It’s thinking that you can just just create a product to sell online and buyers will beat a path to your door, buy thousands and make you a millionaire before you know it…

It sounds pretty darn easy doesn’t it?…

Here’s what really works…

You must create a product that people want to buy, in a niche that’s in demand today.

Here are the steps for determining what people are really looking for that you:

1)  Go to Google and Yahoo and type in ‘top keyword searches’ and search for the keywords that are most searched…

2)  Type ‘article directories’ into Google or Yahoo and find a list of article directories…

Go to the topical section of the keywords you found in (1) and find out which subtopics are receiving the most article views…

3)  Search for those subtopics on Google and Yahoo and notice how many ’sites are available for each subtopic…

How much sponsored advertising is being done?

Go to inventory.overture.com and find out how many searches are done monthly for each of the subtopics…

4)  Go to Google and Yahoo and look up forums + your subtopic…

Go into the forums and ask people what they think is the most needed product for their niche…

When you follow these steps you’ll soon notice a pattern developing in people’s interest for the subject you’ve chosen.  Fill the gap that needs to be filled by creating a product that people WANT to buy and they will buy!  Don’t worry too much about competition, that’s if someone else has the same type of product as you.  The internet is huge my friend, and if you can market your product/website you dont have to worry about competition.  Just do the market research, create a product, fill the needs of others, rinse and repeat!!