How to become an expert in a new niche?

Become an expert in IM and every niche you enter will be piece of cake.

Well by doing your own homework. Research top sources, ask questions and use that information to provide great value. Obviously it helps if you have an interest in the niche you selected but sometimes that not always possible.

It happened to me early in my career and I basically spent 2 weeks researching and creating original content from the research. It started slow but the more I got into it the more success I was having. My passion was shining through. Now my passion wasn't in the niche, my passion was providing quality content.

Don't forget that you can make money of primary and secondary niches and what I mean by that is.....

say your chosen niche is fitness (primary) you can then go into how to build an athelete body(secondary) this way you laser focusing a bigger audience, meaning better chance of making money. Lets be honest we are all in it for the money right?

Anyway I kind of hope this helps but I can go into more detail if you want....

Best of luck

Owen

Dude this is easy but no one will believe me, but I'll tell you then you decide or test it.

I stupid/ignorant school no degree dropout can sit next to a Yale graduate and in 5 minutes be the expert to the 100 people in the room where the other person is not.

How?

By giving a tip or offering something they recognize as real value that helps them, gives a benefit or solves a problem.

The cool thing is you can do this online for free.

So in 5 minutes you can be the expert to the people who watch or hear or read what you have. I get it that most people disagree but true is true. The reason we are brainwashed is so we can get in debt and own hundreds of thousands in educational loans but that is what I think is wrong. You don't need a Yale degree to be an expert. You can be a homeless no body and be an expert tomorrow. That is true, just because pay it's not doesn't mean it's a lie.

I have a game site (so my niche is the gaming niche).
I have a lot of knowledge in this niche because I play games all the time.
So I guess that if you have some prior experience in your niche, it will help you to succeed.

Step 1: Forget about becoming an expert in a new niche.

Don't strive to be an expert. Strive to make money. That's the name of the game. Any other purpose is futile and is just causing more bad CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

Lol...

Real talk though, if you want to become an expert, be everywhere your target market hangs out at. Give great advice, but make sure you're practicing what you preach. Dominate youtube, social media sites, have a great following on facebook, do lots of joint ventures, attend seminars and meetings offline in your niche, get interviewed by people, get alot of affiliates promoting your stuff, get on Amazon and Barnes and Nobles.... well you get my point.

Make the money man. That's it. That's what you're here for.

You become an expert by actually becoming an expert...

On the other hand, you can become an authority with just knowledge

I wouldn't have too many niches going on but that's just me. I would focus on 1 niche and dominate it like no other, you will be an expert in time.

Why not outsource your content? I outsource content from sites like iwriter.com and odesk. They're pretty cheap and you only pay for the content if you like it. So they allow you to review the content before you pay for it, you can ask the writer to re-write the article with better details or simply have another writer do it.

Hope this helps

I think you're overthinking this. Being an expert and being "perceived" as an expert are two different things. All you have to do is know more than the next guy. Go with what you know, and learn as you go, but GO.

So, who's an Expert?

Someone who knows everything about a particular subject?

Or...

Someone who knows more than the person reading his work?

You have actually posed a very interesting question, to be honest.

Also, going by your example, if you really want to be a programmer, you don't want to spend your day on the web, reading others' blogs and participating in forums.

You need to actually hit the library, read academic papers and journals and take certification exams. Then you actually qualify as a newbie "programmer" in the first place.

So, if you want to be a REAL expert in any field, go study!

But if you are bitten by the IM bug and want to make money online, as the poster above me already said, being an expert and being perceived as an expert are completely different things.

You just need to know more than the next "programmer". Market dynamics, my friend. Simple.

In that case, you just need to learn a new language, start creating a few programs, keep learning and still call yourself a "programmer".

The choice is yours.

It all depends on how you define expert. Becoming a true expert in a field or market can take a lifetime.

On the other hand, if you choose a small enough niche, you can become an "expert" in a relatively short period of time. Read up on a smaller niche you're interested in for 30 minutes to an hour a day and within a couple weeks you'll know enough to at least hold your own in niche-related discussions on the Internet.

If you've already got working knowledge of a niche and are looking to really delve deep in order to get unique content, you've got to get off the beaten path. Most marketers don't go any further than the first few pages of Google when researching topics they're planning on writing on. That's why you see the same rehashed garbage in a lot of the more popular niches.

