For instance, if you are writing an ebook that shows how to budget and save your money, you want to find out what problems and concerns people have and need information on. Things like how to save money on utilities, cutting your grocery bills, best ways to invest and so on.

You want to be very organized in your research because this is a very important process in developing your product. If you follow these simple steps, you can obtain all your information and turn it into a very successful information product.

Step 1 - Gathering Information

In this step, you want to gather information and data that will help you decide on relevant content of your ebook. There are several ways you can do this:

Discussion Lists: Ask questions to members of all discussion groups that you are a member of. See what concerns them in regard to subject matter of your ebook. With most of these groups members are very happy to help a fellow group member.

You can find all kinds of discussion lists here: http://www.topica.com http://www.yahoogroups.com

Ezine Subscribers: Write up a little survey and ask your subscribers to fill it out and see what you come up with. Of course, if you do not publish an ezine, this will not work for you. ;-)

Message Boards: Visit message boards and again ask members what information they would like to have access to and would possibly pay for. You can find boards of all kinds here: http://www.ezboard.com/ http://www.delphi.com/dir-delphi/

Popular Ezines: Subscribe to and read some popular ezines and see what information they are publishing. Expand on it and provide a more in depth study in your ebook.

You have thought about writing your own eBook for months now, but you just can't seem to decide on an idea that will get you started?

Don't be discouraged, you are not only one to face daunting task of choosing a profitable topic for your information product.

As information product developers, we are always seeking opportunity triggers. Always looking for clues as to what problems we can solve or desires we can tap into.

Sometimes we try too hard. We spend weeks researching, discussing, testing and pulling our hair out over that next blockbuster topic for our products.

As usual, obvious escapes us as we make things too complex. Current events satisfy requirements for providing a terrific source of high-profit potential (HPP) ideas. Unless you live in a cave, on international space station or work in a university or government (sorry couldn't resist!) you can't help being exposed to hundreds of potential product ideas each and every day.

Here are some excellent sources of current events that you can easily spin into your own infoproduct ideas: