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Casual Articles - How To Create and Market Your own E-Book
It has been a long morning and you need a mental break. You start thinking of your weekend plans and jump on your messaging program to make plans with a friend. You have the movie times and a chat box up on your screen and what happens, your supervisor walks up behind you! You think to yourself Murphy's law is in full effect. What do you do when you get busted surfing or chatting at work? The situation all depends on how you react and handle yourself. Here are some helpful techniques/excuses you may be able to use:1. I am looking for a job that pays more money. (the defensive excuse)2. Oh no! I need IT to come out, I have a blinking light that wont go away. (the play dumb excuse)3. Keep your company website minimized and maximize it fast when the boss comes by and admit you want to learn more about the company. (the cover-up!)4. You were investigating stuff for a surprise party you were plan
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapte
I know of an industrial company whos website was banned from Google because of a hacker who’d been hosting spam on their domain. Because the re-inclusion at process can take upwards of several months, I was of course surprised to see one of their keywords getting results on Google. (I know full well none of their pages are indexed.) A click on the result brought me to their distributors website. Evidently this distributor has several sections of their website dedicated to promoting ‘mini versions’ of their supplier’s sites, which, while a fine marketing move, raises HUGE duplicate content issues that can adversly affect rankings.The innterconnectiveity between businesses and brands within the industrial marketplace presents a unique scenario as it relates to duplicate content and advertising online. To save your rankings, here are a few things for industrial companies to watch out for:1. Re-Seller
There's masses of free information on the Web - all you have to do is gather it together and package it, and you have an E-Book that people will pay for.
"But if there's so much free information on the Web, why would anyone pay for my E-Book?", you may be wondering.
The answer? Convenience!
They'd rather buy your E-Book and save themselves the hours, days and weeks that you spent researching it and putting it all together.
------------------------------ STEP 1: Writing Your E-Book ------------------------------
Pick a Topic. It could be 'How to accept Credit Cards on the Web without having a Merchant Account'. Or it could be '25 Free Resources For Getting More Traffic', or it could be about Cooking, Gardening, Dog Breeding, etc.
Write down the Title of your E-Book in the center of a blank page and circle it. If you can't think of a title yet, just write down the subject that your E-Book will be about (e.g. Dog Breeding).
Then jot down 8 or 10 Basic Ordering Ideas (BOIs) in a radius around your E-Book title or concept.
If you're having trouble coming up with BOIs, hold in your mind the title or concept of your E-Book and then ask yourself these questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, HOW and WHEN.
Now connect the Basic Ordering Ideas to the E-Book title with outward-pointing arrows, like the spokes of a wheel.
Under each BOI, draw a vertical line and against that line, jot down the sub-ideas that belong under that Basic Ordering Idea.
Now turn your Mind Map into an outline. Take the Basic Ordering Ideas from your Mind Map and order them, 1 to 10 (or 1 to 8, 1 to 12 etc); These are your Chapter headings. Now take the sub-ideas and write them down under each BOI; these are your Chapter sections.
I recommend you write the text of your E-Book as a single Microsoft Word document. This allows you to get a feel for the overall structure of your E-Book, and it also makes spell-checking much easier.
------------------------------ STEP 2: Creating Your E-Book ------------------------------
Now divide your Word document into single pages; these will become the HTML pages of your E-Book.
There are well over a dozen different E-Book compilers on the market.
Here are two compilers that are free:
- SbookBuilder: http://www.jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm#sbookbuilder
- eBookIt: http://www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks/
However, if you want to make a good impression with your customers, I highly recommend that you use a commercial E-Book compiler.
