Site Flipping 101 E-Book
November 27th, 2008 by Scot, under Affiliate Marketing, Informational Products. 1 Comment
Jason Pereira from TheUniversityKid sent me over a copy of his Site-Flipping Guide For Noobs for review.
I’d like to take a few moments to first analyze the product itself and also the structure of his affiliate program and business for the book. I’d also like to discuss any opportunities I see where Jason may be able to capitalize to make more money with the recent launch of his affiliate program.
I’ve gotta say this is a great book for anyone just starting out with making money online or flipping websites. If you’ve ever sold a website on DigitalPoint or Sitepoint, there are a few tips and ideas here that never really struck me before, and I absolutely appreciate Jason for bringing them to my attention in this guide.
The first 22 pages will introduce you to the concept of flipping websites, the potential in flipping sites, and finally setting up web-hosting and installing Wordpress on your server. If you’ve never purchased hosting or installed Wordpress this could be helpful.
Otherwise skim through here and get to the real content. I’ll give you a tip if you’re new to the internet: Get hosting with Fantastico for one-click Wordpress installs so you don’t have to bother with MySQL databases, etc.
Pages 22-25 give us a few free high-quality Wordpress themes that will work well for flipping our websites as a few resources for finding more.
The rest of the book discusses the process of actually flipping the website– everything from the design to content. A lot of this may seem like useless information if you’ve been doing business online(hence the name FlipNOOBS) but for those of you just starting out or still learning, this is a great place to start.
The book is a grand total of 56 pages long (780KB) in PDF format. The text is readable with a large point font and was indented with readability in mind. Easy to understand writing style with lots of screenshots in every chapter for easy understanding.
It truly is an incredible value if you’re interested getting started with flipping websites. Buy a copy for a little under 15 bucks and see a return the first time you flip a website.
The Affiliate System
Once you’ve purchased the book you are able to sell copies at a 50% commission. The cost of the book is a little under $15.00 so you’ll net around $7.50 on each successful sale. Jason is using E-Junkie which I have promoted with in the past… and I just don’t really care for their affiliate system. I might recommend cutting out the middle man and going direct with a script like iDevAffiliate. E-Junkie is simple and gets the job done but it’s frustrating for me to use sometimes.
The Landing Page
I’m not really fond with REALLY long sales pages — I might implement a squeeze system to capture leads on the first page with a sample of the sales copy and then direct them to the sales letter to submit the order. But I haven’t access to Jason’s stats so he may be doing well going this route. The design itself isn’t horrible but might turn some off with the sales-type look.
Opportunities to Make More Money
Jason uses a few affiliate links inside the book but I would absolutely pair this book with an offer from Elegant Theme Designs to nearly double Jason’s commissions on every sale. Elegant Theme Designs offers an incredible value and if I were Jason I would write it in that you NEED to buy a theme from Elegant Theme Design to successfully use this product for an extra commission on every sale of the book.
Book Score: 4/5
Business Score: 3/5
The book gets high marks because even though there isn’t a heap of advanced information, it does well for the demographic it’s marketed to– noobs. The screen shots are easy to understand and the concepts Jason writes about truly will make you money. The value is there at only $14.95 and it’s worth the buy.
The business of selling the book and truly monetizing the product could be worked on a bit but overall I give it good marks. Getting rid of E-Junkie and doing some touch-up on the landing page would help dramatically. Adding a few more opportunities to catch leads and also diversify the income made would help this area significantly.
Congrats on a good product Jason and I look forward to your future releases.
I totally agree, I’m not a fan of long landing pages either. This combined with the nice landing page templates you have might be worth a try… I’ll look into it, thanks.