A lot of bumf is talked about selling and writing ebooks.
A lot of ebooks, and newsletters, give false hope to millions of readers, who are looking for viable ways to earn a nice income from the Internet.
Especially people who have said that I did this or I did that!
The sad fact is that only a few of you, will actually go and try for yourselves some of the businesses highlighted on this website..
All of the opportunities will require some hard work in one area or another.
It might require a steep learning curve for the area you want to pursue, which means time, or it might mean a different understanding of how a thing operates.
or simply it might mean that you have to set up a website, or redo an original website.
Any of these things involves you having to do something to make wrting ebooks on your subject, work.
10 Steps to Successful Writing Ebooks
Here's what you need to do in order to be successful at selling and writing ebooks:
1. Write a great e-book with a Killer Title
2. Create a dedicated web site or webpage
3. Write a Killer Sales Letter to get people excited and
whip out their credit cards
4. Pre-sell your ebook first.
5.Get traffic to your site
6. Write articles to promote your ebooks
7. An army of marketers (read: affiliates) ready to sell
and market your e-book
8.An Easy Ordering Process
9.Be Persistent and Willing to Work Hard
10.DO NOT GIVE UP
Writing ebooks is not difficult, if you follow those rules.
Of course once you have written your ebook, you will require a decent ebook cover, so that you can promote your book.
But where do you go?
There are 2 main options:-
1. Have it designed for you by a professional.
2. Buy some software and give it a go yourself.
There are several free Ebook Cover tutorials, however, not many are that good.
You will find that you can't design good ebook covers with them, unless you have a designer's touch. The ebook cover that you created will probably look less than ideal.
The free tutorials do not teach you the best layout for an ebook cover. They also do not teach you the best effects and styles that you can apply to your ebook cover.
Most of the time, they only teach how to make the 3D effect of a book.
They don't teach you how, and where, to apply lighting, and shadow effects, to make the ebook cover look even more realistic.
The bottom line is "That you can't sell many ebooks with lousy ebook covers."
How about buying ebook cover software?
Most of them will be a waste of money!!
Why? Ebook cover software is expensive!
For the high price tag, you can only basically do ONE thing with it.
They work on templates. You can't add your own ebook cover templates.
you have seen them everywhere. Different ebooks with covers that look exactly alike, except for the titles and image graphics.
Ebook cover software is preset with limited layouts and design options. This limits your creativity and results.
Your business is unique and special.
So what can you do?
design your own, by using part of the 'Photoshop' suite.
The full 'Photoshop' suite can be expensive, but you can buy parts of it on ebay.
There is an excellent video tutorial, of how to go about designing your own ebook covers, explaining in detail the actual process, right here:
The benefits to you are, reduction in cost, a lot more flexibility in creating your own style, and learning a new trade, which you can sell on the Internet.
Not bad 3 in 1 option !
So don't forget writing ebooks can be fun, and also earn you some money at the same time.