I wanted to thank you so much for the great response to the 2,454 “Thirsty Markets” free download.

I really appreciate the great comments and the emails I received!

There were a few questions that came up more than once, so I create a free video to answer them…make sure to watch the entire thing so you can understand what the free goodies are for.

Video 1: How To Make Money From Thirsty Markets

How To Make Money With Thirsty Markets

Exclusive: Download Video 1 Lists (Watch Video First!)

Next, there were some specific questions via the comments and email about how we were able to come up with this list in the first place…

Video 2: How We Perform “Thirsty Market Research”

How We Perform "Thirsty Market" Research Fast

Finally, we thought we would show you a sneak peek at exactly how fast you can come up with killer ideas for info products, articles, blogs, or affiliate promotions…

Video 3: Can You Really Dig Into 18,279 Ideas This Fast?

Can You Really Dig 18,279 Levels Deep?

Exclusive: Video 3 Bonus List Here – 1,200+ Learn How To: Ideas

Now that you have these lists, the domain list, and the easiest way I know to sort through these lists to find the real gems…you’re off to the races!

Enjoy and Prosper,
Jack Duncan

P.S. Please leave a comment…I’d love to hear your ideas, questions, suggestions, and thoughts!

P.S.S. If you’re looking for a great Keyword Tool to help you find even more opportunities, make sure to check out Keyword Sniper Pro.

Imagine how easy it would be…

You’ve got a truckload of ice cold water in the middle of the Sahara Desert, and a 747 just had an emergency landing with 258, rabidly thirsty souls nearby.

You wouldn’t need to beg them to take action.

No need for tricks or funny games. (You wouldn’t even need to spell out the benefits.)

As for price point…just pick one. (After all, what does money matter at this point for these people?)

No creativity or pizzazz?…not needed.

These people are thirsty souls.

Recently a subscriber emailed me:

“Jack, I’d love to know…where do you come up with this stuff?”

I’ll share with you exactly what I told here privately in the email reply:

Find a group of hungry buyers, and stand in front of them.

That’s it.

I know it might sound cheesy…but really, this is one of the biggest secrets to success in selling anything.

Unfortunately, it can be difficult sometimes to find these thirsty souls…

…So, I wanted to give you a massive list of “thirsty soul keywords”.

Use this as a brainstorming tool anytime you want to come up with new ideas for articles, products, affiliate promotions, or services.

Click here to download: 2,454 Products People Want To Buy Right Now

Here’s just a little taste of some research I have been doing privately.

There are some real gems in here.

This is an actual list of 2,454 products that people have requested to buy…directly through the search engine query box.

*PLEASE NOTE*: I did my best to try to keep any offensive products or topics from this list, but I am sure that I missed some. Please don’t be offended if something “nasty” or “crude” made it into this list. I am not endorsing any of the keywords or products mentioned in this list.

Oh, and I’d love to hear from you…please do leave a comment or any questions you might have below.

(Especially if you had any “ah-hah” moments while looking through the list”

Have a wonderful Tuesday!
Jack Duncan

I’d like to share a personal marketing secret with you that may just become your own Marketing TIPPING POINT Strategy.

Don’t worry…even if you hate math, you’ll still have access to this powerful formula that I use, if you can simply type keys on your keyboard.

This is used to Plan a NEW campaign.

It’s used to Correct a FAILING campaign.

It’s even used to Improve a PROFITABLE campaign.

To make this super simple to understand, I’ve created 2 videos for you…

You’ll need to watch Video 1 FIRST to see WHAT this is, and WHY it works:

After you have watched Video 1, and downloaded the template, you’ll want to check out Video 2, where I walk you through a case study, step-by-step.

It’s rather amazing to start to see the relationships between these elements, and how they affect the overall success…or failure of a campaign.

Put it to work.

Make those small changes.

And see your wallet grow 5x, 10x, or 100x fatter in the next 30 days or less!

Enjoy and Prosper,
Jack Duncan

P.S. Make sure to pay close attention to the “3 cent change” in video 2…most people would never guess in a hundred years at what effect that has on the overall campaign.

Ok…let me guess.

You’ve got a marketing campaign up and running…and you either THINK you are making money, or you KNOW you are losing money.

