Your experience in selling eBook??

Here's my first experience:

I started with a $47 weight loss book on Clickbank that I wrote myself. Wrote the sales copy, did everything myself - this was back in 2006. I didn't know anything about PPC, but I did know I needed to find affiliates.

I used newsletter traffic to make sales and found one affiliate with 170,000 people on her list. I had a few other affiliates send traffic once I starte going - made "okay" money, but didn't approach it the right way and by 2008 I was done with it...

It's regretful. But that's what happened.

eBooks can make a lot of money if you know how to promote it and have a good funnel in place. If you don't have upsells and downsells you won't maximize your money (but you still could make good money). They don't sell themselves, but they do sell if you promote them aggressively and you have a good product.

Depends on the subject on "your" ebook. If I were starting over I would drive PPC traffic to the page, get some conversion stats and then track down a bunch of affiliates if the results were stellar. Then I would write the entire email launch sequence for the affiliates and offer 75% to get them to send to their lists.

Then I would sit back and watch my bank account grow and give excellent customer service to the buyers.

Sure - we have sold ebooks, reports, video training programs, membership sites, etc..for over a decade now and continue to grow them.

It all started with selling our first ebook which then expanded into an additional title and then a membership product (to help with those who wanted ongoing, step-by-step training rather than a one-time read of an ebook)

These days, more than ever, you must think of yourself as a coach or consultant who uses information products like ebooks, video training and coaching, to help deliver transformations in people's lives that they want, but struggle with. Examples - losing weight, finding a solid relationship, becoming a better person, overcome a mental or physical condition, succeed at something (sport, business, hobby, etc...)

We now have a wide range of infoproducts in markets including self improvement, health, writing and business.

Tapping into your audience is all about effective marketing - today that means leveraging affiliates, blogging, building followings on relevant social networking sites, leveraging video and other forms of publicity

Jeff

Just selling ebooks on Amazon, one of the biggest marketplaces in the World!
Mostly in the Entrepreneurship & Small Business and Home-Based Business Categories.

eBooks I've only done on Amazon. Been self-publishing since 1978, so, I got a lot (600+) of print books out there, but not many of them have been converted to e-editions yet.

I'm too lazy to put them up anywhere else.

I haven't tried getting any of my books into affiliate programs. I thought about doing it with some of my RVing books and had considered using ClickBank but never got around to it.

I'm lazy? I don't know. I had a lot of health issue (was bedridden with a back injury for 5 months last year and had to relearn to walk, still on a cane now; it kind of put my writing career on hiatus for a full 14 months - NOT fun at all! ARGH!) I'm finally getting back into my regular pre-health-issues schedule again, and right now focussing mostly on getting back on track with my monthly/weekly release schedule I may look into putting some books up on ClickBank once I've got my other stuff back in order..

Oh, yes. Definatly. Love it to pieces. Completely addicted to it. I get immense pleasure and joy from writing about things I love.

For years I've self-published through various print methods, and have never been able to make a full time income off my writing. It made money, but not enough to live off of.

Then in 2010 I discovered Amazon Kindle and put a few books up. I mad a great big .35c my first monthly, then had no sales for several months. Then in 2012, I put a few more books up, and saw a few more sales, but still nothing substantial. In 2013, I decided to convert a bunch of my books to e-editions, and put them all up at once starting in October 2013 through May 2014, and suddenly I had a steady income coming in. I completely did not expect that at all. I was just putting my books up because some of my online friends wanted copies of some of my old out-of-print books and they said they had Kindle devices so I tossed them up on Kindle so they could have them, and next thing I knew total strangers were buying my books and I was like: wait, what? I write pulp fiction serial crap that no one likes reading, why are people buying this?

But people were buying it, so I put up more and people bought those too, and I was...WOW.

Then Squidoo went offline and I had all these Squidoo Lenses (600+ most 7,000+ words each) and so I started compiling them into chapters and putting my non-fiction up on Kindle as well and people bought those too.

I was completely flabbergasted by the end result, because I did not put my stuff up on Kindle with any goal of many money and it just blew me away that all of a sudden, my stories that for years had paid squat in print, were suddenly paying my bills as ebooks.

Depends on a lot of factors: genre, topic, price, cover, time of year, current promotion, etc. Each book has different results.

Most of my books are priced at .99c (earning .35c per sale) or $2.99 (earning $2.09 per sale). I've got a few at $1.49, $4.99, $5.99, and $7.99, but those price points don't sell as well, so I'll be switching all the $1.49s to .99c and everything else to $2.99. I make more money with 2 sales at $2.99 then I do with zero sales at $7.99.

I had 173 titles on Amazon last time I counted. Each on sells about 1 to 3 copies per title per week, most week, with about a dozen or so that sell 1 to 3 copies per title per month.so that's 150 to 300 copies sold per week. About half of them at .99c and half at $2.99, so, let's do the math for that and see where my actual average point is.

Let's assume on the low side and say they only sell 1 copy per week and drop it down to 150 instead of 170 (just to make the math easier to do)

150/2=75

75x.35c=$26.25

75x$2.09=$156.75

156.75+26.25= $183 a week if 150 of my books sell 1 copy, per title, per week.

