How to sell E-books for profit (= e-commerce)

This guide will take you through all the elements needed to set yourself up to sell e-books on-line.

This guide will take you through all the elements needed to set yourself up to sell (= e-commerce) e-books on-line.

This includes on-line storage, communication and advertising, automated payment receipts(sometimes while you sleep),

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This process describes many FREE tools within the process, with the relevant links to their on-line download page. (NB The Author does NOT get comission for most of these links)

An IT professional, with ,many years of on-line experience, and a fully functional on-line shop, has written this guide. If you follow these steps, you will be able to build a similar working income stream.

Costs are clear for each stage.

They are correct at the time of writing, but please check before you commit. You will see no change from £100/£120 start-up costs if you follow every recommendation here, and there are ongoing yearly fees (£small, but be warned).

Here is a summary of the content ~ note the many free programs listed

Introduction.
You do have an Internet connection don't you?
On-line mail.
On-line banking
On-line payment collection (e.g. PayPal or ClickBank)
Signposts (How will anybody find you?)
Next you have to buy the land you want to build on
After that the shop infrastructure
Not essential, but automatic delivery is a bonus.
Which came first, the content or the customers?
Stock
Affiliate links
Reverse links to your site
Write an e-book yourself on a topic you know.
Free PDF writer
Advertise (e.g. by selling on an Auction site)
E-bay basic rules (Valid for most auction sites)
Free E-bay submission tool
Free E-bay advert enhancement tool
Some tools you will need
Pictures
Free Image editor
Free trial ($24 to buy) GIF editor (Moving images)
Free online picture space
Two ways to produce covers for E-books.
Basic HTML (The Internet language)
Free HTML editor
Free FTP tool (Move files from computer to Internet)
Add content to your site ~ blogs, Newsletters, forum etc.
Some Processes you will need.
Creating your own content
Creating your own graphics
Creating your own advertising material (Hint: Templates rule)
Short-cut to the above ~ buy it!
Maintain a disciplined structure
Step by step instructions, using the above programs to list this e-book on e-bay.
Short version
Detailed version
Create/buy content
Upload zip file to store
Activate download
Add auto download content
Activate auto-download
Write Auction advert
Upload auction advert
Complete feedback (if needed (e.g. E-bay))

There is a MASSIVE amount of detail needed to make this work. You can try to wing it, or you can learn from someone who found out the hard way.

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I was told once by a great marketer...

There are 3 kinds of people in the world...

Those that MAKE Things Happen...

Those that WATCHThings Happen...

Those that SAYWhat Happened? "



Are You Going To Make Things Happen?

To Your Success,

Paul

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