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Nowadays you can see more and more young people recognizing opportunities and innovating with new  kind of businesses,  introducing new products or services to internet. This young entrepreneurs, like Mark Zuckerberg creator of Facebook, are innovating with their ideas and making loads of money online.

As you may know, is very difficult to find entrepreneurs in your community. An entrepreneur is a person who has the skills and initiative to establish its own business, who assumes the financial risk of the initiation, operation, and management of its business. That is exactly the definition of Michael Dunlop – a young and talented entrepreneur founder of Retireat21.com, a leading showcase for other young entrepreneurs to show their talents and share their stories.

Many of us have heard about millionaire entrepreneurs, like the founders of Youtube or Facebook, but who are they? How they reached their goal? That’s the reason number 1 why I visit Retireat21, because is a great place to meet the stories behind successful young entrepreneurs, to know how they succeed!.

Because of that, I highly recommend you to take a tour for the Interviews’ Section, a place where you can find loads of good advices from interviews of many entrepreneurs like Matthew Mullenweg (founder of WordPress), Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos) or Aaron Wall (founder of SEOBook.com).

So as you can see, Retireat21 is a great website where entrepreneurs can be met, but how to interact with them? Don’t you think it would be great to share thoughts with them? The answer to both questions is YES!.

By participating on the Young Entrepreneur Forums you can exchange ideas and meet the strategies of many successful people with common interests in Internet Businesses, Blogging, Website Promotion Techniques or either topic related with entrepreneurship. These forums are a great opportunity where you can take advantage from, this way you can learn about the mistakes they committed before achieving their goals, avoiding them and going directly to your success!.

What if you disagree with the experiences and information of the forums? You can still learning at Retireat21′s Blog, where many tips focused on entrepreneurship are shared. SEO, viral marketing, social networking or making money online, are some of the topics dealt on the blog.

To conclude…

Retireat21.com is a great website where you can learn about entrepreneurship, learning techniques that will help you to succeed and make money online. Its interviews and forums are excellent resources of priceless tips, so you won’t want to miss them! And that’s not all,  if you are under 22 and you make money online I invite you to sign up for the top young bloggers list.

To Your Success

Internet Marketing is a very deep topic which you can spend your entire life talking about. The basics of this kind of marketing are known by almost all the people who deal with online businesses:

From Wikipedia – Internet Marketing, also referred to as web marketing, online marketing, or eMarketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. Basically, internet marketers affiliate with networks in order to promote their products and earn money.

That sounds quite simple, but for mysterious reasons you may feel that you don’t know anything about it, no matter how much you read about the topic. Which is the secret formula used by gurus? First of all, I need to clarify that I’m not a guru in this topic but however I have learned many tricks with the passing of time, committing mistakes, testing and testing again!.

I know what internet marketing is but I don’t know how to get involved – Help me!

That’s not a crime so don’t worry! In this topic I’m going to teach you a couple of tricks in order to help you getting started. Great! So let’s take it easy and think about the very first thing you need in order to start digging into this goldmine… Skipping either a domain or an affiliate network, the very first thing you need to have is a Niche Market.

From Wikipedia – A niche market is a focused targetable portion of a market. A distinct niche market usually evolves when a potential demand for a product or service is not met by any supply, or when a new demand arises due to changes in society, technology, or the general environment.

Once you understood what a niche market is, how do you get one? There are many websites which provide this kind of information, so what I’m going to do now is to review and study a couple of them:

Google Zeigeist

“Zeitgeist” means “the spirit of the times”, and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries they receive every day. Zeigeist is not a Google tool at all, it is more a place where you can find the Google tools that make the dirty job, and among them we have four, but just mainly 2: Google Trends and Insights for Search.

By combining both tools you can get very accurate data about what people is looking for. Personally I really love Google Insights because you can see the evolution of a term with the passing of time since the service was launched – 2004 I think.

Yahoo! Buzz

Yahoo! Buzz is a great service launched the last year which you can see the most active topics on Internet. In addition, top searches are broken down into actors, movies, sports, etc., with constantly updated short articles to the right of the top search chart. This is a great place to get information about the most popular searches in relatively real-time.

AOL Hot Searches

AOL Hot Searches is something similar to Buzz when we talk about diversification, because there you will find the top 10 searches by categories. I read it updates every 12 seconds, so I guess it should be very accurate. By checking the sidebar you could see the Year’s Top Searches – 2008 in this case. With this another section you can see what was hot throughout the last year!.

Amazon BestSellers

Being Amazon a big place where everybody buys, its Bestsellers section is perfect to know what the people is interested on, and what they are buying. You can take advantage by knowing what kind of products are making great sales.

Lycos 50

Lycos is one of the most classic websites since the internet started. At Lycos 50, you can find the most 50 active searches during a week. Perfect to get new and fresh ideas.

Ask Top Searches

As you may know, Ask.com’s innovative search technologies deliver fast and relevant information for millions of people every day. Ask makes cuts of the searches, displaying the top searches for the week ending a date.

Bloglines

Bloglines is a feed reader, but besides that it offers a section with the most popular blog feeds. This is a great resource to know what bloggers/networkers are talking about!.

Technorati

Technorati is a blog search engine and may be the most comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere, indexing more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and introduce millions of readers to blog and social media content. By looking at the popular searches you can know the hottest things about what bloggers are talking about.

DogPile

Dog what? Dogpile is on a mission to help rescue pets. They call it our Search & Rescue program. When you search the Web on Dogpile, a portion of revenue generated will be donated to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA®). However, it shows in real-time what the world is searching for.

Ok I know where to find niches, then what?

Once you find a niche market, then you need to search affiliates in order to have something to promote. Finding a niche was only the first step and then after finding affiliates, you need to find good keywords, establish the affiliate campagin model among other many aspects, which I will dealing with in the next days.

What about you? Where do you find niche markets?