How to Start a Business Selling E-books to Moms
November 18, 2008 by affmanager
Ebooks are fast becoming an in-demand product on the Internet. Found on many websites, written by authors of all walks of life and on many different topics, Ebooks can be downloaded for a fraction of the cost of traditional print books. If you are an online business offering products or services to moms or even if you’re new to online business, you can sell EBooks to this already huge and growing population on the Web.
The use of Ebooks is unlimited and because there’s no need for keeping a large physical inventory, you can sell them over and over again and adapt them to your customers’ needs. In short, this is an inexpensive business to start and has a high profit margin.
Why Moms Love Ebooks
In online communities everywhere, there are moms who enjoy learning new things and improving the lives of their families, by visiting websites, libraries and schools. Ebooks can be a great way of sharing that knowledge to this growing market of readers in a convenient format.
Not only are E-books easy to access for quick reference, but they are portable with the advent of Internet-ready cellular phones and iPods. A mom can locate an E-book on any topic of her choice, download to her portable device in a matter of minutes, and take it wherever she’d like to enjoy it later.
E-books can be read over and over again and they can be stored for later use. E-books are environmentally friendly; no trees have to be killed in order to print out books that will sit around on people’s bookshelves and collect dust years after they are read. And that’s a relief to many moms who are environmentally conscious and probably already have enough clutter in their house…books in digital format help keep things clutter-free.
How to Research Your Topics
Over the last five years, moms have contributed much to the Internet as a whole. Many moms have created an online presence on social networking sites, specialty forums, and personal blogs. These moms are a perfect source of research on topics you can create ebooks about. Plus, they are perfect candidates to help promote and sell your ebooks for you. Simple set up an affiliate program that allows them to earn a commission on the sales they refer to you.
Sell and Give Away
You can use Ebooks to build your business in many ways. One, as we’ve discussed is to sell your Ebooks, but giving away Ebooks for free can also boost your sales.
For example, a business selling beauty products can publish a free Ebook about how the company’s makeup can be applied to achieve the most desired looks. Or a natural products store may want to offer an Ebook explaining the origins and uses of the organic ingredients – which the store happens to sell.
People are starving for information, solutions to problems and more. Find out what they need and deliver it to them.
Creating Your Ebooks
Publishing Ebooks is not as hard as it may seem. Topics and resources can be found by a simple search online or can be drawn from personal experience. Ebooks are generally around 25-100 or so pages in length and offered in an Adobe Reader format.
But if you don’t want to or don’t feel you can put the ebooks together, you can hire a ghostwriter or…
Get More Help with Your Mom Ebooks Business
To get help with selling ebooks…plus have the ebooks and promotional materials created for you, check out Mom PLR Ebooks. You can purchase ebooks to customize and sell, plus a ton of great resources, promotional graphics, sales copy and more. It’s a super easy way to break into the business of selling ebooks to moms.
Affiliate Training Material
November 5, 2008 by affmanager
Here is a growing library of training tools to help you make the most of your affiliate marketing efforts.
Affiliate Training Manual: 13 techniques to sell more products as an affiliate including getting to know the products, crafting your own affiliate promos for better response rates, a note about graphics and why you need more, using articles to promote products, how to write effective product reviews and more. (PDF)
30-Day Affiliate Blueprint: If you’re new to affiliate marketing and have trouble taking action or get stuck on what to do next, you’ll find this helpful. It includes product activities to take part in for the next 30 days. (PDF)
How to Find Your Affiliate Links and ID: Here’s a quick guide that shows you how to find your affiliate links and affiliate ID. This will help you anytime you want to create a new promotion, brand our reports and more. (PDF)
Increase Your Sales by Offer Product Bonuses: Encourage more of your readers to buy our product through your link. This guide shows you how and why to offer affiliate bonuses with your sales. (PDF)
Tips for Writing Your Own Solos: Email often provides the best results for affiliate marketing and when you create your own unique promos that speak directly to your audience, your conversions can go through the roof. This guide gives you tips to write your own solos.
