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Knowing how to write an ebook that customers will wish to purchase involves using the age old marketing maxim of finding out what they want, then giving them what they want. This applies just as much for authoring ebooks as it does to the traditional book publishing industry.

Fledgling ebook business entrepreneurs that are writing ebooks should therefore take the same approach as corporate publishers in deciding how to write an ebook. This article will detail how to research what your readers want and how this can inform how to produce your ebook.

There are only a lucky few writers who can safely saw they know exactly what their customer wants. Most writers can benefit for a little research to establish the core themes that their readers will hopefully be interested in. Luckily Google have a research tool that can help.

The Google Adwords Keyword Tool is able to collate information from Google’s indexes of the vast array of websites on the internet (find it by running a web search for the tool name). The tool allows you to enter either (a) words or phrases or (b) a website URL, and returns results of key words that users search for relating to this phrase/website.

The power of this for an ebook author is that you may enter a phrase relating to the ebook you wish to write (e.g. digital photography) and discover the array of phrases that web users search for relating to this term. In doing so, you could discover niche areas (e.g. wildlife digital photography) which could then form the core theme of your ebook.

If your book is going to target a specific group of people (for example, amateur photographers) then you could use the tool to enter a website URL for a web forum. Doing this provides a profile of the forum showing key terms that are regularly used. For example, the term ‘photography lighting’ might appear popular in the tool results, so if this is something which you feel that you are an authority on then it would make an ideal ebook concept.

Spend some time researching the phrases and websites of subject area you wish to cover and build up a short list of words/phrases that appear popular. Choose one phrase (or two maximum) that you believe you could happily write a good ebook about. This keyword dictates two elements of your ebook. The first obvious point is that the phrase has got to become the main theme of your ebook. You can introduce related themes but avoid at all costs using unrelated areas (this will irritate readers causing possible refund requests and discourage loyalty sales on future books).

The single key phrase should also be used in the main title of your ebook. Doing so helps your chances of the book being targeted by your readership based on their search terms, which are after all an insight into their needs. You can use variations of the phrase in the title and reorder the word so that the title reads well.

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Writing Ebooks, and books in general, is something that doesn’t come easily to everybody. The truth of the matter is that authoring requires hard graft to put in enough hours each day to build up the word count. Keeping the head down working on chapters does have the potential for losing sight of the eBooks’ core goal.

Therefore, treat writing ebooks with the same approach you would create a physical project (e.g. building a wooden chair). With this approach first brainstorm as many ideas as you can, focus in on ideas that interest you and prototype them. Prototyping ebook ideas can be as simple as white-boarding as many ideas as you can, delving deeper into the ones that interest you and coming up with a story line or chapter guide for your book.

Prototyping leads into the execution phase – writing ebooks. It is this phase that can benefit from planning to ensure your book adheres to the goals and ideas that you wish to put across.

Define the books goal/objective.

Set the goal or goals for your book. Don’t try to muddy the waters with a multitude of goals. Think of any of your favourite books and they probably have a small amount of objectives and one central goal.

List off all the jobs you will need to do to complete the book.

This can be as simple as taking your rough listing of chapters, add any formatting/presentation that will be required and not forgetting research that you (or others) will need to do. You’ll have your own list of add-on tasks specific to your eBooks subject. Give each task a rough level of effort (e.g. 2 days to complete chapter 1).

Underline tasks that are dependent on third-party involvement and start contacting and planning their work.

Will you use an assistant to run some research? Maybe you will outsource to a designer the books page formatting/icons? Planning to interview experts in the field? Plan ahead and contact these people to front load this work if possible.

Add in contingency for things that may go wrong.

You’ll know better than I what percentage you should give here. Once you write a couple of books you’ll have a better gauge of how many days you run over (or under). Adding 10% to 20% is being prudent.

