| Want to write ebooks? Ebooks sell brilliantly online. | | | | to write an ebook which is around ten to 20 |
| Thousands of people have created full-time, | | | | pages long. You can sell ebooks at this length all |
| profitable careers writing and selling ebooks, and | | | | day long. |
| you can too. The first thing you need to | | | | 2. Schedule Your Writing Time (or Talking Time) |
| overcome is your natural procrastination. | | | | Of course you can hire someone to write your |
| If you're new to selling information products, | | | | ebook for you, but if you're writing it yourself you |
| everything takes you much longer than it will once | | | | need to schedule the time to get it written. If you |
| you've created some ebooks and have a process | | | | aren't used to writing, estimate that it will take |
| to follow. Let's look at a simple process by which | | | | you around an hour a page. |
| you can create and sell an ebook within days, | | | | You can shortcut this time very simply: by talking |
| rather than weeks. | | | | instead of writing. |
| 1. Answer Simple Questions: "How Do I..." | | | | Talk your ebook into a digital recorder and have |
| The biggest mistake a new ebook creator makes | | | | someone transcribe it for you. Or, get a voice |
| is thinking that ebooks are like printed books. | | | | recognition program and learn how to use it. |
| They're not. ebooks are meant to be read on a | | | | 3. Keep It Simple |
| computer screen, and should solve just one | | | | Forget fancy formatting. Your buyers are paying |
| problem a buyer has. | | | | for information. Save your plain ebook into PDF |
| If you don't know what problems your particular | | | | format, and you're done. |
| audience has, do a little research. | | | | Next, write a simple sales page. Keep it very |
| Once you've researched your audience, start a | | | | simple, think in terms of a classified advertisement |
| sentence with "How do I..." and complete the | | | | with added information describing the content that |
| sentence from the point of view of your | | | | you're selling, and including your chapter headings if |
| audience. | | | | you wish. |
| You've just created a topic for your ebook. Aim | | | | You're done! Now write and sell another ebook. |