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By Ken Kurtz

Large corporations spend billions each year on market research to identify new trends, hot niches and money making systems. The awesome news is that you get to benefit from all of this research for FREE. Here are 11 ways:

1. Clickbank.com. Go to clickbank.com and select a category, then sort by gravity. Gravity is a proprietary measurement used by Clickbank that factors in product popularity. This will give you Clickbank’s top selling information products.

Once you find the top products by gravity, run the product through cbtrends.com to see if the product is gaining or losing popularity.

2. Barnesandnoble.com. Go to this site and search for “bestsellers”. Also, browse your nearest Barnes and Noble for books displayed near the entrance.

3. Dummies books. Go to dummies.com and browse. Bear in mind that if the niche was hot enough for the editors at “Dummies” to do a book on it, it’s hot enough for you. You get to benefit from millions of dollars of market research.

4. Amazon.com. Clear your your cookies from your browser and go to Amazon.com. Don’t log in. You want to be a new visitor in the eyes of Amazon. As you search through the various categories, Amazon will feed you the top selling products. Now you can see what’s hot selling and become an Amazon affiliate or an affiliate through other networks.

5. Magazines. At Amazon, you can also go to the magazine section and look under the various categories. Amazon will return the top magazines in each category (niche).

Go to Magazine.com to research magazines in hundreds of niches.

You can also look at consumer reporting magazines at the bookstore or library. Browse through and look at the full-page ads. A marketer wouldn’t take out a full-page ad unless the niche had been thoroughly tested.

6.Google groups. Go to groups.google.com. Search for groups with the highest amount of subscribers. Browse the postings for a while a see what people are complaining about or raving about.

7. Ebay. Go to pulse.ebay.com and see what the hottest selling products are at Ebay.

8. Yahoo.com. Check out buzz.yahoo.com.

9. Infomercials. Watch infomercials. Instead of blasting through them with your remote, watch them for a few minutes. Make a list of what’s being sold. Millions are spent researching trends before millions more are spent producing infomercials and buying media time.

10. Store Clerks. Talk to store clerks. Next time you’re at the store, ask the clerk who is helping you “so what’s the hottest selling product these days?” Obviously don’t just walk in and ask. Do some browsing first. But don’t be shy. Most gladly answer and often get excited even mentioning it.

11. Trade Shows. Go to as many local trade shows as possible. Go to a booth and let the person pitch their product. During the conversation when the moment seems appropriate, ask “So besides what you’re selling, what else seems to be the hottest selling products at the show?”

You can accomplish many of these methods in a weekend and have a large list which to start narrowing using methods we’ll discuss later.

Once you identify the niche or money-making system you’ll target, you can either create products or act as an affiliate.

By being an affiliate marketer, you can start testing your niche immediately without the effort and risk of product creation. No website required. No programming skills needed. Learn more clicking here about this home-based, low-risk, money making system.