Comments on: Friday Podcast: Bacon and Eggs Internet Marketing

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:33:19 +0000

Giving away an e-book for free is a great way to expand your reach on a blog. For example if you give an ebook away with some of your best content that you have posted about and offer “reseller rights” people will put it on eBay and sell it for a dollar. Anything over their listing fees is profit and everyone distributed is another potential customer for you. Of course this is over simplifying the process. Its not as easy as this sounds but it does work.

By: Kok Choon

Kok Choon — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:24:29 +0000

Yes, adsense is just one of the in-efficient way to build business.

What I really mean is that giving away free “viral” report or software with link point back to your web site / product you are promoting.

But the key to success is the product itself must be “spread worthy”, something that really contribute and make freebie seeker want to spread for us.

I haven’t test this method yet, but I seen many using this method, and I will try it soon.

By: Andrew Wee

Andrew Wee — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:02:39 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean, unless you’re saying to monetize freebie seekers with adsense.

But then building an adsense site and catering only to freebie seekers defeats the whole purpose of building a solid business along the lines of what I’m talking about, doesn’t it?

I’ve not seen any online or offline business survive long by giving away stuff (whether products or content)….

By: Kok Choon

Kok Choon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:44:43 +0000

Totally agree! Build a responsive, targeted list is always marketer intention. A list with 1 mil random visitor is will do no more good than a list of 100 with specific needs of product(s).

My opinion, freebie also has their contribution: buzzing the good tools and bringing in more traffic (so that we can refine the list from here!)

Correct me if I am wrong, may be we can convert freebie with advertisement ?