The Ultimate Business

The Ultimate Business Model for Newbies

by Derrick Van Dyke
AffiliateChashSecrets.com


If you’ve been around Internet marketing for any length of time, you should
already understand how affiliate marketing works: you either earn a commission
by promoting other people’s products or you sell your own products and pay
affiliates a percentage of your sales to promote you.

In this report, I want to show you the most common online business models and
discuss their pros and cons. Then I’m going to give you a step-by-step blueprint
designed specifically for people who are just getting started online and want to
build a business that generates consistent, reliable income.

The three main methods that everyone talks about are:

1. Affiliate Marketing: Drive traffic to other people’s sites and earn a
commission if you make a sale. Commissions are usually paid once or
twice a month through PayPal or ClickBank.

2. Product Creation: Develop your own product and sell it online. In most
cases, people start out creating digital products such as an ebook,
software, or a membership site.

3. Resell Rights: Purchase rights to products that have already been
created. These packages usually come with a salesletter, graphics, and a
download page.

While these are all viable business models, the question is, which one is best for
the newbie?


Affiliate Marketing: The Easiest Way to Make Money?

On the surface, affiliate marketing seems to be the ultimate business for people
who are just getting started and want to make a few bucks online.

You’ve probably seen claims like these before:

You don’t need to create your own product
You don’t need to build a website
You don’t need to build a list
You don’t need to take orders
You don’t need to handle customer support

“All you have to do is DRIVE TRAFFIC to your affiliate link and the sales
will start rolling in…”

Unfortunately, traffic generation is where most people fall short.
They get discouraged and eventually give up.

Generating traffic is not as easy as most of the ‘Gurus’ claim…

1. Advertising costs have gone up and Google has made it harder for
affiliates to get traffic without paying a premium price.

2. SEO tactics that worked yesterday may not work tomorrow because the
search engines can and will de-index your pages without warning.

3. Web 2.0 is the latest rage, but who knows how long that will last? It seems
that every time a new traffic strategy comes along, everybody jumps on
the bandwagon and it eventually stops working.

4. Traffic exchanges? Safe Lists? Surfing for hits? Don’t make me laugh…
They’re all about as worthless as FFA links.


And even if you do eventually figure out how to generate consistent traffic,
there’s another problem with affiliate marketing…

It’s not a stable source of income because you’re
dependent on forces beyond your control.

The fact is, if you leave the sales process up to someone else, your success will
always be dependent upon what that merchant does or does not do.

Product owners can change their affiliate links without warning, sell out to a
competitor, or even drop their affiliate programs and refuse to pay their affiliates.

A few years ago, I promoted a membership site (I won’t mention the name) that
paid monthly recurring income. I built up over $1000 in recurring commissions
and never got paid a single dime for my efforts!

She said the database was corrupted and there was no way to figure out who
she owed. So she just shut down the site and kept all he money.

There was nothing I could do about it. Even if I hired a lawyer, there was no way
to prove how much I earned.

And then there are the ClickBank merchants who leave commission leaks all
over their site. They make it too easy for people to steal your commissions.

There are ways to prevent commission theft. But the merchants don’t care
because after all, they just want the buyer leads.


Product Creation: How hard could it be?

Since affiliate marketing has so many flaws, creating your own products would
seem to be the solution…

More control over the sales process
High profit margins (especially on digital products)
You can get affiliates to promote you

The problem is, the process can be frustrating – especially if you don’t know what
you’re doing. Choosing a market, writing the content, designing the website, and
then hoping that it will sell…that’s a lot of work with no guarantee of a return on
your investment.

And let’s face it, most people either can’t or don’t want to write a 60-page ebook.
I’ve done it and it’s a lot of work!

Of course, you can hire a ghostwriter. But good writers are expensive and you
would still have to get someone to compile the book for you, write your sales
letter, and design your website. The whole process could take months and if
you’re a newbie, it may never get done…

Creating your own product is a great idea if you’re already making money online.
But when you’re just getting started you can’t take the risk of going through all
the work, effort and expense when you don’t even know if your product will sell.


Resell Rights: The Ultimate Business Model?

So, if developing your own product isn’t the answer and affiliate marketing alone
is unpredictable…then resell rights must be the best solution. Right?

You’re still in control over the sales process
You still have high profit margins on digital products
You can still get affiliates to promote you
And you can skip the whole product creation process
Well even though this business model seems like the perfect fit for newbies, it
also has it’s flaws…

I’m not going to get into all the different flavors of resell rights in this report. But I
will say that there are basically three ways to buy a resell rights license.

1. You can buy a package of products that everyone else is selling
2. You can buy rights to a product that is limited to a certain number
3. You can buy exclusive rights to a product that no one else will be selling

Exclusive rights - even limited rights - can be expensive (up to $1000 or more).
And just like creating your own product, you have no guarantee it will sell. Again,
not the best choice for newbies…

When you have an established business and a good-sized mailing list, you can
take a few risks. And even if the product is a dud, you’ll usually come out ahead.

You’ve probably seen those packages or membership sites full of resell rights
products that you can buy for pennies on the dollar. Most of them are pure junk.
But you can find quite a few diamonds in the rough that are worth selling.

The problem is…everyone else and there dog are selling them too (especially in
the IM market).

So what’s the best business model for newbies?