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Niche .... What to do?

by TomBuck
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Hi, I have made a little money online and in 2011 am probably going to start full time, I am good at seo and email marketing and would like to create a list. The only problem is I cannot think of a niche! I need help with this big time. I really want to think of a niche, so I can create a product and then get an email list and really promote and make it bigtime. I know that sounds a bit weird but its true. I do not want to get into the internet marketing niche but cannot think of any more options.

Any ideas are welcome?

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

    The only problem is I cannot think of a niche!
    I thought you have read what was posted as a reply to a similar "question" of yours...
    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post2880426
    (click on the link, it takes you to exactly to the answer!)
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  • Profile picture of the author doman_ebizmodels
    hi warrior,
    STEP1
    i personally use amazon to find profitable niches to target
    1.go to amazon.com and register
    2.chose any of the categories i personally go for online games and electronics
    3.on the top of the page you will see "bestsellers"or "most wished" for
    click this link and you will see the topmost products on this list.
    STEP2.
    1.use any of the ideas you picked in step 1 and do a little research in the Google keyword tool. make sure you go for the longtail variation of this keywords as this will enable you find keywords you can rank for that has little competition then create a site or blog and target this niches you have just discovered.be sure you read tutorials on how to get backlinks and onpage and offpage optimisation.i think this will help
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  • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
    Cheers so far Thanks for the links.
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  • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
    can i ask: why you don't want to enter Internet marketing niche?
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    • Profile picture of the author Matt.Lake
      Originally Posted by Margo24 View Post

      can i ask: why you don't want to enter Internet marketing niche?
      Well he rightfully shouldn't if he's not yet making consistent money himself should he?
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  • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
    I didnt make any money online and entered make money online niche. Now im full time internet marketer. Make money online niche is where most money is. Niche where people are ready to use their credit cards.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheOcarlsen
    What are your passion / biggest interests outside IM?

    Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

    Hi, I have made a little money online and in 2011 am probably going to start full time, I am good at seo and email marketing and would like to create a list. The only problem is I cannot think of a niche! I need help with this big time. I really want to think of a niche, so I can create a product and then get an email list and really promote and make it bigtime. I know that sounds a bit weird but its true. I do not want to get into the internet marketing niche but cannot think of any more options.

    Any ideas are welcome?

    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Great Gordino
      Hi Tom,
      I note in your original popst you say you are good at seo and email marketing - which niche was that in? Not one you enjoy?

      If you like sport, I view sport as what I call a 'power' niche - so many products, so many subniches, and so much content!

      Cheers,
      Gordon
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      • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
        Originally Posted by Margo24 View Post

        can i ask: why you don't want to enter Internet marketing niche?
        Mainly because I think it is too competitive.

        Originally Posted by Margo24 View Post

        I didnt make any money online and entered make money online niche. Now im full time internet marketer. Make money online niche is where most money is. Niche where people are ready to use their credit cards.
        I did even buy a domain name make-money-online-fast-and-free.com but it was quite a hard niche plus I didn't really know how to get started.

        Originally Posted by TheOcarlsen View Post

        What are your passion / biggest interests outside IM?
        Sports and music but the things I looked at were not popular niches as in people were not spending money.

        Originally Posted by The Great Gordino View Post

        Hi Tom,
        I note in your original popst you say you are good at seo and email marketing - which niche was that in? Not one you enjoy?

        If you like sport, I view sport as what I call a 'power' niche - so many products, so many subniches, and so much content!

        Cheers,
        Gordon
        I would like to do the sports niche but dno how to get started. I was just doing product reviews and SEOing for some companies.
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        • Profile picture of the author The Great Gordino
          Go to amazon.com, click on sports, click on best sellers. Look at the products, do some keyword research for good search figures and low competition, that will give you a good market and a good product there and then.

          Do the same for music...Susan Boyle maybe, still breaking records?

          Cheers,
          Gordon
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        • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
          Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

          Mainly because I think it is too competitive.



          I did even buy a domain name make-money-online-fast-and-free.com but it was quite a hard niche plus I didn't really know how to get started.



