Goal Oriented Online Solopreneurs Are Getting Reading For Next Year and Learning How To Write a Book Fast and Increase Profits

November 19, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

From One Gutsy Online Home Business Owner to Another

We all know recession times like these are tough, that’s why finding new ways to increase profits is usually the most rewarding experience for any Internet Business Owner.

What are the options? Low and behold, it is no surprise that the absolute top way that is manifested for the business leader improve the bottom line is to start writing a book and working toward becoming a bestselling author.

Wonderful, you’ve made a smart decision to write a book. Congratulations, success is in your future! A book can give you recognition and help you to attract more clients to your business. 

If such things are your only reasons, then the sooner you begin writing a book, the better. But you might miss one of the best reasons for having a book if you just concentrate on getting it done fast. That reason is to make money 

Getting an eternal bestseller credential and attracting more clients can actually be achieved quicker and easier says top business coach DrProactive Randy Gilbert, if you “slow down and take some time to create a bestselling business around your book”. 

He says that you will be rewarded with a betterbook, more money, and a continuing stream of revenue that far exceeds what the book alone would have earned.

It can make you a bestselling author, and a millionaire at the same time, which is why DrProactive named “bestselling business”. Learning how to start writing a book and creating a business around it at the same time is crucial.

He recommends using the following step to build your own bestselling business around your book.

Use the 80-20 rule as a habit and work on the most important thing everyday. One hour a day would be wonderful but at least half an hour would be great. Even on your busiest days, try to do at least 10 minutes at some point. Just take action. Don’t worry about getting things perfect. Write a first draft, find an editor or revise it yourself.

Change your plan of action and start creating a bestselling business to write your book. In 90 to 180 days, you will have the first draft of a great if you follow these steps, and you’ll have enough books pre-sold to make be a bestseller as soon as it’s published, as well as passive income to help put your business in the black. 

ACTION POINT:

There is no time like the present. Get started right now with building a bestselling business around your book. By doing so, you will be quickly writing your bestselling book and creating a million dollar business at the same time.

If you want to learn more about how to write a book that produces revenue and makes you a bestselling author, then use the secret formula that top authors use to successfully reach that goal. Make a decision to use the Key Factors outlined above and keep your eye on the ball, and you’ll hit a home run every time.

Here’s A Different Twist on Public Domain Publishing

March 2, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

Perhaps you’ve heard of public domain publishing as a pathway to earning money online.  I am here to tell you about a twist on it that can have you bringing in extra revenue almost right away.

First, though, let’s review the fundamentals. As you may know, many books and other materials have entered the public domain (fallen out of copyright protection) and may be republished, in any form, by any person who goes to the trouble to do so. In the United States most works published through 1923 are now considered to be public domain (”PD”).

If you discover a PD book that you believe someone would purchase if it were republished, you could reprint it as a physical book and sell copies through eBay, Amazon or your own web site. Some enterprising individuals have done this with old correspondence courses and other non-fiction, how-to type materials from decades past.

On the other hand, you could repackage your PD discovery as an e-book and make it available for downloading, for a price. This is probably the more usual way that people are earning money at this time from the public domain.Again, how-to, self-improvement and other non-fiction works will usually prove to be the most profitable.

Now about that twist I mentioned.  The method I prefer is to make PD books freely available on the web, and place advertising on their pages. Strictly speaking, then, you are selling ad space, not the book itself.

A few years a guy named Steve Smith heard about an odd book from 1892 that combined a time-travel-type tale with a novel about golf. Its title was Golf In the Year 2000.

Afer a bit of searching, he was able to find a copy of this book for just $10. He scanned the pages, converted them with opitcal character reading software, and posted the whole book on a website he had registered just for this purpose.

He went further than that, though. On his site’s pages, he surrounded the text of the book with Google AdSense and affiliate merchant ads. This allowed him to make money from visitors clicking the AdSense or buying things. By the way, if you’re interested you can view his site at www.golf-in-the-year-2000.com.

Steve’s online edition of Golf In the Year 2000 attracts a steady stream of golf enthusiasts, science fiction fans, Victorian literature lovers and the simply curious, he says. And the ads on his pages bring him money!

It’s a concept that many others could copy, of course. Public-domain sources are abundant nowadays.  You might be able to find an appropriate book in one of the many web-based PD repositories, preferably one that not many other people have discovered yet.

The good thing with this idea is that the book you showcase (and use to earn ad revenue) need not be restricted to non-fiction or how-to.As with Mr. Smith’s strange little science fictional golf gem, it can simply be something that will bring web surfers to your site, for the novelty if nothing else.

You could also look in used-book stores to try to find something rare enough not to have made it to the Internet at all.  In that case you will probably need to buy a scanner and some OCR software to get the text into your computer.

Public domain publishing is truly a potentially lucrative area.Further, how you “repurpose” your public domain finds is completely up to you.  That’s what makes it so fun, as well as profitable.

This method of publishing public domain material is also described in this article, along with suggestions for further reading.

If you are interested in selling actual used books online, as on Amazon or eBay, there’s a downloadable report available that shows a new and mega-profitable way to do it.  Check it out here or read a solid review of it at Can You Still Make Money Selling Used Books on Amazon?