What happens when you really, really want to write your own ebook but can’t find the time to get it finished or struggle with the research it takes to complete your ebook?
When I first started writing my own information products I too struggled with the decision…”should I outsource or look for alternative ways to get content for my ebooks?”
Now, several years later and dozens of information products down the road I not only consider alternative ways of generating content for your ebooks a good technique, I often highly recommend it to people…even if they know their topic well.
Often using the techniques we outline below will let you…
- Get your ebook finished and earning profit faster – often within days
- Fill in “gaps” in information that makes your ebook even more effective
- Let’s you produce the content in a way that is more usable, clearer and more prone to sell for higher profits than if you sit down and write your entire ebook in the traditional way
- Help many of you that struggle with the process or researching and writing…just because you struggle with writing doesn’t mean you don’t have something incredible to offer your market, now you can
Here are 6 ways you can avoid writing your own ebook, get it finished faster and sell more for higher profits:
1. Interview experts (skype, phone, in-person) and have those interviews transcribed into text so you have both an audio/video product as well as an eventual ebook. The editing can be outsourced or you can move things around and check things yourself. We have case studies, expert contact templates and interview questionnaires that we have used in many past projects available within Information Marketer’s Zone so you can begin to use this technique immediately.
2. Record yourself – one of our books in an alternative health field I recorded myself “talking” several of the initial chapters and had these audios transcribed – not only was this faster, less work, but I had a differentiator from other Clickbank products because I had the audio version in the bag.
3. Outsource the writing entirely…still suggest you do the outlining and then farm out projects as either article or reports piecemeal which is less expenive than posting an entire ebook project
4. Public domain…I have used public domain material in the past to augment my own content. Ex. a book we wrote that relied on Yoga as a technique for achieving the end objective I located several public domain works that both introduced Yoga and provided several yoga techniques, diagrams and such… I outsourced the rest of this ebook for under $300 and to date it has made me 5-figures closing in on 6-figures.
5. PLR (Private Label Rights) material where you get the license to redistribute and alter the content…not a huge fan of this as it takes so much time to find useful information, but certain PLR may do a good job of filling in partial content for your ebook
6. Partnership – I have also coached a marketer who partnered with content experts sharing profits where the expert did the writing while the marketer did the marketing, there are many “experts” out there today that if approached the right way or hit at the right time would love to work with astute marketers to help them create another line of income and get their knowledge out into the marketplace
We have used all of these techniques in growing our information product businesses across several markets, they all work if you know how to use them correctly. We give you an “inside” view of these techniques as well as many other aspects of how we build and grow our infoproduct businesses inside InfoMarketer’sZone so you can shortcut your journey to profit.
Are you writing your own ebook? Will you use one of these techniques to help you get your ebook to market faster? Leave us a comment.
