Ebooks: Increase Your Income From Each Ebook You Write
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010You’ve created a new business selling ebooks, and you want to make more sales of each ebook you write. Let’s explore how you can do this with four simple ways.
1. Sell a pre-launch version of your ebook. I always recommend to writers that they start selling the ebook while they’re writing it. You can do this very easily by creating a blog.
A blog is a way to generate some buzz about your ebook before your official launch. Your blog gives you the opportunity to get feedback from your readers, so you can learn more about what they want to see in your ebook.
When you promote your ebook this way, you have a chance to offer a pre-launch special offer. Start a mailing list for potential buyers before you’re ready for your actual launch. Come up with an irresistible offer for them. When you are ready to launch your ebook, send an email to these subscribers to let them know it’s available. Since they already signed up as showing interest, many will buy it.
2. Make an ezine out of the information in your ebook. After you have launched and have begun to sell ebooks, think about capitalizing on what you’ve written. One simple way is to use your topic to write a monthly ezine. Write twelve issues or more, and offer the ezine as an additional option for your buyers.
Your ebook’s ezine could be a completely new product, to which you sell subscriptions, or you could offer it as an upsell to buyers of your ebook.
3. Use the information from your ebook to create a podcast series. Podcasts (audio files for download, generally MP3 files) offer a benefit to buyers. They don’t have to sit in front of the computer. They can put the podcast on their audio player and can listen in the car, in the gym, or wherever they go.
You can create the podcasts yourself. Or, if you don’t know how (or don’t want to), you can hire someone else to create them for you. However you do it, creating podcasts can help you make more from your ebook.
4. Write a version of your ebook for advanced users. There are always more steps for buyers to learn beyond your ebook. So, try writing an advanced version for your readers who are ready for more. You can write this sequel to either provide greater detail on your subject, or as additional, new material.
Say you wrote an ebook on how to diet. The advanced edition can include diet plans and recipes. You can either offer it as an upsell, or offer it separately from the original ebook.
As you are writing ebooks, remember these four great tips. They will help you sell ebooks more effectively, and make more money from each ebook you create.
Want to write your own ebooks? Discover how easy it is to write ebooks and sell them with Angela Booth’s Info Product Maestro package. Angela’s been selling ebooks online for over ten years. Subscribe to great marketing tips in Angela’s free ezine.
