In this article, I’m going to show you how to get some premium products for free and then I’m going to tell you how to turn those products into cold, hard cash.
If that doesn’t entice you to read to the end, then nothing will, so I’m just going to get on with it.
Stuck For A Niche Site Idea? Here We Go
You can write a niche site about any subject on the planet. All having a successful niche site takes really is three things:
- A good offer to promote
- Enough interest to get some visitors who’ll buy
- A quick browse through some keyword software to look at your point of attack (so the keywords and longtail keywords you’re going to target.)
Everything else is basically window dressing.
With the three things above, you’re able to create a website around a product that’ll give you a certain return. You’ll also have something to write about, people who’ll read it and you’ll find some low-hanging fruit to target in terms of SEO.
I’m going to give you all three in this article.
What Are We Doing Here?
This method is pretty simple. We’re going to review some courses in your niche.
Now, I don’t know what your niche is, or whether you even have one yet. That’s ok. You can use this method with many different niches – just be inventive.
Let’s go to Udemy.
Udemy, for those of you who don’t know, is a site where you can buy online courses on various subjects. There’s a lot of business stuff, but there’s also everything from learning languages to web design to yoga and mindfulness and meditation. In short, it’s a great marketplace with a ton of courses.
Some are free, some are paid.
What we care about for now is that Udemy have an affiliate program with 40% commissions.
If you can promote a course that sells for £200 and you get 40%, then that’s a lot of money. (Well, it’s £80 – so not bad at all for a single sale.)
You can promote multiple offers on your niche site, remember.
Alright, So I Have A Niche And There Are Courses Available… What Do I Do?
Now, key to this method working is that you actually take the courses. You could just use the “Course Contents” tab and write a sales letter from that, but it’ll be not-so-authentic and you won’t learn anything. Also, the quality can be very variable – there are a lot of, shall we say, foreign “instructors” that literally read e-how articles in broken English. If you promote a bad offer, it’s curtains for your credibility. So get the courses and make sure they’re good. Generally, the higher price point ones will be.
The bad thing with actually taking the course is that it takes time and that the courses cost a lot of money. The solution here is twofold:
- Pick something you’re actually going to learn from and enjoy
- Get the courses when they’re free
The second one is what we’re all interested in.
Because of Udemy’s structure and fees, there are about five trillion courses that get no visibility. Udemy haven’t really worked out how to solve this problem, so what they do is allow their instructors to give temporary “free” periods or massive sales.
It’s not uncommon for courses to be marked down from £200 to absolutely nothing for a 24 hour period.
This is, needless to say, gold.
What we’re getting is a £200 premium product and all the knowledge that it entails and then we write a simple sales letter that could give us £80 per commission afterwards.
Essentially, if you follow this method, you’re getting paid to learn. Isn’t that the goal with everything?
Someone Else Does The Hard Work
Now, naturally, Udemy don’t make it easy to find the free courses because they’d rather you paid the full price.
Luckily, there are plenty of frugal people of an educational mindset out there.
To find plenty of good courses that are marked down from premium to free, simply do some searching around on Google or wherever. There are more than a handful of sites that’ll come up if you type in “udemy coupons” and related searches.
Bookmark these and check back every day.
You can find free courses in everything from Learning Swedish to Forex Investing.
Simply sign up to Udemy, click through to the free courses and then Enrol. You’ll then have instant access to the course.
One Course, Multiple Posts
Now, writing a single product review doesn’t make a whole niche site. Luckily, you can repeat the above process for multiple products. But you don’t need to stop there. Here are some of the things you can do with a single course:
- Write a product review (easy street)
- Write a how-to article based on one of the “chapters” and link back to the product review
- Create a log of how you’re using the skill/learning the skill on a weekly basis
- Write a future article 6 months down the line on how you used the course
- Find some great success/horror stories in the news about your target market, and write how this course would have SAVED THEIR LIFE (not necessarily in a literal sense)
If you follow just the above ideas, then you’ve got five posts. Add in a handful of courses and some other product reviews, and you’ll have a healthy site that revolves around pointing towards a premium product with a 40% commission which you haven’t had to pay for and life could be worse.
Oh, and you’ll hopefully learn a ton of new stuff as well. I recommend playing the videos at 2x speed, so you can learn even more quickly, and write notes so you don’t have to revisit the videos multiple times.
Final Thoughts
Here’s a simple blueprint which you can use to great effect. I’m not entirely worried that this method will get stolen and abused, because like all good methods, it involves a little bit of actual work.
That said, because this post is definitely a “cat out of the bag” kind of article, I’m going to leave it up only until the end of the week, and then it’s going to become a password protected entry for blog buddies, so enjoy it while you can. (Or, become a friend of the blog by commenting, tweeting and all that goodness.)
As always, you’ll have more success and less competition if you twist the method and make it your own in some way. Different courses, different websites, different affiliate programs, different angles all differentiate you in some way.
Don’t be afraid to experiment, and let me know how you get on!