The Secrets to writing your own eBook

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*  First you need to determine the topic of your ebook.

*  What market are you going to target with this ebook?

There are ebooks on home decorating, pet care, making drinks, cookbooks, sewing, painting, drawing, wood cradfts, golf, business, etc., the list goes on and on. 

Once you have decided this, write a list of 10 ideas that you would like to cover in this ebook—topics that give people a good general feel for your area of expertise, and that will give you an opportunity to share with them some information that they probably haven't seen before.

One thing to remember here is that people will evaluate the worth of your paid products based on the value you give them in the free ebook.  So the free ebook should have just as much useful information per page as your full-fledged product that you are selling.  The difference here is that your reader is only going to get 10 or so pages with the free ebook, rather than 50 or 100 in your paid product.

You may be thinking, well I don't want to give away my information for free.  But think about this - you are not giving it away for free.  Each person that downloads your free ebook is subscribing to your list.  What is each subscriber worth to you?  One dollar?  Ten dollars?  And what is the exponential impact of having a free product that others can give away and willingly send you traffic to your web site?

Once you have your list of 10 areas of interest which you wish to cover, write about 500 words about that area of interest.  Start with an introduction to the area of interest, offer 2-3 main ideas on the area of interest, and then summarize the information.  Do this for each of the areas of information you have listed.  When you are done, you should have at least 10 pages of good solid information.

Be sure and include ample links to your own squeeze page, offering a free ecourse or some other free ebook, for those people who will read your ebook that are referred by other web sites than your own.  If you write about a topic and you can reasonably recommend an affiliate product, be sure and include your affiliate link.  It is not unheard of to receive commissions years after the initial release of an ebook, so be sure and take advantage of this.

Proofread your ebook, add a table of contents, page numbers, and then have someone else proofread your ebook.  They will generally find spelling and grammatical mistakes, no matter how thoroughly you have proofread it yourself.  Be sure and note in the ebook that it is a free ebook and that anyone can give it away freely, as long as they do not alter any of the information in it.

Next, you will need to convert your ebook to PDF form, so that it is easily read on just about any computer world wide.  If you do not already have a PDF converter, you can go directly to the adobe website, where they will give you 5 free PDF conversions.  Once you have 5 ebooks, you should be in a position to buy the software yourself.

An additional step would be to make your new ebook rebrandable.  This allows the people who give away your ebook to rebrand it with their own affiliate links, creating an additional incentive for them to give it away.  Although this is a powerful technique, if you have never created an ebook, start simple and create a basic one like I have described here, and then when are more comfortable, re-release the ebook in a rebrandable version.

At this point, you will want to start giving away your ebook, making it clear that it can be given away freely.  You can do this via all your other traffic building efforts, giving the book away to anyone who becomes a subscriber.  Another method would be to give your book to ebook directories, so they can give your book away for free.

There are many other ways to promote your ebooks and ebook store. Listed below are a few easy and affordable (mostly free) ways to promote your ebooks.

*  Put it in your sigtag so every email you send is an advertisement.
*  Put it on your business card.
*  Write articles and put the link in your resource box.
*  Advertise in ezines and/or websites.
*  Network on egroups and message boards.
*  Optimize your ebook store pages for the search engines.
*  Do link exchanges with other sites.
*  You can market your ebooks offline as well. Make up flyers. Hand out your biz cards. Network in your community.