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Consignment Agreement Sample



A consignment agreement is a signed agreement that details the conditions between a manufacturer or publisher and the party to which the goods to be sold have been consigned.

Consignment agreements are used whenever goods are provided at no cost by one party for safe-keeping and sale by a second party. In such cases, it is important to specify the exact terms under which the goods have been consigned for sale.

Consignment agreements are primarily concerned with opening inventory levels and revenue sharing allocations on sales made, but they can also specify such things as timeframes, payment terms, and disposition of unsold items.

Consignment agreements are very important for the manufacturer or producer because they become the only proof of which items, and how many, were provided to the seller. They also reduce the possibility of future financial disputes.

The sample consignment agreement below was set up in MS-Word and contains all of the key information elements that should be included in a standard product consignment agreement. Although this example involves “books on consignment”, consignment agreements can be used for virtually any type of physical product.

Consignment Agreement – Sample Format

Consignment Agreement - Sample Template

Filed Under: Publishing, Templates

Online Publishing Model: Digital Fulfillment (2)


The following material is an abridged excerpt of some of the material contained in my eBook titled: Instant Book Writing Kit – How To Write, Publish and Market Your Own Money-Making Book (or eBook) Online.
http://www.InstantBookWritingKit.com

Discovering exactly how the digital fulfillment channel works was a major breakthrough for me. That discovery alone has resulted in thousands of dollars in ebook sales that I otherwise wouldn’t have made. Really!

Based on my experience, the use of this one online distribution channel is guaranteed to add hundreds or thousands of dollars annually to your bottom line sales! That’s right — if you harness the digital fulfillment channel you’ll sell hundreds more ebooks than you would just selling them from your Web sites.

DIGITAL FULFILLMENT: DEFINITION

It’s important that you understand exactly what I’m talking about when I use the term “digital fulfillment”, as opposed to print-on-demand (POD) fulfillment.

Digital fulfillment refers to when your ebook is delivered strictly in electronic form as a “digital download” product. Essentially, it’s the same as when your ebook gets downloaded from your Web site, except that, the digital fulfillment is provided by a digital download distribution company through their distribution network.

A typical example of digital fulfillment in action would be when you provide your ebook electronic files (PDF) to a company that distributes digital download ebooks to amazon.com, for example. Amazon.com would then offer your ebook to its customers as a digital download product.

THE SECRET OF DIGITAL FULFILLMENT

As I stated in Part 1 of this series, I have spent the past two plus years immersing myself in learning about the tools and techniques of successful Internet marketing to help me sell more of my ebooks/books.

In the process, I have purchased dozens of “must have” books from many heavy-hitter big-name Internet marketers. But NEVER have I read anything about the digital fulfillment strategy in ANY of those many books/ebooks from the gurus!

In fact, I basically stumbled across this largely unknown publishing money-making secret by accident when I asked a major book selling company if it would be possible to sell my ebooks through their Web sites in addition to my own.

They promptly answered that “yes”, there is indeed a way to do that, by using a digital fulfillment company. Although I didn’t fully realize it at the time, that was a breakthrough moment for me!

Typically, a digital fulfillment company maintains large digital libraries of books and ebooks. They deliver those products electronically “on demand” as digital download e-books and print books in response to orders from publishers, distributors, booksellers, and libraries.

BOTTOM LINE

The major digital fulfillment companies offer a vast distribution network, folks. Exploiting this channel means much more than just getting your ebook and/or book listed on amazon.com. It means getting your title in front of the vast majority of all book wholesalers and retailers!


WHY DIGITAL FULFILLMENT, WHEN YOU ALREADY HAVE A WEB SITE?

That’s a good logical question, and you may be surprised by the answer.

I have found that there is very little cross-over between the people that buy ebooks at my Web sites and those who buy them through sites like amazon.com, and others. That’s right.

In fact, out of many hundreds of sales through both channels I have only received one e-mail that indicated a buyer had seen my ebooks at both places.

Another proof of this is that although I use the same list price for my ebooks on my Web sites and at amazon.com, that company quite often chooses to offer a 30% discount, which makes it a much better deal to buy the ebook at their Web site.

In spite of this, sales at my Web sites remain strong. In fact I continue to sell more ebooks from my Web sites. So, it’s pretty clear that people aren’t doing cross-comparisons of prices.

They appear to be two mutually exclusive groups of shoppers!

The key point here being — if I didn’t offer my ebooks online through amazon.com and others, I would probably not make over 95% of those sales through my other distribution channels (i.e. my Web sites). Lucky for me, I now know this secret!

DIGITAL FULFILLMENT – EASY TO SET-UP

If you’re careful, and plan ahead when you create the original version of your ebook that people will purchase and download from your Web site, you’ll also be able to provide the same efiles to your digital fulfillment distributor with few changes, if any.

