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Will You Add? - Niche Market Selling Ideas
So that you can decide just how critical your job hunt is in your total life scheme, let's put a kind of frame around the importance of the effort ahead.Reflect on it.A job is not just a job. Half of you waking hours are devoted to it. Its quality ramifies through all other aspects of your life. It determines your productivity and how far you will go in achieving full self-realization. It governs your happiness, the happiness of your family, where you live, and how well. The quality of the job you land now will inevitably affect the quality of your next one. It will even determine the kind of education and opportunitie
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE
When crossing salty swamps and marshes, move away quickly; never linger there. If you need to engage the enemy in salty swamps and marshes, stay close to areas that are lush with grasses and have your rear to the forest. - Chapter Nine, Sun Zi Art of WarAbove is the principle of deployment when in salty swamps and marshes. Salty swamps and marshes are is similar to crossing a river. But compare to crossing a river, salty swamps and marshes are more difficult to get out because of the mud condition. So if you are caught in swamps and marshes, you could be easily attacked with arrows. The lost of lives could be g
- -Learn to put on horseshoes
- -Get your child into commercials
- -Home designs from the 1800's
- -How to build a skateboard half-pipe
- -Making money using a food cart
- -How to make a play house for your cat
- -Knitting patterns
What do these topics have in common besides they are each individually horribly boring to 99% of the population?
These are all successful eBook or information product topics created by "amateur" sellers on eBay. Even the most remote "niche" topic can find a buyer if the audience is big enough. With eBay the audience is MASSIVE. WACKY info SELLS on eBay!
Remember the beauty of selling info products is that you keep about 95% of the price as pure profit. There is no shipping if you sell downloadable information. Even if you burn CD's or DVD's the price to create your product is nominal compared to the income opportunity.
Looking for your own unique niche idea for an info product?
Here are some ideas:
Using Amazon.com
Look at best sellers lists on amazon.com. If a concept sells well there it will likely sell on eBay as an info product. Don't spend too much time on the top 10 sellers. Drill down a bit for the good ideas.
To browse the various top seller lists from amazon.com use the drop down list in the upper left hand corner of the homepage. Look for the "SEARCH" prompt and select "books" from the list. Next, click "go". You'll see all the categories of books each with its own top 100 selling books list. That's a great tool for searching out ideas.
Once you find an idea simply research it, test it (more on that in a moment) and begin selling it on eBay within days! I've told you about these ideas so many times that I won't go into more detail here...read my book and old newsletters for details
DRILL DOWN
Let's get nichey! (sounds like an "Old Navy" commercial doesn't it?)
Don't be afraid to DRILL DOWN to a smaller, more passionate niche audience! Examples of drilling down are subjects like "how to put horseshoes on a horse", or "how to build a skateboard ramp", or "how to build a play house for a cat". Those are all REAL topics and they are each quite successful info products on eBay.
Some related topics that likely wouldn't have done as well as the info products above are the broader topics that don't appeal to the passions of the "die hard" enthusiasts. For example, consider these POOR topic choices: "The history of skateboarding" or "Why you should own a cat". Those are topics that are already common knowledge among the "die hard" fan of each topic and they are too general to get a fan interested.
What results should you expect if you find a good niche topic?
In some cases remote topics are bringing the info-preneur over $1,000 each week JUST on eBay. Notice I said info-preneur and I didn't say "author" because you don't have to necessarily write to get an info product of your own. You can record your voice, interview an expert, create a video etc. The options are limitless and the skills you lack can be bought cheap any step along the way.
STEP BY STEP SELLS
Consider an info product that will be useful for hobbyists or enthusiasts by showing them step by step how to do something. A good friend of mine did this in a word document by taking pictures of the process and writing descriptions next to each image to explain the process. He turned the Word document into a PDF (simple) and he was in business.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE
Some of you may have heard me emphasize this before but I think it is worth repeating. Whether you own your own business or you work for a major corporation, consider yourself self-employed and you will create more agency at work and better results in the process.Restructuring , organizational change, and mergers happen every day and nobody is immune to the consequences this sometimes brings. So, using this framework of the self-employed, how can you make sure you position yourself so that you are recognized as an asset that can't be lost? Here are a few steps to get you started.1. Do not assume it will never happen
Looking for your own unique niche idea for an info product?
Here are some ideas:
Using Amazon.com
Look at best sellers lists on amazon.com. If a concept sells well there it will likely sell on eBay as an info product. Don't spend too much time on the top 10 sellers. Drill down a bit for the good ideas.
To browse the various top seller lists from amazon.com use the drop down list in the upper left hand corner of the homepage. Look for the "SEARCH" prompt and select "books" from the list. Next, click "go". You'll see all the categories of books each with its own top 100 selling books list. That's a great tool for searching out ideas.
Once you find an idea simply research it, test it (more on that in a moment) and begin selling it on eBay within days! I've told you about these ideas so many times that I won't go into more detail here...read my book and old newsletters for details
DRILL DOWN
Let's get nichey! (sounds like an "Old Navy" commercial doesn't it?)
Don't be afraid to DRILL DOWN to a smaller, more passionate niche audience! Examples of drilling down are subjects like "how to put horseshoes on a horse", or "how to build a skateboard ramp", or "how to build a play house for a cat". Those are all REAL topics and they are each quite successful info products on eBay.
