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Excerpt from
Boogie Jack's eBook Farming: How to Grow Money Selling Your Words and Ideas
by Dennis Gaskill
Introduction
eBook Farming shows you everything you need to know to create automated income streams from your own eBooks, and yes, you CAN write eBooks - remember, I'm going to show you how. You can make good money on the Internet, period. Each eBook you create can be an ongoing income stream that can earn money for you 24 hours a day.
Suppose you've developed a nice eBook showing people how to teach whales to play the piano because everyone has pet whales these days. (I know whales don't play the piano, but I like to have fun while I work. Everyone knows whales have to play the kazoo because they don't have fingers.) ...um, you've covered all the basics and added some original ideas, and you are selling your eBook for $25.00.
You send out free review copies to ezine publishers who have agreed to review your product in their ezine if they like it. Let's say your product gets good reviews in 10 ezines that have a combined subscriber base of 250,000 people. There are thousands of ezines, and several that have more subscribers than that by themselves, so that's not an unrealistic figure.
A hype-ster would use an example like, "if only 5% of them bought your product" - but that's not likely to happen. A more realistic expectation would be that 1/2 of one percent would buy it, but for this example, lets say that just 1/4 of 1% of them buy your product (look ma, no hype at all). That's only 625 sales out of 250,000 readers, but wait, that's much better than it sounds.
That means you just made $15,625.00, and we're not even talking about having an idea that really caught fire. Suppose you spent 100 hours researching and creating your eBook (probably more time than you'll need), you earned $156.25 an hour for your efforts. Do you make that much now? Can you see why this is such an exciting opportunity within your reach?
That was just a one time shot. Not bad, eh? But wait, you can offer it to more ezine publishers and do it again! Thinking big yet? And that doesn't even take into consideration the sales you can make from your web site, word of mouth referrals, affiliate sales if you go that route, and recurring sales to your first customers as you develop new quality products. That was just a one time shot and it's excellent money.
A Bonus Excerpt:
Making Money Isn't the Only Benefit
Let me tell you a quick story of how I became a published book author (a real book, not an eBook). In late 1997 I started an ezine at the urging of people that had been using my web site tutorials and liked the way I wrote, so, Almost a Newsletter was born.
I called it Almost a Newsletter because I didn't fancy myself a writer, didn't know anything about publishing an ezine, and since I was the author of it, it didn't seem like a newsletter to me.
I wrote the first issue for 12 people, and I was one of them. It sucked, at least compared to the award winning ezine it has evolved into. But it caught on anyway, and soon dozens of subscribers became hundreds, then thousands. One of the subscribers, Tom Dean, is the webmaster for my publisher's web site. While discussing business one day, Tom told the publisher about me. He suggested they should have me write a book on web site design for them.
To make a long story short, I did, and Web Site Design Made Easy is now the teaching text in colleges all over the United States. I never intended to write a book when I started my web site, I didn't even intend to self-publish an ezine, but because of my ezine and tutorials I was considered an expert and was handed a golden opportunity.
The point is, when others view you as an expert on a topic, you never know what opportunities it will lead to. So in addition to the monetary rewards or traffic generation an eBook can offer, there are intangibles that may be bigger than anything you might imagine.
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