Find Your Market

How do you find profitable, responsive markets on the Internet? Most experts over-estimate their knowledge of what their customers want. In this episode, Chris and Gihan talk about simple, practical market research you can do before you invest time in new products and services.



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Web sites we mentioned:

• eBay Pulse
• Google Zeitgeist
• Google Trends
• Google Keywords Tool
• Google Suggest
• Word Tracker
• Max Hitchins - the Hospitality Doctor
• I Am Siamese (Chris' e-book)
• Sri Lankan Cooking (Gihan's mum's e-book)

There's a Market for Everything

A Perth man, Ian Usher, recently offered his life on the on-line auction site eBay. Which just goes to show that there's probably a market for everything on the Internet! In this podcast, we show you how to do simple market research to discover the price people are willing to pay for your products on-line.

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Web sites we mentioned:

• www.alife4sale.com
• The eBay listing
• 100goals100weeks.com
• strangebids.com

Shopping comparison engines:

• froogle.com
• shopzilla.com
• gemm.com
• alibris.com
• abebooks.com

Completed listings:

• eBay completed listings

Here's a news report about Ian Usher's auction idea: