Comments on: Should You Write an Ebook if Your Blog is Small?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:17:45 +0000

Thanks Michael.
I should start writing an eBook now, and get people to become more interested in my blog so I can get more traffic.

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By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:06:26 +0000

Thanks, Cheryl! The “great” John Haydon? Oh, he’ll love that, I’m sure!

If you wanted to, I’m sure you could gather a few posts on a theme or topic you keep writing about and expand them into a pretty nice ebook your fans would love (and it would attract new ones, since good ebooks are prone to getting spread around the interwebz to everyone).

By: thedailyblonde

thedailyblonde — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:56:17 +0000

I’ve never even thought of putting out an eBook and my blog certainly isn’t a go-to social media blog—but I do know how to market and the blonde is just a cover.

Thanks for the food-for-thought. The great @johnhaydon led me to your post.

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Who Says You Should Write an eBook? | Sticky Ebooks — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:39:01 +0000

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By: Ramkarthik

Ramkarthik — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:19:28 +0000

Michael,

Good post. I agree with you. There is no such thing called the right time.

If you want to do something, ‘now’ is the right time. It doesn’t matter how many blog readers you have. As you said, you are going to make a couple of sales and the money you get from it is something which you wouldn’t have got if you just sat and waited for the right time.

Plus you can always sell the ebook even after you have gained a huge reader base. There is no rule where you have to sell an ebook only for one month or so. So you can always have the ebook for sale. You get more and more sales as you build your audience.

Above all, selling an ebook increases your personal brand. You get famous. More people will come to know about you. You wouldn’t have gotten this if you didn’t publish the ebook only because you have less readers.

Great post Michael.

By: Bamboo Forest - PunIntended

Bamboo Forest - PunIntended — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:43:04 +0000

I’m no expert on e-books but I tend to think they’re overpriced. The goal of course is to price it to where you’ll make the most money overall, I get that. And if pricing it higher means making more money overall… then more power to those who price high.

But when I see an e-book pricing higher than a book sold by a best selling author at Barnes and Nobles, I’m generally turned off.

A low price such as was cited, 9 bucks, doesn’t back fire in my eyes. The reality is that I and I think most people, will judge the potential of the e-book based upon the quality of the author’s blog and not upon the price he or she is selling the e-book at.

By: Jason Fleck

Jason Fleck — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:17:58 +0000

Great post. You do a great job at providing reassurance to those new to writing ebooks or those having problems either monetizing or building brand awareness.

A great strategy I’d also like to share with your readers is creating hype for the ebook before it’s release date. If you can build hype and position yourself as an expert before releasing the ebook, it’ll be a lot easier getting others to help promote your offer.

By: Neil Matthews

Neil Matthews — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:16:24 +0000

Something I would add is that an e-book is a write once sell many item.

You may not have much traffic now, but in the future the work has already been done and you can trickle sales as you grow, always assuming your book is not too time sensitive.

By: Genuine Chris Johnson

Genuine Chris Johnson — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:09:13 +0000

Dunno why I missed this but I did. Here’s the deal. I don’t have much of a blog following, but the days that I was everywhere–on forums, twitter, google alert,s, I could move up to 15 copies of my book without a problem. After an initial wave of people voting for me (and the word “F#@%)…well, it didn’t taper.

It’s work though, but I learnt so much.