Having a Problem finding a niche

If you are just starting out in niche marketing, I would suggest you to follow your passion. Although some might claim that not all niches are profitable, you need to keep your motivations high by choosing what you like because producing content and working with people that you just don't have any idea about will bore you.

Specifically for your question, I would say home improvement is a good niche if you scope into a micro level, such as tiling, plumbing, or even roof repairs. You can always use Amazon and eBay as your merchants as they have tonnes of home improvement products for sale there.

Go into a niche that has paying customers, invade niches that are filled with desperate buyers, offer a product that people just don't want but NEED, its urgent that they have that product. Have that mentality and you shall do well.

I agree fine something you love talking about.

Is there such a thing as to saturated? If so how can one tell if a niche is at that point. Most likely if there are lots of products in a niche than the niche is doing good. In other words there are buyers out there looking and willing to pay for information. Try to identify a micro niche that has not been touched on or even very lightly touched on and make a product that relates to it.

I'll tell you something....

I was driving in my car and listened to a radio advertisement that didn't sound like one at first.

The radio ad started in (like a talk radio host) with someone speaking directly about giving tips & tricks to improve your house painting skills and at the end of the radio ad was a reference to knowledgeable staff at my local paint shop that would be happy to assist me with "my home improvement project".

Well, I never ended up at that store 'cause I had already completed my house painting on the exterior windows (brutal work if you've ever tried) yet I still to this day remember the name of the store and I'll most likely drop in the next time I have more house painting to do in the future... which is inevitable.

Not sure how my story will help you with finding your niche but just know that the home improvement market is huge yet filled with many, many niche markets within it.

Check out your local Home Dept for niche ideas and also pay close attention to the information sessions they conduct on Saturday mornings which really is a clever unassuming sales pitch for the products they are using in the "How to" demonstration... and also how many people attend the various unique sessions giving you a quick glance into which home improvement niche may have more hungry/desperate buyers.

P.S. where I'm at it's 2-3 bucks per sq. ft. to have someone else install hardwood floors on top of the hardwood floor pricing... I know, that's the next project for me and I'll be doing it myself for over 1200 sq. ft. of flooring for obvious reasons.

I have a home improvement blog that makes about $50,000 a year from advertising (and to a smaller extent affiliate programs).

What exactly are your monetization goals? Are you looking to make money from advertising and affiliate programs or from creating and selling your own information products? I think home improvement can be great for the former (we don't necessarily have the highest paying ads in the business but everyone has a home, so there is a lot of potential for traffic flow), but I am not sure you'd make a killing creating information products. (I'm sure it's possible, but I believe there are easier niches for that.)

I'll give you good home improvement niche based on some quick research: "cheap closet organization system".

Now go buy cheapclosetorganizationsystem.com before anyone else does.

Create 10 or so original articles on closet organization that are rich in keywords related to our topic. Use the keywords in your titles and, if you use WordPress, use a theme that it dateless and optimized for SEO. Add your articles to the site gradually over about a week to 10 days.

Do NOT monetize the site at this point. Make it look like a straight up informational site. Go out and build links for it via article marketing, directory submissions, social bookmarking, forum posting, blog commenting and so forth. You will need to build up a solid portfolio of backlinks.

Don't obsess over your traffic statistics but keep an eye on them. Once you start getting a decent number of visitors arriving from search engines daily you can monetize the site. I suggest either Adsense or eBay Partner Network to get the best results. Since this is a more of a physical product, I'd recommend EPN as your first choice. Only use one method of monetization or one method with list building to get the best results.

Pick a niche based on data. Data from Google keyword tool. See what people are searching for. Then see what the competition looks like by doing a search in Google. Look at allintitle too. How strong are the top listings in Google? Do they have the keyword(s) in the title? Look to see what affiliate programs there are that addresses the exact problem/issue or create your own product. Hope this helps...

If you pick a niche based on something you are passionate about, you'll already be better than 90% of the competition.

Hi Turner, Suggestion for your home improvement category, Think Green?
Try home improvement key words in that area, real popular.