Write and Sell EBooks Tips To Make Money Online

CLICKBANK BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS

As with most sites, there are good points and bad points to selling on ClickBank. Many authors have made a lot of money through having their product(s) listed on the site, but others haven’t succeeded at all.

This is not meant to scare or disappoint you, but you should be aware of the situation so that you can decide whether it’s right for you or not. For example, some of the best selling products on ClickBank are related to making money online. This doesn’t mean that your product will take a nosedive if it isn’t on that same subject; it just means that you know products in that category tend to do rather well.

A lot will obviously depend on how good your eBook and sales page really are. Affiliates will be able to see your sales page before they decide whether or not to promote your product. This means that the better your sales page is, the more chance you have of convincing more people to promote it for you.

Be patient as well. You may not get floods of people promoting your eBook for you from the second it appears on ClickBank. Being realistic will help – it could take time to get that first sale through the site. It may also depend on how active you are in telling people about the opportunity they have to promote your eBook for you.

So the more promoting you do yourself, the more affiliates you are going to have promoting the book for you.

One of the main benefits is that ClickBank will handle the provision of a secure server to take payments over. They will also pay you your earnings each week through direct deposit or twice monthly with a check. In a sense, once everything is set up, all you need to do is sit back and take the money that the affiliates have generated for you.

But of course, we know you won’t do that. You’ll be writing your next eBook, won’t you?

Another possible drawback could be that there are already thousands of eBooks on ClickBank. That could be construed as a good thing, since the site is clearly a popular and successful way to generate more sales of a good eBook.

But it also means there is a lot of competition. This competition means you need to use every facility the site gives you to make sure your eBook will be found and promoted by its users. Part of that is writing a great eBook with a tempting title that really delivers on its promises and the other part of it is also to write a terrific sales page.

But make sure your product will be found when people use the ClickBank search engine in the marketplace as well. Making sure your product will be found is a simple process, and it simply means that you need to choose the most relevant category for your product to go into. Choosing the relevant category for your product will happen once your product has been approved for sale. You’ll find the bit you need under ‘My Site’ on your personal account screen.

Most affiliates will search for products to promote by using the marketplace search facility, so it makes perfect sense to ensure your product can be found here.

But perhaps the biggest benefit of ClickBank is the scope you have to make more sales. While it is obviously true that some books do better than others, having access to thousands of affiliates is very powerful. Even if only a handful of people are going to promote your book, you could make sales you would never have made otherwise.

So in short, the advantages of the site far outweigh any disadvantages. And since you can promote up to five hundred products for that single activation charge, I think you’d better get writing!

In fact, this can be a good way of deciding on your next eBook project. Why not find out what the most popular products are on ClickBank in a particular category and think along those lines for writing your next book? Don’t copy what has already been done, but see if there is a gap there that you could fill. Just remember to do your keyword research and usual bout of homework before you start writing.

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There are a lot of people who think that making money, online writing and selling ebooks are synonymous with each other. That may be the case… for some. However, in the case of ebooks, the online writing part becomes the most important aspect here. Naturally, if there is no ebook to sell, then there is no way of making money through it. Writing an ebook would take considerably more effort than just writing a 500 affiliate marketing piece. There are a great number of writers who find this task a bit too daunting to undertake. Fortunately, there are ways and means to make the writing process a little less painful on the gut. Here are some ways to tackle those blank pages.

1. Your favored topic should come first and foremost. And this is where the problem begins for many writers. Some writers prefer to write about the current trends in the Web 2.0 world. Others prefer to write about something more obscure, but still relevant in a particular niche. Others simply prefer to echo the sentiments of past ebooks or make a compilation of similar Internet topics, and present these in one long format. Whatever you decide, you have to make sure that you will be willing to put in the research necessary to make the topic both informative and entertaining. And to present it in such a manner that it is original, or at least, not infringing on the copyrights of other ebooks or books.

Choosing to write a topic you think will sell is a matter of choice. The bottom line here is still the research you are willing to do to complete that ebook.

