Last week I finished my first eBook and it’s free to download  here- or click on the eBook cover. I would appreciate any constructive feedback about the report or about the squeeze page. I’ve kept the squeeze page pretty simple and may do a split test of a fancier version to see which converts the best.

Although I’m not new to self publishing my own products it feels like it’s the first time because my other products were created for the offline information publishing market in the late 90s and early 2000s. One of them at least I may dig out and repurpose for the Internet, that’s if I ever find the time.

I actually have 2 more products well on the way, but they didn’t seem right for the purpose of my first product and that is to help build my list. I wanted to write something that would help newcomers to online marketing think about and see that there are plenty of options and help them to avoid losing their money to scams or pipedreams.

The title ’7 Virtual Ways To Make Money Online’ came about because that was the best way to describe the report. I also did a search and found that nobody else was using that title so at least that makes it more individual.

I wrote the report using the free open office writer. I don’t know why but I installed that on my laptop even though I have Microsoft Word on my main computer. It’s really easy to convert to a PDF format using open office, just a few seconds and it’s sorted.

I made the ebook cover online at http://www.myecovermaker.com I tried the free version first but wasn’t happy with the result so I paid $3.95 for one download to access to more covers to make the cover in this post. Unfortunately resizing it for this post cut the top off so it doesn’t look so good if I add it to the post.

I built the squeeze page using xSitePro because I wanted to try something simple and because it’s easy to block the search engines from the download page. I’m not totally happy with the wording or design, but as with the report I will probably do some tweaking later. Sometimes if you go back with a fresh eye you see all sorts that you missed earlier. All I have to do now is get traffic to the page and see how well it converts.

The hardest part was the writing, ideas flowed but I have a rather painful medical condition caused by using my laptop on my lap and the laptop stand that I bought, although the lowest is still too high for me to sit comfortably and write for prolonged times. I should go back to using my desktop but I like the laptop better.

Anyway if you would like a free copy of 7 Virtual Ways To Make Money Online you need to click on the link. Feedback would be greatly appreciated.