Which are the most effective of ways to distribute a free pdf.

[Gitonga]

Hello Warriors,

I need your suggestions here.Which are the proven most effective ways to distribute a free e book on IM Strategies?

Your contribution is highly appreciated.

[yuyuan]

Personally, I enjoy great success using article marketing and forum to distribute a free e-book. Here's what i did:

I set up a squeeze page and offer the book for free, in exchange for visitors' email addresses and names. Then i wrote 5 articles a day (for 2 weeks) and submit to EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com

I also participated in forums and start discussion on relevant topics related to the e-book.

[grumpyjacksa]

if it is totally free like the one in your sig file (no signup), you can distribute it to freebie sites.

then u bookmark one or two of them.

additionally, look for document sharing services on google - just not scribd (they don't allow links in books any more) - had some success with that also

additionally, join a few related yahoo groups. upload your book into the files section, and post a message to the group to announce it. - most members get the messages delivered as emails.

mention it on your social (and other) profiles

hope this helps

pj

[Gitonga]

Thanks for your replies,very informative & practical in did.

[jhongren]

What about rebrandable report?

It is win win for both you and whoever is going to send it.

John

[dsmpublishing]

Hi guys

For me it works best by offering it for free in exchange for people joining my mailing list then explaining to them that they have free giveaway rights. I also find it worthwhile offering it regularly on social sites such as twitter/facebook/myspace in exchange for an opt-in.

Another great way of improving the traffic to it is to publish it on free ebook sites and this will get you in the search engines really quickly.

kind regards


sam
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[mikemcmillan]

Like others have said, I would consider writing some articles and offering a free download in your resource box. Explain that people who download it can distribute it for free, and then--of course, have a blurb in your ebook for your site, blog, or other materials you have. You could also go directly after major bloggers in your niche and offer it to them for a bonus download.

[ConnorMRR]

Well I have one tip, but don't know if this helps. I receive a lot of emails/support tickets from people wanting to submit their product to my membership, it obviously means MASSIVE free viral traffic, considering there are 400 members, then a slew of other memberships feed directly from me.

So asking the admin of a membership may help spread the word.

I don't know if this suggestion helps.

[Zack Lim]

Originally Posted by grumpyjacksa

if it is totally free like the one in your sig file (no signup), you can distribute it to freebie sites.

then u bookmark one or two of them.

additionally, look for document sharing services on google - just not scribd (they don't allow links in books any more) - had some success with that also

additionally, join a few related yahoo groups. upload your book into the files section, and post a message to the group to announce it. - most members get the messages delivered as emails.

mention it on your social (and other) profiles

hope this helps

pj

Hi PJ,

You might want to check again as the links in the pdf report will still works if you upload it to scribd.

I have just tested it and it works.

Just would like to let you know

Zack

[Michael Mayhew]

Originally Posted by jhongren

What about rebrandable report?

It is win win for both you and whoever is going to send it.

John

Agree. Get an on the fly rebrander like ultimate brander.

[matrixong]

Docstoc, Scribd (no URL link allow) and Here Warriorforum

[Gitonga]

Originally Posted by grumpyjacksa

if it is totally free like the one in your sig file (no signup), you can distribute it to freebie sites.

then u bookmark one or two of them.

additionally, look for document sharing services on google - just not scribd (they don't allow links in books any more) - had some success with that also

additionally, join a few related yahoo groups. upload your book into the files section, and post a message to the group to announce it. - most members get the messages delivered as emails.

mention it on your social (and other) profiles

hope this helps

pj

Thank you for your opinion.Yes this does help.

[Traffic-Bug]

To cast your free ebook pdf far and wide, you can submit to ebook directory sites like wisdomebooks. Instead of scribd you can submit to docstoc if they allow links inside ebooks. Upload to file sharing sites like storage.to and you wont have to worry about bandwidth usage on your site created by the downloads.

[Gitonga]

Guys,
I appreciate your sincere contribution.Lemmie get down to applying all the suggested ways of distributing this free e book.I will certainly get back here to let you know how it goes.

New ideas are greatly welcome.

With Kind Regards
Morris

[Gitonga]

Any other suggestions are welcome.

[Michael Lee]

Upload it at:
upload.cnet.com/

It's not only for software; you may also submit ebooks.

[smak]

I posted my free ebook containing links inside few days ago on scribd. And all seems to be fine. Submitted it 1 week ago and so far have its been looked at 80 times.

To be honest, site of Scribd stature and going by the amount of daily traffic they get, I was expecting the 'number of times read; figure to be much higher than 80.



smak