Hello, I'm going to show you how to sell a PDF ebook on gumroad. And how to have a sales page on your WordPress website and have the buy button, go through to gumroad in our link a couple of things you need before you start, first of all, of course, a PDF that you're going to sell. So here's one I did 220 hundred and 30 pages. It has more images and graphs and links than a traditional Kindle or paperback book. So if you have that sort of product that you can create as a PDF, it's good idea to put it on gumroad and ask 1020 $30 for it, instead of getting maybe two to $5 profit at Amazon. Although I would say it's great to do both.
The second thing you need is a product image. And I see a lot of people get this wrong Camera don't really help you very much, but the size it should be is 670 pixels wide by 335 pixels high. So choose a very narrow slim landscape strip of an image. And now you're ready to get going. So set up an account on gumroad, link it to your bank account@gumroad.com just go to products and hit products and go add product. And it's a digital product.
And I'm going to do a product that starts selling day. So that will be anyone can buy it for a fixed price, not a subscription and not pre order. So this one, and I'm going to get the name and I'm going to sell it for $9 and then you click on Choose your files. And I'm going to upload it from my computer and you navigates to the PDF on your computer. upload it to gumroad. And then you're gonna have to wait.
This is for Meg. So I have to wait for it to upload. So that has uploaded. So we hit this button next customize. And now we get the image that I showed you earlier. Remember that size 670 by 335.
There it is. There's the title again, and there's the price. So I'm just going to paste some text that I wrote and very important. It's looking very bland. So I would highlight some of the text and apply bolds. So here is a testimonial.
I'll put that in Italic and put the testimonial person in bold. And I'm just going to go through that and format the text a little bit. So I've done all that I've got a lot of quotes And from happy customers, I've called out a few of the headings is h freeze, you can have them as h fours or H freeze. And we have bullets in order to do that you click that last button there to give make them bullets, another happy customer. Three more people that are famous in the industry giving me a quote about the book, more bullet points about more value get from the book, a bonus feature and other quotes, more bullet points and the money back guarantee. It really is a good idea to stuff the product page with as much reasons and benefits about the product as possible.
And then lastly here, I don't bother with stamp that PDFs with the buyer information that's just to try and stop people selling the product on a laptop. I don't really think anyone's going to do that. So we just think of a URL. It's called running a web design business. I think web design business is probably already gone. So let's try running web design business.
And then you go up to the top and save. Oh, you can preview it if you want. And then that's how the sales page will look on gumroad. And if you're happy with this, you can save changes. And there's the URL. Very easy.
You've just done it, you've just put your book on gumroad. Anyone can go over to this page, you can tweet or share it out on Facebook, and click that button. And then they will pay you money to get your product and gumroad will sort everything else out. But you also want to have a sales page on your own WordPress website. Here's the sales page for the book with a video and all the other text and images, which is basically what I did on the gumroad page. It's exactly the same More or less, and then there's a Buy Now button at the bottom.
So let's edit this page. And you'd be mostly using the visual mode. And of course, if you wanted to do that, you could just highlight some text and give it a link and then paste the link there. But we don't want to do that we want people to click this button, the download button, which I'm using kind of a Buy Now button. So instead of doing it there editing the button, I want it to open in a new window. So I'll go into the text mode, and there is the HTML for the image.
So what we want to do is click that link button there and paste in that URL, the gumroad URL, and then that's put the H ref equals and the gumroad link in the tag, and then it's close the tag there with that closing a tag. And one more thing I want to do, which is the reason I'm doing it in the HTML version, which is targets equals open inverted commas underscore blank. And that will mean that the link to the gumroad sales page will open in a new tab on the browser, which means people can still go on and browse on your website. You don't have to do that. You could just as I say, in the visual mode, you could just put the link in here in the visual mode. So we'll update that.
And let's have a look at the page. There it is the sales page and you go down to the bottom and there's your Buy Now button, and you click on it opens a new tab in gumroad. And people could just click that they want it and they can pay with PayPal or credit card. Okay, I hope you enjoyed that. That's how to sell an E book, a PDF. ebook on gumroad and how to link the sales page on gumroad to the sales page on your WordPress website.
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