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Running out of methods to sell my ebook.

by JustOnePepsi
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I wrote a very thorough ebook on how to start a junk removal business and have promoted it these ways:

1. Craigslist. Worked great until CL cracked down on posting out-of-area ads.
2. EBay. Converted to CDROM. No sales, very few clicks.
3. Amazon. Keeps denying my application.
4. SEO. Very slow climb to the top.
5. SEM. Pretty much break even after paying for clicks.
6. Clickbank. CB wants $50 monthly to list in its marketplace.
7. Contacting affiliates. They all don't want to sell aff products and instead are focused on Adsense.

Any other methods worth trying?
#ebook #methods #running #sell
  • Profile picture of the author awmi
    Articles on the subject...posts on related forums...ads on your city's website in the junk/trash removal section (if there is one).
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    • Profile picture of the author Cory Friedman
      Justone...

      If it is true that you have successfully made sales (ie. your salespage converts) that I would suggest you re-evaluate your approach to making money online...

      Here's what I mean:

      You seem to have 'dabbled' a little bit in a bunch of different traffic generation areas, moving on fast if you didn't see immediate results...

      What I suggest is you stick to 2 or 3 main traffic sources (heck, even just 1 solid one) and start treating your business like a business.

      Ideally, you want to have multiple lead/traffic sources funneling into your business.

      It sounds like you only have a single product for sales (on a 1 page salesletter)... if this IS the case then I can understand why spending money on PPC,Ezines,Other Paid Sources may not be an option...

      If this is in fact the case, SEO is the only proven, solid option that DOES produce results (ie. FREE traffic) if you're willing to do the time and work. (or outsource)

      However, you know what my strongest advice to you would be?

      Start learning the how to build a real business online. Forget about one shot sales (that's a very brutal way to build an income...trust me I know from the old days)...

      You need to learn to build an business that's solid and stable. You're ebook can be the front end product, but you also want to build an email list... and try as hard as you can to add more products (upsells, continuity, big dollar home study course) to your product line.

      The 'one-shot' mentality is an easy trap to fall into... but especially these days... it's a model that is getting tougher and tougher to pull of in most niches.

      Hope this helps,
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  • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
    Well, for one, you might want to put a link to your ebook in your signature line. I've gotten several referrals from Warrior Forum to my blog in this manner alone.

    As far as the SEO - yes, it's a slow climb, but if you actively do article marketing (OR hire someone to do it for you more cheaply than you can do it yourself), it's a steadier ascent. And it will last longer than PPC.

    Also, if you make sales, why hesitate to put it on ClickBank? If you make enough, it will justify the $50 fee. Even though you might want to see how well it sells with some other traffic source first, affiliates might be more interested in promoting your product if it was on ClickBank's platform, don't you think? Then you would be attracting the ClickBank affiliates, not the AdSense website owners.

    Just my two cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author helisell
    I would register a domain like

    'turnjunkintoabusiness.com' or

    'yourownjunkremovalbusiness.com'

    Or suchlike.

    I would have them point at your main website and place small ads in free newspapers all over the country for these urls. The url's are kind of their own ad but you could put a small amount of copy with them.

    Dead cheap and highly targetted depending which section of the papers you advertise in.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas
    Originally Posted by JustOnePepsi View Post

    6. Clickbank. CB wants $50 monthly to list in its marketplace.
    Are you sure about that? I only ever paid Clickbank when I first opened my account there. After that, my product has been listed in the Marketplace without any further payments. (Granted that was 7 or 8 years ago, so maybe things have changed, and I got grandfathered in?)

    Tommy.
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    • Profile picture of the author paj_mccarthy
      Originally Posted by Thomas View Post

      Are you sure about that? I only ever paid Clickbank when I first opened my account there. After that, my product has been listed in the Marketplace without any further payments. (Granted that was 7 or 8 years ago, so maybe things have changed, and I got grandfathered in?)

      Tommy.
      Same here - It's a one off payment of $47 I believe.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Originally Posted by Thomas View Post

      Are you sure about that? I only ever paid Clickbank when I first opened my account there. After that, my product has been listed in the Marketplace without any further payments. (Granted that was 7 or 8 years ago, so maybe things have changed, and I got grandfathered in?)
      Your product is listed as long as you've had sales within x period of time. I think it's 3 months, but I'm not sure. If you don't have sales, you'll be removed from the marketplace until you get a sale.

      I think they've recently changed it where you can stay listed even without sales as long as you notify them that you're still active. I haven't heard of them charging for it.

      But, I think they have a feature where you can buy ads on the site. Maybe that's what was $50 a month?
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      • Profile picture of the author JustOnePepsi
        Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

        Your product is listed as long as you've had sales within x period of time. I think it's 3 months, but I'm not sure. If you don't have sales, you'll be removed from the marketplace until you get a sale.

        I think they've recently changed it where you can stay listed even without sales as long as you notify them that you're still active. I haven't heard of them charging for it.

        But, I think they have a feature where you can buy ads on the site. Maybe that's what was $50 a month?
        I created a CB product 6 months ago and it went straight to the Marketplace.

