Write Your Own How-To Book By Spring

Written by Jeff Smith


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3. Questions, Questions, Questions - Answers, Answers, Answers

There are different formulas for writing How-To books, but by farrepparttar simplest and most effective is to organize your book to address...

a) One main overriding desire or goal your target market wants VERY badly. b) Answer a series of questions that step your reader through achieving that desire or goal in a simple, step-by-step format as possible.

So - what that means for you is that 90% of writing your book is gettingrepparttar 129143 right questions inrepparttar 129144 right order to lead your reader toward their goal.

So - Chapter 1 solves "X" problem, and here'srepparttar 129145 10 questions your customers will need answers to onrepparttar 129146 way.

Chapter 2 solves "Y" problem, and here'srepparttar 129147 10 questions your customers will need to answer alongrepparttar 129148 way...And so on.

Of course, you can answer questions in many ways..

You can just plainly writerepparttar 129149 answer.

You can tell a story to illustraterepparttar 129150 answer.

You can quoterepparttar 129151 answer from research.

You can give an analogy or use humor to illustraterepparttar 129152 answer.

You can provide visual examples, screenshots, pictures, video, audio, etc...

Whateverrepparttar 129153 technique -repparttar 129154 secret to writing books is to maintain one central focus, and lay out steps to achievingrepparttar 129155 end goal.

Step 4. How To Get Others To Finish Your Book

You may be concerned about giving people an early look at your idea, concepts and work.

Yes, you need to be careful WHO you ask for feedback, but you cannot let this stop you from testing your work.

Who should you get to test your work?

1. Represenative customers - not your friends, family - but real people in your target market.

2. Experts in your field

3. Other writers, publishers, marketers that operate in your target market but that don't directly compete with you.

Strike up relationships, offer them free coverage in your book, on your website, a percentage ofrepparttar 129156 profits in a future joint venture marketing effort in exchange for reviews, feedback and opinion.

You may very well get 1 or 2 ideas from these tests that makes a huge increase inrepparttar 129157 popularity of your products.

Test your title, content, pricing, positioning, format, key messages.

Test it all - it will make your product better for it.

STEP 5. Your Own Massive Launch

If you set March 21st as your launch date - make sure you have a complete website, compelling copy, at least 6-10 joint venture partners setup, Press Releases ready, an affiliate tracking program in place, a back-end selling system and be ready to HIT YOUR MARKET HARD!

If you could change your entire life, setrepparttar 129158 foundation to walk away from a stale, boring lifestyle and gainrepparttar 129159 control over our time, creative energy and finances that we all so badly want, wouldn't that be worth following these 4 steps?

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Jeff Smith is the author of many top-selling books, ebooks, courses, workshops and successful product developer for over 8-years. If you want to write books that sell, visit: http://www.highertrustmarketing.com


Everyone Has At Least One Good Book in Them

Written by Jim Green


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But we are concerned here with another genre, a genre that permits self-expression under predetermined guidelines designed to give you a better than evens chance of publication withoutrepparttar necessity of paying forrepparttar 129141 privilege, providing always that your work and its presentation are painstakingly and professionally executed.

DETERMINE YOUR PROPENSITY FOR CREATING NICHE NON-FICTION

Ask yourself these questions and spend a few minutes in quiet reflection before you providerepparttar 129142 answers.

1. Do you like to read, be it fiction or non-fiction? 2. Do you enjoy writing letters, reports, or whatever? 3. Do you have a better than average vocabulary? 4. Do you strive at every opportunity to enhance your personal word power? 5. Do you persist with crosswords until you've solved allrepparttar 129143 clues? 6. Do you have an enquiring mind? Do you have special interests? 7. Do you have expertise in any particular subject(s)? 8. Would you undertake research to confirm and expand on what you think you know? 9. Would you be prepared to share this knowledge with others? 10. Would you be willing to make time to write about it for pleasure and profit? 11. Are you comfortable about committing your private thoughts to paper? 12. Are you self-disciplined? 13. Are you relaxed about working on your own?

If you can genuinely answer 'yes' to all of these questions, you already haverepparttar 129144 nucleus of a powerful propensity for creating niche non-fiction inrepparttar 129145 shape of self-help and how-to guides.

If onrepparttar 129146 other hand you answered 'yes' to most and 'no' to a few, then work on those negative areas.

If you answered 'no' to Question 8, then think again and dig deeply this time. Most people have expert knowledge on something or other. It could be a job, a hobby, or any of a thousand disparate topics. And should you consider that what you know would be of little value to anyone else, you would be wrong. Many people share a passion for your particular area of interest and are anxious to become even better informed.

5th January 2004

Jim Green is a bestselling author with a string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit including 'Starting Your Own Business' (How To Books ISBN 1-85703-859-2) and 'Starting an Internet Business at Home' (Kogan Page ISBN 0-7494-3484-8). http://www.writing-for-profit.com


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