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There are plenty of books you could take to the woodshed with you, but it should be something thick, daunting, and contain thousands of fretboard diagrams, tabs, and little black dots. This is where the Guitar Grimoire series comes in. If you’re not familiar with the series, there are various tomes covering chords, scales, modes, improvisation, and even fingerpicking. You’re presented with almost the entire gamut of possibilities as far as the guitar goes. These books are by no means for the faint-hearted as most weigh in at around an inch thick. I started out with the tome, which contains just about every scale under the sun and then some. I love the book, and it makes for a great reference guide, but you’re left wondering how on earth you’d go about actually learning all the information. This is where the comes in. At first glance you might dismiss this book as a bunch of mindless woodshedding exercises, but look beyond the pages and pages of little black dots and you’ll see some very cleverly put together exercises indeed. The book is divided into four sections: 1. Major Scales All the exercises in this book are presented in F but you’re also given the basic diagrams for all the other keys, and since everything is movable, you shouldn’t have too much trouble applying it to other keys. The first section has you practicing the F Major Scale in three-note-per-string (3NPS) patterns, but the important thing here is the picking: author Kadmon advises that you use economy picking, which means when going from low to high strings you change strings on a downstroke, and when going from high to low strings you change on an upstroke. I was happy because this is the picking technique I’ve been using for a number of years; so far so good. Also included in this section are the coil exercises. These are scalar patterns in coils of three and four notes, each with their own specific up and down picking patterns. I can’t emphasize how great these exercises are for your technique; your hands will hurt—but in a good way! Once you get the picking down, you’ll be able to execute those fast scale runs with consummate ease, and without really thinking. Pentatonics The second section looks at pentatonic scales—the minor pentatonic to be precise—and it’s here that we change to alternate picking, which makes sense as there are only ever two notes per string. Interestingly enough, the picking directions Kadmon suggests here are the exact same ones exposed by Troy Grady as regards Eric Johnson’s picking technique. Again, these exercises are fantastic for your speed and overall technique. In a matter of hours, I was ripping out pentatonic runs that I’d struggled with before. Chord Run Exercises Kadmon calls the third section Chord Run Exercises, which are basically four-note chord shapes played up and down the fretboard. They’re not really arpeggios in the strictest sense of the word, but they do exercise your hands in ways you never thought possible. My first guitar teacher made me do exercises like these, so it was nice to come across them again, though obviously much more in-depth. Chromatic Exercises As Kadmon explains, these are not true chromatic exercises because they don’t contain all the notes of the chromatic scale; what they do contain are over 100 different chromatic-style exercises using blocks of four notes per string across the fretboard. Some you’ve probably seen before, but some will really exercise your hands in ways you never imagined. Bonus Grimoire Combo If the almost 250 pages of the aren’t enough woodshedding material for you, then you can combine the exercises with the 3NPS and pentatonic scale patterns from the Guitar Grimoire. What you’ll end up with is several lifetimes worth of woodshedding material, and most likely technique to die for into the bargain. What’s the Verdict? As far as hardcore woodshed material goes, this is pretty good. I noticed a huge improvement in my overall technique after about two weeks of doing the exercises almost daily. Admittedly, I wasn’t in there for 8 hours a day with endless cups of coffee, but I did put a fair amount of time in and saw some very noticeable results. The exercises will also strengthen your knowledge of the major scale and pentatonic patterns, though you’ll get much more out of the exercises if you’re already familiar with them. Overall, if it’s better technique you’re after, the is a must-have. RECOMMENDED FOR YOU.
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Quick steps for creating an eBook Let’s start by taking a look at the quick steps that are involved in creating an eBook and then we’ll go into some huge details below: • Research your target audience and topic • Ensure you have the right editing program • Write, edit and proofread your eBook • Add images, graphics and create cover art • Upload it to your blog or hosting platform for automatic delivery • Promote it everywhere Of course I am going to miss out on something so if you get stuck please and let me know what I’ve forgotten and I’ll do my best to help you out. For some (but not all!) of these tips it helps to have in order to get the best results and take advantage of certain programs and software. Disclosure –This post contains some affiliate links. I’ll let you know which ones they are below. If you purchase a product through one of those links I will earn a commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend services I’ve used and love. Thank you for the support! ![]() Why make an eBook? If you are