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Ways To Profit with
Free eBooks
Starting collecting every
free eBook you can lay your hands on, this can prove very profitable
while building your ebook business.
Here are some ways to use free
eBooks that you can get on the Internet to boost your profits.
1. Build Your List . . . Use
free eBooks as an incentive to get more people to join your list.
2. Keep Your Subscribers . .
. . Give away a new free eBook every
time you mail your list or at least every month, so they have a
reason to stay subscribed. Create a subscribers-only eBook library
and keep adding new ones often.
3. Get More Affiliates to Promote
Your Product . . . Offer free eBooks
and free brandable eBooks as an incentive for joining your affiliate
program.
4. Sell Customization Rights
to Your Own eBooks . . . If you've
written an eBook and have a number of affiliate links in it, you
can make more money by selling the customization rights.
5. Back-End Profits . . . Purchase
customization rights to other peoples eBooks and give them away
free to your list. Profit when they purchase something through your
links.
6. Become an Instant Expert
on your favor subject . . . Write an eBook on a topic that you know
well and give it away to a target market. Once people know you as
an expert on your subject, they will be more willing to buy your
ebooks.
7. Boost Your Website Traffic
. . . Write an eBook yourself and insert your website links in a
way that gives your readers a compelling reason to visit your website,
either for the resources you offer or an invitation to download
more eBooks.
8. Survey Your List . . . Have
a great idea for a new product or eBook, but need to find out if
there's a market for it? Create a survey and use free eBooks to
entice people to respond. To ensure a good response to your survey,
offer two or more eBooks, or a product that you own, or even a download
of the product you plan to create as a result of the survey.
9. Get Viral . . . Give away
a free eBook that others can brand with their own links so they
will give it away eagerly to their own lists. Include your own affiliate
program, or traffic exchange programs, or two-tier or multi-tier
affiliate programs that readers can join through your links, to
get most from this strategy.
10. Promote Your Own Products
. . . Offer free preview versions (say, the first few chapters)
of an eBook that you wrote to promote it and get more people to
buy it from you. Combine this with a rebrander to get a viral effect
and increase downloads of your preview version. If you are selling
a software product, give away a free report that explains why your
software solves your target market's problem and how it will benefit
them.
11. Enhance the Value of Your
Product . . . Give away free eBooks as Bonus Products along with
your own product to enhance its value. This works best if the bonuses
are related to the topic of the product you are selling.
12. Keep in Touch with Your
Customers . . . Send your customers free eBooks often to show them
you value their business and remind them of your products in a way
they won't object to.
13. Get Testimonials . . . Offer
free eBooks or bonuses to existing customers in exchange for testimonials
that you can put up on your sales page.
14. Boost Flagging Sales . .
.When sales are low, create an eBook with discount coupons or special
offers and give them away to your customers. You can also use this
strategy to boost holiday sales.
15.
Activate Your Old Articles . . . Update or rewrite old articles
of your ezine archives and compile them into an eBook
to give them a new lease of life.
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