When people search the Internet for information, they will be unable to escape the amount of eBooks available in any niche, including Internet marketing, social bookmarking and any other subject of interest.
Of course, there will be software, eCourses, graphics and videos also available, but they won't have the impact well-written eBooks and short reports will have on home businesses and marketing campaigns.
There are several good reasons for that impact.
Let's digress for a moment and remember the Internet's beginnings.
This entire phenomenon began quietly as an information exchange between universities.
It was a way to keep scientists connected to the information they needed.
Of course it was more complicated than that, but for the purpose of this article, the fact is that the entire Internet and the Worldwide Web, including Web 2.
0, was created to make sharing information easier.
Now, information is the major reason most people use search engines and an entire information business system has become a very powerful money-making tool for thousands of marketers worldwide.
Simple home businesses have made smart marketers full time incomes based on the creation, marketing and sales of eBooks.
Not far behind, are short reports and eCourses The strongest reason for running entire online businesses on the back of information products is their ease of creation and longevity.
For example, once an eBook is written, formatted, and published for sale on a web page or blog, it can stay there forever.
If the information is updated periodically, you can sell the updated eBook to those who bought the first one, as well as new buyers.
Both versions can be sold as a package.
The older version can be offered as an opt-in reward for subscribing to your blog or service and the updated version, with new information, can be an upsell.
A simple link in your signature on blogs, forums and emails can send more interested customers to your sales page.
Short reports, smaller eBooks with good information included, can be introductory products leading to a more expensively priced product.
When you find people who want a solution to a problem or step-by-step instructions on how to do something, you can develop an eCourse from your eBooks or short reports if the information is relevant.
If not, write one that is.
Though you might not have noticed, in the last two paragraphs you just read eight separate reasons to sell information products online.
Those reasons have generated five and six-figure incomes for online marketers.
There's no great secret about creating an eBook or other information product.
You pick a topic that you like or know something about, research for new information to bolster your knowledge, find a related niche of active members.
What you know about your subject is just your starting point.
Research for current information and new techniques on Google or any other search engine.
Forums or blogs focused on your subject can let you judge the interest in your subject and give you an opportunity gather problems that need solutions.
That's both your market and your product ideas.
FYI: Blogs are easier to start out with than sales pages.
They are easier to publish and often are free.
If you cannot write clearly, find a ghostwriter to do it for you (outsourcing).
Once you have one product online, start creating more products You are providing information to a hungry public and that's what started the Internet in the first place.
It's not brain surgery...
find a need and fill it...
find a problem and solve it.
Put it in an eBook, short report or eCourse and sell it.
Your creativity and the information products you create with it will be pure gold to your income stream.
What are you waiting for? Get Started!