Ebook Writing for Beginners and Beyond

Ebooks - Marketing techniques To Maximize Sales Part 1 of 2

2008-03-29T20:22:00.000-07:00

by Jo Mark

As your first ebooks nears completion, you begin to figure out ways to spend those big bucks you will be raking in. Hmm... Maybe you'll buy that house on the beach.

Many people believe the hype from that old movie; "If you write it, they will come." Unfortunately, it ain't so! Your book will not generate traffic and buyers out of thin air. You have to market your ebook. You have to let people know about it, build anticipation for it, and market the heck out of it.

But what is the best way to market a new ebook? It is best to use a variety of different techniques. Don't use just one method, diversify. If you use just one marketing method, you will reach a very limited amount of buyers. If you use four different marketing programs, you will reach three to four times as many people, and I can almost assure you, some of them will be interested in your ebook.

I like to write articles to promote my products. Although it is my primary marketing technique, it is not the only one that I use. Include a resource box that contains three links with every article you write. One of the links directs the reader to my squeeze page. This is an important factor in building my list. The other links point to one of my ebooks or another product that I am promoting. Submit at least three articles each week to the ten largest article directories. Better yet, submit one or more articles every day to maximize your article marketing campaign.

Use free and paid ads to market your ebook. By doing search, you will find many ad sources available in this area. Solo ads, if marketed to the right list, can also be very effective. Use a number of different headlines and copy in your ads. Make sure to test the results from each ad variation to determine which performs best. Then, each week, eliminate the weakest performing ad and replace it with a new ad or the best performer.

In part 2, I will cover additional marketing techniques.

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The Fast Way To Write Hot-Selling Ebooks - In Four Steps

2008-03-27T21:09:00.000-07:00

By Angela Booth

Ebooks are hot-sellers, but can be daunting to write. If you've been procrastinating on writing your own ebooks, try this easy four-step process below.

(Although this process assumes that you're doing the writing yourself, you could hire someone else to write the articles, and additional material for your ebooks.)

1. Write a series of articles

Once you've decided on a topic for your ebook, and have done research to ensure that people are looking for and buying information on this topic, write a series of articles.

Articles are less intimidating to write than an ebook, and you can use some of the articles as promotional tools to create demand for your forthcoming book. Post several articles on your Web site, as well as on the article directions.

When you post your articles to the article directories, the number of views your articles receive will show you what potential your ebook has for making sales.

2. Develop your ebook's structure

While you're writing the articles, develop your ebook's structure. You ebook will contain an introduction, the main body of the material, a closing chapter, and some additional material too. Consider writing several more articles as a bonus. Offering a bonus will enhance your sales.

3. Slot your articles into the structure

As you complete your articles, slot them into your ebook's structure. The number of articles you need will depend on your ebook's length. Ebooks are shorter than print books, with the optimum length of an ebook being around 50 pages.

Because it's more difficult to read on your computer screen than on the page, ensure that there's no "fluff" in your ebook. Fluff chapters are those which are essentially useless to your reader.

For example, if you're writing an ebook on how take digital photographs, a chapter on the history of digital photography is just fluff. Stick to the ebook's topic, and offer good, useful information.

4. Add the Introduction and final chapter

One you've written sufficient articles for the body of your ebook, write the Introduction, and the concluding chapter. You may need to add additional material to some of the chapters, to make them read well.

Consider adding images too. In our digital photography ebook, you could take some photos yourself to use as examples for various techniques discussed in the ebook. Any images you add should be essential, not merely decorative.

You may need to write another couple of articles for additional information and transitional material, but the bulk of your ebook will consist of the articles you've already written.

Be alert for "bonus" material as you write

Ebook purchasers love to get bonus material with their ebooks. Your bonus material could include a small report (just write two or three additional articles), checklists, or templates.

As you're writing your articles, think about your bonuses. An article will often inspire an idea for one or two bonuses. However, as with all the material you create for your ebook, ensure that your bonus material is relevant - it should be valuable in its own right.

So there you have it - a simple four-step method for writing ebooks which are easy and fun to write. Start your next ebook today.

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Why A $7 Product Makes You More Than $7

2008-03-24T23:07:00.000-07:00

By Michael Gooden

How I made $3,000 in 7 days selling a 30 page report.

First of all, an inexpensive product combined with a high conversion rate can yield some happy results for your pocketbook. Take, for instance, the results from my first seven dollar report.

I sent a promotion out to my list for my first seven dollar report, and within 7 days I'd sold 325 copies.

325

X $7.00

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$2,275.00

Yup, I made more than two thousand dollars off of that report in just seven days. It only took me about three hours to write the report, and maybe two hours to setup the web site. That's five total hours put into that project. That means I earned $455 an hour for that project (in the first seven days - and I'm still making sales every day). Not too shabby - but the profits didn't stop there.

I also embedded the report with affiliate links to products that related to the report itself, and in the first 7 days, those affiliate programs earned me another $750, putting my total earnings for the first 7 days at over $3,000 - and like I said, I'm still making sales every day.

Email List Building

Seven dollar products are also a great way to build your email list - in fact, I consider this aspect at least as important as the initial sales and affiliate sales dollars I'm earning from the reports themselves and the links.

