The key to racking up lots of sales for your eBook lies in opening up many different channels of generating leads and making sales. Here is a list of 12 ways you can connect with potential eBook customers:
1. Your Website- The majority of your sales will come directly from your website. Make sure your page generates lots of search engine traffic, and is designed to convert!
2. eBay- Although eBay has now banned digital items, you can get around it by putting your eBook on a CD. Package your product up nice, write a killer sales letter and you should be able to net a few extra sales per month with minimal effort.
3. e-library.net- A popular eBook directory that can lead to targeted traffic, of course depending on your niche.
4. Craigslist- Once again, it really depends on your topic, but craigslist can help you reach a very refined audience fairly easily if you know what you are doing. For example, if you have an eBook that teaches small business how to market online, you could go to any number of categories and get into direct contact with small business owners.
5. Affiliate Traffic- Use a site like clickbank, and then aggressively network with other webmasters who can get into contact with a large number of people in your target audience.
6. Yahoo Answers- Answer questions asked by people in Yahoo Answers that are answered with your eBook. Have a friend ask a question , and then answer it for him.
7. Email Auto-responder- If you don’t already have an auto-responder for selling your eBook, you need to get one. Statistics have shown that your chances for making the sale increase with each contact, so long as you give people a reason to open up your emails, read your message and follow your links. Setting up an auto-responder series is a weapon for making sales.
8. Advertisements from Similar Websites- A well purchased advertisement on the right website can lead to a steady flood of targeted customers.
9. Networking- Find webmasters with popular websites and large mailing lists and ask them to write or blog about your eBook. You could offer them an affiliate link, content trade or even cash if you think it will produce a positive ROI.
10. Forums- Depending on your product, some forums will allow you to sell products directly to other people, in addition to indirectly selling them through your signature. One specific place is Digital Point.
11. Social Networking- If you can locate your audience on social networks, you can potentially push your eBook on them.
12. Free eBook Sites- They are literally hundreds of free eBook give-away sites on the web. Create a free sample and spread it around.
