Write an ebook: the easiest way to find an idea for an ebook

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Write an ebook: the easiest way to find an idea for an ebook

Friday, September 21st, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

Looking for an idea for an information product?

There are many ways you can locate ideas, but here’s the one that works for me every time:

* Find a problem

* Solve the problem

The result is an ebook or a report.

Since I’m a writer and writing teacher, the problems in my bailiwick tend to be writing-related problems, so that’s what I write and sell ebooks about.

However, I’ve written ebooks on topics as disparate as dieting and dog breeding, because I know something about those topics.

Make it doubly easy on yourself - write what you know

When you write about what you know, whether it’s education or finance or whatever, the research is easy.

Although over the years I’ve researched books on many topics (I even wrote a book for Prentice Hall on how to do quick and easy research), these days I confine myself to writing about what I know. You can do it too. Write about topics YOU know, and challenges you’ve experienced. This saves research time, although you’ll still need to do some research.

Ask yourself what problems you see people struggling with every day, and then write an ebook which solves that problem.