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8.0 Day 6: Prep Your Ebook To Sell

First of all, you need to reach your arm up over your shoulder and pat yourself on the back. You’ve just accomplished something that very few people ever do—you’ve written your own ebook. You have your own product now. Welcome to the big leagues!

Your book still needs a little polishing, but you’re nearly finished.

Before I dive into the details, let me tell you why you’re going to do this stuff... What you’re working on here is the reading experience. This is a huge issue.

Your goal is to write a book that people will buy.that’s a given. But, what you really want is for those initial buyers to become long term customers...your long term customers. If your books are pleasant to read, are laid out well and are written in a way that sounds like you’re talking with them.you wj]] make them long term customers, and have a long-term business as a result.

This is an important lesson for you to learn right now, during the preparation of your first ebook. Put some time into it, it’ll pay you dividends for years.

Okay, let’s get to the nitty-gritty.

8.1 Does It Sound Good?

Go back through the entire book and read it out loud.

That may sound really stupid to you and you may feel really stupid doing it, but it’s something you should do. Here’s why.

The average reader actually "hears” the words in their head as they read. If what you’ve written doesn’t sound right to you when you read it out loud, it probably won’t sound right to your readers either. So, don’t skip this step. Read it out loud and change things that need changing.

Make sure you check your spelling. Word or Open Office will do a pretty good job of this, but they won’t catch everything. For example, this probably won’t get flagged as an error:

Exercise regularly yourself so walking your Dachshund won’t give you a heart at tack.

When what you really meant was this:

Exercise regularly yourself so walking your Dachshund won’t give you a heart attack.

That won’t get flagged because "at” and "tack” are spelled correctly...but it’s not what you meant to say.

That’s another reason for reading it out loud.to save yourself from some embarrassing spelling errors the built-in spell checker doesn’t catch.

8.2 Is It Formatted Well?

Watch for paragraphs at the bottom of a page. Try not to split a paragraph between pages to often. Testing over the years has shown that this really bugs readers. Just slide that last paragraph down to the next page most of the time and your readers will thank you for it.

NOTE: I broke that rule myself in the book you’re reading because the book was already longer than average, and I didn’t want to scare people off by increasing the number of pages.

8.3 Do Your Links Work?

This is an important one! If your affiliate links don’t work, you won’t get paid. So it almost literally pays to check them.

Word and Open Office will make anything you tell them to into a link.even if it’s spelled wrong. Nothing is as frustrating as wanting to click on a link that your ebook has gotten me really interested in and it doesn’t work, so do your reader a favor and check them.

8.4 “Publishing” Your Ebook

I put "publishing” in quotes because the world of publishing has really changed.

You don’t need to have your book professionally published and printed anymore. This the digital age!

All you really need is a digital ebook people can download and read...but not change, except in ways you want them to (remember the rebranding feature of this book?)

That’s why you need to know a little something about Adobe’s PDF format.

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I have been planning events and completing complex projects for years, and I consider myself to be a well-organized person. I even have lists for my lists! I use the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and I never go anywhere without my Franklin Covey® planner with Palm® Pilot attachment.

It was not until I accessed my potential limitations and followed the steps outlined in this book that I really began to complete task after task with the least amount of stress, setbacks or delays. This is coming from a person who early in my career was told by a manager, “Angela, you couldn't manage yourself out of a paper bag.” After all I have done to master the art of project management, all I can say is "How do you like me NOW?"

Everyone has the potential to complete a project. To what degree of completion is solely dependent upon the person managing the project. We may have physical or mental limitations, but it is usually the preconceived notions or subconscious thoughts we have about ourselves that limits us from completing a project to its fullest potential.

Take a look at the projects you have attempted to complete in the past and identify what was lacking or incomplete. Most likely, you will begin to see a trend or pattern that has been holding you back. Those are the potential limitations we are going to work to eliminate and/or counter these during the process. Let me give you a personal example of how I made a change in my project management process and became more successful.

Earlier in my career when I was doing seminars, I became fixated on attendance. It was so important to me how many people attended that I slacked on the content. I allowed my addiction to social acceptance cloud the true purpose of the event, which was to educate and create exposure for my company. That limitation prevented me from providing more seminars. As a result, I’ll never know the impact they would have had on my business growth.

I learned to counter that fixation by planning the event with a commitment to making the seminar educational and informative. Setting aside my own fears of social acceptance, I am committed to putting on a successful seminar even if there are only two or three in attendance. And strangely enough, as I started to focus less on myself and more on the actual content of the seminars, the attendance started to increase.

We all have these potential limitations. If, in your mind you are too busy, you will then begin to act out your life in a manner of someone is too busy. If you feel that you cannot harness the resources necessary to successfully manage a project without stress and angst, then you will always be stressed out while completing your tasks. That is called a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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The face of the trading industry was altered altogether when Internet came to life. Now, buying and selling can occur through computer networks. Today, you do not have to build up a boutique or pay for an office space to do business. You can just sit in front of your computer, right at the comfort of your home, and do just about what you are supposed to do.