Some related topics that likely wouldn't have done as well as the info products above are the broader topics that don't appeal to the passions of the "die hard" enthusiasts. For example, consider these POOR topic choices: "The history of skateboarding" or "Why you should own a cat". Those are topics that are already common knowledge among the "die hard" fan of each topic and they are too general to get a fan interested.
What results should you expect if you find a good niche topic?
In some cases remote topics are bringing the info-preneur over $1,000 each week JUST on eBay. Notice I said info-preneur and I didn't say "author" because you don't have to necessarily write to get an info product of your own. You can record your voice, interview an expert, create a video etc. The options are limitless and the skills you lack can be bought cheap any step along the way.
STEP BY STEP SELLS
Consider an info product that will be useful for hobbyists or enthusiasts by showing them step by step how to do something. A good friend of mine did this in a word document by taking pictures of the process and writing descriptions next to each image to explain the process. He turned the Word document into a PDF (simple) and he was in business.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE
In a previous article (How One Builder "Made the Most Money I've Ever Made") I wrote how a builder dealt with his resistance to raising prices and properly charging for all the work he performed to create his most financially successful year ever.The one of the greatest points to that article is those changes came at little-or-no cost to him, neither in time or money. Virtually all the increased revenue from implementing those strategies will translate directly into profits for that builder!Along the same lines, here are two other simple, low-cost profit building strategies that won't add t
DRILL DOWN
Let's get nichey! (sounds like an "Old Navy" commercial doesn't it?)
Don't be afraid to DRILL DOWN to a smaller, more passionate niche audience! Examples of drilling down are subjects like "how to put horseshoes on a horse", or "how to build a skateboard ramp", or "how to build a play house for a cat". Those are all REAL topics and they are each quite successful info products on eBay.
Some related topics that likely wouldn't have done as well as the info products above are the broader topics that don't appeal to the passions of the "die hard" enthusiasts. For example, consider these POOR topic choices: "The history of skateboarding" or "Why you should own a cat". Those are topics that are already common knowledge among the "die hard" fan of each topic and they are too general to get a fan interested.
What results should you expect if you find a good niche topic?
In some cases remote topics are bringing the info-preneur over $1,000 each week JUST on eBay. Notice I said info-preneur and I didn't say "author" because you don't have to necessarily write to get an info product of your own. You can record your voice, interview an expert, create a video etc. The options are limitless and the skills you lack can be bought cheap any step along the way.
STEP BY STEP SELLS
Consider an info product that will be useful for hobbyists or enthusiasts by showing them step by step how to do something. A good friend of mine did this in a word document by taking pictures of the process and writing descriptions next to each image to explain the process. He turned the Word document into a PDF (simple) and he was in business.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE
I got a call from a friend of mine who had just joined a small company as Marketing Director. After auditing the firm’s marketing practices, he determined that the old company name had to go. The old name too closely resembled another firm’s moniker and it was causing confusion in the marketplace. With new ownership at the firm, a change seemed to make sense.He called me looking for some ideas for a new name and I gladly helped; in fact, we came up with a new company name that could be used as his URL with a dotcom suffix. All it took was 15 minutes. I was very pleased since it took me nearly six months to come up my new book
What results should you expect if you find a good niche topic?
In some cases remote topics are bringing the info-preneur over $1,000 each week JUST on eBay. Notice I said info-preneur and I didn't say "author" because you don't have to necessarily write to get an info product of your own. You can record your voice, interview an expert, create a video etc. The options are limitless and the skills you lack can be bought cheap any step along the way.
STEP BY STEP SELLS
Consider an info product that will be useful for hobbyists or enthusiasts by showing them step by step how to do something. A good friend of mine did this in a word document by taking pictures of the process and writing descriptions next to each image to explain the process. He turned the Word document into a PDF (simple) and he was in business.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE
Business merchant accounts are critical to have if you want to accept credit cards. Business merchant accounts are not limited to those computer consultants reselling products either. They are a good idea for any sale, especially when you are selling to new clients.If you have a business merchant account you will not have to chase down outstanding debt. The cost is not that high and you don't have to buy traditional credit card processing equipment. Now they have what is called a lab terminal, which allows you to use your web browser to manage the transactions. The systems are completely secure and most business merchant a
KEEP IT SIMPLE
It is easier than ever to create video, audio and appealing graphics, but don't feel like you have to have an amazing look and feel in order to sell an info product. My first info product still sells many copies everyday and has NO PICTURES and only one CHEESY graphic repeated in a few places. It's 20 pages long, but it gives the reader the info they want.
SUCCESS IS CERTAIN
Have a topic that you think MIGHT do well? You'll never know without testing it out first.
Step one: Write your sales letter (keep it simple - that's okay) Step two: Put your sales letter on eBay and see if anyone wants the idea!
In the past I've even created eBook covers (a book image) BEFORE I've written my eBook. I then set up a "mock" 7 or 10 day auction on eBay with a sales letter BEFORE I EVEN STARTED THE BOOK. Next I monitor the interest level by watching traffic and bidders. If there is interest I cancel the auction BEFORE IT ENDS and notify the bidding customers who they will get a free copy of the book once it's finished.
If there isn't any interest after 7 to 10 days I cut my losses and try a new topic. The total time invested is a "losing" idea is minimal using this strategy.
The winning ideas start out as eBay auctions and then quickly move OFF eBay (hidden from competition) to a website, affiliate programs, mailing lists etc...that's more info than you need to get going though so I think I'll cut this article off right here...
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