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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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Otherwise, please take a minute to read this article thoroughly, as it really could mean the difference between success and failure for your Internet business this year. You see, people love to make things complicated, but making money online is actually quite simple. It does not matter whether you are selling your own product, promoting affiliate links, or making money from Adsense or “click flipping”, it all boils down to just two things:

Conversion and Traffic.

Conversion comes first. You need to have an offer that people want. That “offer” might be a product, or it might be an enticing advert (e.g. Google Adsense) that people want to click on. And you need some kind of presentation (such as a sales letter) that encourages them to take the action that you want them to take (eg buy the product or click on the advert).

In many ways this is the easier part. Most people can put together a half decent website or sales letter that will turn at least some visitors into money.

But then, of course, you need visitors. Busfuls of them. The more people that you can get to come to your site, the more money you will make; especially if those visitors re highly targeted. But, given the number of websites online: all competing for the same visitors, just how do you get more visitors to your site?

Well, there are just three ways that people come to your site:

1. Visitors type your URL straight into their browser. That results from some sort of off-line promotion: it might be your business card, a radio advert, an article in a magazine or a conversation with a friend.

2. People click on a link somewhere. It might be in an email they received (eg from a friend or from an ezine they subscribed to), or it might be on another website they have visited.

3. Or they do a search in a search engine, see your website in the listings, and click on the link to visit you.

And that is it. There is no other way for them to get to your website.

So, if we know that, how do we get more traffic? Easy:

1. Make sure you are promoting your online presence in all your offline promotional materials.

2. Get lots of people to link to you, and lots of people to send out emails with your link in it.

3. Get a top position in the search engines.

Mmm.., it sounds simple, but maybe it is not so easy. Just how do you achieve steps 2 and 3 without spending loads of cash or getting banned by the search engines?

To understand this, we need to think about how the search engines work. Again, it is much simpler than people say.

Search engines want lots of people to use them. To achieve that, they strive to deliver relevant and up-to-date content to people who do a search through them. But how do they determine what is relevant to your search?

There are only two ways they can do that:

1. They scan your website and, using very sophisticated algorithms, they work out what the subject matter of your website is. The also look at how new or old it is, how recently it has been updated and so on. These are all known as on-page or on-site factors. You have direct control over many of these factors when you set up your site.

2. They look at what other people write about your website. In doing so, they look at two factors: how many people have links to your site (and what those links say) and also how important is the site that links to your site. An important ‘authority’ site that points to you is worth more than a whole list of unimportant sites. They also consider how old the links that point to you are, and a number of other factors about the link and the context in which it is found.

At the same time, the search engines are constantly on the look out for websites that attempt to fool them into thinking that they are more relevant or more popular than they actually are. Which is why the so-called ‘black-hat’ techniques quickly lose their effectiveness.

Therefore, to get to the top of the search engine lists you need to do two things:

1. You can optimize your on-page factors: there is plenty of information on- and off-line it about how to do that. It is not difficult but, on its own, it is also not enough.

2. Get lots of high-quality, one-way, relevant links to your site from as many other ‘important’ sites as you can.

So, how do you get people to link to you?

1. Have a fantastic product so that they just, spontaneously, want to tell others about your site.

2. Pay people to link to you – buy a text link, or offer an affiliate program.

3. Exchange links with them – but reciprocal links are clearly not worth as much as one-way links and it is a lot of work to do this effectively.

4. Provide them with fresh, unique content that adds value to their site in return for which they agree to post a back-link to you. Many sites are constantly looking for fresh, unique content. They get this content by traipsing through the article directories or by subscribing to article submission services.

So, if you send out articles to such directories, your articles will end up both on the directories themselves, AND on the niche sites that pick up and use our articles. AND some of these are likely to be valuable “authority”-type sites. Of course it depends on the quality of your article who picks it up.

So, there you have it, the last method is the simplest and most effective. It gives you hundreds or thousands of one way back-links, from relevant, niche sites, all for free. All you need is some way to get different, unique, articles to each of those directories and ezine publishers, which is, of course, exactly what our software does.

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More and more people are choosing the internet as a source for information over books. This has been happening for some time already.

