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Affiliate Marketing with Ebooks

Monday, October 15th, 2007 at 5:43 pm by Kathy Jackson

 One of the better ways to promote your affiliate products is to promote an ebook that contains links to those affiliate products.

It isn’t all that hard to see why. People really don’t like blatant advertising but they really do like information.

Ebooks represent information. The public has come to rely upon ebooks as a prime source of information about subjects in which they are interested.

 

Now, giving away an ebook that contains information about your subject as well as links to your affiliate products is a fine idea when you are using it to build your list. However, people don’t regard FREE information as having an equal value to information that they purchase.

Sometimes it is better to SELL information than it is to give it away.

That isn’t to say that promoting an ebook that contains links to your affiliate products or services is one bit easier than promoting affiliate products through PPC direct links or PPC landing pages, or even through content websites, but sometimes it can be more effective.

The best way to promote an ebook (for the purpose of promoting your affiliate products) is to give away a little of what is in the book in the form of articles that you submit to article banks.

Never give away the heart and soul of the ebook but you can give away just enough to make people want to read the rest of the ebook (and thus be exposed to your affiliate links).

Of course, you can also promote the ebook through PPC advertising and on your content website, as well.

It’s a good idea to test this and see if it works for your eBook.  You might just find a great deal of affiliate marketing success by promoting information rather than promoting the products and/or services that you hope to sell.

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