Archive for the 'market research' Category

Parents - Domain Name First then Birth Certificate

Wednesday 22 August 2007 @ 08:02 pm

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. By whatever magic of nature, science or criminal activity, you’ve achieved a baby, but for god’s sake before you name the thing, make sure the domain name is available.
“…One of the criteria was, if we liked the name, the domain had to be [...]

Better Than Alexa?

Thursday 9 August 2007 @ 05:05 am

A couple months ago I added Art of Money to the Quantcast system.
Introducing Quantcast Internet Ratings
Quantcast is the world’s first open Internet ratings service. Advertisers can find reports on the audiences of millions of web sites. Publishers can ensure their sites are represented accurately by tagging them for direct measurement. The service is free to [...]

SEO & Keyword Research Über Tip

Monday 4 June 2007 @ 05:48 am

I happened to visit Ask.com the other day while doing a bit of research and notice something very interesting there. I can’t even remember the previous time I actually used that search engine, if ever, but here I was so I thought I’d throw my test phrase “make money online” in and see what [...]

Top 12 ‘Make Money Online’ Sites According to Google

Wednesday 16 May 2007 @ 05:23 am

While doing some of my market research for the $100 a day blogging project, I compiled the following list of sites that deal with the topic of making money online by taking my targeted phrases and tossing them into Google and then sifting through the results.
I weeded out the spam and the sites that were [...]

Blogging Competitor Analysis

Tuesday 15 May 2007 @ 05:29 am

This is the next action post in my $100 a day blogging series. Up to this point we have reached the point where you should have a basic list of high level keywords that you may want to target with your blog. Today we’re going to move on and take the step of gathering [...]

Is Scambusting an Online Goldmine?

Monday 14 May 2007 @ 05:27 am

I was doing some market research for another project and I wanted to share an interesting discovery. Part of the purpose of the project is for me to try my first AdWords campaign (a current hole in my online business toolbox) and I was researching existing ads for the topic that I’m after.
Here are [...]

Why Some People Will Make More Money Online

Friday 11 May 2007 @ 04:26 am

After 3 years of trying to earn money online, I can tell you I wished many times for someone that would teach me what was really going on, the fundamentals of online business, without a pile of hype, without a slick sales pitch and no $67 e-books please.
Have you even wished there was something [...]

Basic Market Research For Your Blog

Monday 7 May 2007 @ 03:35 am

The goal for the rest of the Market Research stage of this project is to saturate yourself with the market that you are entering into.
Market research is a lot like an Easter egg hunt. The best and most profitable information comes to the ones who turn over the most rocks and look behind the most [...]

Finding a Niche

Friday 4 May 2007 @ 09:11 pm

A few tricks about finding niches that I learned in the course I’m taking at University 20/20. The lesson is a good one, in practical terms and in terms of general success tactics…
Take the Easy Route
A lot of people, when they are starting a blog, or any other type of business venture online, want [...]

Is Your Blog Doomed Before You Even Start?

Wednesday 2 May 2007 @ 09:00 pm

Most likely the answer to that question is yes!
At least if your goal is to make money from it.
Market Research for Your Blog
“Blog your passion”
How many times have you heard that given as advice for what to start blogging about. It’s actually pretty good advice, but it is only the very start of picking [...]