3 Ways to Generate Kick-Ass Niche eBook or Report Ideas

3 ways to generate kick-ass niche eBook or report ideas

• Your Takeaway – 3 seldom-used ideas for niche ebooks

You want to make money in your niche.

Growing your niche list is one way to achieve this.

The easiest way to grow your list, of course, is to offer something valuable in exchange for people to sign up to your autoresponder.    But all too often, people rely upon newsletters or RSS…and fail to realize that showcasing your smartness to your readers is an excellent way to build up trust and profitability.

Instead of giving away a newsletter, consider writing a free ebook or report that answers something lustful in your niche.  Remember, the evergreen desires (better sex, better looks, better weight, being smarter, getting the jump, unearthing the secrets etc.) will always spark more interest in the average reader than your typical dry-as-dirt how-to guide.

So now you sit down, and now you think.

What can you write about that nobody else considers?

Here's three ideas for some kickass niche eBook topics.

1.)  Search for your niche at LifeHacker.

LifeHacker gives unique ideas for just about anything you can imagine.  Check out these searches:

• football
  
• diet
  
• freelancing
  

The articles that result are generally most unusual.  Other sites that will spark your imagination include

• Hack a Day
  
• How Stuff Works

You can take the ideas you discover and modify them for a sub-niche within your field.  For example, if your niche is oil painting and you encounter the article: How to Remove Oil-Base Paint Stains , you can enlarge on that idea and write a report about preventing art-room disasters, How to hack up painting smocks and the like.

Anything that is unusual and ideally helpful – it will help convince individuals to sign up.

2.)  Search for your niche at Amazon.com or eBay and …

Go search for your niche on Amazon.com or eBay and then sort the results by highest-price first.

The results are mind-boggling.

You can then write a human-interest report/how-to guide on the item in question.

Consider the niche of bungee-jumping.   You might come across the Banshee Bungee Evolution Riverboarding Package priced at $599.  Further exploration shows that it's part of Banshee Boarding…which, while might be considered too extreme for many people, might spark the voyeur in visitors and interest them to learn about this exotic sub-niche. 

The types of items related to your niche for sale will truly surprise you.

3.)  Search for your niche at Cracked.com

You want utterly inane and incomprehensible ideas – visit Cracked.com  for a variety of reasons.

One, they have masted the art of getting people to open their articles.  Search for

Consider these titles:

The Top 5 Appropriately Great/Awful Everything of the Decade

6 Assassination Attempts that Almost F#@cked the World

7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

The 7 Ballsiest Ways Anyone Ever Quit Their Job

Notice how they follow a set pattern:

Pick a number + give an action/verb + offer a subject title

If your niche is selling to Mercedes Benz enthusiasts, you could use the inspiration above and come up with:

• The Top 5 Must-Have Mercedes Benz Gadgets of 2010
• 6 Killer Ways To Crush Your Mercedes Benz competition
• 7 Must Read Mercedes Benz How-To Repair Guides
• The 7 Most Incredible Ways Anyone Has Ever Customized Their Benz

See how it works?

You don't have to be profound, you don't have to be life-changing, you don't even have to make a whole lot of sense. 

You just have to intrigue your reader so they opt into your list.

If you really want a hands-on guide to writing ebooks/reports that sell, you can also check out Building Your eBook Empire – the information you'll get is just plain gold.

3 ways to generate kick-ass niche eBook or report ideas recap

Ideas are waiting for you if you get off your rear and search for them.  You can:

• 1.)  Search for your niche at LifeHacker.
• 2.)  Search for your niche at Amazon.com or eBay and …
• 3.)  Search for your niche at Cracked.com
• Pick a number + give an action/verb + offer a subject title
• You don't have to be profound, you don't have to be life-changing, you don't even have to make a whole lot of sense. 

Smart niche marketers know that building their list is a terrific way to increase their long-term profits.   Make sure you're part of that crowd today.

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