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A Little History
In order to give this website a little credibility, I thought I might give you a brief history of why I created it. I, probably not to much unlike yourself, was frustrated with my current working situation and acquired some pretty hefty debt living a life that I couldn't cover with my paychecks. Even with two adults working, me full-time, and my wife part-time, it became increasingly difficult to pay off credit cards and business loans. I, with the help of nobody else, had gotten my family into a terrible mess, and it was up to me to get us out of it.
Make That Decision
The first step is usually the toughest step. In our case the first step is making a decision as to what we are actually going to do to make some cash. Keep in mind that what we are actually doing is creating a model that is repeatable and that promotes our desire for passive income. We want to make money for a long time, and create something that will pay us again and again. We aren't trying to create some "Get Rich Quick" scheme, nor are we trying to create something people don't need.
Really what we need to do is think about the things that we know a lot about and share that content with others who might be interested in knowing more about your subject. It will make more sense with an example, but instead of using an example, lets start to build something real and see how it does. That way we'll be able to see exactly how things are progressing and it will be real, not a theory of how things should work.
Tools That I Use
I got an email from someone reading along, and they wanted to know the "Tools" that I use to create my eBooks. That's a pretty good question because I actually use two different tools. First let me start by saying, the tools I use are dictated by the place that I'm currently working from.
There are many times that I work from the local coffee house, and there are times when I'm working in my home office. If I'm working from my home office, I use my PC and I use a word processor called Open Office. I like OpenOffice because it's FREE and it seems to have all the same capabilities that Microsoft Word has, with the added bonus of pdf generation. If I'm working from a coffee house or some other remote location, I'm usually on my laptop and using my MacBook. On my MacBook, I use Microsoft Word, which is an older version, but gets the job done.
Don't Waist Another Day
Everyday that your not writing is a day wasted that you won't be able to sell your information online. When I set out to write a book, I try to break it down into manageable pieces. The first thing that I always do is outline. I'm sure there are fifth grade teachers everywhere cheering for joy, because the writing skills you learned in grammar school are going to be very useful in creating your ebook.
What follows is the outline I used to create my “Blogging with Blogger and Get Paid by Google”.
How Much Do I Write?
How much to write in your book is a question I get a lot. It's also the only question that I can answer very quickly, and the answer is ... I don't know. That's right, I don't know how much you should write, because I don't know your subject. How much you write depends on how much information there is to make your reader feel like they got something of value.
I like to try and explain it like this. Write your information down as if your the one that is reading it. If you think something is missing than write more. If you find yourself writing garbage and start writing just to add worthless facts, then you aren't really doing your reader much good. Keep in mind that your writing these guides as a way to inform someone about something. Your not writing these to be worthless.
eBook: Step By Step is Finished
As you can probably notice from the time of the last post, that I've been up to something. Well that something has been finishing my ebook on how to create ebooks. That seems to oversimplify things a bit, so let me give you a little more indepth review of my new book, and what it's all about.
If you've been following this blog for any amount of time, you'll know that I've been very interested in creating something that will sell it'self over and over again, with minimal effort. When I say mininimal effort I don't mean every touching it again, no I mean not recreating something each and every time it's asked for. After trying to find recources and information on creating eBooks, it became clear to me that there wasn't any good resources out there to walk me through what I wanted to do. So I went ahead and created my eBook to do just that, walk you through how to create an eBook.
Time To Get Going
The summer is almost over, and it's time to get back to work and start getting this blog active again. The question now is what will my next adventure be? My last ebook sold so well that I was able to take a few months off and just enjoy my family and have some "Fun in the Sun".
But now the kids need to get back to school and a new adventure must begin. Over the summer I've come to realize that a lot of people are out of work or struggling with their day to day finances. I know because at one time I was one of them, and for me starting an online business was just what the Dr. ordered.
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