Do you have to be a Professional Writer to write an eBook?
I received an email from a woman asking me if you had to be a professional writer to write an ebook. She had expertise in the beauty field. And she also asked whether she would need a web site. Here was my response:
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You probably have tips every woman would love to read! I know I would (smile).
No you do not have to be a professional writer — more than half the people running businesses on the Internet aren’t. But what they do provide is information other people want to buy and read.
The EZ-iest way would be to have a blog. You could go to Blogger.com and set one up. Then you could offer simple free tips but on the side have your ebook cover with a link to where your visitors could buy it. The book could be on lulu.com, authorsden.com or somewhere similar.
If you decide to do this, you should look into the Terms of Service for Blogger. I don’t know if they allow you to sell from it so check that first.
You could also go to hub.com or squidoo.com (both are free) and set up the tips, then point them to where they could buy your ebook or print book if you use lulu.com
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Trying to give you advice so you don’t have to spend the money for web hosting, etc. until you know if your ebook will sell.
Like anything on the Internet — marketing is the key to making money. You can have the best product in the world but if nobody knows about it — it will just die a lonely death.(LOL).
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The whole point is to write the ebook — don’t think it has to be the great literary novel. In this day and age, your customers want the facts and nothing but the facts or should I say solution to their problems.
They do not have the time for anything else. So long as you use acceptable grammer and your spelling is great — hey, you have a ebook that will sell.
Judith
Making the Complicated Simple
P.S. If you want an EZ time writing your ebook, then you should really look at my ebook templates at: