Creating Content

Writen by Ted Lewis

(This is the second in an ongoing series of articles excerpted from our Internet Information Marketing Course)

It's official. You've finally decided to jump into Internet Marketing, and you've decided that you'll be marketing information products. This is a great move for all the reasons we've covered before:

·	Low Overhead  ·	No products to manufacture or distribute  ·	Great Return On Investment  ·	Bigger Profit Margins

But now you're stuck, and for whatever reason can't get an information product developed. Maybe you just aren't creative (or at least you don't see yourself that way – yet). Or maybe you want to write about a certain topic, but you just don't feel qualified or feel like you have enough experience to write about it. Or maybe you do have the experience, but you can't write worth a darn, and you know it - and what's worse…other people know it too!

Relax, none of these problems are show-stoppers. They are problems, and they must be dealt with, but there's a solution for each of these scenarios. Is there a quick fix that can get you going faster? The answer is…sort of. I know what you're thinking, "I hate it when they give me an ambiguous answer like that!" Let's tackle each problem one at a time.

If you are absolutely, truly stuck for content and you know it will be months before you have any good quality sellable stuff, but you are anxious as all get-out to set started, you can sign up for some affiliate programs and at least get going on your marketing ideas. We'll cover affiliate programs in detail later, but basically affiliate marketing is where you sign up to promote other people products and services in return for a commission on each sale. Honestly it's possible to make a great income just by affiliate marketing alone, but it does take effort, and I believe that you're better off in the long run creating your own stuff and keeping more of the profits. Eventually, you might even find yourself creating an affiliate program and letting other people do your marketing for you!

To get started with affiliate marketing just type "affiliate marketing" or "affiliate program" into your favorite Internet search engine. I googled it and got something like 77,000,000 hits. You could easily spend several days looking at all the different affiliate programs out there, but you want to narrow the field by looking at programs that offer you 40% or more commission. There are even people making a great living selling ebooks teaching you how to get started with affiliate marketing. And they probably have affiliate programs to help sell their books on affiliate programs! You see, the possibilities are simply endless when it comes to selling money-making information online.

In our next excerpt we'll cover the importance of having ORIGINAL content in your information marketing business. You won't want to miss that. Learn all about what that little copyright symbol really means!

Till next time…Success to YOU!

-Ted

Ted is part of an Internet information marketing group that makes its home at:

http://www.InternetProfitMentor.com

Check it out for some up-to-the-minute info on marketing YOUR information online!