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Your Easy Do-It-Yourself Guide To Profitable Ebooks

© Manuel Viloria

Here are the ones I recommend:

• http://www.sendthisfree.com
• http://www.autorespond.com

I like those two in particular because they automatically put people requesting those autoresponders in a mailing list just for you. Please mention this fact in Excerpt #1 so that people don't get surprised when they receive some kind of late-breaking news from you via email.

See the advantage of this over a website? Based on webserver logs or statistics, 80% of your visitors will not return to your website. But with email and autoresponders, you can catch their attention five times. Or more, if you wish, with your useful credibility-building info, PLUS your marketing message.

And if they stay on your mailing list, you'll be able to let them know about your future ebooks, too.

And finally, before you let others know about your autoresponders, test them first.

4.0 Online Attraction

You have your text and excerpts, joined an affiliate program that earns you commissions, and set-up your autoresponders (which you tested).

Now how will you convince people to request the free excerpts?

Again, it's back to http://www.ixquick.com and do a search for +"discussion board" +topic1 +topic2.

Visit discussion boards related to your topic and participate by offering useful advice to the people there. It will help a lot if you spend a week just reading the messages posted there before jumping in.

If you feel you've contributed a truly useful post, you can put a link to your autoresponder (i.e., SuccessfulDogTrainingSecrets@sendthisfree.com), assuming the rules of the discussion board allow that.

You might also wish to visit http://www.adcopywriting.com to learn how to write attention-grabbing words that motivate others to request your autoresponder.

Once you see that people are requesting your excerpts, are helping you earn your affiliate commissions, and are saying good things about your full-version ebook, you may decide to move up.

5.0 Moving Further

You can now convert your text into a more polished ebook:

• http://www.jafsoft.com/asctohtm - converts your plain text files into html
• http://www.clicktoconvert.com - converts your MS Word file into html
• http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc - converts your html into a PDF file
• http://www.coverartguide.com/index.htm - tutorial on how to make an ebook cover
• http://www.makeyourebooktalk.com - teaches you how to add audio into your ebook

So there you have it: a do-it-yourself ebook selling mechanism that does not require a website, and takes minimal effort on your part. Afterall, why sink in a lot of your time on a glitzy ebook that people might not be interested in, right?

That's enough reading for now. It's time to -- you guessed it -- WRITE.

Warm regards,
Manuel Viloria
Your Friendly Ebook Coach