going to do for fun but ran out of time. Im not sure if this idea would be profitable or not, but it would cost next to nothing to start.
Again, people will pay for information in an organized fashion. Bee Keeping is a pretty serious business and people looking to get started with it need good solid information.
You could probably write an ebook on Bee Keeping and sell quite a few copies, but Id prefer to start a small membership site and sell access to it for $9.95 a month.
You can find lots of content to use, research and re-write by typing Bee Keeping FAQ into Google.com
Information Goldmine Idea #15:
Faq-Guides.com
Im really in love with this idea. I think this would have to be one of the greatest ways to make an affiliate income ever. People have sniffed around the idea before and have come close to this, but this, I believe is the best system to an automated affiliate income there is to date.
Heres the idea.
Weve all been taught to create free viral ebooks to either promote our products or affiliate products and submit them to free ebook directories. This was sound advice, but Ive found an even better way to make this work.
Create your own free ebook directory full of your own free viral ebooks!
Think Clickbank.com but with free ebooks on all subjects that you own, promoting affiliate programs 24/7.
People go to this site, download the free book they want, they pass it around, and there ya go, automated affiliate income.
But how do you go about creating these free ebooks so they produce the best sales possible? Ive found by creating an FAQ list (frequently asked question) on a certain subject and then converting it into PDF, my affiliate sales have soared.
Im not trying to heavily sell them in the book, they are getting very useful free information and I then point them to a paid resource to get more information if they want to.
I also ask them to pass the book around as much as they like. Want an example of an FAQ list? Go here
This FAQ list is quite big and detailed. Your free books only need to be 5 or so pages long.
Here is an article I wrote on creating a viral ebook. It really doesnt have much to do with the business idea in general, but will give you an idea of what Im talking about at least.
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This is just a very quick overview, but if you want more information on creating Ebooks, I suggest you visit 2 sites.
The next product solely focuses on creating your own Ebook in less then 7 days and that is written by Jim Edwards. You can find it at http://www.7dayebook.com . Its a one off fee for $27 and it comes in Ebook format ironically enough. Now, back to my explanation.
Whether you like it or not, having your own product gives you more flexibility in your online advertising AND believe it or not, compiling an Ebook is no more then a weeks work part time if done correctly and IF you do it this way the profits will come in for life.
I have checks coming in still from work I did 2 years ago, thanks to the power of residual income affiliate programs and viral marketing Ebooks.
Ok, lets get down to the nitty gritty. What is a viral marketing Ebook and why should you create one?
A viral marketing Ebook is a book which sole purpose is to be spread around the Internet quickly, by any means possible. Its not meant to make you money on the front end. You want other people selling it and giving it away to as many people as possible. Why?
Because the inside of that book is full of affiliate links to other peoples products and every time someone gives away your book or sells it, (depending on how you want to do it) more people will be seeing your affiliate links, and this is costing you what? NOTHING? Exactly! The best examples I could give you of this process would be by Yanik Silver. He created 2 marketing books that spread over the Internet like wildfire. He gave everyone who purchased the book for $19 or $17 (depending on the book) the rights to sell it or give it away to their customers.
Needless to say, thousands of people starting selling it and promoting it all over the Internet. To this day, he is still earning good money from that book, plus he became one of the most well known Internet Marketers to date.
So how do you go about creating your own viral marketing Ebook? Here are the steps.
1) Come up with a product idea based on your affiliate program youve already chosen and are already promoting.
Coming up with ideas isnt hard. For example, and I know I use this example a lot, BUT, If you are going to be promoting a sports betting affiliate program, why not create a book on becoming a successful punter. Then throughout the book, you can recommend your favorite sports betting affiliate program.
101 insider secrets to sports betting
How to bet with other peoples money
A good way to come up with ideas is to look at what others are already selling and mimic that. You dont need to recreate the wheel here, so PLEASE dont make things harder then they have to be. 2) Get the tools you need to succeed You are going to need a few tools here.
A) A domain name
I register all my domain names with http://www.namecheap.com for under $9 a domain name, which to me is pretty darn cheap. You want a fairly short domain name that describes the content of your book fairly well.
Heres an example for you people promoting sport betting affiliate programs.
http://www.sportsbettingaffiliates.com http://www.sportsoddbetting.com
http://www.101waystobeattheodds.com http://www.betforfree.com etc .
B) Webhosting
Let me say first, you get what you pay for. This has never been more true then with webhosting. YOU NEED a good reliable webhosting company with 24/7 technical support. If your site goes down and you cant contact anyone to help you get it back up, you will lose sales and a lot of them.
