Do You Really Need Your Own Product To Be Successful?

If you listen to the experts, you’ve heard it a thousand times, “You need your own product to be successful on the Internet.” But do you really need your own product to be successful?

The answer to this question depends on your definition of success. Does success means that you are making $50 to $100 a month? Or would you need over $1,000 each month to achieve success. You can certainly make $100 online without having your own product. You can even make thousands without your own product, but there are risks involved if you want to make this much money with affiliate products.

You can sell ads on your site but this will bring in very little money unless you are getting tons of traffic. To make money online you need to sell something. If you do not have your own product, you will need to sell affiliate products. Regardless of whether you are selling your own product or someone else’s as an affiliate, you need an effective marketing campaign to achieve any kind of success.

An effective marketing campaign requires a commitment of work, time, effort, expertise, or money. The most successful marketers use a number of these items. To become more and more successful, you need to make a larger and larger commitment. If you want to make several thousand dollars each month, you need to commit a significant amount from the list above.

A large commitment of this nature involves some risk if you are selling an affiliate product. There have been several occasions when I have recommended an affiliate product that was pulled off the market. If this happens, all of the time, effort, expertise, and advertising money that you spent is wasted. This is the primary risk in selling affiliate products. And, unfortunately, you never know how long an affiliate product will be available.

You can eliminate this risk by developing and promoting your own product. In addition, with your own product, you can develop an affiliate program and get paid each time someone else sells your product. By having twenty affiliates (even if they only work half as hard as you do) promote your product, you could generate five times the profit that you could have earned on your own. Having your own affiliate program increases your income without increasing your workload.

You can also enter into joint ventures with your own product. You cannot do that selling an affiliate product.

To summarize, you don’t really need your own product to make substantial amounts of money. However, having your own product can benefit you in three ways. First, you eliminate the risk that a product you are promoting will be pulled from the market. Second, and more importantly, you can substantially increase your income by developing your own affiliate program. Third, you can use joint ventures to further increase your income. In closing, having your own product makes it easier and less risky to make big money on the Internet.