There are many ways to make money from “mini sites”. Mini Site for a general definition usually means a very small site with only a few pages (3 to 10).

But today I am solely concentrating on selling a “single manufactured goods”. This can be an e-book, piece of software or a service.

**The Most Vital Thing!

The main thrust of any highly profitable mini site is in the plotting.

Once this has been achieved “you must see through to the end your action and marketing plot/system.”

I have seen too many times public build sites and products only to quit without going the total course.

I have a current client with an exceptional e-book of which the topic has huge demand and his book is only one of two on the market.

Like he stated; “I have place six months, time, effort and money into this book, I am not going to quit now”.

With a small testing, editing and site marketing, we will have his book selling 500 to 1000% more copies surrounded by a month or so.

So don’t get to the 80% point of you work and then quit.

Get a professional mini site with graphics built, do a bit more testing, build a surpass linking campaign,  launch that press release, do more research, get your sales copy professionally written, have your e-book edited by an practiced, get help if you need to.

Plot to Succeed and Succeed by Finishing!

**Your Manufactured goods – Is There Demand?

Simple & quick ways to ascertain if demand for your manufactured goods or service is in demand before taking steps to start it.

1. Use Word Tracker (http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/) and Google’s external Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal) to research your keywords and get an thought of competition.

2. After choosing your keyword/s, do a search on Google and see how many “sponsored link ” (aptly hand side of the cover) advertisements appear.

Click on these ads to see “exactly what” they are selling. Are they selling a manufactured goods the same or similar to yours and at what price? Set up an excel file and check the same keywords over a two week period, who’s advert stays and who’s drops off?

The next few tasks also help with the higher than but it will help you choose whether there is an exact need for your own manufactured goods.

1. Start asking questions on forums associated with your business and manufactured goods. Does anyone own similar products, what was excellent about the manufactured goods or terrible, improvements that could be made and so on?

2. Get a survey done ( http://www.surveymonkey.com). Fantastic free tool for getting instant feedback.

3. Enter a small email course, set-up a website and get traffic to the site using Adwords. This will cost you money but traffic and results are nearly instant. At the end of the course get subscribers to fill out a survey stating whether they would find your new manufactured goods useful and if they would buy it.

**Manufactured goods – Service Production

This is part is straight forward really. Being that it’s your own manufactured goods, you should already know how to produce it or least some thought.

I will say that if you are writing an e-book, by far the simplest method is to produce it in Microsoft “word” or similar and then convert it into “Pdf document” using Adobe Acrobat 7.

**Setting Up

Over again, setting up your website, domain name, etc can be done quite straightforwardly and inexpensively without any effort by you simply by outsourcing this process to a quality mini site designer.

**Testing

You must split test! This simply means to test different parts of your sales copy, headings, pictures, price that is on your sales page to achieve the highest sales percentages (website hits to sales).

At this stage though you have a choice!

You can split test your manufactured goods by driving clients to your site using “paid methods” such as Adwords (https://adwords.google.com/select/).

Or

You can start building traffic to your site and then test with free traffic.

Or

The best selection, do both at the same time!

Let me make this very clear. Testing can and does make & break many businesses!

Fail to test and your business can under or you could be loosing $10,000’s lost revenue every year. Do not fail to test.

**Marketing Your Mini Site

On of the best ways to market your own manufactured goods is with an affiliate program. You can have hundreds if not thousands of public advertising your manufactured goods or service all over the net for free.

Here are several top affiliate services currently on the market:

http://www.clickbank.com
http://www.cj.com (Commission Junction)
http://paydotcom.com

**Plotting & Your Budget

After completing your research you should plot you total business campaign and prepare and research a budget.

What will you do yourself and what will you outsource? Items to reckon about are:

Web Design
Sales Copy
Affiliate Setup
Accepting Payments
Download Area (If an online manufactured goods)
Delivery
Marketing & Web Traffic

**Sales copy – a word of warning!

If you have no sales copy experience, you will improve with time washed-out online.

Even so, although I have many years of experience I still outsource my major copy writing needs. Copy writing is a highly bought skill and while excellent copy will make you a lot of money, terrible copy will…….

So bottom line. If you have no skill in copy writing, outsource it.

**That’s it! Start you marketing campaign and watch the profits flood in!

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