One of the easiest ways to gain status, leads, credibility and trust from your customers is to write your own ebook.

Many people are intimidated by the thought of creating their own ebooks but the truth is, the process is very straight-forward and it can be enormously profitable. If you are already involved in activities such as blogging, article marketing and creating relationships with newsletters, an ebook is just one step beyond in the whole process but can really give your credibility rating an extra boost.

Here are three steps in how to write your own e-book.

1. Choose a topic for your target audience. Don’t make this into a huge product. Pick something relatively narrow within a major topic. So, for example, if the main topic is “internet marketing”, choose something that fits within that category like “article marketing”, or you could go even further and narrow it down to “keyword research for article marketing”.

Keep in mind that for an ebook to work the way you want it to, it must truly address the problems, concerns, or desires of your target market. The content must be top-of-the-line.

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2. Brainstorm. Write down every idea you have, walk away and come back and write more. Put down anything and everything for now.

3. Organize your ideas into an outline. Divide your ideas into headers, subheaders, chapters and write descriptions of each point you include. Make sure to keep track of your references and write those down too.

4. Research. Hopefully you’ve picked a topic that you are familiar with already but whether you have or haven’t you’ll need to do research to make your content as valuable as possible. Take notes, mark references and use quotes as you write your own ebook.

5. Put all of your organized ideas and research into a very long article of at least 30 pages – this is your ebook!

6. Get a second opinion. Chances are you’ll spend quite a bit of time on this endeavor. Make sure that you step back every once in a while to give yourself a break. And when you’re near the end, ask someone else to read it for a more objective opinion. Whether it’s your friend, spouse or a fellow marketer, make sure you get a good, honest critique and, if possible, edit of your work.

Once you’re finished, you can either sell your ebook from your blog or website or you can offer it free of charge for people who sign up – the goal of this is to build your list.

If you decide on the first option, you’ll have to set up a shopping cart system. You don’t have to charge a lot for your ebook to make money and because it doesn’t cost you anything to create the book (if you don’t count the time you spend on it) so anything you sell will be a profit.

Learn to use the internet in a smart way and know that you can make money online through study and effort. So now are you ready to write your own ebook?

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Today, people are  looking to make additional income or some extra money and they are turning to the internet in droves. Many people are learning how to make money online, and specifically, how to make money with affiliate programs. Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to get started online because you don’t need to sell your own product or service. All you have to do is sell someone else’s product or service and you make a commission.

Affiliate marketing can be easily understood. You’ll find 3 simple steps involved in successful affiliate marketing. First, you need to find the product or service that you want to promote. Secondly, you need to make sure that your offer is in front of a lot of people. And lastly, you need to build a list of the people who you show the product/service to, regardless of whether they end up buying it. Make sure you understand this last concept because it’s crucial to the success of affiliate marketing and any internet marketing venture!

If you are brand spanking new to affiliate marketing then you are going to want to figure out what type of product or service you want to promote. Ask yourself this question, “Where do you find the product or service you want to promote?” ClickBank is one of the most popular sites that you can use and it’s also very quick and easy to get started. All you need to do is register for free and then go into the MarketPlace section. Here you can try search what you might want to promote by category or keywords. I recommend you sort your choice by “gravity” which is not the only important factor but it’s a very good indicator if you’re just starting out. You can get into a lot more complicated analysis of the “right” products later on. Once you choose a product, just click on hoplink, put in your clickbank NickName, and you’ve got your affiliate link, ready to promote. Many people have started their affiliate marketing businesses by reading Rosalin Gardner’s famous ebook on affiliate marketing, called the Super Affiliate Handbook.

Getting eyes on your affiliate link will be your next problem….that is, how do you get people to see your affiliate links. Once you’ve chosen your product/service, you’ve come to the key of how to make money with affiliate programs. . .getting traffic to the program. You can use article directories to market your products but make sure that you concentrate on those that have high page ranks and allow affiliate links. Another option is pay-per-click (PPC) although you need to read the affiliate program’s rules before you try this. Some affiliate companies do not allow the use of their name in PPC ads for example. And one of the easiest and most popular ways to make money with affiliate marketing is to place links on blogs.

