Digital Product Machine [review]

Today Im taking a look at Digital Product Machine by Alex Jeffreys.

So what exactly is Digital Product Machine? Well its a complete training course that will take the total newbie step by step through the process of creating their own digital products to sell. Its a high quality and all inclusive course that is an amazing value for anyone who wants to start selling their own digital products.

The question that comes to mind is this: do people actually need to be worried about selling their own digital products? Should they even bother? The answer is 100% without a doubt, for sure, anyone who wants to make money online should be selling a digital product. Why? Because quite simply nothing comes even close to the profit that you can make from selling a digital product. Let me explain how I know this for sure.

I have been making my full time living online for several years. However what I was doing a while back is very different from what I do today. You see for a long time I was a freelance software developer. In fact I was one of the top freelance software developers. I was rated in the 99.5th percentile on vWorker. I have a 98% recommendation rating on Elance, and a perfect 5 star customer rating after over 120 completed projects. On average I was working about 60 hours a week (including time spent writing proposals and bidding on jobs) and I was making some  very nice income.

However I did not want to freelance anymore. After a few years doing it I realized it honestly wasn’t that great. I still had a ‘boss’, my clients, in fact I had tons of them, each client was a new boss and some of them where not that nice. I still had deadlines I had to meet. I was taxed as a business and since I was technically self employed I had no unemployment insurance, had to pay for my own health care, and had no retirement plan. Basically I had all of the negatives of having a job with with no real benefit. To top it off I was only making about 30% more than what I would have earned if I worked for a firm, and most of that income went to paying my self employment taxes and health care.

So I decided to give affiliate marketing a try. I got myself some PLR, put up a squeeze page and started running ads to it. This was not so great. The ads where expensive, the people who opted in where mostly looking for freebies and when I mailed out an affiliate offer I normally did not make much money. Sure I got a bit of income like this but not much at all. For sure not enough to quit freelancing.

Then something just popped into my head. I don’t know where it came from but once it occurred to me it seemed so obvouse that I just could not believe I didn’t get it from the start. You see as an affiliate I was still working for someone else. I was working for the guy who I was affiliating for. I was sending him sales. Sure I was getting 50% of the sales price, but he had dozens of people sending him traffic and sales. He was getting 50% of the sales price from dozens of people (without even doing anything) while I was working and spending money to get my 50% just from my efforts. It just clicked in my head. I needed to be selling a digital product because then I can have other people making me money (while I do something else) instead of me working to make someone else money!

That was a little over 18 months ago, fast forward to today and I no longer work as a freelance developer. I make enough money each month that paying my health care premium is not even close to a problem. I just bought a house (last November in fact). Ok to be fair its not an awesome house being only a town home, but I did pay cash for it (something I never could have done before). Basically that one realization changed my life.

While I obviously do still earn some money on affiliate commissions the real money is in selling my own products. Why? Because as I said, when you affiliate you get 1/2 the sales price normally, but only from your own efforts. When you are the seller you get 1/2 of the sales price from all the combined efforts of all of your affiliates. In fact as of right now I have 1172 approved affiliates working to make me money!

Sure some of them don’t do well and send me no sales. Some send me a few sales each month and a few send be a bunch of sales. But honestly thats not very important. I get paid anytime any of them make a sale. These guys are like my own sales team! I’m going to share some of my income stats with you because I want to really drive home in your mind how awesome having your own digital product can be. Let me show you what I earned just last month from selling my own products:

Of that I paid 50% to the affiliates promoting for me for a personal income of $7714 and here is the thing. I didn’t do much of anything once I created the product. The affiliates did all the real work and they keep doing all of the real work while I keep getting paid from their efforts. I earned over $1900 a week on top of other things I do for additional income. $1900 a week does not make me a millionaire or anything but thats no joke. Its the equivalent of working a full time job and getting paid $47 an hour. Only I dont have to work, but instead can spend my time making money doing other things as well or creating more products to sell, or if I feel like it just doing nothing much. And Im not even ‘big time’ yet.

So how does selling my own products compare to affiliate marketing? Well if we look at a couple of days reporting from JVZoo we can see that selling my own products is far more profitable than affiliate marketing (and it takes a lot less work). If you have never seen a JVZoo report before each graphic has 2 sections, the income from your own sales on the left, and your income from affiliate commissions on the right. For example in the first gaphic I made $312.50 from selling my own stuff and $66.62 in affiliate commissions.

Ok so why am I telling you all of this? Well because I want to explain the reason I strongly support Digital Product Machine. Because its a great training program that teaches you how to make money in a way that I 100% know for sure works. I know it works because its how I make money. This is quality training by a product creator that does so many sales that he makes me look like a ‘small fry’ and teaches a way that is for sure proven to make money. I really cant say anything bad about it. Even the price is awesome. Its about $10. Heck even the upsell is awesome. The upsell is $17 for a live training with Alex. That’s a fantastic deal in itself and I recommend you strongly consider it.

Im going to finish up by saying that just a little over 18 months ago, while I was making my living online, I was freelancing which is basically still working a job. Taking the step of creating my first digital product really did change my life. It is quite simply one of the most profitable things you can do to make money online. I firmly believe everyone should be doing it.

 A quick note about the reviews I do on this site. The product vendors give me access to their products for free in order for me to do my review. However I make no promises to them regarding the results of my tests or what I will write in my review. Should you click a link that takes you to a sales page for a paid product for sale this link will be an affiliate link and I will be paid a percentage of the sales price should you decide to invest in it.

About the Author

Brett Rutecky

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Brett Rutecky is a full time online marketer, web developer, and entrepreneur. He has developed scores of Facebook apps, dozens of custom web sites and hundreds of scripts.

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