Two words. Affiliate. Marketing.

Instead of just you selling it, why not have have many?..]]> You’ve created your ebook. You’ve started marketing it - so how do we take it to the next level?

Two words. Affiliate. Marketing.

Instead of just you selling it, why not have have many? Yes, you’ll have to give up some profit per sale, but you’ll be making more, extra, sales to compensate for it.

It is no secret that if you have your own product or service you can explode your profits exponentially by having your own successful affiliate program. The problem lies in the fact that people just don’t have their program set up in the right way resulting in a poor amount of traffic and therefore sales from their affiliates.

In this article I am going to outline some tricks and strategies that anyone with their own affiliate program should use.

Encourage People To Sign Up

Here’s where most people go wrong. They set up an affiliate program and have a links that says “click here to sign up” and then that’s it. You need to sell your affiliate program. Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefit of people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn a living without ever having to create a product or have a web site just by promoting your products. Stand out from the crowd.

Provide Affiliates With Marketing Materials

Here’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”. That’s ridiculous. You need to do all the hard work for your affiliates if you want to start earning the big bucks.

Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads,banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible. remeber you are doing the work once, but the results will be used by many.

Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the internet and do very well for yourself. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive amounts online.

If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from www.elance.com but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre internet business

Have An Affiliate Only Newsletter

Here’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products an earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area.

Another great method you can use with this is have a weekly competition. Each week your affiliate who earns the most get’s an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each weeks newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketeers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”.

This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun”. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money. Just look at the companies who use this recognition for proof this works. How many “Employee of the Month” schemes do you
think are being run now across the country - and why do companies bother with them if they don’t work?

Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your Profits

The methods in this weeks article outline what you need to do to in order to overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate program.

You need to:

Persuade people to sign up

Make it easy for them to market

Motivate them to market fast and market hard.

Do this and you’ll be able to create a hugely successful affiliate program and you’ll sell a truckload of your products without any real hard work or any costs.

I assure you that if you just put one or two of these simple to implement strategies into place you will see a marked improvement on both your affiliate sign ups, and your affiliates actively marketing your products. Just give it a go!

Are niche still the way to go, even? Even with more people doing them, I still have to say yes. The enthusiast is still looking for that information...]]> Seemed like such a good idea, didn’t it? Everything you’ve heard says niche markets are the way forward. One small problem though. Which niche?

Are niche still the way to go, even? Even with more people doing them, I still have to say yes. The enthusiast is still looking for that information. Why not be the one to give them the exact one they want. Lets read on.

Finding niche markets for info products can be an real killer if you don’t know where you’re looking. Whilst publishing niche ebooks is a proven business that can make you a lot of money, finding niches to exploit can be both time consuming and disheartening when you struggle to find any good markets.

Thankfully there’s hope. In this article I’m going to show you a simple strategy you can use for finding as many niche markets to sell ebooks to as you could want.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

This is an amazing resource that won’t cost you a penny to sign up to.
Go to the above site and start typing in niche markets that interest you. If you had an interest in dogs you’d type in “dogs”. Then all you need to do is make a list of all of the sub niches within the general niche market of dogs. These are all potential niches for you to exploit.

www.amazon.com

The bookselling giants amazon.com are an amazing resource for finding niche markets you’d never have thought about entering. Go the web site and in the search bar select “books”. Then type in a niche you’d like to create a product around. For example type in “gardening”. Go through the results and start jotting down all of the niche markets that jump out at you.

When many people hear this technique they immediately think “wait a sec how can I compete with Amazon?”. You won’t be of course you’ll be catering for a different market. When people buy from Amazon they have to wait days for a book to arrive. As ebook publishers we can offer instant gratification as our customers get our info products straight away as a download.

www.dummies.com

This is another fantastic research tool for the niche ebook publisher. You can find a ton of niche topics across all of the “…For Dummies” books. The Dummies company has made creating niche products an art form in its own right. Search through their titles in general niches that interest you and jot down potential ebook topics.

www.goarticles.com

Article directories are, in my eyes, the best way to find subjects to create ebooks around. The directory Go Articles is just one of many in which you can go to the site, type in a niche subject in the search bar and get literally thousands and thousands of ebook ideas.

The key here when visiting these sites is to just make a huge list of potential topics, and then when you’re done go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com and type in your topics. If there are people searching for information on the subject (at least five thousand a month) you’ve just found an ebook topic that could turn into a very lucrative home based business.

