Any advice on the Knitting niche? How can I research it, make money with it, etc?

There's always a market in whatever you do. All you have to do is to decide on where should you start - selling pasterns? starting an online store..? or making and selling knitted clothing on etsy?

Once you already decided on where to start, get back to me and I'll give you more feedback.

Do people still knit?

MrMax,

The things below may suit your planned venture in your chosen niche -- I suggest verifying the viability of these ideas through effective market research (details found later in this post) ...

• You can provide unique patterns as an opt-in offer. After all, people normally feel obligated to return a favor that benefits them, so you can compel them to give their first names, emails, mobile numbers and other details to you in exchange for a compiled download of your unique knitting patterns and the chance to get hold of your new monthly set of knitting patterns ...

• You can sell relevant physical products in Amazon as an affiliate, as well as relevant digital products also as an affiliate of various developers, like producers of paid patterns and so on ...

• You can also sell your own digital products like knitting patterns and so on ...

Now, here are market research details that you must keep in mind:

• Identify a specific group of people that has significant offline and online demand for knitting-related content, solutions, products and services, specifically a goup that you would want to cater to and provide content, solutions, products and services for;

• Identify competitors, and create concept plans for using your currently available resources to beat them;

• Create a list of online and offline places / publication materials frequently accessed by this specific group of people to search for related content, solutions, products and services, and to talk and share relevant things with others who share the same needs, problems and interests;

• Use the data above to formulate offers, to pinpoint affiliate products / services, and to create onsite / offsite content materials, promotional / non-promotional brand positioning and hardsell / softsell ad materials that can grab the attention of your target audience, keep them interested in learning more about whatever you're offering, entice them to engage with your content, and compel them to do things that you want them to; and

• Use the data above to strategically position your brand, your content, your offers, your solutions and your ads over your competitors in those online and offline places / publication materials ...

Hope this helps. Cheers!

Thank you Michael that was very nice of you to compile that list.
Im thinking of just starting a store and becoming an affiliate selling knit clothing products found on department store websites, or drop shipping.

I dont know if selling patterns earns as much money as selling actual items like knit hats, knit slippers, etc.

Yes, people still knit. A lot of them.

A lot of people seem to do very well by selling patterns, teaching online courses at places like Craftsy and/or in-person courses.

Doing this requires a certain skillset, however. Writing patterns that are actually good and worth paying for is hard, and then you have to market them, competing against many established designers.

Tutorials are a good way to draw people into a site also, but again, there are already a lot of sites that offer free, high-quality tutorials for knitting, so it may be hard to crack.

If you can sell yarn at good prices, that might be a good way to go. There's a lot of competition, but crafty people always are on the lookout for yarn and supplies at bargain prices.

In terms of getting free traffic via Google, have you thought about narrowing the niche a bit for purposes of less competition? Fair isle knitting seems really popular right now, as does entrelac. There are probably others--I'm very new to knitting myself and am more skilled in crochet.

If you can yourself knit, Go ahead with useful tutorials and guides. When i did a bit of research on this niche, i can see people easily ranking for keywords related to knitting, there is less competition which means less money, but that does not mean there is no money.

You can sell knitting kits, knitting ebooks and also monetize your website with adsense. You can also shoot video tutorials and upload to youtube for additional revenue.

"knitting for beginners" seems to be a money keyword for which you can make a ebook or target with tutorials so that you see the money flowing in atleast from advertising income.

Nevermind...I tried to make an ad on facebook for people to buy knit clothing and its impossible to figure out a demographic. Its like trying to sell a blanket
If someone buys knit clothing that doesnt mean thay are into knitting hobby. grrr.
scratch that idea :/

With the knitting niche I would

1.) Sale Patterns
2.) Find a course (ebook if possible)
3.) Have free beginners videos ( find them on youtube )
4.) Find unique things that are uncommon to be knitted ( bottle cozies etc )
5.) Become charitable, make people feel all warm and fuzzy when they use your website. Tell fellow knitters to knit people scarfs hats or whatever for homeless or less fortunate people including local school kids or whatever you fancy.

Just a few tips that I would go after if I was going to get in this niche.

I know some knitters so I know it's still something that is going on still so it's not a bad one to get into.