Getting a perfect result from searching for business ideas is simply a process of elimination

I could find you a dozen very profitable business ideas – that was carefully researched in one day, but remember that I do research for clients almost on a daily basis, so you need to follow a few rules to be certain that your results are correct and safe to work with.

Finding some perfect business ideas is simply the process of following a few easy to do steps and analyzing those results to know which business ideas are very good and which business ideas are a little weak

You need to decide as to what sort of business idea you are looking for before you even begin

This is vital to the length of time you spend in doing your research, as you would not need to spend a week doing research for a website that you plan to build up as another income stream for your business portfolio, but you will need to do extensive research into a business idea that you are going to invest large sums of money into.

How to get a lot more detail on this topic

This post is only going to give you a guideline on what you should do to find your best business ideas, and I highly suggest that you get a copy of my $5 report that details out a lot of these research methods – it is titled before you do your business plan – click that link to go and see what it entails, or click on the image.

The real research is dependent upon the field of business that you would like to pursue, as some online research methods do not work with more obscure businesses. A great example of this is engineering related businesses, for example doing the analysis of core samples related to mining will not show a lot of activity online, and therefore you would need to do different types of research offline.

Start by choosing you business niche

I say this often, but a successful business does this thing well…

Find out what people want and then sell it to them

This step is not vitally important, but it will help you structure your research better and not have you get to a point where you have to start all over again from the very beginning.

What I normally tell people to do is to simply write down a short list of your skills, and then another short list of the things you are really passionate about.

Then the trick is to combine a skill you have with a product you are passionate about, and use that as a starting point for finding the perfect business idea.

However the item you are passionate about is more than likely your best bet, as skills can be easily acquired – if you really insist upon starting a new business venture in a field that you love but have no experience in. Do not let that put you off.

Naturally if you choose something medical as your passion, you are not going to become a Doctor in a few weeks, but if that is what you really want to do, then you would choose a business idea in that field, or closely related, and while you are getting a Doctors degree you can build and run your business anyway. Personally I would hate to try that combination – as I suspect that the studying hours will be a lot and force your business to really put a strain on your time, but I digress.

So You choose a niche topic

In fact I suggest that you start off with two or three and research all three to get a better idea as to which one is far stronger than the other business ideas.

 Let me show you a quick made up list of business interests that you would have put onto your list.

Horses – breeding – riding school – training – horse store (products)

Green products – electric cars – solar electricity – recycling

Fashion – retail – clothing – clothing design – organic fashion products

So now you would have a base to use as a starting off point fro the research into what you would like to own as a business – naturally if there is potential for that idea or product or service.

So now you would take this list and use it in the next step – keyword research. Do not take this step lightly.

The most important step to seeing if your business ideas will be viable

I am not going to mince this comment – THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP!

LOL – I didn’t mean to shout, but this step – the keyword research will give you an almost 100% success rate as to the potential and viability of your business idea.

If you do this step carefully and when you are done there is very likely going to be only two or three possibilities that will come out of the original list that you submitted – or started above, to be able to use as a real business idea.

I am not going to explain to you here how to do keyword research, as I have a lot of other posts on this website that does exactly that, and I even have a free keyword tool that you can get if you do not have it yet – see the banners on the side of the website.

I will now go away and do a quick bit of keyword research into that list above and come back to show you some potential markets that might be worth pursuing.

My Initial results from the keyword research

 Business ideas – The horses niche

This niche would always be area specific, as the ownership of horses and their upkeep is a very expensive thing to do, and therefore you need to take that into account.

But let us presume that you do have some experience in the training of, or breeding of horses, and that part of your business is not an issue, it is more about finding out the potential size of the market.

Now I am south African, and am fairly aware of the strength and size of this industry. I know that because this horse business is small and “clicky” here that you need to take that aspect of the idea heavily into consideration. So if you wanted to pursue something relating to horses, you would need to be certain that there is “new inquiries” all the time.

Here is a pic of the initial horse keywords. the results on the right hand side relate to South africa.