I want to quickly dispell a myth about the internet. Don’t for one second think you can just throw up a site, sit back and become rich. Many would have you believe the internet is just one huge get rich quick scheme. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Done properly ebook publishing can change your financial situation dramatically.

We’re not aiming to become a millionaire here. We want to build a network of mini sites that each make about 1K a month. Being able to come up with an endless amount of niche product ideas is the key here, then all you need to do is create the product.

I know what you’re thinking. “All you need to do” is create a product. They’re hard to create right? Well no actually you don’t need to write a single sentence of your ebook. You can hire people to do so at elance.com. For around five hundred to seven hundred bucks freelance writers will create the entire book for you.

You are an internet marketer, not a writer. Have one product created, set up pay per click campaigns, write a press release and blast a few articles over the net on the topic of your ebook. Then have another one created, do the same, and just rinse and repeat.

Multiple streams of autopilot income is the secret of wealthy entrepreneurs from around the globe. Now thanks to ebooks and the internet, anyone can set up streams of income that sends money into their bank account even whilst they sleep.

Now what we’re going to do is use other peoples hard work to create our very own unique products...]]> For this article, it follows on from my previous how lays out one method for creating quality ebooks. Yes - its a little cheky, a little lazy, but it saves us time and more importantly - it works.

Now what we’re going to do is use other peoples hard work to create our very own unique products. Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it. However this is a very real opportunity that the top gun ebook publishers use time and time again to create products in lightning quick time.

Go to www.goarticles.com. If you’ve had a look at my last article about finding a niche, you’ll now be looking for some quality content. Yes, you can write it yourself, but as others have already written our articles for us, lets use them instead.

You see web site owners write articles and submit them to article directories so that they get free publicity for their sites. At the end of each article is a link back to their web site with a bit of information about their site for example. These site owners want people to take that article and market it to people so they get visitors to their site without spending a dime on marketing. This is perfect for savvy entrepreneurs who are willing to spend a few hours of their time in order to profit for many years to come.

What we can do at go articles.com is type in a niche in the search bar at the top right (make sure it’s on “article content” rather than search by author). Type in your niche market. So for example type in “gardening”. You’ll get thousands of result related to what you have searched for. Now what simply go through the results finding at least seventy quality articles related to the dog market and copy and paste them into Word.

Just make sure they are quality articles. If you create an ebook using rubbish you’ll just get a high refund rate and it will all be a pointless and frustrating.

If you can try and tie all the articles together in one sub niche. For example a sub niche of dogs might be training your dog. So you could find articles on stopping your dog from barking at night, toilet training that kind of thing. Use a bit of imagination when using this method.

Email Article Authors

You don’t want to use any articles without the authors permission. Remember the majority of articles will have been submitted so the author can get visitors to their site without spending a dime. However you never want to breach any copyright laws. To avoid this email the authors of each article. Explain to them that you are creating an ebook aimed at their niche market. You’d love to include their article in your book and you’ll include a link back to their site and information about them. Also ask them if they have any other articles you could include.

You can expert around seventy percent (minimum) of authors you contact to be delighted you’re going to include their article in your book. Just ditch the ones left.

Put the articles in an order that makes sense and create a contents page. Use the titles of the articles as contents topics. You could even create chapters aimed at solving certain problems people in your niche have. So for example if you were creating an ebook on golf you could create a section on improving your golf swing, a section on the mind game of golf and so on. All articles would make up separate chapters.

Finally write a short introduction and conclusion. These only need to be a few paragraphs each. Tell people what they can expect to learn and make sure you sign off using your name. Instantly you will establish yourself as an expert. You can also link to your back end products at the end of the book to increase your sales.

Finally you need to turn it into an ebook to sell. Go to http://www.primopdf.com/ and download the software. Don’t worry it won’t cost you a dime. Once downloaded all you need to do is in your word software hit “file” and then “print” and then select “primo PDF” as your printer. Voila. You’ve just created an ebook using other peoples hard work. This whole process can be done in just a few hours. Obviously you may need to wait a day or two for the article authors to get back to you but apart from that you’re all set! Anyone can use this method to create more ebooks than you’d ever be able to sell.

Thats a great method right? I mean it won’t cost you anything to create a product yet you could sell hundreds if not thousands of copies and keep all the profits using other peoples hard work!

No fuss. No drawbacks. Just try a few to see how easy it is.