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I am still going to work on my photos and make as much income as possible with it. But I do not feel good with ebooks for a long term. If ads will not bring me

by kreci 16y ago

I am still going to work on my photos and make as much income as possible with it. But I do not feel good with ebooks for a long term. If ads will not bring me a revenue I expect I will rather move only to photos. But I really believe in long term income with ads.

bemmu 16y ago
Do you think the photo revenue will be stable in the long term? I don't really know much about the stock photo market, but if you spent a few years to get 10x the amount of photos there as you have now, could you be making $5000 / month off of just that?
- kreci 16y ago
  It is long term income. I know personally a few guys that are making thousands of dollars from same amount of photos I have (but they are much more talented than I am).
ahoyhere 16y ago
You're making a mistake: ebooks have a much higher value, overall, than photo licensing. You just need to learn more about it. And investing more time into monetizing with ads is a waste. I recommend two resources for you: Desperate Buyers Only and How to Launch the Out of Your Ebook. (For the record, I made $40k off my last ebook.)
- dschobel 16y ago
  Just curious, since you have been successful publishing ebooks, how do you determine what to write about? Do you look it purely as a business proposition (ex: google search for subject matter x is trending over the last 6 months, I'll become an expert in that and write a book) or do you write about things you already know and care about?
  - ahoyhere 16y ago
    I think you're making a false dichotomy. I write about things I know about, and that fall under the category of solving a specific problem. :) The bits I don't know, I research obsessively. I don't really pay attention to search traffic overall, except to drive a few extra sales here and there, but figure that if all the experts I know talked about it last year, everybody will want to learn it this year. The three things I recommend are: solve a real problem (see DSO above, if you don't have the first clue about this), and build an audience and a mailing list, and charge a lot more than you think you should. Charge enough and you only have to make a thousand or so sales to make a very pretty penny.
    - ohashi 16y ago
      How are you marketing/selling them? 40k is not bad, definitely got my attention.
      - ahoyhere 16y ago
        Watch this space. I will soon be offering you the best damn guide for making a living off content (as a developer/designer) that's available anywhere. For sale, of course ;) But if you want less-compiled, less-curated info now... check out my old blog: http://slash7.com http://slash7.com. I talked about the book, you can see some of my marketing first-hand. My new, biz-focused site is http://unicornfree.com http://unicornfree.com. But it's still ramping up, as you can see, since I'm focused on growing http://letsfreckle.com http://letsfreckle.com at the moment to >$10k/mo.
        ohashi 16y ago
        To me, that's where the pyramid scheme sounding stuff starts. It has always seemed like the ones getting rich are the ones telling others how to get rich. Where is the actual value being created?
        ahoyhere 16y ago
- kreci 16y ago
  Thanks for a valuable comment. The problem is that I can not do all things at once. And I have precise business plan for making money on things I write about. If I will not be able to realize it I may try ebooks again. But I am not too talented writer at all and as I said this ebook has been written "by accident". But I can not say I will not write more in a future :)
  - ahoyhere 16y ago
    OK, it's your life. But I'd like to draw your attention to this idea: You can't do all things at once. Yes, naturally. So you choose to focus on the things you can least control. Does that make sense?

by kreci 16y ago

bemmu 16y ago

Do you think the photo revenue will be stable in the long term? I don't really know much about the stock photo market, but if you spent a few years to get 10x the amount of photos there as you have now, could you be making $5000 / month off of just that?

kreci 16y ago
It is long term income. I know personally a few guys that are making thousands of dollars from same amount of photos I have (but they are much more talented than I am).

ahoyhere 16y ago

You're making a mistake: ebooks have a much higher value, overall, than photo licensing. You just need to learn more about it. And investing more time into monetizing with ads is a waste. I recommend two resources for you: Desperate Buyers Only and How to Launch the Out of Your Ebook. (For the record, I made $40k off my last ebook.)

dschobel 16y ago
Just curious, since you have been successful publishing ebooks, how do you determine what to write about? Do you look it purely as a business proposition (ex: google search for subject matter x is trending over the last 6 months, I'll become an expert in that and write a book) or do you write about things you already know and care about?
- ahoyhere 16y ago
  I think you're making a false dichotomy. I write about things I know about, and that fall under the category of solving a specific problem. :) The bits I don't know, I research obsessively. I don't really pay attention to search traffic overall, except to drive a few extra sales here and there, but figure that if all the experts I know talked about it last year, everybody will want to learn it this year. The three things I recommend are: solve a real problem (see DSO above, if you don't have the first clue about this), and build an audience and a mailing list, and charge a lot more than you think you should. Charge enough and you only have to make a thousand or so sales to make a very pretty penny.
  - ohashi 16y ago
    How are you marketing/selling them? 40k is not bad, definitely got my attention.
    - ahoyhere 16y ago
      Watch this space. I will soon be offering you the best damn guide for making a living off content (as a developer/designer) that's available anywhere. For sale, of course ;) But if you want less-compiled, less-curated info now... check out my old blog: http://slash7.com http://slash7.com. I talked about the book, you can see some of my marketing first-hand. My new, biz-focused site is http://unicornfree.com http://unicornfree.com. But it's still ramping up, as you can see, since I'm focused on growing http://letsfreckle.com http://letsfreckle.com at the moment to >$10k/mo.
      - ohashi 16y ago
        To me, that's where the pyramid scheme sounding stuff starts. It has always seemed like the ones getting rich are the ones telling others how to get rich. Where is the actual value being created?
        ahoyhere 16y ago
kreci 16y ago
Thanks for a valuable comment. The problem is that I can not do all things at once. And I have precise business plan for making money on things I write about. If I will not be able to realize it I may try ebooks again. But I am not too talented writer at all and as I said this ebook has been written "by accident". But I can not say I will not write more in a future :)
- ahoyhere 16y ago
  OK, it's your life. But I'd like to draw your attention to this idea: You can't do all things at once. Yes, naturally. So you choose to focus on the things you can least control. Does that make sense?