When it comes to writing your own ebook that you sell from your own website, on ebook directories like Clickbank or on the Grand-Daddy retail outlets like Amazon (including Kindle), you may be thinking about exploring outsourcing or alternative ways to get your content than writing everything yourself.
Ebooks are HOT…topics from recipe ebooks to health ebooks through general self-improvement and hobby-related ebooks hold incredible opportunity for ANYONE to package what they know or some basic research into a top selling ebook.Â
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A common question though is around alternative methods of writing or getting content for your ebook…do you have to write the whole thing yourself or can you outsource part of your ebook writing to a freelanceer, expert or author?
OUTSOURCE EBOOK WRITING
We have indeed outsourced writing in the past, but have never outsourced an entire ebook. In today’s market your ebook is not only the key to generating ongoing profits for you, it is your signature, your stamp on a particular market which means you want to keep some of “YOU” in your ebook.
However, there is no reason that you can’t outsource 50% or more of your ebook writing to others, enhancing it with your own information, examples, personality and style throughout.
In fact, the combination of outsourced content can work extremely well to…
- make writing your ebook much faster
- providing additional points of view and information sources
- fill in research gaps with real experience
- mix up the flow to keep your ebook fresh and interesting for your reader
So, what are some of the techniques we have used to outsource content for our ebooks?
1. Hired Help – Outsource a chapter or two – I’ve done this as outsourced articles with very precise questions to be answered. If you outsource sections of your ebook as “article” projects you can reduce the cost significantly. The key is to make sure your outsource freelancer knows you want specific content (send them a question by question outline) as they are often used to doing SEO (keyword focused) general articles which don’t make for good content.
I typically look for people that have experience AND writing ability with the topic so they can add their personal touch to the ebook as well
2. Expert Interviews – I have also created entire ebooks as well as enhanced with chapters that were the transcription of a telephone interview with an expert. That way they don’t have to write, they talk and you get dozens of pages of great content
3. Public domain material. On occasion I have found historical works in the public domain that enhance my ebooks., For example, one ebook I wrote was on a specific benefit of Yoga (applied to a common societal problem) and I wanted a short chapter on the history of Yoga…I found that quickly in the public domain, cleaned it up and used it for that chapter.
In-depth examples of how we planned, outlined, researched and outsourced using these techniques are given inside InfoMarketer’sZone – there are some techniques that can save you money, trouble and time…well worth checking out.Â
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