The other day, I had an experience where buying an ebook wasn’t as instant as it was supposed to be.

Now I won’t name the ebook or the person behind it – that’s not my scene. But what I will say to everyone out there currently setting up is to make sure all your parts to get to that instant gratification moment a customer expects these days does actually work.

When you think about it, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that one misstep – even a seemingly minor one – could wreck the whole process: you have your ebook pdf file, your AWeber account, maybe an E-Junkie account – and all that has to be setup perfectly to work as a customer goes along the short process to buying and receiving the product.

In my case, the misstep happened somewhere between PayPal and E-Junkie, where I could not “instantly” download my purchase.

So a quick email to the seller and 36 hours later (that’s for another post) I get my ebook.

The moral: Test. Test and Test again. Get your friends to test. Test on different computers. Test once a week.

Something like this (PayPal>AWeber>E-Junkie etc) screams out for a step-by-step process, checklist-type of pdf file, that, Hmmm … sounds like an interesting special report.

Anyway all the best in your ebook business and remember to be mindful of the “I want it Now” society we live in.

Cheers,

Colors are a vital component in design. Well D’ah, you are now probably spilling your coffee, here’s me, stating the bleeting obvious.

But what about the colors of your ebook?

If you’ve ever created an ebook, has color ever been on your mind – or have you gone simply with black, shades of black and boldings?

If so, you might be missing out quite a bit.

I’ll be talking more about colors in ebook design, but basically, different colors and combinations of colors do make a sub-conscious affect on a readers mind.

The easy example would be the color green. Green has always been associated with money, so any ebook that talks about making money should incorporate a green color scheme in their design.

For today, here’s a nifty little site I’ve come across: 500+ Colors.

I’d bookmark this site right away and have it in your ebook toolkit for future reference.

Til tomorrow, all the best with your own ebook business,

Cheers,

Nail it down to a single, powerful want/desire and you’re half way there.

Deliver the want in full in a concise, easy-to-read manner and … in 50 pages or less and you’re onto a winner.

See, today’s internet surfer have clear wants and desires that they are looking to be answered in as little time as possible. No filler or padding just tell me what I want to know and as quickly as you can and I’ll pull out my credit card.

Five years ago, you could WOW them with a 200-page ebook packed full of information with their wants answered along the road anywhere from page one to page two hundred. You could stretch it out.

Those days are over.

Over at The eBook Agency we deal with ebooks that are 70% under 50 pages and 30% under 100 pages.

It’s a simple equation: give people what they want, give it to them in an easy to digest way and you’ll have a happy – hopefully, lifetime – customer.

Cheers,

1. Know your audience. The first thing that you need to do is to have a clear idea about the people that you are targeting. You need to determine their preferences, their needs and demands, their availability, their buying power, the things that they are looking for in a product, and the elements that can lure them to attend your product launching event. The more you know about these people, the better your chances of making this endeavor highly targeted and focused to their requirements.

2. Introduce an exciting, irresistible offer. The key to make your product launching interesting is to give your potential attendees something that they will appreciate. Aside from emphasizing the benefits that your product can offer, you may also launch some marketing gimmicks that can easily capture the attention of these people. You can offer them with free product samples or huge discounts.

3. Keep your potential clients informed. Send your opt-in list some enticing announcements about your product launch at least 2-3 weeks prior to the actual event. You may also advertise on your blog, website, relevant forums, and discussion boards so you can create that much needed anticipation. Ensure that you spill all the good things about this event so you can lure more people to attend.

4. Pick the best date, time, and venue. To maximize the number of your attendees, make sure that you pick the perfect time, date, and venue that are very convenient to your potential clients. If you are targeting those who have the usually 9am-5pm job, ensure that you launch your products on weekends in a place that can easily be accessed by these people.

5. Be willing to invest. Do not cut corners when launching your products. Remember, you will need all the attention you can get so increase the exposure of your offerings. Invest on getting the best venue, the best hosts, and the best equipments that can make this event truly memorable to all your attendees.

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If all you do is write one eBook and set up a single sales system, you will in all likelihood make money. And with costs so low, profitability is almost a sure thing.

Once you see how easy it can be to set up one automatic income stream, you’ll want to do it again and again. You can find a new market and write a book that meets the desires of your new niche. Set up the same kind of system and establish an additional income stream. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Income earned from your writing is a good thing, after all.

