This is a guest post by Dr. Mani.

So you want to write an ebook – and are eager to get going. But wait! There are a few simple things you need to do first to make sure your project goes smoothly and fast.

1. Research what’s available

Before you set out to create your content, survey the marketplace. See what others in your niche are doing. Study their process. Look at their quality and depth of their content offering.

Then, decide how you are going to DIFFERENTIATE yourself, set yourself apart from the crowd and become someone special in that niche.

2. Brainstorm

In free-style, jot down notes about what you are going to offer prospects in your niche. Just list things without worrying about details. Rely on your expertise and knowledge. Think about what kind of value you can add to your audience.

3. Arrange your content

After you have listed all the pieces of content you plan creating or offering to your prospects, the next step is to arrange them into some kind of structure.

  • What will you give/create first?
  • What will follow it with?
  • What more will you give people who have already got this?
  • What is your next step, and how will it benefit your audience?

4. Decide how much to give

  • You may know enough about a subject to fill 10 volumes. But are you going to share all of it?
  • Or will you give some, and withhold the rest?
  • Or will you use part of it as a ‘teaser’ sample, to entice some prospects to pay you to learn more?
  • How much will you be writing or recording on a topic?
  • Will you have articles of 500 words? Or will your ebooks be 50 to 60 pages long?
  • And will you create one new report every week, or month, or less often?

5. Plan who will create your content

If you intend outsourcing your content, identify your writers or creative people and have them tested and trained before you begin. I’ve had multiple projects stalled because the people I hired couldn’t deliver, or had to quit for some reason or another.

6. Set timelines and schedules

Having a goal and deadline for each component of your infopreneur project will guarantee it gets done, and done on time.

Decide how much content you will get done on a daily or weekly basis. Create a system to monitor and track progress. Without such a system, you will get hopelessly lost and fall behind.

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About the author:

Dr.Mani is the author of “Which Niche Will Make YOU Rich?”, a step by step guide to identify hot profitable niches easily. Read about the BIGGEST mistake in information marketing, and how to avoid making it http://InfoProfitz.com/guides/whichniche.htm
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