Posts Tagged ‘EGAD’
EGADs Tapped Out?
Probably not.
But obviously I haven’t posted a new EGAD of late. Been preoccupied with something else which you’ll probably hear about eventually if all things work out, and the fact that after accumulating a good number of EGADs, coming up with something quickly without duplication is getting a bit more difficult.
EGAD #38 – Serve Affiliates
This idea will require a familiarity with affiliate marketing in general and specific programs whose affiliates you’ll be “serving” in particular.
Some programs just aren’t all that good at providing their affiliates with good marketing and promotional resources beyond some banners and a few token text ads and email templates, if that. Giveaway ebooks that could go viral? Yeah right.
EGAD #37 – Ask for Then Answer Questions
If you’re like me, you find it easier and faster to answer a question someone asks you versus having to come up with the question yourself first before answering it. I won’t bother going into the psychology behind this, but it’s interesting that most writers take the latter approach with their writing projects.
And many get bogged down, or even stuck before the project goes anywhere.
EGAD #36 – Readers as Contest Judges
A slight variation on the Idea/Tip Contest EGAD: Instead of just picking and running the “best of” submissions, run them all. And then let the readers vote on who wins “best of” honors.
EGAD #35 – Get Unique Articles From “Free” Article Authors
Here’s another use for those free article directories besides the EGAD #9 idea: They’re good sources of authors for original and unique niche interest content too.
EGAD #34 – Authority Checklists
A lot of the EGADs rely on your ability to find authorities who write. But what if your particular industry or area of interest isn’t exactly “writing oriented” — or maybe you’re just having difficulty finding people willing to do more “real” writing on top of what they already regularly pump out?
EGAD #33 – Package an Anthology or Library
Approach authorities with infoproducts that are currently on the market, and try to get each to agree to have his or her “book” included in full in an anthology you’re producing and selling, for a percentage of profits.
EGAD #32 – Manage a Team of Co-Authors
Map out a whole ebook on your niche topic — outline, table of contents — then hit up your list of authorities, trying to get each to write a small part of the whole.
EGAD #31 – Affiliate Product (or Service) Testimonials
Related to EGAD #29, but more promotionally-oriented. The idea, after all, is simply to compile and give away an ebook full of testimonials from happy customers (something loaded with your affiliate-coded links, of course).
So, why would anyone be interested in reading this?
EGAD #30 – Poll/Survey Results
Very easy EGAD idea, and I would think a fairly obvious one that I’m surprised more people don’t do it. Run a poll/survey on your site or blog and publish the results in an ebook. No reason why you couldn’t sell the resulting product — assuming, of course, that you’ve put some thought into the questions you ask and have collected data of real value to your target market.
EGAD #29 – Substantially Informative (Not Just Promotional) “Affiliate” eBook
The idea’s simple: Publish an ebook on a specific topic of interest, embed “affiliate” links to a merchant with a related product or service, and make commissions on any resulting sales. But instead of the usual “chock full of promotional hype and affiliate links and, really, little else” content found on websites and ebooks produced by typical affiliate marketers, you’ll want to make your ebook…
EGAD #28 – Trade Print Rights
Of all the EGADs I’ve written so far, I think this is by far the easiest and quickest.
There likely are market niches related to your own, but distinctly separate. Shop those niches for anyone selling ebooks or other “infoproduct”-like content that could be suitably packaged and marketed to your niche. If you find one, trade the print rights to your infoproduct for theirs.
EGAD #27 – Monitor Top Social Media Sites for Content
Twitter’s good for this, as mentioned yesterday. Two other social media sites that are really great and consistent sources of links to excellent categorized content you can gather and repackage into ebooks are:
EGAD #26 – Package Twitter “Tweets”
Join Twitter, “follow” a bunch of people in your industry or particular interest, then let the flood of content flow from them through you (and that filter on your shoulders) to your ebook end-product.
EGAD #25 – Collect Info Templates
Ask your authorities if they have any info templates they’d like to share with your readers (in exchange for publicity and links). The fill-in-the-blanks variety.
EGAD #24 – Idea/Tip Contest
Have your ezine/blog readers or site visitors submit tips or ideas around your particular niche or interest area. Choose a “best of” winner — s/he wins a prize — but compile all the usable submissions into an ebook you sell or give away!
EGAD #23 – Authority Profiles
Can’t imagine why anyone in your list of authorities would say no to a request to provide you with professional and personal information for an ebook of “profiles” of noted people in your particular industry or niche.
EGAD #22 – Executive Summaries
Ask authors/publishers of books/ebooks on your particular subject of interest to provide you with truly useful executive summaries of their tomes. You simply put them all together into an ebook!
EGAD #21 – Produce Video Transcripts
With more and more people presenting information in video format, what with the tech making them pretty darned easy to pump out and broadcast online, the fact that not everyone likes to get their info in video (or just in video) makes the demand for text transcripts of such content quite real… and lucrative for those who sell them.
EGAD #20 – Collect and Publish Your Readers’ Resource Recommendations
Continuing on with yesterday’s EGAD, instead of tips, ask your readers for resource recommendations (software, books and ebooks, websites, tools, downloads, etc.).