(Because if you already KNEW you were making money, you probably already understand how to calculate ROI for your marketing campaign.)

Instead of going through all of the details, including Price, Cost per Visitor, Impressions, Conversion Rate, etc…I thought you might just like a simple “Click and Calculate” ROI template that you can immediately use in your business.

Make no mistake, knowing your ROI is huge.

Many small business owners fail to properly calculate this value…and wonder why their doors are closing just 1 year after opening.

But it doesn’t have to be hard to calculate ROI, even if you hate math!

Here is a recent video series, including the actual Excel template I use to calculate ROI for my marketing campaigns.

Click Here for ROI Calculation Videos & Free Excel Template To Calculate ROI Easily…

Enjoy and Prosper,
Jack Duncan

P.S. Once you know how to calculate your ROI value, you’ll also know how to IMPROVE your ROI…and that’s what your really after, isn’t it.

Are you familiar with the concept of “Phrase Disparity”?

Don’t worry…it’s super simple.

Here’s a short video where I show you exactly how you can get access to Google’s “Secret” Keyword Data…using a great technique I call Phrase Disparity:

Watch as Google helps us uncover "keyword goldmines" using Phrase Disparity...

If you have any questions, ideas, or comments, Please leave them below in the comment section.

I always love to hear from you!

Enjoy and Prosper,
Jack Duncan

It’s probably one of the most emailed questions I receive…

“Jack, how do you find good keywords…do you just use a Keyword Tool?”

or some may say

“Jack, aren’t all the good, “easy-to-rank” Google keywords already taken?”

Let me just show you one clever way to find some great keywords.

Just for a moment, think about articles.

Hundreds of marketers write them…but very few actually do anything beyond submitting them to a single article directory.

Which means they either rank…or flop…on their content.

That’s great news for us!

When we find keywords that have articles in the Top 10 in Google, Yahoo, or Bing, we know that we have the potential for “easy rankings”…

Now…let’s take this 1 step further.

When we have an article with 10,393 views in the last 90 days…we know we have a keyword (or a set of keyword phrases) that is actually driving traffic…

In fact, I’ve found article marketers to be some of the best “low competition keyword researchers”…it’s just unfortunate for them that they do so little with what they have found.

Here’s a simple, step-by-step method to harvest their “hard work”:

Step 1: Go to Google.com

Step 2: Type in your topic

It could be anything from “wedding gifts” to “chicken farming”…just pick a topic phrase around your main keyword.

I’ve found that broad phrases usually work better too…

Step 3: Enter this string into the Google keyword query box AFTER your topic word/phrase:

site:ezinearticles.com “This article has been viewed 2000..199999″ “Article Submitted On: * *, 2010″

UPDATED on July 21, 2011:

We did some digging on this and it looks like since
EZA changed their layout recently, the code needed
to be updated.

Here is the latest version of this code that works now:
site:ezinearticles.com “Viewed 200..199999″ “Submitted On * *, 2011″

Make sure you paste the entire phrase above (as PLAIN TEXT)…

If you want to see this search in action, justCLICK HERE (You can see an actual result from Google.com)

Step 4: Click Search

Google is now going to bring back all the articles from EzineArticles.com (one of the biggest and most search friendly article sites) that have at least 2,000 views and up to 199,999 views…and were written in 2010.

Step 5: Copy the entire URL of one of the higher searched articles.

Step 6: Navigate your browser to SEMRush.com.

Step 7: Paste the URL into the keyword query box.

Step 8: Notice the keywords that are driving traffic to the article.

THESE are the keywords that you can pay close attention to (and the closely related phrase versions).

You can often find keywords that have plenty of traffic, with almost no “actual competition”…and in many cases, the ranking article has 0 links pointing to it…so it must rank on nothing more than the content and inner linking within the article directory itself.

It’s extremely simple.

Yet very powerful.

And I’d encourage you to take it for a spin today and see what great keywords you can find to rank very easily in Google…and syphon buyers into your site.

Also, if you’re looking for an entire course in profitable keyword research, you should check out the A4 Keyword Research System.

All the best,
Jack Duncan

P.S. If you’re looking for a great keyword tool to find other HOT keywords, take a look at Keyword Sniper Pro.

