When I visit sites promoting ebooks, especially sites offering books on how to write ebooks, I am often turned off immediately by the poor writing skills of the person who created the copy.

I mean, after all, if they are going to try to sell me a book about some manner of writing–-they should be pretty good at it themselves–-right?

I don’t mean to sound overly didactic, and this isn’t meant to be a high school refresher course in composition, but you are judged...

So you want to create a book or ebook and market it. Good for you.

Writing ebooks it isn’t a difficult thing to do, but getting to the place in your mind where you can actually do this is another matter entirely. What we are going to do here is to create what I call the Friday Afternoon Syndrome. That will be your home base, a place not so much of time and space, but one of mind–-a secret place all your own.

I was an inner-city high school teacher for 14 years. I loved...

Okay, so there are two schools of thought on article writing. According to one school, if you throw enough articles out there, some will stick and get you some good traffic. Using this "brute force" tactic, guys like Sean Mize (20,000 eZine Articles) and Fabian Tan (5,000 eZine Articles) would probably agree with this philosophy. They have both built huge lists as a result of their article writing campaigns.

By the way, Sean and Fabian both send most of their traffic, not...