If you stumble upon my previous story about running a coffee shop business than today I wanna share toyou about how to make an ebook and share your knowledge to the world. By the way I’m truly grateful that I able to live as an online based wedding photographer since 2019, I start this business based on hobby that I concern with since I studying in architecture on 2004. Nowadays I shoot various destination wedding in such beautiful destination like Bali and Maldives, working together with my wife and running my airbnb business in my hometown.
If you asking me my expertise than photography and hospitality are two things that I really concern about, I know that’s not ain’t simple to live as a self employee but I could say that this gonna be the best job ever that I found in my life.
I wrote my first ebook on 2013 and it was telling everyone here in Indonesia about starting photography business. First time I wrote it, I never think about earning money online cause what I want is just sharing my photography knowledge to every photographer madness around me. I continually wrote more and more ebook related to photography, traveling (cause I travel around the world for wedding shooting), and off course my airbnb property business till now I published over than 20 ebooks on Google Play Store and my website. Surprisingly this tiny and simple idea of sharing knowledge bring me earn a little penny for every single month and I was remember that I earn $30 during early month selling an ebook.
I was jumping on my floor when see my first income by selling an ebook and being surprise that finally there are some passive income ideas that really give me money for living. I know that not so many people knowing how to make an ebook even they really want to share their knowledge to the world or simply earn money for living, so today let me share some steps that I personally do to make and published my own ebooks.
How to Determine an Idea Before Writing an Ebook
The worse thing to do before writing your ebook is being so complex on your mind cause everything you all need is simply write only for something that you really know about. As I said before that I’m a wedding photographer so the my first ebook is gonna talking about photography, YES for sure cause this is the only thing that I really know about. If you want to know how to determine an idea for your first ebook that I could suggest you with these several steps:
1 – Think Simple
To many mind of being so complex will not help you to write an ebook, so now go asking your self about something that you really really know for sure. If you are a teacher for kindergarten school than try to share about how to teach kids below 7 years old than share EVERYTHING that you personally do in your class.
Let say you teach your students to draw a plane than write it on your ebook about the steps to teach drawing since pencil preparation till how to scratch the pencil on the paper. The point is think as simple as you can to write your first, second, or 100th ebooks.
2 – Use Microsoft Words Rather Than Any Ebooks Maker
I know that there are several platform where you can write your first ebook but using any modern or amazing platform will just make you stumble upon on design and how good your ebook is, trust me this wouldn’t help you to make your first ebook cause you will stop very soon and get stuck for your main idea.
I use MS word on my computer and starting write every single words till it become a paragraphs and yes it freaking difficult at the first time but when you already wrote several pages than it become as simple as making an omelet.
3 – Save it On PDF Format
PDF is still the most reliable saving mode for an ebook cause you could avoid any hijacking from your idea and even it looks so easy to read for your buyer. So once you are finish with your ebook than you can save it as PDF format and DONE!
4 – Set Your Price
Actually there is no specific parameter about how to pricing your ebooks, all you need to think is even you are selling your ebook in super cheap price, lets talk about $0.99/download but if you earn multiple times, like hundred times a month than it become worth it.
I personally selling my ebooks from $0.99 to $15 per download and ut was good cause I could get paid every months if selling it on Google Books Store and get paid everyday if they purchase from my website, that was good!
5 – Sell Your Ebook In Several Platform
I personally selling my ebooks on Google Book Store and Payhip.com which is all of them are connected to my website. If you selling your ebook on Google Books that your royalty will be around 52% so if you selling $10 ebook than you will earn money for $5.2/download, the rest of 48% is going to Google. If you selling your ebook on digital platform like payhip.com or sellfy.com than they will asking your for commission like 5% per selling and deliver the rest to your paypal.
My suggestion is go to sell your ebooks on less than 3 (three) platforms but being so concern on promoting it as great as you can
6 – Promoting Your Ebooks with a Blog
I promoting my ebook by majority with my blog here in Bimaadhitya.com, the same blog that you read right now. So if I want to promote my photography ebook than I will write down a lot of articles that related to photography and in some paragraphs I will telling all the readers to learn more in deeper by reading my ebooks. Another is you also can set a mini banner which you can made by photoshop, crello.com or any platform that you have just to make a promotional banner.
If don’t know how to start your own blog than you could read my article about 5 blogging tips for beginner.
So I hope I shared a good experience of how to make an ebook today and hoping it helps you to write your first ebook and also help you to earn money as a bonus of your hard work and determination. If you want to ask something about this topic than you could write me a comment below.
Goodluck and God bless you fellas!