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How to Launch a Digital Product (and a Chance for You To Make Money Online)

Since I started freelancing in the winter of 2007/2008, my professional holy grail has always been to create a passive income. For those who don’t know, passive income is any completely automated stream of money. That is to say, it’s an income for which you only invest a few days or a few weeks into it up front and after that it’s marketed, sold and delivered on it’s own. Some people have had success developing a passive income with iPhone apps or computer software. Others with membership sites or online classes or WordPress themes. Anything that can be digitized can be used to create a passive income.

And for me, that thing was an ebook.

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Taking Control of Your Life Once and For All

J. D. Bentley

I’ve experienced many, many failures in these last two years as a freelancer. Even some of the few successes I’ve known seemed to fall just short of where I’d have liked them to land. As I’ve found out, though, these failures weren’t coincidental and they most definitely weren’t predestined.

They were self-fulfilled.

So much of what we do depends on our perspective and our worldview. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.” And if you don’t have complete faith in whatever you are planning to do, there’s a really good chance that you’ll, consciously or not, screw everything up just because you feel like it’s not supposed to work out.

It doesn’t have to be like this, though. It’s easier than you think to get control of your life and to make things work. Here’s how.

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4 Excellent Resources for Digital Product Creation

J. D. Bentley

Since the last post I’ve had quite a few people comment and email me saying they were sold on creating digital products, but they had no idea how to create them. I’d like to address them all in this post.

These are some of the resources I used at the beginning of my digital product development journey. If these help you out in anyway, let me know in the comments or feel free to send me an email. If you actually get a product developed, I ask that you contact me! I’d love to see (and possibly promote) anything WSR readers create.

So, start creating!

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Selling Your Time is Overrated: Experiments in Digital Product Creation

J. D. Bentley

Just a little note before I get started. You might have noticed that Wage Slave Rebel has been a little quiet and a little inconsistent over the last month. This ends today! I’ll be going back to a Monday-Wednesday-Friday posting schedule.

As I mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been working since mid-December (which is why the blog has been less active) to develop a handful of digital products, including a weight loss ebook and a web design how-to video course. I’m happy to say that my first product (the ebook) is completely finished and is currently undergoing some final reviewing and last minute tweaking! As it is, we’re currently looking at a Friday or Monday launch.

Keep checking WSR over the next couple weeks because I’d like to get you guys involved as much as possible and maybe even give you a chance to make some money of your own. Look for the announcement soon!

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Most of you know that I am a freelance web designer. I’ve mentioned it here and there over the last few months. I want to take this opportunity to let it be known that this is no longer the case. I’m officially retiring as a freelancer.

Why? Because freelancing just doesn’t make sense! If you are a freelancer, that’s all good and fine. If you enjoy it, great! But if you aren’t already freelancing, don’t bother starting unless you are absolutely in love with the work you do. And you should realize that just because you like doing something for yourself, doesn’t mean you’ll like doing it for other people. Freelancing has the ability to feel almost as oppressive as 9-to-5 wage slavery. It can be more soulless unrewarding work wrapped up in a prettier package.

No. If you want to live your life on your terms and have enough money to do what you want to do and go where you want to go, you need to focus on making your primary source of income completely passive. You need to focus on digital product creation!