Ebook Review: How to Write and Publish Your Own eB

Ebook Review: How to Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 days

by: Andy George

Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale who are both well known in the Internet online industry wrote this eBook. The 2004 version of this book is 206 pages long though it should be mentioned that less than 100 pages are concentrated on the theme of the eBook whereas the rest of the eBook involves interviews with various successful eBook authors (in the eyes of Edwards and Vitale) and bonus reports.

I believe that Edwards and Vitale were wrong to follow this approach since when one tries to overkill with respect to information, the result is opposite to the one intended since the reader may be confused even more and in my opinion the eBook would have been more effective if it was shorter and did not include the interviews with these authors whose approaches were different. Perhaps Vitale and Edwards should have sold the interviews by the eBook experts as a separate eBook.

The 7day eBook was written in an unorthodox style in that it was written in a ขchattyข style rather than in a formal manner. To be fair to the authors this did help in maintaining the interest of the reader.

The content of the eBook contained some very useful aspects such as:

Distinguishing between a successful and failure formula for an eBook.

Tips for selecting a topic for an eBook

How to write the eBook in 7 days – though I think this target may be ambitious in practice the methodology mentioned by the authors is worth considering.

Various tips on how to publish the eBook.

The price of the eBook is in my opinion reasonable value considering the money that can be saved by reading this eBook and the valuable links that can be obtained from the eBook. But I felt at times that the authors over elaborated and could have been more concise in their writing.

Overall I believe that a purchase of the eBook for a price under $30 is worth buying despite its limitations.

About The Author

Andy George is a qualified chartered accountant who was born in Birmingham, England and who has had many years’ experience in public practice, industry, and commerce and as a lecturer. Since 1991 he has been based in the island of Cyprus. Andy was a financial correspondent for eight years at the Cyprus Financial Mirror where he wrote articles on business and accounting related issues to a nontechnical audience.

He is the author of eBooks: How to write and Publish Your Own With a Shoestring Budget http://www.budgetebook.com

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This article was posted on August 31, 2004

by Andy George

Work at Home Mom Hits the National Market With Pra

Work at Home Mom Hits the National Market With Prayer Plates

by: Shannan Hearne

Prayer Plates® are designed to be used at the dinner table to encourage children to say grace and teach them a variety of dinnertime prayers. All dinnerware is food and dishwasher safe. Originally designed and crafted in London Edwards own home shop, they are hitting the national market this month.

www.mylittledish.com is the company. London Edwards is the artist. The plates are nationally available through Lifeway and Family Christian Book Stores nationwide. The initial contract consists of 29 designs, including both children’s and grownup dinnerware. Confident that the licensing relationship will be a mutual success, Edwards has already begun the design phase of the second product line.

Prayer Plates® are beautiful, colorful ceramic plates with a simple prayer printed around the edges reminding children to say grace before they eat. Edwards launched her company Goodness Grace LLC in 2001, creating a line of children’s dinnerware. Since that time, her product line has expanded to include adult dinnerware. ขI have always enjoyed creating and painting new designs. I have always maintained focus on the big picture of taking a concept to market. I did not want to mass produce on my own, and the licensing agreement provides me the best of both worlds – I can create and Cottage Gardens will mass produce my designs.ข

London Edwards and Mark Timm, owner of Cottage Gardens Collections, met in New York at the Licensing! Show in June. They immediately knew that her product line was a perfect match for his company and proceeded to draft an agreement the following week.

ขFrom start to finish, it usually takes a year to develop a concept and bring it to market,ข shares Edwards. ขMark worked diligently to push the agreement through in a few short months and has already secured sales prior to the product debut at the January markets.ข London’s products will be appearing in Lifeway and Christian Family Bookstores nationwide as a result of the deal.

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About The Author

Shannan Hearne is the owner of http://www.SuccessPromotions.com, an internet marketing company which specializes in online marketing for small businesses and work at home mothers.

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This article was posted on January 20

by Shannan Hearne

Review: eBook Secrets Exposed

Review: eBook Secrets Exposed

by: Michael Southon

If you want to make a lot of money with your own eBook and you only read one book on the subject in the next 12 months, I strongly recommend that itกs กeBook Secrets Exposedก by Jim Edwards and David Garfinkel.

The authors are both well qualified in this area. Jim Edwards has written five bestselling eBooks (including ‘the Lazy Manกs Guide to Online Businessก and ก33 Days To Online Successก).

David Garfinkel is considered by many to be the worldกs greatest copyrighting coach. Heกs an awardwinning business journalist and is also the author of several bestselling eBooks, such as กAdvertising Headlines That Make You Richก and กKiller Copy Tacticsก.

There have been so many books on this subject that I really couldn’t imagine how this book could add anything new.

