Welcome to my "How to Make Money on eBooks Review!

So, you want to upgrade your blogging life? You thought by writing and publishing a book would leverage your career. Perhaps, you wondered how others manage to earn more money from it, though you already have a rough idea of how stressful it would be to write such a lengthy piece of work. 

This is why you’re here, right? You want to know how to make money on eBooks. Before we go through the whole process from scratch, let me introduce an easier, an alternative to the money-making process. Check out Roope’s #1 recommended business opportunity and learn how it works.

Now, we’re all set. Can we dive into the whole post? Shall we?

You can definitely make money on writing eBooks. Most of the authors tend to give away their new releases for free to ensure the following from readers.

Following its new trend on electronic publishing, there’s an increasing number of bloggers, who turn their attention on writing their blog posts transforming them into a published work. Unlike traditional publishing as Usborne Books, you have the full control of your books.

How does this work?

Regardless of the subject of the book, you’re going to publish it on Amazon, for example, specifically on Kindle.

From there, your readers hover through the categories of newly released works and checks your work for free. This is how Russel Brunson showcased his ideas on his “Dot Com Secrets” and “Expert Secrets” books at its initial stages.

At the beginning and at the end of your book, you place your website link within these crucial book locations.

This is an effective strategy wherein you clearly place an invite for them to read more from you. So, they click the embedded links en route to your website. 

Voila! You got the traffic and conversion at the same time.

This is how self-publishing works for most writers and bloggers alike. According to Steve Gillman on The Penny Hoarder, he wrote, “It's common for authors to give away their ebooks to build name recognition or to promote their other books.”

1. Develop a concept.

This is where the most crucial, however, the most fundamental process in writing a book. It doesn’t involve the writing phase.

But it does affect the overall book idea, though there’s no word written yet. In developing a concept, you have to think about what’s going on and what kind of subject everyone wants to read, especially if you’re writing non-fiction.

You have to consider that, too. This is why Amazon searches and top releases would be your best friend at this point. You have to know the trend, your surroundings, among others. 

2. Write a strong premise.

If you think writing a premise is only applicable to writing fiction, you’re mistaken. It does apply to other genres, specifically non-fiction.

You have to know who’s the character targeted in the book, alongside with the goals, conflict, development, etc.

It’s a brief 3-5 sentence paragraph depicting the overall picture of your book from the beginning to the end with clarity.

3. Create an outline.

From writing your premise, you will proceed in creating an outline. You don’t have to be absolute at this part. Rather, go with a smooth flow of your limitless ideas.

If you’re familiar with how Randy Ingermanson’s Snowflake Method works, then you would understand what I’m trying to point out here.

From the main point, you branch out to a series of sub-categories to its underlying concepts. That’s how you create an outline for a day or two. Keep it open. 

4. Divide concepts into chapters.

From branching out ideas as you did in your Snowflake Method, you will delve into dividing your concepts and turn them into chapters.

As for non-fiction writer and future-author, you have to consider the “plot” of your book by answering, “What do you want your reader to learn from you?”

You’d assume they pick your book because of a certain problem and it’s you, who can sort it out with possible solutions. That’s obviously your last chapter.

Divide the chapters in accord with the ideas you gathered and see the overall flow in the bird’s eye view. 

5. Make bullet points per chapter.

This remains part of the branching out, but we’re going to more details here. In writing a book, it’s very important to gather as many resources as you can just as John Maxwell does to his books.

He has researchers backing him up for his next book. But, unfortunately, you have nobody to do that for you.

Hence, you have to do the dirty work. You have to pick every book, read every blog, etc. for the sake of collecting every piece of information you think is relevant to your book and to every chapter it belongs. 

6. Write paragraphs per chapter.

You can’t write the whole book yet, though you’re getting closer to that process. You have to take it slow, given you have stressed out yourself so much with gathering the necessary materials for your book.

At this junction, you have to write paragraphs to give a picture of each chapter. So, allow a day or two to draft your chapter. That means you have a month to write drafts for the entire chapters (if you have 30 chapters or so). 

