Last week I was sent an ebook (I will do a review of it next week) that had the same sort of make money online, live from anywhere sort of theme as many books that are floating around out there. After reading through it though I actually came away with a lot of new knowledge and I was really impressed. Sure, I would have scoured the internet to find most of the information but, in some cases, I wouldn’t have even been sure what to search for. In short, I was impressed.
This got me thinking about the review I left for Nomadic Matt’s ebook last month. I still don’t think it’s a bad review but it wasn’t as glowing as perhaps it should have been. After reading through the other ebook and being impressed by all the new things I was learning about keyword research, link farming and other possibly shady SEO tactics, I thought more about Matt’s book. I feel like I was a bit too hard on it because a lot of what he had written wasn’t new to me. I wasn’t as impressed as someone who would have been getting this knowledge for the first time and I forgot about what it was like back when I was first learning all this stuff.
So with that in mind I am going to put a little push on to sell some of Matt’s books. He is running a contest that offers a free ipod Touch (or a flight or camera of equal value) to the affiliate who sells the most ebooks in October (which is an excellent marketing move on Matt’s part – take note!) In an effort not to come across as a total sleeze who is suddenly recommending his book now that there’s a prize involved, I have decided that if I sell the most books in October and win his contest, I will have Matt send the prize to someone who bought the ebook from my website, drawn at random.
So if I’m giving away his prize, what’s in it for me, you ask? Well I will still get 50% of the ebook price as my affiliate commission. Plus if someone buys the 400th ebook through my website, that person gets $100 and I get $75. It seems like a pretty sweet deal all around. So to be clear, this prize will only be awarded to someone who buys Matt’s ebook from my website if I also sell the most ebooks in October. For this to work, enough people have to buy the ebook through this link.
Among other things, Matt’s ebook outlines setting up a blog, details different types of revenue streams and, the part that I think is its strength, goes into a good amount of detail about search engine optimisation (SEO). It is aimed mainly at beginners who have a travel blog and might want to earn a bit of cash out of it but I think even people who have been at the web game for awhile will find it useful. As someone who’s been doing this for awhile I found the information on article marketing especially helpful.
So there you have it. Good luck to you, good luck to me and lets see if Matt can give one of you an excellent prize! To buy the book click here.
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