The Old School Get Rich Quick Scheme…
The other day, I posted an article about the old scam I called Mail Box Money. To re-cap, Mail Box Money is an old marketing trick that’s still used today – just in a different form. The way it worked was, through compelling ad copy – read, tugging your psychological head strings – the desire to be rich, have a mansion, a Ferrari, have women (or men) begging for your attention, or just not to have to work any more – you would send your ten bucks to the rich guy and he would send you the “blueprint for success,” the how to do what I did manual. He would go to his mailbox, laugh at the envelopes and mail off the pamphlet describing how to pull off the mail box money scam. It’s just slightly more ethical than the Ponzi scheme pulled off famously by Bernie Madoff. Today the mail box money is email box money and here’s how it’s done.
Ever wanted to do your own get rich quick scheme? Follow along…
The electronic version is accomplished by writing an ebook. This is pretty simple to do really. Any word processor and a catchy title – “Affiliate Marketing Mastery” – “Google Ad Destroyer” – “Arm Chair Millions,” whatever. With your 50 page ebook containing all the “secrets” of how to make money you then set about making a website that’s called a pitch page. It’s just a scrolling css page with fake screen shots of hot cars, mansions, fake checks, testimonials, and the familiar pitch – if you’re not making money like I am, you NEED my ebook. The page has to have the latest technology like pop-up windows that ask do you really want to throw away your life working a boring job – click here to return – video of rich internet marketers and whatever the latest gizmo is. A good web designer with some tricks in the bag can pull this off for you, no problem. Better yet, cut him in on the action and he might do it for free. Then you post your new pitch to the multitude of Affiliate Marketing sites as a publisher. Let’s say you want to charge $100 for your awesome e-book. You offer affiliates $75 for every copy they sell. That sounds high but with a price point like that you’ll have a hundred thousand minions putting up websites, spamming their email networks, clamoring to get traffic to your pitch page, which if good, should convert at least 25% of the leads. That’s it in a nutshell – an electronic version of the mail box money, get rich quick idea that’s been around as long as there have been people wanting to get rich quick.
It doesn’t have to be a scam…
People will buy quality ebooks to learn how to do anything. Your ebook doesn’t have to be about the internet or getting rich quick. It can be about how to build your own greenhouse, how to start a window tinting business, anything really. Affiliate Marketing sites promote ebooks about any subject if there are people willing to buy them, and there are – it’s just getting an affiliate to promote an ebook is a factor of percentage of conversion and commission paid so be generous, have a great pitch site and voila – an independent sales force selling your idea. Here are a couple examples of legitimate ebooks and pitch pages for your review: Dog Training and DIY Solar Power.
Want passive and residual income?
Selling an idea has and will continue to be the single most profitable thing that can be sold. An idea, after all, is free. They’re just thoughts floating around, available to anyone who might happen to think it. But, an idea that is not expressed is still nothing. Something must be done with an idea for it to be sold. An ebook is an expression of an idea that can be sold. Once it’s completed, it can be sold over and over again, creating passive and residual income.
Express your idea…
If you have a great idea – one in which you think people all over the world would like to know – but for whatever reason are having trouble expressing it, all is not lost. Contact Jeff today about his ghost writing service. If the idea is good enough, he will professionally complete your ebook using Adobe InDesign CS3, with your name as the author, create the pitch site and place the ebook on the Affiliate Market for a percentage of the sales. There’s no reason not to realize your dream of a passive and residual income from your idea. Pitch the idea now: