6 Ways To Get The Most Out of Your Ebooks
Many top bloggers would tell you that writing e-books and giving them away is one of the best ways to generate traffic and take a blog to the next level. Writing an e-book can take a bit of time. Once you have a killer one on your hand, you can use it to push your blog, newsletter, and all other web properties. Keep in mind that your e-book does not have to be 500 pages long to be effective. It just has to be worth reading.
You don’t want to cut corners with your e-book. If writing one seems too much to you, don’t hesitate to leverage outsourcing sites such as rentacoder to reduce your burden and focus on your content. Once you have your e-book ready, you don’t want to just give it away. Developing a strategy beforehand is a must.
There are plenty of things one can pull off with a killer e-book. Here are 6 ways to use your e-book to take your business to the next level:
- Build Your Newsletter: the easiest way to get more people to subscribe to your newsletter is by giving them some incentive. Giving away your e-book in return for people subscribing to your newsletter is one way to go. Just make sure you promote your e-book properly to make people want to get their hands on it.
- Kickstart Your Membership site: what a better way to spread the word about your membership site than giving away your e-book and encouraging your readers to upgrade for more information. This strategy could work, but your e-book needs to be top notch.
- Boost your Branding Efforts: I remember the first time I heard about SEO Book. Aaron Wall had done a wonderful job writing that e-book. Fast forward a few years, and he has created a huge membership website around the very same topic. Not only that, his website is viewed as a huge authority site in the search engine marketing field.
- Publish Online: if you want to sell your book online, you can always try Amazon or Apple iBookstore. This is not always the best way to get the most out of an e-book, but it works for some people.
- Torrent Sites: this is really an underground tactic. Spreading your work on torrent sites can bring you lots of traffic. It’s the ultimate word of mouth tactic if you play your cards right.
- Promote Affiliate Products: you have probably gotten one of those “don’t buy this product before your read this e-mail” emails. These marketers are willing to give away their product for free if you use their affiliate link to purchase the products they are pushing. If your e-book is deemed valuable by your community, there is no reason you can’t implement a similar strategy.
Writing your own e-book is going to be the tough part. Once you have done it, you’ve got plenty of ways to use it to take your business to the next level.
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