How To Make Money Selling Ebooks

Have you written an e-book? An e-book is a digital document that can be sold online in a purely digital form. Thus, unlike with selling a physical product, the fulfillment of an e-book is done completely online. This is great for you, the author, since you can completely automate the order taking and fulfillment processes.

Once you have the fulfillment process automated, the question becomes how to market the e-book online in order to get people to buy it. “How do I effectively market my e-books online?” is one of the most common questions I hear from my clients. Here are some tips that will help you sell more of your e-books and generate more revenue:

1. Put your ebook in your sigtag along with a free bonus. The free bonus will attract more people and bring in more sales.

2. Joint Ventures: Team up with other ebook authors or ezine publishers or webmasters to cross promote each other's products or services. Agree to send referrals to each other and recommend each other's products.

3. Use an excerpt from your ebook as an article and submit it to as many directories as possible. Be sure to mention your ebook in your resource box.

4. Search out quality targeted ezines and purchase solo or top sponsor ad spots.

5. Submit your ebook to as many ebook directories as you can. The more links to your ebook, the better.

6. Write a keyword rich sales page and optimize it for the search engines with meta tags and page title.

7. Offer two or three free bonuses with your ebook. make and offer that is very hard or impossible to refuse.

8. Ask a few people to write reviews for your ebook in exchange for a free copy. Post the reviews on your site.

9. Offer a free report as a lead-in to your ebook. People love free information and if you offer a quality report that gets them interested they very well may want to buy your ebook.

10. If you publish an ezine, ask other ezine publishers to swap solo or top sponsor ads.

11. Start an affiliate program and offer people a percentage to sell your ebook. One of the best places to do this is Clickbank. For a small fee you can set up your affiliate program and increase your sales many times over.

12. Offer the first chapter or two as a freebie. Be sure and leave them wanting more.

13. Visit message boards or join discussion groups to learn marketing strategies that have worked for other publishers and authors. If it works for them, it can work for you as well.

14. As with any marketing campaign, you have to stick with it. Be consistent. You cannot submit to a couple of directories and post to a couple message boards and then sit back and wait to get rich. Marketing is a daily commitment.

You can only make money with your e-book if you sell it. Follow these tips that we discussed to sell more e-book copies and make more money.