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Explode Your eBook Sales Using Affiliates!
By Ellen Violette
1. Don’t make your commissions so high that you don’t make enough money because then you will resent your affiliates instead of appreciating them! You want to always be grateful for the sales that your affiliates make because you are leveraging their lists to put a lot more cash in your pocket.
2. Do affiliate trainings to inspire your affiliates and to help them understand the value of your ebook and how to sell it to their lists. When you get them excited about your ebook and why their clients should want to buy your ebook it’s easier to get them on board.
3. Make sure you give your affiliates the proper tools to promote your ebooks including banners, headlines, text ads, articles, graphics, videos, podcasts-anything you can that will make their job easier because affiliate want to make money but they want it to be easy to make money. And if you don’t make it easy, somebody else will!
4. Give incentives for affiliates to promote your ebook. Extra motivation will always get more sales, so figure out what will motivate your affiliates and give it to them- it could be money, recognition, or something else. Contests are a good way to give affiliates extra motivation. If you run a contest make sure to highlight the winner when the contest is over (In one study they found that the majority of people want recognition even more than they want money!)
5. A small percentage of your affiliates will make the majority of your sales for you. Reward these people with special gifts and attention. Affiliate want to feel appreciated. And the better they are cared for the more loyal they will be and the more money you will make!
Affiliates are an important part of your ebook selling arsenal. By leveraging their lists you can exponentially compound the number the ebooks that you sell. Treat them well and they will pay you back in spades!
Ellen Violette, The eBook Coach, is the creator of the Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Workshop which teaches people how to author an ebook in 72 hours or less..Guaranteed! She is also the creator of eBook Profit Marketing Secrets a step-by-step guide to building a profitable ebook and information business online and co-author of Sell More eBooks, Low And No-Cost Tactics To Explode Your eBook Sales And Downloads with Internet Expert Jim Edwards. Ellen has also written The eBook Journal For Authoring Success and more. And, she is a Grammy-nominated songwriter.