Internet Home Based Business Basics - What Do I Sell Online


by Michelle Greene - Date: 2006-12-21 - Word Count: 498 Share This!

Who else wants to work at home and kiss their boss good-bye? There are several versions of this notion, but we all get the general idea. Can this be true? Is it really possible to earn money from the very computer you use every day? Or is this simply the classic envelope stuffing scheme gone high tech?

In this article, I'll show you how to use a free online tool to determine if there's money to be made in that market.

Before you sit down and draft your resignation letter, here is a great tool that you can use to see if it's possible for you to earn some cash online.

The fact is, many individuals, as well as small and large businesses, do make money online! It's just like anything else in life, you need to do your own due diligence to see if this will work for your individual situation.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, you will need to have some basic internet computing skills. The basics are selecting, highlighting, copying, and pasting text, downloading files from the internet to your computer, and composing an email message. These are the bare minimums you'll need if you want to try your hand at making money online.

Let's look at a very popular online tool that can give you an eyeful about if you can make money in this area. Since you're thinking of making a money, you need to find out what people are already buying.

Before you even choose a product or service, you'll first need to determine if there is a need or a market for this product or service.

Head on over to http://inventory.overture.com You can use this free keyword research tool all day long to discover what people are actually searching for online.

Once on this page, you'll enter a keyword phrase into the search box to see how many searches your phrase had for the previous month. You'll actually see whether or not people were searching on this phrase.

For example, if you're interested in selling auto parts, just enter that keyword phrase and hit enter. Your goal here is to use a very generic phrase and see if there are at least 10,000 results returned.

If so, great. This is telling you that people are searching online for auto parts. You'll then start looking for niches in the auto parts niche that you can choose to market to. Look for results with about 1200-1500 searches. This is easier when you first start out because you'll have less competition.

Do this with several topics that you're interested in until you find a niche with several thousand keyword searches a month. This may be an indication that this is a good niche to start selling to.

So as you can see, the road to earning money online starts with small steps. By using this free online research tool, you can determine if a market exists for you to get into and to profit from by offering them a solution to their problem.


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