You have knowledge you’d like to share, and earn an income from. A good choice is to write an ebook and sell it. It’s a good immediate obvious choice, and you can sell plenty of ebooks.
Where do you start?
You start with planning what you’d like to have in your ebook. How many chapters should it have? Are you going to include pictures? It’s a good idea to include pictures. These can be photos you’ve taken yourself or from a photographer you’ve hired. Or you could include illustrations or sketches.
Take notes on what you’d like to include in the ebook, and then get started, writing it.
If you need to hone your writing skills, then read up on various writing tips first. Or just go ahead and write it, and trust your instincts that it’s going to look and be good. If you’re in any doubt afterwards, you could always hire a professional writer to edit it, or even rewrite it for you.
In particular, make sure that the writing in your advertising is up to scratch, and does the job of drawing viewers to your splash page.
A good place to write your ebook would be in Open Office – download the newest version for free from openoffice.org and start writing.
Once completed:
Click “file”
Click “export as pdf”
Click “export”, and you’re done!
If you prefer to write in Microsoft Word:
Once done, save it, and then open it in Open Office.
Then click “file”
Click “export as pdf”
Click “export”, and you’re done!
There are two main methods for selling your ebook:
Method one:
You can sell your ebook from your own website or blog by having a splash page (or “squeeze page”) that highlights what’s in the ebook.
If your website or blog consists of quite a few pages or if you have quite a few websites or blogs, you can also include a small “teaser” on each page, that links to the splash page. Try making at least some of the “teasers” different from each other, with a different image, or different words, so that a viewer does not tire of seeing the same teaser all over the place.
Include some eye-catching images and some bold print in your splash page. You may need to hire a web designer or graphic designer to help you create the splash page, and get somebody to help you design an ebook cover. Or search the Internet for free ebook cover creators to download.
Tell your viewers how the book will benefit them, and in what way you think it is unique from other ebooks on similar subjects. Offering something for free is a good idea too – this could be as simple as offering a mere 5 page extra report, or perhaps, included with a recipe and cooking ebook, for example, you could offer a method or ideas on how to make money with all the goodies readers are going to be cooking up or baking in their kitchen.
You can also offer a money back guarantee if the buyer feels they are not happy with the contents of the book.
You may also want to consider including resell rights with the ebook, as this means the buyer does not only get great information on a particular subject, but can also make money from reselling copies of the ebook. This might result in your buyers doing all the marketing instead of you doing it yourself, and how fabulous is that?
Include a link to email you, and you can then send the buyer your banking details. Or include a payment button on your site. Once they have paid, you can either email them the ebook, or give them the link where they can download it themselves. The ebook would have to be hosted on your website server for the download option – but keep the link secret, or allocate a password to each new buyer.
Method two:
The second main option available to you is to sell your ebook through an affiliate site like Clickbank. You still need your splash page that viewers will browse through, but this time the splash page will usually always include something like a “buy now” button, and a buyer is taken to a page where they can pay for their new ebook. You don’t have to worry about the design of the payment page, as Clickbank takes care of that.
If you want to go the Clickbank route, sign up and follow the instructions.
What’s great about Clickbank is that thousands of people will be selling your ebook for you. You don’t have to worry about the marketing.
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