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Want to make money online? Product creation means that you have something to sell which is uniquely yours - all the profits go directly to you. Here’s how to get started.

Web surfers go online to find information, and solutions to challenges they have. This means that any challenges you’ve solved in your own life can form the nucleus of a product.

If you’ve found ways to lose weight, get out of debt, or use your digital camera to take great photos, you can share that information with others.

Let’s look at three steps to success in product creation.

1. Conceive a product - what will you create?

Start by deciding what kind of product you’ll create. Will it be an ebook, a series of videos, or an audio?

2. Develop a vision - and check your current reality

Next, imagine your product already created. Let’s say that you’ve just remortgaged your home, and you’ve decided that you want to share your process with others - in an ebook.

How many chapters in your ebook? Does it contain images? What information have you included? Yes, this is past tense - imagine your product already created.

Try to get as clear an impression of your product as you can. You may want to check out others’ products, so you can make yours different, and better.

Now think about your current situation. What do you know, or have, which will help you to create your ebook?

Write down where you are now; what you have. What will you need to learn? Write that down too.

3. Plan and take action - today

The final step is to write out a quick plan, and to take action. Create ten or so steps. You don’t need to know all the steps, just sufficient to get started. In product creation, you learn by doing.

You don’t even have to do all the steps yourself. For example, perhaps you’ve decided to out-source the writing of your ebook, so your plan would include posting the project on out-sourcing sites.

Take action immediately - you don’t need to know everything about creating your product, you just need to know the first steps, and act.

Keep acting, and before you know it your first product will be created, and ready for sale.

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Writing and selling ebooks is not only profitable, it’s a lot of fun too. It’s led to an entire information-products industry.

This is because if you want information, you look for it online. This hunger for instant advice and guidance means that you can transform your knowledge into cash: just write an ebook.

Of course, if you’re not a writer, or if writing is hard for you, there are plenty of writers who are willing and able to create an ebook for you. They’ll research and write your ebook, and will present it to you in both Microsoft Word and PDF formats, ready for sale.

However, long before your ebook is ready, you need to start promoting it online. Marketing always has a lag time: people need to become familiar with the product, and decide whether it meets their needs.

So how do you promote your ebook so that it starts selling well as soon as it’s written?

Here are four simple, inexpensive methods to market ebooks:

1. Create a Web site and blog

When I get an idea for an ebook which will sell, the first thing I do is buy a domain name, and set up a Web site and blog. The sooner I get them online, the better, because it establishes an online presence, and starts developing the audience for the ebook.

2. Network with other bloggers and write guest posts

Next, I network with other site owners and bloggers in that niche, or in complementary niches, and offer to write guest posts. These guest posts build instant traffic to my new blog.

3. Write 10 articles for your ebook and post them to directories

While continuing to blog, I post articles to article directories - this builds even more traffic and excitement for the ebook, while it’s still being written.

4. Post on forums

Finally, I post on forums related to the ebook’s topic, with the Internet address of my blog in my signature line - again, it builds traffic, and an audience for the new ebook.

Does all this sound like a lot of work? It’s not. Once you’ve created the blog, just perform one task a day. This takes less than half an hour, and the benefits are enormous: and you’ll start selling your ebook as soon as you post it for sale.

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(This article first appeared in this week’s issue of Fab Freelance Writing Ezine.)

Writing ebooks is lots of fun, and it’s very profitable too, if you sell those ebooks online yourself. Your ebooks can sell profitably for years to come. I know several writers who are making high six figures each year, just from a couple of ebooks.

Yes, the writers promote their ebooks extensively, but the ebooks enable them to live enviable lifestyles. One writer calls his ebooks his “retirement fund”, even though he’s many years from retirement.

In this article, we’ll consider how you can boost your freelance writing income by writing ebooks for yourself, rather than for others.

When you start writing ebooks, you can write them for others so you know how the process works – writing for others gives you valuable experience in: the selection of a topic, the style of an ebook, and of the writing experience itself.

I’ve been writing/ selling ebooks online for five years; I love it for the interaction I have with my customers, and for me, producing ebooks is much more fun than going the traditional publishing route, as I did for many years, when I wrote for major publishers.

There are essentially two types of ebooks you write for yourself: for promotion, and commercial – to sell.

Types of ebooks – promotional, and to sell

You’ll write two types of ebooks: as promotional tools for your writing business, and as commercial ventures.

Your promotional ebooks are part of the marketing process for your commercial ebooks. They tend to be short, anywhere from five to 20 pages.

Your commercial ebooks will be longer, up to 100 pages. I’ve found that for ebooks, 100 pages is the limit. Reading on a computer screen is stressful, and your purchasers will appreciate it if you give them the information as quickly as you can.

Long ebooks of 200 pages of padded information are just annoying to your customers: they want useful information delivered in an entertaining, actionable form.

How much to charge – proprietary information is worth more

Setting a price for their ebooks is difficult for writers, because most writers have zero business experience.

The key to charging is working out how much NEW information is in your ebook, and how much that information is worth to the purchaser. For example, many business sites sell ebooks in to $500 to $900 range, because the information is proprietary information they’ve gathered via research, and because the information is worth much more than the cost of the ebook to their purchasers.

Ask yourself: how much VALUE am I providing? If an ebook is just a rehash of information that’s available elsewhere, it’s worth less.

Promoting and selling your ebooks

Before you start writing your ebook, you’ll need to work out how you’ll sell it. The marketing is just as important as the writing process.

Will you advertise? Where? Will you send out press releases?

Each ebook is different, and your marketing processes will vary. I like to use a combination of blogs, press releases and advertising. Over time, you’ll discover what works for you.

So, get started today, and write an ebook. It will boost your income from your writing, and you’ll have a lot of fun too.

Get started writing and selling your own ebooks.

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