I am "The Empty Nester Makes Money". I am not the first empty nester nor am I the only empty nester. I am just a stay at home mom of 3 who woke up one day - as her youngest was going off to college - and thought "what do I want to be when I grow up"? I knew that I wanted to make money to start a retirement account, to travel and just enjoy life. But, I had no idea how I wanted to make money. Since I had been a stay at home for over 20 years - I knew that I wouldn't be able to step back into my sales career. So, I started researching all the options out there to make money. After extensive research, I decided that I wanted to make money online.
Once you have decided you want to make money online and you have decided that you want to sell something to make money - the question becomes "what should you sell online"? When you go onto the internet - you will find every type of product available to purchase there. You can buy lotions, potions and pills. You can buy things to wear, things to eat and things for your amusement. Any gadget you can think of - you will probably find somewhere to buy it online. So, with all those choices - how are you ever going to decide exactly what you should sell?
One of the easiest things to sell online is informational products. And it is a great product to get started with. The main reason that it is so easy is because informational products are digital products. Which means that as soon as your buyer has paid for the product - they can download it straight to their computer. You don't have to worry about keeping inventory around and you don't have to worry about shipping the product to your buyer.
Do you have an informational product of your own that you could sell? Have you written an ebook on a topic that you are passionate about? If you don't have a product - that is fine - but you will need to find one to sell. You can do a Google search on either "private label rights" or "resell rights" on a subject that you are passionate about and see what is available. You can acquire the rights to these products and sell them - sometimes you can even put your name on them as the author. And usually it is not very expensive to acquire these rights.
You can also become an affiliate for a company and market their product and get a commission for selling that product. Two of the biggest affiliate companies are ClickBank and PayDotCom. For each of these companies, you sign up an affiliate and go through the products they have and choose one to sell online. You will notice that each product offers a different commission. You will want to choose a product that at least offers 50% commission - and actually closer to 75% would be ideal.
At ClickBank they give their products a "gravity rating" - that is a rating that shows what products are the best sellers on ClickBank. Obviously, you want to choose a product that is "hot" right now - that people are really buying - but you need to be careful and not choose a product that is being sold so much that is has saturated the market. So - ideally you are looking for a product that has a gravity rating of about 84%. You will also want to look at the website and marketing pieces available. See what you think - do you think the website is compelling? If you don't like it - your buyers won't either.
Why sell information products? They are relatively easy to create, fast to bring to market, easy and quick to distribute and very profitable. And if you don't have your own product - creating one or finding one to market is easier than you think. And in this "information age" people are anxious to get as much information on topics of interest to them. And you can take advantage of this by being "at the right place with the right product".
Cherry Lyngaas is "The Empty Nester". After her kids left home and she became an "empty nester", she decided it was time to start making money - for a nice retirement, for some exotic travel, start enjoying this new phase of her life. She started exploring jobs, careers and other ways to make money. Through all her research she has become an expert in internet marketing. To learn more about internet marketing go to:
http://www.theemptynesterinfoproducts.com
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