Success ebook
Success ebook
- If you have been selling resellable ebooks on eBay for some time,
then it is likely that you adopt a method similar to many ebook sellers.
You source cheap or free ebooks with resell rights and then resell
these in your eBay store. Now there is nothing wrong with this method.
It means that obtaining the ebooks is cheap or even free, you don't have
to spend time creating a product and a lot of the time you even get a
ready made sales page and download page. For next to no money, you have a
digital product that can be sold again and again, for very little
effort. I used to rely solely on this method when reselling ebooks on
eBay and achieved reasonable success with it. I even wrote a newsletter
article last year on sourcing free ebooks that can be resold on eBay. To
this day I still resell other people's ebooks in my eBay store.
However, the difference is that I now also create and sell my own
resellable ebooks.
success ebook - Now you may be thinking; 'Why would you want to go to
all the time and effort of creating your own resellable ebooks, which
are likely to depreciate in value very quickly? Surely it is much more
time and cost effective to resell ebooks that are already available with
resell rights?' If these are your thoughts then you are thinking about
resellable ebooks in the wrong way. Let me put it into perspective and
hopefully change your thinking on the issue with the example below.
Lets say for this example you are selling your own ebook and someone
else's ebook, both for £1.99 in your eBay store. Now when you sell
someone else's ebook you make £1.99 which is all well and good. However,
when you sell your own resellable ebook you make £1.99 from the sale
AND after the sale you have the potential for much more. What potential
you may be asking? Well let me explain below just what your own
resellable ebook can do for you.
1) Promote:- Your own ebook can be a very valuable promotional tool for
your eBay store, your website or whatever else you want to promote. If
you want to promote your eBay store simply write a little note such as
"brought to you by http://stores.ebay.co.uk/YOUREBAYSTORE." Or you could
even write a small paragraph about your eBay store, what it sells etc,
and then provide a link to it if people want to find out more. If you
have your own website, write an ebook that contains similar content and
of course provide a link to your website somewhere within the ebook.
As you continue to sell your ebook with resell rights, some of your
customers will also start to sell it and eventually their customers will
sell it too. As time goes by your ebook will continue to be
distributed, creating an increasing amount of traffic - your very own
viral traffic tool. The more your ebook is distributed, the greater the
potential for traffic to your eBay store/website.
2) Sell your Premium Product:- If you have a premium ebook then
resellable ebooks can be used to sell it. For example, if you have a
cooking recipes ebook that you have wrote containing 1000 recipes this
could be your premium ebook. You could then use 10 or 20 of these
recipes to create a resellable ebook. At the end of this resellable
ebook you could leave a note such as "Want to get 1000 recipes just like
this? Then Click Here." The Click Here will link to your premium ebook.
If people like the recipes in your premium ebook then they are likely
to go on and purchase the full 1000 recipe premium ebook.
As before the same principles apply, and as time goes by your resellable
ebook gets seen by an increasing number of readers and should generate
an increasing amount of sales. Obviously, the above recipe ebook is just
an example. The principles above can be applied to almost any
product/genre, allowing you to use your resellable ebook to promote and
sell a premium product.
3) Sell an Affiliate Product:- If you don't have your own premium
product then the same principles from above can be used to sell a
product as an affiliate. An affiliate (if you do not know) is someone
who sells a product in exchange for a commission on the sale. The one
thing I would recommend if you are selling products as an affiliate, is
to make sure that you have sampled the product before you promote it.
Not only will it allow you to promote the product better (as you will
actually know what you are talking about) but you will also be able to
avoid products that are of a low quality.
If you are looking for a premium ebook to promote as an affiliate then
ClickBank is a good place to start. It has ebooks on almost every topic
you can imagine and the commissions are as generous as 75% in some
cases. All you have to do is sign up and then generate affiliate links
(through ClickBank) to promote each product. If buyers click and buy
through your link, you will get a commission on the sale.
If you are looking for physical products to promote I would recommend
Commission Junction. Again they have a very wide range of products and
commissions vary from product to product. Like with ClickBank you can
generate affiliate links via the Commission Junction website, and if a
customer purchases through your affiliate link you get a commission on
the sale.
4) Generate Leads:- If you don't have your own mailing list yet and are
serious about doing business online then I have one simple suggestion.
GET A MAILING LIST. It is quite possibly the most valuable asset you can
possess in Internet Business. To explain the very basics of list
building, you first need to sign up for an autoresponder programme (I
use and recommend Aweber), build your list (using a variety of methods)
and also maintain it (by providing value to your subscribers). Please
bear in mind that this is a very, very basic analysis of list building
and I would recommend you did some research on the topic before gettting
your own list. I will be covering list building in one of my future
'Ebay Ebook Success' articles but if you cannot wait till then I would
recommend Jim Cockrum's How to turn Auction Traffic into Cash. This is
the ebook that I used to research and build my mailing list with the
help of eBay traffic. Anyway, I'm going off topic here.
Once you have a mailing list, a resellable ebook can be a valuable
source of leads. All you have to do is place a link inside the ebook for
customers to sign up for your mailing list. Like before as distribution
of your ebook increases, the number of leads it generates should also
increase.
I hope this article has shown you the potential creating your own
resellable ebook provides. Whereas someone else's resellable ebook can
bring sales revenue, your own resellable ebook can bring this plus
additional sales of your premium products, extra traffic, affiliate
commissions and valuable leads. I am not suggesting that you cease to
sell other people's resellable ebooks. In fact other people's resellable
ebooks probably still comprise the majority of my eBay store inventory.
However, even one or two of your own resellable ebooks can make a huge
difference.