By this stage you now have a list of all the work to be done. You could use project management software to plan this out and establish the duration of all your work. Alternately, use a whiteboard with the days of the week and add post-it notes for each action to be completed. Or just keep it simple by adding the actions to your diary along with any planned holidays you wish to take (so you know to work around them).

Work through the daily tasks noting any overs.

As the saying goes “create a plan, and then work the plan”. As you start implementing your planned tasks you can tick them off of your list as completed. Keep track of tasks running over. Use your contingency/margin of error for these. This should not suppress the creative writing process. Instead, this is focusing your mind on the value of your time.

Report milestones.

A milestone report is intended ‘for your eyes-only’. It is a motivational technique to show you how much progress you have made. When looking at the work ahead focus on the upcoming milestones. Consider it like climbing a mountain and aim for the next base camp. Focusing on the summit from the foothills is too daunting.

Keep going until all tasks are complete. Congratulate yourself and run a review of your plan.

Congratulations! You hit each milestone and got the book finished. Before rushing off to start your next project, take a time-out to review how the plan went. Were the original estimates correct? What unforeseen issues arose? What could you do better next time? Write up a one pager of things that went well, and not-so-well, as a reference for future writing projects.

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One of the most common ways so that an article can be created for a certain website post is through an article writing service. They usually fill several web pages in the form of reviews, commentaries, informative articles, and a whole lot more.

An article writing service covers several subjects depending on the requirements of the company requesting for it. They usually focus on a single niche but the range of subjects can cover a whole lot of topics. For instance, if the niche is about the latest multimedia gadgets, they can write several articles about their features, what makes them different from the other products, the complaints that customers encounter and a whole lot more.

There are several companies that use an article writing service for their websites. They will just give a certain set of requirements and they will just wait for the finished product. The form of the articles will usually depend on the requirements given by the client. They may set the number of words that should be written, the number of paragraphs, the style of writing, the tone, and the likes.

Of course, they are going to pay for the writers. Payments are usually based on volume. There are those who will pay per word and there are also those who will pay per article or per the number of pages. Either way, this is a good way to earn cash.

Aside from strictly following the requirements, the deadline is also very important as the clients also have to meet a certain timeline. Usually, a set of topics is already given one week ahead and the articles are submitted daily or weekly.

Aside from a web content, and article writing service also handles product review, and e-book, and some press releases. There are also those who will ask for a conversational essay or an informative one.

One of the most common article writing service will usually focus on Search Engine Optimization. This is a method used to make the articles more keyword rich so that they will be ranked by the engines better on the results page. This is what Google uses and this is why there are several companies that are using this particular strategy. However aside from the keywords, the relevance of the article is also seen so that it will not look like a spam that will be rejected by Google.

So if you are looking for a great way to earn cash, try an article writing service.

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Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an area of technological advancement that authors within the eBook business should pay close attention to over the coming years as these innovations are striving to safeguard their written work.

DRM relates to protecting creative output in digital media formats (CDs, DVDs, eBooks, etc.). DRM technology attempts to stop your written eBook being resold or duplicated without your permission. The music industry was slow to react in protecting their music in digital formats, meaning tunes were widely available on the net without the music publishers profiting.

In the case of the eBook business, rights management was built in from the early days of computer engineering as eBooks are a product of the computing industry, rather than having started out of the regular hard-copy book publishing industry. This key differentiator means eBooks have used technological innovation from an early stage to protect the text and content of eBooks.

In the early days, Adobe championed the PDF file format. Their software can constrict what PDF readers are permitted to do with a protected file. In particular, a PDF can disallow copying of the eBook text (a simple copy and paste of text to another document) and also stop the user from printing hard copies of the PDF file. This is DRM technology in action.

Most PDF file creators/readers/add-ons now provide this functionality. Some prime examples are the Adobe Reader and Microsoft Reader. The Microsoft reader goes one step further by ID stamping PDFs with the purchaser’s details in order to discourage sharing the PDF with others.

