February 14, 2010

The Easiest Way to Sell Ebooks Online!

List all the subjects that interest you and/or that you know something about. Using that list, do some keyword research online (there are tools for this that are free to use) to identify a niche that has some demand. This could be people looking for a training manual for dogs or an ebook on how to build a survival shelter.

The intersection of one of your interests and a provable market is ideal. The “big boys” will tell you to forget your passion and go where the most money is, but in my experience (ebooks are a smaller part of our business, but I still do five figures in profits from them every year), it helps to have some interest in what you are writing about and promoting. It makes maintaining your enthusiasm and work schedule easier.

Write an ebook of at least 60 pages and publish it as a PDF. There are free ways to do this if you don’t want to buy the software. Be sure to include the ten bits of information that are likely to be most important to your audience as well as those that are least likely to already be known by them. Ask yourself if you would buy the book (try to be objective).

Start a website and build at least a dozen pages of useful information. Some of these can be excerpts taken directly from your ebook. End every page by promoting your ebook and linking to the order/sales page – usually the homepage. Read all the free content online that teaches you how to write sales copy, write and rewrite your sales page until it looks as professional and seems as convincing as others that make you want to buy something.

Sign up with a Affiliate Network like Click2Sell, so your sales will be handled for you. You’ll get money straight to your PayPal, Moneybookers or any other Merchant account. Now you are ready to sell ebooks online. Of course you need to get visitors to your site (and if only one out of 300 buys your book you need to work on that sales page some more). Getting traffic is perhaps the most important part of “how to sell ebooks”.

I generate all the free traffic I need using several methods, The primary way I use is to write short articles and distribute them through free article directories. People can read them there and click through to my site, or webmasters can take them and use them as content on their sites, increasing my exposure and traffic. Traffic matters, because even if you only convert on in every 200 visitors into buyers it adds up when you have many hundreds of visitors daily.

The steps I just laid out will costs you less than $100 assuming you already have a computer and internet access. In fact, you can even save the cost of a website if you use a free blog as your primary promotional tool. This is a great way to get started, and later you can learn how to sell ebooks on a larger scale.

January 24, 2010

How to Sell Ebooks?

If you ask an internet marketer who makes tens of thousands of dollars daily a simple question „how to sell ebooks online?“, he may lay out the subsequent steps for you to follow. First, get a product to sell, whether your own or someone else’s ebook. Charge it high to increase its supposed value, and then offer it a discounted price that is still expensive. After all you only have to sell 20 ebooks per day to have almost $7,000 in sales each week if you have a $49 ebook.

Get a good looking website. Pay at least a few hundred dollars to have a nice site built for you. Pay a good copywriter a few thousand dollars or so to create a good sale’s page for you. You can pay optimization experts to create incoming links or else make your site visible in the search engines. Pay a few hundred dollars for articles you can put your name on and pay to have those distributed to promote you site. Finally, pay for a bunch of traffic from a pay-per-click advertising service in order to test the “conversion rate” of your sales page.

If less than 2% of visitors are buying your ebook (conversion rate is below 2%), revamp the sales page and check again. Once you get at least two in every one hundred visitors buying (a 2% conversion rate), you’re ready for the launch. Now you need help contacting other webmasters and marketers who can help to promote your ebook. You may pay a 50% commission or even higher. You need affiliates to promote your ebook to their most likely large mailing lists. If all is done right, on “launch day” 150 orders will roll in for sales of over $10,000. You might do $50,000 for the week.

There is more to it than this, but you get the idea. It is expensive to start this way. That isn’t to say that you shouldn’t do it. Marketing at this level is a learnable skill in part. But don’t believe that it is a step-by-step formula that you can succeed with on the first try. That’s very unlikely. There is a science to sell ebooks online, and there is an art. People want to ignore the “art” part of all businesses because it comes from experience, which can take a lot of time and money.

May 30, 2009

Sell products online using Youtube

As you've already have read there are various ways to sell products online. You can use blogs, your own website, write articles and submit them to directories, participate in forums and use signature with your website link and promotion. Affiliates can join reliable affiliate networks. It very easy to start promoting downloadable products. One of the ways to sell products online is use your affiliate link and put it on YouTube. You can take a look at Red Faction Guerrilla gameplay video:



