What To Do When Your Ideas Suck

April 30, 2006

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Have you racked your brains forever and a day, trying to come up with home business ideas, only to come with ideas that suck at best, and nothing at all at worst? Are you beginning to worry that the idea compartment of your brain was secretly removed at birth? Read on, and soon you’ll be coming up with so many great home business ideas, your only problem will be deciding which one to choose for your home business.

Did you know, most ideas come up when you’re not trying to find them at all? The bad news is, that however good they seem at the time, you’ll probably forget them. So what can you do about it?

First, keep a small ideas notepad. Write down every single idea that comes into your head, however small or silly it seems. Reading through your ideas pad each week may inspire even better ideas, or turn a glimpse of an idea into something more substantial.

Keep the pad beside your bed in the evening. Some of the best ideas we get are upon wakening. You could even go one step further and write for ten minutes upon wakening on whatever comes into your head. The key is to write, without editing. Much of the stuff you write may sound like complete rubbish, but remember, no one but you is going to be reading it, and it may just lead you to that million dollar idea.

Pick ten words at random. If you find this a struggle, grab ten books, or magazines and pick words from the covers, or take a walk, and when you return, pick ten words of things you saw, felt, or heard on your walk.

Next, go to Overtures free keyword selector tool at: http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Type your first word into the selector. For example, say your word is painting. I typed in painting and got a huge list of results. Face painting had 11,389 searches. I clicked face painting to narrow it down further, and got many results, including the following, which tells me that there is a significant demand for face painting supplies and designs:

Face painting brush 7245, face painting design 1975, face painting idea 1435, face painting picture 680, face painting kit 658, kid face painting 607, free face painting design 418, simple face painting design 400, child face painting 391, face painting supply 391, clown face painting 325, face painting pattern 283, face free idea kid painting 283, kid face painting design, free face painting idea 251.

Try using Overture yourself for some searches, with the ten words you picked. As well as coming up with the next great home business idea, you’ll also discover what is in demand

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