Marketing information products, or e-books, is one of the best ways to make money online. The first thing you should do is research about what the market wants to read in an e-book. After you write your e-book, you need to get traffic to your website that sells your e-book.
Whats the best way to generate interest in your e-book?
By writing articles! You have researched keyword phrases and used them to write your e-book. Use those same keyword phrases to write articles, which will add more backward links to your e-book website. At the end of each article, add a link that leads people to your website. You may also want to add a brief note about yourself, the author, and offer them something of value for visiting your site. This “ethical bribe” can be information, a newsletter, or something else that will attract attention.
If you are writing an article that tells your reader how to save money, you can include a resource box like this one. “Stephen Beck has written many articles on throwing a wonderful wedding on a shoestring budget and is giving away a free report entitled, Saving Money While Still Having a Great Wedding. Click here for your free copy.”
When customers click that link, they arrive at your website. A pop-up collects their e-mail address so you can send their free copy. At the same time, they are exposed to all the benefits of your wonderful e-book, which encourages them to buy.
After your articles are complete, they will help you create a massive e-book promotion. Send articles to article directories, blogs, e-zines ” anywhere you can. Heres a hint: Webmasters love fresh, new, free articles to add to their websites. It doesnt matter that you have a link to your own website.
When these articles become a part of other peoples web pages and blogs, they provide backward links to your site and they establish you an an authority in your market. This really improves your ranking in search engines and drives visitors to your e-book sales page.
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Online marketing is the way to go if you want to make money online. With all the affiliate programs out there where do we even begin? CPA or cost per action is definitely the up and coming kid on the block.
Cost per action is different from a normal affiliate program because instead of making a commission when a visitor buys from the merchant, all we need to do is generate a lead for the merchant. This means that we don’t need anyone to buy anything. We just need them to sign up. This could be as simple as a name and email address.
Companies are willing to pay a lot of money for these leads because you are in a sense getting them targeted buyers and possibly repeat customers. Nothing is worth more to a company than targeted consumers.
We can setup a CPA campaign similar to an affiliate marketing campaign. Usually with a website offering free sample. When a visitor to our page is interested in the free sample they click through to the merchant’s page. If they sign up, the merchant gets a sales lead and we get paid!
What can make this more appealing than normal affiliate marketing is that we don’t actually need the customer to buy anything. It tends to be easier to get somebody to just fill out their name and e-mail address for a free sample than get them to take cash out of their wallet.
Just like affiliate marketing there are CPA networks that you can sign up to. All you need to do is become a member and start searching through their database of clients. You can then setup a web page, market through email, or any other number of ways that you can reach people.
All in all it is a pretty simple and quick way of making some cash on the side. If you really want to get deep and explore CPA further I recommend a new product from Craig Beckta called Secret Cash Blueprint. He is giving away all the tips and secrets to be extremely successful at CPA.
The author of this blog also thinks Craig Beckta is a bright fellow too and encourages you to look at a number of the things this prolific young man has put out including Secret Affiliate Code2. Likewise another great affiliate marketer is New Zealand’s Mark Ling of Affilorama. You can get his latest product AffiloBlueprint- Affiliate Marketing Training. I just saw Mark teach, to popular acclaim, at the PPC Classroom – Live
Event 2009 at the Las Vegas Hilton.
