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Just the other day I showed you 4 Steps To A Big Selling Website. From those 4 steps you might remember that Step 1 is: “Find a hungry market with money to spend” – lets get down to the nitty-gritty. Here are some ways to find that hungry market…

Magazines
One of the things I like to do is go to a magazine store and check out all the different magazines for ideas on niche markets. Here is a tip - if someone if publishing a magazine on a particular market you want to target, chances are you’ve found a hungry market with money to spend.

You can get started right away with this by checking out this list of virtually all the magazines published in the USA (it’s a huge database so be prepared to do some digging):
Magazines.com

For product ideas for your niche market, go the library and see if they have back issues of the magazine that represents your hungry market. If the same type of ads keep appearing in each issue, you know people are buying a certain product or else they wouldn’t keep advertising. Doing this can often give you some great product ideas that appeal to your target market.

Amazon
In the “Books” section of Amazon.com, click on the “Bestsellers” link and go to the “Nonfiction” area. The bestselling title list is updated hourly so check out the site later in day or a few hours later to see which books are consistently ranked high in the best seller list.

Keyword Research
To check out the daily search volume of what keywords people are searching for here’s a video I created to help you find 1,000’s of high quality keyword phrases:
Less Effort, More Keywords and Better SEO

Another SEO tool I found that cross references keywords from Wordtracker, Google, Yahoo and MSN is:
SEO Tools

Here’s a 4 step formula that reveals the truth to amassing a huge fortune from any niche 100% guaranteed (it also helps you find your hungry markets):
Niche Fortune Exposed

Recently I launched an Intern program where I give you the hands on training needed to successfully market and promote ANY website. This training includes keyword research and is totally free to join. Because it’s a practical course there’s no theory, seminars to attend or boring ebooks to read, it’s all “hands on”.
Free Internet Business Intern Program

Now that you’ve found a hungry market with money to spend, stay tuned to this blog because next I’ll be helping you with step 2: Create a product to sell with a high profit margin.

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A short time ago word started spreading about a brand new site called Squidoo, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.

It sounded like an interesting concept, a little like a blog and a little like an “About Me” page, they asked you to sign up and create something called a “lens”.

It was certainly a unique idea, and everyone wondered if it would catch on.

Now more than 2 years later the true benefits of building a lens at Squidoo are clear. It is a great place to create a new site about your hobby, passion or business, but even more it is a great place to promote any existing web site you may have.

Not only can you tell Squidoo visitors about your site, but a lens gives the search engines another reason to place your site higher on the results pages. In fact creating and running a Squidoo lens is an excellent way to build “backlinks” to your blog or web site.

That’s just what the search engine spiders love to see.

Here are the 7 crucial reasons why you should be squidooing:

1. You can use a Squidoo lense to help you build your subscriber list by sending people to your squeeze pages
2. Build an authoratitive resource of links to useful websites which makes your lense a resource people want to use and tell others about
   
3. Create lots of deep links to the pages of your other websites (search engines love this)
4. Dominate long tail keyword phrases in the major search engines
5. Build traffic to your other websites blog and online auctions with your external linking
6. Brand you and your websites as an authority figure within your chosen niche market
   
7. Sell more of your products and build multiple streams of internet income

As unusual as “Squidooing” might sound you had better be sure to take a closer look at this incredible way of generating highly targeted, high quality traffic.

Click here to download your “Squidoo Lense Mastery” PDF mind map.
(I’ve never given away so much in a single mind map before so be sure to take a close look if you’re serious about leveraging traffic from Squidoo)

How did I discover the secrets to Squidoo?

I joined this free apprentice program called Squidoo Secrets.

Lastly…

In case you didn’t know this already Squidoo was created by Seth Godin one of the worlds greatest marketing minds.

Before you downlod this next PDF I must warn you that Seth’s ideas can profoundly change the way you look at what you’re doing online, so pay close attention to everything he says…

Click here if you want more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence.

Other useful links to help you create better Squidoo Lenses…

Create a Squidoo Lense
Squidoo Cool
Have a Squidoo lense built for you
Make Your Own TV Channel
Squid Blog

Here are a few of my own Squidoo Lenses…

You want copywriting that sells!
There’s An Idea!

Stay tuned because I’ll be back in a few days time with a special offer on a way for you to flood your website with traffic.

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Creating a Squidoo lense is a great way of getting started online, all you need is an idea and a subject to talk about. What’s also great about Squidoo is how you can use it to make money simply because Squidoo gives you all the tools you need.

Squidoo is designed for marketers by one of the best marketers in the world… Seth Godin! It’s a powerful online marketing tool you need to pay close attention to.

Here’s how easy it is to use…

With Squidoo you don’t need to know anything about HTML, in fact if you can type, point and click then Squidoo is designed just for you.

I first began investigating the power of Squidoo last year when I was developing and selling niche products. What I soon discovered was how easy it was to get my squidoo lenses were appearing in search engines like Google.

I can’t remember the exact website now but I know of a case where a Squidoo lense gained a #1 position in Google for a very specific long-tail search term and it didn’t even have any content! amazing! All it had was a title which contained the keyword phrase it ranked well for.

If this Squidoo lense website is still there today I have no idea, but I just wanted to mention it because it proved to me at the time the potential Squidoo had as an online marketing tool.

I’ve not created a Squidoo lense website for any of my recent projects, but I’m seriously considering it.

