Selling ebooks via eBay can be very lucrative. It’s a low overhead business that presents the opportunity to produce multiple sales after investing only in a single ebook with resale rights. The chance to buy an item of virtual inventory only once and then sell it again and again make ebook sales an awesome opportunity for a savvy eBay entrepreneur.

The great potential in the ebook market has, not surprisingly, led many sellers into the arena. Where there were once only a sparse offering of ebooks, there are now thousands of ebook auctions occurring at all hours of every day. The marketplace has grown increasingly crowded.

At one point, it was possible to generate significant earnings by selling single ebooks or ebook “packages” of virtually any sort. The days of simply bundling up some content of any sort, auctioning it and reaping healthy profits, however, is over. Not only is the marketplace more competitive, shoppers are becoming more educated and particular.

In order to be a truly successful ebook merchant on eBay, one can no longer rely on tired older titlesthe consumer base has seen them before over and over again. Instead, ebook sellers need to find new and exciting ebooks to offer at auction. Older material is simply too difficult to sell, regardless of one’s skills. Consumers have already been exposed to older titles and, seeking new information, are reluctant to invest on materials they know have been on the market for some time.

Finding the best digital information to sell takes some research and care. First, you need to determine what kind of information is likely to be in high demand. Then, you need to find an innovative new product that can satisfy that interest. New products offer potential buyers something exciting to quench their thirst for new information and can motivate them to make purchases in ways pre-existing ebooks cannot.

Discovering new ebooks requires investigation. Search ebook marketplaces thoroughly, looking for new titles that seem to meet market needs. After finding a potential new product, check thoroughly at eBay to see if others are already selling the ebook. If only a few sellers are offering the ebook, determine whether or not you could sell it better than they are. If there is already a glut of sellers, continue your search.

Alternatively, you can offer a truly unique ebook yourself. This is the best way to insure you are offering a product that will truly stand out among available informational products. You can either author the ebook yourself or hire a freelance writer to produce the material for you. This will guarantee that you have fresh material unlike that offered by any other seller. Additionally, selling products you have personally produced allows you to avoid any potential problems with eBay’s VeRO policies.

There is still a lot of room for success in the eBay ebook marketplace. Although the market has become increasingly competitive over the last few years, entrepreneurs can still produce amazing results when offering new, standout ebooks. Sellers cannot rely upon recycled older material in the growing ebook marketplace, but they can make very healthy profits with fresh material that is new to consumers.

John Thornhill trades on eBay under the username planetsms. For more advice on how to succeed on eBay with information products visit http://www.planetsms.co.uk

What do you do when you spend your valuable time and energy on creating an ebook? Do you start selling it online and then spend a lot of time to create another ebook from scratch?

What if I told you that you can create an ebook once and easily multiple your profits from it? Would you be interested to discover these profit-pulling ideas?

If you’ve read Part 1 of this Article, you’ve discovered 4 hot ideas on how to multiple your ebook profits. Now here are 4 more creative ideas…

Hot Idea #5: Give Away Part of Your eBook as an eCourse

You can divide a part of your ebook into some lessons and turn it into an ecourse (e.g. a 5-day ecourse) and put it on autoresponder.

This ecourse should provide helpful information and also promote your paid ebook. Then you can ask people to sign up to your ecourse to receive one lesson every day.

This is a very effective marketing technique because your prospects will see for themselves how much you know about that topic which makes them trust you as an expert, so they are much more likely to buy your ebook.

After all, they’ll think if you can afford to reveal such valuable information in your “free” mini course, how valuable the information in your “paid” course will be?

Hot Idea #6: Give Away Your eBook and Charge for Advertising

You can create an informative ebook that offers valuable information, and then sell advertising space in it to people who have related products.

Simply send them a copy of your ebook and explain how you’re going to turn it into a viral tool that will spread all over the Internet, promoting THEIR product, and how having their ads in it will bring them targeted traffic.

Of course it’s necessary that you really give the value you’ve promised and DO promote and spread your ebook effectively, so they’ll happily agree to work with you again in the future.

Hot Idea #7: Start Your own Paid Membership Site Based on Your eBook

You can start a membership site and discuss a technique or chapter of your ebook in more details each month. You can provide examples, interviews and other valuable types of content to help your members understand and learn to use what you teach in your ebook more effectively.

You can let people access this membership site for a monthly fee. You can make a lot of profits by having your own membership site because it’s recurring sales every month.

Your membership site can be a great backend for your ebook, as well as a hot stand-alone product.

Hot Idea #8: Turn Your eBook into an eClass

You could divide your publication into lessons and assignments and send them out once or twice a week via e-mail. You can create two eclasses: beginner and advanced.

