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What special body of knowledge have you learned from your job? What do you do day after day, without even thinking about it (ex., child-rearing, taking care of sick parents, renovation contractor, customs inspector).
Could any of these activities, areas where you have developed knowledge (without even thinking about it), be of value to others? Yes?...
Great! Write these down.
Write these down, too.
- Is it research?
- Helping customers achieve their goals?
- Managing other people?
- Teaching or explaining things to others?
- Talking/selling on the phone?
- Organizing things?
- Making a process easier?
- Discovering or creating new products or services? Marketing products?
Yes, you guessed it! Write these down.
Problems are also a good source for ideas because problems need solutions!
- What bugs you? What's tedious?
- What does not work?...
We all encounter obstacles, problems, nasty people in the course of whatever it is that we do every day.
- What are the three biggest problems in your work place?
- What are your biggest pains as a parent, or as a step-parent, or as a gardener (etc., etc.)?
- Do you have solutions to these problems?
Would they be of value to a lot of people? Yes? Yippee! Write these down!
To paraphrase an old saying... "You've forgotten more about some things than other folks will ever know." Call friends. Ask your kids. Phone your parents or your siblings and anyone else who can jog your memory. It's so easy to miss what others see. Need a few seeds to fire up that old thinking cap? Here are a few examples of "starting points" to get your neurons firing...
- Advertising
- Aerospace
- Agriculture/farming
- Antiques and collectibles
- Apparel/clothing/fashion
- Architecture/buildings
- Arts & crafts
- Auctions
- Automotive
- Aviation
- Beverages
- Books
- Chemicals
- Children/parenting
- Cleaning
- Communications/media
- Computers
- Construction
- Consulting
- Conventions/Trade shows
- Design
- Disabilities
- Education
- Electronics
- Employment
- Energy
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Financial services
- Food
- Gambling
- Games
- Government
- Health
- Hobbies
- Home/garden/flowers/plants
- Hospitality/entertaining
- Information
- Jewelry
- Law
- Manufacturing
- Minerals
- Music
- New age
- Office supplies
- Publishing
- Real Estate
- Spirituality
- Research and Development
- Retail management
- Science
- Security
- Sex
- Software
- Sports
- Telecommunications
- Toys
- Trade
- Transportation
- Travel
- Video
- Weather
And these are just the general categories! Think about sub-categories of these and about sub-sub-categories.
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