You already know that one way to monetize your article marketing efforts is by creating and promoting ebooks with your articles. Another easy and inexpensive means of monetizing your work is through an e-mail newsletter.

Do you have an e-mail newsletter? I publish an occassional e-newsletter called Notes in the Margin, geared toward writers, editors, and the people who hired them. You can subscribe for free at www.notes-in-the-margin.com.

Leave the link to your newsletter subscription page in the comments! And keep your eyes on the blog all week long for great tips on improving your newsletter for maximum results.

-kk

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by Tracey Edwards

Lately you might find that more and more sellers are turning to information products and ebooks to sell on eBay. Why are they doing this? After all each product only sells for a few dollars each, why would you bother?

We live in an age where people want instant access to information. Whether it is from TV or the Internet. If they can get the answer to their problem’s instantly for a few dollars then most people are willing to spend that.

Because of this eBay sellers have realised the potential of ebooks and other information products. Because there isn’t a physical product that you wrap, post and send off - essentially you have an unlimited supply of your product.

You could sell the same ebook over and over again as many times as you wanted and therefore your potential for unlimited profits is only limited by the amount of people willing to pay for your information.

Customers love to buy information products, especially those that tell you how to do something whether it is cooking a hamburger masterpeice to getting your baby to sleep. There is always a demand for an ebook to solve a problem.

And it’s not just ebooks these days, more and more video, podcasts and mp3’s are also being sold over and over again on eBay.

eBay itself has embraced digital products being sold in it’s marketplace and even have a special section for delivering your digital products directly to your customer as soon as they pay. Another reason that it is so popular with eBay sellers, they don’t even have to contact the buyer to let them know where the ebook is, eBay does the hard work for you.

If you are interested in selling ebooks then there is sure to be a topic that interests your buyers from making money online to the latest craft or scrapbooking patterns. All you need to do is stock your shop and wait for the dollars to roll in.

Now that you know why you should sell ebooks on ebay why not get a 25 Page Guide to Successful Selling on eBay for more great eBay selling tips.

Tracey sells ebooks on eBay and knows all the secrets! (Well most of them anyway). http://www.traceys-ebooks.com

If you liked this article, you might like another of my articles: Want to Sell eBooks on eBay? - Where to Find eBooks to Sell on eBay

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Last night’s teleseminar with Jeff Herring was fantastic. We had a nice group with some good questions, and I think we all learned a lot. I know I did!

Highlights

• Direct and indirect ways to make money with your articles
• Three methods for creating an e-book
• Turning e-books into teleseminars and e-courses
• Overall tips for success in article marketing

Listen to the recording or download it to save for later. Be sure to stay to the end for a special offer from Jeff!

Thanks again to all who turned out. I hope we’ll see you at the next teleseminar!

And if you’re not yet signed up for the New Year’s edition of the LK Article Challenge, which runs to the end of the month, there’s still time. Just enter your info at in the handy-dandy form at the top of the page and you’ll be all set.

- kk

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by Andy Machin

Writing your own ebooks is arguably the best and most powerful thing you can do to publicise your web site and bring traffic to it with little effort. An even better tactic is to make your ebook viral. That does not mean your readers will catch a disease. Or rather they will of sorts but one from which both you and your readers can profit.

Making your ebooks viral simply means that you give your customer a reason to pass your ebook around to their friends, family, web site visitors, newsletter subscribers and similar. That reason is two fold. One reason being that the ebook you have written contains useful information and the other reason being that you have seeded the ebook with your affiliate links to relevant products while allowing some of your affiliate links to be replaced by the affiliate links of your customer.

Why would you do that - well you would do it simply because it creates a “win-win” scenario from which both yourself and your customer can potentially benefit for a very long time. Because you have made your ebook viral in the manner described each person who reads it is a potential earner for both yourself and your initial customer.

You have created a situation where your customer wants to circulate your ebook widely because he knows that he has the potential to earn a commission should anyone he circulates it to makes a purchase from one of the links you have allowed him to rebrand. You have the same opportunity because the ebook still contains some of your own affiliate links.

For example if you have written an ebook on say dog care you can easily insert affiliate links to related products - say dog training and dog food. If you allow your customer to rebrand the dog training links with his own then anyone he circulates the ebook to and buys the dog training product will generate a commission for your customer and anyone who buys the dog food product via your ebook will generate an affiliate commission for you because that is your link.

