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Usually you'll need your own payment system to
accept the money and your own webspace to sell it - but that's very cheap to do
these days. Resell Rights can be free, or cost anywhere up to $1000 and beyond.
The free Resell Rights are usually not worth bothering with. You want to sell
items that have LIMITED distribution - quite simply because you'll have less
competition!
2. Master Resell Rights
Unfortunately these are bad news. With the
Master Rights you can pass on Resell Rights yourself. This means one thing -
thousands of competitors in a very short time.
3. Reprint Rights
These are sometimes confused with Resell Rights
but they are usually used to describe hard-copy material. For example, printed
books, tape sets, CD's or Videos.
You usually have to handle the duplication
yourself but sometimes the company will provide copies, and even ship them for
you, for a small fee.
These products usually cost more to acquire the
rights but can be very profitable. As the old saying goes, it's easier to sell
10 copies at $1000 each than it is to sell 1000 at $10.
4. Affiliate Programs
When you enter into an affiliate agreement you
are sharing the cost and effort of promoting a product. You will take a
percentage of the sales in exchange, so you want at least 50% for it to be worth
your while.
With an affiliate program you can usually join
at no cost, but will make less money - and have more competitors!
One other advantage, the company provides the
site and the collection of payments. All you do is promote and cash your check.
5. Drop Shipping
This makes the traditional form of selling
easier for the information age. Profit = Cost - Selling Price , and with a Drop
Shipper you merely take the money from your customer and tell the shipper to
send them the product. You then pay the shipper their price. For example, you
can buy a Widescreen TV for $1299 but you are selling it for $1499. You make
$200 per sale but never get involved in the distribution at all.
This method is used extensively on eBay and in
online shopping malls.
6. Joint Ventures
These blur the line between the other
processors. Basically, you connect those who make products with those who sell
and promote them. You can acquire resell rights, or create your own product, or
be part of an affiliate network. You then contact possible sellers, for example
Ezine Owners, who may be interested in selling the product for a cut of the
profit.
This way you can connect BIG sellers with BIG
products and slice of some of the profit for yourself!
7. Branding Rights
These can be combined with Resell Rights but
sometimes are offered as an extra. With Branding Rights you can make some or all
of the links within a product possible money-spinners for yourself.
For example, you can take a book on copywriting
and give it away, or sell it. But within this book are other links to further
services, all that could make extra back-end sales for you.
As you can see there are plenty of ways to make
money WITHOUT the expense of time of building your own product!
by Stuart Reid
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