Welcome to the wonderful Week of Textures here at smashill. It’s an honour to present you four beautiful sand and stone textures today. Simple, a bit dirty and perfect for almost any grunge design. Don’t hesitate to download them!
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Welcome back to day four of the wonderful Week of Textures here at smashill. Today we are moving away from the Urban landscape and move the good old mother nature. For shots at 4288*2856 px, free to use for any of your projects. Enjoy.
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Today marks day three of the first official week of textures at smashill. This time you can download 4 different graffiti’s & tags found across the city. (4288*2856 px)
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Today is the second day of the offical week of textures at smashill! Each day there will be a set of at least 4 different textures for your pleasure. Today you can download 4 Green Grass textures (4288*2856 px). Free to use for any of your projects without restrictions. Enjoy.
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There are many fish in the river of ideas, but do you have what it takes to create your own affiliate product? It’s actually pretty easy to create one, especially for creative people like us, but do you think that there is a serious website to cover this issue from scratch?
The sites that offer a guide to affiliate products are usually plastered with their affiliate links and tell you something like this:
Man it’s great to create your own kickass product instead of just selling products from others without offering something yourself
Great. We knew that …. that really helped… not. *sigh*
Back in the days I have been thinking about offering my own affiliate product in the form of an ebook, somehow I never got along writing that, but it’s time to share what I discovered on my research concerning affiliate products & create a short 20-40 page book to accompany this guide and illustrate how it is done.
The idea behind an ebook and creating an affiliate program for it is creating a long term stream of passive income. There is still a big market for good ebooks, but a lot of the niches are saturated, and to be honest, most ebooks offered are not worth what you have to pay for them.
The questions are, how do you find the right partners for your venture and which steps have to be taken to be successful? This guide covers the basic steps from finding a site that will handle your selling, someone that will deliver your digital product and different ways to create a successful affiliate product site.
This guide will not teach you how to create your own affiliate service from scratch, here you will learn how to create your own products and to outsource everything else. So let’s create a product and let others take care of additional promotion and someone else should provide the hardware to handle all the monetary aspects of this side. The set budget for this upcoming experiment will be 100$ for everything from hosting to selling.
Enough introduction, let’s get down to business.
Narrowing down a niche
How do you choose a niche? Do you want to be part in a hard fought or soft market? Here comes the big secret: It does not matter how hard the market is fought! It only matter how good your product is. A soft market has usually less competitions, but there are probably less potential buyers, hence the soft market. A hard market basically three things:
first of all there are probably a lot of buyers
there are people who have authority and a name
there are a lot of people promoting the products of number 2
Harder fought does not have to be harder to sell stuff, you just have to create a great product. A soft market does not have to be enjoyable on opposite, as there might not be people who are going to buy your product. The golden rule is to make sure you offer an unique product that has big value.
Good niches?
A good niche is a niche where you have a set of knowledge and skills. There is virtually a market for everything, ranging from dating to creativity or internet marketing to name a few of the big niches. Just make sure there are people willing to buy your product.
Depends on your product and your name! For this guide we’ll play wit a product in the price range of 20-30$. To promote the product an offering of 50-70% to your affiliates seems to be reasonable. At least for a digital product.
Basically there are two possibilities, you either look for the big fish and offer expensive products or you sell some small-time stuff and have a supermarket mentality. The bigger and better your name is the more you can charge. A good way is to prove your status by creating a very solid product for a very fair price and offering follow up products and coaching, that will make you the real money.
To be honest, I never understood the price tag of some ebook guides. Most of those books are create to make the no-name author a fortune and offer some basic knowledge that you can find online for free! Do you think a price tag of 50-300$ for a simple ebook sounds reasonable? Go into a bookstore and have a look at the price tags, … tell me how many books you find there that cost that much money. Let’s not forget that most people would be better off with a printed book about marketing and sales management than a get rich book.
So pick an affordable price and start to sell. You want to sell those products to brand and underline your reputation as an expert. In case you create a great product it will sell.
Self publishing has never been easier. A nice layout is great, but to be honest it’s not necessary for your first book, you probably don’t have the money for a great designer. And since you are creative, just do it yourself 
You can hire someone for your next books when you have the cash. In case you want to illustrate something buy cheap stock images and add them. The most important part is to get someone to proofread. Errors and typos have to be avoided at all cost
Then just go on a create a .pdf and add a disclaimer to it.
This is the first part, we should all have a general idea about what we want to create and should start creating our affiliate product. What’s on the list so far?
Pick a niche you have knowledge in.
A niche doesn’t matter, they all have advantages and disadvantages, make sure your product is good enough that people will be willing to pay your for it.
Pick a realistic price tag.
Offer a generous share of your profits.
When you publish an ebook it should be available as PDF, you should know how to create one and have someone else to triple check your typing and grammar.
In the next episode we’ll cover how you find partners to sell your ebook, until then I will write a short ebook about creative capital.
