In a previous article I talked about the couple who were making £10,000 a month dressed as Tarzan and Jane using subscription platforms Only Fans and Admire Me.
Today I want to tell you about another platform which has been designed specifically for beginners to sell all different kinds of digital media.
No technical skills are required.
It is perfect for anyone who is interested in online marketing and selling products such as:
- Ebooks
- Courses
- Printables
- Subscription focused membership products
The platform I’m talking about is called Gumroad.
With Gumroad being a purpose built platform, you do not need to build a website of your own.
As Gumroad put it, you…
Open Account > Add Product > Start Selling > Get Paid > Repeat
Unlike a lot of the other platforms which offer a similar service Gumroad do not charge a monthly fee.
Kajabi which is similar charges between $149 and $399 per month to use their system and they charge 2.9% on each transaction plus a $0.30 charge on all transactions.
It is free to start using Gumroad, you only pay on sales made.
Transaction fees start at 9% plus a $0.30 charge on all transactions but that goes down to 2.9% if you make $1,000,000 or more.
You pay less as you grow.
The fact that you can open an account and start selling without having to pay out any hefty monthly fees is pretty good for anyone who wants to get started selling digital products.
On the website it suggests that you start by selling a blog post instead of an eBook.
This is a great way to test the system and get started…
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Instead of spending days or weeks creating an eBook, spend a couple of hours writing an informative and useful article and upload it to sell for a pound or two.
You want to see how it works and putting up a cheap article for sale allows you to do just that.
Only this morning I read about a woman who decided to test Gumroad for herself after hearing a lot of positive hype about the platform.
She sold 5 copies of her eBook in the first month without doing any marketing… which is great when you consider that she didn’t expect to sell any.
It seems that Gumroad is a platform which helps sell your products for you. Similar to Amazon.
Gumroad also allows creators to set up an affiliate network which means that other Gumroad users can promote your products for a commission.
This is a great way to get your products out in front of more customers and build an email list.
I really like that feature as it means that you could have a readymade network of people who could promote your product for you.
The more people who promote your product or products for you, means more money and/or a bigger email list.
Creating a product where you give most of the money earned away as commissions is a great way to develop an email list… and as you should know by now, the email list is where the real money is.
During lockdown I generated over £4,000 in one weekend promoting a product which I had not yet created.
I had an idea which I believed people would be interested in and so I wrote a short sales letter, added it to my website with a payment processer page and sent a very short email to see if there would be any interest in the product.
There was.
That product went on to make tens of thousands of pounds during lockdown.
That was all possible because of the fact that I have a good sized email list.
Having an email list is one thing I recommend everyone should have.
You can make a lot of money selling products to an email list… and as you have just seen from my example, those products don’t even need to be made, they can just be ideas waiting to be made.
If you would like to know more about how to make a lot of money using email go to:
The Email Secret
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… You’ll learn everything you need to know on how to write and send money making emails, grow your email list PLUS you will be given the webpage templates that you need to start and run your very own profitable online and email based affiliate business.
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