 How to add ebook downloads in WordPress, make money 24-7. Hey guys, have you wanted to maybe start selling ebooks or give them away for free to build your list? Well, this is the video for you. I'm gonna walk you through step by step and I don't mean just step by step. I'm gonna show you the exact screens you need to go to, exactly what's gonna happen in your WordPress site. So you wanna stick with me to the very end so you know how to do this and you can earn some extra money. Thank you so much for watching this video. Don't forget to subscribe, hit the subscribe button, turn it from red to gray. It's gonna be right down there and don't forget to ring the bell. Turn all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video. And at the end of this, I'll tell you where you can get a free course on digital marketing. All right, let's get right into this. So you've thought about doing these ebooks. Maybe you already have an ebook but you don't know how to distribute it. A WordPress website is a great way to do it. So I wanna get into all the screens, exactly what you're gonna see and I'm gonna walk you through each and every step. The first method is direct downloads from WordPress post. So let's get into that first. Now, with this method, you're actually gonna offer a free ebook by adding a block on your page and having a button where they can download it. Now, you're gonna wanna find the spot on the page where you're going to want to add this block and then all you have to do is click the plus button to add a new block and then I'm gonna walk you through exactly what you need to do. All right, so let's go into WordPress and I wanna show you step by step. Okay, in the pop-up that appears, type a file to find the right block. Okay, that's what we've done right here. You can see that. We've done that and we want to get this media library right here. Once you click on the file block, it will add the block to your page. In the file block, you wanna click on the media library button and a pop-up will appear just like this right here. Now, this box will now pop up and you can select your ebook file or drag and drop the file to upload it. By default, the block is actually gonna be displaying your ebook's contents in a small, like a PDF viewer. It also has some extra controls that lets visitors scroll through the ebook. They can download the file, they can print out the file, whatever they wanna do as you can see right here. Sometimes, you may not really wanna display a preview. For example, maybe your ebook has a whole lot of pages and images and you want visitors to see a full screen so you don't wanna do that way. If you don't want to include a preview, then you can find the PDF settings in the right sidebar of the content editor. You see it right over here on the right. You can then click to expand that section and turn off the show inline embedded slider right there. Now WordPress will now remove the preview and display only a download button and a link, just like what you're seeing right here. Visitors can download this file to their computer and by clicking the blue download button, they can also open the ebook in a new tab by clicking on the link. If you would rather, you can remove the download button. To take it away, all you have to do is click on the download button settings section in the WordPress sidebar. You can then click show download button slider to turn this setting off, as you can see right here. Now, without the download button, visitors can still download the file manually, but they would have to launch your ebook in a separate tab to find the download option that would appear on the page. As you're making your changes to your file block, you can also see how it's gonna look to visitors. All you have to do is click on the preview button at the top of the screen. Once you're happy with your file block, you may wanna add more blocks. For example, you might wanna write something, supporting text or add a call to action button to encourage visitors to download the ebook. So that's what you can do here. Here's a screenshot of that. When you're ready, don't forget, you wanna make all your changes live by clicking the update publish button. I've done this so many times, where I didn't click the update publish button and it wasn't live and I was like, what happened to it? So that's all you have to do. You can now successfully add ebooks to the download in WordPress post, and you can visit your own website if you wanna see it in action, of course. Visitors will also be able to search for ebook contents on your website, which is cool, WordPress doesn't do this by default, but you can set that up if you want. Okay, so we saw how we're doing that, but let's talk about how we can get more subscribers by actually adding an ebook and building our email list. Let's get right into that. Uploading your ebook can be a great way to offer more contents that people opt in so you can get them on your list. Now, if you are offering your content, your ebook, to build your list or to get people to opt in, you wanna make sure that they cannot get the ebook unless they opt in and they give up their email address. So you don't want them to just automatically be able to get the ebook. Now, I prefer to use Cartra, and I will have a link to Cartra below this video. Cartra does so many things, but one thing you can do is get people to opt in and then send them to a page and you collect their email and you tag them and do all that stuff. Cartra is an amazing, an amazing marketing tool for digital marketers. And if you click my link below, it will show you a video on how Cartra works. And if you choose to try it out, you can get a trial for only $1. You wanna check that out and get a good deal on it if you wanna continue. So you can use these pop-ups that Cartra has and you can design them any way you want. You can have a match or page. You can change the colors. You can change the wording, anything you wanna do so that you have a good pop-up. And once they opt in, all you have to do is send them to a target page. That target page will be where your book is. So basically you're offering free content so that somebody can get to this content but they gotta give up their email address to do it. You can also do something else in Cartra. When they opt in, you can send them to a page that says check your email for the link to get this content. Now that is useful because some people will put a fake email address in there. They're gonna put a fake one just to get to the content. So if you make them put in an email address and say, hey, you're gonna find this in your email and they put a fake one in, they can't get to it. So some people may actually create a fake email address to go through all this, but most people won't do that. It's just too much work. So you want to make sure that if you wanna get that email and you wanna be certain it's a good email, send them a email that gives them a link to that e-book. Now the last method I wanna talk about is actually selling your e-books. Whoa, making some money, right? Once again, this is where Cartra comes into play. Cartra also has a shopping cart and people can click to purchase your e-book and it will charge them on Cartra. And once it charges them, you can send them a link to that e-book or you can send them to a page that is going to let them download that e-book. That's why Cartra's so good, okay? It'll automatically send out these emails, guys. When somebody opts in on Cartra, it will automatically send an email with a link if you want. It can do all kinds of automated things. Maybe they put in their email and they didn't complete the sale. They didn't actually pay for the book. Maybe you have a two-part opt-in where they put in their email first and then they have to pay for it. You can automatically send emails out to these customers and say, hey, you opted in, but you haven't completed your sale, click this link here to go back. And I can automate all that so that I'm gonna pick up all those sales where people opt out. Now, people don't always complete their purchase. I would say probably 70, 80% of you people that go to your shopping cart will not complete their purchase. But it's not always for the reasons you think. It could be because they got interrupted. The kid came in the room or they got an email or they got misdirected or they were in the middle of it and their boss came in the office. So if we send these other emails about them not completing their sale, you're gonna pick up a lot of extra sales. Now, as you can see, you can use your e-book for many different reasons, but it doesn't always have to be an e-book. I know this video is about e-books, but it could just be a PDF, 10 steps on a PDF or something like that. It doesn't always have to be something large. If you're having a hard time putting together an e-book, I would recommend that you go to some text writing site. I like Text Broker. You can use that. And you can get a lot of stuff written for you. So that's what I got for you today. I hope you find it useful. I hope you think it's helpful. And if it is, you'll want to subscribe because I got more of that on here. I've got, I think around 1,300 videos right now at the time of this recording. So you're gonna want to opt in. You're gonna want to subscribe. Like I told you, hit that subscribe button, turn it from red to gray. Don't forget to ring the bell. 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