People are opting to just boot up their computers and search for information online instead of going on a trip to the local library. Many people are satisfied with the information that can be found online. Does this shift in our information resources spell out the end of the book era?

No, there will always be a need for books in the future, as far as I can see. Academics rely heavily on books in their college studies and, later, careers. There are simply too many people in need of books for them to become a dying breed overnight.

Ask any university or college student and they would gladly tell you that their teachers want reliable sources of where they got their information. If the student told them they used a random website as a source that would be unacceptable.

In this age of technology anyone can own and operate a website claiming they are an authority on any given topic. With good marketing they can even become one of the top links in a Google search.

The site may look nice, it may look reliable, and the person to whom the words belong may seem very knowledgeable. But who is to say they are truly an expert? These sites are not regulated, and there may not be anyone checking the facts they state.

On the other hand we have books, which are generally written by accredited experts. The facts are checked and reviewed many times prior to printing. With books it is easier to weed out the good from the bad, and it is also easier to direct other people to the good, informative reads.

Between the facts represented in books, and the many people who still enjoy the feel of a good novel in their hands, I do not think books will be going anywhere. Being a book person myself, I retain a bit of hope that our younger generations will learn the appreciation and importance of books the same way most of us already have.

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Press releases have been around as long as the media has been in operation. Magazine and newspaper editors from publications all over the world receive many thousands of pieces of information daily and they then choose the information most relevant/ newsworthy to their publications needs for that day. The internet has changed and is changing the face of journalism as the online press release is here and making a massive impact on the online and offline publishing world.

Write your press release about something interesting. If you are intent on doing nothing more than writing a sales pitch for your product, you are missing the point. Nobody likes to be sold to so make sure that you research the current trends in your industry and make a point that people will be genuinely interested to read about. If you were the editor, don’t you think that you would be a little tired of hearing the same old rubbish all the time?

Press releases can end up being syndicated. This means that other services pick up the news from a master authority site or feed. This is really useful for you as you can reduce the amount of work done by sending your press release out to the best sites and then other sites will pick up that information from them. A word of warning though, the authority sites are very picky about the content that they accept. Make sure your release is genuine and will interest readers.

Content in a brief document is really important. Start by writing a compelling headline that people will read. How to is always a good way to start a headline as is something like, the secret of. A headline should entice the reader to know more about the article being written and should also include your main keyword phrase. This is a sneaky way of getting additional search engine juice to your fast improving website.

A press release should be around the 300 word mark. Making it longer than this will mean that it will probably get edited and shorter will mean that it gets thrown out as being too lightweight. A seies of small paragraphs makes for easy reading and the editor will feel that he doesn’t need to waste his time with the content and will often publish it in full as long as it of interest to his readership.

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Have you ever wanted to write a best-selling story? How about writing a novel based on your character’s hero or heroine?

Stories as diverse as Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and The Color Purple along with most good action adventure, thriller, romance, fantasy and literary novels use the classic mythical 12-part journey from zero to hero as their basic plot premise.

You must first establish parameters when telling a compelling story. Discover ways to start a story that will encourage sympathy from your reader. You should understand the heart and mindset of the hero or heroine.

Remember, in any good story you should examine the hero’s character and motivation because he must transcend his normal existence and be tested. The character’s separation from his ordinary world leads him to take the necessary plot to reach his goals.

Discovering the rules on how this metaphorical transformation can and must occur at the quarter point of the hero’s journey is the only way to ensure growth and eventual plot resolution. This will help you in all areas of fiction writing!

Writing is not just a way of entertaining readers, it is also a spiritual journey of enlightenment for the writer. At the midpoint in a story both the hero and the writer must be stretched to the limits of their imagination.

How does the transformation of the hero and the writer point at the crucial plot? Use simple guidelines to ensure the reader is transported by the story, its plot elements and the character.

The character’s ultimate reward is based on his ability to overcome the obstacles and achieve the goals set out at the beginning of the story. It is all part of the hero’s journey. Create an ending that leaves your reader gasping and begging for more.

