Archive for January, 2010
EGAD #5 – Interview Authorities: Tips
Ask authorities to contribute a tip or two on a given subject for your ebook.
EGAD #4 – Reprint Authority Book/eBook Content
If some of your authorities have authored books and/or ebooks, ask to reprint excerpts — or even whole chapters — and assemble all you collect into an ebook.
EGAD #3 – Interview Authorities: Single Question
Here’s a fairly simple EGAD technique that will generate fresh content: Interview authorities, but only ask a single question. Compile all the answers into an ebook.
“Pretty Link” Often Referenced WordPress Posts
I mentioned the Pretty Link WordPress plugin in passing in last year’s How to Work In Affiliate Links Into Your eBook post. But that brief mention doesn’t do justice to just how useful this free plugin is to WordPress users.
EGAD #2 – Reprint Authority Blog Content
Continuing on with the “preexisting content” line of thinking, let me bring in a new-ish concept that’ll be quite important to keep in mind, since I suspect it’ll play a major role in most EGAD ideas and schemes I’ll be coming up with.
EGAD #1 – Repackage Old Content
Probably the most obvious of EGADs: Simply take old content you’ve already written/published, then reorganize and assemble — repackage! — into new ebooks.
EGAD = eBook Generator a Day
The basic process of writing an ebook is simple and straightforward: sit down and write until it’s finished.
I don’t know about you, but in my case, that takes a considerable amount of time. There’s got to be easier and faster ways to pump out useful, sellable ebooks, right?
Right!
Serious Discounts on How-To’s for Writers @ Wordpreneur Library
I decided to set up a the Wordpreneur Library, featuring “Books, Courses, Tools, Software and Other Professional Resources for Writers.” To start it off, I’ve affiliated with the WCCL Network, a highly respected publisher of an extensive line of infoproducts and self-development tools for writers and artists, and you’ll find nine (9) of their writers’ titles I handpicked from their selection.
Hands-Free No Sweat Blog Tweeting With WordPress and the Twitter Tools Plugin
Despite all the hoopla, if you have yet to set up a Twitter account and start using it to at least “broadcast” information to Twitter-using readers/prospects, I don’t really blame you. It wouldn’t be surprising at all if what’s keeping you from doing it is, well, tech overload.
Amazon Expands Kindle Self-Publishing Worldwide
Breaking News: Authors worldwide (no longer just the US) can now self-publish Kindle versions of their books.
Read Amazon expands Kindle self-publishing worldwide @ CNet »
Released: Article Bucks
The Teachpreneur project has released its latest free ebook: The Teachpreneur Guide to Article Bucks, an Adobe Acrobat PDF ebook on “How to Make Money Writing Online Articles in Your Spare Time.”
WP Greet Box – A Powerful Promotional WordPress Plugin
By default, the free WP Greet Box WordPress plugin is already a no-brainer must-have — it displays a custom greeting on your posts, depending on where the reader comes from.
Wordpreneur Revisited @ Teachpreneur (part 2)
More Wordpreneur originals “reprinted” over at Teachpreneur that you may benefit from being reminded of: