How To Find Ideas?
If you have a good idea of what people within your niche want, but you’re having a hard time nailing down specific topic ideas, don’t worry, there are a few things you can do.
Amazon.com - This website contains a wealth of ideas that you can implement into information products. A search of “silk floral arrangements” in the books category brought up 107 results. The first page listed books with titles like these:
- Decorating With Silk & Dried Flowers: 80 Arrangements Using Floral Materials Of All kinds
- Creative Floral Arranging: How to Decorate With Fresh, Dried, & Silk Flowers
- Fabulous Silk Flowers for the Home
- Silk Florals for the Holidays
- Garden Inspired Silk Florals
- Faux Florals for Your Wedding: Fifty Easy and Original Projects
- Creative Wedding Florals You Can Make
Imagine the ideas that will flow after you use Amazon! Use the titles to create your own information on the same topic.
Search Engines - Head over to your favorite search engine and type in an idea to see what kind of listings come up. Let’s say you're interested in silk wedding flower arrangements as a topic, but you’re not sure where to head with it.
Do a quick search and scan the listings to see if anything grabs your attention. Perhaps the site that says “Silk Flowers for Your Hawaiian Wedding . . .,” will spark an idea. You could create an entire line of how to e-books that will teach brides-to-be, how to make silk flower arrangements for various wedding themes (country, Victorian, medieval, fairy tale weddings, winter wonderland, etc.).
Article Directories - By reading what other people are writing about within your niche you can create a large list of topic ideas. A search at ezinearticles.com for “silk floral arrangements” resulted in 428 articles and a few of the following article titles showed up on the first page:
- Silk Flower Arrangements: A Great Way to Spruce Up The Dining Room
- Christmas Flower Arrangements
- Contemporary Flower Arrangements
- Tips for Making Your Silk Floral Arrangement Beautiful
- Silk Flowers: Are They Better Than The Real Thing?
- Silk Flowers for Home Decoration
Magazines & Books - Flip through your favorite magazines and books written about your niche, and make a note of anything that catches your attention. Headlines are particularly interesting and can spark some great ideas.
Remember, when it comes to creating your own information product, you don’t have to “re-invent the wheel,” find out what others are doing that has proven successful and follow their lead.