The beginner eclass can last for 3-5 weeks, for example, and then you can promote your advanced eclass to them and ask them to sign up.

If you really provide valuable lessons in your first eclass, many of your customers will also sign up for the advanced class.

Hot Idea #9: …

Read part 3 of this article to discover more killer ideas to increase your ebook profits.

Wishing you much success,

Ladan Lashkari

About The Author: Ladan Lashkari is a respected Internet marketing expert and the author of How to Find Best-Selling Product Ideas and also many Internet marketing articles that show you killer tips and tricks to create your own profit pulling products and newsletters.

To grab a FREE copy of “Best-Selling Ideas” Master’s Course, simply visit her website at: http://www.FindProductIdeas.com

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What’s new? And who isn’t busy?

The majority of eBook authors are part-time writers. There are very few professional writers making their living writing non-fiction eBooks. In most cases, the eBook author is a professional with a full-time business or career to run or the author has an interest about which she/he is passionate and is using the eBook as an expression of that passion.

Finding the time to write an eBook among all the other demands made upon you is a difficult task. The process and planning required to complete the eBook authoring process can be managed but the real time you must find for actual writing requires some new attitudes, skills, and knowledge.

The A.S.K. Principle (Attitudes, Skills, Knowledge) is the foundation of all teaching and learning. It is applicable to eBook authoring and finding the time to write your book. As you reflect on the 8 suggested ways to find time to write, consider whether you will require an attitude change, learn new skills, or acquire additional knowledge in order to help you find the time to write.

Attitude changes may be as simple as giving yourself permission to take the time to write. It may require requesting the cooperation of family members to leave you some undisturbed time in a large block once a week to write.

Skills are really the application of knowledge. Simple to complex skills and everything in between can be acquired through experience or instruction. A well organized filing system for researched materials is a skill that requires little effort. Learning how to maximize the word processing software you use to write your eBook requires more effort.

Knowledge is the information we collect via experience and formal instruction. Facts and information is what we generally consider as knowledge. Applied knowledge is wisdom. Consider the knowledge factor in writing eBooks. The use of a Table of Contents is of paramount importance to authoring an eBook. Knowing that the TOC is your blueprint for your eBook frees your mind to pursue other things, including writing.

When you get a good idea taking the 2-3 minutes that it requires to write that idea down will be an invaluable habit resulting in some extraordinary writing. Don’t forget to include some key points that immediately come to mind. You can “flush out” the details of the idea later but it’s essential you write down enough information that you will be able to plug back in to the original thought pattern whenever you get back to it. Never lose a good idea. It may not return to you and a great opportunity may have been missed.

The premise that good writing can only be accomplished while using large blocks of uninterrupted writing time is false. A friend of mine claims he wrote his eBook at Interstate Highway rest stops while traveling on business. His rest breaks become his writing time and a break from driving. It took some organization on his part, but the shortness of his blocks of writing time (10 - 30 minutes at a time) wasn’t an impediment. In fact, he claimed it forced him to get right down to work and forced the ideas to flow without worrying about doing any editing.

You can prove to yourself that writing in short time frames is useful and productive. Select any three words, or have someone else select them for you. Choose a noun, an action verb and an adjective/adverb. Time yourself for 5 minutes writing non-stop, with no corrections or editing, incorporating those three words somewhere in the first few sentences of your writing. You will be amazed by how much you can write in just 5 minutes. You will be amazed at how easily just 3 “trigger” words can generate ideas. You will be amazed at the quality of your writing when the “flow” is flowing! You will prove to yourself how productive just 5 minutes of writing time can be. Try this exercise. It’ll only take 5 minutes.

6 Great Ideas for Finding Time to Write

1. Carry with you at all times key words and phrases from your Table of Contents along with supporting points you want included. Use this barebones outlines to write in the waiting rooms of doctor’s offices or while your wife/husband is shopping or the last 10 minutes of your lunch break or whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Key words and phrases is all you need to get you started writing. It’s all the inspiration you need. Don’t worry about editing. There’s plenty of time for that later. Don’t forget to record any new ideas in the margin of your writing so you don’t lose that next great gem of an idea!

Your Table of Contents flushed out into sub-topics then in to key words is all you need to get you started. You don’t have to carry a lot with you. Just carry one current chapter or topic with you at a time.

Some writers simply use a small black notepad that fits in their pocket or purse that contains the key words they are working on at the time. You can transcribe your writing later.