Again, let me share my success with you. In the first seven days of my first report, my affiliates sold 450 copies of the report, which added 450 people to my email list. The next time I send out an announcement for a seven dollar report, that means 450 more people will have the chance to buy, and 450 more people have the chance to become an affiliate, which will add even more people to my email list and continue to grow my revenue over time - not to mention the fact that I've now got 450 more people who will see the next offer I send out for somebody else's high dollar products.

All this from a seven dollar product.

Why Not Just Give It Away?

You might be thinking, "if you have affiliate links in the report anyway, why not just give the report away?" You might think that you'd make more money that way, since more people would have access to the report, but there are three reasons why that's not the case:

1. People who won't spend $7 certainly won't spend $47, $67, $97 or more. If somebody is too cheap, or too broke, to spend $7 on a report that you've written, what makes you think they'd spend a lot more on any of the products you've linked to? As a rule, they won't.

2. Giving the report away for free cheapens it in the mind of readers. Unfortunately, people generally feel that anything free is not worth having. So if you don't charge something for the report, people won't be inclined to take it's information very seriously - including any affiliate products you recommend or any call to action that you give the reader to perform. Making the report seven dollars gives it some "real world" value.

3. A free report has no viral capabilities. What makes the $7 Secrets method so valuable is how viral it is - affiliates love to sell it (more on that later). There's no incentive for people to give away free reports. Your list is where that report will stop.

Inexpensive Reports as a Business Model

If you create a dozen of these seven dollar informational products, all of which are continually sold by your affiliates, you will watch your profits quickly rise over time. But why stop at a dozen? They're so easy to make. Why not make twenty, or thirty, or fifty? I am personally so excited about this method that I'm planning on building a little miniempire of seven dollar informational products!

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How To Use Ebooks For Affiliate Promotion

2008-03-24T23:04:00.000-07:00

By Andy Machin

If you are not using ebooks as one of your affiliate marketing armory then you could be leaving money on the table. Ebooks and affiliate marketing fit together like a hand in a glove. You do not need any particular special skills or software to write a brief ebook or report either. Just your experience of the product or service you wish to promote and the ability to type a little.

The traditional email marketing method is still valid though if you have noticed dwindling response rates then stepping it up a gear and giving your readers something extra can pay dividends. If you are going to promote a product or service to your mailing list or from your web site then writing a short review of that product or service based on your experience of using it can be a very powerful persuader and increase conversions.

After reading the above paragraph, ask yourself the question. Would you be inclined more to take any sort of action if you received a normal promotional type email or if you could download a review based on the personal experience of the promoter and read it at your leisure before deciding whether to purchase or not. The latter I'd wager because it carries much more weight because of the personal recommendation in a tangible format.

If you have had a positive experience of something which you now wish to promote to your list or from your web site strongly consider writing an unbiased review and using that for promotional purposes. Using your own words simply type as you find. Start with a brief overview of the product or service then go on to your experiences of it. What you liked, what you did not like, the results you experienced and so forth. Wrap it up with a conclusion and why you are recommending it to your readers or web site visitors. And do not forget to include your affiliate link so you get the commission if any of your readers or visitors make a purchase.

If you use Open Office as your word processor of choice then not only is it free but it includes the facility to save the document in to pdf format. Then just make your pdf in to a zip file and you have your review ready to give to your subscribers via email or from your web site as a download. How easy is that.

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How To Write A Best Selling E-Book

2008-03-22T21:59:00.000-07:00

By Jo Mark

If you have an online business, you probably know that the most profitable product you can sell is one that you create yourself. If that is the case, why are there so many people complaining that they've written an ebook, but no one is buying it?

The answer to that is simple; it involves a poor choice of subject matter! Many Internet coaches will tell you that you should write about subjects that you enjoy. Writing about a subject you enjoy may ensure that you will finish the project, but it does not mean that people will buy it.

If your ebook is a 'how to ebook' on taming wild horses, you are not going to sell a lot of ebooks. There is not a lot of interest in taming horses. And when there is little interest, there are few buyers. If your ebook describes all of the wonderful uses of whale oil, it is possible that one or two Eskimos will be interested, but few others will buy the ebook.

You've got to write about subjects that people are interested in. The best selling ebooks solve a problem. If you want to sell a lot of ebooks, find a solution to a common problem and put it into an ebook. If your mother used a secret family recipe to create a concoction that cured a rash; that could be a best seller. If you have discovered a technique to triple your website traffic that requires little or no work, that is a best selling ebook.

Focus on problems and how to solve them. Visit forums and find out what people are complaining about. If you have a solution, or if you can do enough research to find a solution; that is a subject for your next ebook. And I can almost guarantee you that it will sell much more than your last ebook.

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Network Marketing Success - Creating A Viral Auto-Recruiting E-book Is Easier Than You Might Think

2008-03-22T21:54:00.000-07:00

By Jonathan Hutchinson

Writing an E-book may seem like a daunting task to many people. You may find that the hardest part is writing the 1st sentence. Once you have started, the writing quite often will just flow.

Let it flow.

Write it just like you think it. Don't worry about spelling or structure at the moment.

Just let it flow.

Before you know it you will have written enough raw content to fill your book a couple of times. Once you edit it and proofread it, you should have enough content for a good E-book.

For network marketing to work online, it has to be very simple for the masses.

