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Top 500 Keywords In The Last 48 Hours

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Small Business Trend Information #3

It is easier to sell with a trend rather than against it. Take a look at the top 500 keywords searched in the last 48 hours and see if there are any trends, topics, or marketing ploys that you can derive from perusing the following 500 “hot” terms.

As a starter set, here were some of the 500 that I thought were interesting:

18. haggle auction
189. auctions
257. texas auctions
267. foreclosure auctions
Lots of auctions: have to sell, free entertainment, a place to meet people

215. ebay motors – what’s next, e-bay home dental

53. home depot – people hanging on to houses, fixing them up themselves; how else can you help these people save money

60. southwest airlines – by far the most clicks of airlines; what are they doing that you as a small business need to do?

64. craigs list
68. dogpile

74. www.elkware.com
271. lobby.com
What are these?

221. drudge report (small company) – only news entities ahead of it are msn.com and Fox News

111. coloring books
345. coloring pages
Is there a subset of children that are tiring of computer games?
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Apparitions and Authorship

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

A while back, the Indy Social Media Breakfast crowd organized a Ghost Blogging Debate. Though the event was impressively well-attended and the presenters suitably well-spoken, those assembled expected more bloodsport. Righteousness and ardent realism should have collided on the topic of ghostwriting. A veritable cagematch should have ensued, with a ravenous crowd chanting ominously. Crack your knuckles and prepare for the brawl the audience yearned to see.

How the ghostblogging debate should have been.
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