I had dabbled in the idea of internet marketing for 6 months before I became serious about it. I started by reading ebooks like The Rich Jerk and The Super Affiliate Handbook. The numbers were dreamy and made me feel good inside, but it just took too l…

Your English is great, no need to apologise.

I am getting more into marketing and advertising and find it fascinating. I love the whole blogger concept: writing, social marketing, internet marketing, new technologies, advertising, promotion etc. It frustrates me as I don’t have enough hours to do all the things I want to do.

I thought about giving the book away for free and now think it’s a good idea to give it away free to anyone who signs up for a newsletter, I am working on this.

Thanks for your comments, I appreciate your feedback.

what you really need its a marketing and advertising guerrilla plan…

for example… about the ebook, i think the best option is to make it FREE. The worst senario is selling it. To give you a simple example, seth godin (www.sethgodin.com) a marketer, set his book selftitled “the idea virus” for free in his blog… then the rest is history, every body got the book (because as your book most people charge for it). Then comes the interesting part… people starts SHAREING it… people start adding a digg entry to the blog post of the FREE EBOOK, you get feed back from other blogs that link to this free source…

any way, at last, seth godin ended the link to his ebook and start selling it at amazon… thousands if not millions of books where bought.. beacause of the wave that produce the free ebook…

you get the idea…

and finally sorry 4 my english…

good luck

Hi David, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am always looking at ways of streamlining the blog and monetising it in a way that is not intrusive. I find kontera ads and google the best way to go for now. I appreaciate your feedback.

I think these type of ads will chase away the very people you want to attract–the people who want to read your articles.

I don’t mind the other ads at all and I like the new layout.

Don’t let the results of your book sales affect you. You will be reach your target, definitely! As for the comment on ads, actually I’m using Kontera on my site too and have recently started to use the Konabody tag to limit it on specific areas of the site (eg, content of a post). It should make it less intrusive and more optimized. I’m waiting to see if this will improve the click-thru rates.

Don’t give up!

P.S. By the way, I noticed there’s a lot of ’snap shots’ pop out, what’s the purpose anyway? Perhaps your readers have confused these with the Kontera ads?

Cheers,
Ellesse

My pleasure. As a regular reader of your blog, am happy to suggest anything that might help you reach your goals. In response to your questions:

1) eBook: Yes, separate ebooks with focused topics. Or, if you have enough articles on a particular topic, you could do an ebook on it. But, if you think about what, what are people more likely to buy: something they can get for free by just clicking around your site, or something they cannot unless they pay for it?

2) As for life coaching, given the background you mentioned, you seem far more qualified than someone who simply took a life coaching course. In the end, of course, it’s up to you to decide if you’re qualified or not. But in my opinion, you are. If you still feel that you’re not as qualified as you’d like to be, then just let your prices reflect that. Coach at a rate far cheaper than others. Ask your clients that if they found you helpful, to post comments about your coaching on your site. Then, as your clients (as well as your confidence about your coaching abilities) increases, you can increase your rates.

4) Ads: Yup, not surprised others mentioned it also. Just keep this rule of thumb in mind. Anything that is not content on your site gets in the way of your users. So, unless it is giving you a strong return, remove it.

Thanks for your comments. A few people have advised me to price the eBook higher. I am getting to know the psychology of consumers more and more through marketing and it is a fascinating subject.

your ebook is great! But the price isn’t. I mean at the price I bought at, it was a bargain!

Lots of people out there will criticize about us coming out with our products but end of the day, I felt that it’s the passion and the willingness to share with them what we know. Our products can help people, not like those autobiography books about people’s lives where people are willing to pay more with a single complaint, isn’t that ridiculous?!

Anyway, I’m getting more out from your ebook after reading some of them a couple of times. Keep up the great job!

Success,
Erwin

It’s an interview by Stephen Pierce and Bob Proctor. Well kinda enjoy it so just have a look and tell me what you think.

Jason Tan
Ps- Sorry for the first post, kinda posted it in the wrong post.