We are picking up where we left off with lesson number 3 in our series where we are teaching you how to setup a free report so you can start building that all important list. In case you want to review the first two lessons you can access them here:

Lesson 1 - List Building With Free Reports

Lesson 2 - How To Begin Writing Your Free Report

The first thing we are going to talk about here in lesson 3 is constructing an outline for your report, so that when you begin to write your job will be much easier.

If you want to write a really good report from scratch you need organization and form. An outline supplies both. If you are trying to write a report within one hour, the best thing is to keep your main points to only three. Three well-discussed points are better than a half dozen that are only briefly covered. Once you have organized your research and written an outline, it will take you less than half an hour to type up a five or six page report.

A good outline will break down the different parts of your report and help you to organize your thoughts so that the writing process will go smoothly. Think of it like a table of contents.

First, write a brief introduction describing what your report is about and what your reader will learn by reading it.

Next to organize your main points into a logical order and break them down into subcategories if necessary.

Now when you begin to write your report, you can address the main points individually.  This is much easier then trying to write the entire report at one time. Begin by writing anywhere from one to three paragraphs on each point. Keep in mind that this is a short report that you’re giving away for free, so you don’t have to delve too deeply into each point.  Remember you want them coming back to you for more information.

After you have addressed your individual points write your conclusion and your report is finished. Please don’t be concerned if your first report takes a little longer than an hour.  Once you have mastered this process you will be able to create one report after another in no time at all!

Now let’s move onto a way that you can quickly create reports without doing all of the writing yourself.

Another way that you can produce a free report in under an hour is to download one that is already written from a PLR (Private Label
Rights) site. There are many such sites that are available on the Internet. You will have to be a member of a PLR site to download reports from the site. Memberships in these sites are usually rather inexpensive and they provide you access to a lot of material
that is almost ready for you to use.

You will still need to do a lot of rewriting on the reports that you download and if you download articles that you plan to consolidate into a report, you will need to make a good outline of your report so that the information will be presented in a logical sequence.

You can either download a report from a PLR site or several articles that contain the information that you want to include in your free report and combine the articles to make one longer report. All material that is downloaded from PLR sites should have at least some rewrite done before you use it on your own site, anyway. Rewriting is easily and quickly done.

Yet another way to create a report in an hour or less is to download articles from free content sites and then combine and
rewrite the information that is in them. The articles that are on free sites must be rewritten extensively.

The purpose that the authors of those articles had for placing them on sites for free use is to get credit for having written them. These
articles can be used as reference but they may not be reproduced word for word.

A word to the wise: Always check the accuracy of statistics or facts that are included in articles downloaded from free sites. You
can use the basic ideas of these articles as well as the facts that are contained in them but you must NOT reproduce them word for word without giving credit to the author… that is plagiarism and it is a crime.

Again… consolidating articles into a report requires that you make a good outline before you begin.

There is one more way that you can achieve getting a free report produced in an hour or less but in this case you won’t be the one doing the writing. You can hire yourself a good ghostwriter to write your free report for you. All you will need to do is to provide this ghostwriter with the subject and the material that you wish to have included in the report… not the actual material but the subject matter.

The entire process will take less than one hour of your time and they will do all the work for you. There are several places that you can find a ghostwriter, like; Hireaghostwriter.com, Elance.com or Guru.com. Of course there are many others but you get the idea. Just be sure to do your research and check out the references, so you can be sure that you higher the best person for the job.

After you receive a report read it and then pay the ghostwriter. The report then belongs to you. You can list yourself as the author and do whatever you choose to do with it. Including giving it away for free!

Come back for your next lesson where we’re going to be talking about how to put profit centers inside your free report so that you can start to make money online with these free reports.

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