Ebook Pricing Strategies
By 1a2b | September 24, 2008
A printed book is an object you can hold
in your hand, store on your bookshelf, even hand down
to the next generation. It is priced on factors such
as paper stock, design and production costs, and
marketing.
The thing that unites ebooks and print books is
that they are composed of ideas. It is the ideas in
these books that have the ability to change, or
possibly transform, people’s lives.
What do you think an idea is worth when evaluated
against the cost of paper and ink?
It is the IDEAS that are valuable! That is how you
determine the cost of your ebook.
What should I charge for my ideas?
There are all different formulas and methods for
determining the correct price for your ebook. Let’s
begin with honing in on your ultimate goals.
Decide if your goal is to get wide distribution and
maximum exposure. This goal is aimed at drawing
customers to your business or service, or to
establishing the credibility of your reputation. If
this is your main goal, you should aim to keep your
price on the low side. Some authors have even priced
their ebooks at a profit loss to draw a high number of
new customers. The key is to find a price that
maximizes your profits and the number of books you
sell.
This is an excellent pricing strategy if you are
looking to acquire long-term customers. Long-term
customers are extremely likely to buy from you again
and again ? as long as the first ebook they buy is of
exceptional quality and beneficial to the customer.
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How to Price an Ebook
By 1a2b | September 22, 2008
You’ve written and compiled an ebook. Now you have to
decide how much to charge for it. Finding the right
price is essential to the success of your product. If
you charge too little, people will think of it as having
little value, and they won’t purchase it, or even if
they do buy your book, you will have to sell thousands
of copies to get to the point where you can begin to
see a profit. If you price it too high when compared
with your competition, you will find yourself steadily
lowering the price, which will cause you all kinds of
new problems in the future. For example, if you sell
your ebook at first for $39.99, and later reduce it to
$24.95, don’t you think the people who bought it for
$39.99 are going to be PISSED?
Choosing the right price for your ebook is one of the
most critical parts of the marketing process. The
first rule of pricing ebooks is to never underprice.
Determine the highest price your audience can afford,
and then if you find your book isn?t selling, you can
always reduce the price. Before you take that step,
make sure you are promoting your book like crazy on
the Internet and on websites. The price should be
aimed at bringing in profits, but you should never
forget that price is one of the factors that people
use in judging the value of your ebook ? before they
buy it. So always start with the highest price, and
then launch a mega-marketing campaign.
Pricing an ebook is particularly difficult because
ebooks are a fairly new commodity. Since they are
digital, the value of an ebook is as confusing as the
understanding of what digital actually is to the
average layperson. This means that we must look at
ebooks in a different light in order to determine
their actual worth in this brave, new cyber world.
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Search Engine Web Crawers
By 1a2b | September 18, 2008
Most search engines use what is known as a web crawler. The web
crawler “crawls” through the site, inspecting the content of
each and every page before assigning it a classification. The
web crawler’s determination is going to be what decides a site’s
positioning on a search engine search using the following
criteria:
1) Keyword frequency. The number of times a word appears in the
pages of a site is a pretty good indicator of how the site is
related to it. If you are listening to someone speak with half
an ear and you hear the word “manicure” every five to ten
seconds you can make a pretty educated guess that they’re
talking about getting (or giving) a manicure. If a word appears
over and over again in a site the crawler assumes the two are
related, and it will classify them accordingly.
2) Of course, you don’t want a keyword to appear too often. If
you’re trying to set up the content of your website so that a
particular keyword repeats over and over you may find yourself
slapped with a big fat SPAM sticker.
3) Titles and the first few lines of each page. Because a web
spider can’t read it pays special attention to the words which
appear in the title and first few lines of each individual page,
assuming that the title and introduction will be set up to tell
the reader right off the bat what they’re talking about. (The
Internet is a great tool for leaching away your creativity,
since a site built for a company selling molassas with the
title, “Catching Bugs the Easy Way” probably isn’t going to be
listed in the “Food Department”
Using these three criteria a webcrawler will then index the site
as being relevant to this word or that, more relevant than this
one and less so than that. The sites that are rated as being the
most relevant will earn that coveted position at the top of the
search engine index and, as a result, receive the greatest
amount of traffic.
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Do the Search Engines Know Where You Are?
By 1a2b | September 16, 2008
Search Engine Optimization, represents the process by which
Internet marketers can bring their sites to the attention of the
search engines, which will, in turn, bring their sites to the
attention of their consumers.
Search engines want to be as accurate as possible when directing
people to websites. Why? Because if they start sending people to
aimless sites that have absolutely nothing related to what
they’re looking for it isn’t going to be long before that search
engine is out of business. Web surfers will stop using it to
find their information. Because there are no more visitors
visiting the site advertisers will stop making money off of
their ads, and in turn they’ll stop paying the search engine to
post them. Eventually, broke and alone, the search engine will
close up shop.
