How Should I Sell My Crowdfunding Ebook? Help!

How about putting it on Kindle (ebook) and CreateSpace (physical book)? Personally, I wouldn't bother trying to sell it as a WSO since it's not software or a money-making system. And the topic doesn't have a broad enough appeal for PLR.

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Dang, forgot all about Kindle! I'll try that as they have venues for short books.

One thing I tell people all the time, is that if you have something on your harddrive then you have a gold mine. Especially if you wrote it.

Ebooks are great. they are the new article marketing, and it allows us to stop writing for free. But unless you hit a home run you are not going to retire off them...they become a portion of the income we have.

But when these ebooks point to something else, they lead people somewhere, much like article marketing back in the day, then we have something.

The question becomes, what does this ebook with 13,000 words lead people too, to a membership site, product, to something that costs more than $2.99?

Not only will you be making cash off the work you have allready done, but now you will be creating some wealth from the marketing the book produces....

You're right Plongmire!

I've known that for some time. Dropping links, vids with links, audio to an ebook is like a traffic funnel. If you have endpoints for the readers to go to an upsell or joining your list etc. then you have multiple endpoints. Luckily there are a few things to upsell to. Hopefully this will put a few dollars in my pocket.

I have to disagree with the consensus here. I do believe a WSO would be a great way to get a buzz and launch your product. There is a lot of interest and the only other WSO on this topic is poorly managed. Se it here==> http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...u-can-too.html

I personally bought it and I would buy yours.

Thanks, Alvin Curren

Acurren, there has to be more data on crowdfundiing on WF. I'm getting people from WF contacting me with all sorts of ideas but I figured the crowdfunding niche was well represtned on WF. Besides I haven't had much luck with WSOs. It's like a hassle to put one up and then more trouble down the line. Not an expert at WSOs so am looking at other venues.

Heck, I think I'll put it out as an ebook elsewhere and then do a WSO with a lower price like $2 or something. Think I'll sell a few here?

Wow JoeFizz! Thanks!

The reason I'm putting this ebook out there is because I've paid all my bills except one last one that is around $1,500. Just a measly sum but need it fast. Luckily there are lots of people pouring in with great ideas. I may salvage something yet!

Wow! I'm getting lots of great feedback online and offline. Thanks everyone for their suggestions and help. Looks like the ebook will be available in a few days or early next week. The audio version probably next week too.

What exactly is crowdfunding? Sorry I am new to this term. Can anyone explain it a bit easily?

I'll be needing some reviews of this book so anyone interested let me know soon.

I have no idea what you just said. Are you kidding around?

I would say before you sell it to anyone you should talk to a lawyer first.

Since crowdfunding deals with issuing share of the company it comes under the securities laws and regulations which if a broken can land you in some serious trouble.

Now I don't know if you are licensed to give investment advice or not but either way I'd say consult an attorney to make sure your $9 ebook doesn't get you 15 years behind bars.

Glad you clarified yourself Thomas.

Also didn't know it was a violation of TOS since the company itself does the same thing here.

The most profit might be made by building a list and selling your own ebook directly to your list. Obviously, you can use your existing articles as the content to send to your list, and/or write some new stuff, as I'm sure you can.

Other strategies include offering commission to others to sell the ebook, such as by using JVZOO (I got a few sales from my ebook there in a few weeks), and then contact others who might be interested in selling it (such as relevant website owners).

A WSO might make some money, but as your topic is not directly what most people in internet marketing actually do (or want to do), it might not sell all that well (as even high-value, high-quality IM info, exactly what people DO need, is still a challenge to sell as a WSO, as I know myself!).

Your product is certainly of value, however, that doesn't mean you will sell any unless you find a way of persuading people to buy it (as I know from one of my hugely over-valued products, which has made a total of 1 sale, in 2 years, from about 15,000 relevant visitors!). So yes, it can be done, but it's not easy. I'd go with list-building if it were me (I am just starting my own list right now!), because that builds trust and increases your conversions, as well as keeping more of the profit for yourself. If you have contacts in the industry, you could maybe find some higher-price products, like interviews with those contacts, or whatever, in addition to the ebook.

Hope that helps

Chris

Turn it into a course, as you appear to have the experience.

1. Take your ebook and make Power Point Slides.

2. Make a Video, or even better, hold a Webinar (record it with Camtasia) and break it into modules. Into, Module 1,2,3

3. Build a membership site (outsource it to MarkPress.net) with a 1 time joining fee of $47-97 and people can learn via video with a bonus resources menu to help them along.

4. Up sell for 1-on-1 coaching with a 2-4 hour block of coaching at $245 per hour

5. Then give your eBook away for free as promotional material, this may sound crazy but people upgrade for the video training as its the most preferred way of learning. Post it on free ebook sites with links to your main site and make How-to Articles and post on How-to site to generate traffic back to your site.

6. Make a sales funnel with each stage being more expensive as the customer upgrades.

7. This is valuable information, if someone could raise $500,000 - how much do you think they would pay to learn that system?

8. Your target market is NGO's and charities that you could even direct market to with Post Cards (email comes across as spam). You could gather their mailing address via an online assistant with about 4-8 hours work and post cards from SendOutCards.com.

9. If sounds like to much work...PM me (Private Message) me to talk about sell outright as I really like what you could do with this information. Heck you don't need me, their are plenty of people who would back your cause.

Brett Olson, big thanks! You won't believe how many people have emailed me or SKYPEd me with similar info. I'm really surprised at the response so far! It's a real wellspring of info I had not expected. I mean people are leaping over the fence to do good deeds.

This ebook isn't about me boasting how successful I've done in crowd funding. It's about the theory and practical application thereof. I ain't doin' the infomercial type of product. I have a few people actively working on this ebook, a sort of redundancy if the other fails.

I'm just trying to offer a simple explanation to the public about the industry and how it may apply to them and how they can apply the resources available. Come what may the book will be out this week even if the people I'm working with on it fail. There's so much more info about the industry coming in that I'll have to do an updated version by year's end. I live here in Hollywood and am stunned at how many people, I mean directors and actors who are very famous have no idea what crowd funding is! I live in a neighborhood with tons of celebrities and rank and file actors and technicians. They're always looking for ways to do charity work but some of the crowd funding groups don't do charity. I found the ones that do and I've got people ready to pile in. It got so bad I had to push people away last night. People were all over me which is why I see the value of your suggestions as it's interactive.

I've got a great surprise coming from kinfolk and friends in government who are waiting for this book. They tossed in suggestions. My next main concern is using crowd funding to help veterans. I have a military family as well and we tend to our veterans. I have to get some musical instruments to some Air Force kids and other things. So if I can get that going I'll be happy. Just streamline that and I know just the right crowd funding group to work with on it.

So again thanks! I will PM you.

Why don't you build your own website, put up a sales pages on your website and sell it from there so that this way you can keep 100% of the profits