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You have knowledge you’d like to share, and earn an income from.

The immediate obvious choice is to write an ebook and sell it. It’s a good immediate obvious choice, and you can sell plenty of ebooks.

But where do you start?

You start with planning what you’d like to appear 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, or even a bit of both.

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, but if you’re in any doubt afterwards, you could always hire a writer to edit it, or even rewrite it for you.

Perhaps, in particular, make sure the writing on your splash page, or advertising of the ebook is up to scratch, and does the job of drawing viewers to either your splash page, or from the splash page to actually ordering the ebook.

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, then open it in Open Office, then click file, click export as pdf, click export, and you’re done.

There are generally two main options for methods of selling your ebook:

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 make 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 thing 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 to help you create the splash page and get somebody to help you design an ebook cover. Or browse the Internet for free ebook cover creators to download. Here is a simple example below (it’s not a real available ebook, just an example of a cover design):

 

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, for example, included with a recipe and cooking ebook you could offer a method or ideas on how to make money with all the goodies you’re going to be cooking up or baking in your 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 that means the buyer does not only get great information on a
particular subject, but can also make money from reselling copies of it. This might end up as 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. Once they have paid, you can either email them the
ebook, or give them the link where they can download it themselves. (It would have to be hosted on your website server for the download option – but keep the link secret.)

The second main option available to you to sell your digital product, is to use an affiliate site like Clickbank. You still need your splash
page that viewers will browse through, but this time it will include something like a “buy now” button, and a buyer is taken to a page
where they can pay for their new book. 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.

Using Ebay is a good option too.

Street Directory is a site that has some great information about writing and selling your own ebook:

8 reasons to write and sell your own ebook is one great topic

and then follow the links there to many other helpful articles on the topic, such as:

Rapid E-Book Creation: 5 Speedy E-Book Writing Ideas
Using Freebies in your E-book – Three Simple Steps
Boost Ebook Sales with eBook Directories!

You may also find this article handy:

Why you should create your own resalable ebook

And be sure to check out other similar articles there such as:

How to Create Ebooks in As Little As 30 Days Or Less
Easy Ways To Build An Ebook Empire
Choosing an eBook Compiler

These blog posts might also offer some help with your writing;

How to gain credibility as an online writer – which can also be used as “gaining credibility as an ebook writer”

and Become an article writer who can write unique quality articles on any topic in under 15 minutes – should be able to help with longer “articles” too – in the form of ebooks.

Also, view the following splash pages to get an idea of how your own splash page could look, and perhaps, even consider buying the
ebooks, as they may help you with your new ebook writing and selling business -

see, what I’m doing now, below, is promoting other people’s ebooks, and thousands, if not millions of people are doing this, so get
writing now, and get your book out there and make some money from your writing and knowledge!

Write all the way to the bank

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How to publish and sell your own ebook without any writing!

over 50 recipe ebooks – some with resale rights!

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© Teresa Schultz