How to Market an eBook

Ebooks are an extremely popular way to buy and sell information, novels, poetry and other writing. With so many ebooks on the market it is important to get a marketing strategy set up. Here's how.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Make a pitch page. Set up a website or just a one-page mini-site, to market the ebook. Use popular keywords throughout the pitch page in order to get more traffic from those searching the Internet for your information.

2. Get links to your pitch page on other websites. Purchase links or trade links in a link exchange program. Use the links to raise your search engine rankings and bring in more traffic.

3. Visit forums that are about topics similar to your ebook. Use the signature line available in most forums to provide a link to your selling page. Answer questions about your ebook.

4. Get your ebook reviewed. Provide a free copy to review sites and encourage them to print a review of the ebook, as well as a link to your sales page.

5. Get affiliates to sell your ebook. List the ebook on ClickBank to get affiliates to sign up to sell it. Offer a high commission rate for every sale in order to sign as many affiliates as possible.

6. Write and market articles about your topic for free article directories. Include a link to your sales page.

Resources

• Clickbank has thousands of affiliates looking for quality egoods to sell.

[RachelMoore]

on 5/25/2009 Thanks for sharing!

[Delaplane]

on 3/21/2009 Thank you for the info.

[jennen]

on 11/29/2008 Thank you for this info ... up until 4am writing decided why not sale this one?

[chyanneraine]

on 9/28/2008 Good article, very helpful for what I am doing right now. 5 stars!

[jfmalewitz]

on 12/29/2007 Good article. I am planning on epublishing. I have heard clickbank is a good venue for getting more out of the ebook. Thanks for sharing.