What Is a Guru?

Written by Robert J Farey


WHAT IS A GURU?

A guru is a teacher. Onrepparttar internet a guru is someone who has a lot of experience and has maderepparttar 108738 grade, ie. He/She has set up a business that is financially successful and is willing to sharerepparttar 108739 experience with anyone who is interested.

Are you a guru? If not please read on.

The majority of internet gurus are only too happy to teach. Becoming a guru inrepparttar 108740 true sense ofrepparttar 108741 word.

Pick a guru. There are at least a dozen who not only publish a newsletter with articles showing some ofrepparttar 108742 tricks-of-the-trade but have also published ebooks showing in detailrepparttar 108743 best way to start and run a business.

Learn fromrepparttar 108744 experts. There are hundreds of people out there who purport to be experts in ecommerse. Most of them have just read a few books and composed their own book comprised of second hand information. You may ask “What’s wrong with that?’ it’srepparttar 108745 same information written in a different style.”

There is just one problem. Each ofrepparttar 108746 real gurus has made a success of his/her on-line business in his/her own way. If you followrepparttar 108747 instructions of one particular guru, there is a good reason to believe that you will become successful as well.

Onrepparttar 108748 other hand, an instruction book comprised of a mixture of different techniques can cause confusion and fail completely in its purpose.

I am not a guru. You may well ask “In that case, why are you writing this article?”

A good question. I have been onrepparttar 108749 internet for a little over five years. Three years ago I decided to start my own business selling information products on-line.

I read a lot of books onrepparttar 108750 subject. I tried this way and that. Every author seemed to have his/her own method of doing things. Each one believed that their way wasrepparttar 108751 best way to attain success. The point was that each method worked for that individual.

Selling information on the internet.

Written by Robert J Farey


Selling information onrepparttar internet.

You want to make some money? Sell something. The biggest seller onrepparttar 108737 net is information, or info-products as they are often called. Info-products cover a wide range of sales, from small scraps of time sensitive information, through news-sheets and regular newsletters, allrepparttar 108738 way up to full sized electronic books.

The beauty of it is that there is no stock-holding to bother about. You don’t need to fillrepparttar 108739 spare room with mounds of paperbacks. All that you need is a little space on your hard disc to storerepparttar 108740 files and a way of passing on copies of these files to your customers.

You keeprepparttar 108741 original to sell and sell again. Once you obtainrepparttar 108742 right to sell, you never have to order new stock of that particular item. Ifrepparttar 108743 information is something that you have written yourself, you ownrepparttar 108744 copyright. It is yours to do with as you wish.

The easiest way to get started is to join an affiliate program. There are some good ones out there. Be selective. Don’t jump in with two big feet withrepparttar 108745 first one that you see. Choose something that you are interested in. Something that you would like to own and read. It is always easier to sell something expensive that you like, rather than something cheap that is of no real interest to you. Ifrepparttar 108746 item on offer is real value for money,repparttar 108747 price is of no consequence. It will sell.

Affiliate programs have their good and bad points. The good points are: Everything is set up ready for you to start trading. They have their own expensive website. They set up their auto responders to send out extra sales copy to your prospects, encouraging them to makerepparttar 108748 purchase. They maintain a database of everyone who has enquired aboutrepparttar 108749 product. And another one of those who have made a purchase. They are prospective customers to buy another product at a later date. The down side: You only get inrepparttar 108750 region of 50% ofrepparttar 108751 proceeds. You don’t have a record of who has made a purchase due to your efforts. You have no way of making further offers to existing customers. This isrepparttar 108752 number one downside. But if you read on there is a way of overcoming it. The company you are working with may go bust and leave you with a lot of expensive advertising that has to be paid for.

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