Here is a list of commercial E-Book compilers:
- Activ EBook Compiler: http://www.ebookcompiler.com
- Document Publisher: http://www.fuguesoftware.com
- EBook Pro Compiler: http://www.ebookpro.com
- E-Book Publishing Wizard: http://www.successarsenal.com/
- EbookPaper: http://www.ebookpaper.com
- E-Publisher Gold: http://www.ebook-software.com
- ePublish Now: http://www.ebookgraphics.com
- FlipBrowser V. 1.0: http://www.flipbrowser.com
- ExeBook: http://www.exebook.com
- HTML2EXE: http://www.html2exe.com
- HyperMaker HTML 2000: http://www.bersoft.com
- Illuminatus v4.51: http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk
- Infinite Ink: http://www.infiniteink.com
- NeoBook V. 4.0: http://www.neosoftware.com
- WebCompiler: http://www.webcompiler.com
- WebExe 1.3: http://www.aw-soft.com/webexe.html
- WinEbook: http://superwin.com/
------------------------------ STEP 3: Formatting Your E-Book ------------------------------
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapter
One of the biggest affiliate web site marketing secrets is the power of article promotion and how to write powerful articles, article headlines, USFreeads and descriptions that will make the reader to take immediate action which leads to increased sales!Your headlines and product descriptions can make or break your affiliate web site marketing sales or any type of product or service you are marketing online.The first thing a visitor sees when they land on your article page at Ezinearticles, GoArticles, SearchWarp, WordPressBlog, USFreeads, Blog, Squidoo and or your own website is your article and or ad headline.Your headline has to grab your reader’s attention and literally "Grab Them By The Hair"! I have to be blunt to get your attention here to make a point! I’m not a violent person at all.You see, one of the most effective ways you'll ever discover for affiliate web site marketing is brin
Then jot down 8 or 10 Basic Ordering Ideas (BOIs) in a radius around your E-Book title or concept.
If you're having trouble coming up with BOIs, hold in your mind the title or concept of your E-Book and then ask yourself these questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, HOW and WHEN.
Now connect the Basic Ordering Ideas to the E-Book title with outward-pointing arrows, like the spokes of a wheel.
Under each BOI, draw a vertical line and against that line, jot down the sub-ideas that belong under that Basic Ordering Idea.
Now turn your Mind Map into an outline. Take the Basic Ordering Ideas from your Mind Map and order them, 1 to 10 (or 1 to 8, 1 to 12 etc); These are your Chapter headings. Now take the sub-ideas and write them down under each BOI; these are your Chapter sections.
I recommend you write the text of your E-Book as a single Microsoft Word document. This allows you to get a feel for the overall structure of your E-Book, and it also makes spell-checking much easier.
------------------------------ STEP 2: Creating Your E-Book ------------------------------
Now divide your Word document into single pages; these will become the HTML pages of your E-Book.
There are well over a dozen different E-Book compilers on the market.
Here are two compilers that are free:
- SbookBuilder: http://www.jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm#sbookbuilder
- eBookIt: http://www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks/
However, if you want to make a good impression with your customers, I highly recommend that you use a commercial E-Book compiler.
Here is a list of commercial E-Book compilers:
- Activ EBook Compiler: http://www.ebookcompiler.com
- Document Publisher: http://www.fuguesoftware.com
- EBook Pro Compiler: http://www.ebookpro.com
- E-Book Publishing Wizard: http://www.successarsenal.com/
- EbookPaper: http://www.ebookpaper.com
- E-Publisher Gold: http://www.ebook-software.com
- ePublish Now: http://www.ebookgraphics.com
- FlipBrowser V. 1.0: http://www.flipbrowser.com
- ExeBook: http://www.exebook.com
- HTML2EXE: http://www.html2exe.com
- HyperMaker HTML 2000: http://www.bersoft.com
- Illuminatus v4.51: http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk
- Infinite Ink: http://www.infiniteink.com
- NeoBook V. 4.0: http://www.neosoftware.com
- WebCompiler: http://www.webcompiler.com
- WebExe 1.3: http://www.aw-soft.com/webexe.html
- WinEbook: http://superwin.com/
------------------------------ STEP 3: Formatting Your E-Book ------------------------------
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapte
Did you hate school? You couldn’t wait to get out into the world to earn a living and felt everything you were learning just did not relate to real life. If you can identify with this, it may come as a bit of a shock to discover that lifelong learning is now something which should be on everyone’s agenda. Information and knowledge have become essential commodities since the late 20th century, irrespective of which career an individual is involved in.And if that isn’t bad enough, technology is moving at such a rapid pace that it is difficult for consumers, never mind experts to keep up. Not long ago there were millions out there trying to figure out how to program their VCRs. How on earth are they coping with mp3 players, digital TVs and phones which incorporate video cameras and internet access?In fact, even the economic eras in which we are living change so quickly, it’s almost impossible to keep up. Th
I recommend you write the text of your E-Book as a single Microsoft Word document. This allows you to get a feel for the overall structure of your E-Book, and it also makes spell-checking much easier.
