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So you’ve written an ebook. Now what?

Ebook writing, like book writing, can be a lucrative way to sell your products and services, as well as vary the offerings on your website.

The advantage of selling ebooks is that you can automate the process from start to finish. Once you’ve written your ebook, all you have to do is create a sales page, set up your payment processing, and you’re in business.

You probably know already that you should write a press release, as well as articles, and submit them to the appropriate directories. These two techniques will help you get the word out about your new ebook.

However, have you considered these techniques?

1. Submit to Ebook Directories
There are at least 20 different ebook directories on the internet. This doesn’t include the directories you can submit your ebook to if you are selling your ebook.

You can create a sample chapter or a sample of your ebook and submit it to the free directories. This will help you build backlinks to your website, as well as give your ebook a better exposure.

2. Sell on Lulu - http://www.lulu.com
If you want to use the real power of leverage, you can sell your product on Lulu. Lulu allows you to upload unlimited manuscripts for free and set them up to sell them. You can also offer a print version of your ebook, as well as audios or videos. This allows you to expand your product line very easily.

Lulu handles the sales process from start to finish for you and sends you a check each month. Lulu takes a 20 percent commission on each sale and you get the rest.

For a small fee, you can use global distribution and get your ebook in all of the major online bookstores.

3. Start an Affiliate Program
An affiliate program is another powerful form of leverage you can use to sell your ebook. By using an affiliate program, you can build your own sales force to sell for you. Although you will need to pay commissions, this is a passive form of sales for you, and you make money from the efforts of others.

When you use the right affiliate program management software, you can build valuable backlinks to your website. This will raise your rankings in the search engines and maybe give you some extra traffic and sales.

4. Get Reviews
This is actually a combination of affiliate programs and joint ventures. Depending on who you ask to review your new ebook, you could walk away with all of the profits.

Some sites are looking for new material to talk about, not join your affiliate program or joint venture. By finding reviewers for your new ebook, you can build backlinks, create a buzz about your new ebook, and further increase your network of passive traffic.

When looking for sites to review your ebook, use a site like Alexa to help you find high traffic sites on your topic. Search the sites for reviews and contact site owners.

You can also use the following sites to get you started:

Blog Critics - http://www.blogcritics.org
About - http://www.about.com
Bella Online - http://www.bellaonline.com

How you promote your ebook is up to you. The harder you promote, the more sales you are likely to make.

Jinger Jarrett is the author of “1001 High Traffic Sites to Market Your Business for Free”. Promote your business on high traffic sites like Google, Yahoo, and MSN news for free. http://www.jingerjarrett.com

Is there a subject or hobby that you enjoy or know a lot about? If so, you can become an expert. Is there a subject that you would like to know more about? If so, you can become an expert.

First, make a list of ten or more subjects that you know a lot about or are interested in. Can’t think of that many? Ask your relatives or friends to help. They may have more ideas about the things you are knowledgeable about than you do. Do they ask you questions and you give them advice? If so, you have knowledge about that subject.

Once you have your subject selected, do a little research to see if there is any interest in the subject. It is of little use to write an ebook on a subject when there is no demand or interest. Do a search on eBay, Google or any of the other search engines, or check Overture to see how many people are actually looking for information on the subject you selected. If there is an interest, proceed with your ebook. If not, pick another subject from your list.

Once you have concluded that there is an interest in your topic, that you are sincerely interested in the topic, and that you can provide honest and informative information that people want, you are almost ready to begin writing your ebook.

If you think you still do not have enough knowledge or want to learn more, you can do some research from books or by going online and using one of the search engines. Information is all around us. We just have to seek it out. You don’t have to know every detail of a subject but should be knowledgeable enough to write a very informative ebook. As long as you are providing information that your readers want and need, you can become an expert.

Now, before you actually start writing your ebook, you need to determine who will be most interested in your topic. Is your targeted group going to be male or female? What approximate age group are they in? Is your topic geared toward a particular ethnic group?

