Before you hope to make any real money from your information, you need to know how to figure out what topics are “ripe for picking”. In other words, the topics that will make you the most amount of money as quickly as you can make it. Especially if you’re in a real “money crunch”.Here are my top ways that have brought me excellent results when I chose a topic to write on.

Find Your Topic In Search Engines

One of the quickest ways to find a popular, or “hot topic”, is to do a top keyword search. I would suggest you use NicheBot to find high keyword results on a topic you think you’d like to write about. Another superb idea to find out “what’s hot” is to do a basic keyword search for the most searched keywords. Confused? Don’t be. I’ll explain it to you

To find the most searched for keywords, go to a site like Lycos 50, or Word Tracker, and take a close look at what’s on those lists. Of course, you’ll find a bunch of crap keywords on them you couldn’t do anything with. But, if you found a keyword like sex, then you could compile some sort of dating manual. Or “how to get lucky” guide for men or women, or both! It may be possible for you to create an information product based on a few of the top keywords if you use a little “brain power”.

One last way is to go to Top Adsense Keywords or Yahoo! Search Marketing(use to be Overture) and see which keywords are the most expensive. If you use the Yahoo! Keyword Search Tool, you will have to enter a keyword you are interested in writing up an information product around. The more money an advertiser is paying for those keywords, you can bet the more people are searching for them.

Find Your Topic In Online Forums

Yes. Lurking in forums is an unbelievable fountain of knowledge to find a “hot topic”. You might not think so at first. But have you ever noticed how many questions are asked inside them? A Lot. Pay attention to the topic that is most asked about. And use that to your money making advantage.

See what is being discussed in over-abundance. What are the “repeat” questions being asked over and over again? How can you take that question and provide the answers in a helpful way that one would actually be willing to pay you for?

Now, you need to find the right “target audience” first. What do I mean by “target audience”? Well, you wouldn’t go to a restaurant to do your laundry, right? Same applies to the “lurker”. You have to go to the right forums to get the right information supplied to you.

So, if you’re considering writing up an information product about making money, then you’d go to a forum where “working from home”, or “money from home”, or “internet marketing” was the main subject of that forum.

The same is true if you wanted to write up information on gardening or dating tips. You’d want to go to those forums that dedicated themselves to those specific subjects.

Find Your Topic In Your Brain

Yep. Using your imagination to write up information about what you already have knowledge about is a perfect way to create an information product. I’ve done this before, and you can get positive results. Not as many as if you were to use the first two “idea hunters” above. But still, if you pick a topic that fits in with something happening currently, you’ll give yourself a better chance to profit.

For example, how about a national holiday that may be coming up? Have some good family recipes or activity ideas? Use them! Those can be super “hot” sellers for you. Or an activity you do? Like pro bike riding. Or camping? Or some type of indoor/outdoor sport? Those are always a good choice to write about.

And it will be even more interesting when you write it because only you can write up your ideas or thoughts like you. Why is that important to making fast cash? Well, due to the fact that many information sellers believe that there are certain topics that there is too much information on. They call this “saturation”.

But, ask yourself this. . .If that particular topic was in fact “saturated” as so many may claim, then why are there still being more products created based around it? Ahh! Within the question the answer lies.

Because each person as an individual has their own writing technique and style. Like fingerprints, no two are ever quite the same. Therefore, whether someone else thinks that a particular topic is “saturated” or not shouldn’t determine whether you can write up a great information based product about it. Don’t let the “Nay Sayers” stop you! Besides, you may find a different approach to that topic other authors may have missed.

Now that you know how to find a rich collection of topics to base your information products on, and when I say information products they can be as simple as an aritcle, or as complex as a full ebook, it’s time to show you how to actually write up the text in a way that will take you the least amount of time while bringing in cash fast.