Entries from May 2008 ↓

I’ve just found a way that you can get a complete eBook selling Website, ready stocked with books, littered with ClickBank Affiliate links and populated with Adsense as a bonus in case your visitor doesn’t buy. All you have to do is upload it and start selling!

Here’s how you can get your Own eBook Website…

John Thornhill has been selling eBooks on eBay for as long as I can remember. What he doesn’t know about selling eBooks isn’t worth knowing. (If you want to look him up on eBay his moniker is PlanetSMS).

I’m an eBay seller myself and I like selling eBooks so, when John offered to turn me into a 90 Day Powerseller, I couldn’t resist.

Part of John’s strategy is to quickly turn eBay buyers into online buyers from your eBook Website, especially now eBay has banned Digital Download products from its auction pages. And that’s where your Own eBook Website comes in.

Inside John’s ‘Your Own eBook Business’ you’ll find a host of training pages to get you up to speed selling eBooks both on eBay and from your own Website. He also gives you every eBook he has for sale so you can pick amongst them for your eBay sales.

Then there’s the website itself. As I said this comes ready stocked with a great selection of eBooks, but there’s more. John issues updates for the website with Premium eBooks which are hot off the press and selling via Affiliate links. And the best bit is that all you have to do is enter your ClickBank code into the site Admin panel and your Affiliate links are automatically inserted into each eBook link.

As well as the stock of books that the site comes with you can also add your own eBooks to the catalog, so there are no restrictions on what you can sell. Plus every buyer is added to your autoresponder so you are building your email list as well as earning from the sales.

I’ve set my own website up already (it took me just 15 mins to configure thanks to John’s setup video) and you can see exactly what you’ll get by looking here…

http://www.bestebayprofits.com/

So, if you’d like to start selling from your own eBook Website without all the hassle of stocking a catalog, arranging a payment Merchant Account, buying the software and interfacing it with your Autoresponder, in other words everything you normally need to do to put your eBook sales on autopilot, then click below to get started.

Your Own eBook Business

One more thing before you go. Although John covers getting buyers from eBay in his training I feel that you might need a bit more help in driving traffic to your Website.

So, once you’ve purchased from the link above, send me your ClickBank receipt and I’ll send you a set of nine eBooks and four Videos on Driving Traffic that will help kickstart your eBook selling career.

What is the simplest way to get Google to drive traffic to your websites or blogs? In previous posts I’ve written about Article marketing and, for some of you I’m pleased to see, this struck a chord.

But what if I told you that Article Marketing was just one aspect of my arsenal of tools for driving traffic to my webpages? Would you correctly pick any of the other systems that I use?

If I say Google is still my number one method of getting visitors to my sites and blogs I bet the first thing that would come into your mind would be ‘Adwords’. In that case you would largely be incorrect.

Yes, I do use Adwords, but only in a small way. I personally know of one marketer who spends over one million dollars per year on Adwords. Does that surprise you? I tell you what, it frightens the heck out of me!

Not because I feel I have to spend that sort of money on Adwords to achieve the results I need – as it happens I don’t. I prefer more organic methods of getting traffic and my Google ads are very tightly targeted.

So how else do I get Google to drive traffic to my websites? I found the answer in an illuminating book called ‘Google Snatch’, which unusual title really highlights how you can snatch free advertising right alongside your competitor’s Adwords ads without spending a dime.

Sounds too good to be true? That’s what I thought, until I followed the blueprint carefully laid out at the end of ‘Google Snatch’. It was simpler that I thought it was going to be, basically because ‘Google Snatch’ is written by fellow UK marketer Latif who, like me, likes to keep things straightforward and laid out in a step-by-step manner.

So, if you want to get free clicks from Google, and the thought of Adwords doesn’t appeal, download the ‘Google Snatch’ by clicking here.

P.S. I’ve just been contacted by one subscriber to express their disappointment that this formula isn’t ‘free’. Sorry for the confusion but the ‘free’ refers to the technique, not the book itself!

Anyway I completely understand the confusion, so here’s a preview of the ‘Google Snatch’ book that really is free to download – just click here to read!

Running on from my previous post on ‘Your Free Traffic Strategy’, one of the comments by Linda P. Morton reminded me of a 2-stage strategy that I find particularly useful for affiliate marketing.

For this strategy to work you don’t need a website, nor do you need a domain. All you need is a blog or a Squidoo lens.

On this blog or lens you write a post which is essentially a review of the product you are promoting. Don’t make it one of those hyped up, scammy reviews that you see so often on Squidoo lenses. Either review a product you have bought or buy it before promoting it – if you do your review well then you’ll get your money back with just a couple of sales!

