How close are you to selling
your 1000th copy of your own ebook and cashing out your first
wave of profits? If you believe too much of what internet
marketers tell you, chances are your expectations are too
optimistic.
Creating and selling information products
successfully takes a good mix of originality, expertise, ingenuity,
and mainly hours of hard work. With any project you need to
have clear and realistic expectations before you get started,
so read on to help prepare yourself for the work ahead...
Unhelpful Cliché 1: "You can
create and start selling ebooks in just three days"
When online marketers try to sell you information
about how to create your own ebooks, they'll try to convince you it's so easy, you can
do it in your sleep. If you start believing this, it will
hurt your progress in the long term, because you'll have unrealistic
expectations about how much work you have to put in to your
own projects and how quickly you can expect to see results.
Unhelpful Cliché 2: "Use this
magic tool to automatically create and crank out ebooks like
crazy."
A common sales pitch for ebook-creation-related
software and 'systems'. In reality you should be focusing
on quality, and methodical marketing efforts concentrated
on building single products up, one by one. Trying to start
lots of projects at once, or trying to pump out dozens of
junk products, will not lead you to success.
Unhelpful Cliché 3: "Learn how
to market online and you can sell any ebook like crazy."
Of course it's true you need to know how
to market your product effectively so you sell it. But marketing
alone is not going to work: you also need a good product,
effectively delivered, and a complete selling system set up
around that product.
Unhelpful Cliché 4: "Consider
a CPM approach as well as PPC and track your metrics for CTR
and CPC - and don't ignore CPA JVs."
What? Online marketing is already a fully
developed and intenstively in-depth area of knowledge and
research. People like to throw around jargon to show off.
Don't be put off - all of the basics you need to know to sell
online, you can learn and apply without the need to become
a geek, nerd, or boffin.
Unhelpful Cliché 5: "Quit your
day job and earn a seven figure income while you sip cocktails
on the beach."
Yes, some people undoubtedly have done that,
but your goals need to be (a) realistic, and (b) your own.
Your short and long term targets need to be set by you, according
to the time and money you have to spend, and matched to what
you can realistically achieve. You also need to make sure
your 'dreams' are your own, and firmly based in reality. Having
the right motivation is essential in preventing false starts
in your ebook selling business.
You've probably noticed the word "realistic"
used too many times in this article. Internet marketers use
a lot of hype and exaggerated promises to motivate people
to buy their products, but you need to keep focused and stay
in the real world. You can and will succeed, with the right
mindset!
How To Take Action:
Forget what everyone is telling you about
selling infoproducts, especially your family and friends.
Ignore all the sales letters and magic software tools being
marketed to you. You can come back to all of those ideas later
and take them on consideration. But for now you need some
clarity to sort out your own ideas...
To learn how to plan your own ebook creation
and selling smartly and efficiently, visit
http://www.eproductplanner.com
Get the free report "Product Launch
Avalanche" from http://www.eproductplanner.com/avalanche.php
to start thinking in an organised and realistic way about
selling your own info products.
About the Author:
Find out why you could get snowed under by your own infoproduct
ambitions, and how to dig yourself out: get the free report
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