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Writing Your Own Free Ebook - Why You Should Do It

Writing your own free ebook can be an exciting proposition, it can open up avenues of exposure online, get your name out there, and serve as a lead in to a series of for-pay ebooks you later write.

One of the things that is really nice about writing your own free ebook is that it can be considerably shorter than most for-pay ebooks, saving you time, and yet give you the experience of writing an ebook – so that writing your first for-pay ebook will be easier to do.

First you need to determine the topic of your ebook. To what market are you going to give this ebook? I like to give away free ebooks so that people can see the quality of my writing.

Once you have decided this, write a list of 10 ideas that you would like to cover in this ebook—topics that give people a good general feel for your area of expertise, and that will give you an opportunity to share with them some information that they probably haven’t seen before. You really want to make sure you are giving away real information – free is no big deal if they can surf and get it for free, pretty easily, online.

One thing to remember here is that people will evaluate the worth of your paid products based on the value you give them in the free ebook. So the free ebook should have just as much useful information per page as your full-fledged product that you are selling. The difference here is that your reader is only going to get 10 or so pages with the free ebook, rather than 50 or 100 in your paid product. So your free ebook can serve as a niche lead in to your paid product – or your free ebook can even be a selection from your paid product, and then have a link at the end of the free ebook for people who want to buy your full product.

You may be thinking, well I don’t want to give away my information for free. But think about this – you are not giving it away for free. Each person that downloads your free ebook is subscribing to your list. What is each subscriber worth to you? One dollar? Ten dollars? And what is the exponential impact of having a free product that others can give away and willingly send you traffic too?

A free ebook is an incredibly easy way to gain someone’s trust. Many times a person will download your free ebook and eventually buy from you, but that same person never would have risked money on you, without first seeing a sample of your writing.