I personally have been looking at children and tweeners as the holiday shopping season is fast approaching. That's where all of the retail dollars are going for people with crumb snatchers.

 

Well, if you want to get some indication of what the kiddies are into,
ask your trick-or-treat'ers.
I usually ask them a single question
like "what is your favorite candy?" or their fave toy.

 

Brilliant. I'm running with it.

 

Right here.

 

I'll admit it -- Oprah. It's worth getting in touch with my feminine side seeing how books, products, services, etc. that gets discussed on the show suddenly become the new thing du jour.

 

Information & digital products. No added costs for increased units equals almost infinite potential returns.

 

Other high markups include window coverings, spices (grocery store), cars, and almost anything else that people seldom buy. The less often it sells, the higher the markup will be. The trick (I think) is finding bored rich people who will change their [cars, window coverings, mutual funds] very often, and can pay the high prices and not care as long as their fleeting whims are fulfilled.

 

My prediction on the ages (in order):

Industrial Age
Tech Age
Energy Age
Space Age

 

I recommend www.springwise.com, I'm suscribed to the newsletter.

Also, you could set up a google alert to receive by email newly crawled sites containing phrases like "the first in the world", you get the picture...

If you are into web entrepreneurship I would recommend reading www.techcrunch.com

Last but not least, you could use google trends to see what people are looking for in the web.

 

Things like eBooks are the most obvious, but I would also include screen capture videos (I have produced and sold these) and audio books. Music on mp3 would be another example.

Other things that can be delivered electronically:

software
specialized forms (legal, real estate)

In general, if you want high markups, think of selling information. Create it once and sell it over and over for very low cost.

Most people will immediately think that they don't know anything worthy of selling, but just be aware of all the things that you do in a day that require a skill and many of them would in fact be worthy of a digital product that people would pay for. Even if that information is already in the public domain, just to be able to organize it and put it into an easy to follow package is a valuable process that people will pay for.

Just take a look at the health and fitness category on Clickbank (digital products warehouse) and you'll be amazed at the products and the prices of information!

 

+1

I am more and more frequently hearing talk about geothermal heat pumps. I'm thinking these things are going to be all the rage here soon.

Going green is going to be the hottest new trend in my opinion.

 

Hey thanks for the speed I though I would never leave no parking

Btw you can call me george if "jorge" is difficult to remember for you, its the same