reading this post it is likely that you already know the benefits of making an eBook so I won’t go in to too much detail. Some of the reasons all internet marketers and bloggers should make an eBook are: • Get pre-loyal subscribers If you want to make money you need loyal subscribers. And one of the best ways to in order to introduce them to your material is to give them a free eBook as a “bribe”. • Increase your exposure Those little PDF files are super easy to share and you will often find that people send them on to their friends who then get introduced to your stuff. Also, they tend to sit on people’s desktop for longer than a post or a web article and as such you have multiple chances to get them to read it. • Add a new revenue stream Many people think that the big bloggers just make money on their blogs. A lot of their income often comes from a combination of having tied to a successful eBook. Oh, did I mention you can sell the darn things? All these things are possible if you know what you are doing. Remember, the eBook market is extremely saturated so you need to do something extremely good. The good news is that as the tablet and smart phone market grows, so does the demand for PDF file eBooks. Step 1: Research your target market The first step on the how to make an eBook journey is to take a careful look at who you are pitching it to. Knowing this information is like knowing which person in a crowd is Waldo. You have to know what he looks like, what he’s wearing and why he might be looking for you. Unless you know your target market well you are essentially shooting blind. NOTE: This is the first step if you have an existing blog. If you want to make an eBook first and then build up promotional material around it you would do step two first. A) Get Market Samurai One of the best things you will ever buy as an internet marketer or blogger is. It will cost you $90 or so but it will make you thousands and save you just as much in wasted time. However, if you don’t want to make a purchase some of the following research can be done with. B) Look for popular keywords in Google/Clicky Analytics, and competitors The next thing you want to do is log in to and look at the popular keywords and search phrases that people are using to find your blog. Which posts are most popular? You can then take some time to look at your competitors on Google and see what posts are most popular for them. This gives us a good idea about useful keywords. C) Use Market Samurai to analyze traffic levels The next thing you want to do is input those keywords in to Market Samurai and find out if any other related keywords could perform better. For example, when I was researching the title of this article I found out that “make an eBook” gets slightly more searches than “create an eBook” and so I decided to target that instead. Over time these little bits of information can make or cost you a lot of money. D) Find out who they are Now you want to take that information and think about who these people are. Research this information wherever you can. Think about their age, sex and location. Think about their income levels and career paths. Most importantly, think about how you can write an eBook that will help them. Step 2: Come up with a killer topic and title Once you have narrowed down your target market you want to come up with a topic and a title that will absolutely blow people away and solve their problems. To do this it needs to have an original edge on a very relevant topic. E) It’s about you as much as them One important thing to realize is that making a good eBook is as much about you as it is your target audience. Because you are the one that is writing it, promoting it, selling it and believing in it. Unless you have a passionate and knowledgeable interest in the thing you are going to fail before you start. Don’t make an eBook about puppy training unless you know enough to help people and then love it enough to push it for the next five years. F) Personalize it The best eBooks are the ones that share a personal experience about a very common topic. Because it adds authority. Authority is very important when it comes to books and articles because you need to show potential readers and customers that you are experienced enough to know what you are talking about. Let’s take the example of making money online. Let’s say you write an eBook called How to Make a Million Dollars Per Year. Now, if you make a million dollars per year and think you can teach others how to do the same then that is a very good book to write. If, however, you have never made that money yourself then you really have no authority on the topic. And people will smell it a mile off. So, whatever topic you choose to write on, make sure you have a personalized angle attached to it. This is very important. G) Make the title specific Specific titles work best. It doesn’t matter whether it is a book or a blog post. For example, I wrote a post called that hit the front of Delicious and went on to even get picked up by some newspapers. If I had called it How to Sell a Blog I don’t think it would have done nearly as well. Make your title specific. Step 3: Write the eBook and make it pretty So now you have to write your eBook and format it so that it is all pretty. This is where the magic happens and, unless you know what you are doing, the obstacles. H) Use Open Office to write it Now, this will probably be contested by a lot of you but I have found to be the best program to write eBooks. Because it is totally free and has an excellent selection