In new and recent developments in DRM, players like the Kindle Reader can send notifications back to their home servers if eBooks are being illegally read or shared. At that point the vendor can then choose how to deal with the file sharer (possibly through litigation). Could they remove the PDF? Yes, apparently this is already possible, as detailed in a recent case when Amazon remotely removed PDFs from customers’ Kindle Readers (http://mashable.com/2009/07/17/amazon-kindle-1984/). This does open up a potential can of worms regarding the privacy rights of device owners so expect to start seeing Terms Of Conditions for digital readers containing statements about remote access permissions of vendor.

In parallel with the hardware producers firming up the DRM security, software publishers are also including functionality into their PDF publishing tools to include the ability to disable an eBook remotely if a customer uses fraudulent credit card details or is seeking a refund (two traditional means of obtaining PDFs at no cost). For most authors writing eBooks, protecting their PDFs through simple configuration of PDF creation software is an ideal solution.

These improvements in the eBook business may be arriving too late for the existing files available online (these do have copyright protection on their content; Just no technological way to safeguard them). Over the coming years, developments in copy protection via hardware and software solutions should make it even more convenient for eBook authors to get writing eBooks and securely selling them online.

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Managing sales, finance and production are all challenges to a start up enterprise. New company operators rarely bring a complete package of experience to their new management role – especially in the area of managing the sales effort. Accordingly, many good, small business enterprises struggle to develop good prospecting and sales systems.

Within the business environment, the internet presents an opportunity to build sales and attract customers for the new enterprise. Many successful companies have entered the market using the internet as major elements in their sales strategies. The reasons for this are simple. Internet readers tend to research product purchases on-line prior to buying. Accordingly, the internet can be used effectively for building revenue and generating sales traffic.

Referring to internet sales as “on-line selling” may be a bit misleading though, as actually selling a product or service usually involves first establishing trust between prospective purchaser and seller. Building trust is an interpersonal task and building trust via the internet is a challenge. “People buy from People” as purchasers want to buy from an individual that will stand by the product or service should unexpected events occur.

Global companies pour huge sums into website development and internet research. The value to these companies is clear – a highly focused web page can yield increased revenue. Social networking, ordering on line and other (Software as a Service or SaaS) business models all provide testimony as to the ability of small enterprises to use the internet to support their sales efforts and build a customer base.

Enterprises that are just beginning operations need to compete for attention on the internet just as much as their larger competitors. An on-line presence allows the new business to distribute information and compete for attention on a 24X7 basis.

Techniques such as ‘localization’ also allow business start ups to attract internet traffic by competing in a specific geographic area. Organizations offering narrowly defined products in specific areas, such as Denver Furnace Repair or or a Denver Graphic Designer can use the internet to compete for business in the Denver, Colorado area.

For most new enterprises, investing in any marketing program is a difficult decision. After all, it is money spent without a specific guarantee of return. Still, an on-line internet presence can greatly support a new business venture by providing useful information that – over time – will attract customers

Using a web page to attract readers is a challenge that many new business operators have little experience meeting. There are a couple simple rules for developing web page content that can help the start up enterprise use the internet to compete for traffic and to begin building a customer base. In short, the website must contain two particular elements – a: Specific call to action Clear “Value Proposition”

Call To Action – Sales managers worldwide continually exhort their troops to “ask for the sale!” Asking for the sale is the call to action that organizations request of those they are dealing with. With a web page however, actually asking for the sale may be inappropriate if the reader has just clicked onto the site. Asking the reader for a more risk-free response – such as providing her/his contact information is usually more effective.

New clients may not buy on line initially, but may be quite interested in learning how the small businesses products/services can benefit them. The web page ‘call to action’ then can be something as simple as asking the reader to fill out a simple response form so that the company can begin building an email network of prospects.

