Sunday, January 3, 2010

Making Money Online with eBook Publishing

We have all seen those web-pages that offer the one “secret” to making massive amount of money online, generating more traffic then you could ever imagine or some other empty promise that the author could never deliver upon.

For the Internet marketing newbie, most of these products will leave you so confused and misguided that you will never succeed. Most of them are filled with regurgitated information that the author heard from someone else and now trying to pass off as their own, despite the fact that they have never actually done “it,” by producing their own original product.

It goes without saying that many of the products sold for hundreds of dollars are nothing more than elaborate and wordy marketing pitches, that contain little to no information. Their “secret websites” that they recommend you join are ones they either own or are an affiliate of. It’s all smoke and mirrors, and you will never make a dollar using their recommendations, reselling their products, surfing their website or becoming an affiliate of their “system” unless you already know what you are doing, at which point you don’t need them anyway.

Here is a little secret about the Internet Marketing and eBook publishing business
. Those that make money produce and promote their own products first, and they do it with passion and flair.

While 95% of the competition is focused entirely on make money or Internet marketing based topics, the best eBook publishers steer clear of these topics to find hidden niches just waiting for their information. If you are just starting out trying to publish your own product, you should create products that are not based on online and money making topics, but instead ones that have real world application to people’s lives.

So are you likely to make money online selling eBooks? It really depends on how creative and motivated you are to bring your product to market, in addition to what sort of understanding you have of Internet marketing. If you understand what goes into a quality product, how to produce or package it in a form that people want to buy, and then how to get it in front of people, you should do well. If you don’t the probability of making money online will be low.

secret to affiliate marketing

Don't share this with people of a nervous disposition because I really can't restrain myself any longer.

Picture the scene if you will...

[A conversation last week though it could be this week or the subsequent - it happens all of the time...]

Anon We desire tons of people to find our website but it doesn't seem to be taking place for some reason.'

Michael Can you let me know some of the strategies you've been using to promote your website?'

Anon Well actually we are simply waiting for Google to update and then we'll be fine. Once that happens our Problems will be over.'

Michael What else are you doing to market your website?'

Anon There isn't anything more you can do is there?'

[Michael slaps head..]

In Search Of The Holy Google Grail

Yes - it's the attack of the Killer Google zombies. People that think Google IS the internet. Google isn't the web. Google is not the search engines. Google is one search engine. That is's all.

There are millions of Killer Google undead out there at this time just looking at Google looking to see if they're ranked on page 124 or 125. Wasting their energy, efforts and life chasing the Holy Google Grail - the number one Ranking...

The Single Best technique to get purchasers To Your Website

If there is one single and most-important fact I've learned during the past 9 years about the way to get customers to your internet site it is this :

There is no one single way!!!!

If you're looking for the 'magic bullet', the 'ultimate secret', the 'hidden treasure' or any other cheese-tastic analogy that you care to say - forget about it. Stop looking for that one'killer way to explode your site's traffic levels over night' - it does not exist.
secret to affiliate marketing
You have to start seeing the wider picture and leaving the Google living dead to it. You need to try other search engines, try links, try online advertising, try developing partnerships with other websites, try viral selling techniques, try dispersing your message on other people's's networks, try creating multiple web sites for different niches, try an affiliate programme, try getting listed in directories, try launching an email promotional campaign and try tattooing your internet site address onto your forehead.