Writing a book offline is very intimidating. You spend months or even years crafting your content, and then you have to find an agent to represent it with the publishing houses.
If you ever get accepted, there will be revisions and a whole slew of tasks that you have to do. Once it’s all said and done, you’ll get very little of the actual sale of the book.
A better way to sell your books is to turn them into digital eBook creations. You can do it with fiction on sites like Amazon Kindle, but you can also go into any niche and churn out non-fiction eBook courses and sell them anywhere from $7 to $97 and up.
Which Niches Can Sell Digital Courses?
Whenever you come online, you’re going to see a ton of “make money online” eBooks for sale because that’s what you’re studying. In fact, you might start to wonder if anyone is selling any other topics online.
The answer is yes!
There are many niches where consumers are grabbing up content at all hours of the day. They buy eBooks about:
- Acne cures
- Dog training
- Baby pageants
- Depression
- Weight loss
- Addictions
- Dating and relationships
- Parenting…and more!
If you see books on the shelves of a Barnes and Noble on the topic, then there will most likely be an online audience for it as well.
How to Research and Outline Your Online eBook
Researching a non-fiction eBook is easy. It’s a mix of pairing your personal passion for the topic with thorough information that’s already out there. The key is to not plagiarize other peoples’ information but to educate yourself and write from scratch.
You want your eBook to be comprehensive and not leave anything out for your reader. They should come away feeling satisfied that the information was worth the price you put on it.
Jot down topics being talked about and organize them so that they flow in a logical manner. Most marketers start off with a 10-chapter, 50-page eBook, but don’t get hung up on page count – write whatever needs to be said about the topic, even if that means it’s 20 pages or 100 pages.
You can research in places like this:
- Forums – look at thread titles to see what people are asking questions about so that you can answer those questions in your eBook.
- Other eBooks being sold online – look in the sales copy, and even buy the eBooks to make sure you address all of the issues (and then some!).
- Print books on shelves in bookstores – spend a day browsing through bookstores, or go online and look at the table of contents to see what all is being covered.
- Blogs on the topic – these will help you see what the community is discussing as a trend in the topic.
- News sites – if applicable, you might find the latest breakthroughs and up-to-date information on the niche topic so that your eBook is viewed as cutting edge.
Writing and Selling Your eCourse Creation
Once you write your slant and insight on the topic, make sure you polish it up by editing it for spelling and grammar. Then look into the various places you can sell it to make the most profit.
Kindle is nice, but those eBooks sell for $0.99 to $4.99 in most cases, and on your own minisite, you could be charging $27-97 – and keeping almost all of the profits. Look at sites like ClickBank, JVZoo and WarriorPlus.