Now if you look – only 58 people a month in South Africa look up the exact keyword “horse training” this is a fairly low number, but if your website, when you have built it correctly, ranks for this keyword, and 150 other related keywords – you will get traffic.

The Broad search results for the keyword “horse training” is 1300, so a well developed, and correctly done website, with all the word-press, seo, social stuff etc built in – should get that many visitors a month.

Now as a horse trainier, it is a service, and you would be getting clients that are repeat payers, so you could consider this business keyword.

However with this example, you need to do a lot more of those “before you do your business plan” research methods to see that your location etc is all within the best parameters for that business idea.

Comment here – Multiple business streams

I am a very firm believer in having multiple business streams, or add on, and even up sells. The – do you want fries with that sir? – concept always works very well, as someone who has already made the decision to buy something will happily add more items if they are available.

So back to the horse training example, it could be that you also write up a very detailed training product and sell that online, via kindle, or its own website. This extra source of income will naturally be 100% gravy.

Then you add the horse products store to your business, and find those specialist items, that are not available at your local opposition. 

Finally you take that store mobile and attend all the horse events and build up a client base from those regular events where you will be exposed to the horse community all the time.

Eventually you build the biggest horse specialty events and track stadium ever seen in the world and stage massive international events. (OK, I am just joking here, you would need to be an exceeding ambitious person to want to take your business to that level)

Next example – business idea – Green products

Here is the picture of my very first look at the keywords

You will see that solar power immediately shows itself to be potentially strong, while recycling does get a lot of searches my initial knee jerk reaction is that the recycling searches are not going to be to buy a product, but rather for information.

This sort of thinking is bad, and if I was researching properly for myself, I would definitely look into that one properly.

Here is a better look at the solar power results.

Please note this, firstly I am not doing long explanations here about keyword research, so I should just point out that these search results are “exact” and not broad, which is always a far smaller version of what your overall potential is as a website owner, if you have built it correctly.

Secondly I am not doing this very thoroughly, as I am just trying to give you an overall idea as to the traffic potential for at idea, or item. Online searches will always give you a very good idea as to the strengths and weaknesses of specific keywords (read items here) so please remember that when doing your own research.

So taking this ideas from a South African point of view, (and remember that wherever you are in the world, you would just adjust your local search results to help you see the potential for that area) you have a potential of more or less 3000 possible inquiries a month to your website.

It would then be how you handle those inquiries that make a lot of difference to your profitability – but that is marketing, and a whole different topic.

Final Business example from my list above. – Fashion

Here are the pics

I then chose one at random – bags – and did the search with the exact button off, and set it to broad, plus I set the search results for everything and not results closely related to my inquiries.

 this was the result…

Can you see that this is a searched for item that has tremendous potential, as you can see that the numbers are extremely high.

I would personally start my own factory and by using these keyword results above – I would build a range of bags that are driven by pure supply and demand.

This access to the searched for keywords is so powerful, that if you build a website, and did everything in your power to make that website get to the top of as many of these keywords as possible, you will become extremely busy over time.

This volume of searches are very high, and naturally it will not have a very high conversion rate into sales, but at 0.5 % of 200 000 visitors a month – you would be selling 1000 bags a month just from your website, and you would still be getting the benefit of the keyword knowledge to stock your retail store with items that you know are in demand.

Remember that with such high volumes of searches going on you could easily create a brand name, and create scarcity for that brand and have the potential to be the next international star/designer. However to achieve this you would definitely need to have your website set up to the latest Google Panda specs, with all the mobile, social, content and web 2.0 systems carefully knitted into your overall marketing strategy. (want to know how to do that? – use the contact me page and we can talk)

Conclusion

My bad – I see that I have not given you a lot of step by step points to go and use to apply the tricks to getting a great new business idea found.

I see that I have gone into a bit of detail regarding only the very first step, and apologise for this.

It does tell you though that to do your research properly is something that takes a bit of effort, but will be well worth it when you are done because you would have covered all the different ways to check the viability of the business ideas that you would like to look into.

Do yourself a big favor – get a copy of my report

The before-you-do-your-business-plan report that I wrote does cover all the steps that I tell you about, and is only $5.

