I buy a lot of information products.  I mean I put in at least 10 hours per week buying (and reading what I bought) and several hours researching on my own about new techniques.  I’m one to talk right.  The difference is I ask questions before I buy.  Sometimes I read a salespage and email or call the owner and ask them is your item this, this or this?  if they say no, I buy.  Sometimes I’m dissapointed and it’s something I already know, but a lot of times I’m pleasantly surprised and I know most of the techniques, but there is one or two nuggets of wisdom in the whole product that makes it all worth it.

You can buy an education, whether it’s a degree or internet marketing.

You have to try the techniques and actually use them to be successful.  Don’t just buy a product and think, “This sounds like it will work.”  And you’re done.  Actually try the techniques and see if they’re true.  You’ll find a lot of stuff online that makes sense and is complete bullshit.  I have my tried and true techniques and then I have my experimental techniques.  I know when to use each one and at which times.

Don’t get to experimental on your main or money site if you think it might be breaking a lot of search engine rules aka black hat.  The worst thing that can happen is getting your main site banned from the search engines.  I’m not saying don’t use black hat techniques because I fully support a lot of them, but be careful what you’re doing with your main site.

Read reviews if there are any from other buyers.  Don’t read fake review sites with affiliate links.  An affiliate link unless it’s from a trusted source is not to be trusted.  I know it’s all a big shady deal and hard to figure out who’s telling the truth.  I’ll make it easy.  I’ll start posting all the affiliate links you want and of course they are all trustworthy because I’m the best and you can buy from me.

You can also contact me and I’ll send you an affiliate link to whatever you want, don’t worry it’s not a problem for me, I’m a member of every affiliate network out there and if not give me two days and I will be.  Seriously watch your ass.  If you want ask me and if I know about a product I’ll tell you.

You built a site and now you want to make money off of it.  There are several ways to add multiple income streams to your site.  You can mix and match these and make money from all angles.

1. Sell your product.  You might have a product you’re interested in selling or the whole purpose of your site is to sell your product.

2. Use contextual advertising on your site.  Services like Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network spider the content on your site and automatically create ads that match your content.  Be careful here you might be advertising your biggest competitors if you don’t filter them out.

3. Become an affiliate.  There are so many affiliate companies and products out there chances are you’ll be able to find something that will complement your business.  Don’t look at everyone as a competitor.  If you can find a few good products that complement what you’re doing you can make a lot more money from just about any product.

4. When all else fails.  Put up zip and email submits.  You only get a $1 or so for each one, but that’s $1 more than you were getting before.  These dollars can add up if you have good traffic and you picked a decent offer/offers.

5. Sell banners and ads on your site.  You can get premium pricing if you sell the ads on your site directly.  Give it a shot.

There are even companies out there where you tell them about your site and they will sell the ad space for you.

You can get that site making money quickly, the only thing you need is traffic.

In the internet marketing world it’s called private label and in the retail world it’s called white label.  Basically these are products created by one company and renamed or rebranded by another company.  It looks like 2009 is going to be a bigger year for this.  90% of my work over the years has been “private label” meaning people buy from me to resell to others at a higher price.  It’s no problem, I can afford to do that and my ego doesn’t need the credit as long as the cash is in my pocket.

Since the end of last year I’ve been getting more and more requests for private label offerings.  Of course my standard is to do everything without branding anyway so that’s not an issue.  A lot of companies want to brand themselves through your site and design.  It’s not a bad thing, but I think you can build up your reputation without the need of adding your link in random places on someone’s site.  Ummm….let me rephrase that, if someone is paying you a decent rate than you shouldn’t have to do that.  If you’re giving something out for free or at a discounted rate, definitely brand yourself where ever and when ever you can.

Any way this year with economy problems world wide and people wanting to make money by any means necessary, it looks like there will be a bigger trend than normal of rebranding.  That’s not a bad thing.  It means you’ll have other revenue streams if that’s not part of your business model already.  The biggest internet marketers and largest retailers all have some form of affiliate program and private labeling things is just another form of an affiliate program.

The big boys do private labe/white label so why not you?  It’s always good to have a new source of revenue.  You can even go the extra mile and add your client’s name to the items and shipping label (aka drop shipping).