One Of The Fastest Ways To Get A Product Online

I see nothing wrong with copycatting a product, but there is a right way to do it and a wrong way. The right way is to find a product that is already successful and tweak it a little. This can be done several ways.
One way is by making the product better. Maybe the original product left out some important details or neglected an entire subject directly related to the topic.
Another way is to take a slightly different look at the topic from a different angle. You can do this by widening or narrowing the target market for the product.
Yet another way is to simply update an old or outdated product. Things move fast on the internet. Some very successful products that are only a couple years old are already ancient and outdated. You can take a product that was a huge success and re-do it with up-to-date,current, relevant info.
Obviously you can’t take the product’s name and simply update it… but you can take the idea of an old product and re-energize it with relevant information.
The wrong way to copycat is to simply rip off someone’s product word for word, or to take a product and just move some of the words around. This is plagiarism and you are stealing from the original author/creator of the product.
Another way products are copycatted is through the use of ghostwriters. Someone takes a successful product, outsources the copycatting to the lowest bidder on a site like Elance.com and gets a “clone” of the product at a cheap price.
Then they put the product out there, often with a similar name to the product they copied and try to make as many sales as possible.
These methods will never be very successful. Sure, the person may make a few sales of their crappy product to a few people, but eventually several things will happen.
Number 1 if the product is junk refund requests will be high. Unhappy customers will have their voices heard and make sure they tell plenty of others that your product is crap.
Two, the customers who do buy your junk won’t do it again. One of the cornerstones of building a successful online business is REPEAT customers. Once you knock someone’s socks off with a kick-ass product, you don’t have to sell them as hard the next time around.
It’s 10 times easier to sell to a satisfied customer than it is to sell to someone who just looked at your site for the first time 5 minutes ago.