of features. For example, it allows you to instantly convert your regular.doc file to a.pdf and it also has a massive range of really nice fonts to choose from. If you have a new version of Microsoft you can probably do all of this stuff but please do not go out and buy anything for the purpose of eBook writing. I) Start with an end result and work backwards People are downloading your eBook because they want to figure out how to do something. For this reason you should start with the end result that they are looking for and work your way backwards. Sometimes I will write the contents page first because it gives me a good plan. Other times I will just write like crazy and worry about the format later. It doesn’t matter as long as you are systematically getting people closer to achieving their goals. J) Use two types of headers and lots of paragraphs, lists and breaks Have a look at all of my posts here on Blog Tyrant. They have two types of headers (main and sub) and they have lots of lists and paragraphs. The reason for this is because people hate digesting large lumps of content. While is getting more popular, it needs to be formatted in a scan-able way. K) Get some really good images Over the years I have tried so many different and the two best solutions I have found are and taking/making my own. Remember, when using photos you need to make sure you purchase the correct license and get permission. You also want to avoid stock photography that has been used thousands of times before. If you are really specific about what you want photos of or if you need your own product in there somewhere then you are going to have to hire your own photographer. And this is expensive. You’re usually looking at between $500 and $3000 for a full day’s shoot. Taking the photos yourself on the family camera is never a good idea because they generally look really amateurish. L) Use a safe, well-proven font and simple colors Sometimes I download eBooks and wonder whether the author/designer was blind. You really only need to use a simple font like Arial, Verdana or Georgia at size 14 or 16 and then a simple color scheme like black with one other. Don’t go overboard when it comes to this stuff! Less is always more in the design field. You should also avoid bright reds for text as it looks spammy. M) Get it proofread, and not by your mom The next step is to get your eBook proofread by someone who is not afraid to give you harsh feedback. Think professional writers or other people in your industry. The point is not so much to find spelling mistakes (although that is important) but to figure out whether it is solving problems, coherent, etc. You really need someone to be able to give you the hard truths about your writing style and execution of ideas. N) Make an eBook cover to use on your site A really important part of the process here is to have to promote your PDF file. Here’s my latest updated one: These things are great because they increase the perceived value of the product by making it seem like something solid. Of course, its just a PDF file and not a real book, but by giving it a graphical representation people will feel like it is worth more. I highly recommend getting a designer on to make you something professional. Remember, this is going to represent your whole brand. Step 4: Convert to a PDF file and give it away This final step is the part where the eBook baby is born. Now, I am not going to talk about how to sell an eBook because I really believe it giving them away for free. But if you want to learn about landing pages and sales have a look. O) Convert to a PDF file All eBooks are in PDF format. Because they are universally recognized by Macs and PCs alike and work on all eBook readers. They also provide a consistent output. This is important. When you save a DOC file and send it to your friends chances are everyone will see something different. Not with a PDF. They all look the same. This means your design and formatting work won’t go to waste. If you are using Open Office you just need to go FILE > EXPORT AS PDF and then select your settings. P) Choosing the right settings Now, you want to make sure you select the right zoom levels because sometimes it will save blurry. I saved my Blog Tyrant eBook at 120% because this was smoothest. It will all depend on your graphics and logos and how well you have created and saved them in Illustrator or Photoshop. Sometimes it is a good idea to get advice on this issue. You also want to save it at a high quality level as long as this doesn’t mean the file size gets too big. Try to keep it below 1MB if you can. Q) Give it away in exchange for email subscriptions The next step is to set up a system where people get delivered the eBook for free when they enter their email address in to your subscription form. I have done an instruction video on so I won’t go through all the steps again other than to say that it’s easy to do with. R) Promote your eBook Promoting your eBook is actually the bulk of the work. I highly recommend you follow to help you understand the relationship between your website, mailing list and a successful eBook. Simply put, the idea is to create quality content on your site and other sites that drives relevant traffic back to your eBook’s landing page. It’s called a sales funnel and works extremely well. What have I missed? If you have made an eBook before and have some tips to share please leave a comment below and let me know. I would really like to make this post a nice little resource for people starting out on the eBook creation