Marketing Inspiration – Look at What These Crazy People are Doing!

Ever been stuck for an idea on how to market something, who to market to, what to market to them, and even how other marketers are attempting to market to them?

Grease the wheels of inspiration by checking out the site KillerStartups.com.

Any Idea you’ve ever had – no matter how crazy, ineffective, or downright bad – is guaranteed to be better than at least a few of these startups and/or “virtual real estate holdings” or whatever people with too much money and not enough sense are calling websites these days.

In spite of some of the more laughable offerings, there are some real gems there too. You’ll come across quite a few “Why didn’t I think of that?!?.” ideas for websites that are listed. There are even some “I don’t care if they thought of it first, I’m going to release the exact damn thing a week later and make it unique by sticking an ‘e’ or ‘i’ in front of the name” ideas as well.

Whatever your opinion of the listings, they are bound to get your creative juices flowing no matter what you specialize in:

• product development
• marketing
• design
• mobile applications

And if you’re like me – a Jack-of-All-Those-Trades (as well as whatever other trades my business may find a need for), your mind will be swimming with new ideas in no time.

Open up a clean notepad *(or better yet, Notepad++, which is free) file and check out KillerStartups.com the next time you find yourself short on ideas and long on…well, no ideas…

No, this isn’t a paid-for-post, review, or anything like that. I don’t do those and I don’t even know who owns/operates the site. It’s just a site that I discovered by accident.*

*(known as “search” and “linking” nowadays)

Oh, and while it lasts, you can even submit your own new startups, projects, ventures, idea gardens, web communities, and other frazzledazzles to KillerStartups.com via their submit form.

I can’t imagine their rules for inclusion can be all that strict. After all, just how nit-picky about submissions can a website be when its only real content is submitted content?

Oh, wait..we live in the time of Web2.0. You know the times…the times when portals such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit, Propeller, as well as the hundreds (thousands?) of copycats and wanna-be’s all promoted themselves during their infancy by networking on and generating traffic from sites that were already authoritative and established hubs of surfers. Now those same sites call sites that use them for that very purpose “Spam.”

But that’s a rant for another time…?

Tags: Entrepreneur, Inspiration, Marketing, Marketing Resources