A little while ago I released an e-book on the subject of affiliate marketing. It wasn't much, nothing special and it was my first foray into the e-book business.
The basis of the book was about my affiliate marketing career and the tips and hints I learnt along the way. The book was well under 100 pages long and full of spelling mistakes.
The reason I'm telling you this so you know that anyone with half a brain could do what I did.I had pretty much no money to advertise the e-book with. I think my budget was about $250 US dollars for the whole thing.
The 2 main methods of advertising I used to promote that book was Joint Venturing and Ezine
Advertising. Here's what I did....There are people who run ezines(online newsletters) that I wanted to get a hold of.
I knew I had a fairly good product, but I didn't have a list of customers to send my offer to, so I basically told every Ezine owner in my target market that I wanted to give them 50% of all the sales they refer to me, but I also knew, that these people got this sort of offer everyday so I had to sweeten the deal.
I told them I would also pay them half of the ad cost (what it would usually cost someone to advertise in their newsletter) plus give them 50% of the sales, if they read the book, and recommend it to their list.
You have to understand that an ad and a
recommendation are 2 very different things. If you get someone with credibility to tell people about your product, you will see the profits soar.
I had this happening every week, and one weekend, A very big marketer promoted my book to his list. And in that weekend, there was over $4000 in sales! In 3
days, over $4000 in sales hit my credit card processor.
1) Create a hot product
2) Write a sales letter
3) Setup an account with Clickbank.com
4) Find joint venture partners