“Making money by selling ebooks: 1”

Ebooks FAQ -- Page 1

Accepting payments: how does it work?

The way we recommend our resellers handle payments is to use the trusted independent payment processing firm called ClickBank.com. We have full details of how to set up your site to accept credit cards through ClickBank inside the Members Area at eBookWholesaler.com. You can join ClickBank now.

ClickBank charges a one-time $49 to join as a vendor, plus a small fee ($1 plus 7.5%) on each sale. It's good value in view of the fact that you dont have to even think about managing the payment side of your ebusiness. Thousands of internet vendors use them. And yes, they do accept online checks now too.

Once you set up with ClickBank (or any payment processor you choose), they'll send you payment checks twice a month. In other words, eBookWholesaler.com is not involved in that area. Our commitment is to supply our members with 1-2 resellable ebook+website packages each month.

I should point out that, as good as ClickBank is, it is not completely secure. (In fact, no system is... just as no house or building is completely secure. A determined thief can always find a way.) Until recently, people who knew what to do could divert the affiliate commissions to themselves. But ClickBank has added persistent cookies so that the chance of this happening now seems to be very small indeed. ClickBank is to be congratulated.

PayPal.com is an alternative very popular payment processor but it is also not secure (unless you install their IPN option). Paypal, however, is free to join and has lower transaction fees.

Is there a solution? You could look at other payment processors or anti-theft solutions. Or the next item...

Accepting payments: tell me about the FREE ClickBank Bookstore

ClickBank Bookstore is a script that provides an easy and secure way to offer all of your products to your website visitors. It allows you to quickly and easily start selling every ebook from eBookWholesaler. And it's FREE for members!

Features:

• Fill in your website and personal info once, and have it automatically on every mini-site! What a time saver!
• Automatic order links already installed and working with Clickbank!
• State-of-the-art Clickbank security, using their secure Purchase Validation routines.
• Download pages that expire in minutes so thieves can't pass your download link around!
• Complete web-based product administration to edit any product's details.
• Delete any product you do not want to sell.
• Records the name and email (as entered by buyer) of buyers with their Clickbank receipt number.
• Easily search in your browser for a buyer's record.
• Mailing utility to mail all buyers, with one-click opt-out!
• Automatically add your customers to an autoresponder of your choice!
• Automatically mail your customers a receipt!
• Optionally show headers and footers on your mini-sites to increase website recognition!
• Multiple ways to sort and display your main bookstore page.
• Special utility page to give buyers more info on how to use ZIP and PDF files.
• Your eBookWholesaler ID throughout for recurring profits!
• Unlimited feedback and free updates for new products to keep building a better program!

Requirements:

• Website capable of running PHP scripts.
• Website with a MySQL database.
• Membership of eBookWholesaler.com (Join here)
  

We provide ready-to-use ads, both classified ad length and longer. They're all on display right next to the download links for each individual ebook, inside the Members Area.

Affiliate program: where do I get my affiliate ID so I can start to earn affiliate income?

Just click on the "Make Money!" button on this page which is inside the Members Area:
http://ebookwholesaler.net/members/rssignup.html

Your affiliate link will look like mine ("epn" is my chosen identifier... short for eprofitnews):
http://www.ebookwholesaler.net/r/g.php?u=epn&t=exclusive.html

You can remove the last part [ &t=exclusive.html ] if you wish. It's all explained in the Members Area.

If you wanted to join eBookWholesaler.com through my affiliate link ( as a way of saying thanks for these FAQ pages), that's the one to click on. It wont cost you a cent more but it will help me (thanks!).

You'll be pleased to know that age is no barrier to success in building an online business. In fact, on the internet nobody knows how old you are unless you either tell them or indicate in some other way. And whatever age somebody is when they start, we all have to learn the same important skills. It's great that you are keen to learn.

Yes, eBookWholesaler does provide a basic autoresponder.

