5 Great Places To Sell Your Ebooks
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Like every infopreneur, you are always eagerly looking for the best places to sell your ebooks. And while there are differences for each market, there are some common areas where you can sell your ebooks effectively, regardless of what niche you are writing for, or how experienced you are as a marketer.
Here are 5 great places to sell your ebooks. Each may bring you between a few dozen and many hundred sales over time. You will need to take the effort to understand nuances of selling on each, but these are places where an eager, hungry, ready-to-buy audience is already available.
And as an infopreneur, you should be always seeking to leverage existing systems to sell your ebooks more easily.
Clickbank
The world's biggest digital ebooks marketplace is a service called Clickbank. Thousands of infopreneurs like you throng this vibrant service where millions of dollars worth of ebooks are sold every month. You too can sell your ebooks on Clickbank.
Apart from making it easy for you to put your ebook up for sale, Clickbank does something very few other services offer - access to a huge network of affiliates who will help sell your ebooks for a commission.
If you have an ebook that sells well on Clickbank, you could instantly have an army of affiliate partners promoting your ebook for you, driving more sales - and you pay them a portion of the profits after they have sold the ebooks for you.
Forums
Every niche market has forums and discussion boards where people interested in the topic flock to discuss, share ideas and chew the fat. By placing your ebook in front of this targeted crowd, you will make many sales.
Of course, discussion forums are not meant for blatant advertising or sales pitches. They are meant to discuss topics. But you can work around this by bringing up topics for discussion that are covered in depth in your ebook - and then working the conversation around to your ebook.
Include a link to your sales page in your signature, and post relevant and helpful messages on a discussion board. Some people reading your response will click on your signature link, arrive at your sales page, and buy your ebooks.
Another way to sell your ebooks on forums is to take advantage of the special offers section for forum members, if there is one.
Ezines
Just like forums, email newsletters offer a direct sales channel to highly qualified prospects. If you send out a note to dog lovers on a dog ezine about your new ebook about dog training, you will definitely make many sales.
And while it is nice to have your own ezine, you can also take advantage of someone else's ezine list by partnering with them to share revenues generated from selling your ebook to their lists.
Blogs
Blogs are another avenue to sell your ebooks. Blogs aggregate targeted crowds of visitors who come to a blog to learn more about a particular topic, or check out the latest news or contribute comments on a topic they are interested in.
Advertising your ebook on a relevant blog, or even making it the subject of a complete blog post reviewing your ebook can work wonderfully well in creating more sales.
Membership Sites
An easy way to sell your ebooks that many infopreneurs do not consider is partnering with the owner of a membership site to offer it to members. Place it inside a membership site, and include a note about it to the members, and you'll get an instant flood of customers.
How do you get paid? You negotiate a deal with the membership site owner to get paid a flat fee (much lower than the regular selling price) for every member on the list, or for every time your ebook is downloaded by a member.
Don't ignore this model. Even if you get $5 per ebook, while you sell your ebook for $19, the fact that you can instantly have 50 members 'buying' your book from a membership site deal means you get paid $250 - which would take over 20 sales in the regular way!
I hope these 5 places to sell your ebook will help you explode your sales and generate a new flood of profit to your infopreneur business. Try them out and take action right away.
Here are 5 great places to sell your ebooks. Each may bring you between a few dozen and many hundred sales over time. You will need to take the effort to understand nuances of selling on each, but these are places where an eager, hungry, ready-to-buy audience is already available.
And as an infopreneur, you should be always seeking to leverage existing systems to sell your ebooks more easily.
Clickbank
The world's biggest digital ebooks marketplace is a service called Clickbank. Thousands of infopreneurs like you throng this vibrant service where millions of dollars worth of ebooks are sold every month. You too can sell your ebooks on Clickbank.
Apart from making it easy for you to put your ebook up for sale, Clickbank does something very few other services offer - access to a huge network of affiliates who will help sell your ebooks for a commission.
If you have an ebook that sells well on Clickbank, you could instantly have an army of affiliate partners promoting your ebook for you, driving more sales - and you pay them a portion of the profits after they have sold the ebooks for you.
Forums
Every niche market has forums and discussion boards where people interested in the topic flock to discuss, share ideas and chew the fat. By placing your ebook in front of this targeted crowd, you will make many sales.
Of course, discussion forums are not meant for blatant advertising or sales pitches. They are meant to discuss topics. But you can work around this by bringing up topics for discussion that are covered in depth in your ebook - and then working the conversation around to your ebook.
Include a link to your sales page in your signature, and post relevant and helpful messages on a discussion board. Some people reading your response will click on your signature link, arrive at your sales page, and buy your ebooks.
Another way to sell your ebooks on forums is to take advantage of the special offers section for forum members, if there is one.
Ezines
Just like forums, email newsletters offer a direct sales channel to highly qualified prospects. If you send out a note to dog lovers on a dog ezine about your new ebook about dog training, you will definitely make many sales.
And while it is nice to have your own ezine, you can also take advantage of someone else's ezine list by partnering with them to share revenues generated from selling your ebook to their lists.
Blogs
Blogs are another avenue to sell your ebooks. Blogs aggregate targeted crowds of visitors who come to a blog to learn more about a particular topic, or check out the latest news or contribute comments on a topic they are interested in.
Advertising your ebook on a relevant blog, or even making it the subject of a complete blog post reviewing your ebook can work wonderfully well in creating more sales.
Membership Sites
An easy way to sell your ebooks that many infopreneurs do not consider is partnering with the owner of a membership site to offer it to members. Place it inside a membership site, and include a note about it to the members, and you'll get an instant flood of customers.
How do you get paid? You negotiate a deal with the membership site owner to get paid a flat fee (much lower than the regular selling price) for every member on the list, or for every time your ebook is downloaded by a member.
Don't ignore this model. Even if you get $5 per ebook, while you sell your ebook for $19, the fact that you can instantly have 50 members 'buying' your book from a membership site deal means you get paid $250 - which would take over 20 sales in the regular way!
I hope these 5 places to sell your ebook will help you explode your sales and generate a new flood of profit to your infopreneur business. Try them out and take action right away.