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9 Steps to Creating eBooks Without Writing One!

If you want to create an ebook without having to write it, you can talk it by giving a teleseminar, recording it, and transcribing it into an ebook. To get started here are the 9 steps you'll need to consider to get started.

1. What's the topic and who is the target market? Here are two ways to get started. If you have a list, ask your list what topic they are interested in hearing more about and create a teleseminar around that topic.

If you don’t have a list, a great way to get started is to go to www.goarticles.com and see what articles people are downloading. If you can’t find any in your niche you can write articles and submit them at www.ezinearticles.com and see which ones attract the most attention. Then create your teleseminar on that topic.

2. To Charge or Not To Charge? Decide whether you want the teleseminar to be a free teleseminar as a gift to your students and customers or whether you want to charger for it. You're going to be recording it to create an ebook anyway, so you might as well get more mileage out of it by giving it live.

3. When will you give your teleseminar? You'll need to pick the date and time so you can get a bridgeline and send out the number to your registrants. Make sure that it will accommodate the number of listeners that you anticipate having on the call. You can use a service like www.freeconferencing.com. This service will accommodate up to 96 people while www.FreeConferencing.LiveOffice.com will hold up to 250 participants.

4. Will it be a monologue or a dialogue? A monologue will produce about 30 pages of content per hour while a dialogue will produce 40 pages per hour. A good size for an ebook is 80 or 90 pages which would about 3 hours of teleseminar content from a monologue or 2 hours from a dialogue.

5. How are you going to market your teleseminar? Is it enough to send emails to your list through an autoresponder? Or do you need to create a sales page? Do you want to send out a press release? Announce it in Seminar Announcer? There are many ways to promote your teleseminar. Figure out what your budget is and what strategies will be most effective for you.

6. Are you confident enough to wing it or do you want an outline to follow?" If you create an outline of topics you want to discuss, you’ll have a map to follow. It will also help you organize your talk. This can be as simple as a grocery list or as detailed as a complete script. And you don’t have to write it out-you can talk it using a program like Dragon Speak Naturally and it will transcribe it for you. On the other hand, if you like spontaneity, go for it!

7. How are you going to record your teleseminar? You don't want to spend an arm and a leg so do your homework and find the right recording option for you. And be sure to have a back-up recording. There is nothing more disappointing than spending all that time and energy and finding out that the recording didn’t take.

8. Who is going to transcribe your teleseminar for you? You’ll need a transcript so you can create your ebook from it. This is not a job you want to do yourself. It's very time consuming and for most people it's a real chore. So find a professional.

9. Will it be a bona-fide ebook or a transcript and audio, or both? Once it’s recorded you can decide if you want to release it “as is” which is really a transcript of an audio or do you want to turn it into a bona-fide ebook? You can start with the audio and transcript now and then create your ebook later Or you can turn it into an ebook right now. It really depends on your strategy.

If you want to release it "as is", have a nice cover created, come up with a catchy title and create a pdf or have someone do it for you. If you want to release it as an ebook, you’ll want to take the content and “massage” it to read like an ebook or have someone do it for you.