          Sports and music but the things I looked at were not popular niches as in people were not spending money.



          I would like to do the sports niche but dno how to get started. I was just doing product reviews and SEOing for some companies.

          make money online is not competitive. This is wrong. Don't believe this. New products are coming out every day. You can promote them easily, with almost very little competition. Easy to get keywords. "Product review" for example. JV Notify Pro will show you some upcoming product launches.

          Also if you want to create your own product, make money online is niche where you have more options to sell it. For example Warrior Forum WSO. And fact is that people have launched $20k monthly business here in Warrior Forum.

          But again, its just me. This is what i did. When guru's say that niche is too competitive is because they don't want you there. Think about it.

          Im very good in bodybuilding. Doing it last 3 years. I know a lot about dieting, training etc. I was even thinking to enter fitness niche, but i changed my mind. It's not easy there. I entered "make money online" because there's so many opportunities. For example:
          make money online with facebook, youtube, blogging, CPA, PPC, article marketing, amazon. List goes on. This is why i like and recommend make money online niche. You can market anywhere you want.

          Your domain what you bought. Keyword in your domain name...it doesn't matter so much. So there's no need to buy terrible looking domain. Lets say my keyword is "how to train your dog not to dig holes". Should i get myself domain howtotrainyourdognottodigholes.com or just dogtraining101.com ? Which domain your visitors will remember?
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          • Profile picture of the author The Great Gordino
            Hi Tom,
            just as a quick follow up, since my last post, I went to amazon (having perked my own curiousity!), did the search, came up with a product with a good few hundred searches per month, 18,000 competition on google, and lots of adwords displayed.
            That's a targeted niche that could be used, either with adsense, or the amazon affiliate. I'm even tempted to whack up a blog and use it myself!!

            Cheers,
            Gordon
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            • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
              Originally Posted by Margo24 View Post

              make money online is not competitive. This is wrong. Don't believe this. New products are coming out every day. You can promote them easily, with almost very little competition. Easy to get keywords. "Product review" for example. JV Notify Pro will show you some upcoming product launches.

              Also if you want to create your own product, make money online is niche where you have more options to sell it. For example Warrior Forum WSO. And fact is that people have launched $20k monthly business here in Warrior Forum.

              But again, its just me. This is what i did. When guru's say that niche is too competitive is because they don't want you there. Think about it.

              Im very good in bodybuilding. Doing it last 3 years. I know a lot about dieting, training etc. I was even thinking to enter fitness niche, but i changed my mind. It's not easy there. I entered "make money online" because there's so many opportunities. For example:
              make money online with facebook, youtube, blogging, CPA, PPC, article marketing, amazon. List goes on. This is why i like and recommend make money online niche. You can market anywhere you want.

              Your domain what you bought. Keyword in your domain name...it doesn't matter so much. So there's no need to buy terrible looking domain. Lets say my keyword is "how to train your dog not to dig holes". Should i get myself domain howtotrainyourdognottodigholes.com or just dogtraining101.com ? Which domain your visitors will remember?
              Okay, and yeah thanks good point. I already go to jv pro I use it quite a lot but no-one is giving me a product to review. I have got $500 just doing hub reviews.

              Originally Posted by The Great Gordino View Post

              Hi Tom,
              just as a quick follow up, since my last post, I went to amazon (having perked my own curiousity!), did the search, came up with a product with a good few hundred searches per month, 18,000 competition on google, and lots of adwords displayed.
              That's a targeted niche that could be used, either with adsense, or the amazon affiliate. I'm even tempted to whack up a blog and use it myself!!

              Cheers,
              Gordon
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              • Profile picture of the author The Great Gordino
                Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post


                What was it
                It was a physical product - great for whacking up a quick site and monetizing.
                Not so great if you want to go for the list building model.


