A Part Time Home Business Plan: eBook Distribution
There is an absolutely huge market out there for paid link building services. The driving force behind this market is how important the building of backlinks is to search engine optimization. Not only that, but website owners are encouraged to build a diverse profile of backlinks from all kinds of different sources. With all of this in mind, we want to give you a sample plan for a link building business based on creating and distributing electronic books that will allow you to work from home part time. There is no initial investment required other than your time, and there are a number of ways that you can expand on this idea to make your business grow.
Getting Started
There are two programs that you are going to need to get started. The first program is OpenOffice, which is a free, open source office-style program that contains a word processor, a spreadsheet program, etc. The reason you will need this program is that it allows you to export word processing documents into a PDF format. You will also need a software distribution program like Robosoft Submitter. Robosoft Submitter has a 30-day free trial, and if you decide to continue to work from home using this business idea, then you’ll quickly make enough money to purchase it. Once you have these two pieces of software installed, it’s time to start the real work.
How to Create Your PDF eBook
The electronic book you create as a part of this service is going to have two main selling points. You will primarily be offering your service as a way for website owners to build a diverse number of links from software directories and press release websites. However, you will also be able to include affiliate links in the PDF itself, which can bring additional revenue to your client.
If you want to have long term success working from home with this idea, then you’re going to need to get a good reputation for solid content in the electronic books you are creating. We suggest that you write or outsource an informative article that is between 800 and 1000 words for the actual text of the electronic book. Once the text is ready, you will want to format it nicely and brand it appropriately for your client. You should also go through and include any affiliate links that your client gives you with proper anchor text.
Distributing the eBook PDF
The distribution process has a few steps, but they are all relatively quick and simple. While this process seems straight-forward, successfully working at home with this business plan will require that you follow these directions exactly since you’ll want to provide a quality service that will make people really want to pay good money.
To begin, you’ll need to upload the PDF file to your client’s server compressed inside of a zip file. Next, it’s time to add the details of the PDF to the Robosoft Submitter program so that it can submit the correct information to various software directories and press release websites. Once the ebook is added to Robosoft Submitter, you’ll want to follow the automatic submission process. Run the automatic submission once a day for two consecutive days to make sure that the ebook is submitted to as many sites as possible. At this point, you’ll want to generate an HTML report from the menu bar on the left-hand side of the interface. This is the report that you will send to your clients as proof of the submissions.
How to Increase Your Success Rate With Automatic Submissions
If you’ve never used automated link-building software before, you will need to know a few key ideas that have to do with optimizing your software to achieve the highest success rate possible. The home business plan we’re giving you here requires that you optimize as much as you can so that you can present impressive numbers to your clients. The easiest way to achieve this is to take an hour or two when you first get started and submit a generic dummy ebook. Use this dummy ebook to generate a list of sites that were used for submissions using the report feature.
What you’ll want to do at this point is look at the column on this report that shows any errors that happened during the submission process. Many of the sites will require that you activate an account by clicking a link in an email address that you provide. It will take about an hour to go through and click all of the activation links, but you only have to do it once for it to count towards all of your future submissions. This will drastically boost your success rate with this idea for working from home.