I hadn’t done one of these for a long time, as I’d been away from the IM niche in terms of products… however, I recently launched a Warrior Special Offer (WSO for short) and it was pretty successful, so I thought I’d mention it for those wondering where to begin.

The title of this post means that anyone can do it; of course, I’m not at all suggesting that there are idiots on the WF. If I can see any kind of success online, most of you will be able to as well, as I have no more skills than the majority of you, just the ability (that has been learned!) on how to put them all into place.

First off, let me talk a little bit about the product, one you’ll have seen enough of if you’ve visited this blog in the last few days - the website flipping guide, Flip Noobs that I recently put out. It was my first mass marketed launch in the IM niche for ages, so I was (to be honest) unsure how it would do.

As of today, it’s done pretty well - nothing spectacular, but pretty well. Anyways, sales from this blog started dropping, as I didn’t want to keep pushing it - I promoted it once, and then just made a few mentions in posts. I did however want to test out a WSO to see if it would do well.

I paid for my WSO thread, and then quickly wrote up a ’sales thread’ - you can see this here. This took me around twenty minutes to write, and personally, I’m not that great of a mass market product sales copy writer… so this is nothing spectacular. This went live on November 14th.

What were my costs?

Twenty dollars and twenty minutes of my time.

What were my rewards?

So far, there have been more than 30 sales that I can directly attribute to the WSO.

30 x $14.95 = $448.5

That’s more than twenty times my initial investment. How’s that for a return on investment? Since that has been created all I had to do is answer one simple question - everything else is money without having to do any work (while I’m sleeping, eating… it’s coming in :) ).

The thing is, any of you could replicate that, as long as you create a solid product (and this doesn’t have to be an eBook! - people have sold scripts, software, access to membership sites, services and various other hings on there), if you stick it up and it’s decent it will sell.

When I wrote that WSO I had less than 150 posts on the Warrior Forum, no signature at the time, not even a avatar! However, I made sure I had a catchy title that people would click through to, made sure I didn’t overhype the product at all, and made sure I mentioned at the start who would benefit most from this product. Result - decent sales. Of course, they would have been a lot, lot better had I worked on the above criteria.

There are people making a full time living ($5,000 a month or more) JUST by using the WSO forum. Of course, those products tend to be higher value than your average $10 - $20 eBook, and those marketers tend to be a lot better known… however that doesn’t mean you can’t see similar results to what I have or better.

Browse the main discussion area (or other webmaster forums), see what people are interested in, create a short report on it. Price it at $7, and you should treble your listing fee at the very least. The great thing about the forum is also that there is plenty of advice, and helpful marketers that you can network with - you’ll find relationships very important if you ever decide to do a full scale product launch. However, if you are a newbie I’d suggest you NOT visit the WSO main section as there are a truckload of top quality offers and it is very simple to get addicted to buying them. :razz:

I’m going to prepare a series on product flips soon, recently bought into a few services that I’m testing and will post about if they’re decent. Product flips are easier than your standard site flips, the ones I’ve talked about, and the best thing is… they tend to fetch more money too. Especially if they have revenue already. Selling a product for a few hundred (I’m talking $300 - $500+) is not at all difficult, and if you outsource it… it’s even easier. The good thing is, that you can create a product with all tools entirely free, bar the domain and hosting.

My first product was created in something like twenty minutes and was sold for $5, and yes it did sell well for a beginner (around 20 - 30 sales I think, so $100 - $150 in revenue) - this was at the very beginning of my IM ‘career’ where I had less experience than you do now. For those that are interested, it was on domain flips… I believe some of you bought it. :razz:

I think that most would be happy with anything over $100 in profit, and once you have a first successful launch it’s fairly easy to take it from there, see what you did wrong and continually improve. Good luck, and as always if you have any questions… let me know below. :)

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