How to Create a Best Selling Title for Your EBook

Outline the Benefits of Your eBook

Readers want to know "What's in it for me?" If your reader doesn't see any benefit to read on, then they won't continue. Therefore your headline should put forth your strongest benefit. Such as "Make Money Online" or "Get Healthy in 3 months."

Be Believable

Treat people with respect in that they are not stupid! If it sounds "too good to be true" then it will likely be ignored.

Tell the Reader What the eBook is About

Provide an overview in a few words regarding "What your eBook" is about.

Curiosity Factor

Provide words of interest such as secret to, profit, how to, etc.

First Three Words

The first three words should contain your main keywords (e.g. eBook Marketing Online.) This is not only beneficial for the search engines to target in on, but also to provide the reader with the topic of your content.

Create a Match Between the Message and Your Targeted Readers.

These days, people are "time poor." As a result, it has been shown that it only takes a few seconds for a reader to scan most headlines and decide whether to stop and read or to move on.

 

Be Specific, as People Are Attracted to "Specificity."

For example; people who are searching "how to make money on the internet" will be attracted to a headline such as "How I Earn $1,000 While I Sleep."

Keep it Short and to the Point!

A short and well written headline will attract attention. Where as a long-winded headline will likely lose the reader, not to mention being cut off due to word limits by some media outlets and search engines.

Don't Confuse or Distract the Reader.

Keep your title and message simple. If your title is too confusing or "creative" then they won't be able to relate to it.

Avoid "Dead words" that search engines hate.

Tips for creating a title for a Fiction eBook:
Generate interest, excitement, passion, capture their attention and touch on the emotion that you desire with the reader.

• Evoke emotion such as excitement or curiosity that will lead to action.
• For a love story, write a title that pulls on the heart strings, so to speak.
• For a thriller, create excitement and intrigue with the headline.
• General eBook Title Tips:
• Choosing the "Right Title Length" for Your eBook Title is Essential for Success!
• Short Titles
• Need a powerful subtitle to explain what the eBook is about. Generally when I say short I mean between 1-3 words max.
• Long Titles
• This is where everything about your eBook content is used in the title.
• Shock Titles

This is where those tabloid magazines, newspapers, online news sites and trashy TV shows excel. I know I have been tempted by curiosity and clicked on these links or picked up that magazine to see what they are talking about.

Example: "How My Husband Got Pregnant" - now that raises curiosity and has shock value!
The Use of Common Sayings in a Title With a Twist

This is where you use a well know quote or saying and then add your own little twist on it by changing a word to depict what your eBook is about.

 

Example: "Show Me the Money" from the Tom Cruise movie becomes "Show Me the Honey" (from a book that writes about bee hives and bee keeping)

As you can see, there are many ways to create a great title for your eBook. If you fail to create an attention grabbing title for your eBook then you will also be likely to also fail in getting people to buy your eBook.

If you could think of the most rewarding and amazing success story for your eBook what would it be? Would it be selling 20,000 copies? Would it be seeing your eBook on a bestseller list? How about a new career as a professional writer? Maybe it will be just hearing the personal stories from one your readers about how your eBook has enriched or changed their life? Whatever it may be, our eBook Author Academy will provide you with all the tools, tips and resources to help you achieve your dream! Visit http://www.eBookAuthorAcademy.com which has been helping writers become successfully published authors since 2004.

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Online Journaling Sites: Places to Write Your Life Story

The explosion in popularity of Internet social networking sites such as Facebook have also led to an increased interest in online journaling sites. Although Facebook and Twitter allow you to share pictures or ultra-brief observations of life events, neither is especially suited for providing any chronological detail or color to a true-life story. Online journaling sites, by contrast, let you log in as many details as you would like, and to turn the stories of your life into a grand event. Pictures may say a thousand words, but journals are a much better application in being mindful when the cameras are not flashing. Here are some ideas for where and how to get started.

1. Decide what your objective is in writing a journal. Why do you want to record events that have happened to you? Is this for you to remember long after your Costa Rica hiking trip is over, so you can have some perspective on your journey? Or do you want to share more details about what you did than you might be able to through pictures and videos only for those close to you? Or perhaps you are using writing as a form of therapy. Whatever the reason, you will find journaling rewarding and therapeutic in many ways!


2. Write what happened. Ideally, you want to write this when the memory of what you did is fresh as you will forget details later and your enthusiasm for writing may drop down with time. You can save this at an online journaling site or in a word document on your computer. You can even write on old-fashioned paper with a pen every night if it is hard to get to a computer or an internet connection where you are and upload it later.


3. Find an online journaling site so you can share your story. Tumblr, LiveJournal and Living Alpha are just a few of the sites online. Your writing may be about an adventurous trip that you have taken or one you are currently engaged in somewhere, in the world. The places you visit or the people you meet along the way will normally be interesting because you are out of your comfort zone. This is true regardless of what your comfort zone is. All you have to do is check the internet for (online journaling sites) to find them.


4. Decide what advice you would give to others who want to do whatever it is that you did. Would you recommend the travel company or the hotel that you stayed at to others, or tell them to stay away? Was the food healthy and safe to eat or did it make you ill?


5. Go through the steps in your journal. Even if you are an expert kayaker, do not assume that everyone who might read this knows how to kayak. Pretend that a person from a foreign country is reading this. Would they know how to do what you did based on your description? People like details so talk about, how you got started.

Online Journaling Sites make it easy to share precious memories from momentous events in your life. Even if you wish to keep your journal private, you can feel happy in knowing that what you wrote is preserved for future reference and is very therapeutic for many writers. As years go by, you may look at what you did with a new perspective, or be happy that you shared your knowledge with others. Whatever your motivation is, it will probably feel as satisfying to write about it as it was to make the journey to begin with.

