20 Questions To Ask Before Creating An eBook
1. What will be the title of your ebook and will it have a subtitle?
2. Will you be the only author or will there be other co-authors?
3. Will you publish a print version of your ebook?
4. How many pages will your ebook be?
5. Will your ebook contain graphics, pictures or charts?
6. Will your ebook include an appendix and index?
7. Will your ask other authors to contribute related articles to your ebook?
8. What file formats will your ebook be available in: text, pdf, exe, html, etc.?
9. Will your ebook be sold as a product or will your ebook be used as a promotional tool?
10. Who will be your ebook’s target audience?
11. What major benefit does your ebook give your target audience?
12. Will you offer your prospects a guarantee and testimonials to read?
13. Will you include a bibliography about yourself in the ebook?
14. What personal information will you include about yourself in the ebook?
15. What colors and graphic(s) will be included on the ebook cover?
16. Will you let your prospects read free sample chapters or excerpts to entice them?
17. Will you turn the ebook into other information products like videos, audio books, teleclass, etc?
18. What type of payments will you accept for the ebook?
19. Will you allow others to give away your free promotional ebook?
20. Will you be selling the reprint rights to your ebook?
15 Creative Ways To Make Money With eBooks
1. Allow other e-zine publishers or web site owners to republish small nuggets or excerpts of information from your ebook with your byline or ad included.
2. Make extra profits from selling monthly updates of your ebook. You could also back end sell the extra never released chapters of your e-book.
3. Give away a free ebook and then give people an option of buying the paid version of the ebook. Also let others give away the free version of your ebook.
4. Divide your ebook content into reports then give people the option of just purchasing the info they want.
5. Purchase reprint rights to other people’s ebooks an combine them with your in a large package deal or private ebook library web site.
6. Change the benefits on your ebook ad copy into links. When people click on it take them right to the order page. It’ll give them a urge to buy your ebook.
7. Charge people a cheap price to read half of your ebook. If they like it, they can pay full price to read the other half.
8. Offer freebies that are related to the ebook your selling. It could be free monthly ebook updates, free e-zine, free consulting, etc.
9. Show your prospects a sample page out of your ebook. Just black out some of the important info. This will make your prospects curious to buy.
10. Provide a low and high priced version of your ebook. Show benefits of each version side by side. People usually spend a little more for extra info.
11. Offer the reprint rights to your ebook. You can sell the rights with the regular purchase price or as a separate higher price.
12. Make your ebook available for offline people.
Your could turn it into a print book, report, video, audio book, print newsletter, etc.
13. Redesign your ebook for specific niches. You can create multiple profits with very little work. Ex: Turn a business ebook into a craft business ebook.
14. Give your prospects discount coupons on other products when they purchase your ebook. It could be your products or others that you made deals with.
15. Divide your ebook into online newsletter issues. You could charge a reoccurring monthly subscription for people to view each issue.
