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How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Post by meryl »

qeorge wrote: post #21

Can anyone comment on the conversion rate of PayPal vs Gumroad? Are customers more comfortable with PayPal vs inputting their card directly on Gumroad, or vice versa?

I can't talk to gumroad specifically but I run a shopify store that offers both shopify's built in payment CC processor and paypal as payment options. 56% of people checkout with paypal vs pulling out their credit card.

My guess is if you have a paypal account with your credit card on file it's much easier to just checkout with paypal than manually type in your card info.

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Post by graeme »

sotirisk wrote: post #24

Honestly the posts with the format "How I made this much money in a ridiculously small time-frame with my low-price-product/service" CAN be a bit off-putting to the reader who is not familiar with this kind of posts. I have already read quite a lot of those and still whenever one of them pops up on my news feed I still get the feeling that the writer comes out as a cheater rather than a marketing genius.

I don't follow. How does selling a product to a willing niche count as "cheating"?

$6000/$15 = 400 customers. That's not a gigantic amount.

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Post by ivansavz »

doseofreality wrote: post #27

Hacker News promotion does not seem like a repeatable marketing strategy.

It is a bit of hit and miss, yes. But if the post makes it to the homepage it immediately gets a "HN seal of approval" which carries a lot of weight.

With my book stuff, I've had about a 50% success rate of "making the homepage." If you're offering something interesting, they will click ;)

Re: How I Made $6,000 in 7 Days with my Ebook

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Post by tessierashpool »

kroger wrote: post #20
tessierashpool wrote: post #19

just want to say that I've read this book and it's quite good. I've recommended it to people both in the context of an ebook I wrote on a similar topic (music hacks) and in person. its introduction to reading music is especially good. it describes musical notation as a graph DSL with lots of legacy terminology. a very clear and sensible intro to that subject, and it made me think about it in a new way (as someone alr…

Thanks! What's the link to your ebook?

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-ebook-hacking-m...
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