If you are an affiliate marketer, you understand the work, effort, time and the money that goes into promoting products. Imagine if you could have hundreds of affiliates promoting a product that you own. This would allow you to relax and benefit from other people’s hard work. In order to make this happen, you either have to write your own e-book or use a PLR product. For the last few years many people have been extolling the benefits of using PLR materials. The benefits are pretty obvious. You can be up and running pretty fast. Most of the time, the sales letter and graphics are already created for you.

However, there are problems with PLR products. Other people, perhaps hundreds of them, are selling the exact same product that you are. In order to make yours standout, you need to rewrite the sales letter and pay for new graphics to be made. You may also need to find bonuses that you can add to the e-book so that your product stands out or perhaps rewrite it altogether. Now, doing all of these things can take a lot of time and will likely cost you money. If you can not create a web site, write a sales letter and develop graphics yourself, you will have to outsource these tasks. Therefore, it will take about the same amount of money and time to create your own unique product.

Creating your own unique product has a lot of advantages as well. You can create a great sales letter and develop a kick butt product that is perfectly tailored for your audience. You also can harness the power of affiliates. They will spend their own money and their own time to promote your product, and they will share the profits with you.

Many people shy away from creating their own product or e-book because either they don’t like writing, or they feel like the process will be too overwhelming. This isn’t necessarily true. A good e-book can be anywhere between 25 and 40 pages. This includes text, screen shots and graphics. An average page is between 500-700 hundred words. Therefore, if you can write 30-40 articles, you can write an e-book. In this article, will take a look at the process and hopefully you will see that there really is no need to feel overwhelmed. You just need to break down the e-book down into smaller sections.

To begin, you will need to find a great topic. Determine what people are looking for? Will they be willing to pay for information for the topic that you are considering? Is information on the topic readily and freely available? How can you make the topic unique or add to it?

Next, determine how long you want to make your e-book to be. Choose sub-topics and divide your main topic into manageable sections. Once you have come up with your sections or chapters, it is time to start writing articles for each of these individual sections. Create an outline and then fill in that outline with your copy.

After you have finished your e-book, go over it and make sure that it flows smoothly from one topic to the next. Use Adobe or free online software to create a PDF. You might need to contact someone about creating graphics and perhaps even writing your sales page if you are not able to do this on your own. There are templates for sales pages that you can find for free on the Internet. Also, research how to write an effective converting sales page. Once you have gone through the process, it will get much easier the next time.

Digital products in simple words mean any product that is in digital format. This is the age of knowledge economy and so is the product sold and bought in the knowledge economy market. From traditional economy and traditional products, the world today is moving fast towards the knowledge economy sector – the products too have changed – converted to a format that can be easily copied, altered, customized, and distributed across places and nations in seconds – it is the digital world and the products sold and bought in this market place are digital products.

As the name suggests, digital products can be of many types – from your customized answering machine message to a web-conferencing tool – all come under digital products. As a user we do not generally wonder much about what we are using. The format in which you are reading this feature or the music that is playing on your iPod are all digital products delivered to you via a digital medium. Today people are making a lot of money by doing business on digital products. It immediately cuts off the requirement of mass/bulk production facilities as in other forms of traditional goods (e.g a bar of soap or packet of pasta) and also the requirement of a middleman or a distribution network.

From the comfort of your home, you can create a digital comic book utilizing your writing and graphic skills and circulate it to people all over the world. They can view, read and enjoy your digi-comic from their homes, without having to even step out of the house…this is the wonder of the digital revolution! Don’t think that digital products can only be used for monitory gains by those who are professionally skilled in one field. What you need to succeed in creating great digital products is a dash of imagination, a spoonful of creativity, lots of vision and a good marketing sense. You can create a great remix of your favorite song on your laptop and sell it to people interested in music. You can create and edit home videos that may attract organic traffic which in return will promise you good revenue.

Following are some of the digital products that are in circulation in the World Wide Web generating revenue and enjoyed by millions.

Songs, Videos, Images, Cartoons, Animation, eGreetings, ebooks, Motion Pictures, Sports footage, videos from concerts, home videos, Personal videos, reviews, tools for web, features on technical and creative topics – all these and many such products fall under the genre of digital products. You can use any of the above products that you are confident in to create an online business platform – for example a blog or a website and earn revenue by selling the product. However before you tread into the world of digital products, remember that the cyberspace is regulated by the laws of the land you reside in. Copyright infringement or royalty violations are dealt very stringently in most of the nations. Ensure that you have the appropriate copyright of the digital product before you use it to generate revenue.

We live in a fast-paced world and people spend most of their times in front of the laptop or the computer – reading the day’s news on the commute to office on a laptop, buying tickets for a theatrical show over the internet or making bookings for the dream vacation online. With Internet entering every sphere of our lives, it is no wonder that the concept of e book is fast picking up – helping people read on their laptop in the remotest jungles without having to carry hard cover books.

Before you start writing your e book, consider promoting your articles and sample features across different websites and other online platforms. It is important that an interest towards your book is generated before you actually launch it. Once you sit down to actually create your e book, try and keep it interesting visually and textually – use graphics and images if your topic permits. Online is a format that readers are used to see as being colorful, intuitive and interactive. If your e book can also incorporate such elements – people will have a good time enjoying your book and you can move away from the traditional book reading experience thereby giving the reader a different experience.

Writing an e book is similar as that of writing a book – the difference is mainly the challenge to keep the e book precise and to the point. Computer screens are not the first choice for any reader to enjoy reading – so the closer your e book content is to the topic, the lesser time will the read need to spend in front of the computer screen.

Today there are a number of online libraries with enviable collection of e books that you can lease or buy. This indirectly means that selling e books is also revenue-generating online business prospect. To create a storehouse for e books, you will first need to acquire some web space to host the e books. You may want to float a website or share a server with your loyal readers and customers. Then you will need to decide on the features that you will allow in the website.

• Should there be download facilities?

• Should the reader be able to read it online only?

• How much should you charge for each e book reading?

• If the reader wants to download the e book, then how much would you charge them for?

Next you must finalize on the design and the layout of the website, keep it intuitive and easy to navigate. Use graphics and images to keep it appealing. Then advertise your online library to relevant sites – for examples book forums, groups of readers and other libraries. Use the traditional online marketing and advertisement tools to promote the site. Once your library is up and running and you have regular readers, you will just need to look at promoting it at regular intervals and updating your collection. This is truly a low-investment online business that you can keep as a side business and concentrate on more businesses that you may be interested in.