LMAO!! Sorry - but this is correct, if you are not familiar with the subject or material you are trying to monetize on, you are will run into a never ending loop... I'm broke, let me show you how to make money... However I can't hate on you because this is part of the learning curve. Take all the suggestions on this page friend, and read this board a PLENTY, jump into the affiliate sections, that group are usually the most complex and knowledgeable with internet marketing, creating niche products, chopping them, wrapping an aff around them, getting free traffic/affiliates on board etc. Keep the learning curve steep, always ask questions and absorb whatever possible from competitors. Best! NC.
Agreed. . . Write what you know. The big secret here is to leverage yourself as an expert in the fiield your writing about.
Great ideas actually. The fact of the matter is I know how to make the money, but I'm just not motivated enough.. or something, I might be too lazy, the most common cause of being broke hehe. Which is another idea for an e-book, write about how to get motivated. It's complicated, my whole situation ends up being "Do as I say, not as I do", I think that makes more sense?
In addition to my original question, has anyone here written an ebook themselves? What did you write about and how much money did you make from selling ebooks? I am also very interested in making physical copies of books. You know, the kinds of online marketing books you see at Barnes and Nobles (I will be developing a 200-300 page book). Does anyone have any experience on how to get together a publishing team or that sort of thing? Since I have no money, I would probably like cutting a deal with a publisher by splitting the revenues or something. Kind of like how J.K Rowling got Harry Potter books started and published in the 90s when she was broke and had no money. Does anyone know the system to book publishing?
Have you thought of going onto the Warrior Forum all the big hitters are there and maybe you could ask them to review it and if they are happy send it to their database? I did this and made a tidy sum last year, now I sell online on Craiglist, I find Clickbank very hardwork
I keep hearing about warrior forum, I've never been there before and will check it out some time. I am very inexperienced with selling ebooks, so who are big hitters and what do they do? Do they recommend the book to others or do they actually sell the book from their website? I am also worried about legal and protection issues, such as if it's possible that someone could steal my book after I send it to them for review and they claim it as their own and that type of thing if I'm not careful. If you don't mind me asking, what did you write about, how big was your book and how much were you able to make from an ebook? I'm very interested in finding out some statistics in the ebook business. PM me if you'd like. Also from your experience, what would you say the average figures or range would be for a 200-300 page book about online business by a first time author would be?
You can also look into selling it on Amazon - they have an ebook option now. Or you could use their self publishing option and sell it as a printed book.
Another BIG question I have about an ebook and a physical book. Is it legally possible to sell an ebook and a paperback real book at the same time? Not sure if you can have only 1 sole publisher for a single book, electronically or physically. Would it also be possible to put the ebook on my website as HTML web pages (imagine how much content and keywords that would be) and legally sell the ebook at the same time or would that be illegal?
As far as I know, and I don't know for certain... but most publishers if you use a self publisher service will allow you to list on their site or other site such as Amazon exclusively. The only other location you could sell the book would be on your own website. For example, you couldn't offer the book on both Amazon and some other book site like Barnes and Noble. You can include in the physical book directions to a link where they register their physical book to get a free copy of the ebook version. You may want to consider charging a few bucks for the ebook version as well. On your site you can include a link to purchase the physical book directly from you with the same information and for those that just can't wait and would rather have the digital version as in the ebook, you can provide a separate purchase link for that. Protecting your ebook will either require using something that protect an HTML ebook or using Adobe Acrobat which has security features that can prevent modifying the text, printing the text, etc.