Start-Over Success Business Under $1,000:
eBook Business

  • Do you love to write, you’re good at it, and have lots to say? 
  • With your knowledge and experience, do you have ideas to share?
  • Can you help people solve a problem with your insights?
  • Will a niche/market benefit from your content?

If the answers are Yes, you may be able to build a successful eBook Business

However, some eBook authors invest in, editors, book formatters, book cover designers, and more. While this adds to the costs, it makes the overall process easier and quicker.  By picking the right niche, producing great books, and doing stellar marketing, the investments are worthwhile.  

Build Your $100,000+
eBook Business

3 Ways to Make the Most Money with Your eBook Business

To make big money with eBooks, you are going to have to sell a boatload of books.  No problem. As they say, “Knowledge is power.” BEFORE you write your book, do these three things:

  1. Validate your idea first. Go to Amazon.com, Kindle Books, and scroll to find your niche/genre.
  2. Search for the most popular books in your niche. What & how are top competitors selling? Note titles, covers, and colors. COVERS SELL BOOKS. People buy the cover! Invest in your covers.
  3. Plan your book launch. Look for social media micro-influencers (under 20,000 subscribers) but lots of views. Ask them to 1) do a review, send them a free PDF, 2) interview you (or you can interview them), 3) mention you. Offer to cross-market with them. 

EXAMPLES

Why Non-Fiction eBooks?
6 Reasons:

  1. Your eBook is a great introduction and an irresistible offer to gather emails. Use your eBook to build your list, win prospects, and engage.
  2. With eBooks, you position yourself as an expert. Provide valuable information and you’ve got an edge over competitors in your industry.
  3. eBooks make it possible for you to help a large number of people, easily, efficiently, and effectively. When people are ready to buy products and services you sell, they will buy from you.
  4. eBooks create and add to your passive income streams. You produce it once and you can sell it over and over and over again.
  5. An eBook business multiplies all the benefits listed above.  By adding many eBooks – and marketing well – you can build significant income.
  6. There are no publishing costs. If you can DIY with layout, design elements, and your book covers, start-up costs are very low.

12 Ways to Write Your eBooks:

  1. How to ___________
  2. ____ Days to ___________
  3.  Step-by-Step Guide to ___________
  4. ____ Days to Get/Be/Have More _________
  5. ____ Things You Need to Know About
  6. Don’t _____________ Until You Read This!
  7. The Ultimate ______ Tool Kit/Guide
  8. Top ______Tips/Ideas/Hacks for ______
  9. What I Wish I Knew Before I _____________
  10. If I Had to Start Over ________________ 
    (If you’re writing this one, contact me, I want to interview you.)
  11. Bootstrappers Guide to ____________
  12. The ________ (your name) Way: Everything I Know About ____________

    More ideas 

Popular Niches for Non-Fiction eBooks

This top ten list is for eBook non-fiction categories on Amazon.com’s Kindle store in 2023. (I found it interesting that the top sellers are in fiction categories, with Romance and Mystery books topping the list.. I focus on books self-help and business books here. 

  • self-help
  • biographies & memoirs (best for famous people & celebrities)
  • political & social science
  • counseling & psychology
  • business life

“Business life” is a broad category that requires sub-niches like Personal success, Motivation & Self Improvement, and Mentoring & Coaching. (I thought money and finance would land on the list of top ten Amazon Kindle niches, but it didn’t.) 

Business books have a huge following among aspiring entrepreneurs, who are always willing to listen to advice from those who have proven experience. 

You don’t have to be the best writer to publish a successful business book either, but you need to know your stuff and to provide value. “

Popular Niche + Marketing
= More Sales

AI Assist vs "All-You" Writing eBooks?

Think you’re above using AI to help you write your eBooks, as if it’s cheating? Odds are, you already get AI assistance for your writing from Grammarly. And from other AI (like Siri) to make life easier.  So relax. 

I use AI to help me write more quickly and sometimes to jump-start my thinking on a topic. You’ve got lots of flexibility in how to use AI tools. 

Now, I don’t use AI for writing the Start-Over Success Business articles. First, I learn a lot by digging in on each business. There’s specific information I want to share with my audience, to help them choose what might really work for them to build a business.

My goal is to help people build an income with work and/or a business they love. AI helps me fulfill that goal. 

I have fun thinking of my AI Assistant with me, doing her work while I’m doing mine. 

What Does it Cost to Start Your eBook Business?

  • Computer, I figure you already have one.
  • High-speed Internet ($70/mo)
  • External hard drive, backup for content & books ($60)
  • Writing Software: MS Word ($160) or equivalent for $0
  • Grammarly proofreading ($15/mo)
  • Sublimehq text editing OPTIONAL ($99/annual)
  • Book Cover Design #1 Factor in Selling! ($40/cover upwork)
  • Website ($3/mo BlueHost)
  • Domain name ($18 – free with BlueHost)
  • Theme ($70) I like Elementor
  • Email ($0 – $18/mo)
  • Images (Free pexels, pixabay, unsplash or Storbyblicks ($30/mo) (i also use Freepik.com for clipart $150/annual)
  • Canva creation & Getty images included ($30/mo)
  • Video editor (iMovie Mac, Clipchamp PC $0)
  • LinkedIn paid membership OPTIONAL (Free – $50/mo)
  • Social Media accounts per your niche ($)
  • SuccessCenter.com Marketing (Start free, then OPTIONAL $360)
  • Micro-Influencer marketing ($0)

Start-Up Costs: 
Annual or One-time $590
Monthly $226
Figure $40 per book for cover

What You Need to Start Your eBook Business

4 Ways to Get Buyers & Make Money with Your eBook Business

  1. Landing page – 1 page to collect emails. 
    Irresistible offer (check list or other valuable product), they give emai

    Drive traffic with social media posts & links

  2. Email – send product link, follow-up with AutoResonders,

  3. YouTube – Create video “trailers” per book and for your brand niche/genre.

  4. Always be marketing. You can post personal pictures on social media; do it with a PS. Your pic, then caption underneath, “f you want to ____, check out my landing page. LINK (Idea credit, Hustle from  Home Dad, YouTube)

As with any Start-Over Success business, marketing is an important part of creating the success, and the life, you want. 

How To Get Clients for Any Digital Business.

What's Next For You?

Of course, you can write more books and make more.

You could also teach workshops to others who want to become ebook business. 

You could do marketing for book authors and ebook businesses. 

Or, you could sell your business. You’ve built a machine where you have products and your marketing keeps attracting sales. You’ve got systems that work … and that someone would want to buy.