2. The key to productive writing is to get the ideas flowing and to go with the flow for as long as you possibly can. When the ideas are flowing, it is not the time to be using your best hand writing or the perfect typing skills. Punctuation and sentence structure takes a back seat for the time being. You want ideas on paper or on the computer monitor. Most people will be hand writing their initial notes especially if they are doing it in small snippets of time. Legibility is important so you can understand what you’ve written when you transcribe it. But beautiful handwriting is not an objective. Use as many shortcuts as possible to keep the ideas flowing. Use abbreviations for often repeated words like “t” for teacher. Use acronyms. Record the ideas not actually sentences when good ideas are coming faster than you can write. You can always come back to those ideas at another 5 minute writing interval and expand on it. The beauty of learning how to write in small chunks of time is that you always feel empowered with the progress you make at each writing session.

3. Arrange to exchange babysitting or child watching sessions with someone to allow you to write in a large block of time when it’s your best time to write. At what time of the day or day of the week are you most productive? Where do you get the most inspiration to write? How effectively do you get down to work and what kind of physical environment is most conducive to writing effectively and efficiently? Exchanging child sitting time must be mutually beneficial. Perhaps the person you exchange time with wishes to pursue a hobby or interest that makes the exchange worthwhile. Using this kind of arrangement also removes any guilt and frustration you might have in finding and using large blocks of time. Don’t feel guilty about paying a babysitter in order to write. If writing is important to you; If writing is a passion; If writing is a “re-creational” activity; then give it the importance it deserves and treat yourself to writing time.

4. Prioritizing is a key to successfully reaching your goals in life. Making writing one of your priorities and advertising that as a priority of yours will open up possibilities to write more. Others respect what you value if they value their relationship with you. The Aladdin Factor (Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen) points out that you only get in life what you ask for. If you require time to write and make a point of asking others to help you find that time, you are much more likely to be successful. Bring others on board as teammates. Be ready to give as well as receive in order that others can reach their goals. We get more by giving away more! One simple technique that is very effective is to schedule writing sessions into your planning for the week and do it on a regular basis. Habits are formed through repetition. Many successful and prolific writers say that without scheduling time to write they wouldn’t get much accomplished. You can’t always wait for the right time to write. Using key words and outlines you can begin the writing process quickly and write productively. You train yourself to write when you need to write.

5. Use your time more efficiently by having all the materials you need for writing located in one location so you can just sit down at any time and write. This includes having your materials ready for “on the go” writing. Whenever you end one writing session you should automatically prepare the catalyst material to begin the next writing session. This includes being very specific about the topic and key words to begin writing immediately upon sitting down. You will save 10 to 15 or more minutes per writing session when you prepare in advance. Take 5 minutes to get ready at the end of each writing session to prepare for the next writing session and make better use of the writing time for the next session.

Each of us has a preferred time and place to do our creative writing. Creative writing needs a catalyst as mentioned above. If you prefer to write initially with pen and paper, you can then use your non-creative time to transcribe your written notes to your word processor. Evenings watching sports on television is when I do my keyboarding. It’s a no-brainer time for me. It’s not a time for thinking. Some writers avoid the word processor altogether by having someone else type their notes or by dictating their notes and having them transcribed. Knowing your strengths and weaknesses is important and using that knowledge is even more important.

6. Writing breeds more writing. The more writing becomes a habit the more it happens. Research says it takes 21 repetitions to break an old habit and establish a new one. Writing for 5-15 minutes per day for 21 consecutive days should establish writing as a regular habit. So give yourself a reasonable target of 21 repetitions to establish new writing behaviors. That’s just 3 weeks of writing. Imagine how much you will have written at the end of that time. Make a conscious effort, especially when you are first starting out writing material for your eBook, to make writing a habit. Write out your goal of 21 consecutive days of writing for anywhere from 5 - 30 minutes per day. Copy a page of a calendar and post it on the refrigerator so you can stroke off every successful day of writing. Record the total time spent writing and the total number of pages written. Share your goal with those who may be most affected by your chosen activity. Post a written copy of your goal everywhere that will remind you to stay on task. Advertise to those around you how important that this is to you. If you don’t ask for assistance you won’t get it. Have a buddy with whom you can share your progress and one who will help keep you on track if you should falter. Weight-watchers and Alcoholics Anonymous realize the importance of a team of supporters to help reach goals. You need a team as well.

© 2005 Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson is an eBook author, a retired Elementary School Administrator and an experienced workshop leader. His retirement passion is helping people fulfill their dreams of authoring a book - an eBook in particular. Through http://www.ebookwritingandpublishing.com

Paul helps people with a process, a plan and support services to make the authoring journey an enjoyable and successful one.