Here is the link – before you do your business plan

Perhaps more importantly you need to learn how to do the best keyword research, as this is the key pivot to your success and failure, both online (especially online) and offline.

The details that you can get from extensive keyword research is indescribable, and will be the biggest asset to your business. use the banner on the side of this website to go and get yourself a free copy of the traffic Travis keyword tool. It comes with training and a whole lot more.

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Finding the best Small Business Ideas for 2012 – follow these tips

It does not really matter if you already have an existing small business, or you are hunting for a new business idea for 2012, but if you follow these tips that I give you here you should be able to pinpoint which are the hottest small business ideas for 2012

Doing the correct research is the key to having a successful product or to being able to redirect your business into 2012 so that you are getting your product or service out there in front of the strongest markets.

I have written a report that details these research methods out in more detail, and will add the link that you can use to go and get a copy of the report if you are so inclined, but you might find that I have outlined the basics here in this post in enough detail.

Here are the steps that you need to apply to ensure that your small business ideas for 2012 will make you money

These steps will apply to an existing business and equally fit into your search for a new business idea. Remember that some of these research methods would be more effective for some ideas, while other of my suggested methods would require that you do deeper research into that specific method.

Step One – Choose you general niche  for your small business idea.

Almost all of the suggest steps that I show you here would be applicable to choosing a niche first as a general search or research project. If you are wanting to be certain that the niche that you are delving into for your business has enough interest or rather enough people searching for that item or service you should do the steps twice, once to check a few possible niches and then a second time to look into sub sections in that chosen niche.

To explain better, lets say that you wanted to start up a small shop in a local shopping center.

You would use my methods to get a list of the best (or the most examples) stores in the shopping centres that you use for your research. Then you would do my steps to research which of those shops or store products are getting the most promotion and exposure. Then you would use online tools to see what levels of inquiry are being done for those specific items.

This should get your list down from a broad based variety to a small list that has the most potential.

To give you an example here, I have just finished reading my local Sunday newspaper, and it struck me that the was an extraordinarily high level of adverts for watches. Now normally throughout the year there are not nearly as many adverts for watches, but it is Christmas time and gifts are obviously being pushed right now.

BUT this leads me to wonder why – if the market has such a strong gift potential during gift season – why is it not strongly marketed during the other 11 months of the year. There is a strong possibility that a specialist website or store for watches might not be that competitive during the other months, and could be a great business idea.

Naturally I would go and apply all my own steps to check those trends during the rest of the year.

So, to recap, do this system twice if you do not yet have a niche that you are wanting to start up your 2012 small business idea in. First to check the niche and then to delve deeper.

Step two – Take the niche that you want to do business in, and dig deeper.

Here you would have a general niche, like weight loss, or hair products/hair care, landscaping, craft or hand made gifts etc. Use the next steps to get a better idea of the potential of your market.

Step three –  Start by using the free Google keyword research tool

This is the most important step by far. In fact I would go as far as saying that if you only used this step, your business idea for 2012 would have the strongest chance of success.

You need to search for the free Google keyword tool and use that to search for your products and ideas in fine detail. I have written a page on using this tool and you can go and read that here – Small business ideas for 2012 using the keyword tool

Step Four –  Use trending website 

By seeing what the hot trends are – in some cases – your products could be slightly swung into a different direction if necessary.

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Step Five – Use twitter

These days Twitter is almost as powerful as the strongest search engines and by searching twitter for information you can see the topics and items that are getting the maximum exposure and take advantage of that information

Step Six – Go to Spyfu and check the strength of your market

Spyfu is a very powerful website and can give you a lot of details regarding the power of your chosen niche.

You can see how much people are prepared to pay fro advertising and how many different companies are competing in that market.

Please do not think that if there is a lot of competition that this is a bad thing, and that you must go elsewhere, as the more competition there is the better your chances are to make money.

This level of competition shows that there is money to be made there.

Step Seven – Your TV

I know that you might be shaking your head here, but for certain niches and products you can get very valuable information from watching what appears on your tv.