As you can see there there is a link to XBox360-downloads.com website. You may ask how and what kind of product is promoted there? The answer is:
Promoted product - membership site for Xbox 360 game downloads (you pay one time fee and get lifetime access to www.Everything4360.com)
Used Click2Sell affiliate network

www.Everything4360.com owner signed up at Click2Sell and put his membership website affiliate program in Click2Sell online marketplace. As affiliate I started promoting his website and got my affiliate link (http://regimantas.everything4eve.click2sell.eu). As using directly affiliate link is very inconvenient, I bought a domain www.xbox360-downloads.com. In domain hosting account i set up domain forwarding to my affiliate link http://regimantas.everything4eve.click2sell.eu. This means that if someone types in his internet browser - www.xbox360-downloads.com, he is forwarded to affiliate link http://regimantas.everything4eve.click2sell.eu. Click2Sell system puts a cookie into visitor's browser and redirects visitor to www.Everything4360.com. If the visitor buys a membership, then i get a commission. So the main idea to sell products online is to drive traffic into promoted website using your cloaked affiliate link. Then you can make videos with some promotional text and hope that some guy who watched your video will type your domain into browser, get into your affiliated website and buy membership :)

April 19, 2009

Sell Software Online easily!

Sell Software Online with Click2Sell and watch your profits skyrocketing!

Have you created unique software with some useful and user friendly features? Then perhaps you already have thought about different ways to get money for it. Yes, indeed, you have good chances to make huge money by selling software online. You just need to choose the right partners which could help you to sell software online. I can recommend Innovative Affiliate Network, which will help you succeed and make your life easy! Just in few minutes from now you could be collecting payments for your own software. There are very easy steps to do this:


You add your software product to Click2Sell system and place a simple „Buy Now“ button link on your website.
From this moment you will be able to accept payments from your customers directly to your Paypal, Google Checkout, Moneybookers, WorldPay, Authorize.net or other merchant accounts.
All the payments will be deposited instantly to your merchant account and you will have access to money immediately after each sale.
After successful payment Click2Sell will instantly deliver your Software to the buyer.
"Software Download Protection“ will protect your software files from unauthorized user access.
Download links will automatically expire after 72 hours.
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Be free to customize your software checkout pages.

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October 18, 2008

Different ways to sell products online

Selling products online is becoming more and more essential to our businesses. As in traditional brick and mortar businesses sales growth is slowing down because of various economical factors and recent global economy crisis, online advertising and sales is still growing. And this is very important for anyone who tries to sell something. The idea of selling products on internet seems very attractive not only because you can get sales while you‘re sleeping, but also because of affiliated sales. Of course, this is not always the case especially if you have just started promoting your product, because affiliates should find your product and get interested in promoting it. There are still a lot of things that you need to do to get your product or service listed to the online market. Selling of products can be done in several ways. In fact, there are so many ways that you will have no excuse for not succeeding in the business you want to venture in.


One way of selling products online is by joining some widely known companies as amazon.com. You can list as many items as you wish to sell and for every sale, you give the site a percentage of it. So, there is mutual relationship. They help you and you help them.


Another way is through auction sites such as eBay where you can post your products and allow people to bid for how much a product will be bought for.


Of course, you can set up your own online store. However, this may cost you some money. You will have to spend for registering a domain name, website hosting, software for e-commerce, website development and maintenance, internet access among many others. You also need to hire a professional to work on your website design and everything else that is needed. A lot of time and effort is required if you choose this option.


More easier way is to sign up on reliable affiliate network and place your product into its online marketplace. Affiliate networks have a lot of affiliates who are looking for interesting, valuable products to sell online. When your product appears on the marketplace affiliates will immediately start promoting your product and you'll start getting sales. Of course, affiliates are not working for free - they'll promote your product for a certain commission rate from your sales. But anyway - if you sell nothing, you pay nothing, so you have nothing to loose. You can find more information how to sell products online at Click2Sell affiliate network website. Even more - if your product's affiliate program has attractive conditions for affiliates, it can easily get into Top 5 Affiliate Programs at Click2Sell.EU. This way you'll have best selling product, because affiliates love promoting good products and programs which are listed on Top lists!


Another way is through direct mail. Today it has become almost impossible to make use of email to introduce your product to prospective buyers because of spam filters. However, there is actually an option to buy or rent a mailing list that will help you reach potential customers. Good idea is to look at good internet marketers websites or blogs and ask them to make your product‘s review and publish to his/her subscribers. It may be a good deal.


Selling products using blog – if you have one, you can actually make use of it to advertise a product or products that you want to sell. You just have to build traffic to your blog so to make sure that your product is being viewed. Get more subscribers as much as possible. You may also use your blog to inform people about your product.


Ezines could also work for you. If you can make quality write-ups about your product or service, submit them to any popular ezine sites. It can also help if you write about other interesting and unique topics. Just make sure that you have your signature box ready with your product name, URL and a brief description. By writing free informative information that might be of interest to more people, you are at the same time promoting yourself and your expertise to thousands of online business persons online. You will build credibility and they will trust that your products are good. In any case you should decide wich way to go and using which strategy start selling products online.