Archive for November, 2009
How to Work In Affiliate Links Into Your eBook
I just saw and spent some time with an old friend who I hadn’t seen in 26 years. Old schoolmates. Naturally, we did the reminiscing thing… tried to anyway, since it didn’t seem like he remembered much. He remembered me and a few others, but everybody else was fuzzy or just not there to him. So much of our time tripping down memory lane was spent with me doing the storytelling and trying to see if I could yank them out of his brain if the memories still happened to be buried somewhere deep.
1 eBook = 3 Basic Income Streams
How many ways can you make money with a single ebook you’ve written and self-published? At least three (3) basic ways come to mind. These aren’t even new or revolutionary — this is the way we brought the bucks in years ago with regular print books and infoproducts, before the public Net and e-anything.
3 Incredible Free Online Tools for Wordpreneurs
Spent most of the day thanking and eating (Happy Thanksgiving everyone!), so not thinking straight enough for a post that requires any more brain cells than what’s needed to move my fingers over the keyboard. So this post isn’t a total waste, however, here are links to three free online services I find incredibly useful and use on a fairly regular basis (not to mention that if I remember them in my current condition, then they must be pretty dang memorable!).
Free Kindle eBooks
I’ve had my Kindle for about a couple of months now, and I’ve been reading up a storm with it. Now guess how much money I’ve spent on ebooks for it to date.
Yup, $0. The post title kinda took the mystery out of that.
But maybe you won’t know the answer to this one: Where do I get all the free ebooks from?
How to Create eBooks for Kindle – Research
I’m just getting started converting a few PDFs (with the Word source files) to the Amazon Kindle ebook format. Translation: No idea what I’m doing just yet.
I did, however, find a few “tutorials” online that I’ll need to pore through, probably over the Thanksgiving break. Here they are in case you want to do the same. (Comment please if you know of any others I should check out.)
My Top 2 Can’t Miss Sources of Article and Blog Post Ideas
Every now and then, I see yet another article or blog posting promising a whole slew of article/blog post idea sources. What writer can really resist glancing through them… even though years of experience wasting time with those lists have taught me that I can always sum up what they contain in a single tip:
Cheap Automated E-commerce Solutions for Technically Independent eBook Publishers (Part 5)
Final installment!
I revealed in the previous post that I went with ClickBank for the Teachpreneur project
I’m not exactly new to ClickBank. It’s been around for, like, forever, and I used the service for years when Will Bontrager and I partnered to sell the ProLinkz CGI script (now free). ClickBank was one of the few available digital download e-commerce options available then, and if memory serves, the only affordable one. That alone would have cinched the deal for the typical bootstrapping online tech startup, but it had one other feature that made it a no-brainer: an affiliate program.
Wordpreneur Reading List
Good stuff seen elsewhere. Worth a look… or at least a bookmark for when you may need the info.
All About YouTube
Here’s a fairly comprehensive and interesting read on YouTube, its design and methodologies, administration and a whole lot more info.
Free Software for Wordpreneurs Report
Here you go, the latest small batch of totally free software finds that wordpreneurs may find particularly useful and beneficial.
Twitter and Facebook Turn Everyone Into an Affiliate Marketer
Interesting article in my local paper (WashPost) yesterday (in case you’re curious, I read my “paper” exclusively online now). Decent overview and brief history of affiliate marketing, layperson-friendly. Pay particular attention to the “Facebook Credits” section — now there’s something worth keeping a very close eye on.
Read Twitter and Facebook Turn Everyone Into an Affiliate Marketer »
— EES
Free and Cheap Ways to Promote Your Enterprise Online
Good, quick read, and abundantly packed with links to resources and further tips, this post at Dumb Little Man is a must bookmark at the very least.
Read 7 Free or Cheap Ways to Effectively Promote Your Business Online »
— EES
Harlequin Launches Carina Press, a Digital-Only Imprint
A sign of the times? Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. (yes, the romance folks) has a launched a new imprint, Carina Press, which is already notable for one thing even before it has released a single title: It’s an all-digital publishing house. eBooks.
Rate Your Twitter Importance
Here’s a free nifty little tool that measures and rates how important you are on Twitter by calculating your overall Twitter influence based on popularity, engagement and trust factors.
You can check anybody else’s too. Don’t bother checking mine — I’m about as Twitter insignificant as it gets. Follow me anyway.
— EES
11 Myths of De-Cluttering
A good, quick read. Even better: A good, helpful quick read.
Read Eleven Myths of De-Cluttering @ Slate »
— EES
Free Kindle for Your PC
Forgot to mention this a few weeks ago when I first heard about it. Sorry about that. Here you go…
Amazon has released a free application for Windows PC (Mac version coming soon) that will let you read — and presumably acquire — Kindle ebooks on your computer. You are not required to own an actual Kindle.
Cheap Automated E-commerce Solutions for Technically Independent eBook Publishers (part 4)
And now, finally, I reveal the solution I decided to go with.
But first things first… why’d it take so long to get from part 3 to 4? Well, I was being too cute — I wasn’t planning to ever write a fourth part. Sorry about that.