Make $30,000 Selling Digital Products From Your Blog

If I can show you how to make $10,000 – $30,000 per year from your blog selling ebooks and digital products, would you be interested to learn?

In 2007, I made more than $30,715 selling digital products from ProfitBlogger.com, mostly from a single ebook called Wordpress Adsense System and other related ebooks and themes.

I say “more” because the screenshot above represents only about 65% of the income made from selling digital products – the rest are scattered in my Paypal and 2CheckOut accounts, and I’m too lazy to go printing out screenshots of individual transactions.

For those of you who may be unclear on what a “digital product” is, it usually falls into the following categories:

1. Ebooks - E-books are easy to create and great to sell. In fact, in most markets you can easily create an ebook based on what your readers are looking for, plug a link to the salespage on your blog, and make residual income. One of the best guides on this is “Desperate Buyers” by Alexis Dawes. That ebook shows you how to turn people’s desperate situations into ebooks that sell like hot cakes.
2. Reports - Similar to ebooks, but much shorter and focus on much smaller topics
3. Audio / Video – Create multimedia products, similar to ebooks or report but just in a different medium. Also includes audio interviews, which I talk about in my Easy Audio Products guide.
4. Software - Any software than can be downloaded digitally on the web, that fits the need of your market. When developing a software, think “What are my readers doing now that can be automated with a software” and you have the winning formula
5. Membership Sites - If your readers are in constant need of information or resources, build a membership site and charge for monthly access like Yaro Starak did with Blog Mastermind, and as I plan to do on this blog in the near future..
6. Templates – Usually in the blogging / site building / graphic design markets. This includes themes, fonts, Photoshop scripts and ready-made templates. If it requires you to work on it it’s not a product, it’s a service. (So if you design themes for others it’s not a product, but if you sell unique themes then it is.)

Another way of classifying and segmenting digital products:

• Information Products - Any digital product that teaches some “How To” do something, may it be getting traffic to your blogs, cooking Chinese food or even hot to build your own PC – whatever it is that your market is looking for. Information products usually consist of
• Automation Products - Anything that automates a process or at least makes it simpler. Usually consist of software, but can even be a simple script or an online web tool. If you can help people save their time, they just might be willing to pay your for it.

Information products, contrary to what some bloggers may tell you, is big money and it’s still alive and kicking.

But, I Hate Salesletters!

The long salesletter format is most often used to sell digital products, and most bloggers seem to despise it. Then again, most bloggers never had any success selling digital products and all they do is web advertising or Adsense, so of course they will tell your THEIR reality. It doesn’t make it YOUR reality though

I’ve had success selling products with salesletters even before I started blogging, so I can tell you that it works. People think of salesletters as hyped-up crap but in my salesletters I focus less on hype and more on the time-tested buying process:

• Get the reader’s attention ASAP
• Sell them the benefits, not the features
• Explain how your product is unique
• Present them with an “irresistible offer”
• Ask then to take action now (buy or join)

However long copy salesletters don’t work in ALL situations so you can experiment on doing it differently.

For example if you’re selling a software, what’s really important is some sort of trial version or demo of how it works, as most people rather experience software than read about it. How many times did you read the Microsoft Windows Vista help files? In these cases your salesletters can be shorter and more to the point, but nevertheless you still need a salesletter if you want to sell a digital product from your blog.

For example, for the Synonymizer Wordpress Plugin, Anthony Ellis sells his product mostly with a simple video explaining how it works, but still has the 5 important point I mentioned above. Read the salespage to see what I mean.

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I can go on and on for days about this topic but my question for you is:

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A typical blogger’s world revolves around selling banner ads, Adsense or other types of advertising. So if this topic does not interest you, I see no reason to go on talking about it. If you rather just get more information on Adsense and selling ads, I’ll bury this topic and keep it a secret of mine.

All I can say that just because this is “Web 2.0″, it doesn’t mean that classic, time-tested sales methods and processes don’t work anymore. They’ve just evolved, that’s all. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise!

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