Ebook Secrets - Why Free Ebooks Equal Free Money

secret to making money online with affiliate marketing?

Many smart affiliate marketers are able to make money online by creating free special reports or short ebooks that discuss a specific topic or problem. Inside the reports and ebooks, the affiliate marketer will put in a few links to high-paying affiliate products that they promote. When a reader clicks on one of those links and purchases a product, the affiliate earns a commission.

Interested in doing the same thing? Of course you are, right? Who would turn down an easy way to make money online through publishing short ebooks?

If you are interested in writing ebooks to promote affiliate products you are promoting, you might be a little worried that you do not how to find a topic for your free ebook?

If this is the case, this article will give you a quick way to get started with your free money-making ebook that will be loaded with your affiliate links.
Getting People to Click Your Affiliate Links If you have been doing affiliate marketing for a while, you know it is one of the easiest and fastest ways to make money online.
The only problem is that it can be tough to get people to use your affiliate link when visiting a site. Often people will visit your website, check out what you have to write about and then spend a few minutes getting their free information. Then they leave and you make nothing for your efforts.
Why? Because the chances are that you have not had the time to tell them about a particular product you are promoting. They might get sidetracked by one of your blog posts or an article you posted.

The quick and easy way to capture the attention of a visitor is to create a short report or mini-ebook that talks about a hot topic in your niche. Inside this report, they will get an easy-to-follow solution to a major problem they have. You are providing this solution and then you will recommend that they visit a site for additional help.

The site they visit will be through your affiliate link, of course.
Why Would Someone Click On Your Affiliate Links? You might be asking yourself, why will they click on your affiliate link this time around? Because you gave value before asking them to do something. You helped them with an issue they were facing and provided an easy to understand solution they can take action on.
So if you want to get started writing one of these special reports or short ebooks, where do you start? Is it hard?

The truth is that it is very easy to write a 10 to 15 page special report on a hot topic. Finding a hot topic to write about is step one in the process.

Step #1 - Find a Hot Topic One of the slickest ways to do this is to visit an online forum that is geared toward the niche or market in question. All you have to do is scan through the posts to find out which ones have the most comments and page views.

The more comments and questions, the better the topic for your report.
Step #2 - Grab Your Research While you are in the forum, either copy and paste some of the information into a word document or print out the series of responses. This information helps provide the outline for the solution you will provide.

I often will look for a concise and well thought through response and print it out. This response will become the foundation of my report.

Step #3 - Find a Related Affiliate Product You probably already know what affiliate product you want to promote and already are an affiliate for it, but if not, it is time to find a great product to recommend in your affiliate ebook.
If you do not know what affiliate program to promote for the topic you are writing about, just go to Clickbank.com and find a relevant product to promote. Visit the site and learn more about it before you promote it.
Alternatively, you can do a Google search for the keywords for your topic and then type in "affiliate program" after it and you should find a bunch of affiliate programs for various products in that niche.

Step #4 - Write Ebooks Fast That is your objective, to write your ebook as quickly as you can. Do not sacrifice quality, but do not spend hours and hours writing the ebook. While you want to create a quality special report or short money ebook, you need to get it done in order to profit from it.
You should already have a few forum posts printed out to use as the basis of your report. You can also head over to Google and type in the search term (keywords) that someone would use to find a solution for the problem you are writing about.
For instance, if you are looking to write ebooks fast, you might type in "how to write ebooks fast" into Google and see what pops up.
Go through the top entries and see which sites offer valuable information that you can paraphrase and add onto. Please do not plagiarize someone else's content. It is easy enough for you to write quickly once you get the hang of this.
Introduce the Problem - Usually less than a page is all that is needed. Remember, your reader already knows a lot about the problem, they are looking for the solution.
Share Your Experience with the Issue/Problem - If you have personal experience with the issue or experience helps. You are able to share a story and people love stories and hopefully they will love your solution too!

Offer the Solution - Tell them what steps they need to take or what they can do to overcome their problem or achieve success.
Provide a List of Additional Resources - This is where you will include your affiliate links next to the recommended product or resource. Limit the number of affiliate products you are recommending. Ideally you will only recommend one product, which forces them to either close your ebook or click on the link.
Include a Picture of the Website or Product You are Recommending - I love doing this because it grabs the attention of people. I just make the image "clickable" and linked with my affiliate commission. If someone clicks on it, they get taken to the product's website...using my affiliate link.

Now all you have to do is convert the word document into a PDF and upload it to your website and you have a virtual salesperson who will be pre-selling your readers on the product you are recommending without being too pushy.