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Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by acangiano on Monday March 01, 2010 @07:17PM (#1160232)
Your approach to the whole thing was very much affiliate/internet marketing oriented: list building via PPC, squeeze page, product sold through ClickBank, generous kickbacks to affiliates, high price for low page count, artificial urgency created through a limited time offer, and so on.

Here is what I admire:

* You managed to do all this without pissing off geeks, who are very sensitive to bullshit and tend to have an holier than thou attitude towards these techniques.

* I didn't buy the book, but I suspect it's rather high quality, compared to most junk sold on ClickBank.

* Your landing/squeeze page is surprisingly classy. It manages to accomplish a good CRT, despite the lack of autoplaying audio/video, exit popups, and the typical centered column look.

In short, good job.

Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by macournoyer_ on Monday March 01, 2010 @08:16PM (#1160355)
Thx a lot! I'm also surprised by the low quality of most products on ClickBank & other sites. That's why I'm talking openly about it, I'm sure most geeks here could do way better then everything on those sites.
Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by nailer on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:29AM (#1161287)
In the 'Creating Passionate Users' sense, you made something that helps your audience be awesome - which is the best possible thing to create. Communicating that properly helps, but the product is king.

PS. I'm interested in buying your book now too, because I believe it will personally make me awesome.

Re:How I Made $6K With My eBook by bemmu on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @09:03AM (#1161356)
The landing page is really sweet. What do your adwords ads look like?