That my friend is a great question!

If you are asking that question then this is going to be something for you to read.

When I started this blog I had lots of goals to write eBooks and sell them on here.  I thought that my content would be a way to get people here, they would like what they read and then buy my eBooks.

Well, any ideas how well that went?

Not very good.  I enjoyed doing all the work (sometimes) but I didn’t really sell anything.  So my content must have been crap right?

Well when I had people read it  - not friends and family they all said it was good.  Some said it was excellent.  Would you pay for it? I asked.

Yes we would.

So what was wrong?  I had traffic to my site, I had click on my pages where the books were being sold.  Hmm.

Well after months almost a year of frustration I started to learn how to properly market my books.  Some sold and I got excited about it again.

When I now think about what I used to do I am shamed.  Hey that was my journey right?  The point is if I had the right information in the first place then I would have sold my books from the start.

Recently I came across this eBook from Nick Daws.  Nick is a freelance writer and author of over 80 ebooks.  80! Wow.  I have written 3!  Anyway, Nick is very experienced about writing, publishing and selling eBooks.  Nick’s book 10 Day Ebook is about….yes you got it! How to write and sell your eBook in 10 days.

I honestly thought that was a load of rubbish when I read his sales page.  But being the wannabe big time writer that I am I got his ebook.  Well done me.

It is  a great book.  Full of easy to understand steps that will get you to a book sale in 10 days.  Actually Nick also says that you will make $1000 also.  That is pretty amazing.

I am going to cheat a little and read the book then start my ten days.  Will be interesting to see how I do.  I don’t actually care as the content in the book is that good that I am happy to pay $97 for it.

After almost 3 years of writing this blog I still found things in his book that I didn’t know or had forgotten.  Here is some info from his site.  You can check out the book.

Click this here - 10 Day ebook

CHOOSING YOUR TOPIC…. PRECISELY where to find ideas for hundreds, even THOUSANDS, of popular e-books! A great free online tool that will help you find out how much interest there is in any potential e-book topic – with a step-by-step, illustrated guide on how to use it! EIGHT more websites that will help you narrow down your choice of topic to the most profitable. You won’t believe some of the amazing free resources out there! Yet another great free resource that will help you discover whether interest in your proposed topic is increasing or declining, and pinpoint any seasonal trends. (IMPORTANT: For some topics, interest is highly seasonal – using this research tool will ensure you don’t get caught out launching your e-book at the wrong time!)

OUTLINING YOUR E-BOOK…. Three very good reasons why you should write an outline before you write your e-book. An easy-as-pie, four-step plan for outlining your e-book – even a seven-year-old can do this! How many chapters your e-book should have, and why. This is CRUCIAL for ensuring your e-book meets – or exceeds – customer expectations. How to turn your outline into a ‘freewriting blueprint’ that will guide you every inch of the way through writing your e-book.

WRITING YOUR E-BOOK…. The best way to write your e-book in the least possible time – using “freewriting” – all based on proven psychological principles. The AMAZING SECRET to keeping research to a bare minimum. You won’t believe how much time this trick saves you! Seven secrets of successful e-book formatting. E-books need to be written in a different way from ordinary books. This section tells you everything you need to know. The four-word “WAYS” principle – and why you should let all of your e-book writing be guided by it.

EDITING YOUR E-BOOK…. Why you CAN edit your e-book yourself, and some very important reasons why youSHOULD! Ten POWER EDITING tips for ensuring that your e-book’s text is concise, informative and flows perfectly from the first word to the last. Why your e-book DOESN’T have to be perfect – with five words to write out in great big letters and stick on your wall, to remind you what really matters! The two-step scale-and-polish method for paragraph editing. You won’t believe how quick and easy editing becomes when you use this method – and it’s totally painless as well!

PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION…. The two main e-book formats, and which you should opt for with YOUR first e-book. How to easily convert any word-processed document into a PDF file with FREE software easily available online. One ESSENTIAL announcement you should place at the front of your e-book, to ensure it is legally protected by copyright. Two more steps you MUST take to ensure that others do not copy your e-book and sell it on for profit. This is ESSENTIAL if you don’t want to see your hard-earned profits go down the drain!

CHOOSING YOUR PUBLISHING PLATFORM…. Why you should use an existing e-book publishing platform rather than attempt to set up a whole new publishing operation yourself. Three hugely popular self-publishing platforms, with a detailed comparison of the pros and cons of each of them. Our NUMBER ONE recommendation for publishing your e-book, together with a blow-by-blow guide to signing up with them. IMPORTANT: There are pitfalls in the sign-up procedure for the unwary – follow our detailed instructions to avoid any problems later! Four ESSENTIAL tips for choosing a nickname for our recommended publishing site. You can’t change this later, so follow our advice and get this right from the beginning!

