Informational Products - Paid vs Free
The internet is “the” place to find information, no doubt about that! And a lot of the information you find on the net is free. There’s a ton-and-a-half websites out there offering free information (hey just like this site you’re visiting right now!), there’s articles directories, sites offering free ebooks, forums, and of course blogs… and there’s probably a hundred more “types” of sites offering free infos… so that’s a lot of free stuff!
So why are people writing ebooks, and selling them? Are they making any money with that? If you’re an affiliate… how much money do you earn marketing someone elses’ work?
If you find a site that charges for an informational product or a membership or something, you can probably find most of the information contained in that particular product/service, for free! If you refine your search a little!
So why spend time writing ebooks or developing informational products, since there’s so much free stuff out there?
Not everyone knows how to search the web, there’s a lot of people who are new to the internet (the number of internet users is growing everyday), so if they’re looking for something, but can’t find it for free, chances are they will be willing to spend 40 or even 80 bucks to get the information they’re looking for!
By writing ebooks, offfering a membership to a resource site or if by developing any other type of informational products (and making money doing so.. see reason number 1) you position yourself as an “expert” in your field. And gain recognition!
If you promote someone elses’ informational product (affiliate marketing), you can surely make money! But if you are having difficulties with something, say PPC advertisement or something… well you can purchase an ebook, read it, and then.. back to business! Or if you’re good at marketing and promoting those products, you can surely earn a really decent income!
If you are recognized as an expert (hey if you run a paid resource site or you wrote a book….you must be some kind of expert!), what restrains you from speaking at seminars and doing conferences on the topic/subject you know so much about?
Of course you can find a lot of free stuff online, and i encourage you to search and look a little deeper to find what you’re looking for! On the other hand, I think paying for an informational product is also a good decision! I purchased many ebooks and joined many programs myself, and i learned a lot more doing that than spending countless hours searching on google! There’s some information about certain topics that you can hardly find for free… well you can, if you feel like it, spend the whole night searching, and finding incomplete or innacurate information!
So paying for it is fine with me!
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What about you? Do you think paying for information and/or informational products is ok? Or is it a waste of money?
umm.. wasting time.. wasting money… ? kinda hard to decide!
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