Jack of All Trades Muse Creation

[jazzdrive3]

I know the "muse creation" threads begin to sound like a broken record, but I would appreciate some other brains to bounce ideas off of.

The problem with finding a niche is that I am kind of a jack of all trades, and a master of none. I like doing and am average at just about everything.

My interests:

1. Things I like to do:
- Collect DVDs
- Collect Books
- Read Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Study History
- Study Economic Theory, particularly the Austrian School of thought.
- Study Politics and how economics is necessarily related
- Write
- Board Games
- Video Games
- Christianity and Historical Bible Reading
- Anime
- Computers
- Tennis
- Sports
- Landlording
- Social websites
- Promoting Free Markets and Liberty

2. Things I've enjoyed in the past
- Collectible Card Games
- Toy collecting

3. Skills
- Programming - Ruby on Rails
- Retail markets, particularly relating to self-checkout technologies.
- computer troublshooting
- online research
- Network+ certified (one of the minor certs you can get)
- agile software development

I was thinking of an e-book coupled with screencasts demonstrating something. Not sure what yet.

I'm also open to selling dropshipped products. I suppose the best thing to do is swallow the cost of the $299 membership to worldwidebrands and do some research as to what I would be interested in selling and cross selling.

I've been dragging my feet, wanting to start something for a long time, but Tim's book finally pushed me over the urgency edge and I'm ready to do something NOW.

[MiniBlueDragon]

1. Things I like to do:
- Collect DVDs - Where do you buy them from? Would people like to find the cheapest/best supplier?
- Collect Books - As above.
- Study History - Would people buy a pre-written essay on a historical event that comes up in school often? (have to lower the price on this or kids won't pay!)
- Write - Could you write a book to sell as eBook or even print format? This need not even be your own work as you could dictate it and then send the audio to a VA to type-up.
- Video Games - Could you write game guides like Brian Kopp's WoW levelling guide?
- Tennis - Would people buy a beginner's guide to tennis?
- Landlording - "How to maximise your landlord profits"
- Social websites - Perfect springboard once you have your muse!

2. Things I've enjoyed in the past
- Toy collecting - Where can you find rare toys? Can you sell them at profit? Can you pay a VA to find them for you and sell them at profit? Can you write a guide on how to find them?

3. Skills
- Programming - Ruby on Rails - A Ruby On Rails guide for "X" (could be dev, could be QA scripts)
- computer troublshooting - "The Top 100 Helpdesk Requests and how to sort them out without paying!"
- Network+ certified (one of the minor certs you can get) - How you studied for your exam, what it involes, resources like BrainDumps for help etc
- agile software development - Basics of Agile and how you can move from V-Model to Agile.


Hope these help? :D

[jazzdrive3]

Thanks. Questions like that are just what I need. However, I'm not actually highly skilled in most of these. I just dabble, which is part of the problem.

I'm really interested in seeing some examples of how people have re-purposed or repackaged public domain content. That's one area that he doesn't really touch on that much in the book.

[MiniBlueDragon]

Assuming you're referring to "Private Label" stuff Public Domain is a massive market already so I think you may have a hard time finding something unique to re-brand that isn't already in the market.

Uniqueness isn't an issue if it's a similar product but I think selling the exact same product won't make you as much as having your own product that you can sell and possibly get Affiliates to sell on your behalf. :)

Expertise you say? Page 156 :D

" "expert" in the context of selling product means that you know more about the topic than the purchaser. No more. It is not neccessary to be the best - just better than a small target number of your prospective customers." - Tim Ferriss

Plus anything you feel you need to add, Google can help you and I'm sure like me you have MANY tech books on your bookshelf of in your library at work to reference?

;)

[jazzdrive3]

Well, the thing with programming tutorials and the like...there is so much free stuff out there, plus professional, top of the line books that are already seen as "industry standard" and solidified their role, especially in the Ruby on Rails community.

I'm thinking it will have to be something else entirely. Does anyone here have some examples of pages they have done to sell an information product? I know about the pxmethod.com, of course.