Giving your customers the ability to rebrand and the extent to which they can do so is something you control yourself. All you have to do is write the ebook. And that is not as hard as you might think either. You just need your imagination and typing skills. Do you think you could write a dozen or so pages on a subject you have an interest is. Of course you could. Especially with the internet available to you as an almost unlimited research tool.

All you need to do is take action. And you can start that right now. Grab a piece of paper and a pencil and start to write down a list of subjects you are interested enough in to write a short ebook about. Pick a subject you would like to start with then map out the topics or chapters you think your new ebook should include. The next step is to research and write and you are on your way to your first viral ebook. What is stopping you?

Download your free page rank ebook and see how I have gained and maintained number 1 search engine positions regardless of google page rank. Visit http://www.pagerankparanoia.com today for your free ebook.

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by Ron Barrett

It has become an established fact that ebooks are a mainstay of internet commerce. With their ease of creation and low production costs, ebooks are a primary gateway to the information superhighway. While it doesn’t take long to find a thousand ebooks devoted to internet marketing, the possible topics one can use in them are endless.

Niche marketing would be nearly impossible through the digital media if not for ebooks. Whatever your interest or specialty, there can be your own unique ebook created for it. Whether you sell information, how-to or just want to make an easily accessible catalog of your wares or services, the ebook format will lend itself flawlessly to the task at hand. With the creation of your own ebook, you have an instant saleable product that can be used as part of your business inventory or as an incentive to customers to buy into your other products.

Ebooks can serve an important function for those who have no interest in internet marketing as well. For those who have an urge to write, be it fact or fiction, the low cost of creating your own digital book brings with it the ability to put your work before the public without having to incure the long process of hiring an agent and seeking a publisher in the print media. The same care and professionalism needs to be used even when you take the do-it-yourself approach. Spelling, style and grammar are essential to creating a professional looking volume. As more new writers are finding, having an existing ebook on the market and a base of supporters already in place will give you an edge up with traditional book publishers and may lead to a book contract that launches your career to the bestseller lists.

Regardless of what purpose you are creating your ebook for, making it accessible to the widest range of readers takes some thought as to its exact format. There are those who feel the exe format of ebook holds the best advantage doe creating interactive books which load like a program and can involve features such as sound and video capabilities. The greatest disadvantage to the exe format is that, due to the justifiable paranoia about virus contamination, many people will refuse to accept an executable format no matter how interested they may otherwise be in your information.

The most commonly used file format is still the portable document file (PDF). While there is still a way for an unethical person to inject a virus or malware program into a system through the doc file used to create the PDF, it is still very rare. PDF has become so trusted that few remember the brief time in 1998 when a few viruses were spread this way. Because of the trust of the format, its ease in being instantly downloaded and its relatively small file size, PDF is still the number one preferred method of ebook creation.

One final feature of the PDF file for your ebook is the versatility it offers the end user as your book will be pre-made to facilitate printing it out into a hardcopy for reading and referencing without needing to be at your computer or online.

Ron Barrett is the owner of 5 Star Ebooks. Your site for low cost, 5 Star quality ebooks on the web. He is offering several popular ebooks free during the launch of the site. You can also sign up for ‘The Easiest Way’ newsletter at the site. He also invites you to visit the 5 Star Ebooks Diary where he details the things that he is doing to build his ebook business.

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by Mark Scholfield

So you were interested in setting up your internet work at home business, and you kept hearing the phrase "ebook marketing". What’s a ebook you ask, could I write one? what would I write about? how would I market it.

Well, lets start from the top. An ebook is an electronic book, that is to say the written word conveyed online, usually in ‘Portable Document Format’ or better known as a PDF. This format lends itself to this type of writing as it looks clean, and for the most part, it cannot be easily edited (unlike a Microsoft Word document for example).

So you know what an ebook is, but could you write one yourself?. This is the bit that stumps most folks, but it really shouldn’t, it’s much easier than most people think. You don’t have to be a master of prose or a ‘copy’ expert to write an effective ebook. For the most part, you just want to write about something you know about. Each of us has areas that we specialise in, we just don’t always realise it. Let me give you an example. I was fortunate enough to be blessed with twins in 2003, an incredible life changing event, if ever there was one. 6 month down the line, and my wife and I had gone through all the trials and tribulations that most parents go through, especially with twins. So there is a subject that we could both speak to, we can write about it because we have lived it.

