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Hiya Cornell!

Thanks for your tips and for responding. :-)

You know, I'm not a big fan of affiliate marketing in the first place, although I do "get" how it helps get more eyeballs to an offer. With my idea, you're right -- I wouldn't be making any recurring income. My income would largely come from those initial sales to my list.

Several years ago, I ran a membership site. Not exactly rinky-dink, but not as pro as some of today's memberships. Nah, I set it up by putting my membership site files in a protected directory using MSFrontPage software. Users had a username and password assigned, and when anyone tried to access the directory, they had to type their credentials in a pop-up box. That was it. Of course, this was back before paid content and paid memberships on the web were "the thing."

But that's not quite what I have in mind today. Today, I'm keeping it simple - product for sale, buy button, redirect to download. Next.

Pinterest -- yes, I have heard of it and I think Tiffany is where I first learned about it. Looks addictive, which reminds me why I only look at Tumblr in my son's room when he calls me in to see something particularly hilarious. I'd stay in there for hours reading 9gag if I didn't force myself to leave (his room is a total guy room, so it's easy for me to leave -- UNLESS I'm looking at Tumblr). I absolutely refuse to go on the site from my own computer. I might never leave! lol

Thank you for the suggestion. I'll visit the Pinterest site again and look at it from a different perspective (one of marketer).

You mention "your software" and rights licensing...tell me more about those? Rights licensing information/how to could be quite useful for me in other areas.

Tina

Originally Posted by Tina

Hiya Cornell!

Thanks for your tips and for responding. :-)

You mention "your software" and rights licensing...tell me more about those? Rights licensing information/how to could be quite useful for me in other areas.

Hi Tina:

Will respond a bit cryptically as I don't want the response to be perceived as product promotion. ( Dien,Gordon - hoe this response stay within guidelines )

Quite simply the main software is a full content management, ecommerce, membership, affiliate software plus some but we added a little twist to it....so in answer to your question.....

You would have a product you want to sell resell rights to...you would decide how many resell copies you would want to bundle - let's say 50 for a $47 fee......you would then sell the package of 50 to a reseller. The software generates a script which is given to the reseller and added to his hosted site account. The script on his account works in the background and when he has sold x number (set by you the seller of the resell rights package) the script advises the reseller that he/she is down to the set number of copies and if he/she wants to continue selling it is time to return to your site to purchase another bundle at the $47 price.

Personally I just plain got tired of doing resell rights and having the profit stop there.... so I had our developers add this option to the software to create passive income from them.

Hope that answers your question.

If you want a more complex answer please login here at SOWPub and email me from my profile.

Cornell

Interesting, Cornell.

Thanks for the info. I'd like to know what your software is, so .. why don't you have a link to it in your signature file here on the forum? I'm pretty sure that is allowed.

As for coming off as promotional, I don't see why it should. I asked about it, you were just answering my question. It's business software and this is a business forum, so I don't think they would punt you out for being plain-spoken.

There's plenty enough "cryptic speak" on here as it is. :-) Some of it just sounds like spider-food or whatnot. Sheesh. And those cryptologists haven't been punted, so I get the feeling your plain reply would be safe.

I could be wrong, though. Next time, post it up anyway and if it gets deleted, just reply "Hey Tina, I did answer you, but the mods must have thought it was promotional, so here's the crypto-version" and I'll understand what happened.

Thanks again,
Tina