Viral mini e-books

Viral mini e-books are typically 5-25 pages and are usually an executable file or PDF document. It is a selling or reference tool to a niche topic. They are short reports, or e-books, white papers or article compilations designed specifically around a very focused niche that allows you to generate traffic, revenue, or both.

Viral mini e-books are quite simply, one of the most viral tools in your arsenal. While giving them away, you can collect sign-ups. If you give others permission to give them away, you'll then generate yet MORE sign-ups and buzz in your niche.

Below are some tips on how to go viral with mini e-books:

Tip #1 on “Viral mini e-books”:

Torrents are a great way to get your name out there and to give people a way to download your viral mini e-books without needing to wait for sluggish servers. It'll also take the load off YOUR server. Peer to peer downloading is both efficient and cost effective, saving web masters bandwidth and hosting fees. Upload your viral-mini-e-books to as many of the legitimate torrent sites as you can find – even open office uses a torrent system to distribute its software!

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Tip #2 on “Viral mini e-books”:

Give so you can receive. The laws of reciprocity are easy: give something more and people are more likely to sign up. If you're selling your viral mini e-books offer valuable matching bonuses that enhance what you are offering. If you're giving it away, find some other items that you can give to match it, or offer a discount on another of your products.

Tip #3 on “Viral mini e-books”:

Create a stir by making your viral mini e-books exclusive. You may find that making your book 'exclusive' to a handful of sites for the first few weeks raises its perceived value. Having 20 or 30 people distribute your content from the get go will make people believe you are desperate to get rid of it, which means that you may not believe in its value. However, if you only allow a select few the rights to distribute it, at first, you'll find that your perceived value goes through the roof, and people may clamor to sign up.

Tip #4 on “Viral mini e-books”:Use blogs

Blogs are a wonderful, viral tool that you can use to your advantage by giving away your viral-mini-e-books via them. If you haven't got a blog you can get started in about five minutes at places like http://wordpress.com or http://blogger.com. Even though you don't have a sales page on your blog, you can still post about, and link to your new product, and promote via a channel that search engines love, and are increasing in leaps and bounds every day.

Care should be taken when generating traffic for your blog. You can post all about the benefits of your e-book on your own blog, but to get traffic back, you'll need to consider finding blogs that are in your niche, or promote to your niche and comment on them Offer something meaningful, as blogging has the same 'spam' problems as email, and people are very sensitive to others coming in and simply advertising on their blogs via comments.

Aside from the spam issue, commenting well on other blogs leads to others coming back to your blog to see if you've got any other information that they might be interested in, which increases your status as an 'expert' on a certain niche.

You'll need to find blogs within your niche – using http://ask.com or Google's blog specific engine at http://blogsearch.google.com is a great start, as is checking out places like http://technorati.com (another blog specific search engine, based on content, tags and has a built in rating system) and decide where to comment, and what value to add to the conversations on these sites via your comments. Its not good enough to go on and say something about yourself, you have to offer feedback that is relevant to the article and would be a viable conversation point if you were discussing it in person.

As with every other traffic generation means, you'll need to ensure that you can convert your visitors, via your comments or other blog promotional means to subscribers, or your efforts to give away your mini e-book may be wasted. You may find that you gain blog subscribers anyway, but always keep in mind that your primary goal when blogging to give your viral-mini-e-books away to gain subscribers.

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