What Are You Grateful For
This Thanksgiving?

• I’m grateful to my husband for being there always, for supporting me, helping me, loving me and saving my life!
• I am grateful that my husband is hanging in. He got a new doctor who is working with him to figure out what is making him feel so sick.
• I’m grateful for my family - my brother, niece, nephews and cousins
• I’m grateful to my team - I think we finally got it down!
• I’m grateful for the wonderful students and subscribers I have. You’re the best!
• I’m grateful to my wonderful JV partners and affiliates who support the work I do and spread the word!
• I’m grateful to all my mastermind partners for helping me grow in my business and being there in the trying times.
• I’m grateful to my past and current mentors who have taught me what I needed to learn to be a successful online entrepreneur.
• I’m grateful to my colleagues who I teach and learn from and support and who support me.
• I’m grateful to Infusionsoft for taking me to the next level and freeing up my time!
• I’m grateful to have a thriving business even in a bad economy!
• I’m grateful that I’m overcoming my fear of video!
• I’m grateful it’s all worked out!

Ellen Violette
www.theebookcoach.com
www.1ebooksolution.com
www.7ebookmistakes.com
www.virtualebookexpocd.com
www.ebookwritingsecrets.com
and many more!

Teleseminars & Workshops

"The Biggest Mistakes People
Make Authoring An eBook
And How To Avoid Them"
Part 1:  Tuesday, Dec. 1st
5:30 p.m. Pacific/8:30 p.m. Eastern
Part 2:  Thursday, Dec. 3rd
5:30 p.m. Pacific/8:30 p.m. Eastern
www.7ebookmistakes.com/call

Monthly Free Q and A Call
First Monday of the Month
Monday, Dec. 7th
2:00 p.m. Pacific/5:00 p.m. Eastern
Bring your ebook and marketing questions!
www.freeqanda.com 

Monthly Advanced Training
Special Guest:  Idelle Davidson
"Secrets of Successful Co-Authoring"
(ebooks and books)
Free with monthly membership -
Only $19.97 to join!
Wednesday, Dec. 
www.ebookempirebuilders.com

Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Workshop
Special Q & A Call
This is a short call where I will
answer all questions about the
program.  Get access by
registering for "The Biggest
Mistakes People Make Authoring
An eBook and How to Avoid Them"
preview series at:
www.7ebookmistakes.com/call

Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Workshop
Instructional Calls:
Tuesday, December 8th
Thursday, December 10th
Monday, December 14th
(For Platinum and Platinum Plus students only:
Add: Friday, December 11th)
www.3dayebookworkshop.com

Feature Article

eBook Writing: 5 Ways to Find More Time To Write Your eBook!

1. If you’re like most people who want to write an ebook, you’ve probably said to yourself, “There just isn’t enough time in the day to do this and everything else I have to do!” This kind of self talk is NOT helpful. 
   
   Instead you have to decide that it is something you are going to do and then figure out how you CAN get it done. Then put it on your schedule and stick to it! 
   
   If you need help setting goals, I highly suggest reading The Power of Focus by Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, and Les Hewitt. It’s the most useful goal-setting book I have seen out there.
   
   
2. Most people waste a lot of time, so for just one week I want you to keep a time sheet and write down how you spend your time in 15 minute increments. This is a very powerful exercise and your results might surprise you!
   
   Once you see how you are actually spending your time, you can figure out where you are wasting time and start allocating that time for writing your ebook instead.
   
   
3. If you are online, you’ve got to handle your emails efficiently; email is a huge time burner. What I do is segment them. The ones that I get from other experts go straight to gmail and I don’t look at them until I’m done with everything else, and then only once or twice a day.
   
   Also you want to train yourself to do the hardest and most scary tasks first and NOT read email during this time.You also want to refrain from reading them every 5 minutes or 20 minutes, or however often you read them. (When you keep your time chart, you’ll see how much time you waste with email - which is a biggie!)
   
   Instead, put a note in your signature file saying that you will answer emails in 24 to 48 hours and then decide on a couple times a day to read and answer your email.
   
   
4. To cut down on time spent on customer service, use a help desk like Kayako or Perldesk.  If possible, have someone else handle your customer service, preferably a third-party company so that you don’t have to take over if one person is sick or on vacation.
   
   To automate the process, look at the questions you get asked on a regular basis. Write out your answers to each one and give it to the company so they don’t have to spend time looking for answers to simple questions from customers and subscribers. This will insure that your clients get the answers they need without you having to spend the time on customer service!
   
   Also be sure to create an FAQ page (Frequently Asked Questions) and answer as many as you can to cut down on your workload.
   
   
5. Delegate, delegate, delegate. Figure out what you don’t want to do in your business and what you are not good at and find people who are. You will make a lot more money if you concentrate on what you do well and let others do what they do well.
   
   Get in the habit of outsourcing. Don’t get trapped into thinking you’re the only one who can do a particular job that doesn’t make you money, or you’re not good at, or both!  You’ll end up stressed out and frazzled or worse, sick. So start seeing it as a necessity and not a luxury!
   
   Follow these easy steps and you’ll have plenty of time to write your ebook. And if you want to get it done in just 72 hours or less with 12 hours of writing time then check out my Quick-Start 3-Day eBook Authoring Workshop www.3dayebookworkshop.com
   
   The next workshop is December 8th through 14th. 
   
   (To get more fresh content on a regular basis, please subscribe to my blog at:  www.theebookcoach.com/blog)

Reader's Q&A

Q. What's the best way for aggregating the data for the ebook?

A.  It depends. One good way is to write down information and put it in a box until you have enough on the subject for an ebook. In my case I often extract it from other products that I've already created.  In my ebook with Jim Edwards, I wrote down as many tactics as I could think of, Jim picked the ones he wanted, and then I fleshed them out.

Q. What are the outsourcing options and costs? 

A. You can hire a ghostwriter, in which case I suggest you stick with someone who writes English well!

I have ghostwriters and I can get you a quote if you send an email to: 
info@theebookcoach.com with as much information as possible, including the number of pages, the subject, title, and how much work you need done. Is it a complete ebook? Are you providing the content, etc. 

You can also go to colleges near you and find someone - preferably the spouse of a student, because they will have more time that the student does - to actually get it done!

Please submit your questions to http://snipurl.com/askellen