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11:13 am
June 26, 2013
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UberSteward
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3 months into blogging and I'm bit frustrated and restless. I'm writing as much as I can on whatever that comes to mind, but I'm not sure if I'm doing everything that I'm suppose to do to maximize my outcome.
For now, I'm almost done with 2 ebooks (Biblical Time Management & Biblical Personal Finance in 30s) and I need your advises on what to do with them. Below are few options I'm looking into.
- Give one of them out for an exchange for their email address
- Put them up on kindle and sell it for $0.99 (I heard mixed advices on this)
- Sell an eBook on my site
- chop them up to many postings and design a email series
- ???
What would be best and how would you use them?
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1:30 am
June 27, 2013
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The College Investor
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Don't sell anything until you have a solid base of readers that want to buy. You'll be even more frustrated (trust me).
I would do the following (I'm assuming your eBooks are amazing 10k+ words, pictures/graphics, etc.):
1. Make 1 eBook a free giveaway for a newsletter subscription
2. Use the other eBook as an epic guest post on the biggest Christian blog you can find
If you want to talk more strategy, email me, I'm happy to help with your thought process.
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7:04 am
June 27, 2013
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jonrhodesuk
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Another good tactic you could look into is adding some affiliate links within the e book. If you give it away and it becomes popular, you should then be able to make some cash back that way. You could even write to sites in your niche and give them permission to give it away too. This also helps get your name out there.
There is no right or wring really. But you probably will struggle to sell many if you are not that well known. If you feel your book is REALLY good, you could try and send it to a few publishers and see if they'll give you a publishing deal. There's so many things you can do with them, it just depends on what exactly you want.
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7:38 am
June 29, 2013
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Edward Antrobus
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Well, as a (metaphorical) hammer salesman, this problem looks like a nail to me.
First of all, I'd say that if you are going to start gathering email addresses, you better have a newsletter or some sort of content to send. There are plenty of competing theories as to how often to publish a newsletter, but if the first one comes out 6 months after they gave you their email address, they are going to forget they ever signed up and unsubscribe or even mark it as spam.
I'm a big fan of the route of launching on Amazon first with their KDP Select program which gives them 90 days of exclusivity and in return, you will get 5 days to give the book away for free to jumpstart its rankings and get some reviews (but you still have to make sure you promote it) and also get paid about a book whenever an Amazon Prime member borrows it. After the 90 days up, you could stay in Select and get another 5 free days per 90 period, or you can leave Select and, in the words of Pat Flynn, be everywhere. Sell it on B&N, Kobo, Smashwords (and through Smashwords, you can get listed on Sony Connect and iBookstore), your own site. Once I've got it my e-publishing site put back together, I can even list it on there.
But if you are going to do anything more advanced than giving away a pdf, I'd recommend getting it professionally converted. If you are comfortable with HTML, then you could do it yourself with a copy of the Amazon Publishing Guidelines and the free ebook software Sigil.
Also, if you do go the Amazon route, they don't allow any affiliate links. What I recommend to my clients instead is to create a resources page on their site and link to that in the book. This has an added advantage that you can change the links in the future as affiliate offers change or go dark or new products are offered.
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8:22 am
June 30, 2013
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UberSteward
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Thank you very much for the meaty response guys, really appreciate them.
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5:14 pm
September 23, 2013
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divya
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I have worked with eBooks in various ways, all of which have given me great results:
1) Added advertising in the eBook and offered it for free. The advertising pertained to content and customers were happy to opt in and sign up for various programs.
2) Had an advertiser offer my eBook as a reward for their promotional offer. Advertiser paid $x for every book download.
3) Broken the eBook up for content. If the customer was willing to pay $x for the full book they could do so at anytime.
There are a multitude of ways to work with eBooks. Would love to hear what you've been working on.
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8:41 pm
September 23, 2013
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martin
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Here's what I would do: pay someone to turn it into a real book on Amazon. Use the content as guest posts to spread the word. Build back links/get exposure for your new product.
My book is on here : http://www.amazon.com/Start-Freelancing-Now-Martin-Dasko/dp/1479340057/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1354514657&sr=8-2&keywords=martin+dasko
You can also offer the pdf version in exchange for email.
All that matters is that you have the content done.
Congrats! 
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9:05 am
September 24, 2013
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MonicaOnMoney
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Post edited 9:06 am – September 24, 2013 by MonicaOnMoney
I really like the idea of giving away the ebook to your subscribers. If they like it, there's a good chance they'll keep reading your blog anyway. I tend to agree that selling the ebook, unless you're really popular, is probably not the best use of it. I personally don't have any ebooks right now, but I've been looking into how others have done it and I'm very interested.
Monica
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