Introducing the Ebook Project
I have Ebooks on the brain at the moment. I’ve been buying them, reading them, reviewing them and now it’s time for me to write one.
What’s My Ebook About?
Over the last few weeks I have been developing a small niche site as part of my bum marketing project. Now that project is really about the article marketing used to drive traffic but it occurred to me that lots of the work I am doing to setup the site itself is something I would do for any niche site regardless of how I was driving traffic. And of course, this information could be useful to other people too.
So the ebook is about setting up a revenue-generating niche site using Wordpress. It’s not about setting up an authority site, or a wildly popular blog, or a vibrant community – just a simple niche site that is designed to make money.
I haven’t decided on a title yet. All my unimaginitive brain can come up with right now is:
- Setting up a Revenue-Generating Niche Site with Wordpress
- Niche Sites on Wordpress – A Step by Step Guide
- Make Money with Wordpress-Driven Niche Sites
Suggestions are welcome, please leave a comment :)
Purpose of the Project
Well this is one step towards my goal of monetizing this blog. Though it’s not really tied to the blog as such. I will create a landing page on the blog and obviously publicize it from here, but the real juice will be trying to distribute the ebook far and wide. It’s going to have some affiliate links in it to generate revenue so I want to encourage distribution as much as possible.
Now I’ve recently done a pretty good marketing campaign for my Twitter guide but marketing a blog post is very different from marketing an ebook. I can put the ebook on download sites – I can distribute it via torrents. I can ’sell’ it on eBay for $0.01 and so on.
You can’t do this stuff with a blog post so it’s going to be a lot of fun seeing just what I can do with it. Of course, I will be sharing all of my strategies and results here on the blog.
Out With the Old, In With the New
I recently talked about being flexible with one’s plans. This is me being flexible :-) But of course, after starting to read Zen To Done, I am also wary of taking on too much so I’m putting my ArticleMasher project on hold while I do this one. This means I still have just two projects on the go and of course they complement each other well.
Visit the Ebook project page here.
First Day Progress
I’ve written 13 pages so far and I’m going to have quite a bit of time on my hands this weekend so I am hoping to just crank it out and get it all done by the end of the weekend ready for promotion starting next week.
Recently I have found myself really procrastinating and taking way too much time over stuff. That’s all going to change now and I am choosing to get in the habit of just getting on with what needs doing even if it’s not perfect first time around.
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Hi Caroline -
All the suggestions for a title are good.
A proven open for a title is YOU.
i.e YOU CAN MAKE MONEY ETC.
Good luck. Please make it easy for us newbies!
Corinne Edwards
I like Kexster’s title myself. I have done this both ways – as a freebie and as a paying ebook. Didn’t try using affiliates and I should have! But the freebie was more a lesson I needed to learn about SEO…I know, that sounds weird, but I wanted to see if I could get my freebie ebook into the #1 position in all the search engines for my key search words. In 24 hours, it happened. Thinking it was a lark, I tried it again a couple months later with another freebie ebook and the same thing happened – 24 hours it was #1 in the search engines beating out everyone else. I knew I was on to something so I put what I learned and how I did it in an ebook that I sold off (and still do) my website for $20 a crack. People love to learn secrets. If you have a niche that you have conquered, I don’t know why you don’t sell your ebook instead of giving it away unless of course it’s intended to be a giveaway. In that case, I’d keep it short. My “paid for” ebook went into more detail, only I kept out the fluff because people hate to read for a long time over the Internet. That I can understand. But if you have figured out a way to make money with your Wordpress blog and it’s something that no one else has thought about or you can add a different slant on it, that ebook can bring you in added income. I’m enjoying the hell out of your blog, Caroline…discovered it the other day and now I get your feed in my mail because I don’t want to miss a thing!
Hi Caroline!
YESSSS…anxiously waiting for a Tutorial for WordPress.
This is what I’m dealing with at the moment…how to host WordPress and get it up and running.
Good work…and good luck!
Big hugs always,
Mudd a.k.a. Oza
xoxo
Cool. I’d like to get one for free. You know, for review and all that. :P
@Josh, thanks for the suggestion, didn’t know about that one!
@Dorothy, wow that’s impressive results! I’m looking to distribute the actual PDF quite widely so it’s not so much an SEO effort though of course I will have a landing page for it on the blog too which I shall publicize.
Caroline, the way you’re going about this project is uncannily similar to the outline I shared in “The Smart Way To Write A Book”.
Here’s a monetization plan for you – take people ‘behind the scenes’ to see EXACTLY how you’re doing it.
What steps do you take daily? What tools do you use? How do you build buzz? Whom do you approach for JV deals? Share sample letters and emails, display process maps and workflow charts, if you use any. In other words, make the creative process itself a product other ebook authors can learn from – and then SELL IT!
Think it won’t work? I just did it with a 2 week challenge about social media marketing – and I’m sure everyone learned something of value from the process. I even surprised myself! :)
Will be watching the progress as you share it on your blog.
All success
Dr.Mani
Caroline go with the “How to Make Money with Wordpress Niche Sites” title
I called my ebook “How you can make a monthly income from the stockmarket” It is used as a freebie, to get people to sign up for my monthly newsletter.
Like a few of the others have said, I think you have a lot of followers, who would buy from you as they trust what they get from you for free, something that I am working on myself to achieve.
as always a pleasure reading your blog
Mark.
sorry I forgot to put in “YOU Can” instead of “to”