7. Go ahead and write the first draft.

Once you finished the drafts per chapter, review your book concept and attempt to write your first draft. That means from your prologue to the epilogue. I mean the entire book.

From the beginning to the end. If you take a closer look at the process, you’re going to save 1,000 hours of work because you go through the step-by-step process in making the outline and convert it into paragraphs.

If you do as any pantsers do, it’d be rough. You’re no Stephen King to make a perfect piece in one sitting. You’re a beginner writer. That’s why you’re here.

8. Give it a rest.

After you’re done with the first draft, allow a week or a month (the maximum) to rest the writing process to keep a fresh mind.

This prevents you from skipping the mistakes in the work. Otherwise, you would have missed the points simply because you’re too tired from the entire writing process.

Seasoned authors even rest and set aside their works for months to keep the editing process later on whenever they have their brains freshen up before they resume the work. 

9. Start revising.

You don’t submit your first draft to an editor. Certainly, you can hire someone and have him or she goes through the hellish editing.

But you don’t want to submit a crap or allow someone to read your work without having gone through several editing processes you did.

You heard it right. You’re the first editor. After a month of rest, you resume the work with a fresh start and read the whole thing ensuring everything is up on your standard.

If something’s off, grammar, for example, you revise. Do this as many times as you could until you think you have nothing to add or change anymore.

At this time, you can now submit your draft to an editor for the professional editing to commence.

Typically, you and your editor work together until you finish it before the cover designer and/or the layout artist to come in and take over the physical appearance of the book. 

As I mentioned earlier, many bloggers took the initiative to write their own eBooks as a form of either marketing or pulley towards becoming a professional in the industry.

Jeff Goins, a best-selling author, started as a mere blogger more than 10 years ago. Though he worked in the publishing industry for some time, he didn’t think he’d do the same thing to leverage his name in the blogosphere.

The same thing happened to John Lee Dumas, who’s a former soldier and returned to the US without anything but his pride and diligence.

He worked so hard to build his blog teaching about podcasting and how it helps people to share their knowledge in audio form. 

From there, he thought of pulling himself up and published his first book about podcasting on Amazon. As expected, he sought success after a constant promotion.

These are only a few people who have found success in publishing though they never taught themselves to become the best writer. Rather, a best-selling author in their own fields of expertise.

How do they basically make money?

Chandler Bolt, the founder of Self-Publishing School, revealed how the process goes first before the income from each book comes into the picture. It’s the same strategy Nick Nicholson, author of the same name, mentioned.

First, they publish a giveaway ebook. It’s a prologue of what you’re going to publish next. That means your first book won’t cost much or cost $0. Your only intention is to have it distributed as many readers as it can. You know, people love free stuff. 

After discovering your book, they will see your links and click them through their device directing to the offer you’re actually offering.

This is where they sign up and become your avid fan, allowing you to enter their inbox. So, every time you have a new product, all you have to do is to send emails on a regular basis. That’s it. This is because you did the takeaway eBook on Amazon. 

You’re going to publish another one, which will be the lean meat of your offer. This where you’re going to price high of around $5 or so per book. It still doesn’t cost much but still reasonable enough. 

Afterward, you’re going to write another book, the third one. At this point, this will be your momentum after the 2 successful releases. You’re going to charge to its worth.

Unlike the first release (free eBook) and the second (costing $2 to $5 per eBook), your third book will go higher like $10 and up depending on the content and demand. 

This is how complicated the publishing industry is, yet, it’s worth your while.

At the same time, you'll realize how massive the scale of reaching out to your target market will be your constant grounds in your future projects. 

The thing is, not every authorship is grounded with making more money. But to reach out and use it as a means of a more powerful and effective marketing strategy.

Let’s think of it this way.

Who would you believe or who would you seek a piece of advice? From someone who plainly blogs regularly or from someone who published a book about it? The answer is obvious. You'd choose the latter.

Nonetheless, publishing a book or an eBook remains one of the best ways to market your pursuit while earning money from it. There's no doubt about that at all. This is from a writer's perspective.