Inside the Members Area of eBookWholesaler.com, we have a lot of resources for beginners. Covering everything from how to download the ebook+website packages from our servers, how to unzip them if they are zipped (zipping is compacting a file so it travels faster - there is a free unzip program), then how to upload it all from your computer to your webhost's server. We also cover how to accept credit cards with detailed notes on setting up with ClickBank though you can use other payment processors if you wish. And heaps more how-to information.

There's a page called stepbystep.html that's inside the members area. It takes you (surprise!) step by step through how to do every little thing you need to do:
- How to upload the sites we supply to the server that you plan to put the websites on
- How to set up to accept credit card payments through Clickbank,
- Etc, etc...

We dont actually make the sales for you, okay, but we do supply short ads and longer ads that you can use. For example, just paste them into your ezine.

Hopefully you're building a mailing list, or getting ready to. Holler if you need help on that. Or anything else.

Yes, we have backend sales built into the ebooks: one way is the new PDF (portable document format) versions of our ebooks. This is a world first because it allows you to insert about 5 of your affiliate links right into the PDF files (it's all done by our software, you just type and click: and hey presto, it's ready for you to download to your computer: and later you upload the lot to your server).

This book is relatively old so the author Tom Hua has allowed our resellers to give it away if they choose to. Not many people are still selling it (even the 2002 version) for the face value of $24.95. Tom’s advice would be to use it as a bonus or sell it at a lower price.

eBookWholesaler.com is a membership site where we provide our members with 1-2 new exclusive ebooks every month. FreeToSell.com, also owned by Tom Hua, provides a single huge ebook. All of these ebooks are of course resellable. That's a brief overview.

Now in a bit more detail...
To join eBookWholesaler (eBW), there is a monthly $27 fee ($47 in the first month only). In return for this you'll get immediate access to our entire inventory which is currently (August 2002) 33 resellable personalisable exclusive ebooks (with websites ready to upload to your webhost’s server) plus 3 bonus ebooks (which sell at the authors’ sites for $98.90) plus 10 more resellable personalisable FreeToSell ebooks in the Start Pack. Full details here. Just follow the links to Start Pack, Exclusive and Bonus.

And each month we add 1-2 more resellable ebooks and ready-to-upload websites, valued at $27 or more. You can cancel your automated payment anytime you wish. Many who cancel come back later because eBW does represent good value. There is no contract.

So as soon as you join, there is a long list of ebooks and websites that you can download and start selling. On all these sales, you keep 100% of the income. So just one sale will often cover the whole monthly fee for eBW. All your sales after that are profit.

Good deal? Yes, it *is* a good deal, all for $27 month with no contract.

So which is better? Tom says "We believe that it is better to sell individual Quality ebooks than a big package".

Differentiating your ebiz from others will give you a definite edge from those who simply copy and paste. How to be differentiated?

1. Add something that others cant or dont. Maybe you add other products as bonuses ('Buy 1, get 1 free').
2. Maybe you add your experience... come to think of it, much of what differentiates the experts is that they share what they've learned in the past and in their current marketing projects.
3. If you can find a niche to occupy, so much the better. In fact, niche marketing is the subject of my first ebook. If you visit the niche marketing site, it may help stimulate some ideas about how you can distinguish your approach.
4. Add your own value by way of a researched report you either write or find from another writer. But what if it's copyright-protected? If it's worthwhile info that will add value to your offer, just include the copyright statements and the author's resource box and you're generally okay. However if it's not clearly stated as reprintable it's always wise to email the author. I got a big surprise once when a publisher wrote back and said certainly I could reprint her article... for $100!

It's just techno-speak, and it simply means that these ebooks are not sent physically but instead they are sent via the internet as a string of electrical impulses. Digital is just another word for the 'raw material' of all the messages that we send over the Internet. If email, for example, had first been typed out on paper and then faxed to you, we'd call the paper version a 'hard copy'. But ebooks (electronic books) were never in hard copy form - they've only ever existed as electrical impulses displayed on computer screens. And the Internet (the Web) uses phone lines to send those electrical impulses. The receiving computer 'knows how' to reassemble them into the pages you read on your screen, or in this case into the email you received.

