While you are creating e-books, it’s important to write a quality e-book. Thin, skimpy e-books aren’t effective – you want something meaty to offer your readers. A truly great e-book is filled with information, with enough bulk to keep your audience satisfied.

Skinny e-books that have little information are often returned, eating away at your profits. On the other hand, an e-book with strong content increases reader satisfaction, which means more profits and fewer refunds. You want to offer a strong, beefy e-book, one that is loaded with value for your clients. So how can you put your PDF e-books on steroids for better performance? Read on, and I’ll show you!

To start, add a table of contents (TOC). This helps your readers to find the information that they want, while adding two or three pages to the total length of your document. Not only is a TOC valuable to your readers, it’s easy to create one – most word processing programs can generate one automatically.

Second, add a list of resources in the back. All of the web sites, blogs and forums you visited to research your ebook should be put in a resources section in the back. You can also put all of the print books that you find helpful as well. Face it. There are tons of resources dealing with the topic of your ebook that you know and your customers don’t. List those and you will provide a valuable service for them.

For your readers, I suggest you include a list of:

- List of books on your topic

- List of magazines on your topic

- Videos online at YouTube and similar sites;

- Web sites;

- User forums and user groups; Blogs (your own or those of others);

For each link, include a short description of the resource to help your readers further. Tell them what information they can find using that link, and how it can help them. This adds more value than a simple list of links, with no rhyme or reason.

Stay tuned for my next article, when I offer three great strategies to bulk up your e-book, increase customer satisfaction, and improve sales. By publishing ebooks with loads of content, you make it an irresistible value.

Ok, so you want to write a best-selling e-book in 1 month. First, you need to decide – are you an expert or a reporter?

Acting as a reporter can help you tackle your e-book project. Reporters are not experts, but they are expert at finding information. As a reporter, you must first find experts who can help you write an e-book on, for example, Top Ten Money-Saving Wedding Tips.

Next you’re going to interview some experts. We’re going to add some bulk to this book, some expertise to this book. Do you think the local florist has some ideas on saving money on flower arrangements for a wedding? Do you think she would mind being interviewed for an e-book about saving money on weddings? Well, of course not, especially when you put her contact info in the e-book.

Don’t just interview your florist. Look for other contacts, other vendors who could help you. Wedding planners know how to get the right look for less; pastors can offer tips to couples who want to write their own vows. Collect information, and offer something meaty for your clients to read!

I prefer to record interviews so I have a record of what was said. Use decent equipment that makes CD-quality sound. You can always convert the recordings to different file formats once they are in your computer.

If you want to interview someone, you can just get one of those Y jacks at Wal-Mart and two lapel mikes. Set that up in the corner between you and you have really good quality sound. I’ve done this a million times. I interview people a lot. You can even do this over the phone as you want to.

I can hear you now – “Why do I need to record interviews?”

Those recordings can give you valuable information for your e-book. Transcribe the interview, or hire someone to transcribe it for you. These recordings can also be used as a bonus to encourage sales of your e-book.

Using recordings, you can write your e-book in 1 month. These recorded interviews will practically write the book for you!

About the Author:

Stephen Beck shows you how to write a best selling ebook in 1 month and develop a “cash on demand” business business. Marketing information products has never been so simple when you view Steve’s video.