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Why am I giving away a Free e-Book???
Some people email me asking why give away free e-books? After all, one has a lot of work put into an e-book and it would be nice to get profit for it.
Well let me introduce you to Viral Marketing. This concept is only possible thanks to the internet. What you want to get in your free e-book is a link to your website with a good reason why your readers should come and visit.
The viral marketing phenomena
(With free give-away rights to your ebook other people will
help you spread your word unsing their website or newsletter)
Also, a free e-book is great to help you add subscribers to your newsletter. And if possible you should include your affiliate links or links to companies you are affiliated with and promote them in that way. This will generate a recurring monthly income for you and is one way of affiliate marketing.
The aim of this free e-book is to distribute it rapidly. It will help if you include a distribution notice encouraging people to freely distribute your e-book through their website, friends, subscribers, as long as the e-book isn't altered in any way.
By spreading your free e-book like this, you will be attracting more traffic than you ever thought you could as the ebook spreads over the web. And if people are visiting the affiliate links you included then you'll be making money basically out of nowhere.
This is a very powerful marketing technique. It's a sort of word of mouth that will work even while you sleep.
I encourage you to tell your prospective customers to download your free e-book directly from your website AND use your link to distribute it to others.
This way, people who don't really have a website will be promoting your e-book for you and getting customers themselves by offering your free e-book in whatever package they are selling.
The free e-book can consist of an extract from your e-book or maybe just a story of success. Again, it's all about creativity and fun while adding a little credibility to your actions.
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