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Ebook Strategies: How to Sell More Ebooks

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Want to make more money selling your ebook? You can double your profits from your ebook just by selling more copies — this is commonsense. What if you could sell ten copies a day instead of ten a week or a month?

 

1. Get the Word out: Find Additional Ways to Promote the Product

The key to selling more copies is to get your ebook in front of more potential customers. The more people who know that your ebook is available, the better your chances of selling additional copies.

 

Many ebook publishers do this by joining affiliate programs. What no one ever tells you however is that most affiliate networks sell a lot of a few very popular products. The majority of the book sellers don’t make any money at all from joining an affiliate network.

 

Therefore spend time and energy looking for additional ways in which you can promote your product yourself. Consider both free and paid methods.

 

2. Invest in the Ebook: Buy Advertising

If you want to sell more, you have to advertise more. Think of large companies which spend millions of dollars every year in advertising. They wouldn’t spend this money if it wasn’t utterly necessary. So if you’ve avoiding spending money on advertising now is the time to create a Pay Per Click campaign.

 

3. Boost Sales With a “Free” Version

This is an old tactic but when it’s used correctly it’s an extremely good one.

 

You boost to sales when you offer a free version of your ebook as a short report. This gets people onto your email list. If they won’t buy your ebook the first time they hear about it, maybe they’ll buy it in the future. Once they’re on your email list of course, you’ve got the opportunity to sell additional products.

 

4. Offer a Hard Copy Version

Many people still prefer to read away from the computer screen. There are many companies which will turn your ebook into a print book.

 

5. Turn Your Ebook Into a Course

Almost any ebook can be turned into a course. If you don’t want to do this yourself you can outsource production of your course. You may find that many people who buy your ebook, also buy your course.

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January 17th, 2009 at 7:55 am

Ebooks: Provide solutions, and sell more

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Selling ebooks is a popular way of making money online, because many people go online in order to find solutions to their problems. 

 

When you provide your Web site visitors solutions with your ebooks, you’ll sell more. But how do you know what solutions to provide? 

 

You start by thinking about problems. There are an endless number of problems people have – they’re overweight, they’re over their credit card limit, they want a job or a better job, and on and on.

 

Your problem-solving ebooks can provide solutions in an endless variety of areas. Often, ideas for ebooks will come from your own experiences.

 

Write and sell ebooks based on your own experiences

For example, let’s say that you’re thinking about buying a digital camera so you can take photos at a relative’s wedding. A good digital camera is expensive, and it occurs to you that people who buy digital cameras may be looking for solutions to making money with their camera.

 

So you research whether “making money with your digital camera” is a real problem people have. This would fit under the general category of “make money from home”. Many people do have the problem of not having enough money, so that ebook has potential.

 

Think solutions, not ebook niches (topics)

In Internet marketing, “niches” has become a popular term. You can easily waste time looking for fresh niches in which you can write and sell ebooks. However, unless your ebooks solve problems, they won’t sell. 

 

Where to find problems people have

There are many places you can find out what problems people have for which they’ll buy an ebook solution.

Try:

 

* Bookstores – the Health and Self Help sections are crammed with books which provide solutions to problems;

 

* Magazines – many magazines provide solutions to their readers’ problems. Don’t forget to scan the advertisements. Millions are spent on researching people’s needs for products and services;

 

* Asking your friends and relatives about their problems.

 

When you start to think about the solutions you can provide people, you’ll sell more ebooks. Start today. Everyone has problems – you can provide solutions with your ebooks.

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January 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pm