Comments on: Affiliate Marketing vs Product Creation

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:21:18 +0000

There are plenty of examples on Clickbank. I’m sure you’ve bought something yourself too. Note how you’ve come across the product, what made you buy, etc. That’s what you do to market it.

Juggling might be a bad example as there might be few people who’d buy ebooks or videos about how to learn juggling. Your products should be wanted. That’s why make money, weight loss, trading, and software products are dominating Clickbank.

By: wayan

wayan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:05:05 +0000

Hi,

thank you for that article. But still the internet marketing is confused for me. Could you give us an example of a product creation someone advertised on, generate traffic and make money with it ?!! how would a site on juggling can make money ?!! regards

By: Get Paid Per Install

Get Paid Per Install — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:22:05 +0000

Nice post,and product creation is the best way to make money because if you have good solid product there lot of people will happy promote your product,just sit and see your money grow, but absolutly its not for newbie, newbie must spent time and money on their own experience

By: Isaac

Isaac — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve been doing the affiliate marketing thing unsucessfully for over a year now. I’ve set up a few presale websites but have not made any sales. I switched to CPA offers but my adspend consistently costs more than the money it generates. I’m staying on the grind though. I just need to focus on bulding (or outsourcing) high converting sites with strong calls to action and pretty graphics.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:07:22 +0000

Hi Isaac,

In general, I would say the startup cost for affiliate marketing is smaller. That’s what makes it attractive.

But it depends on several factors on case by case basis. It’s possible to create a product with the same or even less resources than doing affiliate promotions. And vice versa, you can spend a lot of money promoting affiliate products.

The main factors that influence the costs are:

* Whether you work alone or outsource parts or all of your project. Product creation is usually more expensive to outsource.
* How much you spend on traffic. If you pay for traffic, affiliate promotions are more expensive (while with your own products you can get affiliates to get you traffic for a commission).
* The customer care – can you do it yourself to begin with or do you have to hire staff right from the start? In affiliate marketing this issue is non-existent, but in product creation it can be costly depending on the product.

But if you’re considering which way to go – affiliate marketing or product creation – the startup cost is not the only thing to consider. As I mentioned in the post, true affiliate marketing is very competitive and I personally think that you have a better chance to succeed by creating a product with a good USP, even if it involves a larger startup cost.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:41:31 +0000

Thanks for clearing up the affiliate marketing vs product creation issue for me. You explained it very well. I wonder if the average startup costs for product creation are much larger than the money you invest in promoting an affiliate offer.

By: Bob Kimball

Bob Kimball — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:38:24 +0000

Nice post. I agree that affiliate marketing is very cutthroat competition-wise. However, all the customer service is automatically “outsourced” to the vendor.

As you point out, that is the downside to product creation.