VRE Toolbar Niche Marketing News

We have updated Virtual Real Estate Toolbar for Firefox so that it is now fully compatible with Firefox 3.

Please, follow the link above to install the latest version.

We added Google Hot Trends to the Ideas menu of the VRE Toolbar.

Hot Trends reflects what people are searching for on Google today. With Hot Trends, you can see a snapshot of what’s on the public’s collective mind by viewing the fastest-rising searches for different points of time. You can see a list of today’s top 100 fastest-rising search queries in the U.S. You can also select a recent date in history to see what the top rising searches were and what the search activity looked like over the course of that day.

If you’re looking for a cheap but reliable hosting for your Virtual Real Estate websites, HostGator is currently offering their Hatchling Plan for only $4.95 (one domain) or $7.95 (unlimited domains).

Each plan includes:

• Disk Space: up to 600 GB - more than enough for your VRE empire.
• Bandwidth: 6,000 GB - that’s a lot of traffic!
• 52 scripts that can be installed with a click of the mouse, including blogs, portals, CMS, customer support scripts, discussion boards and forums, shopping carts, FAQ systems, image galleries, mailing lists, polls and surveys, site builders and other scripts.
• All major features you can find on other hosts are supported, like unlimited MySQL databases, PHP 4&5, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Cron, Frontpage, SSI, and a lot of others.

With superior support and a features like instant backups, 99.9% Uptime plus an all new 45 day money back guarantee you will be glad you chose HostGator as a hosting provider for your Virtual Real Estate empire.

Open Source Web Design templates is one of the most popular links in the Virtual Real Estate Toolbar. It’s a great place to visit whenever you’re looking for new website design ideas or templates.

Today, we are adding another resource to the toolbar’s Design menu: Free CSS Templates.

They are currently providing 230 professionally looking website templates, all of which are:

• Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
• Very lightweight in terms of images
• Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)
• W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)
• Provided with public domain photos from PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

All of the templates are free to use for both commercial and noncommercial purposes provided you link back to FreeCSSTemplates.org in some way. The website is updates regularly adding new templates.

Enjoy!

If you’ve ever had to write something for yourself, whether it’s a resume or a more in-depth piece for your company website, you’ll know how difficult it can be. You can spend hours staring at a blank screen, wondering exactly where to start. Thankfully, there are professionals around who can do this for you, and nowhere is this more apt than at the relatively young site, Need-An-Article.com.

Here’s a question I felt I had to answer as part of “Make Your Dreams a Reality!” month, since it’s probably one that a lot of beginning marketers have on their minds.

It comes from Katerina, who writes:

I have read all the ebooks and have the programs to find niches and still I come up empty handed because when you follow the directions you discover that most of the niches I like have a high demand but also high supply.

I have not found yet a niche that has a good demand but a low supply.

Are niches all dried up now?

These days we celebrate a One-Year Anniversary of Virtual Real Estate Toolbar.

The toolbar was started as a convenient way to organize my efforts of building and promoting my VRE websites. I wanted a tool that would be able to guide me through the entire process:

• from picking the idea for the new website >>
• to creating a list of related keywords, >>
• to choosing a domain name and hosting, >>
• to designing the website and filling it with related content, >>
• …and finally, to driving traffic, over and over, and over again.

Many people liked the tool, and I made it semi-public, for The Reese Report subscribers only. That version was for Internet Explorer only, and I started getting requests to create a Firefox version.

After a short period of time, the FF version has been launched, and both versions became public.

Over 20,000 webmasters and online entrepreneurs have downloaded the VRE Toolbar since July 2006. Thousands of them are using it daily.

I would like to thank all contributors and users of Virtual Real Estate Toolbar for your help and suggestions to make it even better.

Andrei Mikrukov

We’ve just added a bookmark to myGoals.com into the VRE Toolbar (see Ideas > myGoals.com). This resource can inspire you what niche business to start.

myGoals.com is the Web’s premier site for setting, managing, and reaching personal and professional goals. Their website users can set as many goals as they like, creating custom GoalPlans from scratch or selecting from a library of pre-made GoalPlans that contain expert advice for accomplishing the goal.

There are literally hundreds of subcategories in their goals directory, from all areas of interests. For example, there are 100+ subcategories in the Personal Growth & Interests category alone.

Inside every subcategory there are two lists. The first one is called “Some ideas” and the second one is “Pre-made Goalplans”. This is where it gets interesting!

Gary Harvey, “Mr. FindHotMarkets”, offers a free 14-page report How To Research The Profit Potential Of Any Niche, Using Free Online Tools.

When selling a product, a lot of people make the mistake of developing their product first, and then trying to find a market for it. Of course, the process should be reversed. Find a market first that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.

It is certainly easier said than done, but there are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free. They’ve done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.

Gary shows the process he goes through when he’s trying to brainstorm for ideas.

VRE Toolbar simplifies access to most of the tools recommended by Gary (see the Ideas and Keywords menu items).

We added two features to the Keyword Suggestion Tool:

• Estimated AOL monthly search volume.
• Ability to save results as a CSV file, that can be easily imported into MS Excel or any other spreadsheet software.