road. Similarly, if you have any questions for me drop a comment and I will do my best to answer them. Hi, First of all, well done. You’ve given people the main stuff they need to know as promised. One particularly good point is the one about editing. Not too long ago, many info-marketers seemed to have the idea that digital wasn’t expected to be the same as print as far as quality and there were some really poor products/ebooks out there. That simply isn’t the case. No matter what the format, print or digital, your work reflects you and your business, so unless you want to be perceived as sloppy, make sure it is edited well. As far as what could be added to your list, I may get some disagreement here, but I say do not to try to call something of 10-20 pages an ebook as has also been done repeatedly over the years in internet marketing. With the advent of Kindle etc. And the explosion of novels and other “traditional” books going digital, more and more people are familiar with the term ebook. With that come the general perceptions of document length. Generally, 35+ pages gets into short book territory (think kids’ books), something shorter than that is a report (think of offline biz documents). There’s a lot of confusion in the realm of books and publishing these days and in what a book’s value is. My belief is why add to all that noise if it’s possible to avoid it? Ebooks are definitely a great tool in the marketing toolbox, let’s all work to make sure they hold their value. I agree that results are key, however, identifying appropriately I think ties into the trust factor and that’s important too. Even if I love the results of a 10 page document, I’d still wonder why it was called a book if I envision a book to be something longer. Along the same line, if a book was promised and I didn’t get it (got what I feel is a report instead), I’d have questions as to why not. For example, if that promise wasn’t fulfilled, what else won’t be if I continue to do business with this person? If the request for an ebook is after an initial visit to a site/to entice for a sign up, I think we need to be very careful with that first impression. Something as simple as knowing what people expect and then delivering or over delivering, goes a long way in making it a good one. I kind of thought you dropped off the earth for a bit. Long time no update! I have to share my own experience. My ebook is VERY simple. It’s intentionally simple and bare bones because I want my readers to be able to print the document as a how to guide. So I made my ebook and just kind of let it sit there. It was working for me, but not making magic. Then when I was going through the process of my re-design, my designer mentioned that we needed to make my ebook pop more and make it more of a selling point. I don’t know, I guess it took HER believing in it for me to believe in it? So we created a little sidebar graphic and sign up form and OMGin less then a month I increased my subscribers by several thousand. Now I can’t credit that ALL to my ebook, because I have been running weekly subscription giveaways. But I do credit a lot of it to my ebook. Making it pretty and prominent made a huge difference. The feedback on the book itself (mine is just a PDF in Google Doc format that I made in Open Office) has been amazing. People email me almost daily telling me how much money I’ve saved them. So yeah, I am a HUGE fan of prettying up your ebooks and marketing them. Thanks for sharing this article BT! Parley Well, aside from my online dreams of money blogging, I’m also a CPA with a lot of QuickBooks experience. My thought for the blog was to scour the internet (google, bing, yahoo) for unanswered QuickBooks questions. Then, create a series of 5 min video tutorials with accompanying step by step text instructions. If I take your suggestion, then a micro-niche could be: Getting your QuickBooks Mobile for the book. I don’t have a lot of experience in that specific arena, but I can certainly handle the research. The money portion would probably be easiest as either remote QuickBooks support or leveraging the blog along with my QuickBooks affiliate account. I’m kind of thinking out loud here, so if it seems like I’m rambling, I really am. So here’s my only hesitation in giving away a free ebook or any other type of thing like that in exchange for an email subscriber. I really want an email list of people who are totally all about my topic (photography business tips). I worry that people will sign up for the free cookie and then not ever open anything ever again. While I’m sure you’ll retain some of them, especially since the blog topic will be related to the cookie (or that’s how I’d do it), I would think that’d you’d get a lot more less-loyal followers. I guess I’d rather have 200 followers who are loyal and LOVE everything we put out vs. 1000 followers who are marginally interested and might mark us as spam in the future (or something like that). At least one blog I’ve signed up for later sent me an inactivity notice when so long had gone by without my opening any of her posts. It gave me the option to let myself become unsubscribed or to click a link to keep my subscription active. Haven’t looked much into it yet, but my guess is that it’s an option through Aweber. You might try creating a series of autoresponders designed to engage new subscribers within the first few weeks/months of their subscription so they’re more likely to open content as it lands in their inbox. Maybe something to gently transition them from the subject of the ebook