Media planning isn’t exactly rocket science.

However, it’s very easy if you’re doing your own media planning to make some simple mistakes that can greatly affect your company.

Careful media planning helps you reach your customers wherever they are. In an effort to make sure that your media planning strategies are strong as they can be, let’s take a quick look at seven common mistakes you can make in your media planning.

Mistake #1: Only Using Familiar Media Sources

This is a biggie. Oftentimes, because we’ve found one successful media source for our advertising, we make the mistake of leaning too heavily on this single source.

It doesn’t really matter how successful you’ve been with a single media source, the key is to make sure that you’re always on the lookout for new places that you can advertise.

Strong media planning takes careful note of new media sources that you can use to advertise your products services. You might be surprised when you find a new source that far exceeds the results of your current favorite source.

Mistake #2: Forgetting Your Promotional Vision

If you don’t know what you’re goals are for your promotion, it’s very easy to choose the wrong media source for your advertising.

Having carefully and clearly outlined goals, you can be sure that your media planning is focused in the right direction and delivers the highest quality results for your company vision.

Mistake #3: Not Knowing What Factors Are Affecting A Campaign

It’s easy to blame a specific media source on the failure of an advertising campaign.

However, there are so many things in play that can affect any single advertisement. There are definitely ways to measure and track many of these factors, but one of the big mistakes companies make, is blaming a specific media source as the reason for campaign failure early on,  instead of actually looking at the data and determining what the real factors are that are affecting a campaign.

Don’t make this analysis mistake and leave a media source, unless you clearly know what factors contributed to the failure of the campaign.

Mistake #4: Not Keeping Up With Constant Changes In Media Vendors

When you’re doing your own media planning, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening with specific vendors and partners.

This is one of the reasons for making the case for hiring a media planning agency. If you do decide to do your own media planning, you need to be careful to monitor the changes in media vendors and partners.

In the information age, advertising partners change very quickly. Companies merge and products and services offered by media sources can change overnight. You need to carefully monitor and keep up with changes in media vendors and partners if you decide to do your own media planning.

Mistake #5: Not Staying Unbiased Towards A Vendor

We all have our favorite media sources. For whatever reason, we think very highly of this source, and it’s easy to become biased towards a new vendor that were not familiar with.

It’s possible that a single vendor rep can make a bad impression. Don’t immediately write off a new media source based on one experience with a single employee. Everybody has a bad day. Every company has new employees that are in the process of  being trained in their media products and services.

Don’t make the mistake of missing out on a great media source simply because you judged and became biased towards a vendor over a single isolated event.

Mistake #6: Acting On Feelings Instead Of Campaign Data

It’s easy in your media planning to make the mistake of putting too much emphasis on your feelings about a media source instead of carefully looking at the data.

The truth of the story always lies in the data because it is objective. Don’t make the mistake of relying too heavily on your feelings instead of carefully analyzing the data you’ve collected from the advertising campaign.

Mistake #7: Not Keeping A Fresh Look Out For New Sources

It’s easy to get “in a rut”.

One of the mistakes that is often made when you’re doing your own media planning is not carefully keeping an eye out for new sources.

You should schedule time each week or month to research and look for new media vendors. Keep a file handy where you can place new sources to be researched later as you discover them throughout the week.

Online research for new media vendors has never been easier. Make a plan to find new vendors on a consistent schedule, so that your media plan never gets stale and you reach more of your audience wherever they are.

It doesn’t really matter how big or small your company is, you need to have a successful distribution strategy.

Your distribution channel is the way that you deliver your products and services to your customers.

Having a well thought out distribution strategy means that you can get your products and services to your customers as efficiently as possible. A solid distribution strategy covers many different factors, but here are some specific tips that can help you develop a good distribution strategy for your company.

Tip 1: Your Distribution Strategy Should Consider Your Business Model

The first thing you have to consider when you’re setting up your distribution strategy is your business model.

Your business model greatly affects your marketing strategy. Who’s your target audience? What kind of products do you sell? What is the distribution plan of your competitors? Are your products fragile? Do you manufacture your own products? Where’s your company located? Where are your customers located?

