Steve Wagenheim’s Home Business Blog

Google Trends has become a big thing online. Almost every marketer follows it in the hope of latching onto a hot one that will earn them a bit of money, whether from AdSense, Amazon, CPA or some other affiliate program. However, in case you haven’t noticed, the Google Trends chart has recently dropped from 100 to 40 and now to 20. What happened? Why did it happen? Is this a good or bad thing? This article is going to try to provide you with some answers.

Let’s start with why the chart has been cut down to 20. As with anything in life, there were people out there who were abusing the system. They were artificially creating these trends through some rather devious means. So many of the top 100 were what I call garbage trends. They didn’t really exist. So spending your time trying to monetize them would have been a waste of your time.

But it’s worse than that. See many of these folks also put up sites for these trends for the purpose of infecting your PC with some deadly Trojan or other virus. Thank goodness for my anti virus software or I would have been in some serious trouble. So when you combine these two factors, the uselessness of the trend, along with the virus attacks, Google had no choice but to crack down on these false trends and remove them from the chart. What we have left now is 20.

Okay, but is this a good thing or a bad thing? Many people seem to think that because there are fewer trends to choose from that it is a bad thing. However, this is not so. For starters, most of that top 100 was garbage anyway, so you’re not really losing anything. Aside from that, now that there are fewer trends to choose from, you have a better chance of picking one that is actually going to perform for you. My own results have improved from a 40% success rate to over 70%. That means 7 out of every 10 trends I now choose result in my earning some kind of income from them.

As with anything else, it’s not the quantity but the quality. With fewer trends to choose from, not only don’t you have to worry about picking bad ones or worse, picking one that infects your PC with a virus, you now have a better chance of picking one that will actually perform for you.

In my mind…that makes this a win-win for everybody.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Want to find out how to REALLY cash in on Google’s Trends? Check out my site at http://www.hottrendsdaily.com/ and find out how.

Okay, so you’ve decided that you want to start your own home business but you’re totally clueless as to where to get your ideas from. Well, don’t panic. There are essentially three ways to get ideas for starting a home business. I’m going to go over them briefly in this article. Hopefully, after reading this, you’ll have plenty of ideas for your new business.

The first and probably easiest way is to look at your very own interests and skills. Most likely if there is something that you’re interested in, there are going to be other people interested in it as well. All you need to do is look to see where and how you can help others with what you know. The important part is to make sure that there is a sufficient enough demand to make it worth your while. This requires a little bit of research on your part.

Another great way is to look at what’s actually hot on the Internet right now. There are plenty of places you can go to do this. One of them is Ebay. If you head on over there, you can find what the hottest selling items on Ebay are at that point in time. In many cases, these could be niches that could turn into long term businesses. Think about when the Ipod first came out. Another place you can head to is Google Trends. There, you can find out what’s hot every hour on the hour.

Finally, you can choose a business model from simply observing life. For example, one day I took a ride in my car and noticed a greeting card store a few blocks away. It immediately made me think of online greeting cards as a business model…something that is very big today.

So you see, there are plenty of ways to get ideas for YOUR business. By looking at your interests, digging into what’s already hot or by simply avoiding life, you should have no trouble finding just the right fit for you.

All you have to do is spend a few minutes to come up with something.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

What to discover how to capitalize on today’s hot trends? Check out my site at http://www.hottrendsdaily.com/ and find out how.