That’s the kind of slow death all of us hope to avoid, whether
as individuals or as a business entity. Search engines want to
make sure they get it right! They list the sites in order of
relevance to the keyword the browser was looking for, with the
most relevant site sitting right at number one. What site do you
think gets the most traffic in a day? Right! Number one. Now,
search engines aren’t people. They can’t scan through every page
of every site, process the information and say, “Hmmm, this
looks like it’s most relevant to (insert keyword here) and kind
of relevant to this, this and this. We’re going to list it
here.” That’s the way it used to be done, but the web has grown
beyond that!
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Search Engine Optimization
By 1a2b | September 14, 2008
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the
result of a particular website in as it relates to search
marketing on the web. Search Engine Optimization helps gain
visibility by enabling your site to rank high in the places your
prospects are searching.
The objective of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is to achieve
high natural search engine placement for relevant keywords or
keyword phrases. On the other hand the whole purpose of organic
search engine optimization is to get your site on the
NATURAL search results of the major search engines, where you
can have as much as 77% higher click rates than the sponsored
listings, and on the natural search results you can get
unlimited hits.
Every time you do a search on a search engine you’re going to
get thousands, maybe even millions of sites. That means that
simply ensuring your site is listed in a search engine index
isn’t enough to guarantee that the search engine is going to
help you to increase your web traffic. Your consumers aren’t
going to look through hundreds of pages of results until they
“happen” to stumble across yours. If they don’t find what
they’re looking for on the first three to five pages of results
they’re going to throw in the towel.
That means that if you’re going to take advantage of the power
of the search engines you’re going to need to make sure your
site is in those first few pages. In order to do that you’re
going to have to make your site as useful as possible. When
someone goes to a search engine looking for information on a
particular topic they type what is known as a keyword into the
query box. The search engine then goes looking for sites that
seem to have a lot in common with that keyword.
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Child Development Institute Charity Golf Classic & Auctions
By 1a2b | September 11, 2008
We are pleased to announce the 7th Annual Charity Golf Classic, benefiting the Child Development Institute (CDI) on Friday October 3rd, 2008, at the Lost Canyons Golf Club in Simi Valley, California. Each year the Annual Charity Golf Classic generates funding for the ongoing efforts of CDI to expand its outreach and assist more families in need of special care. Join us again this year to continue CDI’s efforts to “Build the Dream”. We will also be hosting a Live and Silent and Online Auction to coincide with this event. The online auction will be hosted by Charity Folks http://www.charityfolks.com
We are honored to introduce one of University of Notre Dame’s true inspirational stories; our keynote speaker and 2008 Honoree, Mr. Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger. Against all odds on a gridiron in South Bend, Indiana, Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger in twenty seven seconds, carved his name into history books as perhaps the most famous graduate of the University of Notre Dame. When people say dreams don’t come true, you will tell them about Rudy.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
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10:00am – 10:00pm
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| Location: |
Lost Canyons Golf Club
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Simi Valley, CA
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8183812581
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Affiliate Benefits
By 1a2b | September 11, 2008
Effective management of your online Affiliate Marketing campaign is the key to achieving your goals. Experience has shown that being an affiliate and persisting in the business of affiliate marketing is an excellent way to get rich, but it’s not “quick”, and patience is of the essence.
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Affiliate marketing Is It For You?
By 1a2b | September 9, 2008
Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Affiliate marketing is also called “performance marketing”, in reference to how sales employees are typically being compensated. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start a work-at-home business on a shoe string with out an upper limit income. You can start, usually with a small investment and build it into a huge business. .
Affiliate-marketing is the art of making money online with other people’s products. Marketing material is provided by most affiliate programs, and affiliate marketing is an inherently simple venture requiring little in the way of your time Affiliate marketing overlaps with other internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Affiliate marketing is the new way to make sales in the twenty first century, completely rewriting all of the rules for how things are sold. .
The concept of revenue sharing—paying commission for referred business, predates affiliate marketing and the Internet as commission-sales. In the infancy of affiliate marketing, many Internet users held negative opinions due to the tendency of affiliates to use spam to promote the programs in which they were enrolled. The Internet has changed the very face of marketing, and the affiliate sales model has made it easier than every for individual to profit handsomely with minimal investment of money and time. .
Affiliate and internet marketing is an ongoing learning experience, I think its best to keep up with the latest information, techniques and software available on the market. Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to start a small business on the Internet is by using affiliate programs. .
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E-Books quick and easy
By 1a2b | September 7, 2008
There are a lot of ways that people can profit from the
Internet. E-commerce has flourished grandly and a lot of
marketers found themselves earning money more than they ever
dream of. One of the means that these marketers utilize for them
to rake in the dollars is venturing into private label rights
e-books.
First, it is necessary to know what private label rights are.
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Monetize Your Website Traffic
By 1a2b | August 18, 2008
Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.
We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.
It is common knowledge that without website traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.
Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.
Making Money out of your Traffic
The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.
The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.
Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.
So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.
When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.
This scheme is called “pay-per-click”. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.
Affiliate Programs
Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.
The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.
When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.
There are so many ways and methods to monetize your website traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.
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