Question about E-Book marketing

Have you ever considered offline marketing?

PPC may be a great tool as well.

Here are my thoughts on your questions...

1. You can't really count on Amazon's mass audience... they won't put your book in front of their visitors if you book is not selling good or if it's not rated good, etc... so, you will firstly need to do some marketing for your book on other places to get first buyers, reviews, comments and so on... second, they are not giving you a list of buyers...

2. Clickbank is OK and it's not only about get rich quick, especially if that's not your niche... and no matter what is your niche, you should count on affiliates... that's why Clickbank could be a good idea for you... but again, you have to find ways to attract those affiliates...

3. No matter which route you go, prepare yourself for doing a majority of work by yourself... at least at first, because you need to get first sales, attract affiliates, and so on... on the other hand, the more work you do by yourself, the more money will come into your pocket... of course, you can make a lot by having affiliates but still it's good to do some marketing on your own and put 100% of price to your pocket

Since Warrior forum was helpful for you in making a decision to write that book, it can help you a lot to learn how to do marketing for your book... it's not easy but again, it won't be hard once you learn how to do it... I would suggest you to take your time and do it slowly... it's your first project of that kind so don't rush anything...

Also, take as much benefits from Warrior forum as you can... you probably know there are other sections of this forum, like JV section where you can find other Warriors to do various tasks for you, like reviews, promoting, partnering and so on...

Hi David, I have no experience in this niche and can be of only very limited use to you, here. I simply want to offer a couple of little observations which may possibly help.

You're wrong to think of it as a "venue" at all, in that sense.

If you offer a product for sale through ClickBank (and they certainly handle products in this niche), the sales page will be on your own site anyway, not on ClickBank's. ClickBank is the "venue" only for the payment system, and the affiliates' payment processing (if you want affiliates). Don't imagine that your own book will somehow become associated with all the money-making offers you're thinking of. That isn't how it works at all.

My own guess (albeit based on very little information indeed!) is that this might be something you'd be better off doing on your own, via your own website, perhaps using an ultra-low-cost product-delivery service like e-Junkie to handle part of the process, in conjunction with PayPal or a similar service, to process the payments.

However you set up the product-delivery and payment-processing, expect to do the marketing yourself, though. (Even if you want to sell through affiliates, you'll need to have a fully-running, fully-researched, fully-tested, converting sales process in place first.)

If you're just starting out, I recommend forgetting about affiliates or amazon. You can't build a list from your Amazon customers anyway.

Set up your own website and sell your ebook there. Then find out some good ways to get it in front of targeted customers. Once you start getting conversions and experience, then go reach out to affiliates.

This is how I did it and I'm doing pretty well selling ebooks these days.

Selling it via paydotcom or clickbank are a good option. It will attract affiliates. Most affiliates who want a quick dollar prolly wont look into that niche. Affiliates who do look into your niche are probably interested themselves and I don't think you will have to worry about no ethics. To promote your ebook i would start blogs and make use of social media alot. This can be very powerful. Make sure you have your own website with the ebook on it.

If your are conserned about affiliates with no ethic in clickbank then choose another affiliate network which let you approve your affiliates. I think digiresults.com offers this feature. It's a shame that in clickbank you have no control over your affiliates.

As for list buildling, digiresults.com offers autoresponder integration.

Not sure how well this works as yet but Authors: We Sell Your Ebooks is a site run by a very well known click bank person. They take any good non-fiction book and do all the marketing for you. You can chose whether to take a lump sum payment, percentage of sales (affiliates) or a combination. As I understand it, they do all the work taking the usual agent's commission. Definitely worth a try as it's a newish venture by a well known IM person.