Let's Get One Thing Straight About
Being a Published Author
BY JIM EDWARDS & DAVID GARFINKEL
Just for fun, evaluate the
following statement:
"Most people want to write a
book and get it published, but that's simply impossible 99% of
the time."
Is the above statement true?
Not exactly. What's true is
that most people THINK they can't write a book and get it
published. And while that's a widely-held belief, just the
opposite is true.
In fact, it's easier to write
and get published today than ever before — especially thanks
to the eBook "revolution." The field of eBooks is literally
wide open for all who are interested — including, perhaps,
you!
What does it take to write and
publish your own eBook?
Three things:
-
A topic you are
interested in that others would also like to know more
about.
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The desire to get the
eBook written. (Note: You can write it yourself, but you
don't have to. There are other proven and simple ways to get
your eBook written and published for you.)
-
A simple, one-page, "sales
letter" website to sell the eBook.
Does it take a lot of money or
any special aptitudes? Oddly enough, not really. You have to
be willing to take action, certainly, and learn as you go, but
there are no special educational, financial or talent
requirements to become a successful eBook author.
The truth is, it costs very
little to get started. You can get a domain registered and
online for as little as $9 to start and $6
a month for website hosting.
In fact, there are actually
six ways you can create an eBook without ever writing a word
of it — so you don't need to be a skilled writer. We'll tell
you about one of them, in-depth, right now.
Think of a topic you know
something about that you'd like to write an eBook on.
Once you have that topic in
mind, then all you need to do is write a list of questions
other people would pay to get the answers to... give that list
to a friend... have the friend call you on the phone and ask
you those questions... record the call... have the recording
transcribed... and edit the transcription!
Presto — you've just created a
"meaty" eBook fast! (Yes, it really is that simple!)
By the way, if you don't want
to transcribe or edit the eBook yourself, you can get both of
those things done for you for surprisingly little money... as
little as a few hundred dollars, total, in many cases.
That's how we wrote our most
recent eBook.
As authors ourselves, we came
up with a list of questions, got on the phone, recorded the
answers, and had the entire 4 1/2 hour conversation
transcribed. Using this phone call - transcription - edit
route we created an eBook in about a week. It cost us a total
of $163 to produce it. (We hired out the transcription, and
did the editing ourselves.)
So far we've spent zero
money on advertising and, as we write this article today,
we've sold over $49,683 worth of that eBook in less than six
months!
We're not unique in that way.
We know many others who have successfully published eBooks -
including another small publisher who has used this exact same
method to create dozens of eBooks.
If you can clearly understand
a specific problem, want, need or desire of a large enough
target audience and then create a publication that helps them
get what they want, you stand to make a lot of money and help
a great number of people at the same time.
If there ever was a "golden
age" of publishing, NOW is the time. The truth of the matter
is, today anyone can become a published author with an eBook
in less than a couple of weeks. Between us, we have 11 eBooks
online and we're making money every day, even as you read
this.
You can do the same.
Opportunity awaits you right now. It's never been easier to
seize the day and go for your dream — become a published
author!
Jim Edwards and David
Garfinkel are co-authors of
eBook Secrets Exposed, the
authoritative resource for making a lot of money quickly
writing and publishing your own eBook. Guerrilla Marketing
series author Jay Conrad Levinson says, "If ever there was a
'must-read' for this century, it's
this book."
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