Want To Write A Book? Part 2

I promised you that apart from using your blog to write your book, I’d give you another unconventional way of getting book written, so here it is …

… Do a teleseminar, outlining the chapters and main points for your book, get this transcribed, edit and you have the first draft of your book.

If you feel that doing a teleseminar would be too much, ask a friend to interview you.  Record the interview, but try to remain natural and speak to your friend as though you are telling them the story.  Then you can get this transcribed and edited for the first draft of your book.

I know for sure that some people are going to feel as though this is an easy way out and ask did D H Lawrence write his classic, Lady Chatterley’s Lover in this way, and my answer to you would be "it doesn’t matter!"  What matters is that you write your book, build your credibility and make money from both the sales and the business you’ll attract as a result of people reading your book.  If you get hung up on the "how," you’ll never get started.

So, I want to encourage you to be unconventional and get your book written in the easiest way for you.  I know of one great success philosopher who had at least one of his most successful books ghostwritten.  He didn’t even write the book himself and yet he gets credited for the knowledge inside the book as well as the publicity.

Once you’ve written the book, you need to market it and blogging is a great way to do so.  But if you wanted a system to help you put this all together, watch this movie and find out how … 

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Want To Write A Book? Part 1

Tap into one of the most economical ways of writing and promoting your book?

When it comes to writing, publishing or marketing a book, I know that many authors struggle, particularly if they stick to the conventional route of handwriting or typing up the book and then physically promoting their book at booksellers such as Barnes and Noble.

Well, I’m going to tell you how you can break with convention!

I’m going to give you my two penny’s worth here and then tomorrow, I’m going to send you information about another unconventional way of getting your book out of your head and onto paper?  Is that okay with you?

Now, I know you’re first question is going to be … "Trish are you a published author?"  And that’s a fair question.  And the answer is that I will become a contributing author on the 1st June to a Christian Women’s book series Refined by Fire, which is a snippet of my life story, but the full rendition of the story is being written right now and will be out in a matter of months.

The first way of breaking with tradition if you are a published author or want to become a published author, is to dispense with the pen to paper or "manuscript" initially if this is what is holding you back.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to so many people who want to write their story, but the prospect of putting pen to paper and organizing it frightens the living daylights out of them.  Now, I am going to tell you that there are resources, good resources that will help you plan and write your book using the "manuscript" method and in fact I’m using one of them right now to help me with the outline of my book.  But, it’s not everyone’s meat.

So if that budding author inside of you is begging to emerge but not sure how to put things in order, consider using a blog just to get your ideas down.

Just tell it like it is … 

You really don’t need the literary prose in order to be a good writer, you just need to be able to "tell it like it is."  Naturally, the final manuscript will have to be edited, but the first thing you have to concern yourself with, is just start!

Create yourself a rough plan of how you would like your story to look and then take chunks and them in your blog as though you are telling a good friend.  After you have a number of entries, consider taking these, ordering and editing and you have the outline for your book.  The method is the same whether you are publishing a printed book or ebook.

This takes the stress from you thinking that you have to have the whole thing in your head before you begin.  But as I said, there are other ways and I’m going to be outlining those in the next few days.

Ciao for now,

 

Is Reciprocal Linking A Thing Of The Past?

Do the search engines give any credence to exchanging links?

Well, this depends on who you listen to.  Some search engine optimizers will tell you that you’re wasting your time with reciprocal linking strategies since backlinks are king  Others will tell you that reciprocal linking is a thing of the past and then there are those who suggest it’s about striking a balance.

So, why link to other websites in the first place?

I think this is the question that needs to be answered before determining whether a) it’s worth linking to other websites at all and b) what kind of links the search engines prefer.  And in my view, the undisputed reason for linking to other websites is to generate more traffic so you sell more of your products and services.

More links, results in more traffic, more traffic means more sales and more sales means more money in the bank right?  Right!  So the whole purpose of reciprocal linking is more than just "link popularity" so you get indexed by the search engines. But there are a few things you must be aware of when developing your link exchange strategy and you must first of all be aware that …

Not all links are created equal!

Website linking is more than just about "I’ll link to you if you link to me" because in doing so, you could potentially damage your website rankings but not necessarily in a way that SEO experts have suggested.  For example, some will suggest that each time you link to another website, you give away votes therefore devaluing your PageRank.  This has led to some Search Engine Optimization experts discouraging external linking at all.  So, this led me to ask the question,

Is reciprocal linking dead?  

 

There are definately those who will tell you that reciprocal linking is a thing of the past, but I happen to agree with Eric Ward who explains that there are a number of factors to be considered when exchanging links, but least of all is the fact that the more links you have from "relevant and related" websites, the more targeted traffic you are likely to receive which as Eric explains, could be more beneficial in the long run than simply trying to improve "link popularity."

My suggestions is that you head over to WilsonWeb.com and read Eric’s article for yourself.  And then once you’ve done that, create a plan on how you are going to increase links to your website in so you increase more traffic.  Your plan should include reciprocal link exchange strategies as well as backlinking, for example from posting articles in online directories, web PR and of course blogging. 

All the best,