If you can write an E-book that introduces, explains, and recruits for you and your team, you will have successfully blended network marketing with internet marketing.

The type of E-book that works best for promoting a network marketing opportunity is a viral E-book. Viral marketing is all the rage these days because it works.

What makes an E-book viral?

1. It has to be free.

2. You have to let people give it away for free.

3. You also let your team re-brand the E-book with their links. This allows them to easily get the word out to their prospect base.

Writing an E-book that contains these elements can put your team into hyper-growth. So long as every person that gets a re-branded copy actually sends it out to their contacts, you will have a never-ending supply of fresh new Dealers coming into your business.

If you write a particularly good E-book, you could generate business from it for many years to come.

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Powerful Ebook Writing - Latest 5 Marvelous Methods to Grow Your Ebook Writing

2008-03-19T22:44:00.000-07:00

By Sean R Mize

These days, a lot of people are making huge amount of money by sharing their knowledge through ebook writing. If you want to be one them, these 5 marvelous methods will help you succeed in this field.

1. Having fun while writing your ebook is an important factor to ensure your success in this endeavor. If you don't like what you are doing, your content will surely sound dull and uninteresting. That is why, it is crucial that you pick topics that you love or deeply passionate about.

2. Be creative and think out of the box. Don't follow the norm or what is deemed conventional in ebook writing. Strive to be unique and be known for it. Introduce new exciting concepts or new writing styles that will capture the interest of your readers.

3. Establish your expertise. As you know, people will only transact with marketers whom they feel is knowledgeable and an expert on their chosen niche. As such, you need to gain their trust using the most effective marketing tool in the internet today - article marketing. Write articles about topics that concerns your niche or your potential clients and post them on submission sites. If your articles are well-written and content-rich, people will most likely to consider buying your ebook.

4. While people don't usually judge the book by its cover, it is beneficial that you make your ebook design visually appealing and enticing. After all, this is the first element that your potential clients would see, so creating a good impression is vital. Incorporate attractive images and appropriate graphics and animations not only in your cover but throughout the book as needed.

5. Promote your ebook. Advertise your offering through PPC advertising, banner ads, paid placement, article marketing, forum posting, or through affiliate marketing to secure great sales potential.

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Selling Ebooks on eBay - One Author's Experience

2008-03-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

By A Dawes

If somebody were to ask, I could definitely say "yes," I've been an eBay PowerSeller.

And my path to PowerSeller-hood was paved with ebooks. In other words, I sold at least $2K worth of ebooks - for three months in a row - to qualify for eBay PowerSeller status.

Here's how I did it...

1. I sold higher priced ebooks.

On average my titles cost $47 on eBay. This price tends to be on the higher end of the scale for ebooks sold on eBay.

However in my auction listing I mention that outside of eBay they'd pay $77-$97 for the exact same titles. So bidders felt like they were getting quite a deal by paying half-price.

And that's one of the main points about selling on eBay. Most buyers are there with the psychological mindset that they want a deal.

Your job is to show them that they're getting a deal. By significantly lowering your price for the eBay audience - by one quarter to one half - and then telling them how high it is on your website, you're feeding that mindset.

2. I experimented with different categories.

Ebooks can be seen in a variety of categories on eBay. And even when you think you've chosen the best one for your ebook, you should still test other infoproduct related categories.

For ebooks that have no obviously appropriate category, I like the non-fiction books category. In my experience, higher priced ebooks tend to do well here anyway.

3. I almost always opted for a featured auction.

Yes, featured auctions do cost more than a regular listing. A lot more. But being first in a category has its own advantages.

Whenever I do featured auctions, I list 10 copies of an ebook within that auction. That's called a featured Dutch auction. And if you're going to pay extra for the featured auction, you may as well try to sell more than one copy of your ebook.

If I have several related ebooks, I'll only feature one auction. Then I'll list the other titles under regular auctions. The featured auction acts as a traffic funnel for the regular auctions.

4. I coincided eBay sales with off eBay marketing promotions.

If I were actively marketing an ebook off of eBay, I'd make sure to list an auction on eBay at the exact same time.

In fact this is one of the easiest ways to generate sales fast. While some people may be reluctant to order your ebook at a higher price, your auction on eBay may be just the encouragement they need to do business with you.

Best of all, you haven't lost any money since these are people who probably wouldn't have seen your website and purchased from you.

The most important thing to remember about selling on eBay is that it's just like selling in real-life or from your own website. Establish a strategy... test your strategy... and do more of what works.

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Are You Selling Ebooks? Discover The Magic Formula To Sell Ebooks Like Crazy

2008-03-19T21:33:00.000-07:00

By Mark A. Abrahams

Let me ask you a good question. Are you currently selling ebooks in your business? The reason that I ask this is that this is one of the easiest ways that you can get started online.

In the information age today people are hungry for information and this truly is the perfect business. If you sell digital information you do not have to worry about physically shipping products and the sale of the product is complete profit.

However, many people struggle to get started doing this. In this article I would like to go over the main ingredients that you need to succeed.

The most important step is that you need to research your target market. You need to find a hot market and satisfy demand for it. The best way to do this is send your subscribers an email asking them what there main problems are and then create an ebook based on this market research solving these.

