When Selling Online, Your First Impression Counts

This article deals specifically with the process of selling an ebook, but the process is unilateral throughout all methods of selling online.

When selling your ebook online you’ll want to get the highest number of sales and at the highest price. To accomplish this feat, you’re going to want to make a great first impression.

You are going to want to show that your ebook comes from a reputable source not some hokey pokey from Pahokee. 

How can you accomplish this? 

Have stellar graphics, don’t settle for blurry or unprofessional graphics. Only use graphics that look clean and exhibit good looking people enjoying your ebook or the benefits that your ebook, through knowledge, will provide.

Use graphics that depict a book cover with your eBooks title on it. Make sure this graphic is as real and three dimensional as possible, you want to portray an ebook so life-like and desirable that customers would be proud of laying it out on their coffee table.

Next, if you can afford to do so, have the book turned into a professional sounding audio ebook, just this added commitment by the publisher to the e-book’s subject matter gives customers more reason to trust in the product. 

Use a graphic of someone enjoying listening to the audio while resting or enjoying another activity.  This will show customers how emotionally fulfilling purchasing this ebook will be for them. 

Use a sample of the audio available on the sales page that plays quickly and shows off both the quality of the audio sound and utilizes an enticing snippet from the ebook. 

Sometimes, it is beneficial to leave the listener hanging, so to speak, when using an audio sample in a sales page, so that they are inclined to buy, just to see how it finishes.

Make sure that the colors of the sample player buttons compliment the rest of the page and that everything flows together. 

You’ll also want to have on your page a good solid looking guarantee logo that looks official and exudes confidence in the way a sheriffs badge does.

Also choose easy to read fonts for your page that show up well in any kind of browser like “Arial” or “Arial Black”.

Also if you are going to add video to your page make sure that it is high quality and loads fast otherwise you may be better off not wasting the space on your site.

Using high quality graphics as clickable pictures is much better than a text link for motivating buyers. The higher the quality of the graphic here, the more confident the buyer is in actually clicking it.

And finally, if you don’t want to have your customer back out make sure that when they click the “Buy Now” button that they are transferred to a secure place to enter their information be it PayPal or some other secure payment processor.

It also doesn’t hurt to keep up the first impression by sending them to a thank you page and download page of similar quality. This will help to encourage the customer to be more confident in making another purchase with you.

To recap, make sure your ebook is represented professionally through the shopping and buying process to ensure the best first impression and the highest perceived value. 

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"I travel whenever and wherever I choose." 
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Publishing Ebooks That Sell Themselves

Now that you have wrote, or have had written for you an ebook “so good” that it should sell itself don’t be surprised if it doesn’t! 

I’m not insinuating that you won’t be able to sell your ebook but I am inferring that your work is not done yet.

If you really want to sell your ebook you need to create a page that “sells” it. 

It’s called a sales page and special attention needs to be given to it, to make sure anyone who gets to it, will feel compelled to read it, long enough to find out that your ebook is so great, that they have to buy it.

To make sure you eBooks sales page is compelling you need to start by writing a catchy headline which uses words people who are looking for the solution your ebook solves may be using to show you identify with your customers and their problems and at least hints at a solution. Your head line, like all text on your sales page, should be in an easy to read font and one that displays well in all browsers. 

From your main head line you will want to roll into a sub headline which is an extension of the main headline and serves to build hype enough to grab readers attention and get them exited enough to read the rest of the page and all about all the benefits your ebook will give them.  

Your first few paragraphs should be used to build report with your customer let them know that you understand their problems. Following the introductory paragraphs explain that your ebook is here to solve it. 

Then show them a picture of your ebook. Although eBooks don’t need covers you should still show them a professional looking representation of what your ebook would look like. People almost need the image of a book to help them understand what there “virtually” getting and research shows that better the ebook cover image looks the better sales will do.

After displaying a picture of the book you should offer a button or field in which people can start the process of purchasing if they choose. After the “Buy Now” area of your sales page you will want a list of specific benefits your book will solve, for the “doubting” but still interested group.

Once you have laid out all of the benefits’ of your ebook follow up with a strong call to action. Perhaps a limited time offer or something that shows the potential customer that procrastination leads to regret. Again offer means to start the buying process within site of the words or a picture that represents a guarantee and then expound on the greatness of the guarantee to ease the doubters mind about the safety and security they can feel in making the decision to buy now. 

All of these things should be considered the backbone of your sales page strategy if you truly want to have your ebook sell itself!

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"I am a magnet for creative ideas."
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