Make Money Online - Creating a Passive Income Stream From Viral Ebooks

If you want to make money online, then one of the options with the highest payoff for the least amount of work is to create viral ebooks. If you are unfamiliar with ebooks, they are nothing more than Portable Digital Files (PDFs) that can be read on a portable ebook reading device like the Amazon Kindle or you can read them directly on your computer.

Ebooks are easy to write, publish and sell online, which is why a lot of people interested in starting a home-based business online turn to digital online publishing. All you need to create a product is access to a computer and the internet. You can write your ebook on a Word processor and publish it online for free at a number of different websites. Selling ebooks online will run you less than $5 a month for web hosting and the cost to process payments is nominal.

You can see why selling ebooks is the perfect business model, but there is another way to make money online from ebooks...without selling a single copy. I am of course talking about viral ebooks, which is the term used to describe what happens when you give away your ebook for free. You simply upload it to your website and invite people to download it for free.

How to Make Money Online with Viral Ebooks - If you are wondering how you can make money from giving something away, the secret is in the affiliate links and links to your products that you include prominently inside your product. It is through these links that you will make money. But before I get ahead of myself, there is one thing you need to do before you start giving away anything.

Require a Sign-Up - You need to capture the names and email addresses of people who want your ebook. On your website, have an opt-in email form where they enter their name and email address. This ensures that you are able to follow-up with them for life. When you follow-up with reminders of your product catalog or affiliate offers, you will make some sales and thus make money online from your free viral ebook.

Residual Income Opportunities - Back to our discussion of affiliate and product links. Your goal is to promote one or two of your own products in your viral ebook. In addition, you want to promote affiliate products that have a residual or reoccurring monthly commission.

Products like website hosting and autoresponder services are good examples in the internet marketing niche of products that pay out monthly. Satellite TV, phone service and other offline memberships are other examples of products that pay reoccurring commissions.

The reasons these types of services are so powerful to promote is that when someone signs up using your affiliate link, you instantly create a steady stream of guaranteed income for yourself. Only when the person cancels their subscription will your commissions stop coming. For ideas on great residual affiliate programs to promote, visit either CJ.com or LifetimeCommission.com today.

Set Up a Viral Ebook Today 
You now know two ways to profit from viral ebooks - building a list to send offers to and through affiliate/product links inside your ebook. Focus on promoting just one or two main affiliate programs inside your product and do not forget to provide your reader with great content and value over the coming months.

Do Work Once and Get Paid for Life! - In closing, you can see why viral ebooks are one of the best ways to make money online because you can set them up and make money on a reoccurring basis - month in and month out - for life. Why not get started today with creating your very own viral ebook - make that your very own highly profitable viral ebook!

Here is to your online success!

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