to the regular blog posts they receive. I see your logic and there are many ways of looking at it. Here’s my experience, though (and no not all my ebooks are free giveaways). The time when someone is most likely to really want to hear from you is immediately after they give you their email address. So look at it like this They might find your site through Google. Then perhaps a headline of yours catches their attention so they check out your blog. If your blog gets them to move from that “attention” point to “I want more” point (aka interest), then hopefully they will give you their email address in exchange for the extra juice offer you have on the side. This is the point where you have their MOST attention and can ask them to do something. They will be looking for that email coming to them. Now it’s your job as a blogger, internet marketer, web publisher, or whatever you call yourself, to blow their minds. You see, what you’re talking about here is that you’d rather have a small list of avid followers rather than a big list of so-so’s. You have to give yourself the chance to convert them from so-so’s to avid followers and the best time to do that is immediately after you did something to cause them to take action Like giving you their email address. And then if they drop off your list because it turns out they aren’t interested in you, then so be it, they probably wouldn’t have bought from you then anyway. But again, this doesn’t mean you have to give away every ebook, it’s just something some people do. There are other methods to get that optin as well. Thought I’d expand step 3: Create the ebook. Type up an outline: 1. Intro (your but about your background and the reason you wrote the ebook on the particular topic. Describe the problem you are solving (why it’s a problem, why it’s hard to solve, why solving it is possible). Break down the solution into several sections. (How to do A, how to do B, how to do C.) 4. Show how the sections A/B/C work together to solve problem. Summarize the problem and the solution and give links to added resources. This is a very brief outline. The idea is thisbreak down the ebook into sections that you’d expect to see if you were reading it. Then write those sections. Summarize and give added resources. In most digital mediums, color is tricky. Even if you proof a book digitally, the color on paper will often be slightly different. You basically need to know what device your reader will be using. If it’s PDF for example, I would think there will be variation in color from monitor to monitor. If you want to sell it for other devices, NookColor is one option, many others are B/W only. I know the discussion here is ebooks, but if you are showing a process, maybe a better option for you would be video. Creating video is no longer difficult and creating DVDs can be reasonable as well. I just had a thought. I’ve spent the last several months trying to think of what kind of ebook I could give away on my paranormal/conspiracy theory site and I think I might finally have it. One of my most popular posts is a list of 101 paranormal/metaphysical/conspiracy terms that I’ve defined in a sentence or two. What if I took those same 101 terms and instead wrote a couple of paragraphs about each – still enough to fill out an ebook, but not so complete that it would compete with a full-fledged book on the paranormal when I try to sell it later on. What do you think? Would it work? The idea of taking something you’ve already written, especially if it’s popular, and then building a product around it is solid. I had two posts on my blog which were SO popular I went ahead and designed an entire website around them. It was great because I highlighted those two articles on my site and set up a redirect so that people who found the articles in Google were redirected to that new site I built Can you say instant traffic! But here’s the problem it seems you’re having. It sounds like you have two niches going on and you’re writing to two similar but different groups. You might want to try a test and do something like I did. Then you can create products (or promote affiliate offers) to those highly targeted readers on each site. It does present some challenges though if you decide to take that route. For example, are you going to keep one or two twitter accounts? Facebook accounts? Always evaluate what you’ve got. Maybe you could do something like Tyrant said but put a spin on it for both your readers. “Warning: 10 Paranormal Conspiracy Theories That Will Change the Way You Travel”. Just some food for thought. I agree with John, if you have two distinct topics of interest, even if they are generally related, separating them is probably better. There are many marketers, experts etc. Who work in more than one niche. Yes, it requires multiple sites, but in order to attract a particular customer, you need to speak their language so they relate to you/the product. If you try to mix, you don’t really appeal to anyone enough to make them want to have a relationship with your site/purchase your product. I’ve seen people manage this kind of thing in two ways. If the topics are closely related, a central site like yourname.com is the hub and products etc. Live on separate landing pages. If the topics are unrelated, you can pick the most dominant one, use that identity on major social media, and then promote the other topic in more niche based ways. Then the goal is to make enough at it to hire a VA to keep everything straight:-). Thanks for the feedback y’all, but splitting out my topics to