I just posted an ebook that I wrote for Clickbank on Amazon. Like many of you, I followed the advice of Frank Kern, Eben Pagan and others and created my own information product. It has been well over a year and I have not sold a single copy through Clickbank. This post is not to knock Clickbank, I believe that Clickbank can and does work, but it is not very easy to make a full time living off of that site.

I started thinking that as long as I have this book I may as well put it out there for as many people as possible. What better place than Amazon.com? Amazon offers people with and ebook a 70% royalty on their ebooks plus you can optimize both your book’s description as well as it’s tags. There are also other services that you can post your book to such as Apple’s iBooks and Barnes and Noble. No use trying to publish for Borders, since they are going out of business.  I used SmashWords to publish my book to several other sites.  You can use them for Amazon as well.  It is a great one stop shop for publishing your underused ebooks.  I’ll report how this book is doing as it comes up.  Check the tag, eBook in my future posts.

In the end, I am going to try and get as much exposure as I can for all of my products.  One of the things I have learned over the past year has been that there is no one thing that will do it for you.  My ability to be self employed and pay the bills has been entirely doing what I do online for local businesses.  I have found a great local niche for small business websites and custom Facebook pages.  It’s worth looking into if you have any design knowledge.  I am still striving to get a few online services moving that provide a passive income.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also if you have any questions let me know.

 

- Steve