        This time, though, even though I payed my initial $50, I'm not getting that free Marketplace listing. I'd gladly pay $50 for a permanent listing, but $50 monthly is just too much.

        On my other CB product, I got all my affiliates by googling my kw, then emailing all the websites on the first page. None of my affiliates came from CB Marketplace.
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  • Profile picture of the author ambili
    hey,

    As was mentioned before, did u try article marketing? If you have never tried it, you might have to hire people to right keyword rich content and submit it to article directories. There are many websites from where you can get article writers at a very small price.Personally, i have got many clicks just from 2 articles posted for my niche website.

    Then, you can also try making a video and post in you tube? again, u have to focus on the keyword for the title.

    I have been taught that the classic way to sell ur pdt is thru building a list. even though, there might be other ways to promote too. But, I have found success by building a list when it comes to my niche websites. So, I would suggest the same. It actually works.

    hope it helped!
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  • Profile picture of the author jbsmith
    Aword of advice

    If you have tried all of that and you are not getting results, then you need to tweak/change your product or positioning - if the message is not resonating with your market, then it doesn't matter how much marketing you do - the results won't be there.

    It could be that your product is fine, just the messaging is not clicking. For example, maybe they don't want to "start" a junk removal business - maybe they want to know how to "run a $100K/year" junk removal business...

    Or -- there just may not be a big enough market and then you've got to decide, do i want to tackle a more lucrative market with an ebook or do I want to change direction entirely.

    Cheers,

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    • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
      Yeah, I thought the CB fee was a one-time fee, too. Sounds like the OP just needs to pick 1-3 methods and stick with them for a while. It can take a LONG time to see measurable results. That's why so many people give up on IM - they don't see results in a week, a month, or even six months, so they give up or constantly change tactics. Sometimes it's just about longevity.
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  • Profile picture of the author defaultuser
    I would recommend making some simple helpful videos about the first few steps and toss it onto YouTube. You can also promote the video itself through many different mediums.
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    See. This guys got something going.

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    • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
      Though I recommend stripping the ".wmv" file extension from the video title
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    • Profile picture of the author sanhal
      It's easier to sell an eBook if you can give a short report away first to get people to sign up to your list.

      Make a free report from your book and when they sign up send them to a one time offer page for your book at a discounted price.

      Write your articles and submit to Ezine Articles first and then rewrite the articles and submit to other article directories as others have suggested and include a link back to your free report in your resource box.

      Ask for reviews of your sales page in forums and get some opinions on it.
      You might get some suggestions that will make all the difference.

      Good luck with it. Keep at it and it will happen.


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  • Profile picture of the author xbokcom
    I suggest you market your ebook on video and article marketing. Give little thinks out of your ebook so it make people want to buy and read the rest.

    Do also split marketing see what marketing method works best for you and track it.

    All the best.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Running out of ideas? WHAT!?!

    1. Article marketing
    2. Mini reports on torrent files
    3. Mini reports added to sites like scribd, docstoc
    4. Traffic exchanges
    5. Safelists
    6. Twitter
    7. Blogging

    Thats not nearly the half of it
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  • Profile picture of the author JustOnePepsi
    Wow. Thanks for all the GREAT suggestions. The WF is truly a sharing group.

    Some notes:

    1. Yes, I have been doing article marketing using SE Nuke. The articles get SOME views.
    2. Yes, I have created 3 Youtube vids for the site and am optimizing them for Google first page.
    3. Yes, I am working toward building a general website about launching a small business from home and building an email list and upselling lots of add on courses about offline marketing, online marketing, etc. But that's a long road, and I'm trying to cut my teeth selling ebooks one-at-a-time until then.
    4. Advertising in small newspapers is a SUPERB idea. Junk haulers are the type of people will still read small classifieds papers like the Nickel Ads, so I'd be reaching a lot of potential buyers there.

    The site actually converts well. About 1:65 visitors buy. But I'm only getting 20 uniques a day, so I just need to pump up the traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Rikki_Fawkes
      Originally Posted by JustOnePepsi View Post

      Wow. Thanks for all the GREAT suggestions. The WF is truly a sharing group.

      Some notes:

      1. Yes, I have been doing article marketing using SE Nuke. The articles get SOME views.
      2. Yes, I have created 3 Youtube vids for the site and am optimizing them for Google first page.
      3. Yes, I am working toward building a general website about launching a small business from home and building an email list and upselling lots of add on courses about offline marketing, online marketing, etc. But that's a long road, and I'm trying to cut my teeth selling ebooks one-at-a-time until then.
      4. Advertising in small newspapers is a SUPERB idea. Junk haulers are the type of people will still read small classifieds papers like the Nickel Ads, so I'd be reaching a lot of potential buyers there.

      The site actually converts well. About 1:65 visitors buy. But I'm only getting 20 uniques a day, so I just need to pump up the traffic.
      In that case, I would think putting your product on CB might be beneficial, especially to attract affiliates.
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