The Fastest, Easiest Way For Creating E-Books
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I have written over 75 ebooks. Some of them are 300 pages long, others under 30 pages. Some sell for $197, others for $5. Some took me several months to write, others just a few hours.
I'm about to share with you the quickest, easiest way to create an ebook that you can master and then put into action to build your own empire of ebooks within a few short months.
Ready to learn the 'secret'?
Do Your Research Online
If you don't have Internet access, go to a Net cafe or public library that lets you use the Web. Look on the big search engines for information on your topic. Go to Amazon.com and search for titles on the subject you are going to write.
Keep a text file open. Whenever you come across interesting or useful snippets of data related to your topic, copy-and-paste them into your text file.
Amazon.com allows you to look at the table of contents and sometimes a sample chapter of books in the database. When you find popular titles on your topic, scan the contents - and make a note of the topics they cover. It is a good idea to also record the chapter titles and sub-titles, for future reference.
Study Your Target Market
Thanks to the miracle that's the World Wide Web, it's possible to do this extensive research right from your arm-chair!
Look for places where your target prospects hang out online. It may be forums and discussion groups, or popular blogs and newsletters. Study them to see what excites and interests your audience, what problems bother them the most, what solutions they are seeking - and what they find and get from what's available.
Draw Up Your Blueprint
With an idea now of what your audience wants, and what is currently out there, you are ready to start creating e-books by drafting out your own ebook outline.
Make each chapter meaningful. Try and address one specific problem faced by your prospects in each. Offer the solution along with it.
For example, if you are creating e-books about building a website, your outline may look like this:
Write
There's no way to get around this - unless if you prefer to speak into a recording machine and then have the content transcribed.
Package and Distribute
Sounds blatantly obvious, but you'd be surprised at just how many people get excited about creating e-books - but will then slack off and let it lie idle on their hard drives.
It is important to know when your e-book is done - and needs to just get out there and get read. Surely some people will be critical. But that feedback will only let you make it better in the next version or edition. Don't fear critics, make use of them.
Start creating e-books quickly and easily following this simple plan. You could do one or two a week, if you're willing to invest the time and effort involved in creating e-books.
Time Management Tools
I'm about to share with you the quickest, easiest way to create an ebook that you can master and then put into action to build your own empire of ebooks within a few short months.
Ready to learn the 'secret'?
Do Your Research Online
If you don't have Internet access, go to a Net cafe or public library that lets you use the Web. Look on the big search engines for information on your topic. Go to Amazon.com and search for titles on the subject you are going to write.
Keep a text file open. Whenever you come across interesting or useful snippets of data related to your topic, copy-and-paste them into your text file.
Amazon.com allows you to look at the table of contents and sometimes a sample chapter of books in the database. When you find popular titles on your topic, scan the contents - and make a note of the topics they cover. It is a good idea to also record the chapter titles and sub-titles, for future reference.
Study Your Target Market
Thanks to the miracle that's the World Wide Web, it's possible to do this extensive research right from your arm-chair!
Look for places where your target prospects hang out online. It may be forums and discussion groups, or popular blogs and newsletters. Study them to see what excites and interests your audience, what problems bother them the most, what solutions they are seeking - and what they find and get from what's available.
Draw Up Your Blueprint
With an idea now of what your audience wants, and what is currently out there, you are ready to start creating e-books by drafting out your own ebook outline.
Make each chapter meaningful. Try and address one specific problem faced by your prospects in each. Offer the solution along with it.
For example, if you are creating e-books about building a website, your outline may look like this:
- Building your website: Your options - Do it yourself, hire it out, buy sitesYou get the idea. Each chapter heading addresses one specific area of the complete problem - and offers solutions a reader can take and put to use right away.
- Tools to build websites: What you need to get the job done
- Learn to build websites: Useful principles and basics of website design
- Step by step guide: A connect-the-dots plan to build your first website
- Troubleshooting HTML: What to do when your code won't work
- Graphics Minefields: How to navigate them safely and get lovely web graphics
- Testing your website: Essentials of making your site accessible to everyone
Write
There's no way to get around this - unless if you prefer to speak into a recording machine and then have the content transcribed.
Package and Distribute
Sounds blatantly obvious, but you'd be surprised at just how many people get excited about creating e-books - but will then slack off and let it lie idle on their hard drives.
It is important to know when your e-book is done - and needs to just get out there and get read. Surely some people will be critical. But that feedback will only let you make it better in the next version or edition. Don't fear critics, make use of them.
Start creating e-books quickly and easily following this simple plan. You could do one or two a week, if you're willing to invest the time and effort involved in creating e-books.
Time Management Tools