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Case Study: How He Made $24,872 In Five Days From Following This Simple Little Motto

“Buy Low, Sell High, Collect Early and Pay Late!”

Here’s the story direct from the marketer who did this…

I can’t remember who said that but what a great quote eh?

If ANY of the above four things are missing from your business you’ll hit problems.

Here’s an example of how I made $24,872 in five days from using the simple, but clever advice in the quote above…

I paid just $197 for some really good PLR. It was a course on how to get free traffic course.

It was clever stuff, and included some aspects of how to drive free traffic that I hadn’t been aware of myself.

It was very well written, included a LOT of content and also came with a high quality sales page (I didn’t want the sales page though)

I knew it was a bargain for $197, but at the same time, this price point was enough to ensure that it wouldn’t be saturated and that most buyers would use the sales page that came with it.

I on the other hand, got new graphics created, retitled and rebranded it, added my own personality to the content and broke it down into 16 part, which would be offered as an 8 week course of how to generate free traffic.

The plan was that for 8 weeks I would deliver two high quality PDF’s per week.

Customers had a choice of how they could choose to pay

I sold this 8 week traffic course for either two monthly payments of $47 OR a one-off $97 that gave instant access to the whole thing AND came with email support.

Guess which price point most people decided on?

Over 200 people bought the $97 package, mostly from my own list (the rest took the two payments of $47 deal although I don’t know why) and after fees and other payments had gone out I made $24,872 in just five days.

So here’s how it worked

  1. I bought low – I paid $197 for some great quality PLR, whereas I would have paid around $997 to a freelancer to write the course for me before I put my own personality into it
  2. I sold high. $97 for full access wasn’t massively high in terms of price-point BUT after testing it against a one-off $27 price point and getting the same conversion rates I went with the higher price. Who wouldn’t?
  3. I collected early. Because I offered instant access for $97 as well as a drip-fed eight week option for 2x$47 I made it easy for the ‘don’t want to wait’ buyers (which is most people including me) to get instant access.

The email support sealed the deal. I collected early via a lump sum from over 200 people rather than waiting for 2 separate payments over two months

  1. I paid late. How does this apply? Well I paid $1,000 a month for email support from a pro. But I only paid them after 14 days which means I’d taken most of my profit by then :)

It’s a great rule to do business by, and if you’ve not tried it in your own launches I highly recommend it!”

How Simple Content led to Huge Success

Marie Forleo is an entrepreneur, writer, and speaker who is known for her online course, B-School, a 6-week online course that teaches entrepreneurs how to build and grow successful businesses.

Marie began as a life coach and soon started creating content online, including blog posts, videos, and podcasts. As her following grew, she decided to launch an online course to see what would happen.

In 2010, Marie launched B-School, which quickly became a huge success. The course teaches participants about business strategy, marketing, sales, and more. (Sound familiar?) Marie uses a combination of video lessons, workbooks, and live Q&A sessions to help her students learn and apply the concepts.

According to her website she’s had nearly 80,000 students and charges $2500 per student.

Did you do the math? I did it three times because I couldn’t believe my eyes.

Granted, she probably didn’t charge $2500 in the beginning. But still, if you multiply 80,000 students times $2500 each you get…

…$200,000,000…

…from ONE online course.

Okay, I’m back. I had to recheck my rechecking of the math.

Can you build a course?

Can you market a course?

Because if you can do those two things, then I believe you’ve got a shot at $200,000,000, too.

Marie has turned this single course into an entire career, appearing with Oprah, authoring a best-selling book and doing speaking engagements around the world.

And it all started with some simple content to begin building her audience, selling her course to those first subscribers and followers, collecting the testimonials and repeating the process.

Not to take anything away from Marie and her accomplishments, but if she can do it, then so can you.

30-Day Info Product Blueprint

With the creation of the World Wide Web came unlimited moneymaking opportunities to reach target audiences who were craving information about a wide variety of topics. To meet the heavy demand, online marketers have been creating blogs, video channels, and products to serve their needs.

Previously, a consumer would have to enroll in a college course or purchase a print book to absorb the details they wanted to know. But now, it can be downloaded in an instant – from the comfort of their own home, or streamed onto their device immediately.

As someone who wants to profit from the demand for information, you have the ability to do it without putting in a lot of money or investing in expensive tools. It’s easy and fast to create and launch an info product.

Inside, you’ll find a 30-day plan to help guide you in the tasks you need to do in order to launch an info product into the digital marketplace. If it takes you more time (or less), that’s okay – everybody operates at a different speed.

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