What Kind of Brainstorming Ideas Do You Have to Get the Creative Juices Flowing?

1. Have your child make a list of all the things that interest her and what she might like to see a website about. Get the family involved and have everyone write down a few ideas. It doesn't matter if the ideas seem silly...they should be written down. Your child can also ask her friends to add to the list. They should write down everything that your child has an interest in.

2. Narrow down the list to about 3-5 topics she may wish to pursue further. If it's a few less or a few more, that's okay.

3. Do some "keyword" research and see what people would like to know about the topics. At this point, it may be tempting for your child to go back to her friends and see what they might like to see on a website of a certain topic, but she won't get a very wide view of the market and topic. Asking a few friends doesn't show online trends.

She should go to a site like WordTracker to see what people are searching for on the topics. WordTracker is a service that shows what phrases and information people are searching for on the Internet. There is a free trial available.

This will give her ideas on what to include on her website and to see if a lot of people are actually searching for information on her topic. If the numbers seem small on some of the topics, she may want to choose one of the more popular topics to pursue. By the end of this research, she should have chosen the one topic to create a website about. Brainstorming Products to Promote. Again, it's time to involve the family, friends and anyone else who will participate. Your child now knows what kind of information people who are interested in her topic are looking for -- but what kind of products will they buy?

Let's say your daughter is going to create a website about becoming a ballerina. She'll want to brainstorm everything a ballerina will need to buy...from slippers, to videos, to music to costumes. Again, she can pass this list around and if everyone writes down a few things, the list can go grow quite quickly.

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