How to Pick your Market Niches
Product Niche Research and Development
The niche finding resource.
You want to go into business in a niche where people are buying.
Or at least where the end game leads to buying.
This means people will want to part with their cash to get what you have.
Some Hot Niches (according to Sitepoint):
-cars
-astrology
-wedding related
Google Research Tools for Market Research eBay Pulse Marketing ResearchYahoo! Buzz Index
http://buzz.yahoo.com
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall
Yahoo Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com
43 Things
2977 - ?
- List your goals, share your progress, cheer each other on.
http://43things.com/zeitgeist
http://blog.robotcoop.com - 43 Things' Blog
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Followers: 839 |
- the 43things twitter account refers to robotcoop
Online Shopping Stores / Shopping-based Websites:
Overstock
http://overstock.com/community/forum.html - member:?, not many
771
Buy.com
933, 1118, 808 - 1.8M
Paypal Shops
Online Shopping, Online Store, Online Stores
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_shop-ext
-triple w required
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/websc ... &loc=33197 - Electronics Category
Amazon - Hot New Releases
DVD, Books, Music, Electronics, Toys, Camera & Photo
http://amazon.com/gp/new-releases
My Simon
8093, 8626 - 1283920
http://mysimon.com/4002-5_8-6273602.html?tag=ftr.glnav - MySimon Categories
http://mysimon.com/9098-1_8-0.html - MySimon Top Searches
This Next
Recommend, Share and Discover Great Products!
6175
http://blog.thisnext.com
Hot Niche Research Resources:
SEOmoz
Seomozhttp://www.seomoz.org/popular-searches
Alexa - Top 500
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
Alexa - Hot URLs
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/hoturls
Lycos 50
http://50.lycos.com
Lycos was the first search company to introduce a weekly list of popular search trends and commentary when it launched the Lycos 50™ in September 1999.
Since then, the Lycos 50 has become a favorite destination for pop culture gurus, journalists, bloggers, and anyone looking to stay on top of trends and news.
The Lycos 50 site also features a celebrity rumors blog called Under the Red Carpet.
AOL Hot Searches
See what’s hot on AOL Search
http://hotsearches.aol.com - blog format
http://about-search.aol.com/hotsearches2008 - hot searches for 2008
http://about-search.aol.com/hotsearches2008/health.html - the health niche
Ask.com Top Searches
http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
Digg Spy
http://labs.digg.com/bigspy
alias: digg.com/spy
Digg.com Popular Archive
http://digg.com/archive
Furl
http://www.furl.net/urls/popular
Delicious - popular
http://delicious.com/popular
Reddit - what's hot
5401
Omgili
Find out what people are saying
3320
http://www.omgili.com/searchamabob - a javascript feature that pops up a menu when you select text on the page.
About.com A to Z list
About.com Be a Guide Topics
http://beaguide.about.com/topics.htm
84
FreeIQ
103K - 6700
Owned by StompernetMeetup Topics
http://meetup.com/topics
876
Nielsen Net Ratings
28341 - 84353
http://nielsen-online.com/blog - Nielson Blog
-not spelled 'Neilson'
alias: nielsen-netratings.com
Com Score
12556 - 138K
-metrics firm
http://blog.comscore.com - Comscore Blog
View ComScore on Wikipedia
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Followers: 11322 |
Market Research via Magazines:
Magazines.com
Magazine Subscriptions
11810
Subscription Connection
Mr. Magazines
1343447
Amazon Magazines
http://amazon.com/magazine-newspaper-subscriptions
Trends Magazine
1443075
Trends in Bestseller Books
Amazon Books - New Releases
http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/3 - Business books - new releases
http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/385085011 - Audio business books - new releases
Half
http://half.ebay.com/books-bestsellers
For Dummies
http://dummies.com/how-to.html
17767
Other Book PublishersBarnes & Noble
Daily top Sellers
http://barnesandnoble.com/bestsellers/t ... ything.asp
Market Research via Blogs:
Market Research via TechnoratiLifehacker
the Productivity and Software Guide
2108
See Lifehacker on our Tech News DirectoryBoing Boing
A Directory of Wonderful Things
3198
Gizmodo, the gadget guide
600
MyDigitalLife.info
Living Digitally and Electronically
forums.mydigitallife.info - members:33019
2347
How-to Related:
ehow
664
Now part of eHow: expertvillage.com - Free video clips, how to videos, and video instruction, 4273
How Stuff Works
775
Make Use Of
Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips
So You Wanna?
30640
Wiki How
810
My Goals
Goal-Setting
185113
'How To' Video Sharing Sites
More User Shared Video Websites
Google Video Top Rankings
http://video.google.com/videorankings?type=viewed
Video Jug
Life Explained. On Film.
3036
Wonder How To
7418
Sclipo
broadcast your skills
The Social Learning Revolution
40781
SuTree
Social bookmarking & index of free video lessons, tutorials, how to...
How to Videos, video Tutorials.
Learn how to do anything on video
62019
Viral Video Chart
The top 20 viral videos
http://www.viralvideochart.com/now
62992
View Do
Know how, on the go, now
219428
Paid Services:
http://www.trends-magazine.com/month.php - current issue topics
1408283
Trends, 825 75th Street, Willowbrook, IL 60527. 800-776-1910
alias: crucialtrends.com
$195 per year for 12 issues.
each issue contains about 5 mp3s, one for each topic, plus a pdf.
