How should I sell my money making guide?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Gvidas, Jun 6, 2013.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    I don't know if this is a good section for my thread, but I think you will understand and could help me :)
    So I have my money making guide, which I completed writing couple days ago, and I don't have any Ideas how should I sell it. Maybe someone could give me advices how should I start selling it?
    Thank you :)
     
    Gvidas, Jun 6, 2013 IP
  2. rheahold

    rheahold Active Member

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    For starters you might want to create a website to sell your guide. I could give you more advices but i need to know more about the money making guide: is it online? offline? general methods? etc etc etc
     
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  3. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    I'm in no way attempting to be flippant here but....Why not drop $2,000 and hire an experienced copywriter who will do the research and then market your guide? The price of the copywriter is a tax write off and the copywriter will generate the sales of your guide in a way you could never do. Copywriters sell your products for a living, that's what they do.
     
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    Khadaji Active Member

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    Another excellent idea would be to give it away... in return for email addresses... now instead of having a single sale, you have the opportunity to market to the same group for months or years...

    Or, you could use it as an upsell on a landing page funnel. This is essentially what I did... I have a 74 page step by step guide to building and profiting from a list that I sell ... the lead in giveaway is a summary of that manual.

    Building a list is what virtually all gurus do... the sooner you start building your own list, the sooner you can fire your boss...
     
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  5. Martin Coleman

    Martin Coleman Greenhorn

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    I guess you "money making guide " is kind of an eBook PDF version, at this case you have dozens of marketplaces to sell it : the most famous on is obviously Clickbank and many more as Commission junction etc.. just build a nice landing page provide high commission, and let the affiliates out there to promote it for you.
     
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  6. HomeDesigner

    HomeDesigner Well-Known Member

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  7. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    If it were to be marketed by an experienced copywriter who markets products for a living, then the sky is the limit.......think big!;)
     
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    HomeDesigner Well-Known Member

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    #8
    Could be, but these kinds of ebooks are sold for $5 to $10 on forums, a members gets it, and resells it thru PM with a less price to other interested members for less amount of money, or they just trade Ebooks with each others, i've been there few times and i've seen these sort of things, a whole marketplace just thru PMs, 20 copies sold, intime the Ebook owner sold one copy.
     
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  9. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    Fact is....if the ebook is poorly written and flat out boring, even Jesus Christ couldn't bring it back to life, let alone a copywriter.;)
     
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    HomeDesigner Well-Known Member

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    True. It always depends on the item itself.
    OP: you can try selling it in the Ebooks Section / Market.
    PS: Never thought J.C. can bring Humans back to life, but i'll consider it as a metaphor.
     
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    Devtard Notable Member

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    Just don't create a website with a cheesy design which assumes that potential buyers are idiots.

    http://awesomescreenshot.com/0f31d7qwa8
     
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    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    You'll have to ask Lazerus about that. He was dead for 3 days, JC brought him back to life. It appears Lazerus had died of a heart attack after he got the bill from his copywriter.;)
     
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  13. Erol

    Erol Member

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    #13
    if you are selling a money making guide then should we not ask you how to do it? you are the one who who wants to promote a "Money Making Guide" lol . just joking, best way would be to create a website with a professional sales page, make it so interesting so that people can't wait to buy it, also put on clickbank and setup affiliates. there are some other ways too but those will get you going for now.
     
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    browntwn Illustrious Member

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    LOL. There is so much irony in the notion of you selling a book telling people how to make money and then you say, "I don't have any Ideas how should I sell it". I can only assume you have no idea how to make money either and your book is total crap.
     
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    adbash Active Member

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    Contents of this e-book can be questioned, since the author does not know how to promote it. Can use the earned money to promote the e-book. If you have them so much then you should have to spend a little ;)
     
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    HomeDesigner Well-Known Member

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    #16
    the book may have nothing to do with sales, or he might not have the right skills, yet the knowledge of selling an item.
     
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    browntwn Illustrious Member

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    #17

    Who said it did? I was pointing out that someone who says, "I don't have any Ideas how should I sell it" is not somebody who I think makes money and should be writing a book about it. He has no ideas, not a clue, not single fucking idea how to sell his own book on how to make money? Seriously, you think that book is going to be any good? Honestly, do you?

    Of course, I could be wrong - but I doubt it.
     
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    HomeDesigner Well-Known Member

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    You could have used more appropriate words to explain your point of view instead of " fu**ing "as i can understand clearly what you are talking about, however, I still disagree with you mate, as you can see he's not an English native speaker, maybe he just made a silly word-to-word translation from his own language and came up with " I don't have any Ideas ".
    From the other angle, caring for the fact that he's new here, maybe he thought that we would be interested in buying his book, or wants to have this warm feeling of seeing his thread full of comments so he wrote whatever came to his mind.
    Other thing, you may be right and his book is CRAP, and he's too moronic to post this thread in the 1st place.
     
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  19. Spoiltdiva

    Spoiltdiva Acclaimed Member

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    Make up your mind one way or the other. Be hot or cold but don't be lukewarm.
     
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    browntwn Illustrious Member

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    #20
    My use of the word was not meant to be offensive. Sorry if my use offends your sensibilities. I don't think there is anything inappropriate about using the word "fucking" as I did. It was not referring to a person or the sexual act. It was used to add some descriptive punch to the point that he was saying he has zero, zilch, nada, none, not a clue .... about how to sell his book. Why create something that you have no idea how to sell?
     
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