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Open the software and now create a "new" document.

When you open the new document, go to the top menu and select "Object" (see above) and in the drop down menu select "Fill & Stroke" and that will open up the large editing window on the right of the above image.

Then select the "Square" on the far left of the above screen and draw your base colour (selecting from colours in the bottom of the screen (see below). To draw the shape click on the screen and hold down the left of the mouse and drag it to where you want it to go - Let go.

Then select a "circle" from the far left and choose a colour from the bottom of the screen. Drag and hold the shape like you did for the square. You can resize any shape you draw by using the "pointer" in the top left column.

To navigate the edges around and mould your shape, simply click on the top menu “Path” and then in the drop down window select “Object to Path”. Then select the far left “path button” under the “pointer”. Now you can click on the edge of the shape you want to manipulate and drag it wherever you like.

Once your owl’s body is in a nice shape, then draw a square. Then use the “path” method again to manipulate it to look like an ear.

Once you have finished your ear, you can use the “pointer” key to click on the image, and move it around, or change the colour as you like. Then when you are happy with it, click on the ear, and enter (control “d” for PCs or “Command “d” for MACS), this copies it. Then hold down your shift key and drag it to the other ear position.

When you are happy with the ears, you need to select a circle to create the eyes. Copy like you did with the ears then too.

Draw another white eye over the coloured eye and copy again. Notice I changed the background colour here too.

Then select the circle button again and draw in a black iris. Copy for the other eye. By adjusting the thickness of the line around the circle it will adjust the colour and thickness accordingly. Right click on the buttons below on the bottom left of the screen.

See above after a couple of tiny white circles are put in the eye. To copy both white eyes over to the other eye simply click on one white circle and hold down the shift key, then click on the other white circle. They will both be selected now, and you can now copy them by hitting the “copy” function in point 8 above, then drag the copied circles over to the other eye.

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7. Amazon

Amazon is a huge marketplace for online product creators due to their digital bookstore known as the "Amazon Kindle Store".

The Kindle Store is the largest online bookstore at the moment, and many people believe it accounts for 80% of online ebook sales. It is hard to verify these figures as it is against Amazon's policy to publish actual sales figures and turnover.

Amazon also have the audio bookstore (known as Audible.com) where you can sell your audio books for a reasonable profit as well as your Kindle book. In fact, if you have both an audio and kindle book with the same title they will combine the two into one sales page for purchasers to see as available in audio or Kindle format.

There are many advantages and disadvantages to selling your digital products on Amazon. Some advantages are the amount of traffic Amazon now receive whereby people will see your digital products for sale when they type in your keywords to the search box. But Amazon also ranks very well for Google SERP, and you can promote an Amazon book (even your own) as an affiliate of Amazon.

The Amazon affiliate program pays relatively poor and has high minimums to achieve before you are paid. Also, the cookies placed on a buyers computer when they use your affiliate link to buy only lasts 24hours, after that, the cookies won't credit your account with the sale.

If you can get a digital product onto Amazon, consider it as part of a major sales funnel as a Lead Gen product, rather than the product that you are hoping will fund your retirement plan, because it probably won't.

8. Apple Stores

You can sell content on iTunes, the App Store, the iBookstore and the Mac App Store. To sell on iTunes you have to have a registered Apple ID, with a credit card for verification purposes.

Magazines

Magazines are uploaded with APPS, and customers can subscribe to the magazine (as people can pre-pay for their subscription or it can be free (with ads inside for APP creator to profit). Magazines are sold by Apple from their "Newstand".

Books

You can sell your eBooks on the iBookstore via "iTunes Connect". There is a "paid" book account, and a "free" book account, and the free one is quick and easy to join, whereas the "paid" one is more complicated requiring tax and bank details.

Free books do not require "ISBN"s, and ISBN's are optional with the paid books.

The iBookstore only accepts "ePub" files and "multi-touch" books. "ePub" files are easily created with the free online program Callibre, whereby you can upload any format book and it will convert it to ePub for free. To create a multi-touch book you will need to create your book with the Apple iBooks Author Program.

Podcasts

You cannot sell a podcast on iTunes, however, it is free to upload your podcast to the iTunes directory.

Apps

To sell APPS on Apple you have to first apply to join the iOS Developer Program or Mac Developer Program. All APPS must be accepted by Apple, whereas APPS are all welcome on the Android database.

9. Udemy

Udemy is a growing marketplace for online video course creators. Most courses consist of many small videos put together as one big course. Udemy is well known for its ease of creating and uploading video course content.

You can upload video, documents and graphics as required in order to teach your course and they are all hosted by Udemy.

Customers come into Udemy and search keywords of a course they want to learn. They then select a course from the course options, they pay the course fee, and then they can stream the course (or download the videos) any time from then on from their Udemy account. Their settings are saved in their Udemy profile account so they can come and go as much as they please. There is also a space for "chatting" to the teacher who can answer questions posted by students, which all other students can read too.

The benefit of Udemy over other video marketplaces like Mindbites is that it doesn't cost anything to list your online video course, it is free to upload and host one of your video courses. However, if someone buys your course, then Udemy will keep 20-30% of the sale price. If you drive that traffic to your course, you earn more money. Affiliates can also sell Udemy courses for a commission.

Udemy do require that your course be at least 60% video content and at least an hour of video.

10. MindBites

Mindbites is a marketplace where you can upload your video online courses and people can buy and watch on the Mindbites website (where your digital course is hosted), and you can even embed the video players right into your own website or blog.

