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Ebooks Bonanza – Boost Your Writing Income With Ebooks

December 16th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

“Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer’s Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks”

Wow, 2007 is almost at an end. I hope you had a great year writing and selling ebooks, and that 2008 will be a wonderful year for you as you expand your ebooks business.

In our last issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine for 2007 (out on December 19) I’m focusing on ebooks again, with “Ebooks Bonanza – Boost Your Writing Income With Ebooks” which focuses on questions subscribers have about ebooks.

Have a happy joyous Christmas.

Writing and selling ebooks: create value to create a bestseller

June 11th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Ebooks are easy to write, and to publish. An ebook with a hungry market will make money for you much more quickly and reliably than a traditional print book. But you must provide value.

You need to create an ebook which provides value

I’m a member of a number of Private Label Rights (PLR) sites, and some of these sites offer ebooks. The quality ranges from so-so to abysmal.

I’m also a copywriter, who writes sales letters for people who want to sell their ebooks. I refuse many more copywriting gigs than I accept, because most of the ebooks provide little, if any, value. This isn’t an ethical judgment - it’s completely practical: if an ebook provides no value, it’s impossible to write a good sales letter for the ebook. You can’t write about non-existent benefits.

The over-heated market for ebooks leads to a proliferation of junk

Because ebooks can make so much money, it leads some publishers to think that they can call any collection of 10,000 words an ebook and be done with it.

Yes, they can, but not only won’t they make sales, but people who’ve been burned buying junk won’t be rushing to buy ebooks in the future.

How do you provide value? You provide information people can use. That’s all. It’s not complicated.

Ask yourself WHY people buy an ebook on a topic, and then provide the information they want. Research both print and ebooks currently on the market. If there are many other books on the topic, work out what information isn’t covered, and use that as the basis of your ebook. Don’t hire a writer to do a “rewrite” of what’s currently available.

Provide value. If you do that,  you’ll sell thousands of copies of your ebook, and you’ll have a head start on selling ebooks in the future, because people who are satisfied with the information you provide will buy from you again.

Write And Sell An Ebook Online: Avoid These Two Traps For The Unwary

May 14th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Writing and selling your own ebooks is one of the easiest ways to make money online. However, there are a couple of pitfalls that you should be aware of before you start writing an ebook.

If you stumble into one of these traps, you won’t have the success you should have.

The traps are simple. Here they are, with tips on how to avoid them.

Trap One: Not Checking That There’s A Market For Your Ebook Before You Start Writing

The old saw: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” applies here. Unless there are people who are hungry for the information you provide, no one (or very few people) will buy your ebook.

There are thousands of topics on which you could write. However, to write successful ebooks, focus on the topics which solve problems - and for which people will pay for solutions. For example, when I switched from a Windows computer to a Mac, I was desperate for a simple ebook which would help me to become familiar with the Mac interface. After much searching, I found ONE. Only one ebook, and yet thousands of Windows users are switching to Macs, so it’s a hungry market.

The easiest way to check that there’s a market for your ebook is to type “topic +ebook” into a search engine (without quotes.) If there are lots of ebooks, assess them. The fact that there are many ebooks need not put you off - it shows that people are willing to pay for information on this topic. Make your ebook a little better, and your ebook will sell.

Trap Two: Failing To Promote Your Ebook

You’re not done when you’ve written your ebook. In a sense, that’s when the fun begins - the fun of promoting your ebook.

Ideally, you’ll start promoting your ebook (by advertising, with a press release, or with any other marketing strategy you please) before your ebook is complete. If you choose to promote your ebook with a Web site, that site takes time before it’s indexed via the search engines, so create the site as soon as you start writing, and developing a mailing list so that interested buyers can sign up for notification when you publish the ebook.

Promotion is vital for your ebooks, so start promoting early, and keep promoting the ebook after it’s released.

When you combine a hungry market with consistent marketing efforts, your new ebook will be a roaring success.

Want to add a great income stream to your writing career? Consider writing ebooks, and you’ll never run out of eager buyers. Angela Booth’s “Write and Sell an eBook: Every Writer’s Quick-Action Guide To Writing Ebooks” shows you how to write ebooks quickly and professionally.

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