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Ebooks on audio, and other Audio Information Products

April 27th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Adding audio to your ebooks and other information products is a great way to increase your sales and traffic to your site. Your customers and visitors will enjoy hearing your voice. This will also help you create trust and build relationships with them. You will become a real, live person to them, versus a stranger selling something on a website.

Many people enjoy the convenience that digital products provide. They do not need to wait for their product to arrive. They can download it immediately after purchasing it. Audio recordings are a great way to provide information to your customers, as well as providing them immediate gratification. You can upload the audio to your site and your listeners can listen via the internet, or you can include links to an Mp3 recording. Your visitors can download the Mp3 and listen to the recording on their Mp3 player or burn the audio to a CD.

There are many ways to record audio and upload it to your site. One of the easiest methods is by subscribing to a service such as Audio Acrobat (www.audioacrobat.com). This service will cost about $20 per month. You can record audio with your telephone by dialing a special number provided to you by the company. This is a great way to interview people for your audio. You can also create recordings through an internet microphone, and create videos with a webcam.

This service makes publishing your audios very easy. You simply put a bit of HTML onto your website and your audio is available to stream across the internet. You can also provide a link for your visitors to download the audio.

Audio Acrobat also makes podcasting easy. Podcasting is a new phenomenon, similar to blogging. It’s been called “Internet radio”, but essentially it’s simply uploading audio files so that people can listen to them on their computer, their iPod, or on CD, because the audio files are in MP3 format.

There are podcasts on every subject imaginable. Your listeners can subscribe to your podcast through an RSS feed, just as they can to a blog. Audio Acrobat includes RSS feed as well as iTunes integration. When your listeners subscribe to your podcast, your new podcasts will be delivered to them right through their iTunes.

Your listeners do not need to have an iPod or iTunes to listen to your podcasts. Podcasts can be downloaded to any MP3 player; your listeners can also listen via the internet if they do not own an MP3 player.

Another option for recording is with Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net/). This software is free to download. You can record audio using an internet microphone, as well as mix and edit sound.

You can charge money for your audio information products or give them away free in order to increase traffic to your website. If you have a paid membership site, you can provide the links only to paid subscribers, allowing only those members to listen.

Sales- boosting tip - record your ebook and make more sales

The challenge with an ebook is that people need to find the time to read it. You can increase your sales if you record the text of your ebook, and offer the audio file free as a bonus with your ebook’s purchase.

Ebooks and more: Tips for Creating E-courses

April 13th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you want to sell more ebooks, consider creating an e-course. An e-course is information, usually delivered a chunk at a time, as in one lesson per day, via email.

An e-course can be on any topic. Take a look at your website and think about what your target market would like to learn about. If your website is devoted to information about beauty treatments, you can create an e-course explaining how to have a spa day at home. If your website contains information about sewing, you can create an e-course that explains how people can start their own sewing business. The choices are limitless.

Once you know what your topic will be, you will need to start writing. If you are not familiar enough with the topic to write from your own experiences, research the subject first. You may want to write the entire course in one word processing file; once the work is done, you can read through it and find appropriate section breaks.

If writing an entire e-course seems daunting, don’t worry. You don’t have to write a book. Just write a few simple lines about a given subject in order to answer a question your target market likely has. Do this every day for a week, and you have written your e-course.

Once you have written your e-course, you will need to get it delivered to your subscribers. The easiest way to do this is with an autoresponder. You can subscribe to an autoresponder service for around $20 per month. You can create lists in your autoresponder, and load unique messages for that particular list.

Your autoresponder service will generate a bit of HTML code to display on your site or blog. When someone clicks on the link, they will be subscribed to your list. When someone subscribes to that list, they will receive all the messages in the order you select.

When you write your e-course, you should have some products you want to promote in mind. For instance, you may have created an information product about affiliate marketing. You can create a free e-course about affiliate marketing in order to promote your information product. You can also include links to other products you are an affiliate for.

You do not have to give your e-course away. Your e-course can be the information product that you are selling. You can also make it interactive by including links to audios, videos and other information.

Promoting the fact that you have these e-courses available will help bring traffic to your site. You can even make some of the links customizable for others to put in their affiliate links and give the e-courses away for others to use. If you do this, keep the links to your website unchangeable, so the people who end up reading the e-course can still come to your site for more information.

Ebooks are information products: What is an Information Product?

April 13th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Ebooks are information products, but they’re not the only information products, there are many more products you can create and sell.

An information product is simply any a portion of knowledge that can now be passed on to others. The information can be put into an e-book, e-course, a special report, an MP3 recording, a teleclass or even a membership website.

Creating and selling information products is a great way to earn a passive, residual income from home. It does not matter if you are a college student, a grandparent, or somewhere in between, you have information in your head that people are willing to pay for. In addition to topics you are already familiar with, it is easy to research topics you have no prior experience with, and create information products around them.

If you are a virtual assistant, for example, you may have a great client base and are able to earn a nice income from home. However, you cannot work twenty-four hours per day. Your income potential is limited to the amount of hours you can work in a day. As you grow your business, you attract more clients and receive more work. Your reward for hard work is more work. If you want to go on vacation or retire, your income stops.

On the other hand, when you create and sell information products, you are creating unlimited income potential for yourself. You work once on creating your product, and then you can sell it over and over again via a website, twenty-four hours per day.

You will still have to market your product, but you have unlimited potential to earn income off of the hours of work you put into the product. With a standard job, you can only get paid for your work once.

Another great benefit to creating information products is that you do not need much money to get started. If you are creating an e-course, you will need word processing software and an autoresponder. You can write the information and then load it into the autoresponder, which will automatically send each day’s course to the subscribers.

For e-books and special reports, you will also need word processing software. Since different people have different types of programs, you can convert your file into PFD format. Anyone who downloads Adobe Reader (for free) will be able to read your e-book or report. You do not need to have special software to convert your file; there are many ways to create a PDF for free.

For information products containing audio, for about $20 per month, you can subscribe to www.audioacrobat.com. This service will allow you to record audio from your telephone or computer microphone. You simply add a bit of HTML to your website and your audio can be heard streaming live, over the internet.

Creating ebooks and other information products is not only highly profitable, it’s also a lot of fun.

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