I spent a full year writing an eBook, making tears and now it's out! This is an exciting day for me!

Congrats! It's a great feeling getting something finished and on the market. I wish you much success.

you're exactly right, it depends upon the topic how much time it will take to put it together. But considering someone who is writing his first ebook and probably new to online business I would rather advise to roll things out quick, test it out fast so if it does not work you will not have a heart attack the way I had when I started online.

I believe you should not give sufficient amount of time on one project before you test it out thoroughly.

If he really believed the topic he is writing an ebook will be a BIG hit he should have rather roll out a list building campaign, start driving traffic to it and ask his subscribers what they really want. Then promote them some affiliate offers based on their question.

Once he sold few hundred worth of affiliate products then he would be confident enough to roll out an ebook on that topic because now he knows that would sell pretty good.

Your friend, probably when she is writing how she made her first million is already extremely successful in her niche, she might have done most of the testing part, so she is pretty much confident that once she rolls out her book it will be a smash hit. Also probably her list of thousands of subscribers or JV partners and contacts might be the backbone of her campaign.

I really appreciate on the efforts he has put up, that's one full year to roll out the first ebook, very few do that, but it will save him time, efforts and money if he goes about testing it first.

Many top online marketers whom I have studied, when they enter a new niche this is the tactic they use. If they want to write an ebook in a new niche they create the salesletter first, setup the order button and start driving traffic to their sales page even without creating or writing their ebook.

When a visitor clicks on the order button they are presented with a squeeze page saying that the finishing touches of the ebook are yet to be done and they tell them to subscribe.

With this approach they not only test that their ebook will be a bit hit because they know their sales conversion in advance but also they now have a list of ready made prospects who will buy the ebook as soon as it launches. This not only saves time and money but huge frustration if the ebook bombs.

I made my first website and it took me 6 months to roll out the design, put content, affiliate offers and all the bells and whistles. It did not make me a single dime and it was a HUGE frustration I faced in my initial days. I realised my mistake and then I put my second site very quickly with a simple resell right product and it made me my first $24.95. Then I took that project and rolled it out slowly to pull in over $20k with my third site.

Now I have my forth site with a 100k plan, this is how you should go step by step and build upon something that works.

I guess this is how you should approach things step by step. Hope this helps...:confused:

No, just giving the canon fodder a dose of reality before this industry chews him up and spits out what is left of him.

This industry progresses 3 times faster than a bricks and mortar business. Take a year to write a book that is 'new' and it is superseded before it hits the digital shelves. One one man's blood sweat and tears is just another man's research material.

Of course I could just join in and increase my post count with a shallow slap on the back while sniggering behind his back at the lack of efficiency, but that is not my style.

In this industry you publish or perish. Academia aint got nothing on us.