Value Proposition – What can the user expect should he or she purchase the product or service? What are the potential financial impacts for the client? These questions must be answered and compiled into a clear statement of value that the prospective customer will realize by purchasing the product or service. Bold statements such as “save up to 30% on travel costs by ” not only capture attention, but establish an expectation of value. Without a reasonable expectation of value, consumers have no reason to seriously consider your product or service.

New enterprises can use these two simple rules to build their businesses. By attracting potential customers to the business web page and then delivering a call to action and value proposition, these readers can be invited to build a longer term customer relationship with the organization.

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With the increasing popularity of bespoke applications online for computers/phones/etc., there has been a stream of different ways to distribute your software to the masses. Here is a quick guide to the two main options out there along with the pros and cons of each. Understanding the two business models has implications regarding security, control, and cost that either will or will not suit each individual software publisher.

Third Party Vendors/Distributors

This is the most widespread and familiar approach to most people as the prime example in today’s marketplace is Apple’s app store. It is also the model used for distributing other free/open software, shareware and other commercial digital products for PCs and Macs.

In this business model, the creator of the software uploads their software to the distributor’s site for them to take control of promotion and sales of the product in return for a commission on each sale. Most iPhone application developers like this approach as they can leverage the Apple brand and sales pipeline. Developers of other software (e.g. for PCs/Macs/etc.) may wish to be less dependent on a single distributor and seek out multiple sales channels to spread the sales potential and reduce the risk of a single distributor failing to market/sell their product adequately.

The distributor also handles the shopping cart and payment processing which is one less headache for the software publisher. But the cost to the software publisher is that they have little control of their product’s marketing on the distributor’s website.

When customers purchase the software, the download link security is managed by the distributor. This entails controlling if the hyper-link for the software has a time limit or if there is a limit on the number of download attempts that can be made.

Given that you have no access to the purchaser’s details; you cannot build up a membership listing of purchasers. As a result, you miss out on potential loyalty purchases. This could affect you if you intend publishing several software applications and therefore benefit from a listing of loyal customers.

Sales/Download Management & Distribution Tools

This involves installing a sales and download management application to your server to handle the shopping cart process, download link security, passwords and mailing list capture. There are many open source and commercial available on the web.

The benefits to the software owner of this model is the chance to capture customer mailing list data combined with taking control of the marketing of their product online.

The cost of such an approach includes the ticket price on the sales software (though free open source versions are available, and widely used), the commission to the payment processor and the human resource cost of installing and administering the sales software.

To conclude

If you are developing applications for which you wish to tie in with the network effects of a large corporation (e.g. developing iPhone Apps) then leverage the third party vendor. You could try going it alone but you will be competing against the advertising and marketing strength of a huge organization.

If you sell software online and want to keep control of the product’s marketing and customer base data then setting up your own sales management and distribution solution will give you the control you seek.

If you only have one software application to sell, don’t wish to capture purchasers in a mailing list and want zero involvement in the set-up, marketing and sales of your software then using one of the many online vendors would be the option for you.

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One of the fastest ways to expand the popularity of a business is through the utilization of a business strategy using publicity, branding and marketing. You want to create lots of buzz about you and your business. When you can successfully place your business and business’ offerings in front of a great deal of people, you will find that your profits instantly increase as a result. When you create a great publicity campaign, your products are reaching many people around the world who would otherwise be unaware of what your company has to offer. This is why, if you want to greatly enlarge the profits of your business, you should certainly take advantage of proven publicity tactics available to you today. Media outeach is good however, be sure to showcase your success on your website and in your marketing materials.

You may be wondering what techniques you could use to increase the consumer’s awareness of your company. One of the fastest ways to access an incredibly large audience is by using a press release. When you create a press release, you make it possible for the distribution of information about your company to reach many more people than you would be able to contact on your own. Press release enjoy lots of internet exposure now so creating and publishing a press release via a wire service can get your name out nicely. So when someone searches on your name or your topic, you just might come up on the first page of the search engine!

