Create an e-Book that Generates Passive Income

A viral marketing e-book is a book with the sole purpose of being spread around the Internet quickly, by any means possible. It's not meant to make you money on the front end. You want other people selling it and giving it away to as many people as possible.

Why?

Because the inside of that book is full of affiliate links to other people’s products and every time someone gives away your book or sells it, (depending on how you want to do it) more people will be seeing your affiliate links, and this won’t cost you a penny!

So how do you go about creating your own viral marketing e-book? Here are the steps:

1) A good way to come up with ideas is to look at what others are already selling and mimic them. You don’t need to recreate the wheel here, so PLEASE don't make things harder than they have to be.

2) Get the tools you need to succeed you are going to need a few tools here:

A) A domain name: you want a memorable and fairly short domain name to describe the content of your book. You can go to http://www.godaddy.com to register your domain name.

B) Web hosting: Let me say first, you get what you pay for. This has never been truer than with web hosting. YOU NEED a good reliable web hosting company with 24/7 technical support. If your site goes down and you can't contact anyone to help you get it back up, you will lose sales and a lot of them.

I recommend you use http://www.hostgator.com for the simple fact they offer all you need, plus a lot more for a reasonable price.

C) Autoresponder - You will need this so you can contact your prospects that don't purchase straight away. This is where you will give away your free course or someway to entice them to give you their email address so you can contact them periodically.

I recommend you use http://www.getresponse.com.

D) Credit card processor - Just use http://www.clickbank.com. This step is too easy. They will let you accept all major credit cards and start an affiliate program for a one time setup fee of under £50. They do take a percentage of every sale, but this is so much cheaper than getting your own merchant account.

Just about everyone selling e-books online these days is using Clickbank.com, you can also use Paypal.com

E) E-book Software: It’s more than likely you’ll want to create your book in PDF format so everyone can read it. Some e-books come in EXE format, but Mac users can't read that format, so I find it best to use PDF. You can create your book with http://www.createpdf.com for a fairly cheap price.

F) Graphic Design Software: If you are anything like me, your artistic abilities peaked at age 7. So instead of busting my hump to create my e-book covers and website graphics I use http://www.MyEcoverMaker.com

3) Outline your book chapters into articles

Writing a whole book in one sitting is hard, and trying to write a book without outlining the chapters is nearly impossible. My first book I ever wrote took me over 6 months but now most of my books take me less than a week to finish and that is with a sales letter and website up.

4) Write your content

Like I said just before, you need original content. There are too many books out there now where people are just regurgitating information others can get for free and this lowers the value of your book, which means less people will pass it around and even less will read it.

The best way to get a good amount of original information without writing it yourself is to interview experts in the field.

5) Create your sales letter

This is where you will be selling your book from and is critically crucial to your success.

Creating a sales letter takes a lot of work, especially if you’re new to the whole thing. The best way and the way I use, is to mimic successful sales letters.

http://www.MakingOnlineMoney.co.uk/sales-letters.html

http://www.MakingOnlineMoney.co.uk/instant-marketing-toolbox.html

If for some reason you think you can't do this by yourself, you have two options.

a) Use software that helps put together your sales letter.

b) Hire a copywriter

However, if you want to hire a professional copywriter, you’re looking at thousands of pounds, plus royalties from your book sales.

Remember, you’re selling this book with reprint rights, which means when they buy the book they can sell it as well. This is a huge selling point for you. You will also be giving them your e-book cover, website graphics and sales letter to use to sell your product.

6) Plug in your free 5-day autoresponder series

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The best way to write your free 5-day course that your prospect get via your squeeze page is to take parts of the chapters from your book and use them as a free teaser.

7) Advertise!

Depending on your topic, you will want to target different people. However, no matter what topic you’re selling on, there is one market who will want your book for the sole purpose of selling it, and that's the Internet Marketing group.

Your book could be on Hippo's but all they care about is the fact they can sell it as their own. This is why this type of book always does well.

The key is to target people in your market and then the Internet Marketing crowd.

I really am begging you to check out Terry Deans http://www.netbreakthroughs.com as it will give you all the knowledge you need and if you want you can stay for 1 month and still get more then you will ever need, information and personal help wise. (continue reading Final Words)

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