Wednesday, July 21, 2010

How to Write an eBook - a Video

Here is a useful video on how to write an eBook.  Below I have a link to my blog on Article Marketing for those who prefer a shorter task.



In addition to writing an eBook, there is a lot to be said about Article Marketing. You may be interested in following my blog on  Article Marketing Tips.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Why You Must Write An Ebook

It's no secret, most of us secretly want to write an ebook or have a book published with our name on it.
What is your goal for wanting to see your name on an ebook or book - fame, fortune, prestige, credibility. Pretty much covers the reasons - correct?

Your next question is, how difficult is it to write an ebook?

The single biggest mistake many people make when they briefly consider a decision to write an ebook is to understand how their goals will be achieved by publishing their own book or ebook.
Will your fortune be made selling a $27 ebook?

Interestingly enough, the reasons behind wanting to publish your own ebook can have a dramatic impact on how real your dream can become, and in very little time.

Consider this, if your goal for writing an ebook is to create a literary masterpiece that somehow rises to the top of the general public's reader list, no wonder the pressure keeps you from making any progress.
Who in their right mind would undertake a task where the main motivation behind writing an ebook is to beat out the mass market leaders who inevitably end up to be celebrities or previously published authors.

WRITE AN EBOOK - THE REAL REASONS

What if you could write an ebook and gain in many other ways without the pressure of your ebook becoming a mass market seller.
Niche market ebooks have some incredible advantages for your business, and in the end can certainly achieve your goals of wealth, prestige - even a catalyst to an entirely new direction in your life.

1. INSTANT CREDIBILITY: Write an ebook and you will soon see that you are treated differently by subscribers, customers, media, partners, and even competitors. There is no better way to increase your credibility, trust and branding in the market than to write an ebook.

2. INSTANT PROFIT CENTER: While you may not gain immediate fame and fortune, you certainly can begin bringing in profits from your ebook within hours of posting your ebook for sale online.

3. LEAD GENERATOR: Anyone who has either operated their own business or has chosen to generate sales for another company knows that leads are the critical first stage of the revenue model for any business. You may already operate an online or offline business, market additional information or services or simply want to build a business from the ground-up. In each of those cases your decision to write an ebook will significantly enhance your ability to both generate and convert leads into sales for your company.

4. FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE PROFIT: Rarely you will see an online business empire built on one single ebook, instead the model often looks like an ebook followed by additional information products or services followed by partnership sales, followed by yet higher back-end products and services. Look at your decision to write an ebook as step 1 of a multi-stage process leading to fame and fortune rather than the single vehicle that will take you there.

5. YOUR PROFIT LINK WITH A MARKET: Its not by accident that some of the most customer focused businesses have become the wealthiest enterprises of all time. Think Fedex, Walt Disney World, Starbucks, and so on. Plan to write an ebook to give you an insider's perspective and feedback in your niche market. By selling ebooks into your niche market, you will instantly get feedback from your readers that will be extremely valuable allowing you to get a strangle hold on your market leaving your competitors in the dust.

NOW, HOW HARD IS IT REALLY TO WRITE AN EBOOK?

With these 5 goals in mind, let's reconsider the entire challenge of writing your ebook.

Instead of writing a literary masterpiece that must appeal to the masses, doesn't it make more sense to assemble in-demand information from your chosen niche market to solve a specific problem your market has?
Write an ebook to solve a particular problem packaged in a system that you define as your own and you will achieve the 5 advantages outlined above.

Take the pressure off yourself by understanding that your ebook is simply a tool you use to help open the floodgates to even bigger opportunities in your market.

Quickly, write an ebook to give yourself a tremendous market advantage, build your credibility and value in your chosen niche market, provide a foundation for future back-end sales and profits, and suddenly your dreams of fame and fortune turn into an exciting, short-term reality.

Copyright 2006 Jeff Smith
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Write an eBook

Why Research is Important When Writing Your eBook | Buy Digital ...
You know your subject area really well and you have years of experience in your field. So, you can write, ebook, your next eBook without wasting a whole bunch.
Publish Date: 06/15/2010 23:33
http://www.buydigitalbookreader.com/digital-book-reader/why-research-is-important-when-writing-your-ebook/

How to Make Money Fast by Selling Ebooks | Articles
If you are completely unsure of how to write an ebook then you can determine what topic you would like your ebook to be written about. Then you can hire a freelance writer to write this book and to be able to identify how much you are ...
Publish Date: 06/16/2010 13:57
http://articles.easyonlinejobsreview.com/how-to-make-money-fast-by-selling-ebooks/

How to Write an Ebook | Ebook Market Watch
One of the most difficult parts of writing an ebook is getting that first sentence on paper or the screen. Looking at the whole project it can.
Publish Date: 06/08/2010 3:38
http://www.ebookmarketwatch.com/tips/how-to-write-an-ebook/

Twitter Tweets on Ebook Writing


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YouTube Videos

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Friday, June 4, 2010

Write Sales Letters

Struggling with Your Sales Copy?  Even the best writers sometimes have trouble creating a sales letter to market their Ebook or other products. Why? Sometimes it because they are so wrapped up in their own creation they find it difficult to take an objective view of the whole. Sometimes they will be tempted to rewrite the content all over again and get bogged down in detail.

But the primary difficulty is that the sales process is different than the A to Z approach to non fiction content. A good sales letter shouldn't be fiction, but like good fiction it needs to play on the readers emotions.  And it needs to do it in a systematic way, almost a formulaic way that follows known steps one after the other.

You need to capture your readers attention and introduce yourself and establish why they should trust you. Then you need to help them feel their pain, their need for your content or product. And all the while, you need to keep their interest so that they don't skip off the the next blog post or web site or incoming phone call.

And you need to do all this before you even introduce your product and systematically demonstrate how it will help them walk on water, and achieve everlasting bliss.  Then you need to prove to them once again you're not pulling their leg and just after their money, which of course you are - you want the sale don't you?

So you promise them the moon and guarantee they will be happy or you will crawl across broken glass to ensure they get all their money back. And oh by the way, read this P.S and then the P.P.S, and if you have gall enough the P.P.P.S.  

And while some of the foregoing was written tongue in cheek, the basic elements are part of a highly lucrative formula employed by very highly paid professional copy writers. Now the formula needs to be refined and focused on your specific product and as in any art can take on many different forms.

The top coy writers command tens of thousands of dollars for a single sales letter, because good copy sells.  Now most home based entrepreneurs and small business people don't readily fork over such hefty sums of cash.  So they are forced to copy and make do with their own best efforts. For some that's not too difficult, but even the competent find that it can be an arduous and time consuming process.  But the payoff for a well written sales letter can easily be 4 to 8 times as effective as a poorly written one. And in many cases a poorly written letter will result in no sales at all.

Creating effective sales copy is just one component of the overall internet marketing process, but a critically important one.

One resource to get a complete overview of internet marketing including step by step advice on how to structure your own sales copy is available at Internet Marketing Intensive.  Another approach that saves a lot of time and generates a solid sales letter was created by Marlon Sanders.  It's his Push Button Sales Letters.
You can see a review of that product at ArticleMarketingHint.com











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