Trying to convince someone to buy what you’re selling is one of the hardest ways to do business. You may think your product is the best, but if your prospect doesn’t agree, it’s going to be real hard to convince them that they are wrong.

What I’ve learned over the years from several ebooks and articles is that the easiest way to make money is to sell the things that people are already buying. Things that people already want and are willing to pay for.

Keyword research is where most of us start. But instead of staring at the search box trying to come up with words and phrases ourselves to come up with ideas of what the demand is for a particular market, there are a few ways to get an idea of what’s popular right now.

Go to Ebay Pulse and you’ll see the top 10 searches on Ebay. You also get a list of the top stores, and a list of the most watched items.

You can also find the top 10 searches for each category. Go to musical instruments and you’ll get a list of the top 10 searches and the most watched items in that category. You can choose a category that you’re interested in, write down the top 10 searches, and then go to your favorite keyword research tool to dig deeper.

Then there’s Google Trends, where you can see a list of the top 100 searches on Google in the last hour. You can also go to Lycos and see the top 50 searches for the past week.

These free tools can give you new ideas for what’s hot. It can give you ideas of what to promote and/or how to build a site to take advantage of this market.

It’s really easy to find out what markets are hot, for free. If you do this every week, you’ll have a wealth of data and ideas  for web sites, blogs, articles, and products to promote.

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