All these questions have to be carefully considered before you can set up a strong distribution strategy. Your business model should be carefully considered first, so that you can have the right frame of mind regarding your distribution strategies.

Tip 2: Know Your Potential Distribution Partners

Whenever you’re setting up your distribution strategy, you’ll want to think about possible distribution partners. Through careful research, you’ll be able to locate the individuals and companies who can help you distribute your goods and services to your customers.

A great place to start is by carefully looking at the distribution partners of your top competitors. Who are they using to distribute their products? What companies and individuals are they using to help move their products and services across the country efficiently?

By carefully selecting your distribution partners you can be sure that your distribution channels are free from that common problems that occur when you have poor distribution partners.

Tip 3: Your Price Point Affects Your Distribution Strategy

Probably the largest factor that affects your distribution strategy is your product price point.

How you price your product and how your customers pay for your product has a big impact on your distribution costs. If your product is expensive to ship it will greatly affect how you deal with your distribution partners. Is your product fragile? You may have to plan for a certain amount of breakage which could drive your price point up. Your price point will greatly affect your distribution strategy because your price point is often directly tied to your distribution costs.

Tip 4: Logistics Must Be Considered When Outlining Your Distribution Strategy

There are many different critical logistics that you have to consider when you’re distributing your products and services. Certain things, like the distance from your customers to your warehouse, or the types of products and services you sell, are critical logistics that must be outlined. Make a list of critical logistics that affect the delivery and quality of your products and make sure that you factor these things in to your overall distribution strategy.

Tip 5: Know Who Is In Control And What Efficiency Metrics Are Being Gathered

In order to maintain a good distribution strategy, you need to know who is in control. Who is responsible for accurately measuring the efficiency of your distribution channels? Who is responsible for making sure that your products and services are being delivered to your customers as carefully as possible so that quality is not compromised?

By making sure you know who is in control, and what metrics they are using to measure efficiency, you can be sure that your product distribution strategy is consistently improving.

A Strong Distribution Strategy Comes From Careful Planning

By carefully considering these five tips, you can be sure that your distribution strategy is strong, and that your products and services are reaching your customers as quickly as possible, while maintaining the highest quality and efficiency.

Product Development is important to your business. By bringing new products to market, you open up new opportunities for growth in your company.

New product development is one of the most important things that your marketing strategy will focus on.

The product development process can become quite complicated if you’re not careful and pay close attention to each of the steps and who is involved.

Before starting your next new product development, answer these five questions so that you can be successful and get your new products and services to the market faster.

Question 1: Who should be involved in the product development process?

There is probably no other issue that will slow down the product development process than not having the right people involved in your product development process.

You need to carefully ask yourself who should be included in the project and who should not be included in the project.

What are the specific roles that each individual should play? How much input do we need from each person? What is the process that we will use to get information to all the individuals that are involved in the product development process?

Only after you have determined who should be involved in the product development process should you move on to the next step.

Question 2: Have we carefully thought about the risks associated with new product development?

While it is true that there is a huge growth potential in developing a new product, there’s also a lot of risk to your company. One of the first questions you have to ask is, “Have we carefully measured the amount of risk of this new product development on our company?” In some cases, it might be better to focus your efforts on marketing your existing products rather than budgeting for a new product.

Only you will know that information, but it’s critical that you have a plan in place so that you can accurately assess the amount of risk your company will take on while pursuing this new product development process.

Question 3: What is our expected time to market for this new product?

It’s difficult to have a successful product development project if you don’t have a good idea of how long you expect the process to take.  Are you planning on developing a product over the next year? What’s your vision and expected completion date for this product? How much time can you spend on the development of this product, and is it enough time to get the product properly developed? Having realistic time-to-market goals for your new product is very critical to overseeing a successful product development process?

Question 4: What are the company best practices that need to be adhered to in the product development process?

Your own company’s policies and procedures will dictate what you can and cannot do in the product development process.

Before beginning any new product development, you should spend some time refreshing over your company mission statement so that you make sure your new product vision is in line with the direction that your company is headed.

There’s no point to begin the arduous work of developing a new product if you don’t know that the new product fulfills the mission statement of your company.

Question 5: Can we improve the product development process by analyzing information from a past development?

