Let me be honest with you, when I first started selling ebooks online three years ago, I made every mistake in the book. I thought if I just uploaded my manuscript to Amazon, readers would magically find it. Spoiler alert: they didn’t.
After lots of trial and error (and a few face-palm moments), I’ve learned what actually works. If you’re thinking about jumping into the digital publishing world, here’s what I wish someone had told me from the start.
1. How Do You Find Your Sweet Spot?
Here’s the thing about niches: everyone tells you to pick one, but nobody explains how. I spent weeks agonizing over this until my neighbor asked me about my herb garden. The content of that chat by the way led to my first successful ebook on container gardening in apartments.
The lesson? Examine what you already are passionate about or what are the problems solved by you. To determine what the people are talking about you can check Google trends or scroll down the Twitter discussions. The work of my urban gardening ebook was that I did not aim at challenging the broad gardening guides, but I was reaching those urbanites that wanted home fresh herbs but they only had a small balcony