Review: eBook
Secrets Exposed
by Michael Southon
'eBook Secrets Exposed'
pdf format, 191 pages
reviewed by Michael Southon
If you want to make a lot of money with your own eBook and you only read one
book on the subject in the next 12 months, I strongly recommend that it's 'eBook
Secrets Exposed' by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel.
The authors are both well qualified in this area. Jim Edwards has written five
best-selling eBooks (including 'The Lazy Man's Guide to Online Business' and '33
Days To Online Success').
David Garfinkel is considered by many to be the world's greatest copyrighting
coach. He's an award-winning business journalist and is also the author of
several best-selling eBooks, such as 'Advertising Headlines That Make You Rich'
and 'Killer Copy Tactics'.
There have been so many books on this subject that I really couldn't imagine how
this book could add anything new.
But I have never before seen an eBook that explains so clearly how to do it. I
got the feeling that you could literally walk in Jim Edwards' footsteps and get
the same results he did (over 4,500 eBook sales in 9 months).
What makes this book very readable and enjoyable is that it's simply a long
interview - David Garfinkel asks the questions and Jim Edwards gives the
answers.
The book is packed with so many 'insider tips' that's it's difficult to know
where to begin, but one of the most valuable tips is how to find out - before
you write your book - if there's a market for it.
You do this by following Jim Edwards' 5-Step 'Ultimate eBook Success Formula'.
The formula allows you to find out if there's a target audience that is already
actively looking for the information you're about to sell online. And if so, if
they are prepared to pay for it.
One of the interesting things you'll discover in this book is that competition
is actually good for your eBook.
If you come up with an idea for an eBook and you find that there are no
competing books, you need to get worried - it means there's probably no market
for that idea.
But if there are books competing with yours, you're on safe ground - you know
you have a market.
And don't be put off by competition: anyone who is serious about a particular
subject will buy at least 4 or 5 books on that topic.
Many eBook authors who make big money quickly with their eBooks do resale
rights. Instead of making $29 per sale, they're making $99 per sale. As you can
see, resale rights can get you into serious money very fast.
But there are definite pitfalls with resale rights (such as finding out a few
months later that your cherished information product has become a free eBook).
If you want to avoid these pitfalls, you need to read Section 2 carefully.
You might think that best-selling eBook authors don't bother with affiliate
programs. Wrong!
Jim Edwards shows you that one of secrets to making money with your eBook is to
load it up with back-end affiliate links. But there's a right way to do this and
a wrong way (more about this in Section 5).
But the real secret to how Jim Edwards made over $40,000 in one month from a
single eBook is joint ventures - finding people with lists of 10,000 or even
100,000 and getting them to do a personal recommendation to their readers.
On the Internet it's not products that make money, it's lists (products don't
sell, lists do). Or as Jim Edwards puts it: 'the power is in the pipes, in the
distribution'.
Let's say your eBook is priced at $29 and you find someone with a list of 10,000
and they do a mailing that results in 3000 people turning up at your website.
And let's say that those 3000 visits result in 90 to 180 sales - you and your
joint venture partner are suddenly making thousands of dollars in a few days.
Jim Edwards shows you exactly, step-by-step, how to set up a joint venture. He
even shows you the exact same letter that he used to set up joint ventures for
his book 'How To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in a little as 7 Days'.
One of the keys to making joint ventures work is what Jim Edwards calls 'the
Santa Claus technique' (more on that in Section 2).
A question many people have is how to price their eBook. And it's crucial that
you get this right. In Section 4 Jim Edwards reveals his 'pricing formula' - a
very clever way to find your eBook's 'breakpoint' or equilibrium.
There's another very valuable tip in Section 17 - 'My Secret Method For Slashing
Refunds' (this tip on it's own could be worth the price of the whole book).
This is the best book on eBook publishing I've read in the last 18 months - in
fact, while reading it, I came up with the idea for my next eBook!
You can get your copy of 'eBook Secrets Exposed' at: eBook
Secrets Exposed
(c) 2002 by Michael Southon
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Michael Southon has been writing for the Internet for over
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