Good Niches Besides the Make-Money Niche

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Everywhere I look today on the internet, I see some markerter trying make a sales pitch on some product about making money in internet marketing. Are all these marketers really experience in making money? And besides, what are some good niches to get into besides the make-moneyniche?
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    • Profile picture of the author dynameek
      Hey Stan,

      Your link doesn't seem to be working...

      I think the make money niche is populated cos there're always people (more than some of the other niches) looking to make money. People who are interested in losing weight need money for their gym & equipment, people with acne need money to buy treatment stuff & so on and so forth.

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  • Profile picture of the author subhub-mark
    Finding the right niche can be quite a tricky process. Depending on what you are selling (physical products, digital downloads or content), there's a lot more involved that just picking a popular niche.

    Here's some pointers, as an example, from the perspective of setting up a niche website:

    Guideline #1 - Are You Passionate About the Niche You're Thinking of Targeting?
    Pick an area that you enjoy so much that you would be happy to write about it even if you weren't getting paid to do so. You'll spend most of your waking hours thinking about it and speaking with people who share your interest. If you're not passionate about your subject, someone who is will probably create a better site that yours.


    Guideline #2 - Know Your Audience
    You must know who your audience are.

    If you don't know your audience, you will not be able to deliver content that meets their needs and answers their questions.

    You will also not know how to reach them in a cost-effective way.

    Often the best sites are written by people who are part of the audience they serve.


    Guideline #3 - Using Unique and Exclusive Content
    Can you create unique and exclusive content that would be difficult or impossible for your visitors to find elsewhere? Where will you get your content from? Could your sources be cut off in the future?

    Unique content builds loyalty and as you know making money relies on creating long-term relationships with your core audience.


    Guideline #4 - Sufficient Material for Regular Updates
    Specialist websites rely on timely and frequently updated content to keep visitors regularly coming back. Does your subject area have sufficient fresh news and data to be updated at least weekly and preferably daily?


    Guideline #5 - Credibility Amongst Visitors
    Your visitors will only keep coming back to your site if you prove that you're credible. Do you have the knowledge and experience to be perceived as an expert in your subject area?


    Guideline #6 - Member Interaction
    One of the greatest benefits of creating an online publication (as opposed to a print publication) is that members are able to interact with the editor and each other. Does your subject encourage this? ..... or would your potential members be in competition with each other and therefore be reluctant to interact? The more communication, the stronger the sense of community, which results in greater loyalty.


    Guideline #7 - No Natural End Date
    Try to avoid a subject that has a natural end date for your audience. For example, a website about how to arrange a wedding would keep individuals returning for the six to twelve months before their wedding and then they will stop. This type of subject means you will continually have to chase a new audience to replace the people who keep leaving.


    Guideline #8 - Potential Visitors are Internet Users
    Make sure that your target audience have access to a computer and the Internet! It may sound obvious, but there are still large sections of society and the world that don't have Internet access.

    Also, make sure your content type matches your audience's speed of Internet access. Don't serve lots of video content to people on slow dial-up connections!


    Guideline #9 - Reduce Pain or Increase Gain
    Every successful content driven website must provide information that the audience perceives as having great value to them. Ask yourself 'Does my website help you increase a reader's pleasure or help them reduce pain?'.


    Guideline #10 - Take a Look at the Competition
    Study the online and offline competition to your proposed website subject. What is their content? Is it free or paid? What prices do they charge? What are their strengths and weaknesses? How can you compete with them? Try not to compete head-on with an industry leader. Find an angle that they are not covering or you could cover better. Do you believe you can compete?


    Guideline #11 - Niche is Best!
    Aspiring editors often assume that the bigger the potential target market, the better the subject and the bigger audience they will attract.

    This has been proven wrong over and over again for small publishers.

    Evidence shows that the more specialist sites are, the more successful they are. It is better to create a site about "How to buy a house in Spain" than "How to buy a house in Europe". In fact it is probably better to narrow the subject even further to "How to Buy a House in the Costa Blanca".

    It is better to create a site about "Running a Successful Food Franchise in London" than "How to Run a Franchise".