------------------------------ STEP 2: Creating Your E-Book ------------------------------
Now divide your Word document into single pages; these will become the HTML pages of your E-Book.
There are well over a dozen different E-Book compilers on the market.
Here are two compilers that are free:
- SbookBuilder: http://www.jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm#sbookbuilder
- eBookIt: http://www.cottagemicro.com/ebooks/
However, if you want to make a good impression with your customers, I highly recommend that you use a commercial E-Book compiler.
Here is a list of commercial E-Book compilers:
- Activ EBook Compiler: http://www.ebookcompiler.com
- Document Publisher: http://www.fuguesoftware.com
- EBook Pro Compiler: http://www.ebookpro.com
- E-Book Publishing Wizard: http://www.successarsenal.com/
- EbookPaper: http://www.ebookpaper.com
- E-Publisher Gold: http://www.ebook-software.com
- ePublish Now: http://www.ebookgraphics.com
- FlipBrowser V. 1.0: http://www.flipbrowser.com
- ExeBook: http://www.exebook.com
- HTML2EXE: http://www.html2exe.com
- HyperMaker HTML 2000: http://www.bersoft.com
- Illuminatus v4.51: http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk
- Infinite Ink: http://www.infiniteink.com
- NeoBook V. 4.0: http://www.neosoftware.com
- WebCompiler: http://www.webcompiler.com
- WebExe 1.3: http://www.aw-soft.com/webexe.html
- WinEbook: http://superwin.com/
------------------------------ STEP 3: Formatting Your E-Book ------------------------------
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapte
Your overall success in prospecting for new clients depends upon identifying potential customers who need your product now and are comfortable with your price range. The good news is that your competitors’ clients fit the bill perfectly. In fact, year after year, research has confirmed that 17% of an average business’s customers would readily switch if simply asked. Over time, most dissatisfied customers continued to do business with their current suppliers simply out of habit.Yes, this means that today, 17% of your competitors’ clients are ready to listen and switch. Remember it only takes one bad experience with your competitor for a client to be ready to shift their business. According to The Guerrilla Group, 68% of repeat customers who switched to a new supplier did so because of the indifference of just one employee.One very reliable source of intelligence on your competitors’ clients is your very ow
- Activ EBook Compiler: http://www.ebookcompiler.com
- Document Publisher: http://www.fuguesoftware.com
- EBook Pro Compiler: http://www.ebookpro.com
- E-Book Publishing Wizard: http://www.successarsenal.com/
- EbookPaper: http://www.ebookpaper.com
- E-Publisher Gold: http://www.ebook-software.com
- ePublish Now: http://www.ebookgraphics.com
- FlipBrowser V. 1.0: http://www.flipbrowser.com
- ExeBook: http://www.exebook.com
- HTML2EXE: http://www.html2exe.com
- HyperMaker HTML 2000: http://www.bersoft.com
- Illuminatus v4.51: http://www.digitalworkshop.co.uk
- Infinite Ink: http://www.infiniteink.com
- NeoBook V. 4.0: http://www.neosoftware.com
- WebCompiler: http://www.webcompiler.com
- WebExe 1.3: http://www.aw-soft.com/webexe.html
- WinEbook: http://superwin.com/
------------------------------ STEP 3: Formatting Your E-Book ------------------------------
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapte
Closed circuit TV systems have been available for many years, they have also undergone some almost miraculous transformations in recent years. What used to be very expensive, cumbersome and hard to configure systems are now very reasonable, easy to configure , and easy to maintain, and they provide much more versatility and usefulness than just a few years ago.When choosing system components the first decision you need to make is what are you using it for. The primary uses for CCTV systems are surveillance, traffic control, theft, shoplifting, employee theft, and/or robbery deterrence, and identification. Surveillance and traffic control probably do not require color cameras, black & white may actually provide better resolution. However theft, shoplifting and/or robbery deterrence and identification may require color cameras, if there is an arrest and prosecution a court will require color to make positive ident
There are many sites that offer ready-made E-Book templates, some free, some you would have to pay for.
