Today’s issue of The Keyword Informer will touch on one tiny little aspect of market research and how you can ethically spy on big business and steal, swipe and utilize their top sales data and market research (without them even knowing it).

We all love to be stealth and this issue is guaranteed to be just that.

If you’re a niche marketer or a trend marketer of any type with various content sites, then you really want to soak this up and make it a part of your consciousness.

Should you run a regular ecommerce site, affiliate site, content site or whatever you do, then this little reading could expand your marketing perspective and how to be an “aware” niche marketer and how to be always on the lookout for opportunities that can advance you.

First, let’s take a step back.

Back a while ago, I published an issue of TKI that discussed how unsubscribing from email lists you are signed up to was not necessarily a great idea and how you can get great examples from others in your industry of (1) how to properly do email marketing and (2) how not to do email marketing.  (Instead of getting pissed off at other people’s marketing maneuvers, why not just take it as a queue of how you don’t want to be in your own busines.) 

Now, why am I sharing this with you and how does it relate here?

The point I made in that article was to not get offended when people attempt to market to you through email, but rather, view it as a “marketing lesson” and try to understand what the website owner is trying to accomplish.

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