Posts Tagged ‘ebooks’

Making Your Ebook Even Better

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Have you written an ebook?

In my continuing efforts to “examine and improve” my existing projects this year, one of the things on my list is my first information product, the Natural Mom Business Guide.

It hasn’t been updated since 2007 and I would like to tweak it a little each year to make it better for my existing customers and future ones.

Things change on the internet. Some of the tools I recommend today I may not be in love with in a year. Marketing methods and tactics also change somewhat. I want the NMBG to continue to be an awesome tool, so to editing I go.

To that end, I’m pretty stoked that I have Jimmy D. Brown’s coaching to help me along. I’ve probably mentioned before that I’ve been a member of his List and Traffic membership site for over two years now. I consider it one of the best values on the Internet in terms of internet marketing!

You can get a free ebook here by Mr. Jimmy all about improving your ebook. This info is great whether the ebook in question has yet to be released, or not!

Get a copy of it here: 30 Writing Tips for Ebook Authors.

I’ll be reading this this weekend, along with some other juicy reports I own of Jimmy’s while I’m stuck in bed.

I’m having some surgery on my foot and Doctor’s orders – I can only get up for bathroom privileges for 3 days. I haven’t had that much rest since I gave birth last. ;)

Enjoy!

7 Dollar Reports – Do you have one in you?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

After reading Lynn Terry’s thoughts on 7 Dollar Secrets, I decided to purchase it and the follow up guide Write That Report (you get the first report free when you buy the second one).

I’ve been saying for a long time that everyone has an ebook inside of them. And I think these two reports will encourage a lot of people to get that knowledge out and into an ebook they can sell for income.

7 Dollar Secrets and Write That Report teach you how to research, create and sell your information products. The two together cost only $7 and they encourage you to sell your small reports for the same price.

The reasoning is pretty solid and make perfect sense to me: $7 is very affordable for anyone with an internet connection, and you’ll have better conversion rates with less returns. With higher priced products, people expect you to overdeliver in value, and this intimidates many potential infoproduct writers.

Most people will blow $7 on a latte and muffin at Starbucks without thinking. It’s a small enough amount that people will spend it on impulse. It’s kind of like the toys, flashlights and disposable cameras that stores keep by the register. Don’t you find yourself throwing one last thing into your shopping cart as you wait in the checkout line? I know I do.

The reports are well written and concise. There isn’t too much information that will cause you to get bogged down. They will be especially helpful to those who have never created an information product before and who may be intimidated by the process. The second report in particular breaks down the process of writing your ebook into a VERY simple process that anyone, even a 5th grader, could do.

The author explains the benefits of selling information online, as well as some common problems – including solutions as to how to solve them. This is what I found especially helpful about the reports – Jonathan explains hwo to overcome these problems, one of which I’ve experienced with my own ebooks. He also includes free sample scripts you can download and use to increase your sales.

Reading these has finally motivated me to launch a non internet marketing product that I wrote several months ago. It’s a topic near and dear to my heart that I didn’t want to charge for. I ended up launching a content site based on the information, but I really needed to create an ebook so all the information could be neatly packaged into one ebook. That’s one of the reasons people buy ebooks: Convenience.

I’m excited about getting started with my topic, and also using the unique method Jonathan recommends for getting affiliates to promote the product. It’s an approach I’ve not come across, but I can see why it would be extremely effective, for two reasons.

Anyway, if you’re like me and have been sitting on an idea for an ebook or special report and need some step by step help to get it launched, get 7 Dollar Secrets AND Write That Report now.