How To Make a Selling E-Book and Marketing it Online
This article will cover the entire process.
I can guarantee that if you follow the steps in this entry, you will successfully create a selling ebook.
First: Find a Topic
It is important to find a topic that you have expertise knowledge in. The customers out there are going to be buying your word and credibility, so brush up on your writing skills and find a good topic.
Make sure the knowledge for the topic is in demand. Do some google searches to see if there is a certain type of knowledge in their field that they are looking for.
Second: Write an outline of the information you want to include in your book. You may either handwrite it or do it on your computer. Free outline templates can be found on the Microsoft website here.
Third: Creation of Content.
For my ebook creation, I use Microsoft Word 2007.
This tutorial will use Microsoft Word 2007.
Open up a new word document and think of a title. I am going to create an ebook that is titled “Creating a Money Making Blog”, for a quick example.
Click the “Home” tab and press enter 10 times to center your title.
Type your title. Next go to the insert Tab and click header.Retype your title in the header and italicize it. Click on Footer and type in the url to your blog or webpage. Click your cursor directly behind the title in the middle of the page. Press enter so that it is directly one line below your text.Then go to the insert tab and insert clip art… (Find something that is not to cheesy and similar to your topic. It can look very professional if done right)
After making the title page, it should look something like this.
After you have the cover page, you are going to have to make the table of contents. Some people say that making the table of contents after typing the information is necessary, but “I have found that if I create the table of contents right after the cover page, it helps me organize my thoughts. Creating a table of contents page is not very difficult. Center the title and name it “Table of Contents.”
Match this page and you should be alright.
The page after your table of contents should begin page numbers. Simply go to the Insert tab and click page numbers. Select a style that blends with the rest of your style.
Length has been a topic of debate in an ebook. I believe that length is not a factor when all of the topics that said they would be covered are accurately covered. I tend to make the length of my ebooks anywhere from fifty to two-hundred pages.
Fourth: Converting to PDF Format
Once you have completed your book (and cited any sources used) you will have to convert the docx format into a pdf. Ebooks are universally known to be in the PDF form.
It blows my mind that there are programs out there that are up to seventy five dollars for this type of software. There is a way you can do this completely free. Simply download the setup file for virtual pdf printer at www.go2pdf.com.
After this program is done installing, simply open it up and click the install printer button. This will take a few seconds.
Now as soon as you are done typing your ebook, and adding all points you are interested in, save your text document onto your desktop and close Microsoft Office. MO needs to restart in order for it to detect the new pdf “printer” that will allow you to convert your document.
Reopen Microsoft office and open your book that you have completed typing.
Once you have it open go to file, print.
You will notice that you now have this option.
Chose it.
It will ask you where you want to save it after. Save it onto your desktop.
This might take sometime because the pdf file might be quite large.
There you go! You now have a pdf copy of your book, but we are not done yet. We want to protect it.
Fifth: Protecting Your Ebook
Go to and download http://www.novapdf.com/download/setup/novapp.exe
Run it and install it.
(The Following information is brought to you by http://www.novapdf.com/kb/password-protect-a-pdf-document-55.html)
To password protect a PDF document with novaPDF Professional:
- Open the document that you want to convert to PDF and password protect. Go to File->Print and in the Printers section select novaPDF Pro.
- After novaPDF Pro is selected click on the Properties button (or Preferences) to open the novaPDF Pro Properties window.
- Go to the Security tab and select either the Low Level or High Level Encryption method. You can setup a password for opening and/or modifying the PDF document by entering and confirming it in the User Password field (Owner Password lets you require a password when changing the security features of the PDF, not when opening it).
- Press OK to save the printing preferences for novaPDF Pro and in the Print window of the program click OK to so that the creation of the PDF files starts (the PDF file will be displayed after it’s created). Note that the password protection will be applied to further created PDF files unless you remove the encryption from the Security tab.
User password is for opening (and reading) the PDF file. If you define an user password when generating the PDF file, when someone wants to open the resulting PDF file it will have to enter the user password to open it. So only the ones that know this password can read/open the PDF file.
Owner password is set for changing the rights of the PDF file. The owner password is not requested when opening the PDF file but it is requesting when you want to change something in the PDF file that was restricted from modifying.
Examples of using High Level Encryption to restrict PDF permissions:
- If you want to disallow content copying from the PDF, you should make sure that the Extract text and Graphics and Advanced extract text and graphics options are unchecked. If these options are unchecked, when someone will try to copy text from the PDF to paste it elsewhere, it will not work.
- If you want to disallow readers to print the PDF, you can do so by unchecking the Print Document option in the Document Permissions section. Additionally, you can allow printing only in low resolution (150 dpi), by checking the Print Document option but unchecking the Print high resolution one (allowing only low resolution printing also prevents users from using optical character recognition software to create a similar document).
- If you want to disallow form filling, make sure the following options are unchecked: Modify Annotations, fill forms and Advanced form filling.
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Step Five: Congratulate Yourself! You have just successfully created your own ebook that you will be able to market and sell online.
Well now, do not be discouraged. If you do not know how to go about doing that quite yet I will tell you. Simply sign up for my newsletter on the right upper corner of my homepage, and I will update you with weekly newsletters that will help you create and market products much like this one.
I am going to give the first three hundred sign-ups for my newsletter this month a free ebook On December 25th. This Ebook will help you turn your blog into a money making machine.
So what are you waiting for?
The sign-up is on the top right corner.
Thank you for following my tutorial and hope to be hearing from you soon!
Also, I have read a book that has helped me organize my thoughts and ebook profit sales.
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I highly recommend this book.
Although it looks a little cheesy, it is full of valuable information. Also, it is only twenty five dollars… completely worth it.
For purchase information click on the book.
Your friend and mentor,
Tim McMahon
