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RE: The Beginner's Guide to Steemit: A New Initiative to Bring STEEM to the Masses
This is a great start. This is something that is badly needed. There are a couple of Ebooks on Amazon, but poorly written, like a lot of steemit content. Proud to be a part of an initiative to bring something like this out.
I've appreciated your help so far, @markrmorrisjr! It's great to have you along on this initiative. I didn't think about publishing it on Amazon, but that might be a great idea to push to a broader audience if we can get this project to completion. Thank you for the suggestions.
You might check out payhip, actually. It's a way to do it free,if you want, but we could set up a pay gate for SBD also, if you want to raise funds through it. They offer coupon codes and affiliate codes to allows others to make money if they help sell it.
I'll have to think about it. My goal is to just distribute it freely, so I think I'd probably just offer it for free if I published it on Amazon. I'll look into Payhip. That sounds interesting. I know @HopeHuggs recently went through the process of creating an ebook for an internet marketing venture, so we can solicit her input as well since she's published things on Amazon in the past. Thanks for the input.
It's really hard to offer something for free on Amazon, impossible, actually. You have to post it in other places for free, then get them to acknowledge it and price match. I've got sixteen books up on Amazon, Payhip, Lulu.com and used to use Create Space for printed copies before they became part of Amazon. Except for their traffic, Amazon is the worst possible platform. Bezos is no less controlling than Zuckerburg. My two cents, after fifteen years of indie publishing.
Good to know. I literally have no experience doing that, so it's great to have this information. I'll consider all the options when we have a working draft. As long as I can make the final version available to the community here, I'll count it a success.
There is one option to do download files on steemit, but it didn't look very promising, It's in steem tools, I'll see if I can find it. Otherwise, it's so hard to keep a series alive on this platform, even just for readership, forget no residual income. (one of the big reasons I came and plunged in so hard, the monthly payouts they removed almost immediately)
You can publish on Amazon and have it listed as free. There are ways and means ;)
Edit: As you just wrote. Must put my reading glasses on. Happy to help any way I can.
Last time I tried it, it failed. You'll have to teach me the new tricks. But, there's not much control there, and on Payhip, you get contact info too, which Amazon will never let you have.
Payhip looks ace, thanks for mentioning
Caveat, it's HARD to get people to buy there for some reason. I can drive traffic all day long, thousands, but closing the deal is tough on that one, because they require an email for the download. Which is awesome! Because you build a list but, it's been tough for me. I love the platform. Talked to them about accepting steem a while back. They want to include crypto, but haven't done it yet. They also don't have reviews, or suggestions. So, it's raw sales. The platform will not bring any views on its own, in my experience.
Also, it would be a great target for a squeeze page like the one you used, because the commissions are 5% and you get it right in your Paypal instantly with every sale.
Hold that thought. haha thanks. We'll come back to this for sure.