Wrote the ebook - now what?

If you will allow me to see the ebook, I'll be able to gauge what setting it'd be best suited in.

You will have to create a sales page. You can use wordpress with optimizepress which costs 97$, or you can find an html template either free or paid (themeforest.net might be usefull on this. with 10$ you can find a very good looking theme).

edit: have a look on these themes: http://themeforest.net/category/marketing/landing-pages

You can use a simple html page for your sales page. You can search Google for some free templates.

You definitely need to build a list of buyers. The very point of marketing is to have paying customers so that you can make a long term income.

Aweber is my recommendation for an autoresponder...Good luck

Well It's hard to sell right away, but if you still want to sell it,this is what I would do :

1- Create a pre-sell page.

2- Create a killer sales letter for your ebook,( hire someone to do it for you)

3-Drive LASER TARGETED TRAFFIC to your pre-sell page.( would recommend solos for that one,and banner buys)

4- DO IT CUZ IT WILL MAKE YOU MONEY!

It means nothing more than you need to make an excellent and so attractive sales page for the product. The reason is you must catch visitors for the product through their first visit.

No matter If you have an idea that how to create a so attractive sales page. If you don't have, search internet, check 20-25 sales page and take ideas for your sales page.

Try plimus.com Sell Online, Payment Gateway, Ecommerce Platform | Plimus

No set up fee for seller account, and they offer 10 different payment methods for your buyers such as PayPal, Credit/Debit cards, Bank Transfers, Phone and Fax Orders

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This is going to sound critical, but I am coming from a place of wanting to point you in the right direction:

Your post is a recipe for failure.

First off, what is the e-book about? What market are you trying to reach? What kind of market research did you perform to ensure it's a market with proven buyers? Did you already research how to monetize your e-book?

Very few marketers can get away with selling one e-book, not building a list with autoresponders, not building a network using FB and Twitter, and not having a comprehensive back-end strategy; those that can know what they're doing. I would never sell a product without setting up an autoresponder series first.

There is no "best" way to set up and deliver the e-book since you literally have hundreds of options. I mean there's Clickbank, Shoppingcart.com, Digiresults, E-Junkie, you can use DL Guard, there's RAP, Paydotcom, the list goes on and on.

Sure, some of the common wisdom in here might advise you to:

1. Set up squeeze page for your own traffic.
2. Set up a separate sales page for your affiliates (with no opt-in form as that will attract more affiliates).
3. Buy traffic or get traffic from SEO, content syndication, press releases, etc.
4. Test, track, and tweak your website.
5. Get an autoresponder and offer an incentive for people to opt-into it.
6. Start promoting affiliate offers along with your e-book.

And that MIGHT work for you, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. You should have some idea of what numbers you'll need before you get started. This is why most people fail, they create the product before the plan.

RoD

Is there some reason why you're not selling this ebook as a Kindle product? The last time I checked, Amazon doesn't impose set up fees.

Thank you for your words of wisdom guys!

There are some good points there to consider.

When it comes to delivering the ebook, what is an easy and cheap/free tool for that? I'd like an auto delivery that is connected to Paypal, so when the payment is authorized the product is sent automatically to the buyer.

You'll need some testimonials, try selling it at WSO section of WF. You will learn a lot from it and get great feedback on how to update your ebook.

If it is something that you are not interested in having affiliates help market and, is, as you say, just an impulse product in a field you will probably not continue writing in, Amazon, LuLu, and Barns and Noble all have set-up systems for you that are free of charge to use, however, there will be a percentage taken out of each sale. They will collect fees and just send them to you either via paypal or check.

The marketing on those systems would be the same as if you had a website - driving traffic to the link, but you wouldn't need your own site. You can set up on free blogs to drive traffic to the page - squidoo (not sure if they are as good for traffic as they used to be), hub pages - twitter, facebook, and other social sites. You can also place advertisements on websites and facebook.

If you someday decide to follow up that product with another, you can build a site any time to feature the works you have put onto LuLu or Barnes and Nobles, etc.

It doesn't have to be a complicated matter to sell a lone ebook.

I think it is to create applications for iphone and sell it

Has anyone bought any of the Kindle WSOs that are popping up all over?
Just wondering if they are worth the money and if there is any particular one that you would recommend?

Send as much free and paid traffic as you can afford with your time and money but make sure to keep a strict budget and don't spend any money that you don't mind losing. It's risky. Do so at your own risk.

Promote your book in Digiresults site

Agreed for Aweber as your autoresponder.