If you’ve already developed a product befor, it’s likely that you have some data and information from the previous product development process.

The question you have to ask yourself is, “Can we use that information to make this product development project more efficient?”

Oftentimes, by carefully analyzing your past product development notes, you can avoid future pitfalls by adhering to the wisdom of that information. There’s no reason to go through the same pitfalls in this product development process as you did when you developed the previous product.

Better Product Development From 5 Simple Questions

While answering these five questions may seem fairly obvious, it’s only by adhering to these principles that we can set up solid product development projects that reduce our risk, and provide a solid foundation for new product development.

Answering these simple questions ensures that your product development process gets stronger every time you set out to develop a new product or service for your company.

Why Market Research Is Important:

In order for any business to successfully market their products and services, they need to do careful market research.

But not all market research is created equal. There are many factors that affect good market research, and there are also many things that you can do that will spoil your market research.

Here are a few quick tips to will make sure that your market research is as effective and powerful.

Tip 1: Start Out With Realistic Market Research Expectations

You must start out with realistic expectations when you begin your market research. You should make a detailed plan of what information you think you’ll learn from your market research, what kinds of information you need to know about your future products, and how specific does that information need to be. How will the results of your market research affect your planning? When you start out with realistic expectations, you set yourself up for successful market research.

Tip 2: Determine To Keep Your Market Research Unbiased

You should also make sure, that from the beginning, you determine to be completely honest with yourself regarding your results. If you start out only looking to confirm what you want to believe, you will immediately insert bias into your market research.

It’s only human nature to want to confirm what you already believe, but the point of your market research is to find out specific answers to specific questions, and to harvest data that you can use reliably to predict the future success or failure of a product or service.

Be careful how you word your questions or that you don’t accidentally use body language that will bias the results. Always keep a constant alert on your objectivity to make sure that your market research stays completely unbiased.

Tip 3: Develop The Right Market Research Questions

In order for your market research to be effective, you have to ask the right questions. Sometimes the right questions aren’t always apparent. At other times you’ll need to change the questions based on the early results and feedback you get from your market research. By asking the right questions, you’ll get back specific information that you can use immediately. Avoid simple questions that can be answered with a simple “yes” or a “no”, and focus on questions that require the audience to think and dig deep, without feeling overwhelming.

Tip 4: Approach The Correct Audience

Now that you have a set of good questions, it’s time to approach the right audience you will be using in your market research. Obviously, it’s critically important that you approach the right audience.

Your audience profile should be based on your ideal customer profile. If you know who your ideal customer is, and what has their attention, you’ll know which audiences you should research. After all, acquiring data from the wrong audience won’t tell you anything at all about how your target market is likely to respond to your products and services.

Tip 5: Talk To Enough People To Make Your Market Research Statistically Significant

One of the biggest mistakes companies make when they set out to do market research, is not talking to enough people to make their results statistically significant.

Market research is expensive, so the tendency is to stop before gathering enough information to be sure that you have valid data.

There are many specific formulas that can be used to make sure that you’ve got an accurate sample of your entire target market. The goal is to make sure that your market research gets results from enough people, so that those results are representative of your entire market.

Tip 6: Pay Close Attention To Interpreting Your Market Research Data Correctly

Once you have your results, you also have to be careful that you interpret them correctly.

At this point there is always the temptation to throw out results that don’t conform to your beliefs going into the research, which would add a bias to the data. The goal at this point is to make sure that you have strong policies and procedures in place so that you accurately interpret the results, regardless of the outcome.

While we would all love for our market research data to always confirm what we feel is “right”, the entire point of performing market research is to let the target market tell us what they are looking for, not to confirm what we feel or believe.

By carefully interpreting your results, you make sure you have a successful market research project.

Market Research will always pay off big-time in your marketing strategy.

Careful market research allows you to know more about your market and your target audience. Your market research becomes the foundation of much of your marketing strategy.

Your market research helps you understand what products and services your target audience would buy. It’s only through careful market research that you can grow a company successfully, while minimizing the risks involved with bringing new products and services to the marketplace.

Using these simple market research tips, you can be sure that your market research strategy is stronger, get solid results from your market research project.