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3 Steps To Turning OK eBook Sales Into Unbelieveable Results!

Have you noticed that 90% of "How To" information about creatingand marketing your own information-based products online is basic beginner stuff? Yet, every week we hear from those looking for help taking theirbusiness to the next level. It's true, the vast majority of dreamers never earn a cent because they simply don't get started. Most of the how to ebooks are aimed at this audience. What about the large group who struggle to turn initial success into a massive success? Now - it's true, we all want to constantly improve our businesses,meaning that we are never completely satisfied with our results. Yet there is still a massive number of people who have achieved some initial success - but not quite enough to both sustain and grow their business to the next level. Do you fall into one of the following categories? - Working your online business part-time, hoping to replace full-time job? - Working your online business full-time, want to... Read More

Making Money With Information Products

I actually know a few people who are making millions a year through home-based operations (and a few others who have been able to subsidize their incomes from low risk business ideas). In most cases, all it took was some good market research and the get up and go to actually put the information product together. Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle to overcome when putting together an ebook or DVD product is actually having the motivation to get started - it's not as hard as it sounds! The most common, and usually the most successful information products are e-books, audio cd / tapes and increasingly, DVD's. We'll take a look at each of these categories in more detail below: Writing a successful ebookYou really have 2 options here. You can develop the content of the e-book yourself, or you can get someone to do it... Read More

How To Protect Your eBooks From Piracy And Copyright Infringement!

eBooks, or electronic books, mean big business for all aspiring writers. Not only can eBooks be sold in their own right as standalone products, but eBooks are fast becoming the weapon of choice for marketing gurus!Many business owners and webmasters pay writers to write eBooks for them. Writers spend hours, days and weeks researching material and writing the eBook. But for writers, business owners & webmasters alike, there is often little in the way of protection in place that stops unscrupulous operators from stealing eBook content. Shockingly, 4 out of every 10 eBooks offered for sale on the Internet are pirated. Material from legitimate eBooks are taken without the owner's knowledge, and passed off as original content every single day!I should know...I was a victim!I have written and published 5 eBooks on various topics in the past year, the content of which has all been stolen and used as original copy on other people's web sites. The sad thing is, MANY OF THE... Read More

20 Ways To Increase Website Traffic and eBook Sales

Here's a fast, easy list for you. Use it as checklist to see what you need to do to increase traffic. Or use it as a review list if you have already been working on improving your website traffic. It will help you find ways that you might have known or forgotten.1. People love to receive free or win free stuff, whether they really need it or want it. A free eBook is perfect to satisfy those needs over the Internet. They will visit your website to get the free valuable information.2. Give away the full version of your eBook in exchange for testimonials. You can use these customer statements to improve your ads' effectiveness.3. When you create an eBook, you change your image to "Expert." This will gain people's trust and they will buy your main product or service quicker.4. Publish your website in eBook format. Put the eBook on a disk or CD-ROM then include it with your direct mail packages.... Read More

How to Reduce Credit Card Refunds from Digital Thieves

Can you encounter the number of times where a Credit Card Sale was generated, only to receive a "Refund Notification" from your contracted e-commerce processor on behalf the "customer"? Welcome to the electronic world of "cyber-shoplifting". Unscrupulous surfers, disguised as potential "customers", systematically opt to ordering goods (using credit cards) in electronic form of delivery, only to request a refund minutes or days later after receiving the product. The "cyber thieves" consent the well-known "loophole" of specific e-commerce processors who deploy a "no questions asked" refund policy. Some... might concur to the predicament that a "liberal refund policy" boosts sales, but it is statistically verified that these claims are unthinkingly based gross sales figures, where refunds are *not* accumulated to extract the "net profit" (minus refunds). In numerous cases, the cyber thieves (or else called freebie hunters) automate their thievery, by using pre-made templates to ask for a refund, in order to save time and reap as many digital products... Read More

Ask and Ye Shall Create

How do you decide to create a new speech? A new report? A net product? Most of us have an idea, then start to work on it. It's only when we are well into the creation phase that we determine whether or not it will sell. By then, it's too late! We've put time and effort into the production. Either we don't want to "waste" that time and effort, so we go ahead with a product destined to lose money or we "scrap" an idea that we're just SURE could have been productive...if it only had time. What if we reverse this "create, then market" paradigm? Let's determine FIRST if there is a market, then create the product the market wants. The Internet provides the ideal venue for this process because it's cost-effective to distribute your survey, and it offers quick turnaround for responses. Your first step is to create a survey that you'll send to your target market. Your survey includes... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 1

Secret #1: How to write an incredible eBook!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved.Aho!I shouldn't be telling you this:One of the biggest problems that most eBook writers and sellers face is generating eBook sales. It seems like the Internet is full of "ideas" - however, these "ideas" don't seem to be producing results.Three reasons come to mind:Reason # 1: eBooks are not marketed effectively.Reason # 2: eBook sales pages either do not exist, or they do not capture the buyers interest.Reason # 3: The eBook is not written and/or organized well.So many of us hear about the big boom in eBook sales. Most of us have read articles and/or eBooks teaching us that we should have our own product out there to be successful.Well all of that is true. However, where the "ideas" fall short of producing results is in all three reasons listed above.That is the reason I am writing this 7 part article series for you. In it you will... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 2

