Internet Marketing with E-books
E-books are one of the best and cheapest forms of merchandise available on the Internet today. We are now in the information age and everyone is reading books and using the Internet for information, after all what is the Internet for? Finding out the answers to questions and there is no better opportunity than providing these answers in the form of an e-book. E-books have no overheads so you could sell over 10000 books and all the revenue you generate is pure profit, its nothing less than amazing selling something which cost you nothing!
E-books with resale rights are an excellent source of income. You can buy or acquire an e-book for free, there are a lot of websites that have promotions for free e-books, try doing a Google Search for free e-books, some sites will have whole sections for free, also try signing up for site newsletters that offer you free e-books as a joining incentive (we will look at newsletter generators later.) When you have your e-books you can sell them to others for 100% profit, that is the beauty of resale rights and digital products you can reproduce your stock as many times as you like for free (no overheads.) A good step forward to generating profits is to own your own e-book website. Better still is having your own e-book website with your own written books available to buy. Writing and selling your own e-books is paramount to a successful e-book business. If you can think of a good idea for an e-book then do it! Sell it on after all you may be on for a winner and sell thousands. If you look on e-bay now you will find e-books everywhere and because most of these have resale rights these books are being sold by more than one person. Most e-books are being sold by quite a few people you may notice that sellers are selling some e-books with the same titles. Someone wrote these books and every e-book sold is a link to the author whoever sells the e-book. These e-books are not just on eBay I have also seen them all over the Internet. The beauty of it all is that this e-book links back to one place and one place only the authors links, so everyone that reads this e-book will be taken to a website/sales page where ultimately more sales are generated. Writing your own e-book does take a little time and effort, however the results are well worth it for obvious reasons, links and money. First of all start with a simple word document like this one, write your e-book on your chosen subject then use a software converter. You can convert a word document into either .exe or PDF. Opinions vary on the format but I prefer PDF. You can acquire some free/trial software at:
http://exebook.com/ .exe e-book software
http://www.docudesk.com/ PDF Free trial
http://www.download.com/ has various e-book compilers
As I have explained writing your own e-book and having your own e-book website is a major step up the Internet marketing ladder. You can write an ebook on any subject you like because there is always someone who will read it, of course some topics sell better than others but once the e-book is written and has been sold it will be sold again and again (viral marketing) by others who wish to make a profit from selling e-books. This is where your website hyperlinks come into play! If you assume that your written e-book is being sold
by 100 people/websites around the world and each of these people/websites has 10 sales a day that's another 1000 e-books sold per day that link back to your website. These links back to your website happen because in the contents of your e-book is a hyperlink to your website and if you advertise your link as something like “FREE E-BOOKS” the reader of your e-book will click on your link which will lead to more traffic and more sales from your website. The process then starts all over again because you have just sold an e-book which links back to your website, this also gives the buyer the opportunity to resell the e-book they have just purchased to others to make a return profit or give the e-book away. Whoever receives the e-book also clicks on the free e-books hyperlinks which links back to your website. So eventually the e-books you do sell will spread like a virus and will be passed from person to person and website to website all over the world.
E-books without Resale Rights
E-books without resale rights usually sell for a lot more than e-books with resale rights. This is due to the availability of the e-book, layout, and the information that is supplied. Resale rights e-books are everywhere because they have resale rights. E-books without resale rights are usually very good ebooks they are content rich and also very informative and well written. Ebooks without resale rights still work in the same ways as e-books with resale
rights for example:
1. They all advertise ways of creating more revenue for the author
2. They can all have affiliate links incorporated in them
However with non resale rights e-books, if you have information that is highly sort after and does contain market value then writing and selling an e-book without resale rights can be extremely lucrative. One of the major suppliers of non resale rights e-books is ClickBank. E-books that start their lives on ClickBank usually sell for around $50 and they all have an affiliate program (I will talk about affiliates soon) and a sales page. If you are going to buy an e-book for $50 dollars you would not just buy it on the strength of a brief description would you? To part with $50 dollars I want to read what the book is about and why I should buy it. That's why a Killer sales page is required in situations like this, so building the perfect sales page is a must when selling e-books especially ones for a lot of money. When the potential customer reads your sales page you want them to need to buy your product like their lives depended on it, you want then to think that if they miss out on this opportunity they will regret it. It does not matter what product you are selling if your sales page is a winner then so are you! Obviously if you sell someone crap then they will never buy from you again, but the sales page is the gateway to the sale so it has to be a winner. If you don't know how to properly construct a sales page get a reputable marketing company to write the sales copy for you .
Affiliate programs
Affiliate programs are an advertiser's way of generating revenue through the use of other companies/people. We will use ClickBank for example, when an e-book is submitted to ClickBank it is submitted with a sales page and an affiliate program. The affiliate program will offer the opportunity for others to sell the product and in return a percentage of the sale price is given to the affiliate. If you take this book for example if you were to submit it to ClickBank and offer a 49% commission to all affiliates who sold it, affiliates would sign up to the ClickBank affiliate program and find this book in the lists of e-books and a hyperlink would be issued with a personalized ClickBank ID integrated inside the link. Place the personalized link on a website, in e-books or generally anywhere that the advertiser would think that will generate traffic. The personalized link will direct the customer to the sales page of this e-book. If they read it and buy the e-book you will receive 51% commission. So if 1000 people sell your e-book for you that's $25.50 x 1000 = $25,500 which is quite a nice little earner for writing an e-book. Joining affiliate programs on Clickbank and promoting other peoples e-books is even easier than writing your own e-book. Being an affiliate is easy money for very little work it is that simple. Can you now imagine how much money you would have made if you were an advertising affiliate of this e-book? 49% commission earned from every sale, say you sell 1000 that's $24.50 x 1000 = $24,500 for only advertising and selling one guys e-book “WOW” now can you see the importance of affiliates in Internet Marketing. Here is a list of some of the top affiliate program companies. Please take some time to join and browse as these affiliate companies have thousands of affiliate partners. I think you will be quite amazed at which companies you can actually be related to: http://www.cj.com/ Commission Junction has some of the best affiliate programs available. http://clickbank.com/ As mentioned above, ClickBank offers commission on all types of e-books from independent Authors. http://www.linkshare.com/ Some excellent companies to choose from here.
These are but a few of the affiliate companies out there, you can also become affiliates of stand alone companies for example 888.com have an excellent affiliate program 1 and 1 Internet hosting also have a good program.
No matter which companies/programs you join you will always make money from affiliates and your revenue will always grow. If you were to write an e-book about hair loss for example then in the e-book you may want to place a resources page somewhere in the contents. On this resources page place your affiliate advertiser's link, which you acquired from Commission Junction, affiliate future, ClickBank and so on. Then as discussed earlier sell your book with resale rights and wait for the commission to come in!
It's that simple. Take advantage of all the ways you can use affiliates and it will pay off.