different sites isn’t an option I’m willing to explore. The two topics I mentioned – whether people are willing to admit it or not – are inextricably linked togetheras are the others I talk about on the site. There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to maintain a separate site on everything I talk about under the umbrella of dark/weird and I can’t say I have the interest to maintain that many sites even if there were. It’s not a primary website for me, just the one I’ve run the longest. I don’t think I ever expected to make a dime off it, but it doesn’t seem right to leave it there without a free giveaway. One of the best online ebook cover generators I’ve found is. Really easy to use. Also, as far as getting images into your ebook, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using images from Flickr, so long as you give photo credits. Simple and cheap. About marketing the ebook (okay a little off topic from creating one) I like the guest posting idea and it certainly works really well. For my last ebook launch I tried a different method. I flipped the funnel and instead of doing a ton of guest posting and article marketing to drive loads of traffic to my site (just speaking about the launch here), I gave away free copies of my ebook to key individuals who had a following already and asked them to sign up for the affiliate program and write up a quick post or email blast about it. The idea was that instead of “John Hoff” writing a guest post about what my ebook covered, why not have the person who’s blog I was targeting for traffic write up a quick review or note on my book. The reason was that this person has a list of followers who trust them already, not me. For example, I too did a and my optins spiked like crazy. But just imagine if I was able to get Brian to personally mention my book. I bet my optins would have been doubled. I’ve even asked people on my list, “What made you end up getting the ebook?” The most common response was, “Person X said I should check it out.” I guess what I’m saying is a good question to ask yourself before you do that guest post is to ask if it would be better to do the guest post so you can show everyone how you write and that you’re knowledgeable or ask the person instead to write up a post themselves about your product. Both ways have their advantages. Thanks for a great article. This is a great blogpost, and some great comments, there’s just one thing I want to add, as someone who writes these on a regular basis. Chris provided a good outline to use; it’s important to establish your credibility and say why people should listen to you and believe the information your’re giving, but the first section should really be a wiiftr – what’s in it for the reader. You can mix this with information about credentials, say what the information did for you – and then the important part is to say ‘therefore THIS is what the information in this ebook can do for YOU’. I’ve written e-books with and without this, and always found that putting the reason to read right up at the beginning makes a big difference. Advertisement I get very frustrated whenever I’m looking for legitimate ways to generate additional streams of income, and I come across those horrid get-rich-quick sales pages. You know the ones – where the author can’t seem to decide on a single font size, and every other word is in bold. All you have to do is sign up for their amazing program, or buy their astonishing sales kit, and you too can be earning many thousands of dollars each month. In my quest to write, sell and make money selling eBooks, I’ve waded through mountains of these scams, and I’m here to tell you that it is possible to make money from selling eBooks, but that success does not come overnight and not without a lot of hard work. In this article I’d like to offer a guide (a free oneimagine that!) that you can use to sell your eBooks. The first step is obviously writing an eBook. Don’t concern yourself too much with copyright. Thanks to the Digital Millenium Act of 1998, anything you generate and publish online is already legally copyrighted under your author name. However, it is true that enforcing that copyright could be somewhat difficult unless you do hold proof of copyright, so if you’re very concerned about someone stealing your work, then and pay the fee. If it sets your mind at ease, it’s well worth the cost. If you’re wondering what format you should write your eBook in, here at MakeUseOf, authors provided a number of excellent tools that can help you generate that first eBook. Saikat wrote about the to convert your eBook into iPod readable format. You’ve also probably read about the cool, or my favorite one,, which creates your PDF eBook in a format that most common readers can display. Another very good option is converting your Word document to PDF format, as Aibek described in his. Once you have your eBook in a format that you can sell, you’re ready to move on into marketing and selling your eBook. ![]() Make Money Selling eBooks Online Just Like Any Other Product I’ve mentioned some of my own eBay history in my past, and while my personal experiences as an eBay PowerSeller were not very easy, I do know that any product which you have an unlimited supply of and a high demand for do very well there. With that said, the eBooks that aren’t very in demand really don’t do well at all. The key, when you choose what topics to write about, is to choose eBook topics in the same way you would choose an online article topic – based on the demand for that topic and