Here's a site that offers free E-Book templates.
http://stickitsoftware.freeyellow.com/neobooktemplates/
And here are 2 sites where you can buy ready-made templates:
http://www.web-source.net/ebookstarter/ebooktemplates.htm http://www.msincome.com/Templates/covers.html
If you decide to create your own format, here are some basic formatting tips. Your E-Book should contain:
(i) an Index page that serves as the entry point to your E-Book. It should contain a Welcome message, your copyright statement, and a link to the 'Contents' page of your E-Book.
(ii) A 'Contents' page. This should be a list of all the chapters in your E-Book, with Section titles for each chapter. The Chapter titles should be hyper-linked to the first page in that chapter, and the Section titles should be hyperlinked to the first page in that section.
(iii) A link at the top of each page of your E-Book that says 'Contents' and which takes the reader back to the 'Contents' page.
(iv) The Chapter title at the top of each page, so that the reader knows which Chapter they are reading.
(v) A set of links at the top of each page that allow the reader to jump back and forth between the different sections of the Chapter.
(vi) Forward and Backward arrows (hyperlinked) at the bottom right of each page which take the reader back one page or forward one page.
------------------------------ STEP 4: Selling Your E-Book ------------------------------
There are basically 2 ways of selling your E-Book: either you have a merchant account and accept credit cards yourself, or you use a '3rd Party Credit Card Processor'.
Here are two 3rd Party Credit Card Processors that I recommend. Neither of these 2 companies charges monthly fees.
Each has advantages and disadvantages, which I have summarized below:
--------------------- (i) Clickbank
http://www.clickbank.com ---------------------
- To sell your E-Book through Clickbank, you will
have to pay a one-time joining fee of $49.95
- Clickbank charges 7.5% per sale plus $1
- With Clickbank you will only be able to offer
payment via Credit Card.
- if you use Clickbank to sell your E-Book(s), you
also have a ready-made affiliate program. Clickbank
will track your affiliate sales and send out checks
every 2 weeks to your affiliates.
- Clickbank will send you an automatic email every
time you (or one of your affiliates) make a sale.
- Minimum amount before a check is issued is $5
--------------------- (ii) Ibill (Internet Billing Company)
http://www.ibill.com/ ---------------------
- ibill does not charge a joining fee.
- ibill charges 15% per sale (more for telephone billing).
- ibill allows your customers to pay in a number of
different ways, such as online check, telephone
billing, or credit card. Many people don't have a
credit card, so offering your customers alternative
ways of paying can significantly increase your volume
of sales.
- ibill doesn't operate an affiliate program.
- ibill doesn't send you an email every time you make
a sale.
- Minimum amount before a check is issued is $150
The possibilities with E-Books really are endless - you're only limited by your own imagination.
And remember: how ever obscure you think your E-Book concept is, there will be a market for it. In fact, that's the essence of 'niche marketing': the more narrow your focus, the more customers you will find.
Wishing you every success!
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