I put thirteen affiliate products on one page. Within a day someone messaged me asking which one to buy first.

Fair question. And the honest answer is: not all of them, and definitely not in the order they’re listed.

That page is a menu, not a shopping list. So here’s the order I’d actually go in if I were starting over today with a small budget and no audience.

Step 0: Get somewhere to sell before you buy anything

This is the step everybody skips.

If you buy a course on selling digital products but you have no storefront, no checkout and no link to send anybody, you didn’t buy a business. You bought a hobby.

Set up a Stan Store or a Payhip page first. Both are free to start. It takes an afternoon. You do not need it to be pretty — you need it to exist, so that the first time someone says “where do I buy that,” you have an answer.

Do this before you spend a dollar on training.

Step 1: Spend $14 and actually finish it

The 14-Day Challenge is the cheapest way in on my whole page, and that’s exactly why it’s first.

Fourteen dollars is small enough that you’ll take the swing. It resells at 75%, which means about $10.50 back on each sale you make. Two sales and you’ve covered it.

But the money isn’t really the reason it goes first. The reason is this: finishing one small thing will teach you more than owning five big things you never opened. Almost everybody who stalls out in digital products stalls because they bought something ambitious, got overwhelmed and quietly stopped.

Start small on purpose. Finish it. Then move.

Step 2: Pick one traffic source and learn it properly

Once you have a store and one product, your problem isn’t products anymore. It’s that nobody knows you exist.

This is where most people go wrong — they try to be everywhere at once and end up invisible in five places instead of visible in one.

Pick a lane and go deep. If Pinterest is your lane, The Pin-Fluence Society at $47.77 is the low-cost way in, and it resells at 60%. If you already know Pinterest is where you want to build, It’s Time To Prosper is the full Pinterest Prosperity 3.0 program at $225.

One platform. Six months. That’s the assignment.

Step 3: Stop looking like a beginner

By now you’ve sold something and you’re getting eyes on your stuff. This is when presentation starts to matter, because people judge fast.

DDH Image Studio at $67 is for your visuals — product shots, content graphics, the stuff that makes your store look like a real store instead of a first attempt.

Ebook Creation Mastery + Coach Kay GPT at $269 is the bigger move: making your own product instead of only reselling other people’s. That’s the step where the math changes, because you keep everything.

You don’t need both at once. Visuals first if your store looks thin. Your own product first if you’ve already got people buying.

Step 4: The bigger systems, once you’ve earned them

These are the ones people want to start with. Don’t.

Standin’ on Business I is 16+ modules on building multiple income streams, and you name your own price on it — it resells at 100%. Part 2 is $200 at 85%, and Part 1 comes with it free. The Digital Drop House AI Income Vault is the flagship at $197, reselling at 40%.

Every one of these is worth it when you have somewhere to send traffic and a habit of finishing things. Bought on day one, they become expensive folders you never open. Bought on month three, they’re leverage.

The side lanes

Benable is free and it takes ten minutes — you share things you already recommend and earn from 40,000+ brands. There’s no reason not to have it running in the background.

Le-Vel Thrive is a different lane entirely. It’s wellness, not digital products. If that’s your world, it’s there. If not, skip it without guilt.

Be honest with yourself about the percentages

A big resell number looks exciting. Let’s do the actual arithmetic.

75% of $14 is $10.50. 85% of $200 is $170. The percentage on its own tells you very little — what matters is the price, times the percentage, times the number of people who genuinely buy from you.

That last number is the hard one. It’s not a setting you choose. It’s the result of showing up somewhere consistently until people trust you.

Every card on my picks page has a calculator built into it. Put in the price you’d sell at, set how many sales a month you honestly think you’d make, and look at the number. Not the number you’d like — the one you’d bet on. Do that before you buy, not after.

What I’d tell myself starting over

Buy one thing. Finish it. Sell it once. Then buy the next one.

That’s it. That’s the whole roadmap. It’s boring, it’s slower than the reels make it look, and it’s the only version I’ve seen actually work.

The page is there whenever you’re ready — all thirteen, with what each one is, who made it, and the resell rate on every card.

Disclosure: the links on my picks page are affiliate links. If you buy through them I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Results vary from person to person and nothing here is a guarantee of income.