Content Marketing For Beginners

 
 
If you're into niche marketing, finding hot niches would be familiar. You know - you go to Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, shopping.com or dummies.com to check out listings of hot items. Then you know what's hot and proceed to "attack" that niche.

But how do you come up with topics to write about? If you're into content marketing, which you should be, how do you find profitable topics upon which to build your content?

You can research any niche, of course, but it will eat a lot of your time. But, to be a prolific writer, you have to know more. Even if you are already engaged in a familiar niche, there will always be moments when you run out of ideas and get caught in writer's block.

Wouldn't it be easier if you can just copy ideas from a proven seller?

An author's words and treatment of ideas are copyrightable, but the ideas themselves are not. You can copy ideas as long as you don't use the exact same words and flow of discussions. A lot of online marketers are doing this.

That being the case, wouldn't it be convenient to just go to a bookstore or magazine shop, check out the best-sellers, pick the top and make it your model?

You can do that. Even better, you can do that online.

Search for magazine.com and click on its "Browse Magazines" menu. You will find the "Top Categories" in alphabetical order. These magazines represent hot niches. Click on a category you feel comfortable with. The magazine listed at the topmost should be a good pick.

Any magazine you choose will have a description. Check it out. Look for descriptive keywords or keyphrases. Write them all down.

Thereafter, go to amazon.com. You will find a search bar. Select "Books" and type in one of the keywords or key phrases you have written down earlier. Again, you will be shown best-sellers. Click on the topmost and, on its picture, hit "Click to Look Inside". Find the book's "Table of Contents". From the table of contents, you can tell which topics people are most interested in. (Someone else just did the research for you.) Copy the table.

You then repeat the process of finding the best-selling book relevant to each of the keywords you have listed down and copying the table of contents. From the table of contents of each book, you can have an entire niche topic to build on, complete with sub-topics. You can also consolidate all your finds and make a more comprehensive piece of research.

To make it a lot easier, you can actually purchase one or a couple of these books, gather more in-depth ideas to minimize your need for research, and have more than enough knowledge to write about in your own words.

As you will discover, finding what to write about can be so easy. Now, you can create content sites, new blogs, tons of articles or even your own info-products in no time. Just remember to WRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

The author, Dan Lastrilla is the publisher of Content Marketing For Beginners, a free resource designed to help Internet marketing beginners. For more information, visit http://contentmarketingforbeginners.weebly.com.
 


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