How to Create a Free Report and Use It to Make Money Online - Part 1

Free reports are getting more useful on the Internet nowadays. Many people who make money online started to use them simply because it works. Reports can be in any form but no matter what the form is, a report is simply a mini e-book usually 5 to 20 pages long that contains information about a specific topic. Visitors find free reports about topics that will help them solve a problem, learn to do something or become more knowledgeable. So if you have a useful report, there will be a group of people want to read it.

Creating a report is just like creating a lengthy e-book, it involves a few steps.

Deciding a Topic
The first thing you need is of course a topic. The topic or theme you select to write for your report needed to be related to the topic of your website. You are going to offer your free report to you visitors, so the report topic have to be the same with your website in order to attract your visitors download your report.

You may choose a general topic first then narrow down the general topic to one or two specific topics.

One you know specifically what your topic is, the next move is to gather information and content about the topic you like to write. You can find information about your topic through search engines. The search engines will provide tons of information. You are going to have to do some filtering work and consolidate information that you actually want.

Starting You Report Writing Project
You need to first write an outline for your report. You need organization and form. An outline provides both.

After that, you can start writing content for your report. If you have knowledge in your topic, with the information you collected, writing a report shouldn't be a problem to you unless you don't like to write.

Alternative you may hire someone to produce content for your report. Guru.com and Elance.com are good places to find an expert writer. Just tell the writer what you want and the writer will write you a quality report.

If hiring professional writer is too expensive to you, then you have to look for third option which is using PLR content. There are PLR articles sites offer hundreds of PLR articles in different topics every month. You may join a PLR article site and merge the PLR articles of a topic into a report. You may need to re-write your PLR articles for better quality and a good outline is needed to make your information presented in a logical sequence.

Adding Income Streams to Your Report
If you report offer the content that your website visitors want to read, you visitors will want to download it to get the info and possible generate good income for you.

Build a Profitable List
Report is proven to be useful for building a list. So the most important thing you must to is to create a sign up form and place the form on your website so that your visitors can see your offer of free report and type in their name and email address to sign up and download your free report.

Every visitor who downloads your report will be opted-in to your list during the sign up process. This way you can grow your list and occasionally you can send your offers to your list. Those who trust you may purchase from you every time you send out a promotional email. This is a good and steady long term stream of online income to you.

To get even more list subscribers with your report, you can create a squeeze page specially for people to sign up and download your free report. By using different marketing methods to send visitors directly to your squeeze page, you can expect to see a great profitable list.

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