In This Issue

• Letter From the Editor -Lessons from a Visit with my Niece.
   

• Feature Article: Write Compelling Ezine Articles That Increase Credibility And Drive Targeted
  Traffic To Your Site
   

• Teleseminars And Workshops
  
  
• Tech Tip: Enlarging Text
   
  
• Reader's Questions and Answers

My 17-year-old niece came to visit for the 4th of July weekend.
I don't get to see her that often because I'm busy and she lives two hours away and can't get up here-she doesn't drive. When I asked her why she hasn't gotten her drivers license she said gas was too expensive so there was no point in doing it. I said, why don't you get it then we'll worry about the gas?!

Over the weekend we went to see Sex in the City, we watched the fireworks on the beach and rented August Rush which was a beautiful movie. And, in between I got a chance to really  talk with her.  Usually there are other people around like her two brothers and we don't get into anything real heavy.

But this time it was different. I started asking her about school and what she was planning to take.  She's always been really interested in drama. In fact Christen and I once took her to audition at John Powers and everyone was blown away by her performance.
Christen is an ex-actor and he knows talent when he sees it.
And according to him, she has it!

But her grades weren't high enough and so they won't let her take drama at school this year.  When we asked her about that she started to cry.  She said she wasn't good enough and she's too short and she didn't want to get type cast. And she's not sure she wants to do it anyway.

She said the other kids were getting way ahead of her because they had more money and they were enrolled in extra-curricula drama projects. And she confessed that the last time her mother saw her in a play she told my niece she wasn't good enough-my ex-sister-in-law could tell she was acting!

Well, as you can imagine I got REALLY mad! First of all who made my ex-sister-in-law  (my brother's ex-wife) an acting maven?  And how dare the school discourage this beautiful talented actress with their stupid rules that won't amount to a hill of beans down the road!
And how sad is it that a 17 year-old girl is already creating all these excuses to not follow her own path!

What I told her was don't let anyone derail you.  If you run into a brick wall find a way around it. You may have to wait until you graduate to start pursuing your dream but don't give up!

 Find colleges that have good drama departments and other areas of interest to you so you can test them all out in college.

Then call them and find out what their requirements are and be prepared. I also told her to find someway to support herself while she's pursuing her dream so she never has to give up for lack of funds. (I suggested videos since she's already making them.) And NEVER give up!

I think that's pretty good advice no matter what your dream is!
So if  you're hearing yourself in this conversation...knock it off
and ask yourself, what do I have to do to reach my dream and stop that

Negative self talk right now!

Ellen Violette
www.theebookcoach.com
www.virtualebookexpo.com
www.ebookwritingsecrets.com
www.sellmoreebooks.com
and many more!

Save The Dates:

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Robin Hoffman will be interviewing me
on her radio show: Authentic Feminity
TBA

Free August Monthly Q & A
August 4, 2008
www.theebookcoach.com/qandaaugust08
 

3 Keys To Connecting With Your List For Increased eBook And Product Sales

There are a lot of benefits to writing ebooks including increased visibility and expert status, the ability to reach a worldwide audience with your message, the ability to turn prospects into paying customers with that message; and then being able to leverage that relationship to help you sell even higher-priced products.

 But writing an ebook is not enough.  To maximize your sales you have to exert some effort and that means developing a relationship with your target group in three key areas.

1. Potential customers need to know you.
2. Potential customers need to like you.
3. Potential customers need to trust you.

 Let's look at each of these in more detail.

 1. Potential customers need to know you.

Potential buyers have so many choices on line that they don’t know where to start. And they are afraid, understandably, of the possibility of fraud and deception not to mention sub-par products. 

 And because of the nature of the Internet where so many sites are faceless, people need to know you or feel that they know you before committing to a purchase, especially if they have never heard of you before. Naturally they will want to learn more about your background and qualifications.

 And for most people it takes 5 to 7 times of having contact with you before they will be ready so you have to give them ample opportunities to get to know you.  Writing articles, publishing a newsletter, blogging, posting in forums, giving teleseminars and using social media sites are some of the approaches that are very effective.

 2. Potential customers need to like you.......

To read the rest of this article go to www.theebookcoach.com/blog
(This article was inspired by my talk at the Virtual eBook Expo.)

Q: Should I copyright the title before I write my ebook?

A: No, titles are not copyright protected.  So write your ebook first.  You don't need to re-copyright until you have changed at least 30% of the content in your ebook so go ahead and copyright it as soon as you know that you aren't going to make more changes than that for a while.

Q: How much time does it take to write an ebook?

A:  An ebook can be written in 72 hours or less with my Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Workshop. It can be created by talking it in just 3 hours but most authors take months if not years because they don't understand the process. Once you understand the process it's easy!  (Hint: The key is creating an outline!)

Please submit your questions to support@TheeBookCoach.com