How To develop your own killer product:

- One conventional technique is to organize a questionnaire/ quiz/ Survey and promote it.

- Another way is to lurk in forums related to your area of interest and find out what people are talking about. What problems they have and work out a solution.

- Yet another powerful way is to capitalize on concept of keywords. Discover what words or phrases are most frequently searched on various search engines, what information are people desperately looking for. Here are some tools to help you out: http://www.goodkeywords.com - fr*ee software to enable you get all keywords relevant to your area of interest.

http://www.wordtracker.com - You can get a fr*ee weekly report of top 500 frequently searched words on Internet.

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ - Here you can check popularity/ how many searches are being made for any keyword of your choice.

Once you have short listed your search terms, use these terms on search engines yourself, visit all sites that come up and find out what is missing element that you can capitalize on.

- OK you have hit raw nerve. Now do some brain storming/ mind mapping to work out what kind of information/ software/ website is needed. You may get incredible professional assistance to develop your product from http://www.elance.com

Now here are some insider tips for you to get your creative juices flowing:

-All newbies on net are desperately searching for some realistic sure fire way to start earning a decent income easily and immediately.

- All oldbies with websites or products are searching for new ways to advertise/ market effectively and cheaply. - Also another killer idea/product is desperately needed to overcome hegemony and over exposure of email marketing. As frankly average person is not usually cut out to handle developing huge responsive mailing lists. And now ugly sp*m filters overtones ringing in back ground are heralding impending failure of email marketing.

A brain wave anyone?

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But are Amazon making a loss by offering you a 20% discount in first place? Not on your life. They often get 35% discount. So they paid around £4.50 a book they are then asking you to pay £5.59. How many people buying a popular book does it take for them to cover their costs and make a profit even if they DIDN'T charge you £3 postage.

But they do charge you that. So its not even a question of making a small profit or loss on each sale and hoping selling to lots of people gets them a discount on their postage bill - which it usually does.

So how much should you pay? Well, we would make a profit on that £6.99 book with 35% discount to us from publisher by charging you £5.75 INCLUDING POSTAGE.

So, please. Don't think you're not paying shop prices rather than discount prices. And I mean corner shop inflated prices, not Wal Mart sell it cheap prices.

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