Expand Your Content Sales Market Area Coverage

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September 19, 2018, 11:21 am

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Expand Your Content Sales Market Area Coverage

I was recently perusing a thread I'm subscribed to, when I began to notice that no one was really giving the author any concrete information to go on other than to contribute to a discussion that keeps steadily growing. I started to post the text of this discussion within that one when I realized that the community would be better served by an explicit documentation. 

The main problem I see with the previously-referenced thread is that the underlying question really doesn't merit any discussion in light of the fact that there are a host of content marketplaces and sales arenas looking for (and remunerating for) fresh influxes of content daily. And with the available directories of information concerning this issue, Internet-wide, there should be no reason for an doubt to exist as to this. 

These following examples are publicly-known resources for writers and eBook authors to sell their wares and can be found easily over a range of search queries;

1. Lulu.com

2. Blurb

3. Blurb Blog Books

4. iAmplify

5. E-Junkie

6. Payloadz

These are just a few of the examples that pop up upon a simple search in my case. This just means that if you want to sell your eBooks (and a LOT of them), you're going to have to go to the sales markets and research just what's hot and trending, or match it against previous research of your own like what the greatest challenges are for the target market of your eBook informational content.

As a personal example, I have a Content Creator Payment List informational eBook detailing EXACTLY where any writer or author (or Photographer, or Graphic Designer, or Craft Hobbyist, or...etc., etc., etc.) could go to sell content on whatever it was they did and how they could contact the people who were looking for and willing to pay for that content information in question.

I'd be starving if I were depending on just selling it here (lol!), despite the fact that it's ready-made for the thousands of writers and freelancers swarming the ranks of these pages here @WordClerks. No, not only am I selling this list, but I'm also using it as a personal index (off of which I've already scored a paid writer pool spot from one of the listed sources). Hey, to be honest, I don't really care if it ever sells even ONE SINGLE COPY...you know why?

Because, even if it sold like hotcakes, it'd probably just get either thrown on someones' digital failure pile or put out to pasture to recoup the amount paid on it (impossible since I only give Personal Usage Rights Licenses with that, lol!). Plenty of beneficial information is available for free (exactly how I compiled my directory), but the amount of work you have to do in order to benefit from it is a daunting prospect for most . And EXACTLY why I know I won't have any competition in this area ever.



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Corzhens

I have plans of writing an e-book with the contents coming from my former blog. Maybe that list you posted will be of help although that may be for several more years. The problem with writing an e-book is the marketing because just like the printed book, the e-book is also difficult to sell much more if you consider the huge supply of e-books in the internet. The present situation of oversupply is the reason that is hindering my desire to come up with an e-book.

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Promodrone

@Corzhens, I'm up to my thirtieth eBook right now, with complete
on-paper outline drafts and the whole nine-yards. You know how you're going to get your eBook done? You're going to sit down in front of your chosen digital device, and you're going to decide just how to sculpt out that pre-formatted blog copy you're sitting on now, and then just get to it like a good fist-fight - UNTIL IT'S DONE........ . No ifs, ands, or buts. You know there are things that are going to get in your way?

Plan for a distraction-free time where there's no action on any front and you can work uninterrupted until you are disturbed. Married, with a twelve year-old, I have to pick my time for article creation between four and six A.M. since after that point, I have to get everyone ready for work/school, THEN get back to burning the candle at both ends. If I don't write, develop, or promote, I'm not going to get paid (and soon thereafter, cease to be married, lol!), so I have no choice but to just git 'er done.

@Corzhens, don't put up mental roadblocks for yourself - YOU CAN DO IT!! - you just have to want it as badly as your body wants its' next breath of air...nothing is difficult if you refuse to see it as such. It doesn't matter how many eBooks are currently on the market, and you should never even consider that. There are going to be millions upon millions, but the most important one to focus on is always the one you're currently writing.

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jaymish3

I agree that ebooks are hot.I also agree that the market is saturated. It is also not that hard to write one. However I think that as a medium to pass information, their time is passing with the popularity of video technology, people are leaning towards video( also speaking from personal preference). The author is correct in that you only need to find an area that is trending and in which people are looking for content. That is the difference between success and failure in this field in my opinion. Thanks for the list will be checking it out.

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Promodrone

You're quite welcome @jaymish3 - as I said to @stbrians, stay tuned, the list is going to grow....

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stbrians

The suggestions herein arouses the appetite to write some more. You researched well and this is great. Writing can be fun.

