'I Want to Sell eBooks"
What mistakes should I NOT make?! đ
eBooks are MAKING A COME đ BACK đ.
So is blogging (mark my stinky little pointy words. đ)
Which makes all of us very happy, because eBooks are only the best digital product you can ever sell and make.
Want proof?
BEHOLD:
Theyâre tiny and cute
You can sell âem 24/7
People like reading! (I KNOW, RIGHT?)
You donât need to record yourself awkwardly on camera 6,000 times in a row
You can sell âem for $25 bucks and itâs an easy âYESâ
$25 x 300 sales/month = $7,500/month = $90,000/year
You can (finally) fulfill your lifelong dreams of smugly putting the words âauthorâ in all your bios
They make you look like a GIANT, WINNING BADASS (because what kind of loser has a book??? None. Which means the trickle down effect will be âmore clientsâ and âmore cloutâ and âmore PR.â)
No oneâs gatekeeping you, you donât need anyoneâs permission, or be signed by anyone, or approved of by anyone
You can publish allllllllllll the books you want
Customers can instantly download âem for that delicious immediate gratification
And perhaps the best benefit of all: you make it once, and sell it forever âžď¸
Oh wait, thereâs another one! You donât need to physically send anything in the mail (or be tied to one place, with inventory stock piled in your bathroom): customers buy it online, automatically, 24/7, thanks to that glorious little piehole called technology.
Ahhhhhhh. eBooks really donât get the credit they deserve.
But, I predict that with the massive shift weâre seeing back to slow living, slow reading, slow making, and slow experiences, eBooks are going to be a hot commodity againâespecially as everyone starts to get course + video + podcast + community exhaustion.
Anything exhausting is automatically ON THE DO-NOT-DO LIST.
So, while most technical things you can Google or ask ChatGPT (like what kind of software to use or how to make a cover or how many words or what topics sell best), I thought Iâd do a post on one very critical mistake you can *only* learn from experience.
Hopefully thisâll shave years off your learning curve, get you earning money faster, help you have fun with it, and help you not make a goofy dumb amateur error thatâll make you look like a tool. (Optimistic?! I thought so!)
LET US ENTER OUR EBOOK ERA. đ
So! Whatâs the one thing that you should never, ever do when making & selling an eBook?!
Are you ready for my biggest, worst eBook-selling faux pas that will cripple your sales? The kind of thing that amateur self-publishers do when they put their eBook online? The kind of thing that new novelists do, who arenât Emily Henry?!
Itâs definitely kind of thing you donât know you donât know if youâve never done itâwhich is why weâre going to talk about it.
The #1 critical mistake you can make when writing & selling ebooks is this gem of a hairy fairy screw-up right here: