IME#1: Conclusion to How to Create an eBook with Help
Greetings Blog Family,
The time has finally come where we get to the conclusion of our first Internet Marketing Experiment #1: Creating an eBook with Help. You can see the first installment of this experiment here, IME#1.
If you recall, the purpose of this experiment was to create an ebook with little to no effort to give away on my blog to subscribers and build my subscription base and email list. The source for this technique was the eCode by Joe Vitale and Jon Ho Mok, from Chapter 30, page 141 #1, 30 Ways to Create an eBook with little to no writing.
So about a month and a half ago, I set out on this experiment. You can view the details here.
The Results
The crux of the matter is YES, this technique works as I have successfully orchestrated an ebook from this method. Blogosphere Big Shots is the ebook and I urge you to downloads and test it out yourself to see what the quality of the book is now.
I invited 14 Bloggers to submit an article for the ebook, made topic suggestions, created a due date, collected the material, organized it, and produced the ebook. It really was that simple.
Suggestions
If you are going to try this technique yourself, here are few of my suggestions to you.
1) Work with Quality Bloggers – This will cut down on the frustrations because they will hit the deadlines and produce quality content that you desire. This business is all about quality content and good people will deliver that for you. Besides, you will appreciate their professionalism.
2) Define Topics and Length – I made a list of topics and ask each blogger to write on one or two topics. Also, I asked for 500 to 750 words from each blogger per article. This was to give them a guide, but I did let them know that if they needed more words to go for it. Some came in longer, but it was all good.
3) Set Due Date 1 Week Before You Need It – This is an editing trick I learned from running a magazine. Tell the contributors one due date, but have another week in your schedule for extra time. If everything comes in on time great, but usually things won’t and it will not throw your schedule off. Something always comes up when dealing with larger groups of successful people. your roll as coordinator is to work around these issues, so be prepared.
4) Edit as the Articles Come In – This saves time and efficiency. Reduces down time in the project. I didn’t do this personally, but have learned from that mistake. Besides since you are telling the contributors to send in the articles a week early, while you are waiting for all of them to come in you could be editing and not losing any real time on the project.
5) Give Links in the eBook to the Contributing Bloggers – This is the least you could do for them. In my eBook, I wrote a few sentences about the bloggers on their behalf in my own words along with a link back to their respective sites. All of them seemed to really appreciate the personal touch. Give it a try.
Go Get’em!
Well blog Family, there you have it. Our first Internet Marketing Experiment was a success. Hopefully, you learned something during this experiment. At the very least, I hope you realized blogging is a full contact sport and if you get out there and meet, mingle, and communicate with other bloggers, then anything is possible.
If you have any questions, please drop them below. i will be glad to share what I have learned from you and help you make this happen for your blog. I would like to know who out there is considering using this technique in your business and if you do, please keep me posted and maybe even give me a shout out during your effort. It would be appreciated.
First in the Mind, then in Reality!
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2:26 pm on December 19th, 2008
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4:28 pm on December 19th, 2008
Freddie,
How many emails have you gotten in your list? I know it is possible to do, but what I want to know is was it worth it? Are you building a list that is going to big large enough to make some money off of?
Adam
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4:33 pm on December 19th, 2008
@ Adam – Good question. The ebook has been released for almost a week and I have gotten about 20 subscriptions. This may not sound like a lot to you, but that is a crazy pace around here. My traffic levels are not all that high yet, so I am very pleased with the results.
In addition, I have no idea how to promote an ebook, but am working on learning this process as well. I think once I learn that and build the BlogosphereBigshots.com site as well, more and more subs, email address will begin to roll in.
The email list was something that came later from talking to Normal Joe, but the main purpose was to build subscribers here at FT.com, which is working very well. Thanks for the question!
5:36 pm on December 19th, 2008
Good work with the experiment. It did work out very well and the eBook is really awesome. I mean, some people SELL eBooks of less quality.
Hope it will boost your subscriptions count and 20 is already a good achievement considering you haven’t really worked a lot on promotion.
Keep up the good work!
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9:05 pm on December 19th, 2008
Freddie I just subscribe to your e-book so make that 21!
Keep up the good work
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10:12 am on December 20th, 2008
@ Ben – Thanks for all your help. You are right, people are selling crap and making money. One of my goals is to build my brand as a person that delivers quality information and I think this ebook is putting me on the right path.
I am very happy with 20+ subs this week. That is excellent for me at this time!
@ Salwa – YYeeeeaaaaahhhhhh Baaaaabyyyy!!! Thanks for signing up and I hope you enjoy the ebook!
11:40 am on December 22nd, 2008
Great man! I’m glad to see this come together like it did, you are the man. I learned a lot form you in the way of how to actually organize something like this man.
Keep running Taylor…I may trying something similar man, with a Joe twist…I have an idea for something that I’ll be running by you.
I see you man….keep it up.
1:38 am on December 24th, 2008
@ Normal Joe – Looking forward to a Joe twist on this, man. I am sure it will be classic. But it came out great for me, gave me exactly what I wanted and now I am ready to keep running. Big plans coming up for 2009. Let’s get it!
2:57 am on January 7th, 2009
Glad to hear the ebook went well. And that was a nice round up of bloggers you assembled.
Did you write it in Google Docs? or what did you use.
Thanxs for sharing the tips you used to create yours, i shall bookmark this for future ref. I have one written on paper for about (well too long now to mention) that i need to get on my laptop and FINISH. But it really is alot of work and is taking me forever. I’m not even going to say when it will be done, because i don’t want to jinx myself again. I’ll just say it is a work in progress and we will leave it at that. lol.
Let me know what software you used to write your ebook in?
Missy.
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10:09 am on January 7th, 2009
@ Missy – Thanks for the kind words and yes, the bloggers made it all happen. They were/are great!
As for the software to write the ebook in there was a combination. Some of the bloggers used Google Docs/some MS word to submit their portions. Once I received all the material, I transfered them to MS Word to compile the ebook. From there, I imported graphics and used PDF Master to render the PDF of the book.
And GET THAT EBOOK DONE!!!
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7:45 am on May 18th, 2009
Very interesting posts and well written. Thx for sharing it, keep up the good work..