Once you have determined who you are writing to and that they do indeed have an interest, you are then ready to start writing. Remember to keep it informative. Tell them something that they don’t already know. Make it interesting. You don’t want to lose their attention at this point, you want them to keep reading.

Don’t stop just because you wrote one ebook. Continue with your research and write another ebook on the same subject. Since this information is going to be unique from the first ebook, you have now a second expert volume on your subject that you can earn additional money from.

If you don’t like to write or feel that you just can’t, you can always hire someone to write the ebook for you. There are several place online where you can hire a write. You could try elance.com, guru.com or rentacoder.com. There are more, just do a search on one of the search engines. You provide them with an outline and they will write the ebook for you. You then add your name as author.

Perhaps you have a friend or relative who is an expert on a subject. You can team up with them and do a “joint venture.” They provide the information and write the ebook, or you can jointly write the ebook. You can then market the ebook and split the profits.

The hardest part of all of this is getting motivated to start writing. Once you start, you will be challenged to get it finished and start earning money from your ebook.

Don’t give up. You can do this!

Loretta Miller has a site where the goal is to help people increase the traffic to their website. http://increasesalesinfo.com/

Most webmasters, whether they are experienced or not, know the importance of promoting your website with articles. Unfortunately, many beginners do not realize the importance of a well-written article. Of course you can throw some words together and name your slop something but most article directories will reject it and who would read it anyway? As a professional ghostwriter, Webmaster and owner of three article directories, I see the type of articles that people submit and I will tell you, it is discouraging.

Before you even start your article, keep in mind that optimization wins the search engine rankings whether in an article or in your actual website. Quality key word optimized articles are very important. With this in mind, follow these steps to write your first quality key word optimized article to promote your website.

Come up with one main keyword or keyword phrase and one secondary. You will integrate these keywords into your article for optimization. These keywords do not have to be exactly the same every time. Your keyword could be ,white Nike shoes, if you use the phrase ,my white shoes are Nikes, or something similar it will be just as advantageous. For a 400-word article, I recommend using your main keyword or variation of it about 6 times. If possible try to put your main keyword into your title.

Write a description. This can be anywhere from one sentence to one large paragraph. The description will be the first thing people read so try to make it catchy. Many webmasters just write the full article and use the first paragraph as their description. Most directories will deny an article that has the same description as the first paragraph of the article. If you decide not to write a description and you just use the first paragraph, be sure not to include the first paragraph in the actual article body. That brings up to the next step.

Writing the body. There are a few things you absolutely must know you are to be successful promoting your website with articles. One of the main reasons I reject articles in my directories is for no spaces between paragraphs. If cannot stress this enough. You must have a space between each paragraph. Next, you never indent your paragraphs. We are not writing letters in school. When writing an article to promote your site, do not indent anything. Next, grammar, you do not have to have a degree in English to write an article that looks good. Most people misspell words on occasion. If you can write an article that portrays a knowledgeable person then you are on your way to success.

Writing the resource box, A.K.A. authors area. Writing a quality, key word optimized article that people will love to read will not do you any good without a link to your site. The resource box gives you the opportunity to tell your readers about you and your website. You can just put a standard link to your site in this area but search engines put your link text into consideration so it is always better to use html if the directory accepts it and use the main keyword for your site as the link text. The last thing you need to know about the resource box is that overdoing it could cause negative results. When a publisher browses through articles to post on his or her website, blog, newsletter or e-zine among many other things they are looking at the number of outgoing links in the resources box. Keep the number of outgoing links in your resource box to a minimum of two or less for best results.

The quicker you understand the information in this article and put it to use, the quicker your website will achieve top search engine ratings. Be creative, be informational and you will enjoy a lifetime of success.

Joshua Spaulding is an Author providing Free Training on how to Make Money Online Joshua also moderates an Articles Directory with Free Website Content.