E-book creation made easy (plus hidden bonus)

Those of you who've read my AdSense newsletter will recall that I reviewed the book The E-Code: 33 Internet Superstars Reveal 43 Ways to Make Money Online Almost Instantly — Using Only Email (you think they could have rounded it up to 50 ways). The most popular technique by far was to build a list by offering a free e-book (or an audio product) in exchange for a person's mailing address. You make money via affiliate links in the e-book and via mailings to the mailing list you build up with the e-book. Simple enough to understand. The hard part, of course, is writing the e-book in the first place. The E-Code provides you with techniques for quickly and easily building such a book. One of the ways is to ask a bunch of people to contribute content for the book in exchange for some free publicity. (In fact, The E-Code is itself written this way…)

If you want to see such a book in action, take a look at The Big Book of Proof. Ewen Chia sent a message out to his list a couple of weeks ago asking for testimonials (no, I didn't participate…) and here's the result. Amazing what you can do just by asking people. He even includes a “hidden bonus” buried in the book, which turns out to be a (very confusing) ClickBank Affiliate Calculator from the guy who sells Instant Niche Content.

The reason I'm mentioning all this here is that I'm about to unveil a new blog dedicated to affiliate marketing, geared specifically for geeks. It's going to answer the age-old question, Can a geek make money online without succumbing to the Dark Side? It'll talk about things like e-book creation, writing mini-courses and related topics, all from the geek angle. (Sorry, that's what I know best…) I've snapped up the domain and am setting up my blog as we speak (suggestions for good themes appreciated!). I want to keep this blog focused on AdSense and contextual advertising.

So don't worry, this blog won't be changing. I'll post a formal announcement about the new blog later this week.

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Eric Giguere is the contextual advertising expert who wrote Make Easy Money with Google and Uncommon AdSense. You can read this blog by mail if it's more convenient for you, just send a blank email to memwg-blog@aweber.com to subscribe.

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