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“What can I sell in order to make money online?” - this is one of the most frequently asked questions on forums and Yahoo Answers. As I already mentioned in my previous posts, first two questions that you have to ask yourself are: “What do I like to do?” and “What do I know very well?”. You have much more chances to succeed if you know the product that you sell and if you are…passionate about this product. People always feel whether you really like what you sell or simply promote it in order to get paid. Let’s say that you decided on a category to promote. And it’s time to start researching the market! How many competitors? What are their weaknesses? That’s right, you have to look at their weaknesses, as this is where you are going to beat them up. Let’s go further. Examine the overall market conditions, read as much as you can about this category in news and find out what experts are saying.

• use Google Reader to subscribe to the top blogs in your niche.
• use Google News Alerts and start receiving automated messages anytime when new information about your selected keywords was published.

How popular is your niche?

I really like Google Keywords Tool, it helps in so many ways, including this case. Enter your keywords into the Google keywords tool . You are looking here for the number of searches for the keywords that you have researched.