I suggest that you create an ebook in a pdf format. You can use professional Adobe software or one of the cheaper versions of pdf software. If you are technically challenged to get your credit card processing and secure download area to work I suggest that you outsource this instead of letting it hold you back.

I think that the biggest problem that prevents people from doing this is creating a killer sales letter that will convert visitors into paid customers. Most of us are not very good at direct response marketing and I personally found this to be a real challenge to create a sales letter that will convert. You may want to outsource this, but be warned you can pay anywhere from $2000 to $15000 for a good sales letter.

Finally, if you can learn good copywriting skills you will be able to churn out a large number of ebooks as you do not have to fork out the expensive cost of hiring a copywriter.

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Different Ebook Formats Explained

2008-03-18T21:29:00.000-07:00

By Roberto Sedycias

Ebooks can be produced in a wide variety of formats, and each has its own special features. The special features make the it suitable for certain publications and styles, which makes sure that the necessary information is conveyed in the must suitable and economical way possible. Ebook titles include both fiction and non fiction, and can be for professional, academics the general public and children alike. Ebooks are proving to be a time and money efficient way to provide information and entertainment around the globe. The following is an explanation of the types and uses of the most common formats.

The most easily recognisable type of ebook is one that uses a DNL reader. The DNL reader is available at small or no cost and is easy to download. These ebooks usually replicate the page turning format of a regular book, transferring that information onto the digital page. Therefore, this has the feel of reading a real book and is often used in children`s story telling ebooks. The other easily recognisable format is the plain text format. This needs Microsoft windows or DOS to read and as these are the most commonly used operating systems, the format used is familiar. These options are designed to take up little storage memory and so are best used for text only ebooks.

Image format ebooks are used to display information through a sequence of images. Therefore, this type of ebook is excellent for the production of children`s picture books, art and comic books, and graphic novellas. They require more memory space than other ebooks formats, but are the only real option for people wishing to publish lots of photographic or pictorial information. The down side of this format is that the text cannot be selected for amendments or notes. Also, only certain applications support them and so specific readers may need to be purchased.

HTML ebooks are commonly used as they are accessible on any standard browser. The bonus of this is that no special reader is required and so the it is more accessible and can reach a wider audience. HTML formatted ebooks can include search features, images and sound and so provide an al round experience. However, HTML language is complex, written in specific codes which act as formatting commands and so for publishers they can be difficult to produce as specific training is required. However, these are the most functional for readers.

Open Electronic Book Packages known as OPFs have the best multimedia content. The video and search facilities are quick and stable and the interactive element makes them an excellent choice for publishers of encyclopaedias and children`s interactive learning ebooks. For portability, an they needs to have a JavaScript format, such as Libris, as this is compatible for PDAs and Smartphones, and any Windows, Blackberry and Palm operating systems. These formats can add blank pages for additional notes; create free hand drawings, and also annotations and corrections with inbuilt dictionary and bookmarks features. OPFs are set to become popular for academic research texts in universities and colleges. For recreational and sporting users, iPod ebook creators can create small text file ebooks for the iPod.

And finally, another common format is the Portable Document Format, saved as a .pdf file and read by Adobe. The PDF ebook can be read on and printed from various platforms on the internet and so this is a commonly used format as the audience is wide reaching and no extra equipment is needed. The PDF is mainly associated with text, tables, indexes, hyperlinks and simple drawings so the ebooks most commonly found using PDF include short literary pieces, papers, reports and journals.

However, the PDF format can also include extra fonts and images, plus sound and video clips. Therefore, for the competent user this is an excellent choice for e-zines and flyers advertising ebooks, plus interesting articles. The main disadvantage with this format is that the pages do not always fit computer screen width, and they are difficult to adjust and so have to be scrolled both vertically and horizontally to be read.

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Create Information Products Quickly And Easily - Without Writing Them Yourself

2008-03-18T21:26:00.000-07:00

By Patsy Bellah

Does this scenario sound familiar?

You've got a great idea for a fantastic eBook or information product.

The ideas are flowing. They're coming at you so fast you can't type fast enough!

You sit at your computer hour after hour, spending time away from your family, and you still haven't finished your book. You're embarrassed every time someone asks you when you plan to be finished, or how long have you been writing this book, or worse yet, "Are you really writing a book or just pretending you are?"

The methods suggested in "How To Get Your Info-Product To Market With Lightning Speed!" will be of help to you to derail this scenario and get you on the track to producing products faster than you ever dreamed possible. Here's what Jo Condril, Author, Consultant, Speaker, said, "Bravo, Patsy. You're answering the question that most of us writers and entrepreneurs have, how do we get these ideas from our hearts and our minds onto paper?"

Following the seven steps in the idea below which will get you on the right track. This is just one of the 14 ideas you'll find in the book.

1. You know your subject. Either it's something you've done in the past, it's a solution you've come up with for a problem that you were able to solve, your hobby, or maybe it's just something that you're very interested in so you've done some research on it. Whatever it is, you know your subject. The problem is getting that information from your mind, heart and head onto paper.

2. You should first, however, do a little more research to make sure that this subject is something other people will be interested in. Then write out an outline of your subject, just about 12 items that you want to cover. Each of those items is a chapter for your book, and all you have to do is expand on those ideas.

