Revenue Streams IV – 6 Books for Bloggers to Sell

Darren Rowse (a very successful full-time blogger) recommends that you diversify your income streams[1].  In this part IV of our Revenue Streams series[2], we’re going to look at how to create and/or sell a product that would benefit your readers.  That is the key – Your Readers = Buyers. They deserve the best!  And if anybody knows what they need or want – its you!

Also, lets not forget that they keep coming back to your website to see what you’ve written – so your regular readers are the key to what product you can sell.

6 Books a Blogger Could Sell

1.  Are you a food blogger?  How about a Cookbook?
Examples:

• • Veg 4 Health
  • Your Home Based Mom College Cookbook

2.  Are you writing family updates and newsy stuff?  Would your readers want a professionally bound Scrapbook of family memories?  Perhaps something along the lines of the Chicken Soup series?

3.  Are you an organizer?   Decorator?   Home keeper? How about a “Guide to … ”
Example:

• • Everything I Know about Perfectionism I learned From my Breasts

4.  Do you offer printables?  product reviews & giveaways?  Perhaps your readers would be interested in a Catalogue or Annual Index.
Examples:

• • List Plan It
  • Dine Without Whine

5.  Are you a great writer (we’re all good writers, but do you know the great writers?) These are the ones with tons of comments, people can relate, they feel compelled to comment – they want more!  And if you offered a self-published book or professionally marketed book, they would be all over it.
Example:

• To: A True Story in Letters (funny! CarolynOnline)  &
• By The Way: A Memoir of Religion, Abuse, and Redemption (So beautiful and heart warming – by Jaime Chase)

6.  Photographer?  Photography blog?  Crafting blog?  Foodie?  Perhaps your readers would love to get a coffee table book full of beautiful things to look at when they’re offline.

MY EXCUSE

There has been a need and a call for several books in my niche, and I’ve been reluctant to begin, it just seems like such a HUGE process to write a book.  However, I have good news!  The more I research, the more I read, the more tools there are to make creating your book (&maybe mine too) so much easier!   Have a look at these:

3 Ways to Publish

• Free – your blog!  And a Word Processor like the free ZoHo Writer (I really like their notebook, because I can add stuff from the internet and move stuff around.  Very cool!)
• E-book: 75% commission on your sale price at Lean Pub.  VERY easy to use – upload your blog, edit, publish.
• Self-Publish: Create Space lets you upload your book, create a cover, select binding, colors, sizes.  Then you select your price per book, they deduct their costs based on your choices, and then you get the rest as a royalty.  No minimum orders.  The calculator I played with usually worked out to 50% commission – depending on whether I was looking for professional cover design, color print, etc.

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MORE:

Beginning of this series:  Ad Networks and Contextual Ads

Increase your Audience: 10 Ways to increase Readership

1. http://www.problogger.net/make-money-blogging/

2. Start here: Ad Networks and Contextual Ads