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Well the 30 Day Challenge is off and racing! It is not too late to join in and learn about Internet Marketing. Click here to taken to the Challenge website and join in - it’s free!

Day 1 - Ed covered the essential 4 stages of internet marketing (in order)

1. Market Research
2. Traffic
3. Conversion
4. Product (yes - this comes last!)

On day one Ed covered where to find a niche market. Here is a list they put together of 54 brilliant places to discover niches. Many of these are new from last year.

The idea behind a niche is to find something you are interested in (if you are in business ideally aligned to your business). Don’t go for something huge like weight-loss or internet marketing as they are very hard to break into when just starting out - find a niche of smaller groups of people who have common interests.

Last year I researched a few niches with my final two niches- small business owners who needed HR Manuals and small business owners who needed help doing employee performance reviews.

What else did I discover in my research last year - well there is a huge niche out there for pest controllers willing to look at products such as “how to get rid of bed-bugs” as well as for creative people to put something together on “halloween pumpkin carving”. I didn’t follow them up as I couldn’t get excited about bed bugs (or pumpkins for that matter).

So get going - check out these sites for potential niches. Get a list together and then get onto the 30DC for a brilliant tool that will help you work out the potential traffic of your niche (but that is Day 2).

1. 43things.com http://www.43things.com/
2. About.com Be a Guide Topics http://beaguide.about.com/topics.htm
3. About.com A to Z list http://azlist.about.com/
4. Alexa Top 500 http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
5. Amazon Hot New Releases http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases
6. Amazon Magazines http://www.amazon.com/magazine-newspaper-subscriptions/
7. AOL Hot Searches http://hotsearches.aol.com/
8. Ask.com Top Searches http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
9. Barnes & Noble Daily top Sellers http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bestsellers/
top10everything.asp
10. BoingBoing http://www.boingboing.net/
11. Delicious.com Popular http://del.icio.us/
12. Digg.com Popular Archive http://digg.com/archive
13. Digg Spy http://digg.com/spy
14. Dummies.com http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitleAll/index.html
15. eBay Hot Categories monthly pdf report http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/
hotitems.pdf
16. eBay Marketplace Research http://pages.ebay.com/marketplace_research/index.html
17. eBay Pulse http://pulse.ebay.com/
18. eBay Seller Central http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/
19. eBay What’s Hot http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html
20. eHow http://www.ehow.com/
21. Face Book http://www.facebook.com/
22. FreeIQ.com http://freeiq.com/wrkfrmhm
23. Google Catalogs http://catalogs.google.com/
24. Google Groups http://groups.google.com/
25. Google Groups Active http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?&sel=0,83986080
26. Google Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
27. Google News - Most Popular http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=po
28. Google Trends http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
29. Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
30. GoogSpy http://www.googspy.com/
31. How to Do Things.com http://www.howtodothings.com/
32. Keyword Discovery http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/
33. Live Search http://www.live.com/
34. Lycos 50 http://50.lycos.com/
35. Magazines.com http://magazines.com/
36. Meetup Topics http://www.meetup.com/topics/
37. My Goals http://mygoals.com/
38. MySimon Categories http://www.mysimon.com/4002-5_8-6273602.html?tag=ftr.glnav
39. MySimon Top Searches http://www.mysimon.com/9098-1_8-0.html
40. Neilsen Net Ratings http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/resources.jsp
41. Netscape Popular http://netscape.aol.com/
42. Omgili http://www.omgili.com/
43. Reddit.com Popular http://reddit.com/
44. SEObook Keyword Tool http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/
45. SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/popular-searches/
46. Technorati Popular http://technorati.com/pop/
47. Thisnext.com/activity http://www.thisnext.com/
48. Trendwatching http://www.trendwatching.com/
49. ViewDo http://www.viewdo.com/
50. viralvideochart.com http://www.viralvideochart.com/
51. WikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/
52. WordTracker.com http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
53. Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com/
54. Yahoo Buzz http://buzz.yahoo.com/

Until next time

Ingrid Cliff

Heart Harmony

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