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Tips On Researching Your Target Market Using Yahoo Resources

Whenever you are truly mixed up onto searching a subject for an information product, you can actually utilise the Yahoo Directory for searching Hobbies. It can dome implicit gold mine when searching fruitful subjects for information products! Remember that most peoples are highly enthusiastic about their spare-time activity. Therefore, if you make an information product about a popular hobby, you’re for sure to shovel in the moolah!

Furthermore, you can as well have a look at the Yahoo Groups that are available for your market. In favorable view, Yahoo Groups are bulletin boards that are domiciliated at Yahoo and mostly operated by individual people. In search of the results, there are tens of thousands of Yahoo Groups available.

The direction that they function is this:

People signup as member of each bulletin board. They can then take part either by logging on to the bulletin board to view, post or by selecting their emails subscription method of that group.

By viewing at the subscription methods, you can select to get notify individually based on daily or weekly batch of posts. If you discover a blistering group, be sure that you do not choose the individual posts or you will be bombarded with email! (As a matter of fact, I�ve a separate email address that I apply for Yahoo groups so that I do not have to view all of that mail unless I�ve time for it.) After that, please make sure you have bookmarked the groups that you find it related to your researched subject!

These can be an priceless resource when you begin marketing your completed product. To make things easier for you now, you can find Yahoo Groups for Hobbies at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/dir/Hobbies___Crafts

So now, are you still stumped for ideas on a subject you’ll need to target for?

Well, If you don’t find a hot topic on the yahoo groups I just show you with the tips above with one suitable for the next best seller, I’ll be VERY surprised.

Beside looking at the yahoo groups, here I attached a few more places you can look for ideas and subjects on your research:

* MyHotItems This is a hot directory that is generated based on keywords that are being searched over the last 7 days.

* The Yahoo Buzz Log this is another directory which indexes the top 15 search terms for that day on Yahoo. It sorted by the results for several categories. Scroll down to the left side, you�ll find Today�s Top Movers, Actors, Movies, Music Sports, etc. And on the right, you�ll find some analysis about search spikes and trends. Very informative isn�t it!

* Google Press Center – the Zeitgeist – In German, ‘Zeitgeist’ refers to the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. Google chose this term as the name for its list to the top 15 most searched keywords. Google also breaks their lists up by categories such as the Top 30, Popular Retailers, Popular Sports Queries, and Popular Music rated categories.

Tips On Researching Your Target Market Using Yahoo Resources

*This article was submitted by Kenny Tan.

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