Passive Income

Selling information products is a pretty good gig as far as I am concerned. I never have to worry about inventory, shipping, customer complaints, etc. I can create a campaign and set it loose. The only thing I have to do is create articles, build backlinks or otherwise send traffic to my real estate.

I have to admit that when I make a sale, it feels pretty good. Kind of like scoring the winning goal when I was in high school good. You know the kind! You look at the screen, see numbers where zeros typically like to hang out and you jump around doing your little celebration dance. I myself, am partial to the Icky Shuffle.

Last night, I got to thinking that if I was happy about one or two sales here and there, then the creators of these products must be absolutely loving life. Even giving up a huge portion of their commission to their affiliates, they are simply raking it in.

For example, currently the highest Clickbank product, in terms of gravity is a Twitter Traffic Machine. According to cbanalytics, it has a CURRENT gravity of 701. What this means is that in the past 30 days, 701 affiliates have made at least one sale of this product. For this particular product, the author keeps 50% of the sale and gives his/her affiliate the remaining 50%.

Doing some quick math – [701 *11.95] = $8,376.95

Impressed yet? Don’t be just quite yet.

Accordingly to cbanalytics, this product has an TOTAL GRAVITY of 50,415. WHAT?

From cb-analytic’s help page:
Total gravity is the measure of how established the product is. Every day [that the] product is present on [in the]marketplace it’s gravity is accumulated. This value is total gravity. It’s very useful for separating well-established and stable products from ones that have their gravity spike to hundreds in a matter of days and then slowly decays without generating much sales for most of the affiliates”.

green was added by me for clarification

Does this mean that this product has been sold 50,000 times since March 20, 2009 (the products release date)? If so, this guy is really killing it and killing it well.

A little more math – [50,415 * 11.95] = $602,459.25

I honestly do not think my brain can handle numbers like that. It is a little difficult for me to believe. While I am sure this product absolutely rocks, $600k? Dang. Maybe, we should reconsider this whole selling someone else’s product. I think Pat figured this out a long time ago

Other Popular Products (Product Creators Income):

Fat Loss 4 Idiots – 193,018 gravity * $10.83 = $2,090,385 – This cannot be real, can it?

Earth 4 Energy – 135,189 * $10.74 = $1,451,930 – Someone please tell me my math is wrong?

Hemorrhoid Relief - 38,421 * $11.22 = $431,248 – Wow!. You just never know, do ya?

I honestly hope that I am wrong about these numbers. I hope someone speaks up and says, no no my friend, you misunderstood TOTAL GRAVITY. If not, I need to get cracking with my own product!

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