Ethical Internet Marketer – Make More Money Online… Ethically!

SUBSCRIBER QUESTIONS PART 6
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Hi Detlev,

I’m Peter from Antwerp, Belgium and it’s been a while now that i receive your newsletters. i am happy with them because it is not full of crap like so many other ones.

So here’s my question: A year ago i started working on cruiseships for Carnival and so i have little internet time available, unless i want to use satellite and that’s really expensive. So basically i need to “set and forget” my sites. Of course every site needs maintenance and content building and i am willing to do that.

But my biggest problem right now is that i want to do something for the cruising public, or do something with cruises since i have access to a lot of information there. I don’t know what to sell. Usually i am full with ideas, but i guess the ocean breeze is filtering my brain. All i can think of is sunshine and mexican food

So i come to you and see if you have any ideas what people are looking for (it is not necessary for it to be related to cruising, but it helps my marketing efforts since i see 2000 new people every week ?).

kindest regards and keep up the good work. I’m sure you’ve enjoyed Mauritius.

Peter Sleeckx

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Question: Do you have an idea what products I can sell related to cruising/cruiseships?

ANSWER:

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Thanks for the compliments – I”m glad you like my newsletter ;-). Seems we”re almost neighbours… Belgium is around the corner from Germany…

I”m no expert in cruising but I guess that a lot of people would be interested in getting to know how you can apply for a job on a cruise ship. Many people like to travel and if they can combine it with a job doing their favorite thing then the interest should be there. You could be writing about how you got into that job and what qualifications you had to meet plus addresses and contacts where interested people can get more info (not just for the Carnival cruise line but for others as well). This could easily be turned into an ebook/report.

Then you could put it up for sale on Clickbank and try to get JV partners/super affiliates for it by contacting website owners which have top positions in the search engines for your main keywords or by visiting ezine directories and contacting owners which publish travel related ezines. Once you have a lot of affiliates who are promoting your ebook, your cruise job ebook will also be visible in the Clickbank marketplace where it can get noticed by even more affiliates. You just have to invest a little time in the beginning to make it work for you. And once enough affiliates are promoting it, it is a kind of “set and forget” like you want. Moreover, you could be running PPC campaigns which will also deliver sales for you. The profits will be dependent on your price, of course.

Another product idea: Maybe you or someone else from your cabin crew knows something about the best places which are virtually unknown to tourists in the countries where you are going from board. It could be a kind of “travelling guide for insiders”. Even better, create videos about the areas you are visiting and put them up for sale (for a small fee) or use them as an incentive to make your visitors want to get there and then have affiliate links to travel related sites below the videos. Let them sign up to get access to more videos so you can follow up with them.

Or bundle a lot of these videos together, create some ebooks to go with them and sell them as packages with private label rights to Internet marketers. Travel related products will work great as a lot of Internet marketers have such sites. I hope, this helps a bit…

Detlev

P.S.: I”m STILL on Mauritius (until next Monday)