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ecchi · 2016-02-22, 05:27 AM

A couple of other points I did not mention the other day:

Firstly: Another advantage of Smashwords is that they sort out an ISBN for you. I had never bothered with this before, but I have since discovered that some online booksellers won't touch your book without an ISBIN, and I do get a few sales from them, even for the erotica (in fact more for the erotica than the mainstream stuff). Plus, you kind of feel like a "real" author once you get an ISBN.

Secondly: You are going to find getting affiliates an uphill struggle. You will note that JR said about me "....with all of his

around here." This is because I never miss an opportunity to mention my affiliate program, so everyone here knows about it. But if you look through their sites you can work out which are my adverts by the fact that they are not there. As far as I am aware, only one member of this board has ever used my affiliate program. And even then it was the one for the books I publish for other people, not my own books!

I did wonder if the reason was simply that there is a long time member of this board, who has been here longer than me and is a personal friend of several members, who hates me and used to troll my posts. It may be that being his friend most people listen to him and avoid my program. However I think it goes deeper than that because:

I have also mentioned, several times, how I make the most money on my adult free sites. I don't quote sponsors with ref code, so I don't benefit from this advice, I simply mentioned (on several occasions) how I make more money from non-adult products than adult products. However, again as far as I am aware, no one has taken that advice. They prefer to continue to only try to sell paysites, a model which is dieing on it's arse due to the amount of free porn out there. In other words, they won't try something new, they just bury their head in the sand and mumble "the old ways worked last century, and one day they will work again." Getting existing webmasters to sign up for your affiliate program will be difficult! You may want to consider other avenues for affiliates. (For example I am currently testing pushing my program to Facebook and Twitter users as a way of monetising their streams. It is too early to say if this is working, but you need to think of things like that if you want it to succeed.)

2016-02-22, 05:27 AM	#11
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	A couple of other points I did not mention the other day: Firstly: Another advantage of Smashwords is that they sort out an ISBN for you. I had never bothered with this before, but I have since discovered that some online booksellers won't touch your book without an ISBIN, and I do get a few sales from them, even for the erotica (in fact more for the erotica than the mainstream stuff). Plus, you kind of feel like a "real" author once you get an ISBN. Secondly: You are going to find getting affiliates an uphill struggle. You will note that JR said about me "....with all of his around here." This is because I never miss an opportunity to mention my affiliate program, so everyone here knows about it. But if you look through their sites you can work out which are my adverts by the fact that they are not there. As far as I am aware, only one member of this board has ever used my affiliate program. And even then it was the one for the books I publish for other people, not my own books! I did wonder if the reason was simply that there is a long time member of this board, who has been here longer than me and is a personal friend of several members, who hates me and used to troll my posts. It may be that being his friend most people listen to him and avoid my program. However I think it goes deeper than that because: I have also mentioned, several times, how I make the most money on my adult free sites. I don't quote sponsors with ref code, so I don't benefit from this advice, I simply mentioned (on several occasions) how I make more money from non-adult products than adult products. However, again as far as I am aware, no one has taken that advice. They prefer to continue to only try to sell paysites, a model which is dieing on it's arse due to the amount of free porn out there. In other words, they won't try something new, they just bury their head in the sand and mumble "the old ways worked last century, and one day they will work again." Getting existing webmasters to sign up for your affiliate program will be difficult! You may want to consider other avenues for affiliates. (For example I am currently testing pushing my program to Facebook and Twitter users as a way of monetising their streams. It is too early to say if this is working, but you need to think of things like that if you want it to succeed.)