The primary reason why the press release form of publicity gets more attention than you can possibly estimate before you create one is mostly due to the fact that media companies that receive your press release are likely going to want to talk about the major current events occurring within your company.

Another great way to increase your company’s publicity is through the use of other written forms of communication. If you are running a small business, or you have employees who have a great deal of technical experience and knowledge in specific subject areas, you can be sure that media publications will be interested in what your company has to say.

When you present information to readers as a professional or expert, they will trust the information that you present to them, but more importantly they have more reason to trust your company after reading the article if you showcase your expertise well. You can generally gain recognition for your business as the media outlet usually identifies the contributors including name, credentials and the name of your company.

There are many approaches that you can take if you wish to expand the popularity of your company and brand through the use of publicity. You can access publicity less expensively if you do the work yourself or within your company. When you don’t have to spend that much time on the publicity that you create, you can be sure that you may have more funds to create many different publicity campaigns. The more publicity campaigns you create, the more popular and well known your company will become in the long run.

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Every year when a new influx of students enters college, the bookshops make an absolute killing. You need your textbooks so go to the store and pay out at least $150, as they buy them back you think you will have a head start on the next ones you need. This goes out the window when you return the book in good condition and they give you $25 for it.

You can bet your bottom dollar that if you return to that same store next semester your book will be there with a used price on it of around $120. This is a game the student will never win so it’s pointless even trying. So the way to go is to sell your book online, there are always new students looking for a bargain and you will get a much better return than you would ever get from a book store.

The best places to sell your used textbooks are sites that you have probably visited many times before; eBay and Amazon. Even though eBay will charge a fee for selling it, you will still get a lot more for it than you would have done.

When you list your book on Amazon, they will set a fee depending on how much you have listed your book for, you only pay this fee if it sells. Amazon shows up really well on search engines which drives more traffic and subsequently more possible buyers.

Another good thing is that they run on a no sale no fee basis, so you only pay if your book sells.

You may want to try your luck on a public forum to avoid the fees, but there is a major possibility that you will be offered less than you would on one of the auction sites, even after the fee is deducted. Trust plays a major part on these sites too, and if you are a first time seller people will be reluctant to pay out money.

As the auction sites have a ratings system for their members, you’re ensured of their reputation. Some forums have similar systems, but they are few and far between.

Getting your money is very easy if you have PayPal. This is very simple to set up and use and is also very secure. A fee of 3% is normal for the transaction but is worth it to ensure you get your money.

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We’ve all heard about the plagues that face the music and movie industry with respect to digital piracy. Ever since the advent of MP3s, free music has been abundantly available to those who choose to download their music at no cost.

Whether it’s through a file sharing platform or a torrent website, the activity of those who choose to obtain their music free hurts the sales of many artists. The same thing has afflicted many in the movie industry, as movie pirates record movies before choosing to upload them to file sharing platforms.

And now, the problem is spreading to one other form of entertainment – e-books. It happened suddenly, and with these books getting shared this way, this issue continues to grow.

So many books are being put in digital form and it is quite easy to get them by going to a torrent or file sharing site and downloading them illegally without paying anything.

Tablet PCs and the Kindle are pretty popular digital mediums that enable the proliferation of the books through digital means.

The publishing industry could be dealt a pretty bad blow by this activity; thus, folks should definitely stop and think about how illegal this is and what could happen.

Think about it this way – if this industry is dealt a big blow and the writers who do all the researching and writing expecting good sales in the end do not get them, then the world might have a lot less of good quality writing.

It is my belief that almost all of us do realize that we would surely be in a bad position if that should occur, so the best thing to do is to stop this illegal activity if you are doing it.

Throughout the second quarter of 2009, e-book sales went above $37 million and, because of that, regulators are going to be made to deal with this issue as the use of e-books keeps growing and growing.

Aside from ebooks, the writer also regularly articles about metal storage bins and glass display shelves.