eBook Publishing: Earn More Money from your Books

Make the most out of your ebook empire: in addition to the money the books are supposed to generate, ensure to add some additional bucks in your pocket.

How to earn money with your recipe / craft / niche ebooks

To make money selling recipe ebooks, and because there's huge number of websites that work towards making money out of books on the Internet, there are a few steps to take. Here are some of the best traffic driving tips.

Giveaway an excerpt of your book

People love nothing as much as getting gifts and things for free. This is why you're going to give an excerpt of your very first ebook for free to any new visitor.

I'd recommend adding a subscription form on your site asking visitors their email address in exchange of a short ebook including a link to your website and 5 recipes / craft tutorials / guitar courses along with pictures. You won't need to provide more, if they like the content you gave away, they will come back and will certainly buy from you.

Although I'm not subscription lists' fan number one, I have to admit that, having a list with potential costumers' email addresses is extremely interesting for anyone who's about to start an online business. This way you can contact your list when you release your new ebook or when you plan special events on your site.

In any way, never use this list for spam purpose. A list that you care for is a happy list and a happy list is a list that will more likely buy than click on the unsubscribe button.

Set up an affiliate program

Another idea to promote your new ebook business is to provide your customers with an affiliate program so as to award those who refer your products to referrals with a commission. Depending on the percentage of the commission, they'll put more efforts in their promotional campaigns. The big advantage is that this type of marketing approach is free as you only pay your affiliates when they make sales.

Naturally, when it comes to niches that are popular, you are not limited to books. As a matter of fact, there are other ways to make money with them!

Build a niche blog

Niche blogging is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your new online based business. All you need to do so is to get a domain name, set up a blog in which you create different specific categories. 

I recommend setting up a Wordpress blog as WP provides a wide range of modules and plugins that allow you to make a professional blog. A very interesting way to make your blog stand out from the crowd would be by using a script which allows you to post a fresh article each day and spotlight it as "Recipe / Craft / Lesson of the Day".

Send out a weekly/monthly newsletter and/or ezine

If you set up a subscription form on your site and started getting people to provide you with their email address, you can exploit them with a weekly or monthly newlsetter or ezine. Just add a recipe / tutorial / lesson to your newsletter and spotlight the area to make it stand out from the rest of the content.

Where to find content for the newsletter

The process is the same as for your book articles, tutorials and recipes. You can write with your own words and use your own creativeness to come up with new ideas. 

Or you can get ideas from offline or online classes you would take. The other option is using PLR articles that are related to your niche.


Posted by Holly Day