My new eBook

Firstly, don’t forget to read yesterday’s round-up, those things are effort to do.

And now for a business post, it’s been a while since we had one of these!

Right so. Any long time readers will know I’ve had some success with writing ebooks and flipping them for some big profits :

Exhibit A (Still puts a smile on my face)

Exhibit B

So a few weeks ago I was a bit broke, and said “Feck it, it’s time for an eBook.” Something that’s always hot in the webmaster world is flipping websites (creating a site and selling it for profit), and well, I’ve done this a lot, so I know what I’m doing with it. So that was my topic. I picked up the domain SiteFlipGuide.com, which I feel was a pretty decent find.

I wrote the ebook, and hired someone to do graphics (see more on this below).

Then I got a different job, and became very lazy, and nearly forgot about the eBook as I was out drinking away my new found money. As I’d written the book, bought the domain, and paid for graphics, I decided to complete the site and make a quick buck on it. So I did the rest of the donkey work, and was left with two options :

1. Try and sell copies of the eBook : This can be time consuming, and irritating as hell, dealing with customers. After selling some copies, I’d then sell exclusive rights to the eBook, which would appear quite valuable with the sales it would have accumulated.

2. Just sell the exclusive rights straight away. The right buyer would see this as an advantage, as there’d still be so many potential buyers.

I went with option 2, as I just don’t have much time these days, and lately I find myself dealing with an awful lot of people online, with work etc, so adding a ton of customers to this would only serve to overwhelm me a bit.

I stuck the ebook and site up on Sitepoint for sale. Bidding started at $250, with a Buy It Now price of $500. Within a day someone offered $400 to buy it right then. I accepted, and we’re both happy. He now has exclusive rights to the ebook and can do whatever he likes with it.

My Graphic Designer

Now, I promised I’d give a shout out to the guy who did all the design work for the ebook and website. As you can see from the site, he did a great job. His name is Mark (which earned instant rapport with me) and his company is Arrival Media. I’ve dealt with a good few designers in my time and this guy was by far the easiest to deal with. Not only was he very skilled, he showed common sense, and didn’t need me to spell everything out for him, like most designers do.

I’ve given them an ad on the side of the blog too, such was my pleasure at seeing their work. Any budding designers, talk to that company about the backend system they use for jobs, because I’d never seen it before and it was top class.

Other Business

I was asked to be on a five-man team in a blog-flipping contest, which many big names were taking part in. I accepted at first but later had to drop out, as I’m just so busy at the moment, I figured I’d only be a liability.

I’ve made a donation to a contest being run by Sean from smemon.com, in which he’ll be doing a skydive for chartity. Go on over there and show some support.

Also, I came across a thread on boards.ie the other day, about famous people on boards. The first reply there took me by surprise, to say the least.

“Mark Walsh www.walsho.net is on this isnt he? Hes semi-famous, I heard him mentioned on tv once”

Semi-famous?! TV?!

Eh?!

Even though I’m far from even being semi-famous and highly doubt I’ve ever been mentioned on tv, I can only describe my reaction to seeing that first reply as :

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