Brainstorming for ideas for the 30DC
By Mike | August 4, 2007
I have been brainstorming for ideas for the thirty day challenge. I know we are suppose to come up with just seven “markets” but once I start thinking, I just can’t stop and everything I see becomes an idea for a website.
A couple of weeks ago I saw the movie Knocked Up. I enjoyed the first half of the movie, the second half got a bit too sentimental for me. The guys in the movie have an idea to create a website which documents all of the nude scenes in movies – fleshofthestars.com. They spend months planning the site. Ben Stone then tells someone else the idea for the site, and guy responds, “like Mrskin dot com”. It was a classic scene, especially if are into internet marketing.
I have felt this experience many times. Two years ago I wanted to create a travel guide to Tokyo. I started creating a site, but soon realized it would take me a long time to produce the content of a rival site. I ended up buying the rival site.
It seems like most of the ideas I have come up with the last couple of days, good free information that appears at the top of a search is already available.
Last year I wrote a guide to living in Japan which I have only sold a couple of copies, but to be honest I haven’t done anything to market it. I think I would prefer to use something I already have available than spending the time creating something from scratch, which most people seem to be doing.
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11:32 pm on August 4th, 2007
It’s tricky. There’s a market for online services, but the type of people who buy them aren’t particularly people you might think. You have to take into account that even though people have an Internet connection, it doesn’t mean they use it that efficiently. They may go see a couple of news sites, a few big name sites, and email. That’s about it. To grab traffic, you got to appeal to these visitors to bookmark you and come back for some reason, like Myspace. There has to be something in it for them. If you make your appeal to only a small niche, you won’t get much traffic, like living in Japan. If you make it too generic, you get lost within all the other sites that spring up like mrskindotcom. This is very interesting in that developing your niche and differentiating your services is classic marketing that was ignored by most websites. Now, they are back to the basics. Good luck!