How Narrow Should I Make My EBook Topic?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Jackie, who has written an ebook for a very narrow niche. Sales are good but not amazing. Should her next book topic be as narrow or should she go broader? Share your thoughts using #AskPat324. Jackie’s site is http://freedomthroughpassiveincome.com/. In this episode, I mention the tool Crazy Egg (http://www.crazyegg.com/). Do you have a question about topics for ebooks? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	What's up,
0:11.8	Pat?
0:12.2	And welcome to episode 324 of Ask Pat.
0:14.7	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.9	Awesome.
0:20.3	Now, let's get to you today's question from Jackie.
0:23.2	Hey, Pat. This is Jackie from Freedom Through Passiveincome.com. I have a question about
0:27.5	writing e-books. I wrote a book about three months ago called How to Get a University job in South
0:32.4	Korea. And the good news is that there's no competition on Amazon or anywhere else on the web, actually.
0:40.6	The bad news is that it's kind of a very narrow niche.
0:44.1	So my sales have not been amazing.
0:46.3	They're slow but steady.
0:47.1	I usually sell one or two copies a day.
0:48.9	So for the future, I'd like to write some more books.
0:51.8	And I'm wondering if it's better to focus on
0:54.5	things where I might not get a lot of sales, but there's no competition, or if I should
0:59.7	try to go bigger and compete with other people. Thanks for your input. Bye.
1:06.3	Hey, Jackie, thank you so much for the question today. I really appreciate it. This is an
1:09.8	interesting one, and I'd love to hear what everybody else out there think. So while you're thinking about this,
1:14.5	while I come up with my answer, go ahead and use the hashtag Ask Pat 3,24. I think this is a great
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