How To Make Money With Shareware You Don't Own
Here's a business that has the true potential to make you wealthy
. This home business is all about creating useful shareware applications and distributing them. The money is generated when millions of people download the shareware and decide to pay a small fee to upgrade to the full version.
Millions of people download applications that they use and then decide it is so good they want to "unlock" all the features of the full version. They click on an UPGRADE fee to unlock the features.
There are Internet applications and applications that you download and run from your desktop. An example of a program that runs on the Internet might be 1shoppingcart.com's shopping cart program. You get to try it for 30 days for $3.95 and everything works. But, after thirty days you get charged for one of their two or three levels of service or you lose all the products and links that you had painstakingly built.
Internet based applications often involve storing the user's files or setting up autoresponders and shopping carts which can be very time consuming. The longer the user sticks with the service the more investment he has in terms of his time. If he quits he's back to square one!
Most people are familiar with shareware that operates from the user's desktop. An example might be Cute FTP which requires an Internet connection but makes it easy for the user to transfer files to his web server. A new type software can be downloaded by parents who are seeking to improve their child's behavior. The Code of The Samurai is a behavior wheel that presents consequences and deducts points for "bad" behavior.
Free Advertising Means Your Shareware May Be Downloaded Millions of Times You can stick with posting to the most popular shareware sites like Tucows.com and Download.com and end up paying a fee to get some decent exposure. But, there are millions of sites that permit you to post your titles for free.
As a shareware developer you can post your shareware to these sites using a simple spread sheet type file called a PAD file. This file segregates each bit of information about your shareware into uniform categories like the title, the file size, the description both short and long, the cost and the download link among other things.
A PAD file can automate the posting process simplifying your work and placing your shareware on thousands of sites with the press of a button when you use it with a software submission site.
If producing your own shareware titles seems a bit daunting you could consider joining a new enterprise, The Passive Income Club. Each month members receive a new shareware title and the affiliate password. Then, they enter the password giving them access to a field where they can enter their affiliate ID. This puts their affiliate ID into the affiliate upgrade link. The members' job is then to distribute the shareware. When a user downloads his branded copy and upgrades 50% of the fees is paid to the affiliate.
Passive Income Club members only need to fill out the PAD file with their own description of the shareware and the keywords they like. This can be done in minutes. Then, they click a button to use shareware submission software or pay a web service to post their PAD file to thousands of download sites. There is the potential that thousands if not millions of copies of their branded shareware will be downloaded. Without a doubt a percentage will pay the upgrade fee. Members of the Club earn a 50% commission.
If you have an idea for a shareware application that millions of people would use every day you could sell advertising on the shareware. Companies will often pay for exposure in front of their demographic.
Since most people are not software developers the author recommends either joining the Passive Income Club as a shareware distributor. That way you'll receive new shareware titles every month.
For those who wish to develop their own shareware ideas you can register on www.VWorker.com or www.Elance.com. Highly skilled coders can take your idea and turn it into your own proprietary shareware title for under $1000 in most cases.
by: David Davies..
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