But there is a better way to expand. It’s a far more effective way to pile on the profits and make your writing efforts pay larger dividends.

Instead of going wide and branching out into different market areas, go deep and fully exploit your first niche, before looking for greener pastures elsewhere. That’s how to win big time in a niche market. You’ll have more fun and make a whole lot more money too.

It all starts with getting to know your market. You’ve got to in effect, become one of them. That’s the best way to be able to speak directly to your prospects in a way that breaks down any barriers. Markets often have their own language and you need to sound like one of them to be accepted and believed.

Learn everything you can about your market. Become fluent in their language and then start with a single product and build upon that. Add additional products on a regular basis. Let one product build on another and you’ll have a ready-made audience.

That’s how you dominate a market and become key player. And it’s the key players that earn the lion’s share of the profits. Go deep and prosper like never before.

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Having written and edited corporate newsletters over the last few years, here are some of my tips on producing effective e-newsletters.

1) Make the most impact by having information that your target market finds valuable. Approach it from the perspective of your customers. This doesn’t mean you can’t sell or promote your products but be sure there is a mix of how-to articles and other useful information.

2) Always ask yourself when reviewing your newsletter “What does this information mean to our customers?” Keep the “big picture” in mind. Avoid the “diary/journal” article of “We did this, then we did that.” Writing a sequence of events doesn’t necessarily make interesting reading.

3) Encourage customer feedback. After all an unread newsletter is a waste of time, money and resources.

4) You may want to incorporate company news from other sources, such as press releases, speeches and presentations.

5) Regular features could include a column by the president or other executives, question and answer, letters to the editor, a product or service related story, and a preview of what’s coming up in the next newsletter.

6) Have a couple of back-up articles ready to go in case you need to drop or reschedule an article. It’s always better to have too many articles than too few.

7) Quotation marks make writing look lively and compelling. Use them frequently in your articles. You can also include relevant quotes from noted personalities and business leaders.

If your e-newsletter is created as a web page on your company’s site, you need to entice customers to go and read it. Send an email to customers announcing a new edition has been posted. Include the article titles.

9) Make one staff person responsible for final approval. Never approve by committee. You’ll never get everyone to agree. Trying to incorporate everyone’s comments will only create a convoluted newsletter.

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The growing popularity of ebooks is fueling the spirits of those people who would like to make money online. As these information base products are selling like hotcakes online, ebook writing promises great financial benefits to people who have great writing skills and who genuinely care about helping online users.

Here’s how you can impact your ebook writing:

1. Deliver informative ebooks. Strive to give your clients great value for their money by loading your ebooks with all the kinds of information that these people need in improving the quality of their lives. You may offer information that can empower them to do things on their own (ex. Step-by-step guide on website creation) or help them resolve their pressing issues (ex. Losing weight the effective way). You can also provide answers to their burning questions or offer information about the things that they are most passionate about.

2. Plan each chapter. You cannot present the same information on other parts of your ebooks. Each of your chapters must have unique content and they must be well-written and sound very organized. It would help if you can create an outline that contains your main topic, chapters, sub topics, etc. even before you start writing your content.

3. Be an expert. Don’t start writing your ebooks unless you are confident that you know your chosen topics inside and out. Remember, you must be a great source of information to your readers so you can offer them exactly what they are looking for.

4. Outsource some of your ebook writing-related tasks. There are some times that you just have to admit that you are not the best person to do other related tasks especially if you don’t have the know-how (ebook page designing, proofreading, ebook marketing, etc.). Don’t worry, as you can always hire brilliant minds from freelancing sites to help you out. You can go to guru, elance, or getafreelancer dot com where you can find some of the finest freelancers from all points of the globe.

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Why should you be thinking in terms of information products? Well, there are several reasons, one of which is that the Internet is first and foremost an information medium. People come to the Internet and Google stuff to learn, to find information about how to solve some sort of problem of theirs. Now, it doesn’t have to be a “real” problem. Their problem might be as simple as what book to read next. But you have to understand that people use the Internet to get information.

So, why not design a product that contains all the information someone wants, then sell it to them? Better yet, get other people (called affiliates) to sell your information to their customers, too!

I’m going to assume I’ve convinced you of the necessity for having your own product. Now, I want to give you some pointers on how to create that product.

