Work From Home 4 Life

A significant part of building your work from home online business is finding profitable niches. The first step is to brainstorm some niche ideas to start researching.

Being new to the niche website marketing concept, you may find that coming up with ideas a little daunting.

To start you off I have compiled a list of sites where you can do some niche site market research. Browsing through them will give you an idea of what people are interested in (your market) and some possible niche ideas.

Remember:
A successful niche is one that has a market; preferably hungry and willing to pay for what you are offering.
Your first priority is to look for “markets” NOT Products Product research begins after you have selected a Market.
(I will do another post regarding product research later)

Once you have selected a possible niche market you will need to do some keyword research to select the best keywords to attract your chosen market. I will cover some niche research strategies in a later post.

1. To begin with create a bookmark folder named “Niche Ideas”
2. Go to each site using the URLs then bookmark them into your “Niche Ideas” folder
3. Now browse the sites looking for some niche ideas to research
4. Jot down your ideas in a notebook, uisng notepad or word, or my favourite ‘Scribefire’
   Scribefire is a full-featured blog editor Firefox Plugin that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. … it’s also a great way to make notes while browsing.
5. Once you have a good list you can start doing more in depth niche market research

Here’s the list of Sites in alphabetical order

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/
(different than secret available topics)

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. Blog Pulse http://www.blogpulse.com/

11. BoingBoing http://www.boingboing.net/

12. Delicious.com Popular http://del.icio.us/

13. Digg.com Popular Archive http://digg.com/archive

14. Digg Spy http://digg.com/spy

15. Dummies.com http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesTitleAll/index.html

16. eBay Hot Categories monthly pdf report http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf

17. eBay Marketplace Research http://pages.ebay.com/marketplace_research/index.html

18. eBay Pop http://www.mpire.com/ebaypop.ivk

19. eBay Pulse http://pulse.ebay.com/

20. eBay Seller Central http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/

21. eBay What’s Hot http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html

22. eHow http://www.ehow.com/

23. Face Book http://www.facebook.com/

24. FreeIQ.com http://freeiq.com/wrkfrmhm

25. Google Catalogs http://catalogs.google.com/

26. Google Groups http://groups.google.com/

27. Google Groups Active http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?&sel=0,83986080

28. Google Keyword Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

29. Google News - Most Popular http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=po

30. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com

31. Google Trends http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

32. Google Zeitgeist http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

33. GoogSpy http://www.googspy.com/

34. How to Do Things.com http://www.howtodothings.com/

35. Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/

36. Keyword Discovery http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/

37. Live Search http://www.live.com/
( this is in beta: click More, and click Feeds)

38. Magazines.com http://magazines.com/

39. Meetup Topics http://www.meetup.com/topics/

40. My Goals http://mygoals.com/

41. MySimon Categories http://www.mysimon.com/4002-5_8-6273602.html?tag=ftr.glnav

42. MySimon Top Searches http://www.mysimon.com/9098-1_8-0.html

43. Learning Annex http://www.learningannex.com/

44. Lycos 50 http://50.lycos.com/

45. Neilsen Net Ratings http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/resources.jsp

46. Netscape Popular http://netscape.aol.com/

47. Omgili http://www.omgili.com/

48. Reddit.com Popular http://reddit.com/

49. SEObook Keyword Tool http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

50. SEOmoz http://www.seomoz.org/popular-searches/

51. StumbleUpon Groups http://group.stumbleupon.com/

52. Technorati Popular http://technorati.com/pop/

53. Thisnext.com/activity http://www.thisnext.com/
(This blew me away. It’s a world map that shows you what people are buying right this second).

54. Thomas.net Forums http://forums.thomasnet.com/

55. Trendwatching http://www.trendwatching.com/

56. TVEyes http://www.tveyes.com/

57. USA Search http://www.usasearch.gov/

58. VeiwDo http://www.viewdo.com/

59. viralvideochart.com http://www.viralvideochart.com/

60. Whonu http://www.whonu.com/

61. WikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/

62. WikiHow Categories http://www.wikihow.com/Categories

63. WordTracker.com http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

64. Yahoo Answers http://answers.yahoo.com/

65. Yahoo Buzz http://buzz.yahoo.com/