Secret #2: Creating your Marketing Timeline for Success!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin CrowAho!You can increase your sales and free time by creating your own marketing timeline. Marketing timelines are essential for all Internet businesses. They provide not only organization but a truly well defined goal sheet as well.To understand your timeline is to understand your business. Can you really know where you are going if you don't have a goal? I think not! Can you really tell how well you are doing if you are not logging your results? I think not again! Can you really tell what your profit margin is at this moment and will be next month at this time without tracking your sales, goals and future plans?Well I think you know my answer by now.There is tons of internet marketing "How To" infiramtion online. However have you noticed very few people teach you how to organize your information? Well, now you will know.My marketing timelines include: goals present and future, Action... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 3

Secret #3: Creating an avalanche of sales with Freeware/Shareware sites:Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved.Aho!Freeware/shareware sites provide a unique opportunity to market your eBooks. This type of marketing method allows the buyer to try your eBook on their computer before paying for it. You simply password protect part of your eBook.There are numerous freeware/shareware sites on the Internet. Most offer software. There are some, however, which will allow ebooks in EXE format to be listed and sold as software.After you begin to utilize this avenue of marketing you'll begin to notice a steady stream of sales. Many of the sites also list the number of downloads you have had, next to the title of your eBook listing, making it easy to track your sales.Unfortunately at this time you cannot upload PDF ebooks, they are considered documents and not software.One thing you will have to watch out for are the sites what charge a fee for listing your ebook.What I do is... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 4

Secret #4: Creating passionate articles will explode your eBook sales!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved.Aho,All the experts finally agreed on something. Writing articles about your eBook can be one of the most successful ways of eMarketing.However, one of the biggest problems on online is learning how to write a great article. You should not just type any old thing and call it an article.First, you must put your passion, your personality into the article. In addition here are some steps to follow to explode your eBook sales using free articles.Step 1: Generate an article idea that everyone will want to read about. Review your eBook and look for the benefits that your eBook provides to the readers. Make a list of these benefits.Now, take one benefit at a time and create an article. This will assure you of generating an article idea that people want to read about.Step 2: Write a simple outline. Once you have your first benefit idea selected.... Read More

In The News:


Off the Shelf: Nick Hornby hates e-books, sculptures made of books ...
National Post, Canada - 5 hours ago
The great e-book debate continues. Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) thinks the gadget won't catch on. Reason no. 3 is downright sad. ...

Enews 2.0

Is a Kindle to books as an iPod is to tunes?
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Jul 4, 2008
The 10-ounce Kindle, which holds 200 e-books and can also tirelessly download daily editions of 19 newspapers and 346 blogs, is fielding pretty heady praise ...
Kindle shows e-book future The Bookseller (subscription)
Digital Readers: Law Books of the Future? Law.com (subscription)
The Amazon Kindle has not been a big seller to date, Examiner.com
eFluxMedia - United Press Internationalall 20 news articles

TechRadar.com

Hornby bemused by eBooks
TechRadar.com, UK - Jul 7, 2008
Author Nick Hornby has expressed his doubts over eBooks – although it is people's attitude to reading a whole that appears to be supporting his argument. ...

Page by page, a good book can rewire your brain
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour ago
I was, much to my initial horror, to be e-mail/Net-free for over a week. What was I missing? Who was e-mailing? What about all the blogs and the news and ...

How the Google generation thinks
Times Online, UK - 4 hours ago
When they examined the behaviour of those logging on to the websites of journals, e-books and other sources of written information, they found widespread ...

Designs on digital
Calgary Herald,  Canada - Jul 6, 2008
On the other hand, Amazon won't disclose how many people have bought a Kindle, reduced to $359 US last week from $399, or how many e-books have sold for the ...

Turning the page on books
Globe and Mail, Canada - 3 hours ago
What will change the way we read books? While the evolution of the e-book has intrigued book lovers and techies, it could be a very different bright idea ...

Nick Hornby on why eBook readers are not the new iPods
Shiny Shiny, UK - Jul 4, 2008
Ask the average geek what he or she thinks of eBook readers and most of them will reply with a snort of derision and a roll of the eyes. ...
COMMENT: Are e-books finally challenging the paperback? Pocket-lint.co.uk
all 2 news articles

Seattle Post Intelligencer

E-books: Saviors for the heavy bookbag set
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jun 27, 2008
But the new study doesn't address in depth a segment of the population that could embrace e-books sooner: the academic crowd. A portable book reader means ...
Price will have to fall for Kindle's fortunes to rise Seattle Post Intelligencer
all 7 news articles

Amazon's Kindle e-reader! What's not to love?
Examiner.com - 13 hours ago
But um, it costs ten bucks to buy an e-book for Kindle. I still trundle down the hill to the library, where I check out an armload of books for free, ...
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Ebooks are Promotional Powerhouses

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Ebooks Are The BEST Form Of Advertising!

