Most people start up an internet business thinking that they can make lots of money by selling affiliate products, and while it is true that they can, nothing beats having your own product. With your own product you can not only sell it yourself and keep all of the income, rather than the average 50% of an affiliate product, but you can also affiliate yourself and make money doing nothing while others sell it for you.

However, unless you have a specific plan, writing and marketing your own ebook is not as easy as it seems, and most people do not have the patience, and want to get it on sale too quickly. There are certain steps that you must take when writing an ebook and you must follow them precisely.

First, choose your subject. You don't just wake up one morning, yawn, look at the sun outside and say ?What a wonderful day. I think I will write an ebook today.? It takes a bit more planning than that. Your subject should take a bit of thought. It must be something that there is a demand for, and that is not oversubscribed on the internet. If you have a niche, then it will probably be relevant to that. Whatever the subject you eventually choose, it must be on a topic relevant to your website if you have one, since you will want to make use of the opportunity of making back-end sales from your site.

Having chosen the subject of your book, do some research. You might think that you know your subject well, but you will be amazed at how much information is needed to enable you to write a book. You will likely need a bit more information than you already know, and to a deeper level.