How To Check Your E-book Ideas
April 16, 2009 by J.Koivukoski
Filed under Writing Ebooks
If you get an idea for a new e-Book, you need to run some checkings before you starting to be creative. If you can give positive ‘yes’ answer for each question, then you have a real good possibility for a saleable product in your hands:
- Will a quite large group of people find it interesting? (i.e. not a really rare niche such as fishing for eels in Alaska)
- Can it solve a problem for the readers?
- Does it make a difference from anything else that is out there on that subject at the moment?
Those three main questions are where you need to be able to say yes to. If you can not, then it is back to the brainstorming. After all you will not sell very many copies if it does not do anything for people. If your idea meets these requirements, then it’s time to see if that idea really will fly.
IS YOUR IDEA SALEABLE?
There is only one way to find out the answer to this question and you need to do some research.
Don’t let that put you off though, because researching potential ideas for eBooks is far from boring! It helps you to see if your idea will work, and if there is something you need to adjust in it to make a real success of it.
Also, if this idea is related to an area of interest that fascinates you and has the potential to spawn more than one eBook in the future, you should pay close attention when you do your research.
How to start researching? A great keyword tool is offered by Wordtracker, and it’s free. You can subscribe to the Wordtracker service if you wish to get more comprehensive results, but you should find the free service meets your needs initially.
Here is an example. If you are thinking of writing an eBook about saving money and budgeting. Just enter each phrase into the search box to see how many times those words were searched for recently. If you only get a few results, you might want to think about choosing a different angle or another subject.
If we put the phrase ‘save money’ into the free keyword tool, we get hundreds maybe thousands results. But the best thing about this service is that you also get other variations on the term or word you type in. In this case, you’ll see many other phrases that people have searched as well, which will help you to gauge the popularity of your idea. The most important thing to remember here is that some of the results that appear will be related: so for example we’ve got ‘save money’, ‘ways to save money’, ‘how to save money’, and many more which could equally relate to the topic you have been thinking.
Theres also another similar tool GTrends (which is also free) to help you out – if you do your keyword search using this page you will see a small symbol of a graph appearing at the end of each line of search results. Clicking on this will give you a better idea of the search volume of that particular word or phrase over the past few years. It gives you no more than a broad glance at the market for your idea and potential eBook, but that glance can be all you need to determine whether it’s worth a shot.
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