Outsourcing Online Research
At the end of this post you can download a little windows app that will significantly improve your ability to do online niche research.
However, before I give you that, I need to tell you how I got the app. This post is really about the experience you should have when outsourcing to the Philippines.
I recently wanted to run a bunch of keywords through the MSN Commercial Intent Tool. It tells you how likely a person is to buy something when they search for a particular keyword (it’s great for researching niches). With this knowledge, you can know ahead of time whether you should enter a niche or not, because you will know how likely people are to buy stuff in that niche.
I wanted to run about 10 million keywords through the tool.
So, I sent this task to a programmer of mine in the Philippines.
For over a month he worked on it with no success. I wasn’t too happy about that.
When I talked to him about it, it turned out it’s really difficult to get the data from the tool the way I asked him to.
I told him to “figure it out.”
So he did.
He went and learned C# (a programming language) and created a windows application to gather the data.
So, this guy is a PHP programmer, but in order to complete the task I had given him he went out and learned a new programming language and completed the task in the next week!
This is the kind of experience I have every day in outsourcing to the Philippines. In their culture, they want to do whatever it takes to make you happy. This is the kind of experience you should have.
Now, here’s the app he created to help automate doing online business research
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I get the following error when trying to install:
“The application failed to intialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate application.”
Thanks for giving this software away!
FYI,
I am using Window’s XP Service Pack 2
I right-clicked on the download button to save the program first, then it Ran okay for me.
Windows XP Service Pack 2
Thanks John!
Updated my Microsoft .NET Framework and it worked great. Thanks John!
Super tool. Thanks!
I was looking for a way to automate this with Iopus but dedicated desktop tool is always better.
John,
Thanks a million for giving this tools away. I have been looking for a tool, just like this one.
Robert
This is a great tool to use. I wanted to also comment on your post in regards to outsourcing to the Phillippines. I use a Virtual Assistant from there and she does an extroardinary job with handling all of my tasks. They really will go over and beyond what your expectations are just to make sure that they satisfy our needs.
Hey John
before I try to install will it run on windows 2000pro
sp4 ?
regards John
Hi John,
Thanks for sharing with us that tool. It’s really useful and save us a lot of time.
BR, Mostafa
Thanks for sharing this tool. I’ve been looking for something like this and am glad I ran into your post. I’ve had great success outsourcing sales.
John,
Thanks a bunch for this. I’ve wanted this exact tool for a while.
Nice work-
this tool is excellent, but somehow it can’t get pass 5 x keywords before the bug appears.
Hey John,
I’m running Vista SP1 does this work on this system?
Cheers,
Brad Spencer
PS- I’m having trouble getting it to read the page…says it cancels or won’t bring up the MSFT page.
@Brad – hmm…I don’t know. I think I was probably running Vista SP1 and it was working. I’ve since had to reformat and lost my copy of vista so I’m back with XP. I’m not sure what won’t work about it.
John, thanks for the keyword research training and tools. I applied it to a PPC/SEO campaign I’m working on right now and it provided a lot of valuable guidance.
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Thanks for these great video and tools. I have been working as a VA for a marketer in the hypnosis, meditation, qigong and martial arts niche.
I have been exposed to tools like keyword elite, commission blueprint, NPC and I can say your explanations are far way better than the paid ones.
This will be a great tool for my future keywords research tasks.
Again, two thumbs up Sir.
I get the following error when trying to install:
“The application failed to intialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate application.”
John,
I’m using MS XP Home.
I get the following error when trying to install:
“The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate application.”
Is anyone having problem using the program? It appears MSN may have done something to their website to disable this from working.
Yep, it doesn’t work!
It’s well works for me. The problem is in [http://adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commerial-Intention/] it loads too slow, that’s why it’s having an error on queries.
@Lily If you’re having an error running this tool just update your Microsoft .NET Framework you can download it at [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531-508D977D32A6&displaylang=en]
Hi John,
I can,t download this tool.
I have Mac…could you help please ?
Thanks John. Your a life saver! It works like a charm.
Luke
I also experience the same. Sometimes it doesn’t work. The commercial intent for 1 keyword takes more than 5 minutes if it can successfully get result.
Great information, John! Thanks for posting this. I'm sure many people will read this and will finally think positively about outsourcing to Philippines. This helps them realize how important and helpful an outsourcing to their businesses.
Thank you for sharing your Commercial Intent software tool
Based on some of the training you provide on how you identify good keywords, I used the Commerical Intent tool last night. I was getting results that just did not make sense to me. The numbers seemed all over the place, I did not see the relatisihi-p between reading that were commerical vs non-commercial, and my intuition was being challenged. So much so that I researched for reviews on the tool. This is telltale: http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com/commercial... Based on my experience, I seriously question the Commercial Intent tool.