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Chapter 7 - Websites Make Thousands Selling Our Product With Your Very Own Website
This ad show up on job boards and in the back of some magazines. A company will set you up with a website. Everything is already setup. You don't have to do anything. The site is one giant ad for the product. The customer will click on a "buy now" button and you will receive a commission. Sounds easy doesn't it? The website you get is usually just a subdomain of a larger site. This larger site is owned by the person that is selling the site to you (usually $50). Your site links to a third party company that is actually selling the product. You get a commission every time someone clicks on your link and buys the product. So does the person who sold you the site. The problem is that the only way to quickly get people to your site is to advertise. This costs money. Usually more money than you can make on commissions. The person that sells you the site is not dependent on you making sales. He has already made $50 off you. If he sells 5 sites a day, he makes decent money. Even if you submit your site to search engines, it won't be placed high. It's a one-page site with no links to you. The chances are nobody will find you. Another common scheme is one where a company will sell you a re-selling website for very little money. When you call you service rep", they tell you that you need to upgrade to a more expensive site to make money. This could end up being several hundred dollars. You still need to promote your site and this will take a lot of time and money.
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