I have come a long ways since I first started online marketing two years ago. I just finished my first ebook and had it up and selling in less than a day! That is pretty good for someone as technically challenged as me. I admit I spent $5.00 bucks on Fiverr for a cover design, but that was it.
You see I was clueless. I had a document written as a book in Open Office, which is free. I knew I could convert it from there to a pdf which is very very simple. It was the next step that I did not know where to start. I did a lot of online research, mainly on youtube and watched many tutorials. It started clicking in my head that creating this ebook and actually getting it up for sale was not as hard as I had thought it would be. It was simple actually.
Seems we fear the unknown until it grows in our heads into a huge unconquerable monster which is what creating an ebook had done in my head. Once I approached and faced this fear, I realized there was absolutely nothing my technically challenged ass could not do in the process of creating an ebook for free.
I went to webstarts to create my landing page and my download page. I found how to videos on youtube. The thing that was scaring me most was I could not for the life of me figure out how the book was going to download to the buyer automatically. I could not get my mind around this. Turns out, it's simple as pie.
So once you ebook is written in Open Office and converted with the touch of a button to a PDF file, you are ready to get started. Note here, if you are an article marketer and have a lot of articles out there, why not put some of them together and in order in Open Office a create you pdf document which can be an ebook.
To use webstarts as your landing and thank you/download page is simple. I started by watching this video.
You will need only two pages. One for your sales page/landing page and one for your thank you download page. Once you have your sales page up you then add a paypal button. This is very simple, you can find directions here. You will need a business or premier account from paypal to do this. Here is another video I found on how to have a pay now button in less than five minutes.
So you have a landing page with a paypal button. You have a download page where you actually have your pdf file attached for download. Paypal does the work of directing your visitors after purchase to the download page. So the process is visitor lands on the landing page, clicks the button, goes through paypal to make purchase, purchase is complete, then visitor is redirected to the download page where they now have access to the digital product.
The catch here is this. That download page needs to be hidden, otherwise anyone could land there and get your book without paying. This is simple in webstarts also. You go to the dashboard and unclick it's visability in the menu bar of the site.
I literally got my ebook up in less than 3 hours. Sure it needs tweaking and the landing page needs some work, but it made me enough money to pay my electric bill and buy groceries the first couple of days, so once I do get it tweaked, I can only imagine what it will do. You can view it here. The Charms of Southern Women.
If you are new to internet marketing, don't let all of this stuff scare you, it's simple. I started two years ago with this program and the rest is history. One Week Marketing.