I read up on WordPress and learned how to make a site basically overnight with very minimal HTML skills. I host it on HostMonster for like $7 a year for unlimited space. There are tons of free templates, its a little work, but I think the investment saves you a lot of $ which sounds like a good thing right now.

What's the ebook about? Selling online comes down to 2 things. Traffic and conversions. Drive targeted traffic to your offer, and then convert that traffic into sales by showing them the benefits of buying your product.

Man, where to begin? First forget everything you're thinking!

First, when you say "impulse buy" how did you come to that conclusion? Merely by the price? An impulse buy is something that offers instant gratification and such a good deal you'd be an idiot for not buying it.

The "good deal" has many more elements to it than merely the price. That's why I always ignore the price when I am trying to put together a good deal for my customers.

That leads me to my next point...

A good deal is a good deal to people who know you. Essentially your customers. No one else will think you are offering a good deal because they have nothing else to compare it to. Although, a good copywriter could possibly fix that issue.

Do you see where I'm going here?

You need to follow a sound process because that's exactly what is going to sell your e-book... a process!

Let me ask you, how long do you plan on giving it a shot before you quit because "it ain't selling"? The reason I ask is because everything you are saying leads me to believe you aren't ready to make this work. You're just giving it "the old college try" and see what's going to happen.

Well, if you aren't planing on working at this, building a list, building a relationship with people, testing different elements of your sales page, testing and tracking different traffic methods then you are in for a world of hurt.

There are people who make a ton of money selling an e-book and then there are people who make diddly squat. The difference isn't in the book... the difference is in the person behind the book. A person willing to figure out what's wrong when his book isn't selling is someone who will make things happen.

Sure, you'll create products that are duds but how will you even know for sure if it's a dud if you don't plan on giving it everything you've got right from the get-go?

If you don't want to waste a lot of money to test your product then you should at least be willing to spend $140 a year right?

Hosting - Hostgator (baby plan) .... $7.96 a month
Autoresponder - Imnica Mail ......... $3.00 per month (up to 1,000 subscribers)
Domain name - Name Cheap ......... $9.97 per year (with coupon code)

Total monthly costs .................... $10.96 per month + domain name cost


Product Delivery Method:

Profits Theme (one time cost) $97
I like this because you can setup your squeeze pages, sales pages, secure members area to deliver your product and more all in one.


In The End:

So to get setup and running you will need $117.93 which will take you to the next month at which time you'll need to pony up $10.96

find affiliates in big traffic sites, by typing in keywords popular for you niche.

Approach these guys and do a JV, or ask them to sell your product for a nice commision.

I did this when I was first online and was one of the ways I made my first 5k online.

Pretty much went full time after that. So if you do this properly you can kill it.

Hope this helps.

You haven't told us ANYTHING about the book that you wrote. With that being said, please explain what your ebook is about. I have major experience in product launches but without knowing the niche I cannot tell you exactly how to approach selling this book. Please expand.

I would rather give an ebook away and build a list than to sell an ebook and make a couple of thousand. I am sure you probably do not understand but alot will.

Test your audience on eBay using some selected keywords that your niche is in....test price points, how many hits your auction gets, and how many conversions.

From there, you'll get a better feel of what you can do on a bigger scale then hit it hard since you've tested and know what works.

Having some good JV's will also help tremendously.

If I were you, I would...

1) Get an auto-responder (please don't "save" money on this essential service for internet marketers... you will lose more in the process... in terms of the inability to follow up with your prospects and the opportunity of building a quality list which you can leverage on),

2) Set up a squeeze page, GIVE THE EBOOK away for FREE to build up your list (Yes, IT IS IMPORTANT TO BUILD UP YOUR LIST)

3) Promote related products at the backend...

That's what I've been doing and this has allowed me to build up a list of almost 28,000 subscribers in the Personal Development Niche (and almost 16,000 facebook fans in 3 months), and make a full-time living off affiliate marketing =) Time to do what works, bro. I regretted not building up my list sooner

Depending on your niche, use Twitter and Facebook (youropenbook.net) and search for people using social buying terms, and target them with your landing page.

You can sell it on tradebit.com, payloadz.com, amazon kindle, clickbank, paydotcom.com, or even smash words by Sony...

...or simply market it on the internet for a good price the same way that you would market anything online.

I hadn't heard of dlgaurd before. I'm going to look into that for myself. Thanks for the suggestion Mitsakis.

In my view, Lulu and Amazon Kindle would be the best places to create and sell your ebook. Hope this helps.