A marketing plan for your ebook - create a plan before you write

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A marketing plan for your ebook - create a plan before you write

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Before you create your ebook, consider how you’ll market and sell it. If you’re writing an ebook for someone else, of course, that person will already have plans for marketing and sales, but if it’s YOUR ebook, you need to think about sales before you write it.

Have you found a hungry market?

Start by researching the market for your ebook. If people aren’t interested in your proposed topic, you won’t make sales - nor will you make sales if people aren’t buying the information in the form of an ebook.

Create a marketing plan

When you’re sure there’s a market for your ebook, write out a marketing plan. This plan can be brief - a single page. However, you must write it out. Without a plan, as the truism goes, you’re planning to fail. Your marketing plan gives you an outline of:

* Marketing venues (Web site, news releases, advertising etc)

* Costs and the likely return on your investment

* Who and when - who’s marketing this ebook? How much time will it take?

When you’ve created a marketing plan, you can write your ebook with confidence.