2. When you begin writing your ebook, it would be ideal if you could break down the format in easy to read (and write!) chapters. This way, you can focus on one aspect of the topic more thoroughly than mashing everything together in one large lump. A word of advice: try to keep your written text within the actual scope and limitation of your topic’s title. Or if you are doing things the other way round: make your ebook’s title encompass the scope and limitations of your written text. Nothing defeats your ebook’s effectivity than inadvertently or purposefully leading your readers to think they will be getting a specific topic when your literary piece has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at all.

3. Editing and proofreading can be a pain… especially if you have several ebooks under your open files at the moment. However, this step is more than important; this is crucial to your ebook’s success. A sloppy looking ebook can very easily be splashed in other websites and made fun of (did you ever think of that?) However, the more grievous consequence of this is that your present subscribers may not want to buy more ebooks from you in the future due to your oversight. If indeed you find this process too tedious to do on your own, you could always hire a freelancer to do this work. Nonetheless, you would still need to edit and proofread the “final” draft of your work, so try not to slack off with this one. After all, it is your name (and sometimes, even your face) and your reputation on the line.

4. When the final draft comes rolling in, here is the best time to put the finishing touches to the ebook. Choosing book covers, blurbs, actual text formats, chapter divisions (if you want them) etc. are only to be done with the final draft. Try to go for a uniform look. If you want to add pictures, then this is the time to choose where to place those pictures and what captions they should have. If you have several running graphics on your pages, make sure they are relevant to the surrounding text. Less is more: that should be your mantra when it comes to decorative graphics.

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Writing in the World Wide Web is quite lucrative these days, and no, we are not limiting the options to affiliate marketing or ezine article submissions. There are actually many ways wherein those versed with the written text can have a sustainable income while performing the jobs they like. Making money online, writing and selling ebooks and reselling ebooks are almost (but not quite) synonymous with each other in the age of Web 2.0. So why not take the opportunity to do the same, especially when you have the talent in writing, and when you really have something to say. Here are some guidelines on how you could start the writing process of your own ebooks.

1. You should decide that the time is ripe for you to start writing your ebooks – or at least, one of your ebooks. Half-hearted efforts (believe it or not) show in the words you use and the manner by which you present the book. And if you are not enthusiastic about the book, what makes you think that your potential readers will be enthused by it as well? You may have some initial sales through aggressive marketing, but most people will remember your lame efforts at the onset. This will only damage your “reputation” as a credible writer. Start always on the right track, the right speed and the right voice. With that, you have half your work cut out for you.

Try not to start with ebook writing simply because you want to make money. Try starting your career because you do have something to say… and you intend to make people aware of it.

2. Choose a topic that is close to your heart or something that stimulates you intellectually. No matter how limited the scope of your discussion is, most ebook subscribers would prefer brevity and clarity over razzle dazzle any day. During the early days of ebook making, some authors would literally stuff their books with whatnots, just to stretch the book into a hundred pages or more. This practice is done mostly to “increase” the price of the ebook in question. (The train of though goes: the more pages you have, the higher the price.) A 55 page ebook will sell just as well as a 1,000 page ebook, you know. Besides, who wants to buy a 1,000 page ebook anyway?

It’s really the subject matter that is important. A well presented, easy to read and interesting book always sells, no matter how many pages the author plots it in.

Additionally, more and more people are turning to ebooks as a way of filling the information gaps within niches. So even if your book focuses only on “how to raise and develop new varieties of Cattleya flowers in the greenhouse,” you will still find Web surfers buying your book.

3. If you are not particularly confident with your writing style, or you think that your finished work needs a bit more polishing, you can always hire another writer to present your work in a better manner, or an editor to out the finishing touches to your book. This is the one thing that ebooks do not have – gatekeepers for the finished product. Unlike the conventional printed books, the works usually go through several gatekeepers to make sure that there are no typographical errors, missing chapters or out-of-place text.

If you think you do have something to say, but would rather use someone else’s writing talents to present it, it is easy enough (and quite affordable these days) to find a freelancer to help you out.

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