Recently, InkwellEditorial.com hosted its first ebook writing and publishing tournament. I hosted this tournament because I’ve written almost 20 ebooks to date, and people were always asking me how I manage to publish so many.
One writer who participated finished her ebook – and sold 12 copies in 12 hours. You can see all of the results in the link above.
So, now that we’ve established that it can be done, here’s the overall game plan we followed:
Step 1: To Make Money Selling Ebooks, Conduct Research First
One of the first things you need to do to make sure your ebook will sell – before you write it – is to do some research, specifically keyword research. This ensures not only that you have an audience for your ebook, but can tell you how and where to “niche it down” so that it will sell more copies.
Step 2: To Write an Ebook Fast, Do a Thorough Outline
In my opinion, after research, this is the most important step in writing an ebook. Why? Because from your outline, you will get most of the meat for your sales/landing page. You will also be able to turn one ebook into many more by doing pullouts if you’re judicious during this stage.
Learn more about pullouts and how you can make money selling ebooks (much more money), without doing any more work.
Step 3: To Write an Ebook Fast . . . You Have to Write!
Don’t edit, proofread, research, etc. Once your outline is done, sit down and do a “brain dump.” This means getting everything out of your head that you want to say on the subject (adhering to your Outline/Table of Contents).
You will have time to go back and edit/proofread and polish your words later. But get the meat of the writing done in blocks of just “writing.”
Step 4: To Sell Ebooks Online – Fast – You Need a Marketing Game Plan
As I’ve written about here on BloggingTips.com many times, I’m an avid article marketer. Hence, this is how I promote most of my ebooks. In the ebook tournament, participants were given marketing materials on several ways to promote their ebooks to get sales fast; article marketing was one of them.
Step 5: To Sell Ebooks Online – You Need a Digital Services Provider
When prospects buy ebooks, they expect immediate delivery. So you need to offer a way for them to purchase and then have the ebook delivered immediately.
And this is basically the process.
When You Write and Sell Ebooks Online, You Create Passive Income – Which Can Help You Ditch the 9 to 5 for Good!
To write and sell ebooks online is not hard – with a game plan and some dedication. Sticking to this basic plan, you can easily produce 30, 40 or 50 e-products per year. Imagine making consistent sales of 4, 5 or 6 per day (which is what I do) with just about 20 ebooks (over the next year, I plan to triple this) under my belt?
Depending on how you price your ebook (we cover how to price your ebook to sell), you could be making a very nice passive income – and kiss that 9 to 5 goodbye for good.
Here’s hoping you’ll join us in the next ebook writing and publishing tournament!
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