Business Planning for AoH

Please share key market research, findings & other business planning gems that are applicable to the art of hosting.

Tracking on-line statistics to show market opportunity

Keeping track  of the statistics for the members of Ning & other social media platforms is useful research to show the market opportunity. 

My intent is to  break down the statistics & share with this group twice a year. I am curious what this will look like over time.

This is what I have from December 2013 the number of ning members per country:

  1. 416 United States
  2. 294 Canada
  3. 87 Germany
  4. 81 United Kingdom
  5. 70 Australia
  6. 69 Brazil
  7. 64 Belgium
  8. 59 Netherlands
  9. 57 Austria
  10. 55 France
  11. 44 Sweden
  12. 42 Denmark
  13. 30 New Zealand
  14. 26 Columbia
  15. 22 Finland
  16. 16 Argentina
  17. 16 Ireland
  18. 15 Switzerland