3. Call a friend, one you see quite often anyway and invite them to lunch, or better yet, invite them over to your house for lunch. Just make sure wherever you go is very quiet. Even a picnic will do. Tell them you want about an hour of their time.

4. Take along your digital recorder and over lunch, while you and your friend are enjoying each other's company, tell them your story or give them the information about your subject, just talk to them as you normally would. Only this time you'll be recording your conversation.

5. They may ask you questions for clarification. This is even better because it gives you a chance to clarify any questions that might come up and need to be explored more fully. The enthusiasm you feel for this information will come through and your friend will get excited about it, too.

6. By the time you've finished your lunch, you will probably have at least one chapter of your book finished, perhaps more, perhaps even the whole book. You talk at approximately 150 words a minute. One hour will equal between 15-25 pages. If you need more in order to finish your book, ask your friend (or another friend) to lunch and do the same thing again.

7. You can transcribe it yourself from the audio, but the best thing to do is to send it to someone else who is experienced in transcribing audios. It takes approximately 4 hours for an experienced transcriptionist with the right equipment to type each hour of audio, so why spend your time doing it when you can get it done so much easier and faster by someone else and I think you'll find that this is more economical than you think it would be.
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When you get the transcript back, you'll have a Word document which you can then edit. The whole process has taken you less than a week and you're well on your way to having your product ready for the market. No more sweating over a hot computer, with little results.

That's just one of the ways suggested in the book "How To Get Your Info-Product To Market With Lightning Speed!" You'll find many more and each of them will probably trigger more ideas of your own.

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Create PDF E-books Today

2008-03-17T19:42:00.000-07:00

By Stephen R. Beck

When I first wanted to sell ebooks, I was overwhelmed. How do I put my e-book on my website? How do I turn my e-book into a pdf so others can read it? My list of questions went on and on. As I researched e-books, I discovered it is really quite simple. All I had to do was use the right shareware to create PDF ebooks. Once I found the software, the rest fell into place quite nicely.

My favorite way to publish an e-book is with a PDF file. Don't get scared at a new term. A PDF is basically a small file that anybody can read on any computer with any operating system. This is one of the best ways to satisfy PC and MAC users. A PDF is also easy to move around. You can even attach it to an email if it's small enough.

Now you are wondering where do I find a way to create PDF ebooks with shareware. It is so simple, anyone who can print a Word document can make a PDF. Just go online and google "pdf995". You will find a free software that will convert your document into a PDF and it's all free.

Once you download the software, it is very easy to use. When you have your document completed, all you do is print it. Instead of printing the document on real paper, you will use pdf995 to "print" it into a pdf. Once it is finished, your document is now a pdf. Now, anyone with any type of computer can read it. It doesn't matter if they have a PC or MAC, they can read a pdf.

There are other "create PDF ebook shareware" programs available. As you look for the software that's best for you, be sure you get one that keeps your links clickable in the pdf. When you customer is reading your ebook and comes to a link you've included, they should be able to click that link and be transported to that web page.

Beware because any free pdf software programs do not create clickable links. If you want to use your ebook to sell other products online, you must have links that click.

Once your ebook is in a pdf format, you can easily learn how to put e-books on your website. All you do is open your ftp program. Find your pdf in "My Documents" and drag it on to your server. Now your e-book is online and you can sell it on your website. Once your customer pays for the e-book, send them the link to the pdf you just uploaded. It really is as simple as it seems.

Stephen Beck teaches you how to write an ebook and to create a "cash on demand" online business. Marketing information products has never been easier when you watch Steve's video.

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Ebook Writing - Revealed - 5 High Impact Ways to Accelerate Your Ebook Writing

2008-03-17T19:35:00.000-07:00

By Sean R Mize

The demand for ebook is steadily increasing and has created great opportunities for people who have flair for writing. If you are one of them, start tapping on your key board and earn unlimited income.

Here are the 5 high impact ways to accelerate your ebook writing:

1. Write about topics that you are passionately interested about. When you write about things that you love and very knowledgeable about, you can easily fill your ebook with useful and valuable information that can easily interest your target market. Also, this will make your writing more of a hobby and not just a boring task. This can lead to more energized ebook that spells out enthusiasm and passion.

2. Write your table of content. Take note of all the important information that you would like to include in your ebook and organize them on your table of content. Make sure that you present your ideas in a logical manner to give your target market great reading experience.

3. Avoid redundancy. Do not repeat the same information on other parts of your ebook. If you would like to give emphasis to some information, you can just highlight them or set their fonts in bold. Redundancy is just a waste of time for your readers and it communicates a strong message that you don't have so much information to share.

4. Your information must be fact-based. The last thing you would like to do while writing your content is to mislead your readers, right? Thus, it is important that every information you put on your content are well-founded and backed up by strong evidence.

5. Proofread. Readers judge your credibility and professionalism based on your content. To easily gain their trust, make sure it is free from any spelling, grammar, and factual errors.

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How To Organize Your Content So It Practically Writes Itself

2008-03-17T19:26:00.000-07:00

By Cara Lumen

I once wrote a play. Well actually I wrote a lot of scenes and found myself laying them out all over my bed trying to sort them in some sort of sequence. (This was before computers). It was the only way I could take what had emerged from my imagination and make any sense out of it.

