When my online friend, Deb Ng, first approached me about her ebook – Beyond Blogging: Using Your Blogging Skills for Bigger and Better Things – I was immediately intrigued. So, with a brief chat and a request – she sent me a review copy, which I didn’t get to read thoroughly until recently due to my crazy changing schedules and lifestyle.

Anyway, admittedly, my initial expectation was to read something that’s more on the “inspirational” side of blogging. Perhaps, it was due to the title “Beyond Blogging” and the subtitle “… for Bigger and Better Things.” While the book does have an inspirational feel and effect, the main message of the ebook is primarily about how to make the most out of blogging by using it in business and/or making money from blogs in various ways.

Once that message is established, the rest of the ebook reads in an easy, practical manner. It offers a few useful tips to break in to professional blogging — and how to turn your own blogs in to a profit centre. Or perhaps, use your own blogs to land other lucrative jobs.   

Here’s the basic outline of the ebook (with my short commentaries):

Chapter 1: Blogging for Dollars (an overview of different ways bloggers make money with their blogs, such as affiliate marketing, etc).

Chapter 2: Blogging Skills (these are the different things bloggers do and/or use to become effective in what they do)

Chapter 3: Beyond Blogging: Where your blogging skills can take you (offers an interesting array of blogging-related jobs that you might be able to land)

Chapter 4: Where and How to find “Beyond Blogging” Jobs (includes a list of blogging job boards)

Conclusion

Anyway, if you’re interested, Deb’s book is currently for sale at US$10.

Also, Deb has kindly offered one (1) free copy of Beyond Blogging to JMMO readers. If you’re keen, just leave a comment in this post and answer the question: Why do you like blogs/blogging?

Deadline for this giveaway is on Monday, 9th March 2009. All commenters’ names will be put in to a virtual hat – and we’ll announce the lucky winner next via random draw.

Good luck!

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Beyond Blogging: An eBook Review (+a Giveaway!)

Today, Sitepoint (a site dedicated to web development and online businesses) have announced their 5-for-1 ebooks special:

“…we’re offering a sale of any five SitePoint books for $29.95 USD, which is five books for the price of one—and donating 100% of the proceeds to bushfire relief. Readers will save a truckload and they’ll also be contributing to this very deserving cause.”

For more info and to buy the eBooks, please go to http://sale.sitepoint.com/ .

Some ebook titles that may be of interest to JMMO readers include:

• The Principles of Successful Freelancing
• Build Your Own Website The Right Way
• The Principles of Successful Project Management
• The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Site Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
• Deliver First Class Web Sites

At the time of this writing, there are already reported 180 people who died in the bushfires, 750+ homes burnt down, whole towns wiped out, and thousands homeless in the state of Victoria. This is one of the worst disasters that Australia has ever faced. To find out more about this you can read these news reports here and here.

Any help that you might be able to offer the victims of this tragic event will be put to good use in helping survivors rebuild their lives.

If you prefer to send money directly to a charitable organisation, you can also donate via Red Cross Australia’s bushfire appeal.

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Sitepoint Special: Buy eBooks, Help Victims of Australian Bushfires

This is part of the A-Z of Making Money Online series. This series covers the various ways of making money online, in alphabetical order.

eBay – One of the most popular online marketplaces. Plenty of people make full time and part time incomes from eBay. Also see tips on eBay selling and eBay Selling 101.

eBooks – Developing information products is another popular way of making money online. Creating and/or selling eBooks is a common route.

eHow – A content site where writers can make money online.

eCrater – If you’d like your own free online store for your products.

Etsy – If you’re in to handicrafts and art, then you should be hanging out at Etsy. It’s a great place to make money online doing something you love to do.

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E is for…

If you’re considering making money online with ebooks, there’s really just a few basic steps to go about it:

1. Think of a topic that you’re really familiar with or passionate about.
2. Find out how many other books, websites, ebooks, and blogs about that topic.
3. After your research, start writing.
4. Edit, edit, edit.
5. Proofread.
6. If possible, get someone else to proofread. It’s always helpful to have more than one pair of eyes to look through your manuscript.
7. Format your manuscript in to an ebook format. It really is up to you what type of format you want. Most popular format is PDF, as most people can easily download and read it.
8. Get a good digital cover.
9. Create a sales package for your ebook.
10. Create a marketing package. Websites, blogs, sales letters… And perhaps, even affiliate programmes.
11. Promote, promote, promote!
12. Follow-up – and promote some more.

Of course, I realise that these steps are the absolute basic. You can even write a whole ebook to flesh these topics out!

In any case, if you want to read more ebook ideas, here are some resources:

From the Web

• 8 Creative Ways to Make Money With eBooks – Some interesting ideas on how to make money with ebooks.
• Make Money with eBooks – A collection of featured articles on making money with ebooks – including an ebook tutorial, how to price your ebook, and ebook formats, among others.
• Writing An Ebook That Sells – How To Choose A Topic For Your Ebook That People Will Want To Buy – Just some basic ideas.
• How to Make Money Selling Your Own eBook – An article from WikiHow.

From Just Make Money Online:

• Free Online Business Start-up Ebook – A document about an online entrepreneur’s journey.
• Make Money Online With Repackaging and Recycling Content – Ideas on repackaging content with ebooks, among other things.
• Making Money Online with Lulu – All about a resource for folks interested in DIY publishing.

Image credit: Shai Coggins. All rights reserved.

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12 Steps to Make Money Online with eBooks (and Other Ideas)

Most probably you’ve already heard about DealDotCom. DealDotCom is a new service that makes earning from affiliate programs a lot easier for those who can.

To make money from DealDotCom, you either sell your own Internet marketing or online business products – e-books, resale or rebrands (non-IM) and services, or participate as an affiliate.*

DealDotCom earns from commissions from the products that they call “Today’s Deal”. The products are called so because only one product is endorsed per day. Many of the products that they’ve recently featured are plugins, e-courses and content builders.

From the looks of it, infoproduct producers can benefit a lot from this new service. I’m just wondering if DealDotCom accepts virtual service packages related to Internet marketing.

Have you submitted your e-books and other infoproducts to DealDotCom yet? Please let us know how this service fares.

*affiliate link

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DealDotCom: New Service for Affiliate Program Earners