Seminars, Courses and one-on-one training services usually go for FAR HIGHER prices, up to (and over) a thousand bucks. This is out of league of most marketers.

There are two ways to look at problem. A Seller can either earn his daily bread by selling many copies at a low price, or selling a few copies at a high price.

10 x $40 = $400 and $4 x $100 = $400

I've kept numbers simple, math is not my strong point!

You can see a lot from that comparison. You will probably put in same effort to make those four sales as you would ten, right? It's what marketers have told you for a long time.

You'll find many high-ticket items are sold through affiliate programs. This is so merchant and affiliate can have a good cut - and increased exposure from affiliate army usually outweights lost sales due to higher price.

Now here's "crazy" system I'm trying:

Over at http://www.productpacks.com I've introduced "Pick Your Own Price"

Basically, a buyer can pay as much as they want for item, and be allowed to take it guilt-free. It's like a donation, but it's paid in advance.

Using PayPals "donate" feature it's easy to implement in this in any site.

Why not give it a go on some of your lower-priced items? You may be surprised at result!

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You need a follow up autoresponder or a maling list manager to manage this process of collecting emails, follow up, sending promotional emails etc. etc.

Here is a cgi script that you can use as BOTH follow up autoresponders and mailing list managers:

http://www.scripts4webmasters.com/arpproadv/index.shtml

3. Your Own Ezine articles: =============================

Yep! You have to spread word about your affiliate product. Don't You? Write articles related to your affiliae product and publish them on your web site, send them to publishers, submit them to content sites.

Do a search on Google or Altavista like 'submit+article', you will get a big list of sites. Keep your favorites on your Favorites folder and submit to them on regular basis.

Few tips in writing ezine articles in affiliates perspective: =Don't expose your affiliate link directly in your resourcebox. =Usually affiliate links comes as long URLs. These tend to breakup. So use some kind of redirection. =Only promote one product in one article.

More on hiding affiliate links: http://www.webmasters-central.com /siteprotection/affiliatelinks.shtml