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How to promote ebook?

by guideebook
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Hi,

I am new at the forum, as well as internet marketing. May I get some tips from experienced warriors how they promoted their ebooks? (Or links to related posts)

Hy hobby is writing, so I wrote some ebooks already, mainly on the topic I know most about: Moving to and living in Malaysia as an expat. Because some side income would be nice, these are for sale. But I wrote other free ebooks and have the same problem with promoting. I tried freebie sites and ebook directories already. Any recommendations for me?

Thanks a lot!

P.S. If you want to have a look at them, visit my albums at this forum.
#amazon #ebook #ebooks #free ebooks #publish ebook
  • Profile picture of the author Mozzyweb
    I would recommend you to use social bookmarking service. Millions of people will be aware of your book. But you should care about a catchy title!
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    • Profile picture of the author mila123
      Getting a domain and uploading it: Check!
      Social Bookmarking Website: Check!

      Thanks Guys! I have been writing an ebook about lower back pain treatment but I really dont have an idea on what to do next. Nice for you guys to lend a hand. Cheers!
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      • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
        There are so many ways to promote it that I would suggest that you select a manageable number of strategies and fully carry them out:
        1. Convert a small chunk of ebook or summary of it to video, then upload to video sharing websites such as youtube. Make it helpful rather than a blatant ad (viewers respond better to it this way), and simply include a link at the beginning and end of video and beginning of description (Example Web Page).
        2. Publish articles on article hubs on hubpages.com, including info on your ebook in your resource box. These should be unique articles.
        3. Write a *newsworthy* press release that is so strong that it doesn't come across as an ad for your ebook (even if that is what it is), then distribute on online press release sites (and maybe send it out as hardcopy to venues as well. Snail mail gets noticed nowadays, lol)
        4. Set up twitter account and make comments that your target market would appreciate (*don't* be spammy, not because it's bad so much as it doesn't actually work).
        5. Set up an account on social network site (whichever) and actively participate in relevant chat groups.
        6. If you don't have time for the above, outsource it to quality service providers.
        7. Consistently add to the above.
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  • Profile picture of the author guideebook
    Hi there,

    thanks to Daryl Lim, Mozzyweb, mila123, thunderbird!

    Done many of the above already, run a blog and websites, article writing not my favorite but I wrote some, bookmarked at MisterWong Delicoius Digg..., 3 Twitter accounts already, I have some problems with Facebook, Flickr photos... Seems I´m doing something wrong, or the niche is too small.

    Haven´t tried the video thing and the press release, so I will try this next.

    Thanks again and have a nice weekend :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author vok
      Have you thought of adding your ebook to the clickbank market place using Clickbank as your merchant will allow other people to promote your ebook for a cut of the sale price, maybe well worth looking into as there's a lot of people who do very well as a vendor on CB!
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      • Profile picture of the author guideebook
        Yes indeed, I thought about clickbank. But there I have to invest around $50 to get listed for every ebook. Still thinking about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JumpInMyCar
    this thread interests me too, I have a book that I have been promoting in various offline ways.

    Doing public speaking always does well at converting to sales.
    Email blasts of special deals too has worked

    The mention of get affiliates to promote it for you I've done and setup on clickbank and got the sales page, but how do I go about getting affiliate marketers to promote it?
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  • Profile picture of the author derprinz
    Get domain
    articles on hubpages
    facebook
    twitter
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  • Profile picture of the author mousecalls
    Another tip is to make it an affiliate product and have others earn a commission every time they sell a book for you!

    We do that with our services and products.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gradle
    You can upload your ebook to Amazon.com, there are not enough ebooks for the Kindle or the other readers in their library. You do not have to promote yourself as you have the biggest online company selling your book for you. You also get reviews that you can use and the commission isn't bad either.
    Gradle
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    • Profile picture of the author guideebook
      Originally Posted by Gradle View Post

      You can upload your ebook to Amazon.com, there are not enough ebooks for the Kindle or the other readers in their library. You do not have to promote yourself as you have the biggest online company selling your book for you. You also get reviews that you can use and the commission isn't bad either.
      Gradle
      Thanks Gradle!

      Amazon is worth considering. I have to find out more about the costs and the conditions.

      What I found out:
      No cost for submit to Amazon, 70% royalty for sales in US and UK, 35 % royalties for all other countries, 60 days for payout, + download fee per kb.
      (no www) dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin (sorry I am not allowed to submit URL)
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      • Profile picture of the author guideebook
        Update:

        still working on the upload of my ebook to Amazon. Made the ebook as slim as possible, had to say godbye to many images.

        Found out that ISBN is not necessary anymore, saves $125.

        But struggle with the upload. I converted the ebook doc file to the mobipocket format, but when I upload it to amazon the images disappear and all the blanks are gone.
        When I upload the original word document the images are there, but the table of content is gone.

        Think I have to convert the doc to html somehow. Will try that tomorrow.
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    • Profile picture of the author guideebook
      Originally Posted by Gradle View Post

      You can upload your ebook to Amazon.com, there are not enough ebooks for the Kindle or the other readers in their library. You do not have to promote yourself as you have the biggest online company selling your book for you. You also get reviews that you can use and the commission isn't bad either.
      Gradle
      Thanks to you Gradle, my first ebook is available at Amazon now: amazon.com/dp/B0049H95E2
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      • Profile picture of the author CCGAL
        Wow - it's in German - I didn't expect that, probably because we are writing English here so it never occurred to me to think of it being in another language.

        Congratulations on getting it up on Amazon!
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        • Profile picture of the author mellisavarquez
          I think that You can promote your book where you can find the potential customer to buy it or read it. It's your first task then Do some effective marketing on potential customer. In this way you can promote your ebook through the media or web promotion or seo or many ways....
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  • Profile picture of the author bettyduncan
    Are there any differences between ebook promoting and sites optimization?
    I thought they were the same thing! They are all about doing SEO!
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