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[M75]Make Extra Money Selling

by Obinna Heche, Obi

Ebooks are electronic versions of printed material that can contain text, sound and images. The profit potential from selling them is high because the start up and operating expenses are very low.

You can even make more money if you write some of your own ebooks. Your writing skills do not have to be stellar. There are online sources that will take your research and craft an ebook for you. Some of these companies even take care of marketing, payments and shipping.

Buying Ebooks for Sale

You can purchase them from authors online. eBay is another source for buying ebooks with resell rights. Your customers can also sell these books, thus providing an incentive for them to do business with you.

Make sure the ebooks you buy or write yourself are full of useful information and resources. Some of them are nothing more than ads and sales pitches for the writers products. These ads will turn off customers and decrease repeat business.

Do your research to determine what types of information people are seeking. Getting rich selling informative products onlne will depend on the topics covered, customer base and marketing campaign.

Make sure to do an online search for the title before buying them for resale. If lots of web sites are selling the book, its probably a popular title and will be a good seller. It also helps to sell ebooks that cater to a specific market niche. Search online forums and other group sites to locate potential target markets for niche titles. Contact these groups with a short email inviting them to visit your site. Offer an incentive such as 20% off first purchase to increase site traffic.

Ebooks about current trends or hot topics will generate more income. Your income will really get a boost if you can spot the next big topic and write or purchase to sell before the competition saturates the market.

Marketing Extras

You can use a common template for your ebooks web site or sell them on an existing site you already have. However, to stand out from the competition, create your own web site to sell these products. Always add new titles to your stock to keep old customers coming back and to attract new ones. Use email to notify customers of new titles and special sales. Offer discounts on slow moving titles.

Affiliate programs are another way to get rich selling ebooks. The affiliate pays you a commission for the quantities you sell. To make money from ebooks you write, start your own affiliate program.

There are plenty of online and print books that will help you learn how to get in on the sales bandwagon. Do yourself a favour and search online. You will definitely find a good one.

One of the easiest ways to make extra money online is with a pay per lead program. It is another form of affiliate marketing because your product in this case is the lead itself. You can make several hundred dollars every month referring people to lead capture pages and getting paid by the affiliate company when a lead is filled out. There are many good lead affiliate programs for this. I want to get your mind thinking by giving you another way to make extra money online selling leads.

If you want to step it up a notch or two consider developing leads directly for a business or an individual and by pass the affiliate program. For example, how about is partnering with a mortgage broker. Here's how you could do that.

1. Build a website and provide information on refinancing a mortgage

2. Write and submit articles with tips on how to refinance a mortgage. Put your new website link a bio box on each article.

3. Join discussion forums where people are looking for information on mortgage re-financing

4. Do some pay per click advertising

5. I will hyperlink the keyword phrase refinance my mortgage and put it on every page of every website you have

6. Promote your new website by email to your mailing list

7. Hyperlink your main keyword phrase on your blog

8. Start a refinance blog

9. And more.

Why would you go to the trouble to do all of this? MONEY! I am not talking about selling a lead for $2 or $3 dollars. I am talking about making thousands of dollars this year getting leads for your new partner. Get them the leads. They follow up with the leads. If they help someone refinance their mortgage you make a commission on the sale by getting paid from them directly.

The number one thing people use the internet for is email. The #2 thing they use the internet for is to find information. If you think about any industry that needs leads to make sales then you have an opportunity to make money getting the leads and selling them.

This could be a local business, or nationwide, or even worldwide. Besides mortgage brokers how about contractors? Home improvements, hvac contractors, painting contractors, basement finish, electricians, plumbers etc. How about health insurance for small businesses? Hook up with an insurance agent and get him leads online and sell them to him or work out a deal to get paid when he makes a sale.

Real estate agents, quitting smoking counselors or hypnotists. And on and on I could go.

You could develop a website or you could just make a capture page and promote it. This is an idea of thinking outside of the box. Get creative. There are a lot of ways to make extra money online. Partnering with someone and getting them leads is just one I came up with.

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