First off, you need to know that you’re creating a product for a niche where people buy stuff–preferably lots of stuff. You can find this out one of two ways. You can test the niche yourself, using an affiliate product that’s similar to what you’re thinking about making. Or, you can do a lot of market research into who’s already selling what.

You see, if there are a lot of other information marketers in a certain niche–that’s good! The Internet is so huge, and expanding exponentially, that there’s plenty of room for everyone. Take weight loss, for instance. There could well be a few thousand internet marketers making good money in weight loss.

The next thing you need to know is what your competition is. You can find out some about this by reading their sales page. But to actually know what you’re competition is up to, you’ll need to buy at least of of their products.

Of course, you have to marry all of this with your own desires and skills. For instance, I once investigated high-end cake decorating as a possible niche. What could be easier, I thought? “How to” stuff is perfect for information products. Well, I was right. Cake decorating is actually a bona fide niche where a number of marketers are making money. But, it was absolutely uninteresting to me. I couldn’t get any traction in the niche. I finally realized that was because I was completely uninterested in the niche, except for the money making potential.

Bottom line: try to choose something you have a natural interest in.

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Without delay, here are the tips:-

1) Place some teasers on your website

People respond quite well when they see or read something that is related to them. Lets say you are trying to sell a weight loss product, and you put a banner with the words “lose 9 pounds in every 1 week”, you can be sure people will react by clicking on the offer and hopefully buy your product.

2) Create a blog

Blog is one of the best way to buzz about your product launching. Before the launch, create a blog and provide some information about your product so that people can get an update on what is going on. Whatever it is, do not spill everything in your blog. Your job is to make your potential customers eager to buy your product when during the launch date.

3) Find some testimonials

What makes a product so great? A good product is where there are several testimonials from the experts on your niche. Search for an expert in your niche and offer him a free gift of your product. In return, request testimonial from them about your product. You need to carefully craft your message because most expert will not even bother to open up their emails.

4) Write a press release

Press release is good in a sense that it gets the attention of the search engines. Once you have written a compelling press release and submit it to press release websites, in one day, you can already see the press release on the first page of the search engines. Using it well can give your product a boost in sales.

5) Provide discounts and freebies

No product is great without some sort of bonuses or freebies. People simply love bonuses, so you might as well create lots of it when selling your initial product. It is also best if you can offer discounts to whoever make the purchase one week from now. After one week, you simply raise the price. By doing this, people will have to act fast to grab the best offer before it is too late.

6) Keep on promoting

Although you still have not launch your product, that does not mean you cannot promote it. Make a buzz inside several forums on your niche. You need to convince your potential buyers to buy your products after the launching event. Do it aggressively and consistently to get the maximum effect.

And that should do it, applying the above tips surely can improve your product launching. Now get out there and take some action.

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1. Permission-based marketing doesn’t rankle.
Seth Godin’s “permission-based marketing” phrase aptly describes the world of e-marketing. According to e-mail protocol, people actually request that you keep in touch. This is a nice turnaround from invasive cold-calling and heavy-handed advertising. This type of marketing is called Top of Mind Awareness or TOMA. And it’s low-cost!

2. Content is king.
The best e-newsletters offer value in the way of informational content. Use your e-newsletter to teach people more about your industry so they can make better decisions. Educate folks about your specific products or services with regular messages of interest.

3. Effective newsletters get readers to act.
There’s more to publishing an e-newsletter than using the right fonts and color schemes. You must know the techniques that assure your message gets read and that readers take action. The word “f.r.e.e,” for example, is a favorite among professional copywriters, but it is the number one s.p.a.m flag.

4. E-newsletters can be a virtual salesperson.
Hockey great Wayne Gretsky said he used the boards as his fifth teammate. Think of e-newsletters as a salesperson who never gets sick and never takes a day off. E-newsletters will sell for you like magic. Send good content and recipients will even forward your messages to others. Very nice.

5. Automated success is just the ticket for 2009.
You can create HTML e-mail templates and manage additions and deletions to your mailing list. Track the success of your campaigns with reporting on everything from click-through rates to revenue earned from each mailing.

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Michael Angelo Caruso has delivered over 2,000 keynote speeches and presentations on the subject of communication. He is President of the Edison House, a Detroit-based consulting and publishing company. Mr. Caruso is author of the 5 Cool Ideas books and the FastLearnerAudio series, which can help you become an even better person.

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