Hi again!

OK, so you’ve decided you’ve got a market and you’ve written an ebook. This is normally where the writer of the post would be all “good for you, what a tremendous accomplishment, pat yourself on the back”, but that’s not how I roll. There may be some esoteric benefit to writing an a novel and not selling it, but the same doesn’t apply to ebooks.

The only thing more lame than a book languishing in your drawer is an ebook languishing on your hard drive. Let’s face it, you could write the next Gatsby but if you can’t sell it, you stay poor. Read More

OK, so you’ve decided that there’s a market for your ebook, that the idea is not crap, and that there is an outside chance people will pay perfectly good vodka money for it. Rock on. This post is really, really long so I’m just going to start with no smooth transition. All choppy like.

When I started writing this lesson, I realized that the result will end up being about 4000 words long. Since nobody needs 4000 words in their inbox or feed reader, I’m deliberately being as brief as possible. This means you’ll probably have questions. If so, you can ask them in the comments or you can email me. It’s probably better if you ask in the comments because if you have the question, odds are so does someone else.

I’ve split this lesson up into three parts. First is preparation. Second is a bunch of tips. Third is what to do when you’re done. Let’s rock. Read More

The next installment in the how to write an ebook series is coming, but I gotta beg for stuff before I forget. First, what you see on the right is my feet with fan socks on them. Fan socks are very similar to fan mail, except instead of letters, they send you footwear. Please take a moment to appreciate the awesomeness of the fan socks. They’re from Sock Dreams. Jesus Lord, I could spend thousands there. Want to know why you should blog? Blog for the socks. (And yes, I chose THESE socks of the many fan socks so I didn’t have to shave my legs. We also had to crop my underwear out of the shot.)

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Next, I have a plea. It is impassioned. Some might call it an impassioned plea. This is for those of you who are NOT involved in problogging, internet marketing, etc. This is for the people who quietly read and don’t say much. I would like your help. Read More

*This is actually how I made $12,246 in a day. You might make more. You might not.

So you want to write an ebook. Wicked. There’s money to be made in ebooks and unless you’re in internet marketing, the market is nowhere near saturated. With 1.4 billion people using the internet regularly, there’s a pretty good chance at least a few of them want to buy whatever crap you want to sell. So let’s get started, shall we?

There are people out there who believe that the first step in selling an ebook is writing an ebook. Those people are wrong.

The first step in selling an ebook is finding people to buy it.

Sound backward? It’s not.

Writing an ebook is at best time consuming and at worst incredibly difficult. I don’t know about you, but I don’t really like doing incredibly difficult and/or time consuming things for no good reason. I have to know that there are people who want to buy what I’m selling before I put pen to paper.

Therefore, there are two parts to this lesson. First I’ll teach you how to tell if the people are there. Then I’ll teach you how to get those people to find, know and love you. Easy, huh? Read More

*This is actually how I made $12,246 in a day. You might make more. You might not.

On Friday, August 8, 2008, I made a lot of money. I have a feeling some Chinese people are not surprised as that day was 8/8/8 and they dig that kind of stuff. I don’t really know a lot about the whole Chinese-people-digging-the-eights thing, so I can’t speak intelligently about it. I can tell you, though, that while the opening ceremonies for the Olympics were playing, I was literally counting money.

Now I’m going to tell you how I did it. I’m just going to tell you, though. I’m not going to sell you anything, and this isn’t the precursor for something awesome that is all yours for the low, low price $797. (I do have another product coming out in a few months but it’s not related and it’s certainly not $797.) I’m not going to ask for your email address and I’m not going to ask you to sign up for my newsletter. I don’t even have a newsletter, although I’d appreciate it if you didn’t tell people that. All marketers are supposed to have newsletters. It is a Rule. Read More