Choosing the subject To Write an eBook On

Selling your eBook on the internet is not about how well you write or how creative you are. It is mainly about how well you understand the market.  In different words, when you try to sell an eBook you are not trying to create a market but instead are catering to the market which is why it is important for you to study the market.  For example, most beginners are surprised to realize that the majority of eBooks that are successful are only 10 to 50 pages long.  This is in direct contrast to conventional books, the majority of which are, at least, 200 pages long in small print.

Selling your eBook is mainly about solving a problem for the buyer.  This means that you need to study the online world and figure out some problem that some group of people have and categorically go about resolving it for them through your eBook.  If you can find a subject that is untapped but still very much in demand, then you would see a lot of success by selling your eBook.  In fact, if you do your research right, you can set in motion a chain effect where your eBook sets the pace while numerous other authors try to jump onto your bandwagon.

Great Internet Marketing Can Make a Huge Difference in Your Bid to sell an eBook

In an earlier part of this article, a background in internet marketing was mentioned as being a positive if you want to sell an eBook.  The reason for this is that a good internet marketing strategy can make an average eBook sell like it is the best product in the market.  The primary purpose of online marketing strategies is to not only attract people towards the eBook but to also create the kind of hype that results in you selling your eBook in a way that brings you lots of profits.

Your internet marketing strategy should consist of a wide array of techniques ranging from good content and articles to blogs and forum posts.  However, if you do not have online marketing experience then you can make use of service providers that offer large ecommerce packages that consist of internet marketing help as well.

The Technical Aspect of selling your eBook

There is a technical aspect to selling your eBook as well that deserves as much attention from you as the writing and marketing aspects of the eBook.  This technical aspect has to do with where to sell eBooks and how to sell eBooks online.  Both the ‘where’ and the ‘how’ of selling eBooks can make a huge difference in how successful you are in your efforts to sell an eBook.  Let’s approach the two facets one by one.

Where to sell your eBook

The question of where to sell your eBook can be answered in a variety of ways and, indeed, should be answered in a variety of ways because this would ensure that you get access to multiple types of audiences.  Needless to say, the more places you sell your eBook through, the higher will be your sales and profits.

The obvious path to take is to have a website of your own that you can convert into an online storefront with the help of ecommerce scripts and software that are available on the internet.  The other paths include selling your eBook through third party digital product marketplaces such as the ones provided by Amazon, eBay and PayLoadz.

Different types of platforms get different types of buyers, which means that you can even play with the pricing of your product to get more profits through some.  Also, using multiple platforms is a wonderful way to increase the sales on your own website because if a buyer wants to make a second purchase from you then he can simply come to your website, instead of approaching you through third party websites again.

How to sell your eBook

The answer to the question of how to sell your eBook is closely related to the answer of the previous question.  The reason for this is that the way you approach selling your eBook would be connected to which platform you choose to sell it on.

If you choose to rely on your own website, then you need to convert it into an adept virtual storefront so that your buyers can make purchases conveniently. A virtual storefront has to have some very basic systems that it cannot function without.  Therefore, if you want to sell an eBook through your own website, you would have to put in place various modules such as a shopping cart, an automated digital product delivery system and a payment mechanism.  You can put these systems in place through various means including scripts and free plug-ins.

If you choose a third party digital product marketplace for selling your eBook then you would get every feature possible on the planet but will have to make sure that you choose the right one.

The Best of All Worlds

Ideally, you should choose to sell an eBook through an amalgamation of both the methods mentioned above because this would allow you to tap into the potential of both options.  It is because of these benefits that many third party digital product marketplaces such as PayLoadz also provide you with scripts and software that you can install on your own website.  Signing up for such packages would mean that your whole process for selling your eBook would be synergized across multiple platforms.  For example, if you sign up for a typical package from PayLoadz, you would be able to sell an eBook on their in-house marketplace, your website, Facebook, twitter and even your blogs.