My habit of collecting every free eBook I could lay my hands proved very profitable to me while building my business.

Here are 20 ways that you can use free eBooks to boost your profits.

1. Build Your List

Use free eBooks as an incentive to get more people to join your list.

2. Keep Your Subscribers

Give away a new free eBook every time you mail your list or at least every month, so they have a reason to stay subscribed. Create a subscribers-only eBook library and keep adding new ones often.

3. Get More Affiliates to Promote Your Product

Offer free eBooks and free brandable eBooks as an incentive for join your affiliate program.

4. Sell Customization Rights to Your Own eBooks

If you've written an eBook and have a number of affiliate links in it, you can make more money by selling customization rights.

5. Back-End Profits

Purchase customization rights to others' eBooks and give them away free to your list. Profit when they purchase something through your links.

6. Become an Instant 'Expert'

Write an eBook on a topic that you know well and give it away to a target market. Once people know you as an expert on your subject, they will be more willing to spend money with you.

7. Grow Your Downline

Offer free eBooks as an incentive to join a program under you. Allow your downline to give away eBooks as well so they can build their (and your) downline.

8. Become a Leader

Train your team by giving away free eBooks that help them learn how to build their business. eBooks help you save on cost of ordering printed copies and shipping them to your distributors.

9. Boost Your Website Traffic

Write an eBook yourself and insert your website links in a way that gives your readers a compelling reason to visit your website, either for resources you offer or an invitation to download more eBooks.

10. Survey Your List

Have a great idea for a new product or eBook, but need to find out if there's a market for it? Create a survey and use free eBooks to entice people to respond. To ensure a good response to your survey, offer two or more eBooks, or a product that you own, or even a download of product you plan to create as a result of survey.

The ebook market is in a craze right now and I’m sure that you want to get in on it, but problem is that market is flooded with ideas on how to do it right. In fact there are so many opinions on how to make money with selling ebooks that you might feel a little lost. I know that with my own experience I would follow one path of advice for a little while only to find a dead end. Uhgg! Talk about frustration! So what I decided to do is to outline in just 6 simple steps how you can create a money-making ebook that really works.

Step 1: Choose Your Subject

Before you do anything you need to find a subject to write about. In order for your ebook to be popular it needs to be a subject that people are truly interested in. To find a good subject requires some research on your part. Amazon.com is a good place to start. At Amazon you can find which books are best sellers, which will tell you what subjects people are dying to read about. Also you could try Wordtracker (www.webcashlink.com/wordtracker.html). At Wordtracker you can find out what most popular terms or phrases that people are searching for on internet. Once you know your subject then you’ll have a foundation to work with and once you have researched your subject then writing actual ebook will come naturally.

Step 2: Make It Look Professional

I’m sure that you have heard saying that image is everything. Well that is definitely true with selling ebooks. People like imagery that uses all their senses (Being able to see it, touch it, and etc…). Unfortunately when a person views your ebook they can only use one sense, sense of sight. To overcome that obstacle, you need to make your ebook as real as possible to them. It will help tremendously if you have a professional graphic image of an ebook cover. People relate to pictures and studies indicate that by just having a picture of your ebook can increase sales by 300%! In order to appear professional you need to make sure that your ebook cover looks attractive. Try to avoid pitfall of using generic, free ebook covers. It will make you look cheap and could impact sales negatively. The service that I use is Dynamite Covers (www.webcashlink.com/dynamitecovers). They create professional looking ebook covers at reasonable prices.

Step 3: Give It Away For Free