You might be thinking, "No way, I can't write a
book."
You are wrong.
If you can write an article, you can write books, e-Books, and
special reports using the same system.
Think about it. Each chapter in a non-fiction e-Book is
equivalent to a long article. The skills you developed writing articles are the same as the skills you need to
write an e-Book.
But, why should you write an e-book?
It's simple. Information products are the easiest products to
sell online. You write it once, and your work is done. Your e-Book can be delivered to your customer automatically.
All you have to do is cash the checks.
OK, maybe it isn't quite that easy. e-Books are fast to complete
and fast to get to market. There is no inventory to stock. No shipping costs. Start-up costs are low. The delivery
process can be automated.
e-Books can also be made into audio products and sold as
downloads on e-Bay, iTunes and soon on Amazon.com. You can get your e-Book recorded very affordably by a
professional at HearYourBook.com.
Here's the catch
Aside from actually writing your e-Book, there is one aspect
that will take some work and some skill: Marketing.
You will need a plan for selling your e-Book. If your potential
readers do not know it exists, they can't buy it. This means that your probably need an effective sales page and
some good marketing ideas. Everything you need to know is available for free online. All you have to do is
search.
If you have to hire someone to put up your sales page and set up
your sales process, it is worth the small investment…and just about the only monetary investment you will have to
make.
Back to writing: your table of contents comes
first
Write your Table of Contents first, and use it as an outline for
your book. Treat each chapter as an article and follow the same steps that you would take to complete an
article.
There is one difference. Instead of striving to get your point
across in a concise manner as you would when writing an article, expand on each topic. Take your time and explore
each point completely.
When writing an article, especially for publication on the
Internet, you need to use short sentences and short paragraphs. Sentences and paragraphs can be longer in an
e-Book.
Spend a lot of time with the Table of Contents. Make your
chapter titles interesting and follow a logical progression.
If you can't complete, delete!
As you write your e-Book, you will get some new ideas and some
of your original ideas won't seem right. Good! You are in charge. Just use your delete key and eliminate the
chapters you no longer want to write and substitute the new chapter titles.
There's no stress here. Just pick and choose what you will write
about and skip the parts you are stuck on. You may find it easier to write about those topics when you come back to
them later.
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