How Can I Distribute My E-Books and Fulfill Orders?

Before you tackle e-book distribution and orderfulfillment, you have to decide if you are going to use your e-book as apromotional tool and give it away for free or you are going to c...

Before you tackle e-book distribution and orderfulfillment, you have to decide if you are going to use your e-book as apromotional tool and give it away for free or you are going to charge for youre-book and use it in your product funnel of info-products for passive profits.

Ifyou are going to give it away, you can have it on your website as a free offerin exchange for someone signing up to be on your mailing list. The valuablecontent in the e-book and the promise of the solutions to the readers problemwill entice the reader to leave their name and e-mail address in exchange forthe free e-book. At that point, you would not care if they shared it withfriends and colleagues, as a matter of fact, you would encourage them to do so.In order to benefit from giving this away for free and having others read it,you will have links imbedded in your e-book that will take the reader back toyour website or squeeze page or sales page where you are selling otherproducts. So your free e-book now becomes a lead generator for future sales.

Youcan also distribute your e-book by giving it to joint venture partners to usein their campaigns, where they are selling a product and need bonuses. Youre-book can be a free bonus for your joint venture partner. In order for thecustomer to get your bonus, they need to go to your website and enter theirname and e-mail address. Now they have your book with embedded links where theycan buy more products from you in the future, and now you have their name ande-mail address to add to your mailing list so you can continue to stay in touchand market to them in the future.

Obviously,another way to distribute your e-book would be to sell it directly from yourwebsite or sales page. You will have to have your web master place your e-bookin a downloadable format, so when a customer purchases it, they will get accessto it immediately. For web masters, this is a simple task to accomplish. Alsoyou will need to have e-commerce set up, which includes is a shopping card anda merchant account. You can do that by checking with other Internet marketersand see what they are using. One of the most popular programs that fulfills allyour e-commerce needs is 1ShoppingCart. Check them out.

After the customers credit card payment clears, they aretaken to a "thank you" screen that includes a link to where they candownload your e-book. This way, you don't have to be concerned about deliveringthe e-book to your customer after the sale. Its all automatic. You won't needto mail them a hard copy book or even email them the file.

Anotherway to distribute and fulfill e-book orders is to have your e-book listed atother sites like Amazon and e-book directories. EcoBrain, for example, listse-books that have some connection to environmental issues. There are a lot ofniche specific as well as general e-book directories you can look up. Theseother sites will do all the fulfillment for you and pay you a percentage ofrevenues. All you need to do is help them drive traffic to those sites. They dosome of their own marketing, but you can always help. As a matter of fact, ifyou dont even want to get involved with your own e-commerce, just go directlyto directories and let them do the fulfillment.


How Can I Distribute My E-Books and Fulfill Orders?

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