the availability of it throughout the net. The smartest thing to do when you go with eBay is to set up a seller store and post your eBooks in a permanent listing for a regular fee. Another fantastic marketplace for eBooks is. This surprises many people, but the truth is that Craigslist has become a very large marketplace with a huge audience. Just like on eBay, if you’re writing on a topic that’s in demand, you’ll get interested buyers. If you're looking to sell an ebook to make some money, this post will guide you through all the steps you need to take. Ebook creation is not difficult. How to Create an eBook. And for my latest eBook, Niche Website Success, I used Pages (Mac) to write it. Sell Your eBook. Reaching the eBook Audience The very best way to achieve the highest sales for your eBook is to take advantage of those eBook directories that accept submissions from authors. While most major eBook sellers like Amazon or Barnes & Nobles only accept submissions from major book publishers, many of the smaller online firms will accept direct submissions from writers. Jack recently wrote a great article on how to publish your eBook in print using, but LuLu also offers eBook authors a fantastic resource to sell your book in electronic format as well. Now, selling an eBook on LuLu is not free. The right to publish comes at a price tag that’s currently about $1.49. For me, that’s about the price of a cup of coffee, and considering the fact that LuLu takes care of integrating DRM copy protection and already has a huge audience for your book – it’s well worth it. If your book sells, LuLu takes only a $2.50 cut while you get $10 in revenue. I’m very impressed with LuLu’s rates and service and would recommend them to any potential author. ![]() However, if you really only want to use a service that’s absolutely free, there is another excellent option known as. At TradeBit, you can upload your eBooks where the TradeBit community can find it and buy it. For hosting and selling your eBook for you, TradeBit charges absolutely nothing upfront, and when it sells you get 75% of the revenue. Again, this is a very fair deal considering that TradeBit absorbs the costs for hosting, promoting and selling your eBook on their site and with their existing traffic. Host Your Own eBooks and Take 100% of the Profit There is, of course, always the self-hosting option. In this case, you would set up a blog or a website and provide your own eBooks for download through a payment system like Paypal and just offer your books in a simple format just like you would sell Amazon books on your own blog. The advantage to selling your own eBooks on your blog or website is that you set your own price and collect 100% of the profits. ![]() ![]() ![]() The disadvantage is that you’re starting at ground zero in attracting an audience and potential buyers. Over time, you’ll have a good traffic, a strong reputation, and a steady revenue stream – but getting there will take a bit longer if you opt for the self-hosting approach. The best option might be to start with one of the eBook sales sites in order to get people hooked on the eBooks that you write, and then switch to the self-hosted option once people recognize your name as a premium eBook author. Do you author your own eBooks? What approach or technique do you take to sell your books? Share your insight and advice in the comments section below. How to sell eBooks Related Sites: Affiliate Programs eBook Authoring Marketing Search Engines Your Site How to sell eBooks Selling eBooks Once you've and finished preparing your eBook you're ready to start selling your eBook. Before you start selling there just a few things you still need to do: • Decide exactly what you're selling: It's important to know exactly what you're selling. Answer these questions before you start, and you'll avoid problems later such as disatisfied customers, and requests for refunds. • Are you selling the downloadable eBook - or - are you going to going to allow people some level of access before they buy? You could for example allow people to download the eBook before paying, read part of it, and then either pay to download part two, or get a password to read a second part. • What rights do your customers get? Is the eBook just for their personal use - or - can they sell or transfer their copy of the eBook to other people? • How are you going to deliver the product? Over the Internet (as a download), or will you ship media (disks, CD-ROMs etc.) to your customers. • What guarantees do you offer your customers? • What level of support do you offer your customers? • Check your web site: Double check your site clearly explains exactly what you're offering. • Decide on the price: How much does your eBook cost? This is a difficult question - pricing is more of an art than a science. Here are some ideas for pricing your eBook: • Guess - not recommended - but a lot of people end up doing this as they can't figure out the right price. • Look at your competitors - and use their prices as guidance for setting your own prices. • Start with a high price and gradually cut the price until your sales take off. • Do market research - for example ask what people what they would be prepared to pay in a survey, Getting your price right is very important. If you under-price your product, you will be throwing away money that customers would be happy to give you. If you over-price your product, few customers will buy, and many of those who do, may demand refunds. So it is worth spending some time to research the right price - it