WRITING YOUR SALES LETTER…. A four-step  FORMULA and seven-step ACTION PLAN for writing a website sales letter that will blow the socks off your competitors. The EIGHT best sales-page headlines to GRAB readers’ attention – plus seven tips for making sure your headlines virtually FORCE them to reach for their credit cards! Seven tips for creating great bullet-point lists – these are CRUCIAL for persuading prospects to buy. How to get brilliant testimonials for your e-book BEFORE it has even been published –PLUS an exclusive free testimonial offer from Nick Daws himself! How long should your sales letter be – three Golden Rules to guide you in this controversial decision! Five tips for creating (or sourcing) great FREE BONUSES to seal the deal – your customerswon’t be able to stop themselves buying when they see the amazing extra goodies you are offering them! EIGHT top-selling sales pages to visit, study, and learn from. These online sales pages are certain to give you ideas for your own sales page, and provide a standard for you to aspire to.

SETTING UP A SALES PAGE…. How to buy a domain name and hosting for your sales site – a step-by-step guide to using one popular, low-cost service. Six things you MUST have on your pitch page and three you MUST have on your thank-you page. Without these, your sales site WILL NOT BE APPROVED. How to create your payment link using text or images. No previous knowledge of HTML required! Ten top tips for designing your pitch page using proven principles to maximize sales. This hard-to-find information is worth the price of the guide alone! Four tips for creating your thank-you page – including a SECRET WAY of studying hundreds of other ClickBank thank-you pages. You can even download the products in question for free – not that we’re recommending this, of course! The BEST options for building your sales site – including THREE free website building programs you can download today! A sneaky (but almost certainly legal) three-step method you can use to capitalize on other website designers’ skills - absolutely free! Another method you can use to get dozens of professional designers to bid on creating your sales site for you – then all you have to do is pick the one offering the best combination of skills and value for money! Why you MUST have statistics on your sales site – and a great FREE stats service that will tell you everything you could ever want to know about your website visitors! A seven-step guide to uploading your sales site and getting it approved by ClickBank. Once you’ve done this, congratulations – you’re a published e-book author!

PROMOTING YOUR E-BOOK…. The two main options for launching your e-book to the world – and which you should choose for your first e-book. How to submit your sales site to the search engines – step by step advice to get your promotional campaign off to a cracking start! Why you should use articles as a key component of your promotional strategy – and five top article directories you should submit them to. Seven top tips for using pay-per-click (PPC) advertising – a FAST and EFFECTIVE way of getting targeted traffic to your sales site. Why having a list is so important, and two great services – one free, one low cost – that will make building your list of prospects and mailing to them A SNAP! Six top tips for using ezines and email newsletters to promote your e-book – no fees required! A seven-step guide to starting a free blog to help sell your e-book – you can literally do this in just TEN MINUTES. A FREE RESOURCE you can use to find bloggers who are willing to publish your promotional articles for free – yet another PRICELESS promotional tool! The three top social networking sites you should be using to promote your e-book – within-depth advice on how to use them. How you can get the message across about your e-book on forums and message boards. There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing this. Follow our advice to ensure you use this powerful technique the RIGHT way! How to ‘listen in’ online for people asking questions related to the subject of your e-book – and then ANSWER them, with a link to your e-book sales page for more info. You’re going to LOVE this powerful yet little-used technique! Eleven tips for writing a press release to promote your e-book – together with a sample e-book press release, so you can see EXACTLY what you need to do. Six press-release distribution services – some free, some low-cost – that will send your release to THOUSANDS of websites, newspapers, journalists, and so on. You can’t put a price on the value of the publicity this will generate! Five tips for recording a podcast to promote your e-book – plus details of a free service that will submit your recording to over FIFTY podcast directories on your behalf! Three top tips for creating a promotional video for your e-book – with details of another free service that will submit your video to over twenty video-sharing sites for you ANDshow you detailed statistics of where and when they are being watched. An easy way to create a promotional video for your e-book with no need to appear in it yourself – and the FREE SOFTWARE you can use to do this!

GETTING OTHERS TO SELL YOUR E-BOOK…. Why you need affiliates to maximize your e-book sales – and five top tips for gettingSHED LOADS of affiliates via the ClickBank Marketplace. Two great online forums you can use to recruit more affiliates to sell your e-book on your behalf – both have THOUSANDS of members just waiting to sign up to promote your e-book! The ‘secret’ software that allows you to discover the top-selling affiliates for any product sold on ClickBank. You can then contact these affiliates and enlist their help in selling your own e-book! What is a Joint Venture and why all the top Internet marketers use them – along with alittle-known forum where you can advertise your JV invitation, and view those of other top Internet marketers and steal their ideas! The FIVE different types of Joint Venture – one of these (at least) will be right for YOUR e-book! What “PLR” means, and why selling it in your e-book can spell A BIG PROFIT BOOST for you, and still allow you to go on selling it to other customers! How to get dozens of bloggers to review your e-book – and how to choose exactly whichblogs you want to be reviewed on!

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