Easy Online Business to Start: Selling eBooks

The best way to get started in a new online business is to sell something easy to create – and something that you created. If you created it – you’ll be able to get higher margins than you would acting as an affiliate for someone else. That’s not to say being an affiliate is bad in ANY way, but, by creating your own products you’ll be getting as much money as you possibly can through your new online business.

Incorporate your business as a first step. You’ve got to protect your assets and save money on taxes – incorporating is the best way to do that and avoid double taxation using Subchapter S or LLC type incorporations.

EBooks are easy to make and easy to sell online because you can just give your customers a download link after they pay for the ebook.

EBooks can be made in Microsoft’s Word program, edited there – photos added there, and turned into a PDF file with one of the online – free PDF makers, or, if you want to have a higher quality end-product you should get a copy of Adobe Writer which integrates very well into Microsoft Word – and allows you to create a PDF file while in Word.

EBook length can be 30-70 pages. Anything longer gets to be a bit tedious to read on the computer screen. Even using Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader – most people tend to like ebooks at 70 pages or less, so say the surveys. I believe them – as I’d have a hard time reading a 200 page ebook on a computer screen. Maybe it’s just getting used to it. Maybe it’s because online use is typically short and sweet. So, when faced with the daunting 200 page ebook – it might not get you all that enthused about the idea.

Keep your eBooks short and sweet, packed with photos, graphs, and other graphics to keep them interesting. You can offer a preview of the first 3-5 pages or the first chapter of your ebook so future customers of your new online business can see what you have to offer.

EBooks typically sell for between $5 and $40. A friend of ours is selling her Thai Food eBook for $39 with some bonuses and is having good results. Bonuses are key to inciting visitors to become customers.

EBooks can be sold on your site – and, coupled with a Google Adwords campaign or some other pay per click campaign can produce steady, and long-term results.

As you build your product list you can eventually have a full-time job in just creating and selling e-books.

If you do create your online ebook business – please don’t forget to incorporate and protect yourself and earnings.