There’s always secrets to this internet marketing stuff, some real, some just BS. This next concept could make the difference between making a lot of money online with affiliate marketing or failing miserably. Here goes, the last step is a little bit more complicated and can be done after you get the hang of the first two. Basically, you’ll want to make sure that you get the contact information of the people who show some interest in your product so that, even if they don’t buy it now, you can still keep in contact with them and they may end up purchasing either this product or something else you sell later on. In order to do this, you’ll need to create your own squeeze page which contains a contact form. You advertise this squeeze page and once someone fills in their contact information, you direct them to your affiliate link. The company that will fulfill your needs when it comes to collecting the contact information and automatically sending emails is called Aweber….remember that name and click on that link. An autoresponder service should be one of the first purchases you make for your online business because you will use it with every aspect of internet marketing and not just affiliate marketing.

One more thing you should really consider if you are going to start your own affiliate marketing business. You need a state of the art affiliate link cloaker or ….. this is software or a script that disguises your affiliate links and helps you to ensure that you get the proper credit if somebody clicks on your link and buys through your affiliate link. Advanced Link Cloaker is a product that a good friend of mine has created and is something you should consider purchasing for your business, it has the potential of helping your make and keep a lot of money! Link cloaking can be performed a number of different ways using a variety of different pieces of software or scripts, in fact, you can do if for free if you want, Alan Peterson’s book The Definitive Guide to Link Cloaking will show you  and explain to you everything you need to know about cloaking and hiding your affiliate links.

Finally, affiliate marketing is one of the best internet marketing methods someone can use to start making a little extra money online. Learn the basics of affiliate marketing by joining a membership exclusively designed to teach you the basics of affiliate marketing, Affilorama is probably the best membership designed to teach anyone from the newbie to experienced marketer how to best use affiliate marketing to make a great living online. I’ll leave you with one though, If you want to make money with affiliate programs, I recommend to not depend too heavily on one product or one site. It’s no different than the old adage, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!”

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Niche Profit Classroom is a monthly membership that I belong to that provides 2 niche packages per month. That’s nothing new or exciting since there are many memberships offering PLR materials on a monthly basis. The difference with NPC is, the materials are high quality and well written materials. Maybe the best part is the systematic approach they have for getting your sites set up, developing traffic, building a list and selling your ebook.  The teaching, in the form of videos, monthly calls and forums is better than most….in fact, it’s one of the best I’ve experienced.

I do have a bad taste in my mouth from NPC. The founders, Adam and Allen are no place to be found. If I become part of a membership, the reason usually revolves around those who own it, sell it and work it! However, based on my experience, you’ll never talk to them or have access to them. They’re never in the forum. Their affiliate system just  plain sucks and their affiliate support sucks…..of course they claim they’re having problems, but I’ve never seen an email from any of the owners….just some affiliate support people. I’ve been trying for 3 weeks to get my affiliate account straightened out and trying to get my payments…..no luck yet!

This lack of personal touch is something that almost always happens when a program experiences success. Before a program becomes successful the owners practically beg you to get involved, you can talk to them and have full access to their email, voice and advice. As time goes on and the program becomes successful, the first thing that goes is their email address. They change their email address to a “NO Rely”, I really just hate that…….use every sales trick possible and then cut off contact with your members……..so….here we have a business that wants you to pay monthly for access to them and their expertise but they don’t want to be bothered by emails.

Next, the owners remove themselves from the day to day operations and hire an affiliate manager or tell a handful of members that they are the “Designated Forum Mangers”…..again, you read a salespage that offered you the best product and product service since sliced bread….next, they have some success, they like the money but don’t want to deal with any of the members…..you know, too many questions….just too many problems.

Back assward approach to doing business if you ask me!

Despite the problems and my obvious aggravation at the moment, I still would recommend Niche Profit Classroom to anyone interested in learning about Niche Marketing. Heck, that affiliate link you just saw….I don’t even know if the stupid thing works!…..because, I can’t get timely support from their affiliate manager. Still, I suggest you give NPC a shot if you want to learn about niche marketing and how to find a niche, pick a niche and then develop it with your own book…..because their system is really second to none. It could be that you would learn everything you need in a month, maybe 2 months or you could decide to try using the programs available. There really is a ton of content, as much as I despise their support, the content and tools are excellent. If you stay long enough to learn and understand the core concepts of niche marketing you’ll be way ahead of everyone else…..in particular, their teaching and tools on keyword research are the best I’ve seen to date.

Anyway, I wanted to share one of my responses over at NPC.

One of the members at Niche Profits Classroom was wondering about a new site he set up. I couldn’t help but make a few comments:

I’ve finished my herb gardening site. It’s found at

www.herbgardeningsecrets.org

Please have a look, and put it into your listings. Any feedback would be welcome.

Thanks.

Hi Danny

Nice looking site….I like your header image.

