Marketing an E-book?

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by jamescastle, Dec 21, 2012.

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    Hello DP!

    So I've decided that E-books is my thing. I recently finished my first one too! Problem is, I can't find a way to get it sold. I've done the following:

    Created a sales page, doesn't look really good and to my experience, sales pages don't work as effective any longer as most will believe it's all bullshit.

    I've published/ tried publish it on Amazon Kindle library and a marketplace I found.

    But, I doubt I will get any sales. Everything I read about marketing an e-book requires that you already have either a huge fanbase or tons of friends in the IM community.

    Any tips, at all for me? Preferably free methods as I already blew more money than I have.

    Note: The reason why I wont put it up on CB/CJ is because my landing page is...well as I said, crap.
     
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  2. jakejoh10

    jakejoh10 Greenhorn

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    What is the topic of your ebook/What niche are you in?

    Have you tried selling the ebook here or the Warrior Forum?

    Jake
     
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    GeltIN Greenhorn

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    Stuff it with affiliate links and give it away for free, this will give you some reader base. Bundle with email marketing campaign - if you can write books, you can do email marketing.
    Ebook writing alone won't make you a bank unless you write a lot, or write truly awesome. Gotta combine it with other methods for good results.
     
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    jamescastle Active Member

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    Yes I plan to sell it here later on. I got it published on Amazon today.

    Well I have no idea how Email Marketing works, all I know is that you need to create a huge list using a blog or such, which I doubt works.

    Well I am not looking to bank thousands, just a 100-300 bucks a month works fine for me.

    Oh sorry forgot. It's an IM related book. It's quite short and contains a very easy method that I never heard of before, so I wrapped up a simple e-book on it.
     
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