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Chapter 1 - What is a Niche Market? - Are You In It To Win It

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Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com/browse/homepage)the Straight Dope (http://www.straightdope.com/)Ezine Articles (http://www.ezinearticles.com/)Some extra 'hot spots' for out-of-the-way research. Sqidoo <strong>is</strong> anothercommunity-based article site, which groups links and articles into 'lenses'that focus on a given topic. The Straight Dope <strong>is</strong> Cecil Adams' popularnewspaper column delivered online, with a searchable archive of unusualcontent. Ezine Articles <strong>is</strong> a huge, searchable archive of free articles - one ofthe better out of many!Like I said, Google <strong>is</strong> great, but when you really want to dig deep into aniche, you want to search the "deep web". While Star Trek might be wellknownto Google, were my niche topic something really esoteric I might findnothing on Google at all.One more thing: If you use either <strong>In</strong>ternet Explorer or Firefox, there <strong>is</strong> aresearch tool called "Stumble Upon": (http://www.stumbleupon.com/)which you can install on your browser. Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> a gem! Imagine if you couldtake Google's search results and submit it to a panel of experts whoscreened out the worthless sites and handed you back the highest qualitylinks - and then search it just like you search Google. That's essentially whatStumble Upon <strong>is</strong>. <strong>In</strong>d<strong>is</strong>pensable!Getting a handle on the data:

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