Is Giving Away a Free Ebook a Good Idea?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Matthew, who has asks about using ConvertKit. Can ConvertKit help him set up a system for delivering ebooks to new email subscribers? Is a free ebook even a good idea? I'm an advisor and big fan of the email service provider ConvertKit. They have made advanced email marketing easy and affordable. Check out my affiliate link: http://askpat.com/convertkit. The conversion tool I recommend is LeadPages (http://askpat.com/leadpages). Do you have a question about email marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. To learn how to create a great resource for your website, check out my free guide, Ebooks the Smart Way (http://ebooksthesmartway.com). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPath.com
0:07.0	What's up everybody?
0:12.0	Patflin here and welcome to episode 689 of AskPath.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	We have an awesome question today from Matthew, but before that, and sort of related to Matthew's
0:23.5	question, I just want to make sure that you all check out ebooksthesmartway.com.
0:28.3	That's my free ebook guide on, guess what, how to write an ebook and how to market it and how to
0:33.9	automate it and how to publish it and do all those things that I did when I first started online. And it just got renovated into the second edition. So it is updated and it looks
0:44.4	great. It feels amazing to have it out there again. It's been downloaded over 150,000 times.
0:51.1	And a lot of people are loving the new edition. So if you want to check it out, it's
0:54.4	completely free to sign up for it at eBooksthesmartway.com. All right, now here's today's
1:01.8	question from Matthew. Hey, Pat, this is Matt Cox here. I'm a new listener to the Smart
1:07.0	Passive Income Podcasts, and I had this excellent idea for a book.
1:12.6	And after listening to you for a while, I'm starting to realize I think I'm going to
1:16.4	actually condense this book down and just create an e-book and make it free to generate leads.
1:22.9	The reason is because I just got my real estate license.
1:26.2	And naturally, like, I hope this ebook would
1:29.5	create a relationship so that they're confident enough to use me as their agent. The question is,
1:35.8	can ConvertKit help me with setting up this ebook campaign for an email marketing.
1:45.9	The other thing is that is there anything else you think I can worry about?
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