
“We are here to kickstart your ecommerce ambitions by providing you with a range of ecommerce stores in the most popular niches whilst providing you with a fully functioning business complete with products to sell saving you time, money and effort in the process."
“We are here to kickstart your ecommerce ambitions by providing you with a range of ecommerce stores in the most popular niches whilst providing you with a fully functioning business complete with products to sell saving you time, money and effort in the process."
Selling ebooks is one of the best ways to get after the illusive passive income.
We will explore the 9 main reasons as to why selling ebooks online can help you to reach your money making goals, in this episode of the Startup Streams Serial Entrepreneurship Podcast…
There is demand for ebooks
Let me start off by saying that from 2018 to 2020, when the pandemic hit, ebook sales exploded. In the US alone, 168 million ebooks were sold in 2018, rising to 191 million per year by the end of 2020, resulting in 1.1 billion dollars of ebook sales revenues, according to Statista. (https://www.statista.com/topics/1474/e-books/#topicHeader__wrapper)
This not only shows demand for ebooks, but a growing demand. But why? Because people found themselves stuck at home during the pandemic with lots of time on their hands. And as ebooks are super easy to get your hands on, on a variety of portable devices, this was the go-to method for finding things to read.
So now the pandemic is just about over - thankfully - we can expect ebook sales to slightly diminish, but more and more people in 2020 would have been exposed to the many benefits of ebooks, and may therefore be more likely to continue getting their information this way.
With ebooks, you'll never need to manage any stock
There would be many benefits to you, as an ebook seller. Namely, there isn’t ever any stock to manage. You don’t need to worry about the supply side of the business - ever. As long as you have that one master copy of a PDF ebook you have the rights to sell, your store, we recommend using Shopify, copies the master file and sends it to the customer.
All ebooks are sent automatically
This brings me nicely onto the next point. All products are sent automatically. When a customer makes a purchase from your store, they can get an automatic download link from the order confirmation screen and automatically via email. This helps your conversion rate and potentially even your repeat sales as this results in instant gratification as the customer can start benefitting from the ebook immediately.
There is minimal customer hassle
What’s more, with selling ebooks, there is minimal customer hassle. What I mean by this is that with other online money making methods, like the infamous drop shipping, you don’t have to worry about shipping and fulfilment. This means you’ll never get customers following up about their order, complaining it is taking too long, or complaining it has arrived damaged - causing you to drop whatever it is you’re doing to come to their aid to scramble to find a replacement, or worse - process a refund.
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Ebooks have high profit margins
One of my favourite things about selling digital products, is the fact that they have really high profit margins - the highest actually - up to 100% - making them on the the most profitable products available to sell in the world. You can chose the price, and you keep whatever you sell them for - minus any store running costs. Please check out our podcast “How To Make Your First $550 Selling Ebooks Online” to find out more about the best methods to price your ebooks to maximise profit.
You can sell to customers globally from wherever you are
Moving on, selling ebooks allows you to sell all over the world; from anywhere you decide to call your home, or workspace, to anyone anywhere with an internet connection and an electronic device which can read PDFs. You could be, say on the couch in the US and make sales to a customer in New Zealand, or be sat on a beach in Australia and sell to customers in the UK. If I recall correctly, when I marketed the very first Startup Streams store, the mental strength hacks store as mentioned in my previous podcast, I had easily managed to sell to customers in over 20 countries - even though English, the language the ebooks and website was written in, wasn’t the primary or native language of most of those countries.
Ebooks are easy to edit and translate
Leading on nicely to my next point: Ebooks are super easy to edit and translate. Can you imagine if you are an author, having spent a year writing a book and having it printed 10,000 times to only find grammatical errors, or find that the facts you used were incorrect - at the point of no-return? It’s too late. Luckily with ebooks, there is no such drama. If you want to change an ebook, you can simple edit the original working file, save to PDF and re-upload to your store. You could even send updated versions to previous customers to keep them interested in your work by going that one extra step to provide continuing value. It’s so easy to do.
In terms of translation, our ebooks, available with any current Startup Streams store, have been translated into a number of languages in the past; French, Spanish, German… even Arabic I believe. This is easy to do with ebooks as you can edit the working files, and upload straight to your store or it would be very simple to forward the ebook working files to a freelance translator to help you that way too.
Ebooks are environmentally friendly, compared to books
And for the ecologically aware, ebooks are far more environmentally friendly, compared to the manufacturing processes and raw materials used in standard book production. Yes, having a large book case with lots of your favourite titles is nice to have, and brag about, but as you can save between 2000-6000 books on a single Amazon Kindle, you could save a mountain of paper - and your customers will know this too.
Selling ebooks allows you to startup and launch quickly
Lastly, selling ebooks allows you to launch your business faster. Doubly so, as we at Startup Streams have done a lot of the work for you. You can browse dozens of pre-made ready-to-grow ebook stores, available for you to purchase right now, at StartupStreams.com.
All of our stores include master resell rights as standard, meaning that you will never have to pay any royalties to sell the included ebooks. Easy and effective.
To summarise, I think that it is fair to say that those who wish to sell online, wish to do so in the most passive way possible. And although I don’t really believe there is any such thing as a truly passive income - there will always be effort involved with making money after all - selling digital ebooks online right now, can certainly get you pretty close...
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