http://www.retireyoungandwealthy.com/brainstorming-for-ideas-for-the-30dc/ Tips, advice and experience for making money from anywhere in the world Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:21:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.retireyoungandwealthy.com/brainstorming-for-ideas-for-the-30dc/comment-page-1/#comment-23912 Claire Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:32:22 +0000 http://www.retireyoungandwealthy.com/brainstorming-for-ideas-for-the-30dc/#comment-23912 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! 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!

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