![]() Everyone has expertise in something that they could monetize by writing an eBook. See how you can create and sell an eBook on your website in just 8 steps. Do you want to build a portfolio website for your small business or personal project but don't know how to get started? Find the answer in the free eBook. Richard Byrne. Search this site. My Ebook users can create ebooks from scratch or upload their existing PDF files to display in a book format. Let’s create an ebook — or, rather, a web book. A few months ago, during one of our (three-person) marketing meetings, John and I were brainstorming different. Publishing Your Own Electronic Book (Ebook) by Christopher Heng, thesitewizard.com. You may have seen them around on the Internet. Some of them are available free of. ![]() In this post I’m going to share a bunch of images, tools and tricks to help you design your own ebook without spending any money on a designer. We all want our websites, emails and ebooks to help us look professional, stand out from the crowd, get recognized and, ultimately, delight our audience. And hopefully we all know how offering a giveaway on your site can significantly increase the number of people who signup for your email list. Here’s how things changed at Fizzle when we started offering an ebook. Here’s stats from our email list for the past year +. Can you tell where we started promoting the Audience guide? (Click here to learn more about.) So in this post I want to share all sorts of ways you can put something into the hands of your readers, something they will love to read, something that will grow trust with them and make them more likely to choose us when they need our products or services. ![]() These are tricks I’ve picked up, ways to get us from here to there without getting too technical or artsy fartsy. But, before we do that we need to get clear about what your ebook is for, what it’s supposed to do. What’s in this post • • • • • • • • • • • • • What your ebook is supposed to do Here’s 3 things every ebook is supposed to do: • Your ebook is supposed to be interesting. Rule #1 of designing an ebook is make sure the topic is f*%^ing interesting to your audience! The fanciest design can’t outperform a killer topic and headline. • Your ebook is supposed to be readable. If your reader can’t read the words due to color choice or font choice or lack of contrast, etc., then you can’t get your ideas from the page and into their head/heart/life, you can’t help them, you can’t build trust. Whatever else your ebook is, it must be readable. • Your ebook has to be out in the world. We can’t be fiddling with this thing forever. The point of it is to be out in the world affecting hearts and minds, so let’s get this done now. It can always be better;. To illustrate this last point, let me tell you about how Darlene made (and leveraged) her ebook. Case Study: 10 Photo Challenges Ebook Below is a before and after of. The new version is definitely an improvement over the old one, wouldn’t you say? Here’s a few sample pages of Darlene’s Photo Challenge ebook after working with a designer (3.5 years after first publishing the ebook). Darlene actually made the “before” version herself using Open Office (an open source word processor). Did you hear that? She did it herself using free software. Then she used it and it worked. She’s used that version for 3 years and grew her blog to over 22,000 email subscribers. Yes, the second version looks nicer than the first — she says herself that she wanted to update the look and feel of the book — but her business grew because she used what she had. She didn’t fiddle and whine about making it look better, she used it. There will always be a possible better version of what you’re making. Successful people know when to stop fiddling and start shipping. “There will always be a possible better version of what you are making. Ship it.” Tools for making ebooks YOU DON’T NEED TO USE FANCY OR EXPENSIVE APPLICATIONS TO MAKE YOUR EBOOK. Did you get that? Sorry to yell. I just really want you to get it — you don’t need fancy tools to make a killer ebook. You could use presentation software like PowerPoint, or Keynote.
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