Writing Ebooks
BY Scott F. Geld
Books are about sharing our knowledge and our experiences.
They articulate feelings and information for people who do
not have these kinds of communication skills. If you can
think, you can hear your voice. If you can hear your voice,
you can write. Writing is a simple extension of your mind
to your fingers.
Do this exercise:
Open a blank page in your word processing program. Let your
fingers hover just above the keys of your keyboard and
close your eyes. Now clear you mind and let it fill with
silence. Into that silence, let your thoughts begin to
focus on what you instinctively know you can do well.
Things you excel at. As each thought rises, type it.
Baking, stained glass, gardening, restoring classic cars ~
write until the well runs dry.
Now open your eyes. Like magic, before your eyes, here is a
list of topics for potential ebooks!
There is no price that can be placed on your unique
knowledge and experience. The trick is to draw from the
well of that knowledge and use it to create an ebook.
Internet businesses are hungry for information about how to
turn their websites into profit-making machines. Whenever
an entrepreneur first starts a business, he or she lacks
the patina of experience that comes from many years of
working in the trenches. If your ebook can help rocket them
forward in time by providing them with your invaluable
business know-how, you've got a topic for a beneficial and
successful ebook.
Ebooks are one of the most powerful marketing tools
available in the world today. They can be sent out as
attachments in emails, offered for free or for a fee on
your website, or sent out on discs through the mail. They
can be marketed by your affiliates through links on their
sites and in your ebook. You can offer your ebook through
an autoresponder, thereby capturing email addresses and
building a list of potential customers. Or you can use your
ebook to build an opt-in email list ~ by sending email only
to people who want it, you differentiate your messages from
spam and increase the value of your list.
The ebook format is one of the most versatile on the
Internet. You can use it to create brochures, newsletters,
courses offering advice and information about your goods or
services, training tools ~ all for a profit. Using ebooks
correctly and with business savvy will direct quality
traffic to your website and generate potential sales.
Ebooks can educate your visitors about your products or
services, and teach them about new procedures or
techniques. You can use free ebooks to reward visitors for
filling out a customer survey, which in turn gives you
invaluable insight into customer motivation and habits.
Giving away your ebooks for free helps to build solid
business relationships and keep your customers coming back
to your website. Ebooks will help build your reputation as
an expert in your field and make your business a known
commodity.
If you want to write about Internet Marketing, you will
find a mountain of ebooks about this subject. You must go
through them and locate what is missing. You can market
ANYTHING on the Internet. What about a book about marketing
a business that trains bloodhounds as search and rescue
dogs? Or a book about marketing a business that grows
organic herbs and mushrooms? Figure out what you're
passions are and then turn them into ebooks!
Ebooks are a road to personal fulfillment and financial
success. They are fairly simple to produce and the cost is
minimal. Your ebook not only has the potential to create
profits, but it may very well transform you into a
celebrity. In turn, your value increases along with your
profits. Like a tree lush with leaves, your ebook will fly
across cyberspace, shedding its seeds of knowledge. And
those seed will bear the fruit of new clients and
opportunities for many years to come.
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Scott F. Geld is the newsletter editor of the Marketing
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