Leverage Free Giveaway Ebooks to your Benefit!

If you're a collector or frequent downloader of free giveaway e-books on the 'net, or even if you are a prolific e-book writer, there are a variety of ways by which you can leverage distributing them freely to your benefit Here're some ways you can use free giveaway e-books to your advantage. 1. Use it to start or build your own email subscriber list - you can use an e-book as free giveaway or as an incentive for website visitors to sign-up for your newsletter, subscription or email list by providing their name and email address 2. Get additional affiliates to join your affiliate program, should you have one - the use of free, giveaway, or re-brandable e-books as enticement to have more affiliates join your program should not be ignored, since there is a viral element to this that potentially can give big returns 3. Sell Re-branding or Customization Rights of Your Own E-book - if you've written your own high-quality giveaway e-book that includes within it affiliate links, you can sell the re-branding or customization rights of your e-book to those who wish to distribute them on their own, with their own links. Customizing or re-branding simply entails changing the affiliate links of your own e-book so that instead of said links bearing your affiliate code, they will now bear the affiliate code of the person who asked and paid you for the customization, who would then be free to distribute it on his own. 4. Buy Re-branding or Customization Rights of Other Authors' E-books - this is the reverse of #3 above. In this instance you are the one paying for re-branding or customization rights in order that you may give away another author's e-book (now customized with your links) to your email subscriber list. When any of your subscribers purchase a product or service through your links you make money. 5. Show Your Expertise - if you have specialized knowledge or information on something that can be useful or can prove invaluable to both your existing email subscribers or a potential target market, write an e-book about it and freely give it away (or even a sample of it).This builds up trust with your list and improves your credibility with them as an expert on the subject, so when the time comes for them to make a purchase they'll naturally turn to you. 6. Increase your website traffic - write an e-book or a special report and give it away to your list or prospective customers. In the special report or e-book body make references to your website and entice your readers to visit it with the promise of either more resources, free trials or more useful free e-books. 7. Use free e-books to make effective surveys - just in case you want to get feedback from your existing list or website visitors on your website, a product, or service you plan to create or a membership you plan to start, ask for the information via a survey and reward those who respond to it with a free e-book. 8. For Joint Venture partnerships - you can leverage a unique e-book or e-book sample you own (or have the rights to distribute) to potential joint venture partners to make your offers more attractive. 9. Build Link Popularity - get other website owners to link to your site in exchange for free e-books or valuable free courses they find useful or relevant with regard to their own sites. If it's practical to do so, you can even provide the anchor text links other website owners can use in linking to your e-book or special report in your site 10. Promote your links, other products - if you're selling products or services of your own in your website, you can prepare a free e-book or special report outlining the uses or benefits of your product. Provide relevant content on related topics and use this to segue to a recommendation of how your products or links could be of use to your target audience. These are only some of the effective uses of free giveaway e-books or special reports. You can be more imaginative and come up with a lot more. Cheers! Article by Winston Yam, Internet Marketer, entrepreneur and owner of http://www.1st-In-Online-Income.com, a resource website of internet marketing tools and resources for those wishing to create multiple streams of online income. [You are welcome to reprint this article as long as it is reproduced faithfully and the author's resource box, links and information are kept intact]