Net Hustlin'

Find your topic

So you want to write an ebook, but you don't know what to write about. Before you do anything else you should think about your hobbies and interests. Writing about something you enjoy will make writing, researching, and promoting your topic much easier.

If you still haven't though thought of anything, you can go to Amazon and check out their best seller list. Although they are "real" books they still reflect what people are interested in reading. You can also go to forums and google groups to see what most people are talking about.

The easiest way to write a successful ebook is to find a gap in the market and write about it. If there is a topic that most people are talking about but there aren't many blogs or ebooks dedicated to the subject, your ebook will have a good chance of success if it answers peoples questions.

Make your ebook easy to read and understand

Once you know what you are going to write about you have to present the information in a way that is easy to read and understand. People have a lower attention span on the internet than they have when reading a book in print. It's also a strain on the eyes to read a book on the computer. You should keep both of these in mind when writing your ebook. Here are a few ways to make your ebook easy to read:

• Break your book up into different chapters, then break the chapters down into smaller sub-topics. This will make it easy for the reader to find the information they are looking for. It will also make it easier for the reader to pick up where they left off. Any information that doesn't directly relate to the chapter should be put into its own chapter or left out of the book.
• Use short sentences and small paragraphs. Each paragraph should have a specific point to make that is clearly stated in the beginning.
• Highlight your most important points by making them bold.
• Read your e-book over when you are finished writing it and take out any unnecessary information. Every sentence should have new information to offer.

A good title goes a long way. The title is a buyer's first impression about how useful and entertaining the ebook will be. The title should detail what the book is going to be about while grabbing the reader's attention. Which one would you rather buy?

"Learn how to make money online."
Or
"Lazy kid makes $100 an hour without wife or girlfriend!" [Link]

Both of these are essentially the same title, but the first one is completely non-descript and boring. You know it'll show you how to make money online, but it doesn't tell you how much you can make or what you have to do. Most people won't pay money for an ebook without first knowing what they are buying.

The second one gives you an idea of how much you can make, and the word "lazy kid" gives you a hint that the work will be easy. Who doesn't want to make $100 an hour doing nothing? Of course you shouldn't make a claim like that unless your book delivers. The example comes from a popular ebook sold on ebay, the book sells for $9.95 and has sold hundreds of copies.