In today’s society, there are many individuals who are looking to make money anyway that they can.

In many cases, these individuals are looking for opportunities that allow them to work at their own pace or be their own boss. 

If you are one of those individuals then it is possible that you may have thought about creating and selling e-books.

The popularity of e-books has rapidly increased over the past few years now.  Many readers are not only finding it convenient to purchase them, but cheaper.  In most cases, e-books are easily to read on the computer, but they can also be printed off.

Since more and more consumers are interested in purchasing e-books, there are more individuals who are looking to make money off of them. If you are able to do this, you may find success; however, that success will not come without hard work.

If you have never created an e-book before, it is difficult to understand exactly how much hard work it entails.  To be worth the buy, most e-books are at least one hundred pages long; however, some are longer.  If you are interested in creating an e-book, it may take months for you to finish the book.

In addition to hard work, you must also have writing experience and knowledge on the topic that you are writing about. This knowledge and experience isn’t necessarily necessary; however, it is important to the success of your e-book.  It is a fact that customers do not and will not purchase poor quality work. 

In addition to writing a quality e-book, you will also have to find ways to sell it. Together, the two could take a large amount of time. For many individuals, this is a major turn off; however, there are alternatives. If you are interested in selling e-books, to make a profit, you do not necessarily have to create your own.

Instead you can obtain the private label resell rights to another e-book.  Obtaining the resell rights to an e-book will allow you, in many cases, to assume to the work as your own, edit the content, and pocket the money from each sale of the book.

The biggest downside to obtaining the resell rights to an e-book is the amount of money that you will have to spend.  Depending on who you do business with, the cost of acquiring private label resell rights may be fairly expensive.

Since most freelance writers spend a large amount of time creating their e-books, as previously mentioned, they may want to appropriately be compensated. The cost of resell rights to an e-book may be considered a disadvantage to this unique business opportunity, but it can also be considered an advantage.  E-book authors that charge more for their work typically have produced better content; better content is easier to sell.

Whether you make the decision to develop your own e-book or purchase the resell rights to someone else’s, you will still have to find a way to market the e-book to the general public.  This, depending on what approach you take, can take time.

That is why many individuals prefer purchasing the resell rights to an e-book that has already been created. This allows them to spend more time on marketing, which will in turn create sales. 

If you are unsure as to whether or not you should create your own e-book or obtain the resell rights to another, you are not alone. There are a number of other individuals wondering the same thing. Private label resell rights are an amazing business opportunity for some, but not for all.

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Thousands of people just like you are trying to make money with their Internet business.

But one fair warning,,, Try to avoid unethically companys.

You know there are a lot of scam artists out there, but never before has one affected Matthew Glanfield so much.

Read more below what he’s talking about.

Here it goes:

 

“”" Ok, if you are a regular reader of my blog then you know that I have never before posted a rant here.

I know there are a lot of scam artists out there, but never before has one affected me so much, so I am very motivated to post it here for all to see.

First off, let me tell you something - I HATE SHIFTY INTERNET MARKETING PLOYS!

I’m not talking about bad products that don’t deliver (although I hate those too) - I’m talking about dishonest and unethical forms of selling that product.

For example, have you ever seen one of those countdown timers that says “This special offer is only available until midnight! Act now!” Then you go back the next day and see that the same offer is available until midnight of the next day!

What happens with your trust of that business? Or that marketer? And all of this because they want to add an extra percent to their conversion rate.

The funny thing is, you can increase your conversion rates through SEVERAL other ethical ways, and yet companies (big and small) choose to “trick” their customers into making a purchase.

Enter the company that I dealt with. I am not going to mention who they are simply because I don’t want to give them ANY publicity (negative advertising is still advertising). However, I will tell you what happened.

(Edit: You know what? I’ll tell you the company, simply because so many of you have requested it. It is WholeSaleMatch.com. They have updated their website slightly since this happened to my wife, but it still sucks.)

Recently my wife and I decided that we wanted to open an e-commerce store selling physical products. She started looking around for good directories of wholesalers and dropshippers.

She came across a site that seemed promising, and offered a free trial to access what was inside.

She clicked on the “Free Trial Signup” link, and started to fill in the form. It, of course, asked for her credit card information, but promised her that she would only be billed $1 and NOTHING MORE.

Here is the EXACT wording on their site:

There will be no additional charges to your card beyond the one dollar! You have a seven day trial.

First off, since when is a free trial $1? Putting that aside, I understand the importance of charging $1, as you want to make sure it is a good credit card and that the customer is serious.

Well, when my wife entered the site she found that it wasn’t that great, and worse yet, trial members hardly get access to anything. The only way to be able to use the site is to upgrade.

So much for that trial, she thought, and left the site.

Well, on our next credit card statement we noticed not one, but TWO charges from this company! One charge was for $59.95, and the second charge was for $39.95, both within a day of each other.

I saw the charges, and realized that they automatically charge for the subscriptions. This wasn’t a huge surprise, as I do the same thing, but I always make it abundantly clear that the customer will be charged.

So I call up the company four days after the charges appeared on my credit card and asked to cancel and refund the money.

“Sorry,” said the person on the other line, “there are no refunds whatsoever.”

After several emails and phone calls, they still refused to give me a refund.

That’s when I looked closer at their “free trial” sign up form. I noticed on the right hand navigation bar there were two other “bonuses” for signing up, both which clearly stated were free with the membership.

Well, I guess to this company “free” costs $39.95 per month, because that was the second charge on the credit card.

I looked closer, completely in disbelief that a large company such as this one would just charge my credit card without giving me any warning whatsoever, and that’s when I found this small print disclaimer at the very bottom of the page:

There will be no additional charges to your card beyond the one dollar! You have a seven day trial. If you decide to cancel within the seven days your card will not be charged. If you decide to continue, you will get charged on a monthly basis for a minimum forty nine dollars and ninety five cents.

This was in ultra-tiny print far below the button to start your trial.

So there, they included it on the page. I guess they weren’t lying, right?

Well, of course not! If it is in your terms and conditions, and if you include it in tiny print at the bottom of the page where nobody reads then it must be ok, right?

Well, that makes it right legally, but is it really right ethically?

Oh, and it gets better. If you try to close the window before finishing the $1 “free” trial, one of those “live sales chat” windows appears, telling you there are only 4 slots left in the trial offer, and that they are expected to sell out within the next 3 minutes.

That’s funny, I saw that there two months ago…

Matthew Glanfield

P.S. There is a point to this post - DON’T USE SHIFTY MARKETING TACTICS! You can make money honestly and ethically online, and your customers will love how they can actually trust you.”"”

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