Buying and Selling eBooks on eBay
Buying and Selling eBooks on eBay – How to Price Your eBook. You’ve written and compiled an eBook. Now you have to decide how much to charge for it. Finding the right price is essential to the success of your product.
If you charge too little, people will think it’s of little value, and they won’t purchase it, or even if they do buy your eBook, you will have to sell thousands of copies to get to the point where you can begin to see a profit.
If you price it too high when compared with your competition, you will find yourself steadily lowering the price, which will cause you all kinds of new problems in the future.
Choosing the right price for your eBook is one of the most critical parts of the marketing process. The first rule of pricing eBooks is to never under price. Determine the highest price your audience can afford, and then if you find your eBook isn’t selling, you can always tweak the price.
Before you take that step, make sure you are promoting your eBook like crazy on the Internet and on websites. The price should be aimed at bringing in profits, but you should never forget that price is one of the factors that people use in judging the value of your e-book before they buy it. So always start with the highest price, and then launch a mega-marketing campaign.
Pricing an eBook is particularly difficult because eBooks are a fairly new commodity. Since they are digital, the value of an eBook is as confusing as the understanding of what digital actually is to the average layperson. This means that we must look at eBooks in a different light in order to determine their actual worth in this brave, new cyber world.
Let’s look at the difference between a book in print and an eBook.
A printed book is an object you can hold in your hand, store on your bookshelf, even hand down to the next generation. It is priced on factors such as paper stock, design and production costs, and marketing.
But the fact that unites eBooks and print books is that they are composed of ideas. It is the ideas in these eBooks that have the ability to change, or possibly transform, people’s lives.
What do you think an idea is worth when evaluated against the cost of paper and ink?
It is the IDEAS that are valuable! That is how you determine the cost of your eBook.
What should I charge for my ideas?
There are all different formulas and methods for determining the correct price for your eBook. Let’s begin by honing in on your ultimate goals.
Decide if your goal is to get wide distribution and maximum exposure. This goal is aimed at drawing customers to your business or service, or to establishing the credibility of your reputation.
If this is your main goal, you should aim to keep your price on the low side. Some authors have even priced their eBooks at a profit loss to draw a high number of new customers. The key is to find a price that maximizes your profits and the number of eBooks you sell.
This is an excellent pricing strategy if you are looking to acquire long-term customers. Long-term customers are extremely likely to buy from you again and again as long as the first eBook they buy is of exceptional quality and beneficial to the customer.
However, if your eBook contains valuable and more importantly NEW information, references, or techniques then you should aim to price it on the high end.
After you figure out your goal, you must figure out what your audience’s need is for your eBook. For example, does your eBook solve a particular problem? If it does, and solves it in a way that hasn’t been written about in one hundred other eBooks, you will be able to achieve high sales at a high price.
If your eBook solves a problem or answers questions in a new and unique way, you should price your eBook as high as you can go. You will achieve larger profits this way, but bring in fewer customers.
Just make sure the question or problem that your eBook solves is one that is important and relevant to the majority of your market audience. If your ideas are not common knowledge, or you are presenting a brand-new technique, you will be able to sell eBooks at a high price. Just be prepared for your competition to undercut you on price as soon as they hear about your eBook.
Keep in mind that the above pricing strategy is temporary. Eventually, you will cease to sell eBooks at this high price. So, figure out in advance how long you plan to offer your eBook at this high price, and when that time is up, change your pricing strategy.
If you want to see large profits from customers draw, aim for an audience that is looking for easy solutions to their problems at a low price. If your eBook is aimed at solving one particular problem rather than general advice, then you can charge more.
Start at the highest price the market will bear to bring in the largest profits, and plan to discount the eBook a number of times throughout the year.
Marketing Strategies
The key that unlocks the sales potential of your eBook is to find a single sentence that becomes your selling handle. This sentence states what questions or problems your eBook answers and the benefits your eBook can provide. Then be sure to use that sentence in every piece of sales and promotional material, and every time anyone asks you about your eBook.
Besides promoting your eBooks online, there are several other strategies that can help you sell more eBooks.
One is to give something away for free with your eBook, such as a valuable bonus item. Or bundle several eBooks under one price, which lowers the price for each eBook if they were sold separately.
An effective technique for figuring out a price is to send out a survey to your current customers. If these customers have already bought an eBook from you, ask for their opinion in terms of price. Do this by creating a sales page for the new eBook, but don’t include a price on that page. Instead, add a number of links to survey questions that ask pointed questions to aid you in assigning a price to your eBook.
Another strategy is to test out prices by creating a number of duplicate sales pages with different prices on each page. Make sure your sales copy is exactly the same on every page, and includes your selling-handle sentence. Then figure out for each page the conversion ratio between visitors to your site and sales of your eBook. This will tell you what your optimum price is.
Ultimately, if you’ve written an eBook that solves a problem or presents a new technique, your eBook will bring in both traffic and profits. So be sure to write that selling-handle sentence that sums up what problem your eBook solves and what the benefits of your eBook will be to the customers who purchase it. And then watch your market come to you!
Regards, Coyalita
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