Your ‘review’, which should read as an article (not a sales letter!), should point out what you have personally found useful about the product and how it has helped you. Write with enthusiasm and write from a personal viewpoint (that means don’t try to write using ‘marketing speak’). Put it this way, if you write from the heart instead of thinking about ’selling’ the product you’ll make sales. Finish the ‘review’ with a recommendation and your affiliate link. This is actually Stage 2 of your strategy.

Next write an article on the same subject or niche that your product is in. Find something that will intrigue the reader and that the reader of your article will find useful. You may be able to extract something from the product you’ve just reviewed and rewrite it in your own words.

Make sure that whatever you’ve chosen as a subject leads into your review. In other words the end of the article shouldn’t seem like an end but more that it should continue to your ‘review’.

Then finish your article with words like ‘If you’d like to know more about (subject) then click here’ and finish with your resource box also pointing to your blog or lens ‘review’. This is Stage 1 of your strategy and, having done this, publish your article.

It will help enormously if you write another article around an aspect of the subject or niche belonging the product and publish that the next day, and perhaps one after that. Within 5 days you should start seeing traffic and sales which will grow as your articles proliferate across the Internet.

If you want to know more about how you can use articles to deliver free traffic to your blog, lens or site, and how to bring sales with the traffic, then take the same ecourse I did at Article Domination. Start writing articles today and you’ll build your traffic and sales exponentially!

One of the first questions I’m often asked about marketing is whether there really is a free way to get traffic to a blog or website. My answer is an unequivocal ‘yes’. But the expansion of this answer is often surprising to the reader.

It’s not, as people usually assume, Free Advertising. It’s not, as people often expect, some sort of Traffic Exchange. Both of these work, if targeted correctly to a specific type of consumer, but they don’t work anywhere near as well as Article Marketing.

Now before you start groaning and thinking that you can’t write, or cannot be bothered to write, articles that ‘push’ traffic to your blog or website I’ve just found a neat site that is perfect for those who are looking for inspiration or information for articles.

For me inspiration is the biggest obstacle to writing articles. I’m lucky that I don’t often get stuck for words, but I do get stuck for ideas! This is where ‘GistWeb’ comes up trumps.

Go to GistWeb.com (it’s free to use) and enter a keyword that you wish to base your article around. GistWeb will search across the ‘net and put together a Short, Medium or Long article for you based on collecting relevant bits of published information.

Naturally you can’t just publish the article GistWeb produces with your own name on it. But you can rearrange it and rewrite it so that it becomes your own. Or just do as I do and use the information GistWeb dredges up as an idea base for your own words.

So, then what do you do? Well you add your byline, a catchy title and a resource box and submit it to Article Directories. Then wait for the traffic to arrive. Yes, it’s all free, and so is the traffic!

The volume and quality of traffic you will get is based on several factors, particularly the keywords you use, the attractiveness of your title, the interest generated by your article and the call to action in your resource box. If you want more information on this, particularly a step-by-step guide to maximising the potential of free traffic through article marketing, then I strongly recommend that you get hold of the Article Domination ecourse. I’ve just taken this course myself and found it invaluable.

Article Domination will take you through the whole process of researching and creating articles that act like traffic magnets, where and how to publish them for maximum effect and exactly what you should put in your resource box to provide an ultra-high percentage click-thru rate.

With Article Domination and using the resources of Gistweb you’ll have one of the best free methods for generating quality, targeted traffic that you can turn on any time you want!

Following on from my, and others’, experiences with failed downloads and ‘corrupt’ zip files in Internet Explorer 7 I manfully tried to download a 194Mb file yesterday with the usual abortive result!

IE7 started to download then raced to the end and stopped. This also happened later with a tiddly 380Kb file. I’d had enough! Yes, I know I could be using Firefox instead of IE7 but I particularly like the way IE7 handles tabs. So I went looking for a decent download manager.

What I found was a piece of software that is simple to use yet, if you access its backend functions, very sophisticated in the way it is able to download multiple files. It can also download files in multiple fragments which speeds the whole download process up in many cases.

In its simplest form it puts a small, blue icon on the bottom right of your screen which is always available for you to drop any download, video or music file link onto. Then it asks you where you want to save it and just gets on with the download in the background while you carry on working.

If you want to see what is going on or prefer to manage multiple downloads then double-click the icon and you get access to the full download manager interface.

You can download it from here as my gift in the hope it not only solves any download problems you may have but also makes your life easier, as it has mine!