I hadn’t done one of these for a long time, as I’d been away from the IM niche in terms of products… however, I recently launched a Warrior Special Offer (WSO for short) and it was pretty successful, so I thought I’d mention it for those wondering where to begin.
The title of this post means that anyone can do it; of course, I’m not at all suggesting that there are idiots on the WF. If I can see any kind of success online, most of you will be able to as well, as I have no more skills than the majority of you, just the ability (that has been learned!) on how to put them all into place.
First off, let me talk a little bit about the product, one you’ll have seen enough of if you’ve visited this blog in the last few days – the website flipping guide, Flip Noobs that I recently put out. It was my first mass marketed launch in the IM niche for ages, so I was (to be honest) unsure how it would do.
As of today, it’s done pretty well – nothing spectacular, but pretty well. Anyways, sales from this blog started dropping, as I didn’t want to keep pushing it – I promoted it once, and then just made a few mentions in posts. I did however want to test out a WSO to see if it would do well.
I paid for my WSO thread, and then quickly wrote up a ’sales thread’ – you can see this here. This took me around twenty minutes to write, and personally, I’m not that great of a mass market product sales copy writer… so this is nothing spectacular. This went live on November 14th.
What were my costs?
Twenty dollars and twenty minutes of my time.
What were my rewards?
So far, there have been more than 30 sales that I can directly attribute to the WSO.
30 x $14.95 = $448.5
That’s more than twenty times my initial investment. How’s that for a return on investment? Since that has been created all I had to do is answer one simple question – everything else is money without having to do any work (while I’m sleeping, eating… it’s coming in 
).
The thing is, any of you could replicate that, as long as you create a solid product (and this doesn’t have to be an eBook! – people have sold scripts, software, access to membership sites, services and various other hings on there), if you stick it up and it’s decent it will sell.
When I wrote that WSO I had less than 150 posts on the Warrior Forum, no signature at the time, not even a avatar! However, I made sure I had a catchy title that people would click through to, made sure I didn’t overhype the product at all, and made sure I mentioned at the start who would benefit most from this product. Result – decent sales. Of course, they would have been a lot, lot better had I worked on the above criteria.
There are people making a full time living ($5,000 a month or more) JUST by using the WSO forum. Of course, those products tend to be higher value than your average $10 – $20 eBook, and those marketers tend to be a lot better known… however that doesn’t mean you can’t see similar results to what I have or better.
Browse the main discussion area (or other webmaster forums), see what people are interested in, create a short report on it. Price it at $7, and you should treble your listing fee at the very least. The great thing about the forum is also that there is plenty of advice, and helpful marketers that you can network with – you’ll find relationships very important if you ever decide to do a full scale product launch. However, if you are a newbie I’d suggest you NOT visit the WSO main section as there are a truckload of top quality offers and it is very simple to get addicted to buying them. 
I’m going to prepare a series on product flips soon, recently bought into a few services that I’m testing and will post about if they’re decent. Product flips are easier than your standard site flips, the ones I’ve talked about, and the best thing is… they tend to fetch more money too. Especially if they have revenue already. Selling a product for a few hundred (I’m talking $300 – $500+) is not at all difficult, and if you outsource it… it’s even easier. The good thing is, that you can create a product with all tools entirely free, bar the domain and hosting.
My first product was created in something like twenty minutes and was sold for $5, and yes it did sell well for a beginner (around 20 – 30 sales I think, so $100 – $150 in revenue) – this was at the very beginning of my IM ‘career’ where I had less experience than you do now. For those that are interested, it was on domain flips… I believe some of you bought it.
I think that most would be happy with anything over $100 in profit, and once you have a first successful launch it’s fairly easy to take it from there, see what you did wrong and continually improve. Good luck, and as always if you have any questions… let me know below.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I actually see a lot of people doing WSO especially selling PRL articles. I think I get at least an email every couple of weeks for PRL article,
It quite amazing the volume you can sell on a really inexpensive product that people will snap up. Just got to have that catchy Title but even then I’ve seen some not so catchy titles and se people selling too.
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November 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
WSO’s are awesome! I made at least $3000 from just one product last year strictly from the WSO section of the Warrior Forum. And quite a bit more overall from other offers I have ran there. Plus, you can get your hands on some amazing products for very cheap there. Many of the best information products I have ever bought came from WSO’s.
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November 18th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Wow! Nice job Jason! Thats an easy way to make $450!
