Make Profits from FREE e-Books

E-books are one of the most beneficial and easiestThe secret of generating both interest in your
ways to make mone on line - if you sell them. Butproduct and traffic to your site is to get others to
how can you make profits from free e-books? Thishelp you do it - in other words, multiplication of your
closely-guarded secret of the self-styled guru's hasefforts. Of course the people you will want to sell
recently become easily achievable by just aboutyour product will already have successful websites
anyone with something to say, and certainly by(ideally with subject matter relevant to yours) and
everyone who already has a e-book or otherwill want some reward for selling your product (or
information product to sell.even giving it away), and this is the part that until
What is a free e-book?recently was difficult.
A free e-book is usually an abridged or shortenedHow to get others to give away your free e-book?
version of a full e-book or information product.The first thing you need to do is to arrange some
However, neither the fact that it is free or that it isreliable way to ensure that those who you want to
a shortened version of something else means that ithelp you will benefit from sales of your product. This
can not have value on its own. In fact, you willis easy to arrange by setting up an affiliate program
quickly find that if it does not have its own intrinsicand there are many different ways of doing so,
value, that it will be very difficult to distribute - evenwhich vary enormously in cost, complexity and
for free.ease-of-use. Personally, we find Clickbank both
For example, our own free e-book gives away ourinexpensive and easy to use both to set up your
entire content on heart disease and cholesterol -program and for your customers to make purchases.
something that virtually everyone needs to knowThe real key, however, to getting others to give
about if they want to maintain their health.away your FREE e-book is to ensure that THEY will
The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, even if it isn'tbenefit from any sales that it generates. That means
costing them money, people always want somethingthat you need to allow them to add THEIR affiliate
for their efforts. To download something thenlinks to YOUR e-book, so that any recipients of the
actually read it takes effort, and that effort hadfree book that click on the sales links will generate
better be worthwhile! Secondly, the whole point ofrevenue for both of you.
creating a free e-book is to showcase the mainEither you can make the resultant free e-book
product i.e. the full book or information product, ineditable by your affiliates (a potentially risky strategy,
order to generate sales. If the free book is not up tojust asking for it to be ripped off) or you can create
scratch, then you can be sure that sales of the fullwhat has become the new standard for such
product will not benefit from it.products - the brandable e-book.
Why a free e-book, why not just sell it?What is a brandable e-book?
Good question. The simple answer is that people loveA brandable e-book is an e-book that contains
to get something for nothing - or at least to feelspecially formatted links that can be changed with a
that they are getting something for nothing. Assimple editing program without giving editing access
stated above, in order for this to be the case, theyto the rest of the book. This means that not only
need to perceive that the "something" has somecan your affiliates benefit by distributing a copy of
value to them and the process needs to be as simpleyour e-book with their links in it, but people that
as possible.receive it from them can also reformat the links and
This means that far more people will be prepared toredistribute it again (you explain HOW in the book
read your book if it is free than if they have to payitself!).
even a small amount for it, which both suggests itThis creates a "viral" e-book that provides not only
has little value and adds time and effort to thethe motivation, but also the means for any
process. Conversely, if people see your e-book isweb-savvy recipient of your book to make a profit
free it not only makes them more likely to downloadfrom it. Of course, if your content is excellent as
it, it also adds value to your main product, i.e. yourwell, people will have another good reason to
paid-for book, by letting them know they can onlyredistribute it to their friends etc and it will reach
get so much for free.even further.
How will people find my free e-book if I have noThe key to creating a brandable e-book is to use an
website traffic?inexpensive branding program to create the special
This is perhaps the most crucial aspect of givinglinks for you, which will also give you the relevant
away anything from your website, and until recently,re-branding program for your affiliates.
a difficult issue to resolve. Building traffic to your siteWe explain exactly how to do this on our own
takes both time and considerable effort - building there-branding page - feel free to copy our method and
site, getting it hosted, promoting it etc. There arewording if you think it would help you.
many ways to make this easier and relativelyBy following these simple steps, you too can
automatic, but it still takes some effort on your part,generate a small army of affiliates to help sell your
and, inevitably - time.product for you, for mutual benefit.