E-commerce is very convenient, very economical, and very promising for both the business and its client. It has made it such a wonderful opportunity for retailers of any kind of products to sell without the seller exerting too much effort. Many businesses in the retailing industry flourished through e-commerce. It is not only helpful to big-time companies but also to small-time companies as well. In fact, e-commerce has allowed small-time merchants to strengthen the way no other traditional marketing method has. It made success possible with just about the right strategy on hand.

In the same way, e-commerce has also attracted a constantly growing number of virtual clients through the years from the three aspects mentioned above. As you may have observed yourself, our world is becoming more and more hectic. People need all the comfort that they could get to be able to do everything they have set out to do. Shopping online gave them the convenience of obtaining the same quality of products that they need without having to drive around shops.

E-commerce is also a wide world that is sliced up into different sections. There is the common and very popular e-retailing, which is basically buying and selling goods through websites doubling up as virtual malls. E-retailers usually build up websites that feature their products, do some advertising and character building to gain site visitors that turn into customers. E-commerce uses many different Internet Marketing methods to really prosper. They do search engine optimization and affiliate marketing among others.

Then there is also the market research aspect of e-commerce. Online customers may pose as respondents for retailers to learn from. The data in web traffic is significant in this sense. They serve as stock information that businesses can rely on for the current trends in the industry as imposed from the consumers’ end. Entrepreneurs can also take cues from questionnaires and from the manner that their customers take orders.

Electronic promotion of products is another facet of e-commerce. Retailers may obtain data of established customers or even prospects from agencies that offer them and do manual promotion of their products. Unsolicited mails often looked at as junks are good examples of such. Retailers send out newsletters to their prospects with their permission or not and try to get the word across about the products they have on sale. As with any business venture or marketing strategy, this one can either make or break the sales. Still, it is never wrong to try.

E-commerce has a very wide scope. Before you get into this kind of industry, you must know what are your options and your chances of making it. As always, you need to find the most applicable, cost-efficient, and dependable method that will help your message reach your prospective customers.

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Before you start scuba diving, you need to make sure that you are actually healthy enough to dive. There are several medical conditions for which diving will have a negative impact. This includes long term illnesses and short term illnesses.

Short term illnesses and conditions that will temporarily keep you from diving include pregnancy, colds, and the flu, as well as some injuries. There has not been enough research done in how diving affects a fetus, but experts recommend that pregnant women avoid diving due to the water pressure and the mixture of gases that enter the system.

When you have a cold or flu, the pressure within your sinus system is already affected, and the water pressure will only add to those problems, and may complicate a simple cold or flu.

While the injury that you have may not physically prevent you from diving, it may increase your chances of experiencing decompression illness. All injuries to joints and muscles should be completely healed before you resume your diving activities.

If you are on medications of any kind, you need to ask your doctor about the safety of scuba diving while taking such medication. If you are still in training, you also need to inform your scuba instructor. This is also true for over the counter medications. If the medication you are taking causes drowsiness, do not dive. If medication affects your heart rate, again, do not dive.

Asthma is one condition that can prevent you from scuba diving. This is determined on a case by case basis by your health care provider. When you scuba dive, the air and/or gases that you are breathing are cool and dry, which makes conditions right for an asthma attack. Divers also exert a lot of physical energy which can cause breathlessness.

Diabetics who are insulin dependant were once advised against diving. However, more and more insulin dependant diabetics are now diving, but their health must be closely monitored. After checking with your doctor, a diabetic may dive if their blood glucose levels are under control and they do not have any conditions that are a direct complication of diabetes, such as eye diseases, kidney problems, or blood vessel problems. It is also very important that the diabetic has a complete understanding of how exercise can affect their diabetes.

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An inboard engine, which is also called a Power Plant, is an engine which is installed in a boat, as opposed to being attached or installed on the outer shell of the boat. An inboard engine boat has everything except the shaft and a propeller inside the boat.

An inboard engine is essentially a four-stroke engine that has been adapted for marine use. Smaller powerboats may have two-stroke engines that require a mixture of oil and fuel to run properly.

There is a transmission located on the back of the engine, and it is attached to a propeller shaft. The propeller shaft passes through the bottom of the boat, supported by struts on the bottom of the hull. The propeller is attached to the end of the shaft, and a rudder is placed aft of the propeller to control the direction of the boat.

There are two types of inboard engines: v-drive and direct drive. A v-drive inboard engine, which is also called a Vee-drive or Angle drive, is mounted in the back of the boat, and faces backwards. The shaft goes toward the front of the boat, and this creates a ‘V’ towards the rear of the boat.

The advantage of v-drive engines is that everything is placed towards the rear of the boat, leaving more room in the interior. A direct drive inboard engine is mounted near the middle of the boat. The propeller shaft goes straight out from the back of the boat.

Inboard engines are usually quite a bit heavier than outboard engines, depending on the horsepower. Inboard engines are positioned in such a way, with a low center of gravity, as to lend better balance in the boat. This type of engine is considered to be the most efficient method of transferring power from the engine to the propeller.

Even though inboard engines are heavier, they have fewer limitations than outboard engines do, simply because there is no need to have everything inside one unit.

The disadvantage of inboard engines is that they take up a lot of space inside the boat. Inboard engine boats are also not maneuvered as easily as outboard engine boats at low speeds or in reverse gear because the propeller is in a fixed position.