How would you like to have your own ebooks selling on Amazon Kindle, Clickbank or from your own website in 6-weeks or less?
Sounds like a big promise, I don’t use those words lightly…if we hadn’t developed several information products ourselves AND helped many others (through InfoMarketer’sZone), I wouldn’t be throwing these type of statements out.
In fact, I have written ebooks in 2-days that are selling well online.
How do we do it?
To keep things interesting and to take full advantage of the different methods for writing an ebook we have used these 5 techniques for getting your ebook finished…
1. Series Of Articles
Put off by the thought of writing an 80-page ebook? Most people are, so all the more reason to change the way you think about your writing project. What about writing a 2-3-page article? Do you think you could write an article each day if you knew exactly what you were going to write? The trick here is to outline your ebook in terms of the steps, techniques, days, or tips that you will offer to your customer covering each of these as a “Chapter” or “Section” in your ebook. For each of these interim steps to achieving the desired outcome your ebook promises, you want to develop 3 article ideas around that step (Ex. how to get started, how to stay motivated, how to succeed at that step, what to do if you run into problems, etc…) which will get you 8-9 pages per chapter. Repeat that from 5-8 times and you have yourself a 50-100 page ebook by simply writing a series of articles each day over 2-3 week period.
2. Collection of Blog Posts
For those of you who already have a blog, or those of you who have followed our Information Product Profit’s Fast Track Course you know that creating your blog and posting daily is the very FIRST thing we recommend you do to enter a market (even before you have your product). The main objective of this is get some early traffic, attention, content for SEO, reputation and brand within your marketplace.  What you can do is re-purpose the content that you post in your blogs into a collection of organized tips, techniques or steps that you can package into your own ebook. Let’s say you launched your blog 1-month ago and have 30 posts, chances are you can package at least half of those right away into your own report or ebook. Here’s a hint, have a plan for your ebook outline, create categories for your blog around the main sections and write daily posts for 3-4 weeks…with the intent to re-use some/all of this content in your ebook later.  You can enhance that content with your own introduction, additional content, your own experiences, etc…
3. Expert Interviews
Another great way to write your ebook is to interview a handful of experts in your niche market, pull content from those interviews and use it in your ebook. For example, you write an ebook about natural weight loss interviewing 4 natural health practitioners and a dietician, they give you dozens of tips and techniques that they have found work best for losing weight naturally. You now have content to use directly in your ebook, have your interview transcribed and the content is ready to go.
4. Speak Your Ebook
For some people, they “talk” much faster than they write so either recording their tips, techniques and strategies making up content for their ebook is the best approach – later having those audio files transcribed OR use a tool like Dragon Naturally Speaking to immediately transcribe your voice on your own PC
5. Outline + Outsourcing
This approach works well too if you have a couple hundred dollars to pay experts to help you write your content. I have taken this approach where I can find someone else that has more experience with the topic than I do. For example, if I wanted to put together a book about Yoga, I don’t practice yoga and know virtually nothing about it but can find many writers on freelance sites that practice Yoga regularly, even found a former high-level Yoga teacher that was able to write a 60-page ebook with a much deeper level of knowledge than I had for $300! It doesn’t always work out that you can find the right combination of expertise, writing experience at the right price, but with a good outline you can typically find them.
Many people that want to write, publish and sell their own ebooks online fear the pain and time associated with writing their ebook. In fact, the process can happen relatively painlessly, quickly and pay off for you over the years to come.
Do you have a technique we haven’t listed here you use to help in your writing projects?
