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Information business with eBooks
Date : 16th February, 2012
Building your information business is a topic on which you already have a plethora of articles and books. People are giving advices on how to build your own website and operate it as an information hub. You must have already read them but are still confused with how to start and from where. There are varieties of ways you can take up as a starting point. During the infancy of your information business, you can go for simpler methods like article writing, blogging, communities and forums. Later, when you gain expertise, you can switch to the next level writing big blogs and eBooks. You can also take up podcasting to spread your content in voice.
People who want to write eBooks are very much in confusion. Some of them, who might know how to start, do not know how to proceed and end. Many people have taken up writing eBooks and earned good money. On the other hand, others started writing but did not finish the eBooks. Here we shall discuss few methods to start your own information business and write good eBooks.
The first step that comes in creating your own eBook is to find the subject and its details. Well, that is simple. First, find out your niche and the topics related to it. Your niche refers to your specializations, the things you know and understand well. For example, if you know well about fashion design, you can select it as your main topic. If you have other hobbies like Photoshop, skateboarding and video games, you can add them to your list of topics too. Suppose you get five niches, the next step is to refine them. Sit back and think wisely about the sub topics related to your niche subjects. Surely, you will get ten to twelve different topics related to each of the five specializations. Now you have almost fifty different topics on which you can write.
Start with one topic and list down the ideas that come to your mind when you think of it. Sometimes it might be disheartening when your mind gets full of thoughts. Relax and take a half an hour break. Start again, thinking different from the previous ones. After some time, you will find that you have a long list of ideas that you can incorporate in your eBook. The next step is to start writing in your favourite text editor. Write while keeping your list of ideas handy. It will help you to write fast and efficiently. Who says you cannot take help. Always refer to books, newspapers, magazines and Internet whenever you are stuck in the middle of writing. Be sure not to copy content, just take reference and understand the solutions. Copying content might result you in jail for the infringement of copyright laws.
Writing an eBook for the sake of people’s benefit is good for your business. Do not start with the business at once, make some customers by distributing your books free and then charge money for later editions.