If you do your research in places that most content creators don't go like local libraries and book stores, trade shows and old magazines and by contacting experts in the field and asking them questions, you'll be a step ahead of much of the competition. If you're in a science-based market, scientific journals and research reports can be a great source of information as long as you're willing to dig deep into the reports for useful tidbits of information.

You don't necessarily have to be an expert in a topic to sell products in a niche. As long as you're able to research a topic and intelligently write about it, you'll give off the appearance of being an expert long before you actually become one.

All it takes is time. Consistent research and apply what you know to your own business model.

Just focus on a small micro niche to be expert on.
Buy some info products related to the niche. It is better to take training from already expert person.
If it is expensive tot take training, just google search about the topic you want to be expert. Information are found everywhere in the internet nowadays for free. Research the information and you will be expert.
Note: You should have passion in your niche.

If you want to become an expert you should start by knowing the people in that particular niche. who are you selling to? Create the most specific description of your regular buyer.

This way you will understand what that person needs and know how what to product to push them.
Also, inspect your competition and see what you need to improve, keep in mind there is always room for improvement to any product.

Start being active in forums, search for jv partners.

Darius

If I were you would take all information, which I can, would read everything do all kind of researchs and try to contact with other people, who have the same interest... It's what I would do

I guess, work hard, study what you have to study and then just give it your best. maybe thats how you become an expert in whatever. don't really know just sharing my thoughts

here is a little story that might be of any help.
How to Find a Thousand Dollar Niche

If this doesn't help nothing will it's a true story. I went to my first free seminar, they sold me $160 ticket to an entrepreneur club. Went to the first club meeting. 200+ people there. Keep in mind from the "selling is evil" communist country in East Europe and never sold in my life. Also I'm fat sick ugly and English is my second language (I"m better looking now since I cured my poisoning that made me fat). In any case I get there I see like 40 people lined up they get the mike for like 1 minute each then the sell whatever. I never sold. I go to this back table ask them can I sell? They said sure, give me $600 you get 1 minute. I say ok, give credit card, by the time I do all this only 3 or 4 people left I get behind them and do my first pitch in my life , by the way I have no product or company or anything but I had the idea to try to sell make them a website which I have no clue how to make but a guy in Pakistan made me one for $250. The moral is not that I sold my first site for $1500 that night but people came up to me and I was instantly the expert in websites even that I don't know how to make them, have no degree, certification or anything, it's just that I pitched it. So what's the moral? If I can be the expert so can you. Don't listen to the morons who tell you how hard it is, it's not hard. Good luck!

I'll call this article Mr. Know it All
I have realized I have been trying to be Mr. Know it All. Yes that’s a song by Kelly Clarkson.

The point of this article is to prove that you don’t need to know it all. What I took away from this thread is to start small. Learn something super small. And teach it to someone else. And people will respect you for going out of your way to genuinely show them what you know: because everyone knows how to do something. You got to this website. You know how to read what’s on this website. ::at least I hope you do:: You can teach someone else to get to this site.

I have always been trying to be Mr. Know it all: that every time that I was going to dive into a new niche, I would try to understand big topic generics. And the generics of a topic always simplify the topic to make it seem like it’s an easy topic to understand. And I would fall into that. Once I realized that there was a lot more to know about a topic, a lot of tedious details, I would quit as soon as I could.

I would do this over and over and over. Since I was a really small child I got this belief that if I didn’t know it all, I’d be left out. And we all know that it’s impossible to know it all.

So after Steve told me to start in small segments it made sense. But I was still stuck in Mr. Know It All. But it finally clicked. It’s okay not to know it all. It’s okay to start small. Maybe even charge someone a dollar for something. You’ll start building a reputation at least. And if you do more than what you are asked for, you are bound to learn new skills along the way. You will begin to understand another segment. Which will make you more valuable, until you do master it all; and even if you don’t you are bound to be valuable?

And like Alexa said if you like the topic somewhat, I’ll be much easier to learn about it. And if there is no market for it, at least you didn’t invest too much into a niche that doesn’t sell. Of course that moment can teach you what does sell within the niche as well.

If you know where one can learn something but you don’t know it yet, and you direct them somewhere else, that’s value in its self. So there is always something you can do like John said.

But just go for it. Don’t be a Mr. Know it all.

If you think about it anyone can claim to be an expert/professional. What makes someone a expert on a certain subject? If you were to ask me that question i would answer with knowledge. Learning everything you can about a subject and continue to follow the evolution of said subject is what in my opinion is an expert/professional

Find someone who is a success in your niche and follow what they do!