can make a big difference to your profits! There's even a web site that's been put together as a tool for helping you find the right price - it's called †. • Get ready to accept payment: The next decision you need to make is how to accept payment for your eBooks. You must accept payment by credit card or you could end up losing 90% or more of your potential orders! Integrating credit card payment in your site need not be that difficult - depending on which method of processing payment you select. The ideal that you are aiming for is an automated system (so you can concentrate on marketing rather processing orders) - but be aware in order to set up a fully automated system, you may need to make some minor adjustments in your site. There are several options for how to accept payment, each of which has advantages and disadvantages: • PayPal It is possible to use PayPal for selling eBooks and downloads, and some people do. However, many people also feel that issues such as the risk of frozen accounts are too great with PayPal. • † ClickBank is a low cost service, available to many people in many countries. Basically they deal with all the complicated technical stuff required for processing credit card and debit cards securely (customers can also pay via PayPal even if you don't have a PayPal account yourself). Technically, they are infact retailing your product for you, and this is not only how they view themselves - but also reflected by the fact that their name (not yours) which appears on the customer's billing statements. ClickBank send you checks or direct deposits for the sales you make via their system, less a deductions which are based on the number of sales you make and check/payment issuing fees. You will receive payments up to every 2 weeks (if receiving your money via check), or every week (if receiving money via direct deposit). ClickBank is good for many (not all) products that are delivered electronically over the Internet - but it is especially good for selling eBooks - and includes a number of features that make it really easy to sell your eBooks using ClickBank. The key value in working with ClickBank is that you get to sell your products online with relatively small amounts of hassle. (Another big advantage for me of ClickBank is they offer affiliate tracking at no extra cost - we'll talk about this more in the ). We ourselves have been using their service for well over 10 years, and have found them to be extremely reliable and responsive - we don't consider their fees too high - and so, in summary, based on our experience, we can recommend them. If selling downloads through ClickBank, and you need a simple, quick, easy, but highly secure solution, you can simply get a copy of the software. Alternatively, if you have good technical skills and wish to implement your own solution without outside help, you will probably find these free tutorials helpful: • • • Other Payment Processors/Retailers: There are also other payment processors and retailers, which are in many respects similar to †. These include: • †. We recommend ClickBank ourselves, but you are unable to use them, or they are unsuitable for your needs, you can check out one of these alternate retailers/payment-processors. Please check each company's website for details of their service. • Get a Merchant Account: Probably the ultimate in credibility, flexibility, and lowest fees per transaction, are Merchant Accounts. The downside to getting a Merchant Account is that it may take a little more time and effort to set up than the other options, and you may have to pay a monthly or annual fee just to maintain the account. Getting your own Merchant Account is often the best option if you are dealing in high volumes of sales - but for many smaller sites (and even some larger ones), † may be a better option. A number of companies also offer help in getting a Merchant Account (although often for US merchants only), • Test Everything: Before you unleash your sales web site on real customers. Spend a bit of time to make sure everything works as it should. Test it once - then test it again. You can find more information about setting up a web-based store. These tutorials will show you how to set up your a process with popular combinations of software and payment processing options: • This tutorial shows you how to set up a sales site so that a customer can pay for your eBook using ClickBank, and immediately after paying, download your eBook. Please note: This tutorial covers only a simple (and relatively insecure) method of delivering downloads using the ClickBank vendor option, 'ClickBank DIY'. For a more powerful and secure option, for protecting your ClickBank Thank You pages and delivering downloads to customers, please look. • This tutorial shows you how to set up a site so that a customer can download a feature limited or trial version of your eBook before they pay, and if they like the eBook pay for a password which will give them full access. Please note: This tutorial covers only a very basic method of setting this up, and the best way to do this properly is using scripts on your server (CGI, PHP or ASP). A demonstration of some possible techniques to use in such scripts can be found in the following tutorials: • • • Copyright © 2000-2015, †: Advertising Link(s): Our company may receive a payment if you purchase a product/service after following this link. With any business, it is up to the individual owner of said business to ensure the success of the business. 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