AdSense slowly reclining? Affiliate percentages just not as good as they used to be? Then you need to move into an area where you are 100% in control, and that's products. Selling your own products means you can control how much they cost, how you promote them (many companies disallow you the option to use their names in your paid for promotion eg. PPC for fear of you taking their direct customers) and when you can offer discounts or freebies even. With traditional physical products you've got the overhead of creating each product, not to mention the postage costs too. The great thing with digital products is that once the first product is created there are no further costs (be it time or money) involved to create the second and third product. Plus if you use a decent product delivery system then need to check on payments and send out the product is dealt with for you, leaving you free to literally make money whilst you sleep (or go for a walk, bike ride, watch TV, knit, whatever takes your fancy!).nnMy largest single income has come from selling products. I can earn more from a single product sale than about half a month worth of AdSense. Of course, if I worked on my promotion skills I'd be earning a bit more than I currently do, but that's more down to procrastination than anything! However, the cheapest way to offer your own product(s) for sale is to create it yourself if you can. You can pay others to do the work for you, but you need to be very sure that you'll make your return back else you'll just end up out of pocket, and we're not in this game to lose money nnSo what product should you create? Well what can you do? Knowledge on a particular subject or two means you can create a site based on that subject, write your own eBook with some indepth information and offer it for sale, plus give a few freebie articles to draw people in to the site. One option I once thought about was setting up a site to help young kids learn how easy Mathematics really was (enjoy maths helps here!). I do a great deal of calculations in my head, always have done, and they're pretty simple to me, but I've seen younger cousins and children struggling with very simple sums, and I remember kids at school of the same age as me struggling to grasp and understand things. I never set this up, but it just goes to show how someone, who is rubbish at writing eBooks say, could still find something to create with their knowledge. Of course, products for this could be creating and selling guides, or offer a subscription service, perhaps give one free example for each age level but then charge for full access. The options are there, you just need to take them and run with it.nnAnother option I've recently been seeing more and more are from people asking for specific scripts or plugins for use on their own or their client's site. People say 'don't reinvent the wheel' when it comes to creating say a photo gallery, but when you've got overbloated, often unsecure scripts available, which don't fully do they want, then why not create a simpler solution and sell it? Some clients appreciate that custom code comes at a price, others don't. Creating scripts and solutions is an ideal product idea for programmers who don't want to go the eBook route, and maybe can't create windows software (which is another good seller). Most people appreciate that free isn't always the best option, and a product sold for a small but decent amount, several times over, can be a nice little earner. You've got the ability to allow people to pay an upgrade subscription, or maybe just offer it for free. Perhaps a modular piece of software where you can let people start with the barebones and add the extras they want so that there's no bloat there, just what they need.nnThink about it though. Once your product is created you shouldn't need to spend much time on it, a little tidy up once in a while but nothing major, and that product can go on selling and selling, whilst you're sitting on the beach somewhere