Almost any old topic can be transformed into a hot selling ebook.

You just have to know how to put an exciting spin on it so that today’s readers can identify. (And give it a no-nonsense salesletter… but that always goes without saying.)

How Do Your Make a Story Timely offers suggestions specifically geared towards magazine/newspaper writers.

But don’t let that chase you away. The suggestions presented can work for bloggers and authors alike.

And a current spin and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes

Most of the time when I sit down to write a new ebook, I’m really excited to dive into the process.

But sometimes I can’t get going to save my ass. What a bummer that is.

Maybe it’s just knowing that I have to put all those thoughts into words. Pages and pages of words.

I put off a lot of projects because I just can’t fathom getting past page 1.

My Trick for Writing presents a do-able idea for writing a book, without stressing.

The author suggests creating a private blog (for your eyes only) and just adding an entry every day.

The blog postings can then be turned into book content.

I like this idea because it’s a lot less intimidating to write a blog entry than it is to add to a Word document.

With Word I’m always concerned that I’m adding at least a few new pages a day. That’s when I find it difficult to write.

Whereas I can sit down in the morning and crank out a couple of blog entries in under an hour.

Sure it’s going to take you a little longer.

But the more I write, the more I realize that I’d rather take a little longer and not be so stressed out. After all, stress is a main catalyst of the dreaded writer’s block.

Yet another way to blog and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes

If you’re on Google, and you’re looking for dog breed related information, it’s hard not to run into Michelle Welton’s YourPurebredPuppy.com site.

Her site must easily contain hundreds of pages, featuring information on 180 purebred dog breeds, mixed breeds and rare breeds.

Let’s say you do a search on shih tzu with children. YourPurebredPuppy.com comes up in the #2 position.

Airedale personality… and YourPurebredPuppy.com comes up as #3. German shepherd training… #3. Pug obedience… #2.

And it just goes on and on! I could rattle off dozens of search terms, and that site consistently shows up in Google among the top 5 for almost all of them.

It’s really one of the most awesome displays that I’ve seen as an ebook promotional tool. 

The site sells 3 of Michelle’s ebooks – Longer Life For The Dog You Love – Volumes 1 & 2, and Teach Your Dog 100 English Words – as well as her print book Your Purebred Puppy: A Buyer’s Guide.

I find this site to be blog-worthy for a couple of reasons:

* Instead of distributing the articles she has written to sites like EzineArticles.com, she has kept them all on her site.

A good strategy here. The site is ranking extremely well for probably hundreds of different keywords because of the original content.

And instead of that traffic being funneled through a third party like EzineArticles.com, it comes directly to her.

* Each dog description contains enough bullet points to wet your whistle. But not so many that it’s overwhelming.

Although I haven’t read her Your Purebred Puppy book, I imagine that the dog descriptions on the site are excerpted from there.

Talk about a well oiled advertisement for the print book!

* The content part of the site has a rational, honest feel to it.

It doesn’t sound hype-filled. There are NO Adsense advertisements littering each and every page. She doesn’t promote anyone else’s books but her own. And she doesn’t publish a newsletter. (Really no reason to, with all those top 5 rankings.)

It just offers lots of straight forward advice.

I think this would be a good strategy to implement if you’d like to write about a broad topic with many, many smaller niches.

Of course it would take a while for the site itself to rank well in Google.

But then again, with a site like this you could easily hold rank for a long, long time once you get into place.

Experiment and grow rich,

Alexis Dawes