Some of the best articles or ebooks ever written, are those that are written ‘from the heart’. So what have you been through that you know something about? I’m betting there is quite a lot. In the case of bringing up children, it’s an excellent choice because you can branch out into so many directions.

Once you have your subject matter, simply get a pad and pen, and start writing your ideas down, then build those ideas out into full texts and before long, you have pages of quality information. You can use your favorite Word Processor software to write it up and correct the spelling. Now it helps to gloss it up a little by including some pictures, and maybe some online resources that you found helpful, plus you could include a Contents Page and a copyright statement. You can grab a Free DotComOlogy ebook at http://megahomeprofits.com to see an example of what I mean.

So the final part of the equation, is how to market it. Well, this is the interesting bit. Nowhere is there better than ClickBank.com to sell your ebook. You can register for free and decide on a price and away you go. The advantage of selling your ebook this way is that you attract ‘affiliates’ who can resell your ebook for you, and you get to decide how much for, thus meaning you don’t have to even spend money marketing it yourself, let others do it for you! Sounds like a plan to me!

So is it really that difficult to create your own ebook. The answer is no, it’s pretty easy, although it might take you a while to get your first one done. The next subject in the ebook strategy is how to create your ebook to maximise it’s potential to sell. In fact, there are ebooks on Clickbank that you can buy, that cover that exact subject matter - now is the penny dropping ?

Mark Scholfield is chief Affiliate Marketing writer for http://megahomeprofits.com based near London, UK. He also contributes to a related blog http://megahomeprofits.blogspot.com

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by Ray Johnson

You might be considering becoming an internet marketer. But I’m sure you have some trepidation. You are probably thinking that you don’t have anything to sell. That’s the easiest problem to solve. You can start with the easiest item to sell, ebooks.

Ebooks belong to a product group called information products. There are several types of information products. Along with ebooks, there are audio products and video products. They are called information products because that is what they contain, information about some subject that a specific group or niche is interested in.

Ebooks are an easy way to start out online for a number of reasons. They are readily available. You can find collections of ebooks that come with resell rights. When you purchase ebooks with resell rights, you can sell them and keep all of the proceeds for your sales. There is no royalty or anything else you have to pay. Whatever you sell them for becomes your money.

Another reason ebooks are a good way to start an online business is because there is no physical inventory. You do not have to store ebooks. They reside on your computer, they are just computer files. Once you have them, you have them, no need to restock. You will never run out no matter how many you sell.

If you were selling a physical product, you would need to ship it out when a sale is made. That means that you would need to pack it, post it and take it to the post office. Ebooks require no effort on your part to deliver to your customers. The entire sales process can be automated so that you don’t have to do anything when a sale is made. The automated system will send an email to the buyer with the ebook attached or the system will send an email with instructions explaining to the buyer how to log on to the internet to download their purchase.

Ebooks can be sold a number of different ways. You can set up your own website, with your own domain, and sell them from there. Just starting out, it might be easier not to have your own site. The easiest way to start selling ebooks is on eBay.

EBay is the largest marketplace in the world. EBay claims that during any month, one third of all internet traffic stops at eBay. Ebay may also be the largest ebook marketplace. Approximately two thousand ebooks are sold on ebay each day. Forty six percent of all ebooks listed sell.

It is very easy to set up an eBay selling account. You can do it in minutes and be online with your ebooks for sale almost instantly. Ebay also makes it easy to set up your own ebook store. You could list literally hundreds of ebooks at practically no cost.

If you really want to get into online marketing, the easiest way to do that is to sell ebooks. The fastest way to get up and running is to sell ebooks on eBay. You can literally have an ebook business up and running in minutes. So what are you waiting for!

To find out how you can INSTANTLY receive your own product, and follow a successful and highly profitable system to making money online, talk with Ray Johnson - Google.com No.1 Ranked eSeller: http://www.ezsellebooks.com

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This week of the LK Article Challenge, we’re focusing on how to monetize your articles. Wednesday night at 9 p.m. EST, Jeff Herring will treat us to a great teleseminar on turning your free articles into money. To that end, stay tuned to the blog all week for some great advice and articles on how to sell information products.

First up: Ebooks!

-kk

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