How to Create Your Own eBook or Report For Free In 5 Minutes

By floydbogart

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One of the best forms of traffic generation continues to be to giving away Free Reports or eBooks. It is also one of the best methods to create a Viral Marketing campaign. Frequently people that are new to this concept, and more than a bit technophobic shy away from this. If you can cut and paste, then this is not beyond your abilities!

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • A Topic
  • A Program or Website To Promote
  • 5 Minutes to spare!
Step1
The best content source on the web. Go to EzineArticles.com and choose an article that relates to the Product or Website that you wish to promote.
Step2
You will see a table at the top right of the page your chosen article is published on. Click on "Ezine Publisher". You will be taken to a page with the articl in html format, among other things. Copy the html version to your clipboard.
Step3
Go to my HTML to PDF creation tool here:
http://floydbogart.com/htmlto/h2pindex.php

Now paste the HTML version of the article into the editor.
Step4
Add a text ad or a banner to the top and/or bottom of the article, making sure that it is pertinent to the topic of the article. Do NOT place ads into the article or change the text in any way. The Author's Resource Box must remain intact too.
Step5
Simply click the "Generate PDF" button at the bottom of the text editor box. And there you have it!

Your very own Free Report or Free eBook to give away and start your very own viral marketing campaign.

Tips & Warnings

  • I will be leaving this HTML to PDF page up for my readers use, so feel free to utilize this as a free resource.
  • You can spruce up your PDF by easily adding images using this editor. Play with it a bit and see what is possible.
  • Consider stringing several articles by the same author, or on the same topic by several authors for a longer ebook. This will give you more ad space between the articles as well.
  • As your confidence grows, you may want to ad some copy of your own at the beginning and/or end of the article(s) to add value, or point out what you found particularly useful in the text.
  • You must only use these as giveaways, and never sell these PDFs as this would violate the TOS of EzineArticles.com However, you may give it away as a Free Bonus with an item that is purchased.
  • Never claim content as your won that is not your own.
  • Abide by all TOS for the sites that you use content from.

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on 10/7/2008 Niiice, Floyd. You are one tricky devil!

bg8510

bg8510 said

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on 10/7/2008 That's a great resource! Thanks.

Thims

Thims said

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on 9/15/2008 Wow! That's a great idea. I appreciate the PDF link too.

awanchic

awanchic said

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on 9/1/2008 This is pretty sweet! Thanks!!

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on 8/30/2008 Great site references

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