Hello everyone and welcome to the week 12 post of the John Thornhill Masterclass program. This week I started product creation. In Creating an ebook as I mentioned in week 11, start by writing down what your chapters are going to be in your note book. They can always be changed as you go along.
After you have got your graphics and your domain name, simply start writing the ebook, one chapter at a time. This is what I am currently doing. It’s going to take some time, but I feel confident that I will get through it.
My ebook title is Learn the ebook business. My domain name is learnebookbusiness.com (not on the web yet so watch out for it in the future, you’ll know if you get on my mailing list)
I am passionate about this business, it is different than a traditional business in the real world, it doesn’t cost as much either and the sky is the limit when it comes to earning potential. I’m just not going to market local; because of the Internet I am going to market to the world. This business makes a whole lot of sense and it would be a waste if I didn’t let everyone know about it.
I want to share my knowledge with the world. Getting to know about this business gave me a vision. I want to share this vision with everyone. I want people to know there truly exists a real solid opportunity to earn money compared to all the mumbo jumbo out there today.
Unlike what’s out there, I want to help myself through the John Thorhill Masterclass Program as I’m truly helping others. Helping others, makes my day. I truly think a lot of other marketers aren’t like this. I want to cut through all that.
I believe there’s a lot of people out there looking for something that makes sense; something were they can see light at the end of the tunnel and say to themselves, it can be done and get to work. Implementing the vision correctly was difficult. I had a lot of information and drive, no direction.
Finally, thanks to the John Thornhill Masterclass Program I can finally move along with this from the heart and achieve my goals. I don’t want people to go through what I went through. I want people to see this vision about this business and have direction.
I want to make it simple and easy for everyone to understand this business without getting overloaded as I did. Do not misunderstand as in any other good business work is involved, come and take this ride with me.
In week 12 we students learned:
- How to download Office software
How to download Office Software: John Thornhill explains that you are going to need software to write an ebook. If you have Microsoft word, that is fine.
What I do is write my ebook in Microsoft word and then when I’m done, transfer everything I’ve done to Open Office so I can convert my writings into a pdf file.
Let me explain- (I may be jumping the gun here in the John Thornhill Masterclass Program) Microsoft Word is good to use. In my case, what I do is write in Microsoft Word and then use Open Office to transfer my writings into a pdf file. Microsoft Office does not have a convert to pdf button, Open Ofiice does.
I don’t use Open Office for writing because to me Microsoft Word is better when writing. I like the spell check and using the software, I only wish it had a convert to pdf button like Open Office so I only use Open Office for converting to pdf.
All you need from Open Office when downloading is Open Office writer. It’s free to download. Open Office writer is like Microsoft Word except Microsoft Word does not have a convert to pdf file.
John Thornhill suggests to use the free beta version of Microsoft Office if you don’t have writing software or you can use Open Office but his teachings are going to be using Microsoft Word.
Arrange product folders: John Thornhill explains to create a folder in your Masterclass folder called what ever your product is, in my case it’s learnebookbusiness. Inside this folder you are to have three folders. Sales page folder, images folder and product folder.
1. Sales page folder: In this folder we are to have our sales page with graphics. In other words your index page (your home page which is your sales page) along with your sales page images folder.
2. Images folder: In this folder we are to have any spare images that are not on your sales page like any related ebook cover images of different shapes and sizes.
3. Product folder: In this folder we are to have our word document (our product). John Thornhill suggests to keep drafts of the product. In other words when you first start your ebook and finish for the day, that will be draft one, then when you come back make draft 2, when you come back to it make draft 3 and so on.
This is done so you can have multiple copies of your ebook. If you only have one copy and any thing happens like the file getting corrupt for what ever reason, you are not going to like it, all your time writing will be wasted and you’ll want to kill yourself.
If you have multiple copies different story, right? Also if you want to go back and change something in the last draft, it will just be easier to do so.
Start writing ebook: The fist thing to do before writing your ebook is to insert the ebook cover graphic of your choice. Look in your images folders. Then introduce yourself by writing produced and written by ZZXX and write copyrighted- ZZXX. All rights reserved.
I personally don’t like to use a year because I don’t want to go back and change the year, every year and this way the copyright will seem timeless. It’s just my way of doing things. Then write your disclaimer, John explains this to us and give us permission to use one of his.
Then create the table of contents from your notebook. As you may recall in week 11 John had us write down our chapters that can be changed if needed as we go along.
John Thornhill says there is a good chance your chapters may change or more will be added as you go along because of idea’s you may get as you write so you could wind up with more chapters than what you started with.
Then it’s just a case of taking one chapter at a time. Start with the first chapter and only work on the first chapter till finished. Then go to the second and so on.
How long should the ebook be? John Thorhill says as long as it takes to get your message across. That’s true, but I’d say about 10 or more pages. Any less it’s not an ebook, it’s a report. After our ebook is finished John Thornhill explained to us that our ebook isn’t finished yet, he stated he will be showing us more techniques.
John Thornhill also reminded us to keep visiting other peoples blogs, leaving comments and using the Masterclass forum for eye-openers to move forward.
Simple writing tips: Here John Thornhill lead us around the Microsoft word software for people who might now be familiar. He showed by video where simple basic buttons are.
- Font color, background color
- left, center, right align
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