I recommed you use http://www.thirdspherehosting.com for the simple fact they offer all you need, plus a lot more for a reasonable price.
C) Autoresponder
You will need this so you can contact your prospects that dont purchase straight away. This is where you will give away your free course or someway to entice them to give you their email address so you can contact them periodically.
D) Credit card processor
Just use http://www.clickbank.com . This step is too easy. They will let you accept all major credit cards and start an affiliate program for a one time setup fee of under $50. They do take a percentage of every sale, but this is so much cheaper then getting your own merchant account.
Just about everyone selling Ebooks online is using Clickbank.
E) Ebook Software
You will more then likely want to create your book in PDF format so everyone can read it. Some Ebooks come in EXE format, but mac users cant read that format, so I find it best to use PDF. You can create your book with http://www.createpdf.com for a fairly cheap price.
F) Graphic Design Software
If you are anything like me, your artistic abilities peaked at age 7. So instead of busting my hump to create my Ebook covers and website graphics I use http://www.ecovergenerator.com and
http://www.headergenerator.com for all my graphics. They are great pieces of software that you can use instead of hiring graphic designers.
I do however recommend one graphic designer by the name of Brian Terry. You can view his work at http://www.ebookwow.com. 3) Outline your book chapters into articles
Writing a whole book in one sitting is hard, and trying to write a book without outlining the chapters is nearly impossible. My first book I ever wrote took me over 6 months but now most of my books take me less then a week to finish and that is with a sales letter and website up. All you have to do is think up 12 to 15 article topics in sequence and write about them. Each page should be around 700 to 1000 words, full of useful information, not information people could get for free. 4) Write your content
Like I said just before, you need original content. There are too many books out there now where people are just regurgitating information others can get for free and this lowers the value of your book, which means less people will pass it around and even less will read it. If you are really stuck with your writing, I suggest that you do the following.
The best way to get a good amount of original information without writing it yourself is to interview experts in the field. For instance, if you were writing a book about improving your golf handicap, Im sure it wouldnt be too hard to find some local experts who you could grill in person, over the phone or even via the Internet and you can then put all that information in the book. Its also a good selling point.
Also remember when your writing what the point of this book is. The point of the book is to earn you an on going commission with affiliate programs, so dont feel like you cant throw some affiliate links in, because you can, but make sure its tactful and in place.
Another good idea would be to put a Subscribe to my newsletter section in your book as well, so not only will you make commissions on sales, but also generate leads without doing any extra work.
Make sure you clearly state in the front of the book, that the buyer can sell this book as his own. State that he has Resell Rights to the product and can sell it or give it away if he chooses. 5) Create your sales letter
This is where you will be selling your book from and is critically crucial to your success.
Creating a sales letter takes a lot of work, especially if your new to the whole thing. The best way and the way I use, is to mimic successful sales letters.
If for some reason you think you cant do this by yourself, you have 2 options.
1) Use software that helps put together your sales letter and
2) Hire a copywriterm at eLance.com
However, if you want to hire a professional copywriter, your looking at thousands of dollars, plus royalties from your book sales.
Remember that your selling this book with reprint rights, which means when they buy the book they can sell it as well. This is a huge selling point for you. You will also be giving them your Ebook cover, website graphics and sales letter to use to sell your product. 6) Plug in your free 5 day autoresponder series
The best way to write your free 5 day course that your prospect get via your pop up window is to take chapters out of your book and put them in as a free teaser.
Remember to emphasize an urgency. You want to make these prospects who dont buy straight away, feel like they are missing out on an opportunity of a life time and considering the low price of the book, if they dont buy, more then likely they werent really interested or were freebie seekers from the start. 7) Advertise!
Depending on your topic, you will want to target different people. However, no matter what topic your selling on, there is one market who will want your book for the sole purpose of selling it, and thats the Internet Marketing group.
Your book could be on Hippos but all they care about is the fact they can sell it as their own. This is why this type of book always does well. The key is to target people in your market and then the Internet Marketing crowd. I really am begging you to check out Terry Deans http://www.netbreakthroughs.com as it will give you all the knowledge you need and if you want you can stay for 1 month and still get more then you will ever need, information and personal help wise.
Information Goldmine Idea #16:
MustDoTravel.com
Ive always wanted to create a huge travel portal with loads of content but never had the time really.
This will probably set you back a bit of money and a fair bit of time before you really see any profits in return, so you may want to skip this idea if thats a problem.
Think of this like a Fiveminuteguide.com site but purely about travel. Travel keywor
