Two questions from a rookie

[monerap]

Hey everyone,

I just finished MJ's book and registered here. My dream is building a self-improvement blog, help people, creating quality content/articles and finally publishing my e-books to make a living. It seems impossible but anyway i will try.

Here my questions:

1- How can i research on market? Keywords, niches etc.
2- How do you write books? I saw some of writers said "I look what is selling and writing." Is it really that simple? Let's say X topic is selling. If you don't know experience or knowledge about, how can you write?

 

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[Jamesdoesmith]

book launch+amazon+purchase=progress

 

[Threenuc]

1. Register a Google account (if you don't have one already), then go to adwords.google.com and use the keyword search tool. It will show you how many monthly searches does the term you're looking for have. Deciding whether it's profitable for you to write a book about a term when there are X monthly searches is up to you. Keep in mind eg. "wigs" and "rainbow wigs" are two different searches.

2. Then learn it, buy books, get involved in the topic. If you can provide value, there's nothing wrong with it.

 

[Fenix]

Without experience or knowledge, you shouldn't make business in a market, even if that market was very profitable: you'd risk to ignore too many problems that you'd find down the road.

In my opinion, if you want to write a book about a topic, you have two ways:

1. increase your knowledge of the market running low risks. For example, if you wanted to create a franchising of gyms, you should start working in a gym, even just as a cleaner, to understand how the business works from the inside. Only after you collect enough information, you take the entrepreneurial road.
2. Partner with someone that knows the market or pay him to cover the holes of your inexperience. Naturally, if you choose the partnership option, you must put something valuable on the table: let's say your partner knows the market, you could offer expertise in sales bigger than your partner.

 

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[GraphicKing]

Pay someone on fiverr to do keyword research or google adwords. Check out backlinko.com for guides on how to do research

 

[EricZ]

1.) Find a Niche that works for you
2.) Blog the hell out of it - see what resonates (validate your product/platform)
3.) Sell to your readers , but not directly (80/20 posts vs selling)

See all of these great posts about the subject:
http://www.zbooks.co/2015/02/ab-testing-ebook-marketing-methods.html
http://noorosha.com/

And here is the ultimate How To for you, a guy who grew his blog about marketing to over 100k subscribers in 1 year!
http://okdork.com/2014/02/09/grow-blog-100000-visitors-less-year/?hvid=1ymnEP

Get started dude!

 

[monerap]

1.) Find a Niche that works for you
2.) Blog the hell out of it - see what resonates (validate your product/platform)
3.) Sell to your readers , but not directly (80/20 posts vs selling)

See all of these great posts about the subject:
http://www.zbooks.co/2015/02/ab-testing-ebook-marketing-methods.html
http://noorosha.com/

And here is the ultimate How To for you, a guy who grew his blog about marketing to over 100k subscribers in 1 year!
http://okdork.com/2014/02/09/grow-blog-100000-visitors-less-year/?hvid=1ymnEP

Get started dude!

Thanks a lot EricZ. What a helpful answer you wrote.

 

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