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Forum Participation Leads To Brainstorming

Another valuable use of forums for the web savvy businessperson is as a source for more ideas. I’m not speaking of stealing people’s ideas, although adapting others’ strategies to your business may be a good idea. The concept we’re exploring here is that of assisted brainstorming.

You may read a thought provoking post by another forum member and that may be what gives you the nudge in a certain direction towards a unique business idea. Take someone else’s successful idea towards their online pet food business and apply it to your online DVD sales business, for example. Read about someone else’s successful web development idea, and then twist the idea and turn it on its head. What if instead of its original plan, you geared it towards user created content?

Many of the most creative people in the world frequent business development forums to share and tweak their ideas. Sharing and getting feedback about the ideas you currently have is also a valuable thing for you to do. But, don’t underestimate the ideas of others, they may be just what you need to kickstart an idea of your own.