 

Taylor Hill, author. Living Alpha is one of those unique online journaling sites that offers free membership and more. It is easy to create your account and get started making your journal entries, sharing photos, video and bits of information with the world, family or friends. Visit LivingAlpha.com and get started today.

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My Question to You: Why Write an eBook?

If you're trying to decide between writing an ebook or a print book (p-book), you don't have to write either or. You can do both! However, for those of us with time challenges, it's easier and quicker to get your first ebook done than your first print book and less costly.

Here's why: Most reluctant writers can find the time to write a short ebook and get it uploaded to Amazon more quickly than they can get a print book done. You see, an ebook can be fairly short-anywhere from 25 to 50 pages, easily uploaded to Amazon or other ebookstores, and you can start having your ebook earn some income pretty quickly!

If you can commit to finishing an ebook in 6 weeks, 6 days, or 6 hours, you'd be amazed what you can do with when you're committed and you've eliminated your distractions-both inner and outer. A strong commitment and discipline are all that's required. Then sit and write. Remember you can keep ebooks shorter than p-books, but you can expand on your ebook later on, after you've gotten some feedback and reviews. Then you can turn it into a print book. A 30-page ebook could become a 90-page p-book! Just make all your changes while it's still an ebook!

With Amazon you don't need an ISBN number for ebooks, so you can take it down, make the changes, and put it right back up! Not so with a p-book. Most publishers charge you every time you make changes and need to re-print.

Even though ebooks generally cost less than p-books, they're profitable because your costs are less since you don't have to deal with printing and distribution. You'll primarily have to pay for editing, a cover, and formatting/conversion. Since ebooks cost less than print books-anywhere from.99 to $9.99, authors are still making a nice profit and they can sell more of them! People think nothing of spending $2.99 on an ebook, while they may not spend $19.99 as quickly on a p-book!

Also ebooks tend to be targeted to niche markets, and a lot of new authors plan to write a series of short ebooks to several niche markets. Like dog training for poodles, dog training for collies, etc. Or you could do buying your home for newlyweds, empty nesters, or retirees. It's the chicken soup phenomenon.

Have I convinced you to write your ebook?

 

Copyright © 2013 Andrea Susan Glass. Andrea Susan Glass, owner of The Ebook Academy and WritersWay, specializes in personal and professional development ghostwriting and copyediting, as well as book coaching and education. She helps small business owners and entrepreneurs produce and promote books, e-books, and other information products to brand their expertise, impact others with wisdom, and build passive income. To sign up for a valuable monthly ezine and to get the free report "Ebook Tips From The Ebook Academy" visit http://www.TheEbookAcademy.com.

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Why Writers Write A Blog

Blogging and Writing -- Writing and Blogging

• You want to reach the reading public. One person finding your blog is like being struck by lightening. Really! Think about it.  Of all the other blogs in the universe, a potential reader or writer clicked on your blog to learn something.
• Once you have them, how do you keep them? That is for another blog, but put this in your notebook: Why did you click on this blog? What were you looking for? Can you do this better?
• You want to make writer friends. This may sound strange, but to create a blog you need to read a blog.  And not just one blog, many, many blogs. You will meet some impressive authors with useful tools that you can use.  
• Blog is your notebook. This is why I blog.  I wish I could remember all the things I don't remember! As a historical writer living in the South Pacific most of my research is done online. Sure, you can bookmark until you are blue in the face, but will you remember your bookmarks?  I sure don't. So I use my blog as a notebook.  I allows me to remember historical facts and where I found them including links and gives my readers useful information for their research. 
• Business Card lists Writing Blogger. Writing a blog looks good on a business card but even better on a resume!  Ooo La La!  It gives potential publishers, employers, friends of publishers, friends of friends of someone important in publishing, a change to get to know about you, your writing, and how you work. You can think of this as your writing resume of sorts.
• Easier and cheaper than a website. I think this speaks for itself.

Would you like to read more?  Here is a list of blogs that answer the question:

Why Should Writers Blog?

• Why Should Writers Blog? : Sussan Johnson
• Does a Writer Need a Blog? : Nephele Tempest
• 5 Reasons Writers Should Blog:  Suzannah Windsor Freeman
• Why a Writer Needs a Blog:  WriterAccess Featured Writer
• Why Every Writer Needs A Blog:  Write Right: AppleSassy
• 13 Reasons Why Writers Should Blog:  Marcie Hill

Book Author: No Experience Necessary

How to start:

• Pick up a pen (or pencil)
• Grad a blank piece of paper
• Write about your lunch.

You are now a book author.
:-)

Not an English major? 

Neither was John Grisham, Kurt Vonnegut, Danielle Steele, JK Rowling, or Michael Crichton.
What did all of these authors have in common?  They wrote about topics they knew with an extra touch of spice to make it interesting.

This is the first idea to begin your writing.  It doesn't need to be War and Peace, it can be 10 sentences. But write what you know.

Write about your lunch.

Write a couple sentences about your lunch.
Write about that same lunch somewhere exotic, like a small island in the South Pacific.
Write about that same lunch on an island served with coconut water in a coconut shell.

Keep adding to the same idea, and after a couple thousand words, voilà, you have a book.

You are a book author with no experience!

 

What's the trick?

The trick is to keep writing.  It can be daunting sometimes, husband, kids, animals, work, school, and just living your life. 

 

Most Importantly

Believing in yourself!

The rest  you can Google.

:-)
Kateri