Short-Term Strategies for building long-term ebook sales
Creating your own ebook need not be difficult. In fact, if you are perceived to be an expert or an authority in your field, then you can probably have an ebook ready for the “presses” within a week or so. This article will cover some of the topics you need to consider when you have actually decided to write your own ebook. The All important strategies of getting it noticed, then getting it to sell.
I could cover all of these topics myself but honestly, it’s been done before and by people who are making six-figure incomes doing just that (as opposed to my non-existent ebook income, because I discovered this information in the planning stages of doing just that.), so I’ll refer you to those articles and just dish the highlights here.
Alexis Dawes, an ebook author with an income that most of us only dream of gives some absolutely wonderful advice in her article titled “5 Short-Term strategies to Building Long-Term eBook Sales“. Her methods are concise and come from years of experience. Her action plan is simple on the surface:
- Always think “Is this an eBookable Topic?”
- Pick a passion and study it periodically
- Don’t hesitate to dictate
- Read a sales letter a day
- Build name recognition before you need to.
After each action plan, Alexis goes over the methods she used to achieve these actions, something most articles on this topic fail to cover well. I’m labeling this a s a must-read if you’ve thought about selling your own ebook, and these are methods that can help fiction authors as well as informational authors.
Bluedolphin Crow has a wonderful article for the more technical aspects of creating a marketing timeline for your ebook sales. In her article titled “Secret #2: Creating your Marketing Timeline for Success!“, Ms. Crow lets us in on her organizational methods and action plans:
… goals present and future, Action plans for today and tomorrow as well as next month, and last but definitely not least you have a sales tracker as well.
Having worked in Internet development for the past 20 years, I appreciate the fact that Ms. Crow is covering a topic that most people never approach, and I can tell at a glance that they are viable, I’ve used many of the same methods in promoting web properties over the years. They work.
In conclusion: If you are still wondering whether or not you can manage writing an ebook David Hallum, publisher of the eBook Catalog would like to “…Ask you a few” questions that might just help push you in the right direction. While possibly the least informative article listed here, it is thought provoking and the site has more information that you will undoubtedly find helpful.
you haven’t started writing your eBook yet? What are you waiting for? The only person losing out here is you…