Types of Affiliate Marketing Sites You Can Make: There are so many ways to promote affiliate products. This guide gives you ideas about the types of sites you can create to earn more affiliate commissions. (PDF)
Appealing to Your Target Market – Make More Sales as an Affiliate Marketer: Knowing who you’re marketing to is crucial for any business. As an affiliate marketer, your job is to warm up prospects and make connections with your audience that a retailer can’t always do. It’s doubly important that you understand your target market and this short guide will show you how. (PDF)
Creative Ideas for Using Reprint Articles: Articles that you can brand with your affiliate link can be a very effective tool, not only to sell the target product, but to boost your own marketing too. These quick tips give you handy ideas for using your affiliate articles. (PDF)
Blog Monetization – Affiliate Marketing Tips for Your Blog: If you have a blog you want to make more money from, affiliate marketing can be the perfect complement. This guide includes 8 ideas for seamlessly implementing affiliate links into your blog. (PDF)
20 List Building Ideas: This is a quick-reference guide with 20 ideas to build your opt-in mailing list. As an affiliate marketer, your list is one of the biggest assets you can own. Grow yours with the tips in this guide. (PDF)
Formatting Your Emails for Email Marketing: Make sure your email is readable in all email programs and that your links never break. (PDF)
More Advanced Training
NEW! Make Your Own Promotional Videos: Video can be used to entertain and to inform – and to drive traffic to your website or an affiliate product. This quick guide shows you how to use YouTube to host your promotional videos. (PDF)
NEW! Beginner Google Adwords Tips for Affiliates: Google Adwords is one of the most cost-effective ways to drive targeted traffic to a particular offer. This guide shows you how to fine-tune your Adwords campaign for bigger returns. (PDF)
Setting up Squidoo Pages for Your Affiliate Marketing: This guide gives you ideas and shows you how to set up Squidoo pages to promote affiliate products. (PDF)
Setting up Hub Pages for Your Affiliate Marketing: HubPages is a great way promote affiliate products. This guide shows you how to set up a HubPage page. (PDF)
Tips for Writing an Effective Product Review: Product reviews can help establish your credibility with your readers and increase your commissions. Read this quick 2-page guide to help you write the best possible product reviews. (PDF)
How to Sell More Affiliate Products with Your Article Writing: This quick guide shows you three step to choosing topics, writing your articles and promoting your affiliate links. (PDF)
10 Tips for More Response from Your Email Marketing: It’s one thing to build a mailing list, but if they aren’t responsive, it’s tough to make things work. Use the 10 tips in this guide to get your readers to pay attention and take action. (PDF)
How to Set Up Your Google Adsense Alternate Ads: Maximize all your ad space and ensure you’re still earning when Google is unable to show ads. Check out this video tutorial to find out how to set up your graphic codes so they appear when no other ads do. (online video)
How and Why to Redirect Your Affiliate Links
If you want to keep better track of your links, have more control over necessary changes to your links and possibly even have more clicks on your affiliate links, you should be redirecting your affiliate links.
This means where your affiliate link may look like:
http://momplrebooks.com/amember/go.php?r=000&i=l0
You can change it to a link coming from your own website like:
http://www.mydomain.com/mom-plr.html
There are a number of reasons to redirect your link and here are a few:
1. Many affiliate links are long and they can actually break into 2 lines if you’re sending them in an email. Once they break up like that, your readers won’t be able to click through.
2. Sometimes affiliate programs change their links or even shut down. Mom PLR Ebooks is going to be here for a long time, but always be safe with your affiliate links as a matter of practice and redirect them. That means if you ever need to make changes to your link, you can simply make the change from your redirected link, instead of trying to find where you placed all those links on your website and in your emails.
3. If a link is showing as coming from your site, your readers might be more likely to click on it than if they see a long strange affiliate link direct from the program. You can even name your file something creative or descriptive (ex. mydomain.com/must-have-plr.html) and your readers might be more likely to click through.
4. If you redirect your links the way we describe in this tutorial, you’ll be able to log into your website statistics and track click throughs for your links. The affiliate program you are involved with may already provide some of these statistics, but you can track multiple links and get all your data from one place.
5. It makes it easy to remember your affiliates links for promotions on the fly. Whenever you want to recommend Mom PLR Ebooks or another product, you’ll know your link right away.
How to make your redirected link:
There are a variety of methods to redirect a link, but we’re going to keep it simple and use what is called a javascript redirect.
1. Create a new blank page for your website. Name the page whatever you’d like (for example: mom-plr.html).
2. Remove any HTML code and paste this instead:
3. Be sure to replace http://www.INSERTAFFILIATELINK.com with your full affiliate link.
4. Test your link to make sure everything is working. Simply type in the location of your new page into your web browser to ensure it is redirecting (ex. type in mydomain.com/mom-plr.html).
Repeat with all your affiliate links.
