How to Write a Best-Selling eBook - 4 Steps | eBook Marketing

After publishing ebooks online for 14 years and grossing a million dollars in ebook sales, I've found there are four steps to writing a best selling ebook online. Better yet, they all begin with the letter "T."

What are they?

1) Target your ebook – With the power of the Internet you can check and see if you have a large target audience for your book before you start writing it.

Did you know you can see if your topic has lots of potential on the search engines first before writing it? A book topic with over 50K searches a month on Google is a topic with lots of interest. How do you find out how many searches your topic is getting on Google? Google “Google Keyword Tool.” This tool will show you how many Google Searches your topic is getting monthly, before you write and market your book. I once marketed a book called "Improve your Credit Score in 24 Hours," after finding out the term "credit score" had 50K searches on the Internet a month. It ended up grossing $6K a month its first month. If your topic only has a 150 searches or so a month, like the term "floral garlands," then you probably don't have a large enough target audience for your ebook.

2) Title your ebook – If you are selling something online, 80% of your traffic will come from a search engine. It is good to use popular search phrases in the title of your book. I have a book titled “Write a Best Selling eBook” for a reason. That is because people are typing phrases into Google (and Facebook Search) like “Write an eBook” or “Selling your eBook.” These people can find my book easily online, whereas if I titled my book “Kick Butt Online with eBooks,” there aren’t that many people typing that into the Internet. Or are there? ;)

.Type your ebook – This is the productivity stage, but not to worry, there are massive productivity stories about people writing a book in just a few days. Remember, online, an ebook can be as short as 13 pages and still have valuable information. If you are doing a print book, there is no “minimum amount” or pages to your book online. I recently completed a book in 7 days! I videotaped myself, put it online, and then transcribed what I was saying. The result was an eBook “How to Give Yourself Psychic Readings in 3 Days.” Taping yourself and transcribing is massively productive.

.Take it to Market – You might sell an ebook yourself online like I did, creating a sales page and then buying advertising to help ensure traffic. This is still one of the best ways to go, although there are also Amazon’s programs like CreateSpace, Amazon Kindle, Google Books, Barnes and Noble’s and Sony Readers sites, Itunes and many other places to sell your ebook. Sites like SelfGrowth.com are very powerful for generating traffic for your book as well.