Have you been told that ebooks are dead? Have you bought the lie that information products and not sold? NO!
Is 2011. The beginning of a new year - with new goals, new aspirations and new hopes. Electronic books are not dead. In fact, they are alive and well and living ... ... Where? Well, that depends on you!
Information has always sold. Sold out online at the big bookstores in the form of non-fiction books, the books of success, diet books, self improvement books, dog training books, and books for Dummies. The information is sold online as quickly and easily and with fewer problems.
The customer receives your product immediately. A few clicks and your book is sitting at his desk. They do not travel through the bad weather to the library. Do not travel to the book store because the book is so popular the first store was sold out. There are no outstanding orders. No gas prices (well - could not resist that one!)
The author / publisher also has incredible benefits. Do not run out of product. There are no shipping charges. No cost duplication. Little or no overhead. An open global market available on your desktop.
Produce your product once and sell it as long as the information remains current.
Selling at auction. It is sold in a sales page. It is sold with affiliates. It is sold with viral techniques. Sell ??while you sleep. It is sold abroad. It is sold with joint ventures. Give it away. Use e-book directories. Reformat for handheld devices.
The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.
For example .... a new wave of video e-mail on the horizon. This is a technology that is available to all Internet users in just a few years. Want to be at the forefront of this technological breakthrough? Write an information product. People point to different suppliers. The use of affiliate links in the book to increase their income.
So the ebook is alive and well and living at your desk, ready to be published online and ready for you to collect a paycheck.
Information products have existed since the books were first published and are here to stay. Take advantage of our population growth and respond to questions that people have - then charge them for it. As long as you answer their questions, they will buy.
September 02, 2009, 04:21:31 AM