How to Create Your Own Digital Products Review
By Brad Carroll on August 23rd, 2009
How to Create Your Own Digital Products is an ebook that currently sells for $14.95 at Digital-Product-Creators.com.
I ghostwrite ebooks and recently came out with one of my own, so I buy products like this to make sure I’m on top of my game. I wish that I hadn’t bought this one.
This ebook’s sales page describes it as “10 Steps to creating successful Info-Products.” The closest thing I could find to a single step was a three-page section that brushed over how to take a PLR ebook and make it your own–and that was after the book’s halfway point!
Instead, this ebook starts off mentioning three “free” membership sites where you can find ebooks with resale rights.
It recommends the site with the “$1 trial gold membership” which lasts for a week until the customer is rebilled.
From there, How to Create Your Own Digital Info Products launches into several pages of advertising for four different web hosting companies.
The book spends three pages on one of the hosting companies, with content that reads as if it were ripped directly from the hosting provider’s sales page. You’ll get this kind of sell with a handful of other products throughout the ebook.
What you won’t get is good advice on running an online info product business. This ebook offers up vague generalities about what it means to run a business. Sometimes for pages on end. It does the same sweep with social media.
That being said, this product is not half bad at running technical newbies step-by-step through certain parts of the site creation product.
This is nice to see, as so many “create your own product” reports leave this part out–much to the dismay of English majors such as myself.
Unfortunately, that is How to Create Your Own Digital Info Products‘s sole saving grace. Still, the amount of detail here does make me think that the creator might just be lazy or perhaps was rushed, instead of just flat-out dishonest.
The book contains other gems, such what kind of AdSense banners to put on your site, with a reminder to choose your keywords carefully so as to get the most out of AdSense. On your product’s sales site no less!
The book also gives instructions on how to register your resale rights book with ClickBank. I can’t find in the terms of service where ClickBank doesn’t accept resale rights products, but it somehow doesn’t seem like a very good idea to me.
I hate writing bad reviews. I love what I do for a living, and it’s really fun to get excited when I find a good product to rant and rave about. Even poor products often have an idea or two I can take with me.
How to Create Your Own Digital Info Products, however, offers no gem of insight. It doesn’t tell anyone how to create an information product, and I’m sorry I bought it.
If you’d like a good guide to info product creation, I highly recommend Tiffany Dow’s Building an Ebook Empire (guide2ebooks.com) instead.
Not only does it teach you how to create your product, it runs you through the technical aspects of web creation, as well. I’ll be reviewing it next week here on Kikabink Internet Marketing Product Reviews.
I too was a bit dissapointed when i started reading this, it started off about webhosting for a few pages but then it got interesting and by the time i got to the chapter using plr products i was excited and ready to start my own product. After reading the book and following the instructions i had my first product on the web in about 3 hours, before that i was struggling for weeks to try and write about what i know and would want to teach. I think this product is a brilliant idea for people who struggle like me on products. At least I can now create as many products as i like while i wait for the inspiration to come for my product that i really know about, and i now know what to do with this one also when i eventually get it done.
I have to recomend this to anyone who does not know anything about creating a product for the web
I wouldn’t even recommend this one to people who lack knowledge about creating a product for the web. This product says it will teach that–but never really does.
If this product’s name were “How to Make Money With Resale Rights,” then my review would have been a bit better (it’d still be a bad book, and one focused m=noticeably more on making money for the author than in actually helping out the newbie).
But instead, the author promises something that he never actually delivers on. It seems like this ebook is both dishonest AND lazy.
There are plenty of other books I would recommend over this one. Tiffany Dow’s “Ebook Empire” is the first. But there is a long line of other ebooks & reports I would recommend, before I would recommend this “How to Create Your Own Digital Products”
Brad,
Are we talking about the same book? 10 steps to creating your own digital products?
My guess is you didn’t find this book that good because you are already an expert at creating products and it didn’t tell you anything you didn’t already know? I didn’t expect this book to tell me how to run an online business but I did expect it to tell me how to create a product that I can sell online and that is exactly what it did for me. It showed me how to create products and have them on the web for sale. I can now start creating a product in the next 5 minutes If I want to because this book showed me how. I am not trying to promote this book but if I had a email list I would recommend it to them. I just think it’s a fairly good idea of a book if you are stuck and have no clue what to do, like me before I read it.
James
No, it’s not that the information was too basic. As stated about, it’s that the information given did not match what was actually being sold.
Had this product been called, “How to Make Your First Dollar Online Selling Other People’s Products,” then I would feel differently. It still wouldn’t have been the best guide out there, but it would at least have delivered on its promise.
Unfortuantely, the thing promises to show prospects how to create their own product. It does nothing of the sort. It’s not the most horrible product in the world, but it doesn’t deliver on its promise.
There are other reasons this ebook will never be on my recommended list. They are stated in the review above.
I have no problems with ebooks that cover only the basics. In fact, these kind are probably better for the newcomer. This ebook does a good job with some of the basics and a really poor job with some other basics. But that’s not my biggest beef with this product.
It’s kind of like if you saw a sales page that said, “Learn how to create your own unique candy bars and sell them for $$$” and then the actual book told you how to buy Snickers bars for a quarter each, then resell them for 50 cents. Not a horrible business model–it’s just not what we were told we would be shown.
Hi Brad,
I received an updated version of this product today and it’s looking even better even the website has changed. Owner must have seen what you said.