Inspiring Sunday: want = money.
Sunday, 14 September 2008
“Find a want, you’ve found a market. Find a market, then fill the want. Fill the want, you’ll fill your wallet.”
Ryan P. Allis, entrepreneur
Oh, those elusive niches. 
They are probably the most difficult to put a finger on in this online-business thing we do. But we don’t believe all niches are already covered as there are always emerging markets for new products.
Take Ultra-Mobile PCs for instance. Two years ago, nobody would have thought of serving such a niche despite talks about the One Laptip Per Child (OLPC) project. However, when industry leaders like Intel and Asus rolled out their own versions of cheap and low power mini-laptops, a new niche appeared that quickly got filled-up.
The only problem is how to find and tap a niche that falls under our expertise.
Care to share some tips?
No. 1 — September 16th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
I’ve tried to train myself to, in the course of my everyday life, recognize things that interest me and things that are mild annoyances. For me, those are things that pass by without me realizing them, but they’re the source of so many great new ideas that you see — so much so that I slap my forehead when I hear about some of them because they were right there in front of me.
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No. 2 — September 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Ha, ha… indeed. If all the slaps we did to our forehead were done in succession, we must have slapped ourselves silly.
The simplest online business idea is often right there and we can’t recognize them even if they bite us in the nose. Sometime we think it takes genius to identify money-making projects.
No. 3 — June 10th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Very good quotation there! Of course, you’ve got to know what you want and where to get it in order to succeed in business.