In fact it would pay you to make notes regarding the “free” tv and “paid” tv differences and see where the money is.

Step Eight – News, newspapers, magazines and other print media.

Remember that if people are paying money to print newspapers and pay for advertising in those publications – then there is definitely a market for that item.

The trick here is to use the keyword tool, and find out how to target a tighter and more searched for niche for those potentially profitable products.

Another observation here is that very often, those guys who are paying so much money to advertise their products and often the well established guys, and they are relying on their branding to bring them business (and it does in a big way) but have no clue as to what changes are taking place under their noses online as far as targeting exact niches go.

Take advantage of this fact

Step Nine – Shopping centers

Now I referred to this in the beginning of this post, and it can be very powerful as far as seeing what people are buying goes.

Sit on your bum at a busy mall and watch what goes on.

You will be surprised what you can pick up when you start to look with a marketing viewpoint and not just a normal shopping frame of mind.

Step Ten – Yellow pages

Yes I know that this is old school, and is dying fast, but remember that it still has a lot of “keywords” that you can search for and add back into the Googler keyword tool and see where the real numbers are going.

In fact any website that is a form of “classified” directory like bid-or-buy can give you a very clear idea as to what is popular and worth chasing.

Step eleven two fifteen – those are in my report

While the remaining steps are helpful I have covered the most important ones here above.

You are welcome to go and buy a copy of my report that details all this in finer detail

get it here – Before you start your Business plan – the reports

 

For the price of a burger you could get that one bit of information that will double your turnover next year…

Finally while looking for the best small business ideas for 2012 will help you get an idea as to where your business plans can get to in 2012, you need more.

I have found out from experience that just having a good business ideas is great but useless if you do not get your products out there in front of the buyers searching for your service or product.

So while I used to train people on how to set up a website cheaply and start to get targeted clients long before any offline investment will start to show a profit, I am fully booked as far as training one-on-one goes. However I have a place where you can get excellent training on how to do correct website building and how to get tons of targeted clients to your business – go here to start to learn more. You will need to see my “how to make money online” video first.

You will not regret going down this path – I promise.

Thank you for reading my Small Business Ideas for 2012 page. 

 

 

 

 

Is a great Flea market idea really a good small business idea?

Getting the urge to start a flea market business seems like a good idea, but you need to do some careful research before you rush out and buy a whole lot of sunglasses to sell at your local market.

I have a lot of flea market experience and have even written a how-to-report that shows you the best ways to get a flea market idea up and running. I now do a lot of training for small businesses and have a course that covers all the different ways that you could start a small flea market business.

However it pays that you look into the basics of the idea long before you buy a course from them and then do days of research finding out that you could have gone in a completely different direction – as far as you small business ideas go.

I have some basic reports, and more and have just completed a page here on this website that will give you a better idea about your flea market ideas.

I encourage you to read that page – Go here – Small business ideas – Flea market ideas

So you want to start a jewellery business?

I am here to show you how easily you can get carefully targeted jewellery customers.

Hello all, I have been working on and off for two days on some research for a small jewellery business.

With the power of keyword research I decided to make another short video showing you how amazing the keyword tool is, and how targeted the websites can become.

The jewellery business is very competitive, but when I do some deeper digging I found that the websites that are up on page one in the search engine results pages are all badly set up (well not that badly as they are on page one) but they have flaws that can be easily exploited to get your website above theirs.

I have done a page showing all the details here Jewellery business page

If you would like to jump straight to the video that I made – then please go to you tube here and watch my jewellery video.

I have just added a page that will give anyone who is looking to own their own belly dancing business a bit of a helping hand.

Any small business opportunity is worth looking into as an online business as you are able to really find out exactly what people are looking for and then target those specific buyers.

I love the idea of pre-knowing what someone will be looking for and having that item sitting and waiting for them when they arrive at your website.

I suggest that if you are even only slightly interested in belly dancing – that you visit the page that I have set up to give you a few more details. Belly dancing details

It is natural for me to then direct you to the training system that I have recently posted for sale online to help people set up a small business online. that page is here. Small Business in a crate

Do not just by stuff – because you get told to!

