How to sell pdf ebooks
How to Sell an eBook Online ABSOLUTELY FREE using Canva + Payhip
selling an e-book is a fantastic way for
you to take your surface based business
and turn it into an impulse buy now many
of you have watched my how to make an
e-book video but I have never taken you
through the entire process so in today's
video I am going to show you how to
easily sell your ebook online without
further ado let's hop in
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hi I'm LaShonda founder of about 90
marketing and host of the bootstrap
business a show where I teach you how to
grow your business without breaking the
bank
I have given you tutorials and I have
also shared business advice but in this
video I am going to give you a brand new
app review today we're going to be
walking through the application pay hip
and I will be using canva smart mock-ups
flow desk and Squarespace in
collaboration with pay hip to show you
step-by-step how you can easily sell
your ebook online I am also going to be
placing the example in this video inside
the VIP vault because many of you have
reached out expressing a desire to
support this channel but I currently
don't have anything that you can just
put in the cart and buy thanks to pay
hip you'll be able to do that and if you
have not gotten access to my VIP vault
you can go to WWE on brown comm or you
can click on the link in my description
also if you like this video make sure
that you like it and subscribe before we
help into the app review I need to award
our bootstrap chat winner if you are
brand new to this channel what I like to
do and each video is give something away
to a viewer who participates in the
comments right now I am giving away $20
in canva credit now in the last video I
asked the question if you were to speak
on a topic what would that be and the
number one comment was from Angela
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on this topic so Angela make sure that
you go to about 90 mark ENCOM click on
that contact page and let me know your
email address so that I can send you
your canva credit step one of the
process is designing your initial ebook
and here are a couple tips that I want
to point out number one is you want to
make sure that your template is the same
size as a normal sheet of computer paper
some people like to print their ebooks
when they purchase them online so if you
use a template that's not the same size
you're going to make it more difficult
for your customers to continue to use
this resource so definitely keep that in
mind from the beginning you can utilize
the magazine template within canva that
is already the same size as a sheet of
paper the other thing is watch your
colors you definitely want to
incorporate your brand photos within
your design but you also want to keep
printing in mind so try not to use
full-color backgrounds within your ebook
so you can see how I incorporated the
screen and a little bit of black here
but once you get inside the e-book it's
mostly white with just a pop of color at
the top so when you finish designing
your ebook within canva you're just
going to click on the arrow here and
you're going to download it as a PDF now
again I would strongly suggest that you
do not click PDF standard although this
will be a smaller version of your ebook
we want it to be high enough quality for
people to print if they choose to do
that so you'll just click on PDF print
and download it to your desktop
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and as you can see this is what the
finished design looks like
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so we are going to make this available
within the VIP vault as a premium
resource so I'm going to go ahead and
close this out and do something super
important once you design your ebook you
want to show people what they can expect
once they get your resource so you're
going to need to create some graphics so
we're going to click the same arrow and
select PNG and here you can change the
size you'll see the pixels down here you
can drag and make it a bigger file or
smaller file and we're going to go ahead
and download the cover so we'll select
that page click that box and download it
your cover is something you definitely
want to utilize for your design but
we're also going to download a couple of
the interior pages just to show people
the quality of the content they can
expect so now that I'm inside smart
mock-ups I want to design two different
things one is a colorful graphic to show
the cover of the e-book and the other is
a smaller graphic to show those interior
pages so I selected this one by hovering
over print selecting magazines and books
and that's the category we're in and I
chose portrait magazine on the table so
all I need to do is upload image you can
also use canva but I like to download
the image itself click on that cover and
then you can adjust it as you can see it
drops and that image directly on top and
I am going to zoom in so that it fills
that cover now we'll crop and continue
and now we have our graphic now what's
great about smart mock-ups as you can
see by these boxes around it is this is
going to have a transparent background
so we'll upload the other side reads it
mission on the left so we'll do audience
on the right and again just hit those
plus signs
to resize that crop and continue and now
you've got the interior of your ebook
and you're using the actual pages from
the e-book but again it's so small that
people can't read it so just because
they can see the inside doesn't mean
they won't click to buy and now we'll
download that high-resolution image so
we've gotten a colorful version of the
cover we've shown the interior pages and
