Bum Marketing Methods - Write How Many An Hour??!!

A lot of my niche selection is based on gut instinct backed up by keyword research. When I come across something that leaps out of at me as having potential, I write it down in my little "ideas" notebook because I don't have the time to follow up on everything. But I do make sure I take note of lucrative opportunities so when I do have time I can follow up with them.

You will find niche ideas everywhere. Walk into Barnes & Noble. Go to the Magazine section. Check out each section. Notice how many magazines there are for particular areas of interest. For instance, my local B&N has at least five different WATCH magazines on the shelf. WATCHES. Apparently, people are crazy about watches. So maybe you'd buy a few magazines about watches and read them over then start doing some keyword research so you could figure out what watches are the most popular and then you'd go and see if there's an affiliate program so you could sell watches directly, or you could promote ebay auctions for them or you could just do adsense.

Then set up a site and drive traffic to that site with articles about the watches that had the largest numbers when you did your keyword research.

Basically, there's two types of buyers in the world. Mostly what I see focused on in material that teaches internet marketing is the "desperate buyer" -- the buyer who needs something, needs to solve a problem. Well, there's another type of buyer --- the addict. This is the collector, the stock trader, the gambler, the video gamer, the golfer, etc.

Health niches and some finance niches are great for targetting desperate buyers.

Other types of niches -- in collectibles, entertainment and sports and finance,for starters --- are really great for targetting the obsessed. You can bet the guy who is seriously into collecting watches buys not just one Watch magazine every month, but a few of them.

I do think it is worth spending more time researching and testing. Then you really do not have to put as much work into pumping out vast amounts of articles. Also, once you find a niche that will make money, stick to it. We all need to diversify, but don't do it too soon or you'll find yourself really diluting your efforts. If the niche is converting after the first 10 articles, stick with it until you've written at least 100 articles -- even if it takes you 100 days to write them. Then start niche 2. If it's not converting however, cut your losses and move on. Otherwise, you're just trying to draw blood from a turnip.