When you get a chance I recommend taking a close look…
http://Squidoo.com

When I was building Squidoo lenses last year I was able to create a content Squidoo lense in about 30 minutes flat …it’s that straight forward and user friendly.

When you’ve got your Squidoo lense set up here’s another tool I think you’ll find very useful…

It’s called Squidaholic and gives you some very interesting statistics about the SEO performance of your Squidoo lense in the search engines…

http://www.squidaholic.com

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Back in December last year I wrote an article that explains step-by-step how to come up with ideas for your next website, just in case you missed it here it is again (read on because I’ve got something for you that makes the whole process of coming up with website ideas even easier)…

5 simple steps to a bright idea for your next big selling website!

Now what I want to give you today is a push-button solution to coming up with website ideas. It’s a simple web application I created a couple of years ago and now I’ve brought it bang up to date by expanding and broadening the number of potentially profitable website ideas you can generate all at the touch of a button.

Take a look at this, it’s called: BigSellingIdeas

Click here for website ideas at the press of a button

NB. If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time you might remember me mentioning a website I have called “TheresAnIdea.com”. This is basically the same online idea generating tool, only it’s not as up-to-date as BigSellingIdeas.com 

In searching for more information about how to get ideas for niche websites I found this excellent article by Allan Gardyne that’s well worth reading (he gives you 27 great ways to come up with ideas)…

Where to get ideas for a niche website

I hope this helps.

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If you’re anything like me I’m sure that from time to time you might get stuck for ideas for new websites.

So what I did was I asked my programmer to create a special online program that actually generates website ideas. Thinking it was going to be an impossible task I was amazed with the simple solution he came up with…

All you do is press a button and out comes a new website idea based on a proven profitable niche market (can you believe it!).

http://BigSellingIdeas.com

Here are 42 of the best ideas I generated using my new software….

1. A website on: Reviewing products about playing squash
2. A website on: DVDs about hypnosis
3. A website on: A Guide to Mortgage loan secrets
4. A website on: Insider secrets to Football
5. A website on: Insider secrets to Vegetarian cooking
6. A website on: Blogging about Wedding speeches
7. A website on: Webinars about niche marketing for Real Estate Agents
8. A website on: Webinars about Marathon training
9. A website on: How to promote online dating for beginners
10. A website on: Promoting products about curing heartburn
11. A website on: Reviewing products about stopping Spam
12. A website on: Audio interviews about weight training
13. A website on: Blogging about improving your Golf game
14. A website on: Tips about cutting and styling hair
15. A website on: Online interviews about curing heartburn
16. A website on: Blogging about home decorating
17. A website on: A Guide to Genealogy
18. A website on: A Guide to Marathon training
19. A website on: Teleconferences about everything you need to know about Tropical Fish
20. A website on: Teleconferences about Psychic readings
21. A website on: Podcasts about addiction and recovery
22. A website on: Ebooks about creating Podcasts
23. A website on: A Guide to T’ai Chi
24. A website on: Secrets about Tennis
25. A website on: DVDs about managing your time more effectively
26. A website on: Online videos showing Bee keeping
27. A website on: Reviewing products about niche marketing for Real Estate Agents (more…)
    
    
    Increase your website sales by 275% or more...

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You can’t just “throw up” a website! Not if you want it to pull in visitors and build a highly profitable online business. You need to think it through, very carefully.

You need to ask yourself…

Who are you talking to?

How easy is it to pay you and complete the order form?
Get this wrong and you’ll fail, badly.

But follow me and it’ll be easy for you to create your best website ever!

So, what’s the bright idea?

That’s it - that’s where we begin … you Need a Bright Idea!

Take a look at the “Easy” brand www.easy.com. It’s a simple bright idea around which an impressive business empire has been built.

And coming up with your next bright idea suddenly got a lot easier!

Here’s how.

You simply follow these 5 steps…

Step 1: DEFINE your idea. Instead of just asking, “How can I make money?” ask: “How can I make money with this product, selling to this target audience in this type of environment?”, be as specific as you can.

The more details you can have the more likely you’ll come up with a solution that answers question. Half the game is in figuring out the question that you want answered.

Step 2: GATHER as much information as possible about the subject of your question.

This step is crucial because this knowledge spawns new ideas as you begin to discover lots of different interconnections.

A big key to your success is to continuously question your question! Sometimes you only get a few “half ideas”, but just write them down no matter how crazy they may seem.

Allow your mind to fit the connections together. It can sometimes take a while, but stick with it.

Step 3: DROP the whole subject and put the question you’re asking out of your mind!

Let your subconscious take over. Do something you enjoy that stimulates your mind and emotions. Put on some music, go to the movies - just get away from the question.

Step 4: AMAZINGLY, out of nowhere your “bright idea” will suddenly appear. It’s likely to come to you when you least expect it, perhaps when you’re taking a shower, or washing your car. It may even occur in the middle of the night, so be ready with a notepad and pen!

Step 5: FINALLY let’s put your idea under the spotlight.

Maybe your idea isn’t as great as you first thought. Don’t worry, just talk it through with other people and make any changes that are needed to alter your idea so that it answers your original question. And that was: “How can I make money with this product, selling to this target audience in this type of environment?”

And there it is - 5 simple steps to a bright idea for your next big selling website! Let me know how you get on.

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