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How to Make Money Selling Ebooks
You can either purchase ebooks with or without resell rights. I
would recommend buying ebooks with resell rights so your
customers have an additional reason to purchase from you. They
can then sell the ebooks themselves!
There are several ways you can set up your new ebook selling
site or ebook store.
Sell on Ebay
You can auction off your ebooks on eBay. eBay has very specific
policies on selling ebooks so be SURE to read and follow all
their policies.
Offer Ebooks on Your Site
If you already have a site, you can easily offer the ebooks on
your existing site. Make a folder called ebooks (or whatever you
like) and upload it to your host. Upload all your ebooks into
this folder. Give them keyed names so people will not be able to
guess the file name.
For example: if you have an ebook called Ezine Publishing and
you call the file ezinepublishing.zip, this could make it very
easy for someone to "guess" the download link by the name and
download the ebook for free.
You want to code the names- for example:
instead of ezine publishing, you might name the file
ez-pub-32c.zip These coded names are nearly impossible for
people to guess so they are unable to steal the ebook.
Then add an index page where you would introduce your ebook
store to your visitors. Let them know there will be no shipping
cost as they are delivered electronically. Make sure you
introduce your ebook store on your site homepage as well.
You might also want to list the categories on the index page so
your customers can click directly to the ebooks they are
interested in. Have a short description of the ebook and a
graphic (if possible). You can have a whole page for each ebook
or you can put several on a page.
Go to Paypal and make up a button to put on your site for
ordering. If you do not like Paypal, use any payment service you
want.
**TIP - To avoid the time of making up each individual button,
use the code from the first button and just change the necessary
info like price, item name and code. This will save you a lot of
time in setting up your ebook store.
Automatic Digital Delivery
You can purchase a program for setting up your store and having
all purchases automatically delivered. This saves you a lot of
time plus gives your customers the items immediately which helps
with repeat sales.
One such program that does this very well is called The Digital
Store. Do a search for this or automatic digital delivery ebooks
and you will find a wide variety of scripts/programs to suit
your needs.
Be sure to continually add new ebooks for your existing
customers. We have had numerous repeat sales by doing this.
Also, you might want to have a mailing list to keep people up to
date of your new additions and any specials or sales you may be
having.
Affiliate Programs
You can also sell other people's ebooks by joining their
affiliate program. This means that for every ebook you sell, you
will get a commission from the ebook owner. If you write your
own ebook, you could also start your own affiliate program. To
find such programs just do a search for ebook affiliate programs.
If you do purchase and/or write your own ebooks for resale, be
sure and choose/write the ebooks with a lot of useful, helpful
information and resources. There are a lot of ebooks that are
simply full of ads and sales letters for the writer's products.
You want to steer clear of these types of ebooks.
People love to buy and read good ebooks and if you offer a good
selection and price, they will continue to buy from you.
About the author:
************* Seymour Products can get you started with your
ebook store. We offer a huge selection of ebooks and software
with resell rights for only $1.00 each! Seymour Products also
offer a low-cost, wholesale home based business distributorship
with unlimited support.
http://www.seymourproducts.com/ebooks-resell
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