How to Start Your Online Ebook Business

How to Start Your Online Ebook Business By Oni Adeyemi

What you are selling is an ebook so it is either you are selling an ebook written by you or an ebook written by someone else which you have a master resale rights to. Now that you have what to sell online.

Steps to set up your online presence.

1 Define your target market
You have to sell what customers are willing to buy. Create a niche in which there are many potential buyers but little sellers. Choose a domain name that reflects what your online presence signifies. Buy the domain name and create your website.

2 Creating your website
You can decide to create your website or enlist the help of a professional. There are many softwares that could help with building a website like Microsoft publisher in Microsoft office 2007 and a free software like Kompozer. There are also site-builder sites that could help with building your site. Pay a professional to have your website built for you. Search Engine Optimisation enhances the visibilty of your website on the search engines.

3 Organising your online presence
Choose a web host to host your website, GoDaddy.com is a reliable host.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a language in which you use in uploading your files into web host server. Filezilla is a good ftp program to upload your files to your server.

Merchant account is needed to process your payment e.g Plimus.com is a merchant account provider which is reliable.

4 Check your loading time.
Once your website is online, check for the time taken to complete load your site's page. A lengthy loading time irritates potential customers. Use a dial-up modem as a standard in checking your loading time. Make navigation within your site easy i.e maximum of 2 clicks to get to home page or any page a visitor intends visiting.

5 Learn the language.
HTML is Hypertext Markup Language. It is a necessity to know the language to help with updating; be it deletion or addition.

6 Create and Increase web traffic
Submit your URL to search engines
Use keywords relating to your niche to enhance SEO.
Join social networking sites.
Join online forums
Advertise in newspapers, classified ads
Pay per Click registering with Google, Yahoo.

7 Keep your customers.
Get a mailing list to start email marketing.
Start a blog
Give free ebooks

Oni Adeyemi is an internet marketer that sells ebooks with master resale rights on different niches like beauty,online dating etc

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