How to Sell Ebooks Yourself
Selling an Ebook can be a hard task. Differentiating the product is probably the hardest task for any Ebook author. However, it is not impossible to do it yourself. There are steps to take to get cold hard cash for any Ebook. The strategy is to know where to go for promotion and have an automated payment collection process. Read more to see how to make it simple.
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Things You'll Need
- Good content within the Ebook
- Marketing plan
- Payment options
- Web site and/or blog
Instructions
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Sell on Lulu.com. It is a place where authors of all kinds flourish. The site maintains a download of the Ebook and show reviews. Lulu collects payments and takes a percentage of the selling price. There is an easy to review revenue account and the money is transferred to the author electronically. Another benefit is that there is a free preview feature to help promote the book to interested readers.
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Add a Web site with ClickBank advertising. Creating a Web site that talks about an Ebook and its author is vital. It must have something interesting and exciting. The ClickBank ads are free and are generally used to promote the sale of others items for cash, but you can add advertisements for your Ebook, too. Therefore, this is a two-sided benefit. Have others promote the Ebook and reap the profits by sharing a designated percentage. The profits are sent via PayPal.
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Use the power of Twitter by tweeting about the book. Share the good news of a new Ebook and why it is the best one of its kind. Always include the Lulu link. Have fellow tweeters to repeat the message as well. Perhaps online forums will pick up the information and provide reviews. The result should be increased online exposure.
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Create a press release on PR Web. It should cost $80 for a standard one and will get exposure quickly on search engines. This should be done immediately after the Twitter announcement. After all, people may want to know more and there should be a professional resource available. A press release is viewed as official, so it will get more respect in some people's skeptical minds. Be sure to include all pertinent sales information in the release.
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Hold a live event. Promote the Ebook with a giveaway promotion for the first two people to enter the venue. Seminars, conferences and symposiums are ways to get the word of mouth factor going. Being a good public speaker and having some sound advice will make the event successful. Be prepared to take online and live orders. Accept PayPal and Revolution Money Exchange forms of payment. These are easily embedded on Web sites and blogs. Having a secure payment system makes profits easy, and then new innovative selling techniques can take place.
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Tips & Warnings
Promote the Ebook online by joining book listing resources. Also, try Payloadz.com to send Ebooks directly after payment via PayPal. This helps make the process totally automated. Check out the JMK Notary & Services company blog for an example of Ebook available on Lulu.
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