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Using Ebooks As A Highly Effective Marketing & Promotional Tool

Ebooks are part of the new frontier of cyberspace. They are an entirely new medium for sharing marketing information, ideas, techniques, and expert knowledge. Each day the number of people accessing the Internet... Read More

The True Purpose of a Tips Booklet

"My topic doesn't fit into a how-to tips format."That comment shows up periodically, and did again this week. Even when a person has written a novel, there are ways to create a tips... Read More

Selling Books and E-Books Online

For many authors the thought of getting professionally published is little more than a dream. That was until the advent of the internet started threatening the very existence of publishers. As the internet... Read More

Website Promotion: 10 Uncommon And Unusual Free Product Bonuses

Giving away free bonuses is one well tested website promotion strategy that can help you make more sales.Here are a few product bonuses you can give away.1. Offline Directory - Create an online... Read More

Ebooks - the Easy Way To Get Published Now!

A friend put the story of his life as a professional magician, film promoter and entrepreneur on paper. It took ten years, two electric typewriters and probably a gallon of correction fluid. He... Read More

Invasion of the Amazons

The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned).This effort is... Read More

More Than An Ebook

The following in an excerpt from the E-Book of the same name.Utilising the Full Resources of the Internet to Promote your FictionFiction writers appear to be the despised members of the internet writing... Read More

Stop Trying To Sell Your eBooks

Throughout the Internet there are many people who have written ebooks, are writing ebooks or have produced other information products such as reports. No doubt, each writer wants to sell them. And many... Read More

Demand for E-books on the Increase

Demand for electronic books, or e-books, has created one of the fastest growing Internet consumer market segments.Research conducted recently by the Gartner Group revealed that one in 300 books read in the USA,... Read More

Information at What Price? Exploring Fee-based e-Content

In pursuit of a paid model for content, many businesses offer newsletters for a fee or ebooks. These models offer pros and cons. Some organizations send out two newsletters: fee and free. The... Read More

How to Build and Sell your eBook at the Same Time

Why write an eBook? You want ongoing, lifelong multiple streams of income. You want to raise your credibility and trust ratings with clients or customers. You want to get your message out so... Read More

The Story of a Downsized Manager and His Ebook Business

If you've been following the business and economic news around the globe, you should know about how unemployment rates have hit year lows. The recent economic downturn was one of the worse in... Read More

How eBooks Can Be Very Valuable

EBooks have a number of benefits over the traditional book. These include the following:Cheaper to createQuicker to createEasier to target a wide marketHigh profit potentialMore versatile than traditional booksLets look at each of... Read More

Cashing In by Writing How-tos

If you enjoy explaining how something is done step by step, you may just have an saleable article or book idea. How-to articles and books are favorites at many magazine and book publishers.... Read More

Profiting From Writting Your Own Ebook

As you might have heard, the Internet is all about information. Millions of people logon to the Internet each day searching for information. They're searching for everything from health and wellness to love... Read More

Self-Publish Your Ebooks Through ClickBank

There was a time when ebook publishing was seen as a reluctant half-measure for authors who had failed to impress the mainstream press. But as on-screen reading technology improves and the buying public... Read More

The REAL Info Products Secret and How to Get Out of the Cycle

Most "info-products" revolve around Internet marketing, and get rich quick schemes. Everyone is looking for that instant "secret" that will guarantee them overnight success without spending the start up capital of a real... Read More

How to Use eBook for Marketing and Promotion

There are innumerable ways to use ebooks to promote your business and drive quality traffic to your website. Once posted on your site, you can turn them into a daily course, which brings... Read More

Youve Got To Be Joking!

I don't know about you, but I get a lot of joke stuff arriving in my email. I've got one buddy in particular who hardly lets a day go by without sending something.Sometimes... Read More

20 Ways To Profit With Free eBooks

My habit of collecting every free eBook I could lay my hands proved very profitableto me while building my business.Here are 20 ways that you can use free eBooks to boost your profits.1.... Read More

Your Guaranteed Path to Becoming an Information Product Money Machine

How To Turn Your Talks or Articles into Books, eBooks, CDs and MoreYou may be writing a monthly newsletter. You may have written some short articles or reports. Or you may have the... Read More

Why The Future Will Always Be Digital Products

Everywhere you go on the Internet, you will find some type of "digital product" on any website. What are "digital products?" Digital products are any products that you buy and then download to... Read More

5 Guaranteed Ways To Snowball Your Resale Right Profits

Resale Right Products are a huge market. Unfortunately, may people are losing more money than they're making. Ebooks are quickly devalued as everyone tries to offer them at a lower price than their... Read More

7 Secrets to Explode your eBook Sales! Part 4

Secret #4: Creating passionate articles will explode your eBook sales!Copyright 2004 Bluedolphin Crow - All Rights Reserved.Aho,All the experts finally agreed on something. Writing articles about your eBook can be one of the... Read More

Shorten Your Journey to Book Success with Teleclasses - Part 2

Are you an author who wants your book to be a success? Have you read books, but still need some handholding on how best to promote your book? Are local seminars on book... Read More

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