If I may, I’d like to comment on your background color. I have a 21 inch screen, most people have larger screens these days so one sees a lot of background when looking at a salespage.

Your fluorescent green color is really hard to look at….at least for me. I would consider toning it down a little. Notice how the gray background on this forum page isn’t overwhelming.

Regarding your traffic.

I assume you submitted articles to ezinearticles.com and the articles on your site aren’t duplicate. I see you don’t have any secondary or additional articles. New “unique” Content always attracts more traffic. So…try adding an article a week! If you have time, rewrite that article and submit it to the article directories.

I’m new to NPC, however, I’ve been doing this for quite a while. So please consider my advice just my thoughts and do with them whatever you feel necessary.

I think the niche packs from NPC are nicely put together, however, there are a lot of other people doing the same thing you are. I just finished putting up a train site, and upon doing some keyword research I was surprised to see how many NPC packs were out there competing for the same keywords. I agree with our elusive leaders, Adam and Allen…that most people won’t take action. However, maybe due to our economic times, I find my field very competitive…even for the so called “money words”

Again, just my opinion, in order to get the action you want on the “money words’ you are using, you are going to have to do more than just submit a few articles. You need backlinks….the more the better.

You can get some pretty decent backlinks by setting up some web 2.0 properties, such as Hub pages, Squidoo, Blogger and Wordpress.com. These are free, I reuse my existing content (articles)….which isn’t the best way…..but I get some links pointing back to my site. Don’t spend a lot of time on these sites because they are normally figured as throw away sites when you use them for this purpose.

Something else you might want to consider is to go over the the warriorforum.com and go to the WSO section, stands for Warrior Special Offers, and look for people offering links packages. You can find some pretty nice backlink packages for a variety of prices…..but it will help you jump start your site. If it works, purchasing more packages.

I guess my point is, if you want traffic to your NPC site, you will need to consistently work on driving traffic to that site. I know for a fact that these sites have to “age”, that is, over time Google will look differently if there is some sort of consistent work being done on the site over the next year.

Hope I didn’t ramble too much….and wish you much success,

Scott

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When blogging there’s on constant I run across. You just can’t keep up with your daily blog posts!

You always start with the best of intentions but somehow you miss a day….then 2 days….then 3 or 4 days……before you know it you missed a whole week of blogging.

Yet you would never consider setting up an automated blog because you’ve heard how bad they can be, there’s scraped content, rss snippets of text or totally unrelated content that gets stuck on your blog…your baby.

Hint….have you thought of an Automated Blog.

This is an update, (10-7-2009) I’ve been using Ebook Import for a while now and the results are stunning. My first thought was to use if for breaking up and posting public domain content which is a great idea. However, you can use Ebook Import to break up and autopost entire PLR books to your blog. Actually, you can break up any content that gives you permission to break it up for articles or autoblogging purposes. It’s a great way to add unique content to your blog!

Automated Blog with EbookImport Wordpress Plugin

Let me share a secret that might help you out if considering an Automated Blog. Most plugins for automated blogs just suck…but stick with me and I’ll share some that really work. That is they add good content to your blog, useable content that is valued by your readers.

Here’s one method to get quality content into your automated blog. Drum roll please…….use Public Domain material!

Let’s say you have a blog on Gardens. Public Domain material is perfect for this kind of blog.

In the past, you had to cut and paste content from your public domain book into each post…..that takes a whole lot of time.

Now with Ebook Import Plugin you can import an entire public domain book into your blog, 300 to 800 words at a time. Just create a seperate category in your blog, and let the Ebook Import plugin go to work.

I would use it as a back up to my daily or weekly blogging about gardening. The fill in content can be made unique with the ebook import plugin. Take a look at some of these ebook import features:

Import ebooks that are in text format to Wordpress.

Create pages/blog posts from the ebook based on how many lines you choose.

Set the ebook pages dates in the past or future(for autoposting).

Choose the category the ebook pages are posted to.

Use standard wordpress themes and plugins with your ebooks.

Randomize the time the pages are posted to give a more “human” feel to the post times.

Post the ebook pages in forward or reverse order.

Don’t listen to those noobs who say an automated blog isn’t worth the effort. Grab a copy of Ebook Import and try it out!

Use Ebook Import correctly and you just might keep google happy…which means many visitors to your website and that means a pocket full of gold for you….thus the image of gold coins

By the way….the support behind these plugins is awesome, they also have some really cool free plugins on their site….the Ebay Affiliate Plugin is something to be seen!

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