now what we need to do is to hop into
pay hip to set up our payment processing
pay hip is the easiest way to sell
digital downloads and memberships they
make it a piece of cake to sell and
promote your ebooks membership software
design assets music or any other type of
digital product directly to your
customer
now before I sign up let me take you to
the pricing page to show you how they
make their money if you click on pricing
you'll see that they do have a free
forever plan but you need to look at the
fine print on top of their 5%
transaction fee you'll also have to pay
PayPal or stripe for their transaction
fee so in my opinion when you get
started with pay hip having a free
account is the way to go but as you
continue to sell your resources if you
feel like you would benefit from
upgrading to a plus account so that 3
more percent of your income goes to you
you can pay $29 a month and if things
continue to progress you can upgrade to
a pro account so that you don't have to
pay any transaction fees to pay hip
however you will still have to pay
PayPal or stripe so this is just
something to keep in mind there is no
completely free option within pay hip
however the transaction fees are very
reasonable and they are not in control
of your payment processing fee their
transaction fees are how they make their
money
their site on the homepage they make it
super easy for you to sign up so just
type in your email address and click get
started now once you choose your
password it's going to ask you a little
bit about yourself
and here is something to keep in mind
this is the name that will be displayed
on your store now I associated this with
my hello and about 90 marketing email
address but I am going to be using pay
hip to sell resources to the people that
watch me on YouTube so in this section
what I would like to put instead of the
name of my business is the name of my
community so just keep that in mind as
you name your site then click continue
again whatever you put in here as your
username will be your link so I like
that everything is branded for bootstrap
biz advice because that's what these
resources will be then we'll click get
started selling this is what the
dashboard looks like and as you can see
it let me know that I completed 25% of
my store setup so if we scroll down here
it has a button for you to add your
first product for you to set up checkout
you can add a profile image a short bio
and you can customize the store design
so what I'm going to do now is just
simply add my first product and this is
going to be a digital product you can
see the options to sell a physical
product or wear subscription billing
so in order to add a digital product we
need to upload that product file which
is going to be that PDF then we need to
choose the title of the product then we
need to select a price and I'm going to
leave it in u.s. dollars now we're going
to add images you can add up to nine
images so what we'll do is we'll upload
that cover which was a great thing that
we've downloaded that by itself and you
can see the recommended minimum image
width is six hundred and seventy pixels
so I think that'll work there and you
can type in the description for your
product here so once you finish ready to
start selling your product add that
product and so now it gives you a
product link that you can copy and it
will show you your payment page so I
think that this is absolutely beautiful
it makes it super easy for you to sell
your resource and what we need to do is
enter our payment details in order for
us to be able to collect payments so you
can collect so you can connect your
PayPal account or you can connect
straight then the reason why I'm putting
it inside the VIP vault is if people
like to use my free resources I want to
give them an opportunity to support the
channel so I'm going to put that graphic
here then I'm going to add a text box to
put the product description that I put
on pay hit and then I'm going to add a
button I think we'll do yeah we'll do a
small one and the button will link to
the pay hit page we're gonna say bye
ebook $9.99
and here where it says click through URL
that is where we're going to copy that
link from pay head so we'll just go back
and there's a link to this page we'll
copy that paste that here and then we'll
go back to our description and we'll
paste that in here so what I will do is
when I send out an email this week using
flow desc
I will link to my VIP vault and I can
also link directly to the product page
once you log into flow desk go ahead and
click on the create new button and on
the side you will see categories for
email templates and we're going to click
on make money and then the course sale
announcement template then click on
customize and you can delete the
sections that you don't want to use by
clicking on the section and hitting the
trashcan
then we'll double-click on this image
here upload image from our desktop and
again we've got that smart mock-ups
image and then all you need to do is
type a little email you can leave this
section if you want you can also delete
it and simply add a button by clicking
on the plus sign adding button and then
copying the link to the product
so today's bootstrap chat questions
should be pretty obvious if you were to
create an ebook today what would the
title be let it be something that would
catch someone's attention so that they
would immediately want to buy let me
know in the comments for a chance to win
$20 in canva credit and if you end up
using pay him to sell your eBook feel
free to leave that link in the comments
as well so the other viewers can to
support you again if you like this video
make sure that you give it a thumbs up
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