How To Create An E-Book With No Budget

How To Create An E-Book With No Budget

During my blog break I had a lot of time, after all I wasn’t writing posts every day. I decided I would do the big projects that’s never have time for like improving SEO and creating an opt-in for my newsletter.

My e-book idea was simple: 8 Squats You Need In Your Life–it was simple and pretty much all written since I had the content all in prior published blog posts.

The process of creating an e-book was remarkably easy. Here’s how I did it.

1. Decide what you want to write about. The content should have immense value to your readers. It could be something super simple like a guide or really complicated novel. Size doesn’t matter here value does.
2. Start writing your draft in Google Docs. This is a very important step. Google docs is also very user friendly–you can modify your docs on the app. The ability to modify will come in handy later.
3. Don’t forget to add your footer. With your title and website address. Page numbers are optional. You can really put whatever you want in this space, but if someone ever prints your document you want to be sure that they know where those awesome words came from.
4. Once you are finished with your creation (and you have proofread over and over) be sure to download the document as a PDF.
5. Design the cover of your E-Book in Canva. I have long since praised the magic of Canva and one of my favorite features is being able to download your design to PDF. The designs don’t come out pixelated and they look fantastically sharp. If you can buy a stock photo for $1. (See Also: How To Make Stunning Blog Graphics)
6. After you have downloaded your PDF image you can combine the two PDFs. On the MacBook you can do so in the preview tab by dragging the image PDF to merge. In Windows you can use Adobe Acrobat to merge. Save it.
7. Boom! You did it! Now upload the file to your blog server.
8. You can now offer this amazing piece of work as a freebie to your readers. For information on how to add the e-book as a reward for opt-in check with your email list provider.

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If you created an E-book, what would it be about?

Nellie

Hi! I’m Nellie. I am a busy mama of three, wife to my high school sweetheart who loves to cook, workout and stay organized! I love to share helpful printables, the best recipes and fitness tips for the modern mom. I strongly believe that every mom can feed their family well, take proper care of themselves and have fun along the way! Read my story.

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