Now that's not an accurate figure, because my more popular titles sell 1 to 3 copies a day, while my least popular titles only sell 1 to 3 copies a month. But as a general rule, most of my titles sell 1 to 3 copies a week, so most weeks my ebook income averages out to $150 to $300. But then there are season fluxes. In January my sales bottom out and I can got 4 or 5 weeks in a row with out a single sale, not one, across any of my titles at all. Then in October, just before Halloween, my sales skyrocket and reach 100+ per title per day and suddenly I'm making more money in one week then the rest of the year total. So, it's really all over the place, just rollercoastering up and down all year long.

What I like to do, when planning my budget, is to figure in all the totals throughout the year, and come to an average. And when I did that, the end result was $75.

Overall, most weeks I can plan on earning $75. That's an averaged figure, meaning some weeks I earn ZERO and some days I have earned as much as $600 in a single day.

The reason I plan on $75, is because I don't very often have a week of less then that. And while I do have weeks that are much higher, those weeks are less predictable, so I do not rely on them to be there.

I figure, it's best to plan for less and be surprised at more, then to plan for more and be disappointed with less. Keeps me better motivated to keep trying to do better, that way as well.

If I keep my expected income low, I can look at it and say, "How can I make $75 a week average become $100 a week average."

I used to think in terms of: "My goal is to make $100 a day" and after a while I realized that by setting my goal high like that, I ended up putting mental roadblocks in my path, because I'd see the $100 a day and then go "Wait a minute, I can't do that!" And next thing I knew I'd be having panic attacks instead of getting any work done. But Then I changed to to "I'm gonna make $25 this week." and suddenly, I was thinking: "I can do that!". So it became a way of tricking myself into being motivated by setting my goals and expectations at low easy to reach grasping points, instead of big overachieving high rises. In the end, by doing that I was better motivated to find ways to reach my goals. I guess it's kind of a slow and steady wins the race, I'm being a turtle not a rabbit sort of thing.

So I do that same thing now still. Now I can think: "I plan on making $75 this week" and then when the deposit goes to the bank and it was a $1,000 this week instead of $75, all of a sudden I can running Snoopy Dancing over it. It's horrible I play tricks on my mind like this, but it works so well at keeping me motivated.

Both fiction and non-fiction

MOST of my fiction is listed on Amazon in:

Fiction> Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Dark Fantasy

or

Fiction> Horror > Gothic

or

Fiction> Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic Fantasy

I have a few in other categories but only 1 or 2 of each, because I wanted to try out new genres and in most cases I just wrote one book of that genre and then went back to writing Weird Tales and Bizarro instead.

Note: I do not have a single, solitary book in the Erotica category. I write Monster Porn NOT Monster Erotica (yes, they are two separate genres.) In March I contacted Amazon and requested a manual review of my Monster Porn books and asked them what category they belonged in, because they were clearly not even close to being Erotica, but amazon did not have a category for Weird Tales or Bizarro (where they belong). 14 days later I heard back from amazon, they said their review team after reading my books had decided the best place for them was Fiction> Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Dark Fantasy and that they had moved all my Monster books over there, and so that's where I put all the new releases now.

and

MOST of my non-fiction is in:

Non-Fiction > Social Science > Customs & Traditions

(We are Gypsies; I wrote several books on the history of my clan)

or

Non-Fiction > House & Home > Sustainable Living

(I am now a boondocking homesteader and write about various things I do)

or

Non-Fiction > Social Science > Poverty & Homelessness

(I was homeless for 9 years and wrote several books on it)

or

Non-Fiction > Language arts & Disciplines > Authorship

or

Non-Fiction> Mind, Body & Spirit> > Magick Studies

(I'm a Voodoo Priestess and have several spell books)

or

Non-Fiction> Sports & Recreation> > Camping

(I live in a motorhome)

I have a few in other locations, crafts, cookbooks, and gardening, but again, I only did 1 or 2 of each of those.

My experience has taught me, that the best book for YOU to write, is the one about the topic you have the most personal experience in. As you can see from my topics, that is what I do. I write fiction that is in genres I enjoy reading and I write non-fiction that is very autobiographical, detailing things that have happened in my life and how I have delt with them.

Any one topic or genre on it's own doesn't make a lot of money for me. It's the fact of my having SO MANY titles that is making the income. If I was to just rely on 1 or 2 books in a single topic, I wouldn't be making a lot of money at all. No one book of mine is making substantial money and they are all very low ranked with very poor reviews. I mean, I've got 1 book that has 8 one star reviews and that's it, it ain't got anything but 1 star reviews. And that's not that unusual for my books really.

I'm not writing popular topics or popular genres, I'm just writing the things I enjoy. They make money, because I write a lot of them.

For me the "secret" to making an income from this, was NOT the topic, but rather the volume. I just had so many old out of print books laying around, and so was able to reformat them to ebooks and get them all up on Kindle at once. For a while I was publishing a new book ever day. I just had this 'instant" back log of a hundred+ books that went up on amazon all at once, and that's why I was able to make an income from it.

So, yeah, that, is me and how I do it. My method is kind of scatterbrains and running all over the place, I'm kind of a Golden Retriever running around chasing my tail when comes to writing, but hey, it works for me. I don't know if it'd work for anyone else or not.

On my own website, through PPC (Overture) at the time. This was all i knew how to do.

Clickbank. And i made sales from it. So kept selling on there.

Absolutely. This business and affiliate marketing are the 2 best businesses online in my opinion.

Not much. I was trying to sell this $397 product.... straight to the sales letter page.

Home business. I should have actually read and listened to the product instead of sell it.

Sex and penis enlargement. Most of my customers where men. You know how men go with this kind of stuff.

Good luck man.