How A Ghost Writer Can Give You Instant Credibility.

How A Ghost Writer Can Give You Instant Credibility.

 

One of the quickest ways to gain instant credibility is to publish your own book. The problem lies in the fact most people are not writers. Writing doesn’t have to be the hardest part of the book creation process. I’m sure many of you have heard of Donald Trump and Tony Robbins. Both are highly successful people. Both are also well known authors. Or are they? It’s true it is their content, but if you think for one minute either one of them locked themselves in room and typed for 3-6 months, you’re dead wrong. The both have used ghostwriters.

 

The secret is, if you hire ghostwriter freelancer, you put the responsibility of writing on them. Remember, you still have to have your own content in the form of audio or video for them to pull from.

 

There are what I refer to as lance-type sites all over the Internet where you can hire a ghostwriter such as eLance.com, ScriptLance.com, Moonlighter.com, and even RentAGhostwriter.com.

 

All of these sites allow you to hire a ghostwriter on a usually bid basis, essentially it’s a reverse auction. Here’s how it works… Let’s say you are willing to spend $1000 to have someone write your book. Each person will try to UNDER BID the other. One will do it for $900, another might do it for $800 and so on. Remember you don’t want the job to go to the lowest bidder, it’s not a government job. You want it the most qualified person to do it. The important part is you get to set the MAXIMUM price.

 

In a standard Microsoft Word document, the number of words on a single page, double spaced in a 12pt font averages out to be about 345 words. Knowing that information, the question then becomes how long you want your book to be.

 

I wouldn’t ever think of delivering a 50-100 page book to my customers.

 

 Whenever I’ve bought one, I’ve usually felt ripped off even if I paid just $10 for it. Most of the time with a book that small, all you are really given is a teaser. The information you were expecting to get out of it just isn’t there. It makes me a little mad, and I would never buy another product from that person because I received no value it. A book is a product and the customer is expecting to receive value for their money spent.

 

The short answer is… your book should be as long as it takes in order to get the job done. If you can get the whole job done in 30 pages, GREAT! I like to see a 200-page book. I would say that could reasonably cover most subjects. I just told you that the average page has about 345 words on it. That would mean that we would have 69,000 words in the course of a 200-page typical book.

 

Why 200 words? It’s simple. I’m pretty fortunate to know many people in the publishing industry and historically they’ve found out that around 200 pages for a NONFICTION book is the most successful length. Anything more tends to bore the reader. Anything less usually doesn’t cover the subject well enough.

 

Honestly, I prefer to pay on a per project basis. I would rather put my specs out and say, I am willing to pay you XX amount of dollars for this. When hiring a ghostwriter, you must give a clear sense of direction. You don’t want to leave anything to guesswork meaning you don’t want them to hope or try to interpret what you want from your book.

 

Have some details. Make some notes. What are some key points that you think  should be focused in on in this book? If you give them clear points, it will make the finished product much better.

 

Here’s an example… right now, I’m in the process of writing my first physical book. Ok, I too am using a ghostwriter. I’ve given them about 150 hours of recordings of me on this topic, so they have a lot of information to pull from. I’ve also given them the actual Table of Contents. Now they have a clear outline of what I want and expect from the finished product. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

 

Always ask for samples of their work. If you have a ghostwriter who has only written fiction books and fiction information, they are probably not the right person to write your “how to” book. They don’t have a track record or history of being able to do that.

 

The number one rule when you are outsourcing anything is never be anyone’s guinea pig. If they say, “Well, my clients are very private, and I can’t give samples of books I have completed,” don’t deal with that person. I can appreciate a client’s privacy but at the same time they are asking me to become one of their clients. I need to know that they can fulfill what  I will hire them to do. At the time of this writing, a search for “ghostwriter” on eLance.com brought up 1,449 different individuals/businesses that would be happy to consider quoting to write your next book.

 

The best part about hiring a ghostwriter is that it doesn’t have to be a long, drawn out process. When you hire someone to write this for you, give a deadline of two or three months max because they should be able to get in there and bang it out and send it back to you — this is what you are hiring them to do.

 

A ghostwriter can be your secret weapon to success. They can carry your voice forward because the hard part of a book is the actual writing. Lucky for you, the most difficult part of creating a highly successful book can be delegated. Employ a ghostwriter to do your work and step back and reap the benefits.

 

About The Author

Armand Morin is known all over the world as an Internet Marketing Strategist, Expert and Seminar Promoter. You can view his latest project where you he’ll train you every month through online videos and you’ll also receive a FREE 28 minute tutorial just for finding out more information. Click the banner below.

 

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