The Word Corner

A few things to keep in mind if you plan to make money online selling eBooks.

• The average conversion rate, when selling eBooks online is about 1%. So if you have 1,000 visitors/month and your ebook sells for $25, your gross monthly income should be about $250. Obviously the more the traffic you have the better.
• You could set up multiple niche sites to make a full-time income or instead, choose a topic that serves the needs of many willing buyers AND has little competition (easier said than done but still possible).
• Instead of setting up a website to sell an ebook, produce an ebook and partner with someone who already has a web site in the same niche. Offer to split the profits with them 55%-45% or whatever percentage you both feel comfortable with.

To increase your chances of success and effectively compete with ‘real’ books, your ebook content must address a need and/or solve a real problem AND you should look for a topic where there’s little competition.

Brian Clark offers a great tip on this topic in his article How to Create Ebooks That Sell.