How I Plan To Make $500 Before The New Year... Please Help Me!

I am not an IM expert, but here are just a few tips based on my writing experience: First have a solid marketing blueprint, which would help you turn your dream into a reality. Before you pen your e-books, be sure to research the topics. If there is demand, it would make sense to take a dive. Writing a quality e-book or, for that matter, a quality article takes time. The content has to go through the write-review-edit cycle at least a couple of times. Be sure to factor that in your plan. Wish you success!

When making a website Content is king. Make sure you update unique content regularly and you shouldn't have a problem making 500 dollars be for new years. Very reasonaly goal! start small aim big!

I think you could very easily make $500 by offering services to businesses in your area.

Seems like nobody really wants to help but okay guess I'll help you out, $500 before the New Year, simple enough. There are a couple of ways to do it really..

1. You write those 3 eBooks and sell them, if each ebook sold for $20 and you got 1 sale a day for each you would exceed your goal of $500 by the 31st

2. You take one of your ebooks and offer them as a freebie to build your email list and you take another ebook and make it into video and sell that to your email list and get affiliates to promote it for you. If you sell the ebook & videos for $50 and offer a 50% commission to your affiliates & managed to get 2 sales a day you can meet your goal by the 31st.

Which ever way you decide, just be sure to take action on it and you'll be alright

A 2000 word EBOOK??????

Is your target market full of kindergarteners?

I just finished making a report to create a list in a new niche and that report crossed 5000 words.:rolleyes:

The question is, where are you going to find people that pay 5$ for a 2000 word ebook?

Can I see some samples of your work? I actually need a few articles in a short amount of time and can hire you immediately.

You will be able to make the money easier by writing for other people (like the guy above me). Also, 2000 words is an article not an ebook. If you are going to sell 2000 word ebooks, they better be good - or you will be flooded with refunds... thus killing your goal.

use social media marketing to viral your ebook distribution and publicity

Thank you everyone for the tips! I'm sorry, but I am not a person to go and write full time for someone else. I like my writing (it is probably much better than most of the ghost writers/freelance writers. But I want to write content that puts cash directly into my pocket. Not content that puts cash in other people's pockets after they pay me for one article. (you get the point).

Hay and don't criticize 2,000 word ebooks! Some of them are very very helpful and I already have one idea for a fiverr ebook that I can keep to 2,000 words and that amount of words will be just enough. Plus, who ever wants to read an ebook that is close to the size of a book? I like writing and I might write a full blown book in a few years but if I want to write an ebook, it has to be something that someone can finish reading easily the day they bought it.

Thanks for the tips about a solid blueprint and layout. I'll be sure to do that. I had thought of that and blew it off but now it seems that I will have to do one anyways.

I wish I could go and make this whole thing viral but I'm not exactly sure how. I guess If I can up the price to $8, put it on clickbank, and give 35% of the $8 (exactly $2.80) to affiliates I can make it viral. That would be another thing that I don't know. How can I target loads of affiliates in a week?

I will be sure to use my Twitter accounts to market this but that won't be nearly enough for my other ebooks that aren't on Fiverr. I have 5 or 6 Twitter accounts based for my Fiverr clone so that would be very helpful for my Fiverr clone ebook.

Oh and I have one big question for all of you reading this and posting in this:

Would you buy one of my 2,000 word $5 ebooks with master resale rights?

Yes, I agree. It would have to be pretty good quality content for such a little word count if you expect to charge that much for a copy. What topics are you focusing on?

1. Choose an upcoming product in ClickBank.


2. Create Review & Bonus site for the particular upcoming product.

3. Optimize the site for SEO

I'm not trying to offend you here, but I wouldn't consider 2,000 words an ebook - it's a long article. An eBook should be at least 5,000 if you're planning on selling it.

As for master resale rights, $5 would only be placed for a high quality ebook, with graphics and a sales page. Regular 20-40 page ebooks with no graphics or sales pages go for about $2. I have a lot of expertise in this area and I am just giving advice so you can reach you goal quicker without too much hassle.

90% of your post was on product. To make the $500, 90% has to be focused on marketing, marketing, marketing.

You can do it. How will you market is what you need to focus on?

Cheers,
Mukul

I think you are on the right track, but I'd be hard pressed to believe that a 2000 word ebook would have $5 worth of value.

Yes, I know it is all about the information in the ebook but I'm not sure that is enough words to fully explain a technique or whatever you will be explaining because you may also need to add in stuff related to the topic for people who may not be familiar with some of the things you talk about in there.

Also, the new year is only 2 weeks away, where would you be selling these to make $500?

Do you have a big list?

If you are planning on doing a WSO then I would suggest you look at the products in there already - people are used to getting HUGE value for $5 over there. For example, I just bought a 36 PAGE ebook over there for $4.97 and if thats what people are used to getting for their money then do you really think they will be happy with 2000 words?

I have a very small email list so I doubt that will help. I could (once done selling these ebooks) give one or two of them away as a freebie to join my mailing list. But it would be more helpful to build up my mailing list BEFORE I sell the ebooks. Now how could I do that?

I have been in IM for over a year now so I know at least more than the noobies that just started a month ago. I can market and understand it very well. I have many ideas but not much time because of my other job. The Fiverr clone was just a random idea and I haven't spent that much time on it. I plan to use the $500 to make a network of sites that will run on autopilot making not too much money but enough for me to finance more sites that are much bigger. And if I ever run out of financing money, I can just do more ebooks. I know a ton about internet marketing and don't want to be criticized. Thanks you.

So many naysayers here. Instead of spending so much time shooting someone with an idea down and telling him that 2000 words is not enough how about encouraging him and helping him out. It seems that so many here want to eat the young newbies and spit them out instead of helping them.

We all started somewhere and we all got help to do that. If you can present an idea in 2000 words then by all means do so. One problem one solution. It may not take a novel to provide that one solution.

I think that it can be done by listening to what the positive folks have to say in the answers and ignoring the naysayers. Just jump in and take action.

Friend, I have a suggestion as you unwind the sale of books. Sign up to social networks, forums and let ruklamu on their books. I agree, it is not easy, but what to do. The main thing is that it is free advertising. I'm sure someone must be interested in your books and buy them.

Like I said earlier, the question isn't in your work, the question is why would anyone buy your product when there are so many Marketing Gurus that sell 30page ebooks for the same price. What it comes down to is marketing, so how good your ebook will be ( and with 2000 words I'm sorry you won't cover anything worthwhile) is irrelevant.

Vlad

It seems to me that Youngsiteowner already knows everything... Good luck.

Give a way the ebooks, to build your list - start offering other products to your list - $500 by years end may be hard to accomplish since it's mid-december.

To the OP:

Firstly, I admire your ambition. Secondly, I apologize for all the flack you've gotten.

I see where you're going with this, and I don't think all is lost. $500 isn't unachievable by years end. Here's what I would do... You're on the right track, but, some of the suggestions you've received aren't entirely wrong. Use the 2000 word ebook as a teaser report for a free WSO. This will build your list. Give away free (QUALITY content is key ) stuff to your list building up to your items you want to sell.. Then put your mini books in a package of I would say three, and sell them for around $17. Make sure you are giving away quick straight to the point info, and give them PLR rights with the package. Not only is this a good way for you to get to your $500 goal, but this is a list that you can use repeatedly, but don't bore them to death with nonsense and they'll love you for life. Don't let yourself get discouraged, doing something is better than nothing at all. And hey, I can say for myself personally, I'd rather read 2000 words that get right to the point than waste my time reading 40k words that tell me nothing. lol

Hope this helps!

Jen