Help Fitness ebooks No Sales

It would be helpful to see your sites so other Warriors can give
you some advice on what the problems may be.

Without seeing your actual sites off the top of my head I can
say that you are in a very competitive niche, and except
you have superb marketing skills or tons of credibility it
would take some time you for you get sales going.

In addition, that's not enough traffic to make a good
decision on. So quality traffic may be your issue, at
least part of it.

-Ray Edwards

Suggestions:

1. Start getting involved with various social sites. I have had quite a bit of success with Twitter and now have over 60,000 followers. Facebook is also excellent and there are many, many more.

2. Get involved with some of the writer sites. (CreateSpace, Kindle Authors, etc.)

3. Build up your site as an authority site. Write articles. You must make your site attractive and interesting. You can push (gently) your site through the social media. People are hungry for good content, so if you provide that, they will come...

You've chosen a VERY tough niche to crack, YP8.

By the way, kudos to you for getting to the stage you're at now. It's an achievement.

I have two thoughts on your post.

1. Promote yourself FIRST.

You need credibility. I'm not familiar with the fitness/Pilates niche, but from what I've seen the products which do best are headed by someone with credibility -- they're famous, even if only in a small way.

So, start by promoting yourself as an expert in fitness/Pilates -- tell people how long you've been doing it. Give tips, talk about others' products as well as your own...

You can kickstart the process of gaining credibility by piggybacking. Interview experts in fitness/Pilates (expert because they have a book published, or whatever), on your blog.

Most importantly of all, BLOG. There's a reason Seth Godin blogs every day. You'd think he wouldn't need it, but you can take a big lesson from the fact that he blogs every day.

2. You need more than one product.

One product is neither here nor there.

If it's a dud, so what?

You should be well on the way to launching products #2, #3 and #4...

Sooner or later, you'll get a hit, if you keep going. The products will reinforce each other. You can cross promote and do much more with a range of products than you can do with one.

Kindle authors know that the more ebooks they have, the better they do.

So get to work and create.

I wish you much success. Set to work, and you'll do great.

Angela

I am going to strongly disagree that this niche is too tough to crack....I am in this niche, but good quality content can lift your ship above the waters.

420 visitors a month is a pathetic attempt at entering this niche. A new site with some work could get that daily within the first two weeks of being on line.

You clearly have a problem. Here it is:

"I am just swamped with a million other sites"

You need to decide if you are willing to put the focus into this niche.

It does you no good to have zero momentum in multiple niches. Running hard and going deep in one niche is way easier than having a "million sites". And, it's way more productive.

Here's an idea. Journal your time and associate every minute you spend with each niche/site/project you have...At the end of the week, look at how many minutes you put into each.

Then, ask yourself how much you've actually accomplished for each niche/site/project.

I could give you a laundry list of things you could do that would give you 10 times the number of visitors you have right now. But, you have to get clear in your mind, if it's even worth it for you to continue.

If you decide to dump Aweber, you might as well sell the domain and the product that you've built. Either go all in, or go all out.

If you decide to sell, let me know, if it's decent, I might buy it.

I suggest you register to this free site:

Fitness Blog Training: A Full-Time Living from 1 Blog?

I am, and find lots of valuable content from a guy who is in your niche. He has launched two ebooks and has a fitness blog at Fitness Tips To Get Lean and Toned, Not Bulky! | Fitness Black Book.

Edit: I forgot to mention that he is a Warrior as well.

I just want to say guys - sorry for the slight delay in reply here, considering all this amazing advice you've given me - just a little swamped in Christmas chaos.

I'm going to work through, and check out all what you've discussed.

Many thanks for now

I highly recommend Rusty's blog as well. It's great for getting your head around the traffic generation.

Here is a good post on Tim Ferris's blog about the bloke who created the Truth About Abs series. The Truth About Abs: How To Make $1,000,000 Profit Per Month with Digital Products (Plus: Noah Kagan results) You should be able to get a lot out of it as well.

And a Warrior posted just the other day about the Lunch Box Diet which even though not fitness it's still relevant to what you are trying to achieve.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...s-newbies.html