Ebook Affiliate Program
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An eBook affiliate program is the perfect way for anyone doing newsletters, authoring eBooks or managing a website to make extra money. Across the five billion or so pages of the World Wide Web are would be authors, publishers and readers of eBooks. In each case, these people have interest in how to write and publish, gather new manuscripts and find new literature not found in the New York Times best seller list. Within the community of eBook followers are stories of rejections, triumph, marketing failures, marketing victories and self-publishers to stay away from. The subject matter on just the publication process of eBook literature alone is vast.
There have been developed over the years of the Internet a number of marketing and advertising strategies. Things like search engine optimization, pay per click, viral marketing, email marketing and many other successful ways of driving Internet surfers and buyers to a person's own website have been successful, always some more so and some less than. But one of the most successful and proven strategies is the affiliated network program which really works off the interconnectedness that some sites have with some more than with others. In most cases, the connectedness comes through a shared marketing subject matter. It might be computers, auto insurance, debt solutions, gourmet food, and yes, eBooks. But lest a person get tunnel visioned right away, this is really about the connectedness between gourmet food and everything having to do with food from growing and harvesting to kitchen utensils and fine china. With debt it is about debt collection, debt consolidation, debt bankruptcy and debt counseling and with the eBook affiliate program, it is about everything books in general and more.
Let's put together a small example of how an eBook affiliate program would work in real life. Suppose that a woman has recently written a short novel and all of her friends rave about its impact on them personally. She sends the script to several publishers, all return with rejections slips and she reads online that only two out of almost a thousand unsolicited manuscripts ever make it into mainstream publishing's interest. As she reads a website blog for aspiring authors, she notices in the right-hand column three links to self publishers and her quest begins. At these websites she sees sponsored links to subsidy self publishing and at those sites there are links to vanity publishers and then links to publishers on demand. While she might have thought that her information hunting was just a kind of random process, it was the result of a very well thought out eBook affiliate program designed to keep the woman very interested in all things eBook.
Any affiliate advertising program is built around linking together websites that have common themes or interests. There are many, such as ones for car insurance, debt issues, computers, sports equipment, food, medicine and many more. In each case, those with websites in each of these general interest areas congregate together leading a person from one site to another, hoping that business and money land somewhere in one of the partner's or affiliate's pockets. Just as a necklace wends its way through beads or jewels, the commonality of one subject joins a group of websites together and in the case of an eBook affiliate program, a person interested in publishing, selling or writing eBooks can be kept busy for hours following the sponsored links from one site to another. But this isn't about love, peace and the absence of war among competitors, this is all about the George Washingtons that can be made and in many cases, lots of Georges are made through affiliate programs.
Authors who have written eBooks, publishers who print them, reviews of self publishers and blogs for authors, critics and others who have a website related to the eBook business may work together to sponsor colleague or affiliate links on their own sites. In order to make an eBook affiliate program financially profitable, agreement for method of payment must be joined among partners. There are three typical ways that affiliate partners are paid for renting out their web pages to partners. The first is pay per click which means for each link click on a host's website, the host is paid anywhere from a few cents to tens of dollars. The second is pay per action which means that when a link takes a surfer to another site that asks for information such as email address, name, etc., the link host is compensated for every field filled in. The third method is really a commission fee. Suppose an author's website sponsors a link to a self publisher that results in a book being published-the author would receive a commission on that published book, may be of several hundred dollars or more.
It's no secret that outside of the big mainstream publishing companies, few people really make big money in writing and publishing books. The eBook arena is a way for some to make at least a stab at a more than modest income writing and publishing. Cashing in on a colleague or partner network such as an eBook affiliate program is one way that struggling authors and all who are interested in forwarding the written word for all to read can have to make a better living. There are some already existing eBook affiliate program networks formed. Be sure and read all that is available on each network before making an agreement to participate.
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