After getting interested in online marketing me and a friend decided to produce an ebook and sell it online. We were both quite successful in our day-jobs so we figured it would be a good subject to write about.<p>So we wrote an ebook full of good career advice and we created a blog where we posted free articles related to the topic. We also posted a few articles to ezinearticles.com and twittered links to all new blog-posts. This resulted in about 1000 unique visitors over a span of two or three months. No sales. So we created a "sales-pitch" page (ehm.. with fake reviews) and invested money in google CPC ads. This was expensive and resulted in a couple hundred more visitors, but again, no sales.<p>We have declared the project a total failure and stopped working on it. But it still bugs me: What the hell did we do wrong? What can I learn from this experiment? I invested a lot of time and I'd like to get at least that out of it. I can't think of a better place, that's why I thought I'd ask here before we take the website down. Did any of you ever try something similar? What did we miss?<p>Thank you.<p>Link (Blog): http://www.careeradvicebook.com/<p>Link (Sales-Page): http://www.careeradvicebook.com/book/<p>P.S.: We really think the information in this book is worth something. We aren't scammers looking for quick money. I'd like to publish it somehow, even if for free. Any recommendations?
Ask HN: Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it?