Less than a decade ago, publishing your own book was for celebrities, career (aka starving) authors and experts…not the type of thing you or I could fathom doing part-time and a tiny budget and expect it to return anything significant in terms of attention, interest or profit.
Flash forward to the last 3-years and the environment is entirely different.
The challenge you now face is the risk associated with being left behind in this new digital age where your ebook, book or information product not only is a good, leveraged investment for you, but where it can be a critical part of how you move forward in your area of focus in life.
With 4-6 weeks, a couple of hundred dollars in start-up costs, some determination and a good understanding of how to market your ebook you can go from being “average” or even non-existent in your market to where you lead and pull incredible profit from an adoring customer base.
Though we are still at the early stages of this digital, e-publishing revolution, each month and each year competition gets stiffer and experts are defined by his or her self publishing efforts.
The window of opportunity is huge, and that window is wide open right now.
For those people who think they can wait 1-year, 2-years or more, that would not only be leaving substantial money on the table, it will also mean more people that do become ebook authors and marketers get a huge jump in what is an emerging, lucrative market.
The best part about becoming your own ebook writer and marketer right now is:
- You don’t need to spend weeks working on a proposal
- You needn’t wait for anyone’s approval (other than your own market validation) to move forward now
- It doesn’t take thousands of dollars of investment to get rolling
- You know you will keep at least 60-75% of the profits rather than planning on a 3-5% royalty
- You can get your first ebook to market in as little as 6-weeks where it used to take months or even a year
- Both the distribution and payment processing solutions are in place to allow you to post your ebook for sale in 24-hours or less online
- You have an army of potential partners who have millions of captive, loyal customers waiting to promote your ebook for you – you just need to plug your ebook or infoproduct in to take advantage of the wave
- The market (your customers) have made the transition and are eagerly willing to buy digital ebooks – you no longer have to wait for them to transition, the time is now
- The opportunity is still wide open, with decent marketing strategies (check out InfoMarketer’sZone for some leading-edge training and mentoring) you can still dominate your niche market even when there are thousands competing…because many ebook writers today still are not experts in marketing, that’s how you get ahead
- The path is set…the model is well proven, there are a growing legion of self-published ebook writers who are making a far better living making more money in one month than they previously made in a year AND are having the fun and enjoyment of doing exactly what they want to in life.
The people we work with inside InfoMarketer’sZone have a familiar similarity, they all tell me “I wish I had have done this 5-years ago, instead my job is killing me and I missed out on 5-years of profit that would have allowed me to never have to work another day in my life”
I’ll be honest, not every one of them secured their future with their first ebook, but in every case that first ebook was the catalyst, the fuel that not only supplements existing income, but also gives you the insight and experience to turn your next information product into an even bigger success.
Not a bad use of 4-6 weeks – in fact we can’t think of a better use of time and believe this digital age wave of self-publishing ebooks, online courses, membership sites and the like is THE single best use of our time, technology and effort returning several times what you put in – but you do have to get started now.
What are you doing to explore or take advantage of the digital age?
