EBooks are a
fantastic way of making money online. More and more eBooks are released by the
day. So how can we guarantee a market for our ebook? Using my simple ‘under the
radar’ techniques we can get our target market to tell us exactly what they
want without them even realising it. This is where Newsgroups and Forums rule.
Ebooks are
extremely popular because they can be sent via email or instant download. Yet
people still pay anything from ten dollars to one hundred dollars plus for
them.
Can you make big
bucks from ebooks? Hell yes. A Grandmother made over eight million selling an
ebook called “How I Cured My Arthritis”. All we have to do is find a hungry
market and then provide them with exactly what they want. If you hit a home run
your cash worries could be over.
The question is
how do you find that market? And once you've found them how do you know exactly
what that market wants? Well there is one simple answer that could potentially
make you a lot of money very quickly. Newsgroups and forums. The internet has a
newsgroup and forum for literally every subject you can think of. If someone
has an interest in it then there will be a forum or newsgroup on it. You can
find an endless supply of them at www.groups.google.com and
www.groups.yahoo.com
Here’s a step by
step summary of how this all works:
Step One. Decide
on which niche market to sell to - e.g. Health, Golf, Making Money, Fishing
etc.
Step Two. Place a
polite message on as many newsgroups and forums as you want to asking people
what things they would desperately like to know about the category. Tell them
that if they help, you will provide them with a complimentary copy of the book
when it's finished. This costs you nothing (remember eBooks are all sent via
email or download) and convinces them to spend a little time on your project.
Step Three. You go
back to the news groups/forums a week or so later and jot down all the
questions they want answered.
Step Four. Search
for the answers to the questions and copy and paste them onto a word document.
Step Five. Rewrite
the answers in your own words, tidy it up, convert it into a PDF format and
your ready to go!
Step Six. Give a
ghost writer at www.elance.com all of the notes and ask them to make it into a
book for you.
Now let me explain
this strategy in a little bit more detail:
First, you want to
come up with a subject that interests you. You don’t have to know anything
about it but it helps if it’s something you are passionate about. What
magazines do you read? What specialist TV shows do you watch? What do people
come to you and ask questions about?
Next, write down
ten or twenty questions and go to newsgroups and forums to ask people to answer
those questions. If your subject matter was health (the hot topic of the
moment) you could ask "what is your main concern about your health?"
etc. Then you locate health forums and post the questions there.
To encourage
people to answer your questions you offer them a special mention in your book
or a complimentary copy of the book once it's finished. What you’re effectively
doing is planting an internet 'seed'. Later you go back to the site and you’ll
find that dozens if not hundreds of people have answered your questions. Often
people will have told you which questions they desperately want the answer to.
Then all you do is
research the information they want to know about, write it all down, tidy it up
a bit and hey presto you've got an eBook that the specific market has TOLD you
they wanted created. You can research the questions they want the answers to by
just searching on google. There are answers to every question on the net -
you've just got to spend a bit of time looking for them. It is for this reason
– time - that people don't search the net for themselves. But they sure as hell
would buy a book with all the information they wanted in it.
You don't just
have to limit yourself to an eBook either. If the people are snapping up your
eBook product then chances are they'll love it as a paper and ink product to so
think about advertising it through direct mail/mail order and bringing in even
more profits.
This really is the
easiest way to create a hot selling internet product that your market will love
in the fastest possible time.
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