I love talking about passive income ideas on this channel
and selling eBooks is one of the best ways to make money online. It's also one of the easiest
businesses to start because you don't need any upfront investment except your time and effort
to create the product. Yes, you can create and sell your eBooks without
any paid platforms and in this video, I will show you how to do it for free step by step!
Just to make it clear, you don't need any hosting or domain name
and you can simply use your social media accounts to promote and sell your eBook.
Watch this video until the end, and you'll see how it's perfect for beginners
because yes(!) you don't need to sign up for multiple services with expensive monthly fees.
You will through all the steps in this video, with no credit card in your hand at any point!
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Ok now let's start with creating the eBook. I recommend you to use Canva to design your PDF.
Canva is an online graphic design tool and you can do pretty much everything using its free version.
It does have some premium features but again, you can totally use
the free Canva account and avoid any paid features.
If you never used Canva, check the link in the description below this video and create your
free account in a few clicks. Now in your Canva account, do a quick search for A4 template or if
you want to use a more ready-to-use template, you can even search for the word "eBook".
You can tell which of the templates are only available for paid Canva users - those templates
will have this PRO icon. But if you keep scrolling down, you will find a lot of free templates.
Also, even these templates can be adjusted and customized. For example,
you might like the overall design of the eBook except the background photo on the cover page.
It can simply have no match to the topic of your eBook. In that case, you can simply
do a search inside Canva here in the Photos section and find a lot of free stock photos.
You can tell when a photo is free and when it's not, it will have this Pro icon on it. Once you
selected the photo, you can simply drag it to the canvas and replace the previous background photo.
Now in these eBook templates, they will have the most important pages like
Table of Contents included but if you don't like the design suggested in this eBook template,
you can simly do a quick search for Table of Contents and you might find another layout
of this particular page and you can simply insert it in your previous eBook template.
To download this eBook, you will click Share in Canva and then hit the button Download.
Here you'll select one of the formats. I recommend either PDF Standard or PDF Print if you
assume that many of your customers will want to print out the eBook. The difference between them
is that PDF Print will optimize the quality of the eBook to look the best when it's printed. And PDF
Standard will make the file a little lighter so it's easy to send it via email for example.
And once you downloaded your eBook from Canva, the next step is to start selling your eBook.
Many services and platforms that allow you to sell digital products
will require a monthly fee and will have quite a complicated technical set-up.
But I promised you to show you in this video how you can do it for FREE and it's so easy to
set this up that you can even do it all right on your phone without using a desktop computer.
For this we'll be using Koji. You can add a a link to Koji profile to any of your
social media platforms, including your link in bio on Intagram or Pinterest,
and sell your eBook right from Koji. Show this page here
https://withkoji.com/apps/sell-ebooks--pdfs-7b536f0f With Koji's app called Sell eBooks and PDFs
you can start selling digital products, such as eBooks, PDFs with cookbooks, tutorials and so on.
For full disclosure you should know that Koji is a sponsor of this video - but I also use it as
my own link in bio, it’s probably the best link in bio for selling digital products.
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If you look at my Instagram account, you'll find there a Koji link in my profile bio,
I also added the link to my Koji profile in the description
below this video. When you click on this link, you’ll land on my Koji profile.
And here you'll find that I sell through Koji my eBook
called Pinterest Trends - this is a printable PDF file that you can buy right here in the app.
There are many other options I can add to my Koji profile for example I also have a
link to my free blogging course which is essentially a link to a page where
users can sign-up for my email list. But in this video we're focusing on
selling eBooks, so I'll start showing you how to set this up from scratch.
Step 1. Setting Up a Koji Account
First we need to create a Koji account using the link is in the description below. You'll
see that it's absolutely free to create an account. There are no monthly fees and
creators get to keep 85-95% of their income generated through Koji apps. Except the Tip
Jar app which has 0 fees so you get to keep all that users sent you through that app.
Since our goal is to make money by selling the eBook, let's head over to the
payment settings in the Koji account. Here you'll have to add your Stripe account.
Stripe is probably the most popular payment processor that allows you to accept payments
through credit and debit cards. Stripe currently is available in 46 countries
and you can see the full list on this page and this list keeps growing,
so if you are in doubts just check it out for yourself on this page https://stripe.com/global
Now you need to choose your Koji username. It should be either your personal name if
you are building your personal brand on social media. Or it can be your business
or brand name if you already have one. Since this username will be visible to everyone
as your link in bio, it should be something short, easy to remember and easy to spell.
Now that we are on the account settings,
I also recommend you to add links to all your social media accounts. You don't have to do it
to sell your eBook, but it will make your Koji profile more efficient and complete.
Step 2. Design of Koji Profile
The next step is choosing the design settings for your Koji profile.
They offer you many theme options by default but you
can also customize every element of your profile.
Step 3. Setup Sell Ebooks and PDFs App When you want to sell and eBook through
your Koji profile, what you need to do is go to Manage your account,
click on Apps and Links then hit Browse Koji App Store, scroll down
to the Top Apps for Monetization and search for the app called Sell Ebooks and PDFs.
Click add. And now we can just type here the title of the eBook, and a short description.
By the way, I recommend you to create in Canva a square image in advance.
So that you can already have it on your phone and upload here
as your eBook cover. And also, save the eBook itself, I mean the actual PDF
should be on your phone if you are going to create this account using your mobile device.
Let's have a look at my eBook when I finished all the setup.
You see users will find in my Koji profile the button that allows them
to check more info about my eBook and click on the buy now button. On the next step
they can simply add their credit card number and complete the purchase.
So here you go, you've just created your eBook and you can even start selling it through your social
media accounts. And remember that throughout this entire process we didn't have to pay or even
provide our credit card information at any step. You can start a scalable and profitable online
business with eBooks absolutely for free. You didn't need any paid platforms or shopping carts.
And I'll tell you more! You can even follow all these steps including creating your eBook
on your mobile device because both Canva and Koji
work perfectly well as a mobile app and not only on your computer.
Again to create your free account with Koji, use the link is in the description below.
Get started and create a profile today if you haven't already and share what you've
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