Why Am I The Authority To Lecture About Selling EBooks Online?
The answer is simple.
I am not.
In fact, I believe that there really is nobody who is an ‘authority‘ on selling EBooks online. There are a lot of people that claim to be authorities, but unless you pay them $47 dollars for their, surprise, EBook…they won’t tell you why they consider themselves an authority on making and selling EBooks online. (And no, saying “I made $30,000 in 48 hours with my first EBook!!!” doesn’t make you an authority. It likely makes you a liar, until you prove otherwise. )
But what I have done is write a few EBooks on my own, made a few bucks, and learned a few things along the way. I decided to take my lessons to this blog, share my education with others, and see if we can all learn from each other and make some money…at least enough to split a beer (virtually or even in person someday) or two.
I plan on sharing real stories (gasp!) of my past few years of EBook marketing, explaining the tools that I like, the things that worked, the ideas that didn’t, and spread a little sunshine on this otherwise closed community of … well, I’m not sure what to call them. What do you call a band of ‘authors’ who tell you they make a ton of money, but don’t tell you what they sell? That should be our first goal, what do we call these people?
I think, for now, I’ll call them ‘virtual EBook millionaires’.
Definition: A Virtual EBook Millionaire is a sales letter, masquerading as first person conversation direct to you, by a ‘successful’ EBook author who makes ‘lots of money’. Each VEM will sell you his or her secrets for a price usually greater than $7, most likely $47, but never, ever ending in a number other than ’7′.
So, these VEM’s have apparently paved the way for all of us ‘outsiders’ to make money online, if only we’d give them a few bucks first. No thanks. I’m just going to declare myself an authority and figure it out on my own, thank you very much.
Next thing for us to do is pave our own path by sharing our lessons learned and ideas for the future of digital ebook marketing and sales.
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