Imagine making multiple autopilot sales over the internet, and earning more every month than you currently make per year in your job. It’s not a fantasy for many online entrepreneurs who started out exactly where you are right now.
I first turned towards the internet as a means of income several years ago and looked to create an autopilot ebook sale. An ebook struck me as a simple way to make autopilot sales over the internet. Here’s an example of an ebook sales page, which is simple enough to build:
Once you click on add to cart and pay, you can access the ebook immediately from a website and download it. Ebooks aren’t the best way to autopilot sales over the internet though. There’s a much better way which is much more lucrative. But, as an example, the ebook shows how it can be done, by anyone. You can read more about autopilot-ing an ebook sale in my article how to sell ebooks on your own website.
Autopilot Sales Over The Internet
There’s a couple of problems with the ebook idea. Firstly you need to actually create an ebook and secondly you need to promote it. To pay for advertising to get people to your website is expensive and the profit you can earn from an ebook largely excludes this as a marketing strategy.
So instead you need to create a load of content to get people to your website for free. This takes time and a lot of effort, after which you can still struggle to sell a small digital product.
There’s a far better way to autopilot sales over the internet to earn a profit. It’s through a business model called affiliate marketing. With affiliate marketing you don’t need to create your own products and you can simply use other people’s products which are already selling. This will save you a heap of time and effort. Why create your own low-value products and spend months or even years promoting them, when you can build an online business much more quickly and efficiently.
Why Choose Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a business model which lets you sell other people’s products over the internet. Because you can simply refer and recommend products, there’s no need to personally own products, create products or even handle products or deal with any customers. You literally refer people through your unique affiliate link over the internet and earn commissions on any sales you make.
This makes affiliate marketing one of the most automated and scalable business opportunities available today. In short, it’s the best way to autopilot sales over the internet and build an income.
Different Affiliate Models
But not all affiliate products are equal. There’s products which pay you once, and those which pay you over and over again, for example. Residual income affiliate products are the best to choose. Why would you do the same amount of work to earn one commission as you can to earn multiple on-going commissions?
Different affiliate products also pay you different levels of commission too. For example, most physical products only pay you between 1% and 11% commission whereas digital products can pay between 40%-60% and even beyond. Amazon is one of the most popular affiliate programs and many affiliate marketers use their products to build online businesses.
But beware that Amazon pays affiliates between 1% and 11% on any sales you make. This means it’s much more difficult to make your affiliate autopilot sales give you a profit. You’ll be limited on how you can promote your products because low cost, low commission products prohibit the use of some paid marketing strategies.
The Sales Funnel
A good sales funnel contains multiple products from which you can earn in multiple ways:
- Through recurring income from software products and memberships which offer recurring commissions
- By having a range of high ticket products to sell in your funnel
- Using products which offer multi-tier sales – earn from sales made by your referrals
It is also much more lucrative to refer customers to products which give you lifetime commissions on a product range. Most affiliate products only pay you once. If you refer someone to an Amazon product, for example, you’ll only get paid once. With a product range, your customer can purchase other products years later, and you’ll still receive commissions based on those sales.
Marketing Your Autopilot Sales System
With a sales funnel like this you can more easily use paid marketing to build your online business. With small value products which only pay low commissions it’s much more of a challenge. High commission recurring income products are the best to use for affiliate marketing; especially if you want your business up and running quickly.
To market an ebook of your own for example which only sells for $10/£10, you’ll need to use free marketing strategies such as blogging. It’s difficult to earn a profit on such a low value item when you’re paying for advertising. It can still be done of course but it will usually take much longer and you’ll need to use more time consuming marketing strategies.
Paid marketing can more easily be scaled up too whereas it’s more difficult to do so with content marketing.
A paid marketing campaign can still take some time to get going. But ultimately it can be left running, building your business around the clock. So the fastest way to build an autopilot sales system is to use:
- A high ticket recurring commission sales funnel
- Paid marketing which is easily scalable
