Imagine publishing an ebook only to learn that youre making no sales, no traffic to your website and no profits. How depressing will that be

A while ago my friend, Peter Vincent just finished writing and
publishing his new ebook called How To Be A Good Retail Worker. He has no problems with writing an ebook. He knew how to write, he knew how to organize his work into a structured way. But he had one problem - He couldnt sell it in the end!

Why? Because he failed to see how big the demand was for information on Retail working work. He didnt research before he published his finished ebook. He lost hope and didnt have any confidence anymore. He was assuming people will buy his book and he was hoping that a lot of people were looking for information about this subject. He failed miserably!

To be frank, without doing your research youll go no where with your ebook venture. Youll be brain dead and youll be like a blind man going no where but the wall in front of him. Without researching before hand youll:

- Waste a lot of your time (and time = money).
- End up having no hope and momentum.
- Wonder if youre ebook will ever sell or not.
- Youll need to guess and hope a lot. Hope, hope & hope.

Most people fail to do their research FIRST before they write their ebook because they think that it will sell good. They hope in wonders that itll sell like the best ebook anyone has seen. They think that theyll get rich overnight. Listen, just because youve got good knowledge about a certain topic, it doesnt mean that it will sell! (Sorry if you studied ten years on that subject).

To check and see how many people are actually looking for that topic, search that topic in your favourite search engine such as Yahoo.com. Just for an example you can search a topic about How to make money. Youll literally get over 3.7 billion results. Do you think that this product will even sell? Look at the competition it has. The business sector makes up most of the population of all subjects. So my point here is that you need to create a product that either no one has or create a product better than your competitors. You can create an ebook based on a niche market.

If you do your research on the topic of your ebook, youll benefit immensely because:

- Youll know your competition & how large it is before hand.
- Youll know if people will even buy your ebook.
- Youll know how much to sell it for because you can compare prices with your competitors.
- Itll save you a massive amount of time.
- Youll have more confidence in writing the ebook because youre absolutely certain that it will be a winning product.

There are many tools and resources that offer you to research hot markets. Three tools I personally use to find hot markets include:

Keyword suggestion tools Such as Overtures keyword suggestion tool. Hidden tools that not many people make use of. If you want to find very niche markets try looking at Ebays categories such as Books & Comics > Business > Ebooks. One other hidden tool that not many people use is eBays Pulse. This tool will show you the top 10 keywords searched on ebay. You will find this tool on the homepage, called eBay Pulse.

- Forums Take a look at the forum that relates to your topic. If your subject has something to do with weight loss then search weight loss forums in your search engine. Youll find a lot of people posting their questions and problems.

- Surveys & Questionaries - If you have an opt-in list why dont you survey your list about the topic? Ask them what is the biggest problem in __________.

The biggest tip I can give you is to take baby steps. Get those small ideas that you had a long time ago and work on that first. So then you can make achievable goals not a huge project which would take a lot of time and money.

So if you really want to learn how to sell and profit from your ebooks and Im stressing this out It is highly imperative, important & crucial that you do your research of your market FIRST before you even type/write a single letter or word on your text editor/notepad. Youll then cut the guess work.