Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Hey Phil!

How ya doing buddy?

Good to "see" you.

Yeah, I had a bummer of a time the last four years.
However, by God's amazing grace I'm now just about
back to my old self.

Co-incidentally, today is my final radiation treatment.
I'm going to do a little dance of celebration at 2:45pm
today for those radiation technicians.

I've been going daily to the cancer hospital here in
Toronto for cancer radiation to my neck.

They yanked out my thyroid which was just about
covered with those beasties. Coupled with my heart
problem (I carry around a little computer in my chest
they call a defibrillator), I was sick like a dog the past
few years.

But baby...I'm baaaack!

So you'll be "seeing" 'ole Uncle Brent back on this here
Sowpub a lot from now on.

Phil, I always love the way you extrapolate an idea and
build on it. Indeed, those are terrific services and products
that you mentioned, to offer to deaf people.

Thanks a lot.

God loves you.
Brent.

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Brent,

I'm doing well and I'm sure as yourself... Appreciate each and every Day!

Life is just way too short to sit back and watch it all pass by...

Take chances and live Life to the Fullest. Seize each and every New day! You have your Health you have just about Everything in the whole wide world...

Unfortunately, Money doesn't buy everything... But it certainly Helps... :)

Congrats on the end of your radiation treatments. Glad to hear that you're doing much better and Winning with your Health and in business...

Looking forward to Digging deeper into those ever so Interesting posts/ideas and Extrapolating things... ;)

All the best and take Especially good care of yourself...

Phil

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Very interesting business idea & thanks for sharing! Do you have a sample video to share so we can see what the finished product looks like? Also, are there any copyright/tm issues to deal with?

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Rick,

Not to answer for Brent here but just in case you haven't read through another informative Video related post by Brent...

Checkout his sig file...

Patiently review and listen Carefully right to the very end of his video... :)
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthre...ase+help+brent

If you Dig real deep into the SowPub archives you'll Find some Quality sharing and ideas from Brent...
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/search.php
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/archive/index.php?f-3.html

Quality no matter, whether through Brent's Free ideas and/or Paid products...

Awesome business ideas all the way...

Of course...

Serious Action required to produce those Endless multiple streams of income and Golden revenues... ;)

Phil

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

Got it Phil. Thanks. We've "figured" out Sothink, express scribe, and furry sync. It appears that furry requires a conversion of any flash videos to WMV; not a problem since sothink has a converter program.

Now to do a membership site. :rolleyes:

The real issue though is the videos from the CNN's, ESPN's etc. What are the copyright issues with those? Can you post those? If not then you're left with the videos from about.com seemonkey etc. & is there enough for a membership site?

Your official title: News Aggregator
 

Hi Rick,
Thanks for asking.

You're being stumped by copyright issues to video news stories from CNN and other news outlets.

Don't be.

I made that post in order to give a real-life example of what to offer the over fifty million deaf people, globally.

I personally chose to offer video news items after being inspired by my favourite news aggregator, The Drudge Report:

http://www.drudgereport.com

As you can see all that page is, a vast link farm to great news stories. News columnists and News bloggers fight to get linked by Drudge.

Matt Drudge is one smart cookie of a journalist who a long time ago figured out that all people needed was to read the latest, hottest news.

No cared to go hunting all over the internet for news.

Today Drudge boasts millions of page views daily, and is regularly read by some of the powerful politicians and media moguls around the world.

I figured that I can do a Drudge Report with video, but on much, much, smaller scale...and to narrow the niche even further by offering the service to deaf people.

That's the key right there...narrow niches.

I chose news videos for the deaf, but you don't have to. There are hundreds of other niches to be exploited.

Here are a few that are ready and rearing to go:

!. World Cup soccer. Hurry, kick off begins June 23, 2010.
2. NBA finals
3. Anything to do with the "gommit" (government) as Don Alm would say.
4. Health and Fitness
5. DIY (Do It Yourself)

These are just a few niches to get your creative juices flowing. My buddy Phil can suggest tons more.

Please do not restrict yourself by thinking of offering just membership sites. I started by offering packages of videos for just seven bucks.

Ask Phil whether or not this is true: people are generally lazy to do research for themselves. This is why people like Phil, who have taken the time to learn how to do efficient research, are earning good money.

The internet is a vast storehouse of information just waiting for the smart entrepreneur to get rich.

Go for it!

God loves you.
Brent.

P.S. - Tomorrow you`ll learn why I kissed the deaf market goodbye, and is saying hello to a hardly scratched multi-multi-multi (did you hear me? I said multi) BILLION dollar market.

Talk about taking candy from a baby. Tee-hee.

Brent, I'm glad you're back!
 

Hi Brent,

I just want to say, I'm very happy you're back!

Life is full of challenges. Yet if we approach them right, they can strengthen our character for the better...

Thank you very much for sharing. I hope to see more of you here too!

Best wishes,

Dien

P.S. Sorry for my slow reply... I've been having a bit of a "tough time" myself. However, I expect to be "back" now too...!

Re: Brent, I'm glad you're back!
 

Hi Dien,
I had no idea you're sick. Sorry to hear that. I wondered where you were.

My thoughts and prayers are with you.

I KNOW you'll be back soon.

God loves you.
Brent.

Re: Brent, I'm glad you're back!
 

Hi Brent,

In my case, it's not to do with me getting ill... My father passed away a little over a year ago, and there are various complications relating to his estate which have been a bit of a heavy toll. (His passing away was also a heavy toll too.) But... things are better now, though there's still a lot of work to do...

Best wishes,

Dien

Re: A Lucrative "No Competition" Niche
 

OK, I'm getting there, thanks for your help. Which "free" program do you use to add the subtitles (.srt) to your video?

At the very least I'm learning a new skill. Who said you can't teach an old dog new trix? Woof, woof!