Make six figure royalties off one single idea

The thing I realize is that some of my ideas have been out there for six years or so and some have surely earned six figure royalties to date. What I want, however, is to get a royalty check for six figures. This would mean that it’d have to make six figures in a month or a quarter.

So the thing that I’ve determined is that I make an average of $0.10 royalty per unit sold on most of the things that my ideas end up on. This means that if I want to make six figures off a single idea, I have to come up with a million seller. Since even my good ideas tend to sell more in the tens of thousands range, I figured I needed to do a little research on what sold in the millions.

Researching things that have “mass appeal” has been very eye-opening. It seems I have very frequently been barking up the wrong tree. This has helped me to streamline my brainstorming, though, and knowing which ideas are worth pursuing and which aren’t.

“The best way to get a good idea is to get lots of ideas.”
—Linus Pauling

Currently I only brainstorm new ideas once every three months at the most. I’ve decided I need to start doing it once a week if I’m going to come up with enough ideas that I can find at least one that will strike gold.