Of course, now I know better. Even now if simply start writing content as I get inspired, I find it much, much harder to organize than if I had a plan in the first place. Being able to see the overview of what you are going to create is actually a talent, but it is also a skill you can learn. Here's my method.

Find your core message

Why are you writing this? What one point do you wish to make above all else? I'll use the example of a book I'm working on now. It's "How to Write Magnetic Sales Pages." My purpose is to create a ebook/workbook that helps people pull their ideas and phrases from their subconscious and put it into a specific structure in order to create a compelling sales page. That makes sense. This core message is the clothes line that will go from beginning to end upon which I will hang my points, one chapter "clothes pin" at a time.

Find your beginner's mind

Who are you writing to? How much do they know? What foundational material do you have to include in order to orient them to your content? I'm beginning my book with information on why people buy. That makes sense. We're writing sales pages to get people to purchase so understanding that process is an invaluable foundation upon which to build.

Build your path

Lay out your stepping stones. What do they need to know next? What after that? These are your chapter headings. Don't worry about the name for them, just get the idea. In my case, I need for people to get very clear about the purpose of their sales page so I have organized my chapters and exercises to help them make internal decisions that will affect their content. It takes them step-by-step to a finished product.

Choose your equipment

What "tools" will your readers need in order to reach the conclusion you are taking them toward? Again, in my example, it's fairly easy to see. We have to talk about the mechanics of creating content - headlines, subheads, keywords, the circular paragraph, etc. Fill your reader's toolkit before you move on.

The key question

Now comes the magic organizer. Imagine that you have just mapped out a nature walk. You have posted signs along the path to mark the places you will stop and discuss with your students the scene before them. Why did you choose one viewing point rather than another? You have to know exactly what you want them to learn. The most powerful phrase you can ask yourself is "Students leave with an understanding of:." If you place that question at the beginning of every chapter heading you have created and answer it, your content will practically write itself.

The first time I created a Table of Contents for the Magnetic Sales Page book I found that on one chapter heading, when put in the line "Students leave with an understanding of:" I had to answer it with "I have no clue." Needless to say I rearranged that particular point.

This key question is a powerful measuring stick for making certain your content is heard and understood.

Review your overview

From your work so far, create your table of contents and look it over for a logical sequence. Do you need to move the chapter on one topic higher up? Have you answered a question in another place? Do chapters need to be combined? Remember your beginner's mind and build your case one logical sequential step at a time. Look at your core "clothesline" theme. Look at the "garment" chapters you have hung on that line. If you have made your point, if you know what your students will leave with an understanding of, start writing.

Are they students or readers?

We all want to be heard. We don't write unless we want to communicate. Whether it is fiction, a how to book or a sales page, we want our content to be understood, So of course, we want to make our point. For me a reader can be a casual observer. A student, on the other hand, really wants to "get it." That's why I use "Students leave with an understanding of:" and let my content write itself.

Cara Lumen, The Vision Distiller, helps pro-active entrepreneurs translate their passion into a profitable presence on the internet. As a content strategist she guides you to copy that compells and sells. Her own information products are noted for their clarity and richness. Through The Magnetic Marketing Method she offers innovative, inexpensive, and impactful ideas for internet marketing, content strategy, and signature product development. Find more articles like this in The Success Magnets Emagazine at http://www.caralumen.com

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Writing Your First E-Book - Why Your First E-Book Will Not Be Your Best Writing

2008-03-16T16:53:00.000-07:00

By Connie Ragen Green

Your first ebook will not be your best ebook. It will not make you the most money or show people how knowledgeable you are. So why should you write your first ebook? So that you can write the next one and make great changes and improvements to how and what you are writing. Here are some ways to use your first ebook to make a huge difference in your online writing.

* As you go through the process of writing this first ebook, you will learn about your style of writing, which time of day is best for you to write, and other things that will help you with future writing.

* Your first writing will tend to be more autobiographical. What this means is that you will want to share more information about yourself and your experiences with your readers. This may be alright, depending upon your niche, but you will want to refine this over time. You want your readers to hear about your experiences while also learning how this will affect them.

* As you gain experience with your writing, you will begin to write more quickly and to convey your message to others in a more clear and concise way. This will improve your credibility and lead to a greater expectation of value from your readers.

* Even though this first ebook will always be close to your heart, eventually you may want to give it away to people as a bonus when they purchase your current ebook. This way many people will be able to read and learn from your first writing.

I encourage you to get help while writing your ebooks. The process will go more smoothly if you have someone to bounce ideas off of while you are writing your ebook.

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Write an Ebook Using These 12 Simple Steps

2007-10-02T19:03:00.000-07:00

by Verlencia Millet
Copyright (c) 2007

The hardest part of writing is the first sentence.
When you look at the whole project, it seems like an
impossible task. That's why you have to break it down
into manageable tasks. Think of climbing a mountain.
You are standing at the foot of it and looking up at
its summit vanishing into the clouds. How can you
possibly scale such an immense and dangerous mountain?

There is only one way to climb a mountain, step by
step.

Now think of writing your ebook in the same light. You
must create it step by step, and one day, you will
take that last step and find yourself standing on the
summit with your head in the clouds.

Step 1: Get Organized

The first thing you have to do, as if you actually
were a mountain climber, is to get organized. Instead
of climbing gear, however, you must organize your
thoughts. There are some steps you should take before
you begin. Once you've gone through the following
list, you will be ready to actually begin writing your
ebook.