All our products are digital. You download the ebook from our computer to your computer. Many are in PDF format. The rest are .exe files (stands for executable, meaning that your computer “executes” a set of instructions which allows it to display the ebook on your monitor). Many of the .exe files are in zipped format for faster transfer to your computer. No hard copy at all.

It'd be worth your time to learn a little more of the basics behind Web communication. Ask.com is a  great place to simply type in your question and get a variety of sites that have answers for you. Type in 'what is digital' or similar.

A domain is just the name of a website. It's like my name is Gary Harvey and your name is _______. The name of this website is eProfitNews.org and one of Tom Hua's domain names is eBookWholesaler.com.

Now when you want to start your own website to sell ebooks, here's what you do... step by step:

BRAINSTORM FOR WEBSITE NAMES
Think up a few names you like for your first site. The more the merrier.

Another way to go is to buy an expired domain name from DomainsBot. Or Expired Traffic which will also deliver varying levels of free (targeted!) traffic.

When you're figuring out your new domain name, my strong advice is:
Select a name that contains searchable key words. Words that have meaning to your target market. One of the first things your prospective customers will know about your site is its name. Dont lose 'em at that point! Here's a pile of keyword resources - some of them can help you with this.

CHECK WHICH NAMES ARE AVAILABLE
Go to any domain name registrar (4 of the cheapest are listed in the next point) to see if anyone else already has registered a website by the same name/s. The whole process is automated, so there's no need to pay the more expensive prices that some registrars are charging... a domain name is the same, whoever you buy it from!

REGISTER THE BEST NAME
If your favourite name is available, you register it with Stoco.net .. even cheaper than Godaddy.

NEXT YOU'LL NEED HOSTING FOR YOUR WEBSITE
By now, you own the name. But your website doesnt yet exist. So now you need to find a web hosting company who will rent you some space on a server (a computer): your website will "live" on this server. Here are my recommendations for your web hosting.

Once you've signed up for your web hosting, you'll be able to...

DOWNLOAD OUR READY-MADE WEBSITES
Download one of the websites from the eBookWholesaler computer to your computer.

PERSONALISE YOUR LINKS
You'll easily enough see which links you need to change in the website you just downloaded. Just change "YourWebsite.com" into your website's URL. And change the blank payment links, which leads me to mention...

LET CLICKBANK HANDLE THE PAYMENTS
The best (easiest) way to handle the selling of ebooks is to use the services of ClickBank. They will accept credit card payments for you, then they mail checks out every 2 weeks to resellers to cover the sales they've made, or you can ask for bigger checks less frequently. Here's the link to join ClickBank as a vendor.

After you've joined ClickBank as a vendor, you'll also need to change the blank payment links on our sites into the one you've chosen and set up at the ClickBank site. This way you get paid!

THEN UPLOAD THE WEBSITE TO YOUR WEBHOST'S SERVER
Uploading just means copying a computer file (such as an ebook or a web page) from your computer up to your host's computer, using free FTP software. You'll probably want to create a new folder (also called a new directory). I like to give my ebook folders the same names as the ebooks that live there. It just makes my life easier and it's also easier for your customers to read your URLs. Either way, its important to put all the files in the same directory because the linking in the HTML code is set up to work that way.

NEXT YOU ADVERTISE... THEY BUY... YOU GET PAID
You advertise the address (or URL, = uniform resource locator) of your website or webpage. When people buy, they pay ClickBank and are then automatically redirected to your download page (the URL where they can download the ebook from your host computer).

And that's how you set up your online sales machine. Make sense?

No, sorry. It’s one of the rules we established with the help of our members.