Okay, so you know I’m a ghostwriter and I complain all the time that I write ebooks and information products for my clients, but have no time for myself. Well, I’ve been eeking out a little time here and there and came up with an idea for an ebook, ecourse and other products teaching people to create info-products.
I pitched the idea to a successful online Internet marketer and she didn’t like my idea or business title. Ouch! I got depressed for a while. I thought, oh no, back to the drawing board. I’d already bought domain names, designed my logo, planned my product funnel and started writing my ebook through Donna Kozik’s write-a-book-in-a-weekend class.
Finally, I decided to run a survey. I’ve never created a survey before but I’d taken enough of them. I signed up at Survey Monkey which I’d heard about. It’s a free survey tool that allows you to create a survey and drive people to the survey to get their opinions. Then you usually offer a gift for taking the survey.
I set aside 2 hours on a Saturday afternoon, sat in the library (I found out now why people take their laptops to Starbucks, although I prefer my library: fewer distractions, although I found plenty of distractions at the library!). I completed the survey and then turned it over to my VA (virtual assistant) to complete and mail out to my list and post on my social networking sites. I also decided to post it here on my blog so anyone who feels inclined to put in their 2 cents, can give me their opinion.
Basically the survey asks people, who might fit into my target market, if they have ever wanted to write a book, but didn’t, and what was their biggest obstacle and what might help them overcome it. Also I included some potential names for my business to get some feedback on that.
If you have 3 minutes and want to help your busy ghostwriter blogger friend here, hop over to http://tinyurl.com/dgjja2 and let me know what you think. I have 2 cool free reports you can choose from as a gift. I haven’t read any responses yet, but my VA tells me I’ve had a high response rate. I highly recommend running one of these surveys if you get stuck anywhere in your creative process.
Happy info-products,
Andrea
Andrea Susan Glass
www.WritersWay.com
