How To Generate A Viral E-Book to Make Money On The Net

Generating a viral e-book can be the most crucial aspect to determine your business' success. Most people think that it is the number one internet marketing plan at the present time. Most businesses, especially online, have used this technique and used it to their advantage.

A viral e-book is a book that can be downloaded over the internet and a majority of the time, free. This e-book is also one that can be generously given away by readers after they have completed reading it. It is termed viral because of the fact that people would be choosing to give it away to others for the benefit of the author.

What would make readers give it away?

As a consumer, what makes you talk about a product or suggest a service to your friends or relatives? Or what makes you do otherwise?

When you purchase a product or use the business of a certain shop or establishment and are satisfied with your experience as a customer, you are most likely to tell your friends and relatives about it. People have this need to share what made them content and feel good for others to share the same thing.

Likewise, if you are unhappy with something, you will also tell others about the bad experience to warn them. This habit of consumers is well-known to marketers and uses it to their advantage. And this is how viral marketing and your viral e-book work in their simplest form.

If your e-book is something that is extremely interesting and contains several forms of information that a person can benefit from, there is a high probability that the reader will pass it on to others who he thinks will be interested as well. It is the same as chain emails that contain jokes and funny stories that are always being given around over the internet.

Another thing that will entice your readers to pass the e-book to others, and perhaps the most effective, is through affiliate links. If you turn your reader into someone like a business affiliate, that would entice him more to pass it on because he knows he will also prosper from it.

Let's say you walk into a membership shop and purchase something. When you are already in the check-out counter, the saleslady tells you that if you bring in a friend next time who also becomes a member, you will be given a $50 gift certificate. Wow! That will really encourage you to get someone to become a member, would it not?

The same idea can be used in your e-book to make it more viral. You can give rights to the readers to add their affiliate IDs in your link. That would mean more profit to you because these people would register under you as an affiliate, at the same time make them earn with the affiliate commissions of your program. However, there are things to be thought about to make sure that you still have some control of those links that will be changed. There might be others who may put in a totally different link which is not related to your e-book. That will just ruin the process.

You should put clear instructions as to how these people can distribute your e-book with their affiliate links in it. There should also be an agreement in black and white to stop some legal issues that may arise.

Also, make sure to control the amount of links in your e-book. Something that appears to be a compilation of tons of affiliate links will stop readers in proceeding with your e-book. It is also best to put the links in such a way that is not too obvious to the eyes of the readers. Try to sneak them in a clean way within the statements of your e-book.

Always remember, when you are trying to make your e-book, your main purpose is for it to get to the most number of potential customers in a brief time and with a minimal effort on your part. So make use of your readers to aid you in achieving this goal. Use them wisely and give good rewards to better entice them in passing your e-book on to others. Anyways, this is one of the principles of viral marketing.

To Your Success,

Mary C.