Typically, it will take only 10 to 15 days from the time you submit your efiles until you will start seeing your ebook show up on book retailer Web sites as digital downloads.

This channel works folks! In fact, just this afternoon I checked my account and found that over 30 copies of my Recommendation Letter Kit ebook have sold so far this month, and this is one of the slower months for that product!

I’ve also sold more than 25 paperback versions (POD) of that same book this month through the same digital distributor, but I’ll get into the POD model in the next Part of this series.

The really exciting thing about these digital download sales is, as I explained above, they are IN ADDITION to any sales that you will make via your Web site.

Awesome! It’s almost like “found money”. You just have to know how to find it.

For more information on how to do that, check out this link:
http://InstantBookWritingKit.com

Filed Under: Publishing

Online Publishing Model: Sales-Mini-Site (1)


The following article is an abridged excerpt of some of the content in my eBook titled: Instant Book Writing Kit – How To Write, Publish and Market Your Own Money-Making Book (or eBook) Online.
http://www.InstantBookWritingKit.com

Once you’ve created your book/ebook in PDF format you’re ready to start selling it via the first of three channels that make up the Online Publishing model — a dedicated Web site.

A SALES-MINI-SITE IS A MUST
Based on everything I’ve learned over the past three years about online publishing and marketing, there is only one way to effectively sell a product such as an ebook from a Web site. That is from what I call a “sales-mini-site. In fact, the creation of a mini-sales-site is an absolute MUST if you are to be successful.

This Web site will normally be your primary book/ebook sales channel, out of the three channels in the Online Publishing Model. I REPEAT. You MUST have a dedicated sales-mini-site to sell your ebook effectively online.

SALES-MINI-SITE – DEFINED
A sales-mini-site is a dedicated Web site with a URL name (i.e. domain name) specific to the product being sold on that site. The entire purpose of that sales-mini-site is to provide specific information to visitors about the one product being sold there, with the ultimate objective being to convert a certain percentage of those visitors from “browsers” into “buyers” before they leave that site.

SALES-MINI-SITE – EXAMPLES
For typical examples of sales-mini-sites, you can look at any of my Writing Help Tools Web sites:
(each one opens into a new window).

Instant Home Writing Kit

Instant Recommendation Letter Kit

Instant Business Letter Kit

Instant Resignation Letter Kit

Instant Letter Writing Kit

I’m sure you’ll see that each one of those sites has one purpose and one purpose only – to convince the targeted visitor to purchase the particular ebook being offered.

FYI, I modeled my very first sales-mini-site after Yanik Silver’s Instant Sales Letters Web site:

Instant Sales Letters

Yanik’s site is a classic example of a successful sales-mini-site which is focused on a single product. It still sells very successfully after over three years online, virtually untouched.

There are of course, literally thousands of sales-mini-sites just like those above, offering thousands of products across the Internet, one-product-at-a-time.

So, if you seriously want to sell your book or ebook online you MUST have one of these sales-mini-sites.

SALES-MINI-SITES ARE CHEAP AND EASY – REALLY!

Now that I’ve said you’ve got to have one, the good news is that creating and maintaining a sales-mini-site is not expensive, and they are not particularly difficult to set-up. Really!

For example, to host each of my sales-mini-sales (above) costs me LESS THAN US $75 per year, per site. That’s the equivalent of 2 to 3 ebook sales.

Here are the basic tasks involved in creating a sales-mini-site:

  • write your sales copy

  • design and create your Web site in HTML

  • upload your completed site to a Web host company’s server

  • select a payment processor and set-up payment links

Don’t worry, you DO NOT need to be a “techie” to get a sales-mini-site built for your book/ebook. These things are WAY easier to create than they look. You can do some of the work yourself if you like, or there are MANY ways to get free or inexpensive assistance.

There now exist dozens of powerful interface tools that allow “non-techies” to design and build their own Web sites by just pointing and clicking. You may not be aware of this, but thousands of total “non-techies” are running businesses these days from their own Web sites.

So, if you’re serious about getting your book or ebook online, don’t be scared off by the seeming “techiness” of creating a sales-mini-site. It really IS NOT AN ISSUE once you know where to look for help. And you won’t need a lot of help. Trust me on this one folks!

Of course I can’t cover all of the details here as to exactly what to do, and where to find the resources to develop a sales-mini-site, to the extent that my Instant Book Writing Kit ebook does. After all, it’s a book and this is an introductory article! Just believe that it is possible!

I hope you’re clear by now that a sales-mini-site will be your most important distribution channel under the Online Publishing Model. To find out more, here’s the link:
http://InstantBookWritingKit.com

Filed Under: Publishing

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