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Atricle Dump - Niche Markets - How To Uncover A Good One
There is only one way under heaven to get anybody to do anything. Have you ever thought about that? It is by making the other person, want, to do what you want them to do.Of course, you can make anyone hand over their watch or wallet, by pointing a gun in their face, or an employer can force his employees to cooperate, by threatening to fire them. Even a child will do as he or she is told if they are threatened. But with these crude methods come undesirable repercussions.Only by giving you what you want, will you do a
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful fea
Drop shipping refers to the process that enables a retailer to bypass stocking of inventory. A retailer will take customer orders and pass the delivery details to the drop shipper, who carries the stock of goods and who will be responsible for shipping the goods out to the customer. The retailer will pay the drop shipper and in turn receive payment from the customer. The retailer will earn the difference between the wholesale price he pays and the retail price he receives. The retailer may himself be either a retailer or wholesaler
But now that the internet has come of age, life is increasingly rosier for niche marketers -- and here's why.
With a traditional bricks and mortar business, restricted to a local market, specializing in very small markets was simply not cost effective. But, do this on the internet, with its global reach and minimal marketing costs, and suddenly – "niche" is the word!
Add to that the ease of researching demand, so you don't spend a single minute or one cent on product development before you're pretty certain of a profit, and it's time to put the champagne on ice.
So here's how you can unearth a profitable niche.
If you are to stand any chance of making serious money on the internet, there are a number of important considerations you must address. Miss just one and your results will be seriously damaged.
This first article of two deals with the top priority -- and what many people fail to do first: accurately gauge the level of interest before any product is developed.
This first step is all the more vital in niche marketing, because you're fishing in narrow waters, so your conversion rate must be as high as possible. To achieve this it's vital your potential customer feels your product is just right for them and their problem or interests.
You'll probably already have a vague idea of the sort of niche market where you could offer something of value. This will flow from your own unique experience, skill and knowledge. Up to a point, this is a good way forward, but the more flexible and open minded you can be, at this stage, the better.
The first step is to look at the recent interest there has been for keywords related to your possible niches.
Here's some results I collected from the free Overture Keyword Tool Overture Keyword Tool
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful feat
Working in a team can be a difficult and frustrating process when you do not have a motivational speaker for business. With everyone having a different viewpoint and creativity level how can teams actually achieve their goals? Utilizing the services of a motivational speaker for business can increase your employees’ chances of success. There are teams that have a distinct advantage over other less fortunate teams. However, the unfortunate team’s odds did improve when a seasoned motivational speaker for business was employed at the
Add to that the ease of researching demand, so you don't spend a single minute or one cent on product development before you're pretty certain of a profit, and it's time to put the champagne on ice.
So here's how you can unearth a profitable niche.
If you are to stand any chance of making serious money on the internet, there are a number of important considerations you must address. Miss just one and your results will be seriously damaged.
This first article of two deals with the top priority -- and what many people fail to do first: accurately gauge the level of interest before any product is developed.
This first step is all the more vital in niche marketing, because you're fishing in narrow waters, so your conversion rate must be as high as possible. To achieve this it's vital your potential customer feels your product is just right for them and their problem or interests.
You'll probably already have a vague idea of the sort of niche market where you could offer something of value. This will flow from your own unique experience, skill and knowledge. Up to a point, this is a good way forward, but the more flexible and open minded you can be, at this stage, the better.
The first step is to look at the recent interest there has been for keywords related to your possible niches.
Here's some results I collected from the free Overture Keyword Tool Overture Keyword Tool
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful fea
What does it mean to be a passive candidate?In the recruitment world, recruiters and hiring managers use the term “passive candidate” to describe someone who is not actively looking for a job.A passive candidate is typically someone who isn’t looking for a new job but who would (or might) consider a good opportunity if one arose.This is opposed to being an active candidate, someone who is actively searching for a new job.Many in the recruitment world talk about how a passive candidate is preferabl
This first article of two deals with the top priority -- and what many people fail to do first: accurately gauge the level of interest before any product is developed.
This first step is all the more vital in niche marketing, because you're fishing in narrow waters, so your conversion rate must be as high as possible. To achieve this it's vital your potential customer feels your product is just right for them and their problem or interests.
You'll probably already have a vague idea of the sort of niche market where you could offer something of value. This will flow from your own unique experience, skill and knowledge. Up to a point, this is a good way forward, but the more flexible and open minded you can be, at this stage, the better.
The first step is to look at the recent interest there has been for keywords related to your possible niches.
Here's some results I collected from the free Overture Keyword Tool Overture Keyword Tool
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful fea
There isn't a day that goes by that I don't hear another small business owners complaining about some of the customers they have to do business with. Some of them REALLY are legitimate complaints, but after listening to 100's of different complaints, I have found the root of most of them is a lack of understanding. Therefore, I hope this article gets you on the road of addressing complaints and customer problems in your home business.The first step is to get past the irritation. It's only human nature to get a little upset w
You'll probably already have a vague idea of the sort of niche market where you could offer something of value. This will flow from your own unique experience, skill and knowledge. Up to a point, this is a good way forward, but the more flexible and open minded you can be, at this stage, the better.
The first step is to look at the recent interest there has been for keywords related to your possible niches.
Here's some results I collected from the free Overture Keyword Tool Overture Keyword Tool
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful fea
Your audience is more discerning than they were a year ago. So many things are calling for their attention they have to make judgment calls on the matters they can eliminate. At home they're using their remote controls to click off DVDs, VCRs, receivers and cable boxes. It just takes them a split second.What's to say they won't click you off, if only in their minds, the minute they lose interest in your meeting or trade-show presentation?As presenters we must find a way to engage the audience and keep it tuned in. It
My hobby being gardening, I put in "gardening". Too wide a category to be a niche, but a good place to start this demonstration.
This produced a total of 271,109 times the keyword "gardening" had been searched, during the previous month. It also gave me a handy drop down list of gardening sub categories.
One of the useful features of Overture is the ability to click on any category in this list of sub categories and receive a further list of sub categories of that particular sub category, allowing you to go deeper and deeper and thus find narrower and narrower niches.
So I clicked on the sub category of "organic gardening" and this gave me a further sub category of "organic vegetable gardening", with a respectable 555 searches for the month.
I also noticed "organic container gardening" had been searched 138 times. That's a bit too narrow, so let's broaden the search to non-organic gardening.
This search provided "container vegetable gardening", which gave 451 searches. I also noticed a similar category under a different word combination, which was "gardening in containers" showing 159 searches.
These two categories combined, total 610 searches for the same subject, under different key phrases. So you could build a niche around Growing Vegetables In Containers, with a sub section of Growing Organic Vegetables In Containers.
Then, because most people who are interested in growing organic vegetables in containers will also be interested in growing organic vegetables generally, you could attract a further tranche of targeted visitors by adding the keywords "organic vegetable gardening".
In the second article in this series, we'll look at checking out the competition, how you can position yourself to compete, how to research your potential customer and get ready to publicize your website.
Copyright 2006 Paul Hooper-Kelly and www.InternetMarketingMagician.com
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