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Promodrone

Thank you so much, @stbrians. I get tired of reading all the grousing done on this subject. I mean, everyone knows about Google, right? Yet, it seems peoples' fingers are broken when it comes to research time, eh (lol!)? Hey, @stbrians, you may want to stay tuned to this thread as I'm going to be amending and enlarging this list in the near future as a sort of community reference thread so there's no excuses to be had on anyones' part in accordance with the goal of making money off your love of Content Creration. Thanks again.

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Barida

I have started writing an e-book and the issue that I have battling with is where I can be able to sell them. With the coming of this discussion, you have opened my eyes to a lot of websites where I can get this done as this is the only way that I am going to recoup the money that I used in getting the resources that I used to put the e-book contents together as well.

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Promodrone

@Barida!
Good to see you here! I confess, I'm sorry I didn't drop this info in your thread, as I felt that the whole community could stand to benefit from this (lol!). Glad that this is discussion is of great help to you. I'm going to be adding a few more, but am realizing that might not be possible (especially in light of the fact that one of my gigs here is all about this subject). Just keep pushing...

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Barida

Thank you for the kind words. I will keep pushing to ensure that I give the best to people out there. It is not always going to be easy especially when I began writing it, but I see light at the end of the tunnel.

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romyter013

Thanks to this one. I see this very helpful and everyone can go to the resources you provided in case we are ready now to sell our ebooks online. Right still someone out there who are willing to pay you for your articles and we just have to believe. We need patience and have faith that we will get our turn in time.

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Promodrone

Thanks @romyter13, don't forget the most important part of the equation - consistently-sustained work to spread yourself and inventory.

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MomoStarr16

Wow another way to enjoy our writing skills. Happy to have people like you that has so much concern with us to have an income out of our hobby. I will try those things you listed whenever I have time. I read what you have said and admire the kind of observation you have.

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Promodrone

MomoStarr16, thanks so much for your kind words. It makes me happy to see that people are actually paying attention to proffered advice. I wish you all the luck you deserve. All you have to do is keep finding different places to put your content in for sale. Keep pushing, Sir...

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amelia88

Just have to say I commend your work ethic! I love that you’re not letting anything stop you - and when you said you’re up between 4am to 6am grinding out work you really inspired me to try and optimize those early morning hours to my full potential...even if it means dragging myself out of bed earlier!

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amelia88, thank you for your kind words, but the truth of the matter is that I'm locked into my schedule from over three decades of training (did a lot of overnight stagehand gigs in NYC), and I remember what it was like to have to get up at EXACTLY that time and leave the comfort of my house to go and work for someone else (who usually wasn't there until they had to come collect the check, lol!). I swore to myself, if I ever got free of that soul-suck, I was going to be on my own posterior harder than any crappy boss ever could. I remember what it was like to have a job - only keeps me on my own brutal treadmill. I will NEVER work again. Good luck to you and all your struggles, amelia88.

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Gilgamesh

In order to expand your target area you need to write broader topics that has the potemtial to be a controversial one and at the same time you must use social media platforms to do it. The people reactions will onlu reflecy your work even uts positive or negative take it as a compliment to do a lot better. It will motivate you at the fillest extent.

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jaymish3

You all make it sound so easy. As a freelancer I can tell you that it is not. It's true some people are too lazy to do the research and off the bat, they simply want to be told where to find everything and when they can't get the answers they are looking for they label, online work a scam. Having said that it is not easy and there is a lot of competition out there. I'm sure even those sites are not easy to sell your e-books on.

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@jaymish3, please don't think that anyone replying to this thread is trying to down-play the amount of work involved in the freelancing process. No one is going to be successful unless they're completely dedicated and are not willing to stop grinding until the boulder breaks. You're completely correct in your estimation that these sites are not easy to sell on.

So, that means that anyone wanting to win is going to have to expand to as many content marketplaces as is necessary to generate traffic to their inventory. Personally, I have an account at every site in the Ionicware network, not just Wordclerks, and I try to gauge just how the market is trending so I can peruse my inventory and adjust accordingly.

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anyone01

Great topic here. Past helping organizations support online deals, web-based social networking advertising enables brands to have two-path connections with shoppers. This gives important input about your image, items, industry and even contenders. Furthermore, it's an awesome proving ground for web based business brands.

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emiaj55

From where I live, a lot of people still buy e-books. The content? Fictional K-pop based drama. These people? Millennials ages 12-20 (or post millennials depending on how you draw the timeline). It's a surprise really. These stories are actually wrtiine in a site called Watppad but the mania continues to printed books and even E-books. A lot of novice writers are actually making it here.

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Jeane

This is valuable information.

As someone who is already in the process of writing and thinking about publishing their first ebook soon, I'm building a list of all places I could have my book sold so when the writing is completed I might have all bases covered. That would ensure that my book is listed on as many marketplaces as possible which woud hopefully translate to more sales.

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