The renowned self-help author Vernon Howard only ever wrote on one subject: mind control. His first work Physco-Pictography was published at the outset of the 1965 and from that one book he contrived to produce another thirty.
How did he manage to do that?
The original work was so fulsome and all embracing that he was able to extrapolate twenty-nine powerful individual principles, which over the next twenty years he expanded into full-blown stand-alone volumes.
All of his books incidentally were bestsellers in their time except the original, which was rejected several times before being released on a small print run. This same original edition is now sold on private subscription for £100 per copy.
How's that for niche marketing?
Where Vernon Howard looked for his next project you ought also to look after publication or rejection of your first project. It won't contain as many stand-alone ideas but it might contain one, two, or maybe more.
In my own small way and from my bestseller Starting an Internet Business Home (published in 2001 by Kogan Page) I have successfully produced two more published works on the same subject together with three online instruction courses.
Unlike Vernon though, I've also had several other ideas from the book turned down flat.
Do as Vernon Howard did and see if you can identify more gems buried deep in the wisdom of your initial project.
Good luck…and may the wind be always at your back in all of your creative endeavors.
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