Need some Direction and Advice

Zach,

You're on the right track, with finding a niche of people with a problem that needs solving.

Find a "hair on fire" sort of problem to solve. I work the 'relationship repair niche. That's definently a "want the problem solved NOW" sort of niche.

I'll be happy to help any way I can.

Get with me and I can perhaps advise you on your writing. The writing I can easily do...It's the tech part that slows me down.

Best of luck

rlsteele

Well, there are lots of ways and resources to find a niche.
1. Start by visiting amazondotcom and yahooanswersdotcom. take a look at the popular products at amazon and popular topics at yahoo. Never mind if the product or topic is of interest to you or not. If its popular, people are buying. choose 3-5 and move to the next step.

2. You can use a google keyword tool or a software such as market sumurai. This method requires you to enter a keyword (enter the one you found at amazon and yahoo) then you are provided information such as searches per month and your competition(low, medium, high) for that keyword. start with keywords that have at least a few thousand searches per month with low competition. Move to next step.

3. Go ahead and buy your domain and hosting using the exact keyword and but your autoresponder as well. (You said you know this step already but its for those that may not know).

4. Search clickbank and other vendor sites for product related to your keywords to promote. you can later create or outsource the creation of your own product.

4. With so many ways to promote, I will just give you to the best of my knowledge the best 5 ways to promote.
a. Promote by buying solo mail (quick results)
b. promote by buying ppc (quick results)
c. promote by blog and articles (not quick but free and can become viral)
d. promote by offering your affiliates a juicy commission. (100% is juicy)
e. offline promotions (community newspaper, post cards, yard signs)

Listen, following these steps alone will get you results. Hope this helps you and anyone else who needs a starting point in this business.

Warrior At.

Tha was good one !
Instead of thinking for niche, why dont you just building yoursite and play arround untill you see how the best way for your own, everybody have different thing,

Remember, Not everybody saling coffee and success *STARBUCK*

Thanks
Kom

Do something you are passionate about or at the very least have a deep personal interest in. Otherwise you could easily lose interest. You can always scale up from there. Might be easiest to start with products or services that people in your "day job" industry need. Ask around to people in your network. Professional groups are a good place to do some market research, plus you will have a built in set of leads. I have fallen into some interesting niches over the years by being open to people around me and things they are saying.

You are way ahead of the pack, I go over how important picking the right niche and keywords are for a newbie so that they can have some success but most of the time, the newbies on my lists still go after real competive markets and keywords and then after working really hard for months, get discouraged and quit or have to start over.

Yes, I know, an experienced IMer can make money in any niche, but newbies need to be more selective, imho.

Finding what to promote, look at the best seller lists on amazon and ebay. Sell what people are already buying.

Then find some keywords for that niche that have over 2500 global monthly exact searches and not a lot of competition.

As for promoting, if you haven't gotten the free backlinks as a War Room member, do that once you have your site up

http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...er-notice.html

Darn, I just found out that offer is closed, but keep this link until he comes back with it.

and also get the free targetted traffic social networking automated software, also free in the War Room. Better get this before he takes it down, too.

http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...-networks.html

I am doing my homework now. My head is spinning. Many Thanks! Topkatt22, Warrior AT, KOM, Localvseo.

@zmayo - I'm really glad you started with identifying problems and focusing on solutions. That's the heart of business.

I suggest that people find a niche that you're passionate about, understand deeply, or want to understand better. That helps you through the dark times, but more importantly, it gives you intimate knowledge about what problems need to be solved.

Burton Snowboards was founded by an avid skier, who spent season after season on slopes destroying prototypes until he figured out the best way to build a snowboard. He kept working on them until they didn't suck.

If you want some inspiration and see tech startups in action, I highly recommend you check out Hacker News and Ycombinator. Also listen to This Week in Startups.

Once you've figured out your niche, the problem you're looking to solve, and your solution to the problem, then you can figuring out the marketing stuff. Different sites require different methods, but a mailing list is always a great addition.

Hi zmayo
their are lots of training blogs on how to choose a niche ,pay someone on fiverr to do the research for you.if you have a list do some ad swaps with someone on the warrior forum.
Regards
vivi62