Write an E-book; it’s E-asy!

Charming young businesswoman sitting on the table at officeThe very idea of sitting down at the computer to write a book fills many people with absolute dread.

“I can’t do that. I haven’t written anything since I was at school and even then I was rubbish.”

If you were to ask someone to tell you about their last holiday or outline the work they do they would happily launch into several minutes (possibly more) of fascinating narrative and explanation. They would, to all intents and purposes, be improvising a book on the subject. One saying we hear from time to time is that everyone has a book in them and this is most definitely true.

If there is a topic that really interests you, then you could easily write a book about it. This needn’t be a 1000 page erudite tome but a fairly short and readable account of your pet subject. This is basically what most e-books are anyway. In most online business the product being bought and sold is information. If you have information to share; – then share it! If it interests you it will be of interest to others and may well be very helpful to them. You don’t need to be Charles Dickens to put a few thoughts down on paper.

If you really feel that you don’t have the skills to express your thoughts in writing then use outsourcing. Record yourself talking about your subject and email the recording to one of the many professional writers to be readily found on the internet. That writer will pull your thoughts together in a coherent way and produce a professional, readable e-book which you can sell. The cost of having the e-book outsourced in that way would probably be paid off by the first two or three sales, depending on pricing.

Having got your e-book how do you sell it. If you already have a website then you would simply add information about your book to your site. If you have no website then all you would require would be a ‘minisite’ linked to Clickbank, or some other similar banking system to process the sales for you. On Clickbank you would create a simple ‘thank you’ page on which there would be a download link for your customers to get their copy of the e-book. Job done! That site, once up and running, will then go on producing sales for you for the rest of your life if you want it to. If you use Clickbank there is the added option to offer the e-book to affiliates to sell for you. If the technicalities of this process worry you, outsource again. Someone will set up your site and link it to Clickbank (or similar) for less than the price of a meal out.

In many respects, this is probably the easiest way to start earning money on the internet. The process will be totally free to create, unless you use outsourcing which will cost a little, – but not much. Have a look at outsourcing costs available on the internet; you will be pleasantly surprised. It won’t make you rich but it will certainly get you going if you are new to the business. Of course, you can produce more e-books on related topics too using the same process. One book might only bring in a mere £30 a month (it could very easily be much more than this), but imagine if you had 10 books on the go. Then the income starts to build to a useful level.

The actual promotion and marketing of your book can also be done very cheaply. Posting the first chapter or first short section of your e-book on Article Sites will cost nothing at all and should bring traffic to your webpage. There are other easy ways to promote your e-book too. Do some research and see what opportunities you can find. You can work that bit out for yourself as it will often be related to your particular niche or topic. Perhaps you could begin by looking at Forums and Directories.

This is internet marketing at its most straight-forward which, obviously, makes it a good place to start if you are new to the business.

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