This idea will require a familiarity with affiliate marketing in general and specific programs whose affiliates you’ll be “serving” in particular.
Some programs just aren’t all that good at providing their affiliates with good marketing and promotional resources beyond some banners and a few token text ads and email templates, if that. Giveaway ebooks that could go viral? Yeah right.
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If you’re like me, you find it easier and faster to answer a question someone asks you versus having to come up with the question yourself first before answering it. I won’t bother going into the psychology behind this, but it’s interesting that most writers take the latter approach with their writing projects.
And many get bogged down, or even stuck before the project goes anywhere.
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A slight variation on the Idea/Tip Contest EGAD: Instead of just picking and running the “best of” submissions, run them all. And then let the readers vote on who wins “best of” honors.
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Here’s another use for those free article directories besides the EGAD #9 idea: They’re good sources of authors for original and unique niche interest content too.
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A lot of the EGADs rely on your ability to find authorities who write. But what if your particular industry or area of interest isn’t exactly “writing oriented” — or maybe you’re just having difficulty finding people willing to do more “real” writing on top of what they already regularly pump out?
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Approach authorities with infoproducts that are currently on the market, and try to get each to agree to have his or her “book” included in full in an anthology you’re producing and selling, for a percentage of profits.
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Map out a whole ebook on your niche topic — outline, table of contents — then hit up your list of authorities, trying to get each to write a small part of the whole.
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Related to EGAD #29, but more promotionally-oriented. The idea, after all, is simply to compile and give away an ebook full of testimonials from happy customers (something loaded with your affiliate-coded links, of course).
So, why would anyone be interested in reading this?
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Very easy EGAD idea, and I would think a fairly obvious one that I’m surprised more people don’t do it. Run a poll/survey on your site or blog and publish the results in an ebook. No reason why you couldn’t sell the resulting product — assuming, of course, that you’ve put some thought into the questions you ask and have collected data of real value to your target market.
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The idea’s simple: Publish an ebook on a specific topic of interest, embed “affiliate” links to a merchant with a related product or service, and make commissions on any resulting sales. But instead of the usual “chock full of promotional hype and affiliate links and, really, little else” content found on websites and ebooks produced by typical affiliate marketers, you’ll want to make your ebook…
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