Selling Your Own Digital Products - Tips, Possibilities and Experiences

Selling Your Own Digital Products - Tips, Possibilities and Experiences - Own products have become popular in recent years not only thanks to Kickstarter and Co. Electronic products in particular are gaining ground among self-employed people online.

These promise a lot of potential, because low construction costs are offset by good income opportunities.

However, your own products are more suitable for larger websites or well-known bloggers and website operators. In the following I describe my own experiences, give tips and link interesting articles for everyone who wants to create their own digital product.

 

What are Your Own Products and How Do You Earn Money With Them?

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Although physical products are now possible for many through Kickstarter, for example, digital products are particularly suitable for making money on the Internet. The best known of these are certainly the eBooks, which have seen a great boom in recent years thanks to tablets and eBook readers.

But video courses, plugins, themes, software and other digital products are also gaining increasing acceptance.

In particular, it is much easier to sell digital products online than to sell real products to men or women. But the production costs are also much lower for digital products than for physical ones. And with it the risk.

You can create digital products once, which of course costs a lot of work and time, but then you can earn money with them in the long term. And it doesn't matter whether you sell 10 or 1,000 units.

Above all, it is important that you get to know the needs and problems of the target group. It is important to find a niche in which you can provide a special offer that does not yet exist and that hits the nerve of the target group.

It is also an advantage if you are aimed at beginners rather than professionals. On the one hand, it is much easier to write an eBook for beginners than for professionals who already know a lot. In addition, the number of beginners is usually much larger than that of experts.

 

Create Your Own Products

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In the following articles, I'll show you how to create your own digital products.

• Step by step to your own eBook
  
  
• Tips for building an info product business *
  
  
• Fixed price and offer prices for eBooks
  
  
• My experience in selling e-books

 

Tips, Tools and Examples

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With these tips and tools you will be successful faster.

1. How ProBlogger Darren Rowse Makes Money With eBooks

2. Sale of digital products - basic models & selection criteria

3. 13 practical tips for eBook authors

4. Writing an eBook - experiences, mistakes and practical tips

 

My Experiences

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I saw the first digital products, especially eBooks, early on in the US. More than 10 years ago, when I was still employed, these were already in English-language blogs and these products were often quite successful.

I have therefore been thinking about my own digital product for a long time, but put it off for a long time. One reason for this was that I wasn't sure whether it really worked in Germany. After all, such an eBook requires a lot of work in advance, with no guarantee of subsequent success.

But after the niche site challenge went down so well, I set out to write an eBook on building niche websites. I then worked on it for around a year and a half and incorporated my experience.

It was published in spring 2015 and became a great success. The eBook has become an important source of income for me.

So basically the best conditions for creating more eBooks and other digital products. For example, I am planning a video course. But it takes a lot of time and effort to create such products and I don't want to neglect my blog or work a lot of overtime, as my children currently need a lot of attention. That's why I'm making slow progress at the moment.

In any case, an important experience for me was that you should have a certain level of awareness, otherwise it will be difficult to sell many eBooks. I know other self-employed people on the Internet who are not well known or who do not have a large reach and their eBooks are not doing so well. 

Thanks to Digistore24, the Amazon Kindle Store and Co., eBooks are published quickly, but no one is buying them yet.

Digital products, especially eBooks, have a lot of potential in Germany, but it is still not easy. But if you stick with it and take marketing seriously, you can build up a good source of income with it.

 

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