Are you having a hard time coming up with a good idea for your first mini EBook? No problem. Don't come up with an idea. Instead, find someone else with a good idea.
Find someone who is planning a product or site launch and ask if you can pay them $100 for a 30-minute interview. In most cases, they will accept. They'll want the publicity, anyway – and for $200 an hour, they'd be nuts not to take it.
Once you have completed the interview, take that information you extracted and carefully package it into a compelling, yet incomplete, report about the person and some of his or her best methods for doing whatever it is people do in your specific niche.
At the end of the report, put an affiliate link to the person's new site or new product. It might sound strange, but you can actually sell other people's products as an affiliate – and do it faster and more profitably than you would ever be able to manage if you worked through the product-creation process yourself.
This is especially true if you align your interview with the person's launch. Not only will you be able to sell other people's products as an affiliate and make money, but you will also be able to launch a coinciding project that can capitalize off of already-existing hype.
Additionally, you can capitalize when you sell other people's products as an affiliate through mini E-Books in two other ways. The first way is by setting up the report as previously discussed, but rather than launching it yourself, you can give it away for free to any webmaster you can find in the same niche. All them all to distribute it to their lists, which will allow you to sell other people's products as an affiliate on auto-pilot; you wont even need to do the marketing.
The last way in which you can sell people's products as an affiliate through mini E-Books is by simply constructing a special report on a specific topic and carefully placing links throughout it to promote different affiliate products. You can then either give this away for free or sell master resale rights.