Books are about sharing our knowledge and our experiences. They articulate feelings and information for people who do not have these kinds of communication skills. If you can think, you can hear your voice. If you can hear your voice, you can write. Writing is a simple extension of your mind to your fingers. Do this exercise:
Open a blank page in your word processing program. Let your fingers hover just above
keys of your keyboard and close your eyes. Now clear you mind and let it fill with silence. Into that silence, let your thoughts begin to focus on what you instinctively know you can do well. Things you excel at. As each thought rises, type it. Baking, stained glass, gardening, restoring classic cars…write until well runs dry.
Now open your eyes. Like magic, before your eyes, here is a list of topics for potential ebooks!
There is no price that can be placed on your unique knowledge and experience. The trick is to draw from well of that knowledge and use it to create an ebook.
Internet businesses are hungry for information about how to turn their websites into profit-making machines. Whenever an entrepreneur first starts a business, he or she lacks patina of experience that comes from many years of working in trenches. If your ebook can help rocket them forward in time by providing them with your invaluable business know-how, you've got a topic for a beneficial and successful ebook.
Ebooks are one of most powerful marketing tools available in world today. They can be sent out as attachments in emails, offered for free or for a fee on your website, or sent out on discs through mail. They can be marketed by your affiliates through links on their sites and in your ebook. You can offer your ebook through an autoresponder, thereby capturing email addresses and building a list of potential customers. Or you can use your ebook to build an opt-in email list — by sending email only to people who want it, you differentiate your messages from spam and increase value of your list.