The main difference with Mindbites from Udemy is that you have to pay to have your course online for people to buy and view (whereas Udemy is free to upload and host your courses). Mindbites has different size accounts depending on the size of your videos, the smaller your online course data, the cheaper it is to host them on Mindbites.

The "free" account with Mindbites will hold up to 250MB of data and any sales made on your account pays Mindbites 35% in commission when a sale is made. But there are larger accounts with more features, and less commission is payable to Mindbites for a higher paid plan.

The video player has a "promo" video size that people can watch which is intended to make the viewer want to purchase the full video at your pre-determined price.

Like Udemy Mindbites has an affiliate program to encourage other people to sell your video course for you.

You can also upload other documents with your video course for the buyer to receive when they buy your video. You can also put your collection of videos into a "series" to sell as a set. So a customer could just buy one video to do one task, or a collection of videos to learn a whole new skillset.

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You should be aware of the fact that the eBook formats available today exceed more than twenty forms. While many of these can be read through multiple devices, there’s no fixed format available for all the devices to read. Plus, there’s also a considerable variation in present in page sizes, image sizes, screen sizes and image formats along with many other elements.

In order to make your eBook readable for multiple devices, you will most likely have to publish it within multiple formats. And for doing so, you must plan out your target audience ie. what type of e-readers will be interested in reading your work. This should be done before any type of formatting takes place. Depending upon which device you want your eBook to appear on, you’ll need to do some research on the device before you can start designing anything. The formats that you will use should be in accordance to the specifications of that particular device.

Among the most well-liked file eBook formats that can be read by a majority of devices are Adobe PDF, HTML, and ePub including the plain text format. Many e-readers prefer looking at pictures along with doing some reading so you can use images to enhance your eBook as well. However, devices like Kindle from Amazon are only built in with screens that are monochrome. And so, if you believe that your content is strong enough to attract e-readers towards your eBook, just make sure that the images you put in are clear and also look good in the black and white format.

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There are several methods to publishing an eBook that mainly include the usage of Kindle, PDF, Word and iBook formats. In this book, you'll be learning how to create a picture eBook from scratch ready to save as a PDF document at the end.

Whether you chose to sell your eBook on Amazon Kindle, Apple's iBookstore or Barnes & Noble's Nook, if you can create and save your eBook as a Word document (.doc) you will be able to easily format your eBook to suit any of those stores when you are ready to publish your eBook.

When you create a picture eBooks to sell on Kindle, iBooks or Barnes & Noble, you need to first make sure that your eBook is enhanced with entertaining and informative images. Flowever, inserting images into eBooks is not always straight forward and can seriously affect the final formatting of the eBook once published online. You should always check with each individual publisher as to the up to date formatting recommendations and guidelines for individual companies.

Some publishers may also charge more for your eBook to be published with them as a result of the volume of images within your eBook. Flence you need to give serious thought and consideration to how many images you intend to include in your eBook, how important they are and the formatting of those images.

Creating a Cover Page

A cover page defines your eBook even before it has been read. It may seem weird but people really do judge a book by its cover these days, especially if it is sold online. If the cover page isn't attractive or inviting, then it's more likely that people will ignore your book rather than purchasing or reading it. Therefore, a cover page is of great importance when it comes to creating an illustrative eBook especially when it is sold online.

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Negative feedback needs to be avoided if possible because it can affect your status as "Power Seller" and sellers with a good feedback history rank better in eBay "recommended" search engine results.

If you do receive negative feedback, don't assume it is your competitors. It most like is a genuine customer who feels so disappointed (in their opinion anyway...) that you let them down in some way. If you make the effort to contact them, and offer support for their bad experience you would be surprised how many people will go and remove the negative feedback. Some buyers simply don't understand the devastating effect negative feedback can have on your eBay selling ratings, and once you show yourself to be genuine and honest, I have always found them to then cancel the negative feedback.

I have received negative feedback for the silliest things sometimes, things that I would never leave negative feedback for myself, but for some reason people use the feedback system to convey their tiniest grievances. So work with them to fix their problem if you can.

Sales Funnels for eBay sales

Although it is tempting to sell your precious books on eBay for $19.95, they probably won't sell at that price, unless you are a well known identity that can promote to the masses to come any buy their books online!

Sales Funnels can change all that for you. If you are able to be an affiliate for a more pricey product from your blog or website, simply have cheap CD books on eBay referring to your more expensive perhaps even with a special offer to opt-into your email sign up box, because once you have their email address you can email to them again. This can be for future offers.

The sales funnel would place eBooks sold on eBay right at the wide end of the funnel because it is so cheap to buy, but it can easily escalate that customer into a client when they buy another digital product from you, direct from your website or blog.

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Once again it is important to drive home the "don't be repetitive" rule, and keep your ad titles and description unique. Being the one profile does not matter here if you are going to only do one ad, but do it from heaps of locations.

What is "key" here, is that you make sure your ads in the different locations are fresh "non-repetative" titles and descriptions. In fact, even making your titles "similar" will probably alert the Craigslist spam filter. Example of "too close" title wording;

Sue's Cookbook for Gluten Free Breakfasts Gluten-Free Breakfasts Cookbook Gluten-Free Cooking for Breakfast

A better "fresh" title wording suggestion;

Sue's Cookbook for Gluten Free Breakfasts How to cook healthy GF breakfasts!

My book on Gluten Free cooking before lunch

Make your titles as "personal" and unprofessional as you like, as if you are just a person (with no SEO training) posting it. It's how you convert on the "inside" of your ad description that really matters providing you have good keywords in your title, you will get most relevant traffic.