Friday, November 03, 2006

Reoccurring Income Without A Membership Site?

Have you noticed that every few weeks a new "hot" product that reveals how to make the "most" money gets launched?

It looks like today ClickBank is the way to go. But just a little while back it was AdSense and before that it was membership sites.

Now none of these methods are new and they are all good ways to produce income. And there are many other ways to make money online like selling for other affiliate programs, selling your own products, reselling other peoples' products and having affiliates.

But, of all the ways to earn money on the web, do you know which ones will get you reoccurring income? (Reoccurring income in this tip is defined as additional income without any or without very much additional work or expense on your part.)

The answer is and you better sit down for this 1 -

All of them!

You read it right - You can earn reoccurring income from your 1 time sales pages. But ...

There are 4 important actions you must do to make it happen.

To earn reoccurring income from a single-sale sales page you must:

  1. Have a good sales page that is working.
  2. Have a list.
  3. Be getting new list members regularly.

And the 4th action - the 1 you're probably not doing is:

  • Add a new message into your autoresponder series telling new subscribers about your sales page. New subscribers that you didn't have when you broadcasted your message to your list haven't read your message or seen your page, so tell them about it too.

Do you want to put in a message for every sales letter you broadcast to your list? Probably not. But for those sales pages that work well you should add a message.

Should the message be the same as it was when you broadcasted it? It depends on what you said. If you've included something that wouldn't be appropriate in 6 months then you'll have to modify the message. And if your sending them off to look at a product your promoting as an affiliate you'll need to verify that the product is still available every once in awhile.

Will the sales be as regular as monthly membership dues? No, monthly due payments are usually paid on pre-set days and your messages will be getting delivered depending on when your new list members sign-up. So rather than get a payment on the same day of every month, you'll be getting unexpected payments. (Don't know about you but I like unexpected income.)

How much time and money does this cost when compared to maintaining a membership site or using a PPC like AdSence? Umm, let's see, writing and adding 1 message and then leaving it alone compared to adding new content to a site every month or adding funds to a PPC account every week or month. That's a hard 1 so I'll let you figure it out.

Are reoccurring sales (those sales that don't require much additional work or money) possible if you don't own or promote a membership site? Yes, and they are another good reason to build your list.

To Your Success,
Susan