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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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Why do you write articles online? For fun or profit? Do you get tired of seeing other people make money online writing articles? Do you wish you make the article writing process less time consuming. I would encourage you read the rest of this article rewriting article to see how I learned how to use PLR articles effectively in my article marketing campaigns.If you’re like me you in all likeliness possess heaps of ‘PLR’ content lying around on your computer. It’s easy to acquire in the habit of joining membership websites and downloading everything they have to offer, just because it’s convenient. After all you bought it, so you might as well utilize it.

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Anybody who is trying to start a new business or get a infant company off the ground must respect and understand just how important of a role the internet plays.

Websites offer business an extra arm to reach a larger audience. No matter if you are selling specially designed footwear for flat-footed people or if you are trying to launch a new surf camp, having presence on the web will be a huge boost to your growing company. No matter how much money you pour into advertising in different mediums across the world, a website will be a huge part of your outreach and has become an industry standard across the entire world.

There are a few things you much consider when it comes to building and maintaining a website.

First, you must consider the general design and layout of your site. It is important that your web page be aesthetically pleasing if you want return visitors. Even those the overall look of your site may have nothing to do with the product or services you are offering, it will still contribute to the overall success of your business.

Second, you must decide what type of content you want on your site. There are some companies who use the web as their main place of doing business. As a result, they have a lot of information and pages and pages of copy online. For others, a website is a small extension of their site, and therefore they use more photos and more animations as a means of keeping customers wanting more, offering them contact information online and encouraging them to reach out should they want more information.

However, no matter how much or how little you use your website, the content on it must be clear, credible, concise and, most importantly, professional – hiring a ghostwriter is a very easy and affordable way to ensure that this is taken care of.

A ghostwriter will benefit you and your growing business in a few ways. First, having somebody to help out with the content of your site will free up your time, and allow you to focus on something else, knowing that the content of your site is in good hands. Second, an experienced writer is often better equipped to churn out content on the level that your site needs it. Just as a graphic designer may be a boost when it comes to the aesthetic layout of your web page, a ghostwriter will be of help when it comes to the content. As they are an affordable for-hire service, ghostwriters are generally a worthwhile expense for somebody who is juggling so many other things in relation to their young company.

Many people try and fail to get a business up and running, and the reasons why are not always so cut and dry. However, having a strong presence on the web is an excellent way to try and keep your company afloat, as it will allow you to attract a unique and international base of people.

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Writing articles as I am sure many of you know is a very common way of exploding the amount of back links that you have heading to your site. In hypothesis, the more of these back links we are able to obtain, the more hits our site should experience. There are however some very important things to take into consideration when writing and submitting your articles as you do not want to be blowing away your time and you do not want your web site to get dismissed by the major search engines or put in some sort of sandbox.

The first thing to remember is that Rome was not built in a day. What I mean is if you have a new website, about for example weight loss, you may want to reach the top ten in Google for your keywords within say six months. You hear that one way to do this is by building up good number of back links to this weight loss site. You think that the more the merrier and start pounding out one article after the other and are very proud of yourself after the first month because you were able to write fifty articles all pointing to your new weight loss website.

I believe this approach to be totally wrong. The weight loss websites which are in the top ten of Google have probably been around for quite a number of years and will without doubt have a number of quality back links. If your site sticks around for a long time and you continue to build up its back links it will go higher and higher in the search engines over time.

The one thing you do not want to do is to raise any red flags with the search engines. A new site which has eight hundred back links after one month could raise this red flag. The search engines will now probably not trust this site and could easily put it in some sort of sandbox until it decides whether it is kosha or not.

In my judgment it is important to build up the number of back links to a new website fairly slow. When writing articles, I would personally only write one article with a link to a new website per week. Of course if you have ten websites, you are able to write ten articles if you only decide to have one link on each article etc.

I also think that it is very worthwhile to only submit the same article to around five or six of the different article directories. I would submit the article in total to around twenty-two article directories but would have around four variations of it etc. The differences in each article are not massive but are big enough to make it more original. There is a big thing being debated at the moment in webmaster circles about the potential damage that can be caused by duplicate content. From what I have read, everybody seems to have a different opinion on this subject. My opinion is that it is better to be safe than sorry, therefore why take the risk? It would be good however if the major search engines could clarify their position on the subject, but lets face it, that is never going to happen.

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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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