Wrote ebook, where to go from there?

To turn your book into a PDF I'd suggest OpenOffice. It's free and will let you export your ebook as a PDF.

For selling your ebook you should look at ClickBank. They will handle all the billing and tell you all the steps you need to take to get your book up for sale.

JvZoo is also a good place to sell your eBook. Instead of selling your eBook on your site alone, allow some affiliates to sell it for you.

Have you considered selling it in Amazon as well?

Get a cover created for your e-book and get it up on Amazon Kindle. You don't even need to convert it to PDF, they accept .doc files. That's the easiest way to sell it. If you will be selling it through your website, just upload it to a folder and create a Paypal secure button with the file URL as the payment success URL. Then you can place that button or URL anywhere on your blog to sell it.

For your email issue, you should contact Hostgator about that.

Hi Brando,

There are many ways/systems you can use to sell it.

I would suggest a couple of things for your consideration:

1 - Get it into a system which lets people pay and download it.

2 - Use a system which easily allows you to create JV partner and affiliate relationships and manages the tracking and delivery of the product and payment of those affililates.

As Adrea suggested, something like JVZoo is a decent option for this.

3 - Take a step back and consider what other value you can offer/deliver to the people who buy your book.

One thing many newcomers to IM forget is that most of the money successful IMers make is not on the front end sale of their info products.

If you can create some supporting offers to give you the ability to up-sell and/or offer a OTO of a relevant product/service at the point where people are saying yes in the buying process of your book - you can multiply what you make.

To leverage your efforts you really need to consider what the lifetime value of your customers will be and what value you can offer, rather than load all of your focus and effort onto the front end product and then not having anything else to sell.

You may want to just get the initial sell done and then worry about this stuff later, that's your choice but it's something to give some consideration to.

4 - You're much more likely to get the majority of sales from enthusiastic affiliates than directly from your own efforts, so make sure you focus your offer, communications and rewards on finding and supporting those people.

Good luck.
Andy

Thank you for all the help guys. But I was wondering, since I'm selling it for so cheap, what self respecting affiliate would promote it? Even if I gave them 75% commission they are only making $7. Also, don't I have to pay a fee to place my book on sites like Amazon and clickbank? I'm worried I would be throwing that money away. I don't have a job anymore so I'm trying to spare every dime and invest it wisely.

You should hire someone to convert your ebook to PDF and then sell it through pay per click marketing.

You can also offer an affiliate program and have every customer have the option to join it to make money. That is what many vendors do.

Did i hear somebody say hire? I wouldn't mind though... Haha

Here are a few steps that should get you on your way:

1. Have professional looking cover developed
2. Setup your product to sell on Paypal and add the buttons to your site (so someone can actually order it) OR - go with a shoppingcart/affiliate management platform like JVZoo, E-Junkie (I use them all the time), Clickbank - varying benefits here including handling partner/affiliate sales, returns, commissions, etc...
3. Upload your ebook to a protected directory (simplest is to password protect a directory from your webhost's Cpanel) then have your payment processor kick out an automated email to your customers once they have paid with the link to that directory and password (There are more secure methods that provide one-time access, but for now this will work and prevent outright theft on an open directory)
4. Send targeted traffic and test your conversion - tweak your sales letter every 100 to 200 unique visitors or use split testing. That traffic can be paid (Adsense, Facebook Ads, Solo Ads), SEO (from content like articles, blog posts (highly recommend you start your own blog), social (Twitter, Facebook posts), Youtube videos, etc... and/or Partner Traffic from JV's

I would strongly suggest that you put together a higher-priced package option that is more attractive to affiliates - you can do this by bundling bonuses such as an audio version with your PDF, extra's like an "Action Plan Summary", special reports, expert interviews, etc... You can usually put together a higher-end package that can range from $47-$97 depending on your target market and competition.

Jeff

You could get affiliates from, Clickbank - JVzoo - Warrior+.

I think you should go that way, and then pay for retargeting traffic, boom a lot of sales incomming.

Great, thank you again everyone I got the book up and running on my site and connected through paypal. I'm almost ready and really excited to start marketing my first project Thank you for helping me through this process. Hopefully my last question. How can I make it so that paypal emails them the password to my pdf document? After reading JBsmiths post I want to put a password on it, but I don't know how I can make it so that my buyers will know the password?
Also thanks for suggesting OpenOffice I'm loving it

You can sell you rebook here too! But of course with special price. Btw, u can sell in Jvzoo, clickbank, and e-junk. There is ton of way to sell.

Buy solo ads to boost your sale.

Rmb to ready to build a ton of buyer list!

As andyhenry mentioned creating and offering a OTO at the time of the sale of your ebook and creating a high premium priced product to attract affiliates to sell your products and along with upsells & downsells in your sales funnel, is a simple formula to maximize your sales

Because you have a product now, this is where the challenges begin for all marketers and that is how are you going to promote this ebook, so here are a few more tips below to do so...

4 other ways to promote your new ebook...

1) ebay
2) submit a free report to pdf directories with a link to your site
3) craigslist
4) place an ad in a local freebie paper

Good luck let us know how it goes for you

Gonna let you in on a secret: use Bidvertiser for PPC to sell the book through text and your own banner ads. VERY cheap per click, and you can target traffic.

Would you suggest adding your book (or product, whatever it might be) to all these sites? JVZoo, E-Junkie, Clickbank or just one? I set the affiliate commission at 50%, another ebook guru had it at 50/50 and I respect him, so thought I'd do the same. What do you all give your affiliates if you'd like to share? I guess if you use many platforms instead of just relying on one, you don't feel so powerless if one website doesn't sell anything.

I guess there is also Payloadz and Digital River.