                However, the other response about the sport market is the kind of approach I use with my technique, tapping into the demand for news/opinion. You can use that for quick monetization *and* longer term list building model.
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        • Profile picture of the author TheOcarlsen
          Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

          Sports and music but the things I looked at were not popular niches as in people were not spending money.
          How well did you research that? I mean, people are always spending money. Might not be green in the traditional e-book, how to market. But if it is not... it might be in the service, resource, news, opinion blog, forum type of thing... which you can monetize by affiliating or selling stuff like sports gear, poker or sportsbetting (related to your team news articles or something like that), paid live-streams, apps, adsense + amazon widgets or any market group related things (if it is mostly young males that are into it then Plan A, if older men Plan B, young females plan C etc)

          Don´t look outside through the frames of your window, rather go outside and walk until you find what you truly want to find. If that makes any sense to you? :rolleyes:

          Anyway, I would say that the most important things to get in place first is the right mindset and lasting motivation. That gets a whole lot easier if you go into something you actually would enjoy doing on a daily basis. Otherwise you´d just be getting yourself a second job, you know?
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          • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
            Originally Posted by TheOcarlsen View Post

            How well did you research that? I mean, people are always spending money. Might not be green in the traditional e-book, how to market. But if it is not... it might be in the service, resource, news, opinion blog, forum type of thing... which you can monetize by affiliating or selling stuff like sports gear, poker or sportsbetting (related to your team news articles or something like that), paid live-streams, apps, adsense + amazon widgets or any market group related things (if it is mostly young males that are into it then Plan A, if older men Plan B, young females plan C etc)

            Don´t look outside through the frames of your window, rather go outside and walk until you find what you truly want to find. If that makes any sense to you? :rolleyes:

            Anyway, I would say that the most important things to get in place first is the right mindset and lasting motivation. That gets a whole lot easier if you go into something you actually would enjoy doing on a daily basis. Otherwise you´d just be getting yourself a second job, you know?
            Nice, I liked your wise take too .
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            • Profile picture of the author TheOcarlsen
              Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

              Mainly because I think it is too competitive.



              I did even buy a domain name make-money-online-fast-and-free.com but it was quite a hard niche plus I didn't really know how to get started.



              Sports and music but the things I looked at were not popular niches as in people were not spending money.



              I would like to do the sports niche but dno how to get started. I was just doing product reviews and SEOing for some companies.
              Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

              Nice, I liked your wise take too .
              Thanks. In your slang:

              I´ll get me coat.
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  • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
    Haha lol Nice one But I still cannot think of a niche idea
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

      But I still cannot think of a niche idea
      Tom - go down to the newsagent's and browse all the high-circulation monthly magazines (not just the "celebrity gossip" and "top-shelf" ones), looking at all the topics covered in their main stories/articles. Every one is a "niche" in which huge numbers of people are interested. Even the supplements of today's Sunday newspapers will do ...
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  • Profile picture of the author John Henderson
    Tom, asking others what niche you should get into is like climbing into the back of a taxi and asking the driver where he thinks you should go.

    When a customer buys an information product, they're giving you money to tell them something that's useful to them or that improves their life in some way.

    So ask yourself: What do I know about that could help other people in some way? What information have I got that other people would pay money to read?
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    • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
      Originally Posted by John Henderson View Post

      Tom, asking others what niche you should get into is like climbing into the back of a taxi and asking the driver where he thinks you should go.

      When a customer buys an information product, they're giving you money to tell them something that's useful to them or that improves their life in some way.

      So ask yourself: What do I know about that could help other people in some way? What information have I got that other people would pay money to read?
      Okay I get you, nice example. thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        But I still cannot think of a niche idea
        You have posted this same "can't" multiple times in the past few days.

        Look around you! Everything you see is a niche. Everything people use and people buy - everything people look for or build or grow or have as a hobby....is a niche.

        You are waiting for someone to hand you a "profitable niche" and no matter how many times people offer advice you ask the same question again.

        I don't advise new marketers to enter the "make money" niche - because they don't know how to do that niche. They are competing with those who actually make money online so it's pretty hard to be profitable in the IM niche for a newbie.

        I suggest the OP go back to his previous threads - and read again through this one - and grasp what people have said. There's more than enough information to be able to start finding multiple niches to work in.

        If you made money with hubpages as you say - those were niches you succeeded in...right?

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