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November 18th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
This is awesome Jason, congratulations. I launched a product last month but to be honest it wasnt very quality. I made 3 sales which made me a total of $18….better than nothing I guess.
Look forward to learning more about product flipping though
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Weng (14 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 4:30 am
Wow only $6? That’s quite a low price.
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Nice, sounds like a good way to make some easy cash. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of selling ebooks. Guess now would be good time to test the waters
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November 19th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Wow, that an amazing ROI! I can’t wait to try this one out for myself, and will let you know it goes. I probably fall into the ‘idiot category’ but hey if I can still make money from I really can’t complain
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November 19th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Once I had a product WSO and I did not make any thing on it so its not alway that you make money on WSO
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November 19th, 2008 at 2:12 am
Sweet! Congrats on the results, and thanks for the inspiration.
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November 19th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Congratulations Jason, that is not bad from one forum post. I’ll have to try that with my latest product, Making Money on Facebook Techniques. I’m sure I will see similar results. Thanks for the tip.
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November 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am
I dont think your e-book is worth 14$ as all tips written there are too simple & known!
You could have written more on Marketplaces, more number of sites like DP,SP etc on “how to sell out?”
Anyway can you please make me know how to create a site like Flipnoobs.com easily..?
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Jason (703 comments) Reply:
November 19th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I already said that it’s a base version for beginners.
If you’re already making $100+ per site you sell, you don’t need it. If you aren’t, it’ll help you do so.
Simple tips, perhaps but if you’re not making $100/site you’re obviously not using them, eh?
As for FlipNoobs, twas a custom design by my designer. However, you can find such templates free – google ’sales page templates’
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November 19th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Awesome Jason.You had lot of sales.And profit too.And thanks for posting about the forum
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November 19th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
It seems to involve much less work than site flipping. I’d love to make lots of profits from a few minutes of work.
To be honest, the way you write, I feel as if the work is pretty simple and easy. That’s really great. So, I guess I’ll be trying to create my own products soon.
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November 19th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Congrats! i haven’t gotten to into the WF over the past few years due to the massive clich (sp?) effect, but have purchased a few good WSO’s
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November 20th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I regularly make hundreds from the Digital Point Marketplace (free to create a thread) — and it’s also a great way to network with others. If you aren’t using online marketing forums for traffic you’re stupid!
Also offering free products in exchange for RSS subscriptions/list subscriptions works amazing as well.
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November 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hmmm.. I’ve read your sales page and I think its great… the way you write your pitch.
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November 21st, 2008 at 11:59 am
This guide was pretty cool, and really if u put up something half decent, by picking up things from here and there and wrap it up in a colorful ebook….expect good sales from WSO :p….easy money, eh
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November 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I think i am going to warrior forum now and try to so this for article sender today! Marketing article submissions has taken more work than i thought it would.
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November 21st, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Nice post Jason. Very informative and kudos on the successful product. Im in the midst of publishing my own product as well so this info was definitely refreshing. Id hate for all his hard work to go to waste.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 3:53 am
God I love your post titles… lol.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 7:20 pm
I wonder what type of product I can launch. Does it matter how long the content is?
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November 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
WOW. Your ebook is very helpfull.
I ahve one sale pending and another blog going to be listed.
Thanks a lot.
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November 24th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Interesting post and title
Thanks for share, i think you made a good money from WSO.
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November 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Its some thing i really love the ideas behind it …
As i am very new to the system i will do that slowly
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November 25th, 2008 at 2:29 am
The title of this post means that anyone can do it; of course, I’m not at all suggesting that there are idiots on the WF. ” LOL Got your point.
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Great post Jason. Congrats on your results. I haven’t started at the warrior forum yet not even on the forum it self. But after this post I think I have to start getting involved with others.
Thanks again for sharing.
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November 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am
It’s a nice trick! I’ll definitely do some WSO seeing that I spent so much time on the forum in general. I expect this thing will work better if you’re a more established member of the forum. If you’re just new there, it might be worthwhile to spend sometime posting before offering.
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December 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hi TUK,
I’m a WF member too so this post of yours really excited me on what more I could use WSO for my benefit. I never thought of that but will give it some idea. Thanks for sharing. I’m starting to get addicted to this blog.
Peter Lee
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December 3rd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Wow, this was really inspirational!
I really feel like “flipping” a decent plr ebook or something and try launching a wso.
It’s essential to have a new ecover though. – And of course having quality content.
Nothing builds credibility on the warriorforum like a successful WSO!
– Preben
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