Thank you for participating!

Thank you for par­tic­i­pat­ing in my first crowd-sourced ebook. Your answer and that of thou­sands of other authors will be col­lated to deter­mine what the major­ity want to read about in the new ebook. The inter­net has given writ­ers a pro­found oppor­tu­nity to pretest their mate­ri­als in front of real, live peo­ple before they invest in devel­op­ing a book.

Would you like to know what I did to put this together?

1. I thought about the most com­mon ques­tions and con­cerns I hear at writ­ers con­fer­ences, speak­ing engage­ments, and by email every year.

2. I put together a sur­vey ask­ing those ques­tions. One of the eas­i­est ones to use is www.SurveyMonkey.com

3. I sent it out to a defined sub­set of my list of many, many thou­sands of authors and future authors.  If I didn’t have such a list, I could have invested $100 in a Google Adwords cam­paign, opti­mized, and sent every respon­dent to a web page I’d set up with the sur­vey on it.

4. Now I will col­late the results, think about, research, write, edit, improve, edit, improve, edit, edit and edit the ebook.

5. Next, I’ll send you and the oth­ers the promised free copy and then I’ll offer it as a paid prod­uct at the price most com­monly voted for in the survey.

Although I have other prod­ucts and ebooks, this is the first “crowd­sourced” one. The mar­ket­ing the­ory behind crowd­sourc­ing was sum­ma­rized by PT Bar­num long ago: “Give ‘em what they want”.  May I sug­gest you test and/or crowd­source your pro­posed book?

I’ll be sure to send you a copy of this when it is done.

Wendy Keller