Offering Free Downloads Can Help Grow Your Online Business

Growing your online business is no easy feat. You need to do things step by step but once you get the hang of it, then everything will just fall into place and work like clock work.

Ellen Finkelstein is sharing some awesome tips on how to do this. And one of the things she mentioned is by offering a free download. The download could be for any of the following:

• E-books or Guides
• Templates or Presentations
• Research & Reports (ex: State of Inbound Marketing)
• White papers

By doing this, the people who visit your website will be enticed to sign up to your email list and that alone is valuable enough.

To know more about this process, please head to the following link: Grow Your Online Business: Day 9 (Ultimate Blog Challenge) Why you need a free download and what it should be

Monetize Your Free Downloads

As a web marketer, it is common practice to offer free downloads to your readers. But first, what is a free download?

“A free download can be any electronic item — PDF, video, audio, Word document (or Google Doc), etc.“

But did you know that you can also monetize the freebies you give on your blogs and websites? Here’s a summary of how this can be done:

1. Offer a discount.
2. Invite people to contact you for a free consultation.
3. Include a short bonus informational product.
4. Set up an autoresponder with offers.
5. Use the confirmation page to offer a discount.
6. Seed your free download with client stories.

The goal here is to simply offer your free downloads in such a way that it makes offers without being too sales pitchy. Once you’ve captured the attention of your target market and they’ve given you permission to contact them, via email, for instance, then it will be easier for you to build a relationship with them.

To find out more about this, please head to: Turn your free download into a cash machine with these 6 tips