Many bloggers are placing a large part of their hopes on the continuing AdSense phenomenon to fuel their blogging businesses. And this worries me.
Why? Because of click fraud and the unknown of where it’s all going to end up.
The PDF format today is generally accepted as the industry standard in electronically sending and receiving documents.
In days gone by you had to have the Adode Acrobat software that cost you a mint (and still does). Not any more. These days there’s a deluge of third-party software companies offering a variety of pdf tools.
Personally, when I look at buying an eBook (or any digital Product for that matter) that has perked my interest I don’t look at how many pages it has. I don’t even care about any of those “bonuses” that are attached at the end of those long sales pages.
Brian Clark writing at CopyBlogger is a big proponent of growing your subscribers list. In fact, it seems that he believes that it is a vital ingredient in any online business success: keeping in touch with your fans/customers/prospects.
If you are a user of OpenOffice (the free alternative to MS Office) then did you know that you can create pdf documents directly from the program?
Well-respected Gawker Media blog, Lifehacker takes a look at Payloadz in Sell downloads via PayPal with PayLoadz.
Wayne Hurlbert, writing at BlogBusinessWorld, was one of the first blogs I read and I’m continually being inspired by some of his thoughts.
When eBooks were in their heyday (well not quite, but for a while there they were the next big thing) the way to go about creating one was not in the PDF format, it was in a EXE format via a dedicated eBook compiler.
Okay. You have been blogging for a while now. The AdSense checks may or may not be rolling in. You have a growing fan base. You can claim somewhat to be an growing expert in your niche.
Now how do you turn all that hard work into steady income? Easy. By creating and selling your very own eProduct … in this case, eBooks.
Today it’s all about niche. Small is the new big.
Wikipedia describes niche as being …
a focused, targetable portion of a market … a business that focuses on a niche market is addressing a need for a product or service that is not being addressed by mainstream providers. You can think of a niche market as a narrowly defined group of potential customers.