[monkeydust]

Some useful stuff in here, will bookmark.

My wife spent a lot of time a few years ago putting together content for a book targeted at new parents, aim was to be practical tips/tricks/do's/dont's rather than than a theory book (plenty of those out there). It was based on her 10 years experience in childcare and input from some co-workers. It was bit of a hobby but the goal was to monetize it at some point.

Then kids came along and she parked it but now we are looking at how she could extract some value from the collateral that's sitting there in a word doc.

Aside from the obvious publish an ebook we started to toy around with extracting and using the collateral in a blog style publication with revenue coming from products, being conscious that the goal should always be to recommend what she thought was the best product (even if that means making no money from it as not all products have affiliate scheme).

We somewhat tested this by putting out a piece in certain forums for car seats offering specific advise to certain problems people were having. From a handful of posts she is making ~$30 a month from amazon. Nothing to shout about but it was very little work just highly targeted to certain demographic with a specific challenge. I guess message being here good content in the right place can help you win but yea its a lot of hard work to scale this to a $10K a month.