Step 2: Figure Out Your Ebook's Title

Figure out your ebook's working title. Jot down
a few different titles, and eventually, you'll find
that one that will grow on you. Titles help you to
focus your writing on your topic; they guide you in
anticipating and answering your reader's queries. Many
non-fiction books also have subtitles. Aim for clarity
in your titles, but cleverness always helps to sell
books ? as long as it's not too cute. For example,
Remedies for Insomnia: twenty different ways to count
sheep. Or: Get off that couch: fifteen exercise plans
to whip you into shape.

Step 3: Write Out a Thesis Statement

Next, write out a thesis statement. Your thesis is a
sentence or two stating exactly what problem you are
addressing and how your book will solve that problem.
All chapters spring forth from your thesis statement.
Once you've got your thesis statement fine-tuned,
you've built your foundation. From that foundation,
your book will grow, chapter by chapter.

Your thesis will keep you focused while you write your
ebook. Remember: all chapters must support your thesis
statement. If they don't, they don't belong in your
book. For example, your thesis statement could read:
We've all experienced insomnia at times in our lives,
but there are twenty proven techniques and methods to
give you back a good night's sleep.

Step 4: Make Sure There is a Good Reason to Write Your Book

Ask yourself some questions:

* Does your book present useful information and is
that information currently relevant?

* Will your book positively affect the lives of your
readers?

* Is your book dynamic and will it keep the reader's
attention?

* Does your book answer questions that are meaningful
and significant?

If you can answer yes to these questions, you can feel
confident about the potential of your ebook.

Step 5: Pinpoint Your Target Audience

Another important step is to figure out who your
target audience is. It is this group of people you
will be writing to, and this group will dictate many
elements of your book, such as style, tone, diction,
and even length. Figure out the age range of your
readers, their general gender, what they are most
interested in, and even the socio-economic group they
primarily come from. Are they people who read fashion
magazines or book reviews? Do they write letters in
longhand or spend hours every day online. The more you
can pin down your target audience, the easier it will
be to write your book for them.

Step 6: Make a List of Reasons You Are Writing Your Ebook.

Do you want to promote your business? Do you
want to bring quality traffic to your website? Do you
want to enhance your reputation?

Step 7: Write Down Your Publishing Goals

Do you want to sell it as a product on your website, or
do you want to offer it as a free gift for filling out
a survey or for ordering a product? Do you want to use
the chapters to create an e-course, or use your ebook
to attract affiliates around the world? The more you
know upfront, the easier the actual writing will be.

Step 8: Decide on the Format of Your Chapters

In non-fiction,keep the format from chapter to chapter fairly
consistent. Perhaps you plan to use an introduction to
your chapter topic, and then divide it into four
subhead topics. Or you may plan to divide it into five
parts, each one beginning with a relevant anecdote.

Step 9: Make Your Ebook "User Friendly"

You must figure out how to keep your writing engaging.
Often anecdotes, testimonials, little stories, photos,
graphs, advice, and tips will keep the reader turning
the pages. Sidebars are useful for quick, accessible
information, and they break up the density of the
page.

Write with a casual, conversational tone rather than a
formal tone such as textbook diction. Reader's respond
to the feeling that you are having a conversation with
them. Break up the length and structure of your
sentences so you don?t hypnotize your readers into
sleep. Sentences that are all the same length and
structure tend to be a good aid for insomnia!

Good writing takes practice. It takes lots and lots of
practice. Make a schedule to write at least a page a
day. Read books and magazines about the process of
writing, and jot down tips that jump out at you. The
art of writing is a lifetime process; the more you
write (and read), the better your writing will become.
The better your writing becomes, the bigger your sales
figures.

Step 10: Make Your Ebook Easy on the Eyes

In an ebook that is read on the screen, be aware that
you must give your reader's eye a break. You can do
this by utilizing white space. In art classes, white
space is usually referred to as "negative space."
Reader's eyes need to rest in the cool white oasises
you create on your page. If your page is too dense,
your reader will quit out of it as soon as their eyes
begin to tear.

Make use of lists, both bulleted and numbered. This
makes your information easy to absorb, and gives the
reader a mental break from dissecting your paragraphs
one after the other.

Decide on an easy-to-read design. Find a font
that's easy on the eyes, and stick to that font
family. Using dozens of fonts will only tire your
readers out before they've gotten past your
introduction. Use at least one and a half line
spacing, and text large enough to be read easily on
the screen, but small enough so that the whole page
can be seen on a computer screen. You will have to
experiment with this to find the right combination.

Step 11: Run a Spell and Grammar Check

You are judged by something as minor as correct
punctuation, so don't mess up a great book by tossing
out semicolons randomly, or stringing sentences
together with commas. (By the way, that's called a
"comma splice.")

Step 12: Create an Index and a Bibliography.

That's it! You've written a book! Now all you have to
do is publish your ebook online, and wait for download
requests from your website visitors.

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The Top 10 Ebook Writing Questions

2007-09-29T20:42:00.000-07:00

The Top 10 Ebook Writing Questions
Copyright © Verlencia Millet

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The Top 10 Ebook Writing Questions
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1. Everything That Has Been Said Has Already
Been Written. Right?