But I have never before seen an eBook that explains so clearly how to do it. I got the feeling that you could literally walk in Jim Edwardsก footsteps and get the same results he did (over 4,500 eBook sales in 9 months).

What makes this book very readable and enjoyable is that itกs simply a long interview David Garfinkel asks the questions and Jim Edwards gives the answers.

The book is packed with so many กinsider tipsก thatกs itกs difficult to know where to begin, but one of the most valuable tips is how to find out before you write your book if thereกs a market for it.

You do this by following Jim Edwardsก 5Step กUltimate eBook Success Formulaก. The formula allows you to find out if thereกs a target audience that is already actively looking for the information you’re about to sell online. And if so, if they are prepared to pay for it.

One of the interesting things youกll discover in this book is that competition is actually good for your eBook.

If you come up with an idea for an eBook and you find that there are no competing books, you need to get worried it means thereกs probably no market for that idea.

But if there are books competing with yours, you’re on safe ground you know you have a market.

And don’t be put off by competition: anyone who is serious about a particular subject will buy at least 4 or 5 books on that topic.

Many eBook authors who make big money quickly with their eBooks do resale rights. Instead of making $29 per sale, they’re making $99 per sale. As you can see, resale rights can get you into serious money very fast.

But there are definite pitfalls with resale rights (such as finding out a few months later that your cherished information product has become a free eBook). If you want to avoid these pitfalls, you need to read Section 2 carefully.

You might think that bestselling eBook authors don’t bother with affiliate programs. Wrong!

Jim Edwards shows you that one of secrets to making money with your eBook is to load it up with backend affiliate links. But thereกs a right way to do this and a wrong way (more about this in Section 5).

But the real secret to how Jim Edwards made over $40,000 in one month from a single eBook is joint ventures finding people with lists of 10,000 or even 100,000 and getting them to do a personal recommendation to their readers.

On the Internet itกs not products that make money, itกs lists (products don’t sell, lists do). Or as Jim Edwards puts it: ‘the power is in the pipes, in the distributionก.

Letกs say your eBook is priced at $29 and you find someone with a list of 10,000 and they do a mailing that results in 3000 people turning up at your website.

And letกs say that those 3000 visits result in 90 to 180 sales you and your joint venture partner are suddenly making thousands of dollars in a few days.

Jim Edwards shows you exactly, stepbystep, how to set up a joint venture. He even shows you the exact same letter that he used to set up joint ventures for his book กHow To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in a little as 7 Daysก.

One of the keys to making joint ventures work is what Jim Edwards calls ‘the Santa Claus techniqueก (more on that in Section 2).

A question many people have is how to price their eBook. And itกs crucial that you get this right. In Section 4 Jim Edwards reveals his กpricing formulaก a very clever way to find your eBookกs กbreakpointก or equilibrium.

Thereกs another very valuable tip in Section 17 กMy Secret Method For Slashing Refundsก (this tip on itกs own could be worth the price of the whole book).

This is the best book on eBook publishing Iกve read in the last 18 months in fact, while reading it, I came up with the idea for my next eBook!

You can get your copy of กeBook Secrets Exposedก at: http://www.freezineweb.com/ese.html

(c) 2002 by Michael Southon

About The Author

Michael Southon has been writing for the Internet for over 3 years. He has shown hundreds of webmasters how to use this simple technique to get massive free publicity and dramatically increase traffic and sales. Click here to find out more: http://www.ezinewriter.com

This article was posted on August 30, 2002

by Michael Southon

Your Own eBook in 7 Days

Your Own eBook in 7 Days

by: Michael Southon

Review: How To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 Days

Reviewed by Michael Southon

How To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 Days by Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale exe format, 208 pages

I was intrigued by the title of this book writing an eBook in 7 days? But thatกs exactly what Jim Edwards and Joe Vitale show you how to do.

However, your eBook doesn’t have to be 100 pages. In fact, Joe Vitaleกs best selling eBook ‘turbo Charge Your Writingก is only 22 pages (and 2 of those pages are order forms). And the authors give the example of someone who wrote a book just 7 pages long that sells for between $30 and $50. The fact is that people are swamped with information. So the shorter your book, the better.

Vitale and Edwards both have impressive track records in online publishing. Joe Vitale (also known as กMr. Fireก) is something of a legend in the world of marketing. He has written over 12 successful books and has helped more than 200 authors to write, publish and promote their books.

Jim Edwards writes a syndicated newspaper column called กNetReporter.comก and is a frequent guest speaker at national conferences on topics such as search engine traffic generation and กshoestringก online marketing. Heกs also the author of ก33 Days To Online Profitsก and ‘the Lazy Manกs Guide To Online Businessก.

If you’re like many aspiring authors, you may have the urge to write your book first and then find out if thereกs a market for it. But as Edwards and Vitale point out, thatกs a formula for eBook failure.

