Check to see if books have been written on your topic. If they have been written, they can be used as sources of content for your membership site. If they've been written and are selling, then you know your site's chance of making money using that topic is pretty good.
How do you tell if a book is selling? Actually, Amazon makes that kind of tough. You can use the Amazon.com Sales Rank but you must keep in mind that the number doesn't accurately reflect actual book sales – especially for books with rankings over 100,000.
Look for books that cover the same information you'll be providing on your site. Check the Amazon.com Sales Rank for the book. If it has a rank of less than 200,000, you know that it's making sales. If the rank is less than 100,000, the book is making frequent sales. If the ranking is less than 10,000 – then sales for the book are pretty hot.
To find the Amazon.com Sales Rank, open up the listing for the book you're interested in, then scroll down the page until you find the Product Details section which looks like:
Near the bottom of this section you can see that this book has an Amazon.com Sales Rank of 64,312 which means the book selling fairly well.
Use Amazon to not only find out if the information is selling, but also to get some great ideas for your membership site.
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