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The $100 MBA Show

MBA94 How to Sell an eBook

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

eBooks are one of the easiest products to create and sell. There have a been a lot of success stories already from authors whose eBooks became runaway bestsellers. Today we share some valuable guidance on how you can best sell your eBook if you have plans on making one. Let's get down to business!

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0:00.0

Heyo!

0:09.0

Welcome to the 100 R. M.

0:10.0

A show where thousands of business get built with our daily 10 minute business lessons our I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:26.0

And today you will learn how to sell an e-book.

0:29.4

An e-book is one of the easiest types of products to create and start selling right away.

0:33.7

Nicole and I have sold e-books in the past and we're going to walk you through exactly

0:37.3

how you could sell yours with clear-cut instructions and no confusion.

0:41.2

Let's get into it, Let's get down to business.

0:44.0

You might be wondering, is there money in e-books can I actually be selling selling ebooks and making a living off of it?

0:54.2

The quick answer to that is of course, yes, there are people that make a living off ebooks.

0:58.7

One of the biggest examples is Brett Kelly, who's the author of Everno Essentials. It's a guide on how to best utilize

1:05.3

Evernote, which is a web application. And Brett's e-book sold so many copies and became so big.

1:10.5

Evernote was like, we got to give this guy a job he's he's an expert at this and in fact he does work for Everno now.

1:16.4

But the point is that he makes a living selling an ebook and there's countless other

1:21.1

examples of this and I really like the idea of selling an e-book as your first product because it's not too much work to actually put together and it's easy to start selling it quickly.

1:32.0

There's not a lot of fiddling around. Now before I

1:34.6

get into how we sold our e-books and how you could sell yours, just know there are two ways

1:38.9

to sell an e-book. One, you can sell it on your own platform, on your own website. That means you obviously create the

1:43.8

ebook and then you actually sell and deliver your own ebook on your own site.

1:48.0

Or you can use a third party like Amazon, where you can sell your ebook on the

1:52.4

Amazon store.

1:53.5

Now, there are advantages and disadvantages to both,

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