Hi, I have been working on my website for the last 2 hours fixing something very bad that I did to this website when it was still brand new.

I want to warn you not to be attracted to any new “shiny” products that are being advertised that are supposed to catapult your website into the huge earners zone.

I did just that and bought and installed a clever autoblogging tool that would put articles and posts onto my website daily – without me having to do any work at all.

It seemed like such a good idea at the time, and I liked to idea of not having to spend an hour or two daily working on this website. Now what they promised me, and what I got were two different things naturally. I added close to 700 posts to the website and was still down in position 800 on the search engine results pages.

I did know better, and because of the “cowboy” in me – I cannot help myself sometimes – I still went ahead at the time and did it.

Not the funny part is that I did not really regret doing it, because I have learnt a valuable lesson. I wanted to give you the same lesson without you having to waste 6 months of a websites life to find out that it is a bad idea.

Do it the hard way – and do it right, and you will find yourself in a better financial position much quicker.

If you are ever confronted with some sales page that came into your email, and you are busy seeing “proof” that someone is making truck loads of cash from a-simple-and-easy-to-implement-system, I want you to think about this…

Why would that person try to sell you his clever system for only-$47 when he is supposed to be making so much money with it?

Why does he need your $47?

Why would he create competition with his system?

Why would he risk the system becoming overexposed and being found out by Google?

Yeah why?

So then close that sales page and go back to doing the work the ethical way. Even if it seems like hard work, and very boring.

That’s it – finished lecturing you all for the day,

Rob

Look into the opportunity to start your own business online “A Business in a CRATE”

UPDATE TO THE SMALL BUSINESS TRAINING PRODUCT LAUNCH

The launch went very well, and while I have not been that well behaved with the actual website that I personally set up as an example in the small business in a crate training, the happy clients are all started with their businesses online

I have put together a system that takes your business idea, and gives you all the tools and training you need to put the entire business concept up online as a fully fledged website and online business.

I will happily add a few consultation telephone calls with you once you have purchased the training to help you overcome any obstacles that you might encounter.

To find out more – please go the the page that will explain it all to you.

BUSINESS IN A CRATE

E Mail marketing for Small Businesses

Every small business needs an e mail system that works efficiently in their business.

Running a small business in this modern technologically advanced age without a decent auto-responder system in place – is just damned suicidal and any business owner worth their mettle should never be without one.

I constantly get reports and buy training on how to increase my Internet marketing skills, and one of the biggest things that I get hammered into me is the age old saying online “the-money-is-in-the-list” and I hate hearing it repeated, But am aware that it is true.

All the biggest internet businesses rely on all the social media communication methods combined.

Every business needs a website, and sometimes more than one, every small business needs an e mailing system, every small business needs a fan page on face book…

Do you see where you will lose massive amounts of branding and fall far behind any of your opposition that does implement decent emailing systems?

Remember that your reputation is only as good as your last “x”, and only by constantly reminding your buying public that you are alive and healthy can you grow your small business.

I have written quite a detailed page on this website detailing all the things that are vital to you getting a decent email marketing system set up on your website.

Please go to this page for more details… Small Business Opportunities – E Mail Marketing

ADDED COMMENT – The Importance of a good business plan

Since the release of my Business-in-a-crate product I have been going back over these older posts and am more and more convinced that you do need a quality business plan.

Starting up a small business is something that really needs careful research, and getting a high quality business plan layout is one of the most important sides to that planning.

I constantly add ideas and videos to help you set up the basics of your business idea giving you the best start to the tools that you need for starting your business on a solid footing.

Small Business ideas and opportunities have been a Huge passion of mine for the entire 30 something years that I have been adult.

Without realizing it I was even grooming myself as a teenager to be self employed as an adult.

Either way – I bring my experience and passion as a 30 year veteran of self employment to you here on this website. I will be concentrating on the micro start up businesses – But at the same time will have products and training that covers promotion and marketing of any sized small business.

Welcome.

My name is rob Anderson and I hope to have a lot of valuable information that you will be able to put to good use in your own business.