Quote: (03-25-2010 03:56 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
Interesting topic in here.
Hydro,
Here's a suggestion:
Since you mention you're in a niche where 100$ isn't uncommon and you mention that your book/ebook is quite long, how about delivering it in various formats? Say for example, turn that book website into a membership site where you'd be providing the content of that book as an e-course or even a video series of sorts, say over a few weeks? You could charge people a membership fee of say 20 bucks or so a month and with some good marketing, you could rank up with not much difficulty, 100 paying members in a short period of time. But for that, if I were you, I'd build first some credibility in the field by providing good content for free for a few weeks, build a list of the readers by capturing their emails via a capture page and take it from there. There are a lot of ways you could monetize your site, some even without the readers/surfers having to provide their email addresses nor buying anything. And I'm not referring to Google adsense which is a joke, full stop.
All the best in making this little baby of yours be the start of something big.
Cheers,
Lorenzo.
Thanks, as you offer some really good ideas.
A subscription model had crossed my mind, but I had not though about it in any depth. I definitely like high volume / lower price based models, as I think they protect better against large variances in income.
I also noticed some vendors changing from a print book to subscription model ie: seobook.com. Now that guy charges a fortune for his subscription, and likely makes much more than he did with his book. Its probably the same content, although it is easier updated now.
I'd likely have to think of some type of hybrid model, as a lot of my book contains material that needs to be repeatedly referenced to be truly useful. My personal preference is for print, as I like to highlight, and I would have to be sure that I could get what I need from a resource if I had to pay and only could get it online.
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm cautiously excited, but also hoping that I didn't waste two years. Whatever happens, it was a learning experience.