Sell Ebook

What is the simplest business that a person can run on the internet? A business that can be setup within an hour, not much hassle (or maybe not at all?), doesn't need much maintenance (nowadays, everything can be run auto-pilot) and the most important; it generates profitable income?

Do you agree with me if I say, "Selling Ebook"? Some might agree, some might not. If you have any brilliant idea than this, please share.

There are lots of ebooks on sale on the internet. Almost in any subject. But I noticed that the most popular subject people loved to buy and writers loved to sell is the 'how-to-make-money' subject! After all, it's about money then. Who don't like money?

How to sell ebook? The answer is: get or create the product, first. If you are not a writer, then sell other people products. But, make sure you have the resale rights to do it. Otherwise, you might be in trouble with the original author. Some of the ebooks sold on the internet are resale rights products. However, there are also free downloadable ebooks out there that have resale rights too! Isn't that a great news to all the newbies? You don't have to buy or write anything, you can have the product - FREE!

Next, you need a space to business. In simple word, you need a site. If you have zero-knowledge on how to build a website (like me), do like what I am doing now. Use a free blog. Sell your products through a blog. But if you are knowledgeable on building a website, then I guess you should have knew what to do - find a web hosting (i.e: Exabytes, ServerFreak, etc), develop the web, etc...

Then, you need to determine your payment option. Some of us prefer to sign up a merchant account like PayPal, 2CheckOut, etc. With this option, you can deliver the product to your customer automatically (I did mentioned about auto-pilot before). Your mechant account will do everything, from taking the order, process your customer credits and send the product to them online (Ebook is a digital product, it can be downloaded straight to customer hard-drive). In my place, some prefer to use local internet-banking. With this option, after getting the order, you check your bank account activities to verify your customer payment before you deliver the product to them with your own delivery option (email the download link or courier a CD). Up to you...

Finally, which is the most important one: promote your business! You are not running a physical business like opening a shop by the street. People will notice your shop when they pass by the street everyday but on the internet, no one knows you are running a business. There are millions (maybe billions?) of websites on the internet. How on earth will anyone find your site without you promote it yourself? There are lots of ways to promote your site. You just have to choose which one you are comfortable with. Emails, social networks, business social networks, online advertisements like AdWords, AdBrite (Google competitor?), etc.

I'd wrote enough, I guess. Till then, cheers!