    It is better to create a site about "Collecting Beanie Babies" than "Collecting Toys"

    A huge audience tends to be lots of small audiences bundled together. If you try to target the huge audience, it is likely that specialist websites with highly focused content will enter the market to attract each of the smaller audiences.

    For example a site about fishing can be broken up into coarse fishing, fly fishing, deep sea fishing, etc.

    And each of these subjects can be broken up further, for example fly fishing can be divided into Fly Fishing in Scotland, Salmon Fly Fishing, Fly Fishing Equipment Review, etc.

    Specialist Internet publishing is about matching your content and meeting the needs of a very niche audience.

    One site trying to cover all aspects of fishing is likely to die a death by a thousand cuts and dozens of specialist fishing sites slowly but surely pinch their audience.

    Trying to be Jack of all trades, but master of none is Internet suicide.

    Go for a well defined audience with a common interest for whom you can provide the best information on the Internet.

    More sites fail because they target an audience that is too big, than fail for targeting an audience that is too niche.

    Think niche!


    Guideline #12 - Choose a Subject that You're Passionate About
    I know I have already mentioned this, but if I had to pick just one thing that differentiates content websites that are extremely successful and those that just do OK, without hesitation I would say it's the author's passion for the subject that makes the difference.


    Summary

    Hopefuly when thinking about launching your online business you will have a good idea of the subject you want to cover. However by understanding what already exists, the sort of questions people are asking and who your potential audiene are, you should be able to refine it.

    Your goal should be to create a website which covers a small niche, within a much bigger subject area, with an active internet following. For example 'Fishing' is a big subject area, 'Fly Fishing in Scotland' is a specialist niche.

    Hope this helps,
    Mark
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  • Look around you...not just in your home or office, but everywhere. There is money spent EVERYWHERE on EVERYTHING. Just about anything can be profitable via online promotion in one way or another.

    I get the feeling that a lot of new online marketers have on blinders and believe that they are constrained to certain ways of doing things because that's what they see day in and day out, but its not true at all.

    For instance, have you ever considered promoting a product/service that isn't available through "traditional" affiliate networks? By that, I mean approaching an established online or even offline business that specializes in distribution but may not be as savvy as you (or simply may not have the time/manpower) to explore online marketing in a way that you've found success with.

    I've partnered with several businesses (both online and off) over the past several years and I've had great success and forged long-lasting, mutually-beneficial partnerships this way.

    I hate to use the term "think outside the box" but that's really what you may have to do in order to find not only your niche, but your entire business model.

    Look at something, decide how it can be done better/faster/whatever and if it's profitable to do so, do it.

    Best of luck to you,

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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    Not sure why the link wasn't working, but here at the niches I posted over on that thread:

    * Gamblers in debt
    * People whose home is about to be foreclosed
    * People about to go out of business
    * Students who need money to enroll
    * People who want to get rich quick
    * Parents with children needing legal help
    * Insurance agents, doctors, therapists, who have failed or fear failing there exams
    * Women who can not get pregnant
    * Women scared of husbands having affairs
    * Men who cant get women at all
    * People with illnesses/aches/pains who cant find a solution
    * People who have work drug tests coming up soon
    * Headache relief
    * Backpain relief
    * Toothache relief
    * Women scared of husbands having affairs
    * Parents with children needing legal help
    * Job hunting / career change / resume
    * How to sell your house
    * Debt consolidation
    * Stress management / relief
    * Online traders
    * Impotence
    * Divorce Consultation
    * Obesity
    * Criminal Charges
    * Civil Charges
    * Man breasts seems to be a desperate problem
    * 99 secrets you should know before marriage (boys/girls)
    * People will spend huge sums of money getting sick pets back to health.
    * Anybody who needs a good lawyer.
    * Creating IM products in different languages...
    * Get your ex back or Save your Relationship
    * How to cope/what to do if laid off.
    * How to get a good nights sleep...
    * Salespeople that hate doing cold calls
    * Women that need to get slim quick before a holiday
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  • Profile picture of the author rashamba
    I subscribed to niche a day. They are not all great, but I get new one every day emailed with info and stats.
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    Lucrative niches are all over the place and it's a lot easier to earn a living operating in niches other than the how to make money niche - especially for newbies.

    Hope This Helps!!

    TL
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