Tuesday, November 18, 2008

how to make money selling your own e-book

Many marketeers just give away ebooks willy-nilly from their sites. By adding a bit of scientific thought, and a more targeted approach, these instructions can dramatically improve your cash flow.
STEPS
1. Allow other e-zine publishers or web site owners to republish small nuggets or excerpts of information from your ebook with your byline or ad included.
2. Make extra profits from selling monthly updates of your ebook. You could also back-end sell the extra, never released chapters of your e-book.
3. Give away a free ebook and then give people an option of buying the paid version of the ebook. Also, let others give away the free version of your ebook.
4. Divide your ebook content into reports, then give people the option of just purchasing the info they want.
5. Purchase reprint rights to other people's ebooks and combine them with yours in a large package deal or private ebook library web site.
6. Change the benefits on your ebook ad copy into links. When people click on it, take them right to the order page. It'll give them the urge to buy your ebook.
7. Charge people a cheap price to read half of your ebook. If they like it, they can pay full price to read the other half.
8. Offer freebies that are related to the ebook you're selling. It could be free monthly ebook updates, free e-zine, free consulting, etc.
9. Show your prospects a sample page out of your ebook. Just black out some of the important info. This will make your prospects curious to buy.
10. Provide a low and high priced version of your ebook. Show benefits of each version side by side. People usually spend a little more for extra info.
11. Offer the reprint rights to your ebook. You can sell the rights with the regular purchase price or as a separate higher price.
12. Make your ebook available for offline people. You could turn it into a print book, report, video, audio book, print newsletter, etc.
13. Redesign your ebook for specific niches. You can create multiple profits with very little work. Ex: Turn a business ebook into a craft business ebook.
14. Give your prospects discount coupons on other products when they purchase your ebook. It could be your products or others that you made deals with.
15. Divide your ebook into online newsletter issues. You could charge a recurring monthly subscription for people to view each issue.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

what are e-books?

E-books are simply called electronic books.
They are normally created sing e-book compliers or other e-book creation softwares.
Do you have a special knowledge that you think someone who needs it will pay you for it? When the issue of someone having specialised knowledge comes up, some people feel uncomfortable. Dear friends, specialised knowledge doesn’t have to be something from the moon. It could simply be how to send a dress or how to compose a song. Now, if you can describe, step-by-step, how one may achieve this goal, perhaps with appropriate illustrations to go with it, that is information product ready to be packaged as an e-book and be sold from your website. The most important point to take not if is that you must be passionate about what you want to write on, and then it will produce your profit.

In case you are looking for ideas for writing an e-book, check out www.tekmarketing.net.

How does one increase sales of e-book?

The most powerful selling technique is also the cheapest. It is free.

The best way to create a surge of orders for any e-book is to find people who have already built up an audience of prospects and joint venture with them.

Set up an affiliate program for your product. Then contact top sites with already established traffic.

Offer them increased commissions (at least 50% or more) and watch as hundreds of orders come surging in.

How does one sell e-book online?

After you have gotten your e-book idea, and it has been packaged, there are some mediums that can help you market your e-book and you can begin to profit from that e-book.

Go to www.theonlinepublisher.com
This site will help you market your e-book, and a percentage of the profit comes to you the author.

These are list of e-book publishers. Check them out and begin to profit from that e-book you have packaged.
www.istlibrary.com
www.aquariuspublishing.com
www.agoodbook.com
www.alexlit.com
www.awe_struck.net
www.bookaisle.com
www.bookmice.com
www.ebrandedbooks.com
www.ebooksonthe.net
www.ebookcentral.com
www.ebookstand.com
www.virtualpublications.com

how to upload e-books to the Net

Many web hosts now offer an upload feature for web pages. In most cases, you will be able to use these control panels to upload your e-books.

Another effective way of uploading your product to the Internet is to FTP it up. Go over to www.download.com and you will find multiple programs. All you have to do is select one, input the information given to you by your host; and then upload your e-book in ‘binary’ format. Then simply link to it just as if you were linking to any other website link.

how to create an e-book

How to create e-book
You can either use Adobe Pagemaker or CorelDraw in creating the e-book.
Use version 9.0 CorelDraw or version 7.0 Adobe Pagemaker.
Use Adobe Pagemaker to type out the layout of your e-book.
Use CorelDraw to design the cover page and import it to your Adobe Pagemaker.
After you have finished the layout of the pages in the e-book, and you are ready to publish, using CorelDraw, these are the steps:
Step 1
Go to file and click on publish to pdf.

Step 2
Save as pdf window prompts you, where you want to save it and next click save. It is done.

To publish your e-book using Adobe Pagemaker, use the following steps:

Step 1
Go under file and go to export and from submenu go to Adobe pdf.

Step 2
Pdf dialogue box comes up; you can go to security to set some restriction on your e-book.

Step 3
After everything, click on export; your export pdf dialogue box comes up for you to specify where to save your e-book to.

Step 4
Finally, click on save – it is done.

NOTE: If you want to publish your e-book using CorelDraw, type using Microsoft Word or Word Pad and import to CorelDraw page.

If you want the first page to be cover page, go to layout and choose fresh page; after laying all pages, go to file and click on publish to pdf. Save as pdf window prompts you where you want to save it and next click save. It is done.