In chapter 2 (กSetting Yourself Up for Successก) the authors show you how to identify your niche market, how to analyze their wants, needs and problems, and how to write a book that satisfies those wants, needs and problems.

Don’t skip this chapter it provides very detailed techniques for using keyword research to find out exactly who your target audience is and where you will find them on the Internet.

The authorsก program for writing your eBook in seven days contains some useful techniques for getting your creative juices flowing and getting your words down on paper writing your material as a letter to a friend, and writing your sales copy first.

The chapter on กFormatting Your eBook Textก contains some valuable tips, such as breaking up your text with bullets and headers. Your readers will thank you for it one of the keys to avoiding credit card charge backs is to make it easy for your readers to absorb your information.

Chapter 10 (กHow To Make Money with your eBookก) gives you some tried and tested formulas for turning your eBook into profits, such as selling the reprint rights and กback loadingก your eBook with your own affiliate links, joint ventures and affiliate programs.

The book also contains interviews with eight successful eBook authors, including Yanik Silver, Rick Beneteau, and Jay Conrad Levinson.

The interview with Yanik Silver is worth reading very carefully. He reveals how he made tens of thousands of dollars by setting up 3 separate profit streams in the same eBook: reprint rights, his own affiliate links and customization fees.

If you want to create your own information product, this book is definitely worth reading youกll find out that itกs easier than you think. You can get your copy of กHow To Write and Publish Your Own eBook in as little as 7 Daysก at:

http://www.freezineweb.com/7daybook.html

(c) 2002 by Michael Southon

About The Author

Michael Southon has been writing for the Internet for over 3 years. He has shown hundreds of webmasters how to use this simple technique to get massive free publicity and dramatically increase traffic and sales. Click here to find out more: http://www.ezinewriter.com

This article was posted on July 30, 2002

by Michael Southon

My Top 7 Favorite Ecommerce Tools

My Top 7 Favorite Ecommerce Tools

by: Jim Edwards

When you make your living on the Internet, you sometimes forget that the resources you use every day (and take for granted) might rate an incredible discovery to anyone who doesn’t already know they exist.

Whether they help you make money, save time, save money, or avoid frustration, these ecommerce tools and services rate my highest recommendation for anyone who conducts any form of ecommerce online.

ClickBank.com

If you sell a downloadable product such as an ebook, report, or software, you can’t beat ClickBank for processing credit card payments. Not only do they take the payments and send you a check twice a month, they also plug your product into an existing network with tensofthousands of affiliates who can sell it for you. Also, unlike a traditional merchant credit card processing account, ClickBank assumes all the fraud risk and prevents many of the กhorrorก stories you hear in connection with online credit card processing.

MySiteSales.com

Since ClickBank only allows the sale of downloadable products, MySiteSales.com comes to the rescue for anyone selling a physical product or service. Offering a suite of integrated product catalogs, follow up autoresponders, advertising tracking, a secure server, and even limitedtime coupon offers, this tool rates a กmust haveก for setting up and integrating a professional ecommerce solution on virtually any size website.

Aweber.com

If you need an unlimited number of follow up autoresponders and the ability to send an email กbroadcastก to all your contacts at one time, Aweber offers an excellent managed solution. Specializing in helping small to mediumsized Web businesses implement an effective email followup strategy without complicated software, Aweber gets our highest marks for service and dependability.

GoDaddy.com

Cheap, reliable, easytouse domain name registrar that only charges $8.95 per year for each domain name you register. Godaddy rates cheaper and just as, if not more, reliable than any other domain registrar. They also offer a กprivate registrationก option that allows you to keep your identity as the domain owner a secret from unscrupulous people who exploit domain name records to compile mailing lists, spam databases or worse.

FrontierPowerHosting.com

Any successful ecommerce endeavor begins with a solid website hosting service. Nothing shuts you down faster than an unreliable web host because, the second they go offline, your business goes offline. I host one of my servers at FrontierPowerHosting.com because of great customer service and guaranteed uptime.

ClipArt.com

Ever pulled your hair out searching for that perfect image, photo, or piece of clipart for your website? Once you exhaust the Microsoft collection on your computer, the next stop (if you want to find something fast) is Clipart.com. With thousands of images searchable by keyword, you can always find the perfect image in less time and without the worries of copyright infringement if you just pull something off the Web.

Google.com/Adsense/

Website got traffic but no making much money? Open a free account with Google AdSense and earn a commission any time someone clicks on any of the targeted ads. An excellent way to earn extra cash on virtually any website.

Copyright 2005 Jim Edwards

About The Author

Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the creator of an amazing course that will teach you stepbystep and clickbyclick how to finally create your own moneymaking minisites… Get a FREE Copy of The กMiniSite Secretsก Audio Right Now Click Here => http://www.MiniSiteCreator.com

This article was posted on August 13

by Jim Edwards