No, it is not true that everything that has been said has
already been written. Since that unfortunate axiom
came into use, the whole universe has changed.
Technology has changed, ideas have changed, and the
mindsets of entire nations have changed.

2. Is This a Good Time to Write an Ebook?

The fact is that this is the perfect time to write an
ebook. What the publishing industry needs are people
who can tap into the world as it is today - innovative
thinkers who can make the leap into the new millennium
and figure out how to solve old problems in a new way.
Ebooks are a new and powerful tool for original
thinkers with fresh ideas to disseminate information
to the millions of people who are struggling to figure
out how to do a plethora of different things.

3. What About Publishing?

Let's say you already have a brilliant idea, and the
knowledge to back it up that will enable you to write
an exceptional ebook. You may be sitting at your
computer staring at a blank screen wondering, "Why?
Why should I go through all the trouble of writing my
ebook when it's so impossible to get anything
published these days?"

Well, let me assure you that publishing an ebook is
entirely different than publishing a book in print.
Let's look at the specifics of how the print and cyber
publishing industry differ, and the many reasons why
you should take the plunge and get your fingers
tapping across those keyboards!

Submitting a print book to conventional publishing
houses or to agents is similar to wearing a hair shirt
24/7. No matter how good your book actually is, or how
many critique services and mentor writers have told
you that "you have got what it takes," your submitted
manuscript keeps coming back to you as if it is a
boomerang instead of a valuable mine of information.

Perhaps, in desperation, you have checked out
self-publishing and found out just how expensive a
venture it can be. Most "vanity presses" require
minimal print runs of at least 500 copies, and even
that amount will cost you thousands of dollars. Some
presses' minimal run starts at 1,000 to 2,000 copies.
And that's just for the printing and binding. Add in
distribution, shipping, and promotional costs and -
well, you do the math. Even if you wanted to go this
route, you may not have that kind of money to risk.

4. What Kind of Information Should I Put in an Ebook?

Let's say you already have an Internet business with a
quality website and a quality product. An ebook is one
of the most powerful ways to promote your business
while educating people with the knowledge you already
possess as a business owner of a specific product or
service.

For example, let's say that you have spent the last
twenty-five years growing and training bonsai trees,
and now you are ready to share your knowledge and
experience. An ebook is the perfect way to reach the
largest audience of bonsai enthusiasts.

5. Can I Promote My Business in My Ebook?

Ebooks will not only promote your business - they will
help you make a name for yourself and your company,
and establish you as an expert in your field. You may
even find that you have enough to say to warrant a
series of ebooks. Specific businesses are complicated
and often require the different aspects to be divided
in order for the reader to get the full story.

Perhaps your goals are more finely tuned in terms of
the ebook scene. You may want to build a whole
business around writing and publishing ebooks.
Essentially, you want to start an e-business. You are
thinking of setting up a website to promote and market
your ebooks. Maybe you are even thinking of producing
an ezine.

6. Why Do People Read Ebooks?

One of the most prevalent reasons people read ebooks
is to find information about how to turn their
Internet businesses into a profit-making machine. And
these people are looking to the writers of ebooks to
provide them with new ideas and strategies because
writers of ebooks are usually people who understand
the new cyberspace world we now live in. Ebook writers
are experts in Internet marketing campaigns and the
strategies of promoting and distributing ebooks. The
cyberspace community needs its ebooks to be successful
so that more and more ebooks will be written.

7. How Do I Sell My Ebook?

You may want to create affiliate programs that will
also market your ebook. Affiliates can be people or
businesses worldwide that will all be working to sell
your ebooks. Think about this? Do you see a formula
for success here?

Figure out what your subject matter is, and then
narrow it down. Your goal is to aim for specificity.
Research what's out there already, and try to find a
void that your ebook might fill.

What about an ebook about a wedding cake business? Or
an ebook about caring for elderly pets? How about the
fine points of collecting ancient pottery?

You do not have to have three masters degrees to write
about your subject. People need advice that is easy to
read and easily understood. Parents need advice for
dealing with their teenagers. College students need to
learn good study skills - quickly. The possibilities
are endless.

8. What Do I Do After I Have Written My Ebook?

Getting your ebook out is going to be your focus once
you have finished writing it, just as it is with print
books.

9. I am a New Author. No One Knows Me.
How Do I Get People to Read My Ebook?

The answer is simple: give it away! You will see
profits in the form of promoting your own business and
getting your name out. You will find affiliates who
will ask you to place their links within your ebook,
and these affiliates will in turn go out and make your
name known. Almost every single famous ebook author
has started out this way.

Another powerful tool to attract people to your ebook
is to make it interactive. Invent something for them
to do within the book rather than just producing pages
that contain static text. Let your readers fill out
questionnaires, forms, even crossword puzzles geared
to testing their knowledge on a particular subject.
Have your readers hit a link that will allow them to
recommend your book to their friends and associates.
Or include an actual order form so at the end of their
reading journey, they can eagerly buy your product.

When people interact with books, they become a part of
the world of that book. The fact is just as true for
books in print as it is for ebooks.

10. Is There Anything Else I Should Know
About Writing Ebooks?

Ebooks are so essential. Not only do they
provide a forum for people to learn and make sense of
their own thoughts, but they can also serve to promote
your business at the same time.

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