February 23, 2007
Proliferation of $7 eBooks
When Jonathan Leger created his $7 Secrets ebook, I became suspicious that we would suddenly see an influx of $7 guides floating around the internet — and I was right.
Since the guide has been released, I’ve received numerous e-mails from marketers offering their latest creation for only $7. Jonathan has even aided in this trend my creating a website exclusively for the $7 products (the website is called $7 Offers).
The good news is that these guides are all affordable and short. The downside is that some people are not masters of education, thus, some of these guides are actually worthless.
It’s one thing to write a short, concise guide on a subject, it’s another thing completely to pull a bunch of pages together with no flow.
So, if you decide to pick up some $7 guides (and I probably will), make sure to look at the author’s reputation for the subject matter, her track record, and if possible, look for reviews of the report elsewhere.
You should also be wary when choosing to promote certain guides as well. If you promote garbage, you may lose the respect and trust of your readers. Be sure to thoroughly review a copy of the report — or at least, tell your readers it’s an unreviewed recommendation.
To this point, I’ve been lucky - the two guides ($7 Secrets and Craigslist Traffic) that I snagged for eBooktastic have been well put together.
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February 22, 2007
Profiting with Craigslist
Craigslist had its meager beginnings and then blossomed into its own online melting pot. It’s actually one of the top 10 most popular websites on the entire internet.
Hot on the heals of $7 Secrets, one author decided to make a quick $7 guide for harnessing the power of Craigslist. Since this is an area I’d like to get into and learn about myself, I considered this guide research when I picked up a copy.
It’s turned out to be far more than just simple research, it’s a mini blue print for receiving a deluge of traffic from Craigslist.
The guide covers, in the basest form
- What Craigslist is and gives a bit of background information
- How to actually post an add to Craigslist
- Some tips for selling both physical and affiliate products
- How to generate opt-in subscribers
- Driving the traffic to AdSense pages
- How to test your ads
Tentatively, I’ll give this Craigslist ebook a positive recommendation.
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February 4, 2007
$7 Secrets Explained
It’s amazing how news of this new ebook, called $7 Secrets, spread through the internet marketing circles — it was like wildfire (viral marketing at it’s best).
The salesletter claims the author made $3,000 in 6 days selling a $7 product — bold claim. One he backs it up in the book itself.
The premise of the book is to sell an information product for only $7, which will certainly help with the impulse buyers, instead of spending your time promoting a high end product.
$7 Secrets is a fairly short ebook (33 pages) and can be read in a single sitting, which is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the fluffy tomes available.
The chapters include:
- Why you should sell info products (refresher if you’re not new to info product sales)
- Problems selling info products (basically, why selling high end, high priced items can be difficult)
- The $7 Method
- How you can get more than $7 from each sale (instead of just selling the ebook, you can make back end affiliate sales and grow your list)
- Building affiliates - which affiliate wouldn’t love 100% commissions?
- A synopsis of the entire 5 step method - great to print out for reference
- The scripts to make it all possible, including the affiliate script (this alone is worth the $7 price tag)
- Creating ebook covers for your reports
The final two chapters are about promoting the product and the author’s bio.
What I find especially nice about the affiliate program is that it pays out 100% directly into your PayPal account, there’s no sign up form to fill out, and it’s very difficult for people to steal commissions because PayPal doesn’t allow you to pay yourself. Having the script that manages it all is definitely a treat and makes the value of this report more than $7.
My final verdict: $7 Secrets is highly recommended.
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January 11, 2006
eBook Security
eBook authors can put a lot of work, blood, sweat, and tears into their ebooks. Because of that, they deserve the revenue their ebook generates.
However, some less than honest people will try to circumvent the cost of the ebook by searching for it free elsewhere or by attempting to sell a pirated copy of the ebook.
This is inevitable, unfortunately. But, there are things that you can do, as an ebook author, to help protect yourself from ebook theft.
- Make your copyright notice visible within the first 2 pages, and provide a way to report ebook copyright infringement and pirating. To also sweeten the pot, provide some type of reward for people who would tip you off.
- Make sure to password protect your ebook with a strong password (at least 8 characters, but 15-20 is ideal). Use all the various characters and make it random so it’s more difficult to crack
- Limit printing only to low resolution and disable the copy/paste function. If you offer information that needs to be copy/pasted, then create a separate document for it.
- Include your name, copyright notice, a link to your website, and contact information in the footer of each page.
- Close the ebook with a short bio and description of your expertise/services.
- Make sure all links go through your own website so you can track their activity and update them as necessary
- Password restrict the download area and install a download manager so you can manage the approved users individually and can turn off download privileges on a per user basis.
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December 26, 2005
Agatha Christie’s Books Are Mesmerizing
You come home from work one day, kick off your shoes, then curl up under the covers with a good book. For many people, that book was a mystery novel by Agatha Christie.
Now, scientists are telling us that it may not have been by mistake and are, in fact, suggesting that Agatha may have hypnotized us with her writing.
The words, phrases, and sentences in her novels were analysed after being loaded into a computer and the results are actually quite interesting:
Despite the grisly theme of her novels, researchers say that much of her vocabulary is pleasing and gentle.
Favourite words or phrases, repeatedly used in a “mesmerising” way, help to stimulate the pleasure-inducing side of the brain. They include she, yes, girl, kind, smiled and suddenly.
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It was also found that she used a limited vocabulary in order to keep her readers focused on the clues and plots. The article itself contains some hidden nuggets for improving your writing.
If you’re looking to gain more knowledge in the field of writing hypnotically, then pick up a book on psychology or Joe Vitale’s Hypnotic Writing.
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