Best Way to Deliver Free Ebook on my Wordpress blog

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by burghboy, May 12, 2010.

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    I have just recently written an ebook that I would like to give away free to users who sign up for my newsletter. I have already signed up with Aweber as I heard it is the best. The problem is I have no idea how to deliver the free ebook to users who sign up. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to have users download my ebook?
     
    burghboy, May 12, 2010 IP
  2. b2cmother

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    Try to open registering,and send an email to them who registed and place download link in the email.
     
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  3. Romson

    Romson Active Member

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    You can configure this in your aweber settings. After visitors subsrice they should receive a confirmation email. After confirming they are beeing redirected to your download link.

    Check out these aweber tutorials:

    http://www.aweber.com/videos.htm
     
    Romson, May 13, 2010 IP
  4. burghboy

    burghboy Peon

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    What I mean is how do I host the ebook in the first place?
     
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    well how do you host your blog?

    if you are using a free site that doesn't allow file uploads you can try services like dropbox / google docs / rapidshare / etc...
     
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  6. burghboy

    burghboy Peon

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    Its on shared hosting at the moment, so I can upload files.
     
    burghboy, May 14, 2010 IP
  7. DrVillain

    DrVillain Peon

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    well, just upload it there. Does this answer your question?
     
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    You would just upload the ebook to your blog directory and then in your download page you would write in the html section: <a href="http://blogname.com/ebook.pdf">click here to download</a>. You could if you wanted create a subdirectory but its not necessary
     
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  9. ~XerXesDigital.Com~

    ~XerXesDigital.Com~ Peon

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    Just host at your own host...and it will resolve your problem...lol
     
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  10. burghboy

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    ok thanks, I guess I thought it was more complicated than that
     
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    If you are giving away a free ebook to build your list. Then use double opt-in. And when a visitor goes to their email and clicks on the link to subscribe, then it should be taken to the download page for the free ebook.

    Hope it helps

    Dan
     
    DanDemarco, May 29, 2010 IP
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    Host it with MegaShare or MegaUpload
     
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    Use a subscription form which responds to the subscriber with an email containing a link to the eBook to download. Go check out the Newsletters/Mailing List plugin over at tribulant.com
     
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    Well, I guess it's cleared up now, as people have answered your question. If you still face difficulties then this might help:

    Your subscriber will put their name and email address in your opt-in form. When they click 'submit', they should be directed to a 'thank you' page (which you will create).

    Then, they will receive a 'confirmation' email. There will be a link there. When they click on that, they will be taken to the 'you have been confirmed' webpage (which you will create).

    They will now receive another email, either with a DIRECT link to the eBook or a link to the DOWNLOAD page (which you will create). In the download page, there will be a direct link to download the eBook.

    Before they can download, you will need to upload your eBook to your host. That link should be passed on to subscribers in the 2nd email that I mentioned, either through a direct link, or a download page link. (you could even attach the eBook in the email, Aweber provides that option also, so it will be a normal attachment that people just download directly from the email.)
     
    nab, Jun 1, 2010 IP