Good Morning, and Happy Veterans, Day Everyone!

I am looking opportunities for passive income and am very interested in incorporating some affiliate marketing and e-books into my business (which is going to be a hybrid of virtual assistance and concierge services).

My thoughts:Affiliate Marketing

• I want to offer travel arrangements, and thought I could either book the travel myself, or add either travelocity or expedia to my site, as both of them offer affiliate commissions.
• I was also thinking about doing the same for tickets. I live outside of DC, where is TONS to do (Kennedy Center, Sports, Theatre, Etc) and ran across a site called tickets now for events. They also offer affiliate commissions.
• I also want to offer a section of business tools and materials (lots of affiliate commission opportunity there) for VAs and other business types

What I don't know is the best way to set this up. I've actually already been approved for linkshare, shareasales, and commission junction -I just need to figure out the best way to set up my site. Does anyone use affiliate marketing (not for the client)? How is it working for you?

E-books;

I would like to also use E-books as passive income. Has anyone written an E-book and if so, can you direct me to the best site or resource to learn how?

And last question: does anyone resell ebooks? There is a website that allows that (http://e-library.net/For-Authors.htm). Has anyone actually done this?

Thanks all!

Caroline

I just started doing affiliate marketing for The Client Attraction System, but it's only been 3 days lol.

I just wanted to jump in and say that I think all of these ideas are great concierge services, and it makes me feel like my previous post to you about the industry was really harsh!

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April Sullivan
The REVA Academy

I've been affiliate marketing through Commission Junction for the past 2 years. It's been great for that extra little oooomph in my pocketbook!! The key is to get the webtraffic to your site so that people can feel their way through the affiliates you've registered with. I've also just recently registered with Google Adsense and I'm waiting to see how this goes.

With regard to eBooks, I just wrote my 1st one last year. I built my book in MS Publisher and made it into a PDF and sold it through my website. However, my husband, who has a weekly sports and entertainment publication, uses issuu.com and in the past, we used bluetoad.com to host our publications. There's also lulu.com but I think they have a page requirement. Anywho, on these sites, you can place a restriction and then send code for those that pay.

I also use blogger.com and they have a site called blog2print.com to create eBooks from your blogs.

Hope this helps!!!

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Shellye L. Lyons, Business/Marketing Manager ~~ The Lyons Group, LLC

There is an ebook coach, Ellen Violette you may want to check out.
http://www.theebookcoach.com/

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JoCarole
http://www.shoreofficeservices.com

Wow - has anyone done any of Ellen Violette's courses? That website seems a pretty hard sell, but I don't doubt that her courses are valuable. I'm interested in getting into ebooks, but her courses seem more for writing the content yourself, whereas I'm more interested in doing the format or layout of ebooks. Anyone know if there's a resource for that? Is it even anything that really needs doing? I'm interested but SUCH a noob! Or maybe Ellen Violette has info on that but I missed it...?

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Lori http://www.solterravs.com

I didn't take a course. I gathered information from all the eBooks others have created and taught myself how to do it. It wasn't hard once I got started. If you're on blogger, and you blog frequently, you can create an eBook through blog2print.com... I think the problem comes in when you're selling it. Which site should you sell your eBook on so that you don't lose out by people copying your information and giving it to others. Guess that's where copyrighting comes in!!

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Shellye L. Lyons, Business/Marketing Manager ~~ The Lyons Group, LLC

Lori, try this link Ebooks-the-smart-way. Hope it helps.

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Mattie Stokes

I have been making passive income with my side business of Send Out Cards. SOC is an online greeting card company that you create the cards and they print and mail an actual greeting card to their client. It is a great compliment to many of my current clients and allows them to send a more personalized marketing campaign.

Also a must read book in regards to passive income is Beach Money by Jordan Adler.

I have also read that there are some twitter based income streams from corporations but is dependent on how many followers you have.

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Cindy Schroeder
Bright Bookkeeping