Writing ebooks and articles
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 your 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