Where are the Warriors?

Your problem is that you let people talk you out of things.

Just because someone says something is saturated doesn't mean you can't make money.

Saturated markets have more customers and more competitors. I believe that saturation is a myth.

You should pick a product that is congruent with your beliefs and lifestyle. Promoting something you have no experience with will likely be a waste of time.

Hey emmy,

These questions are a bit difficult to answer in a forum, I think.

The reason I say so is that each of the topics is quite complex and I don't think you can give a good answer to them in just a few sentences.

Maybe some rough guidelines, but that might not solve your problem if you're really struggling in these areas.


1. How to pick a good keyword:
Do good keyword research. A "good" keyword is basically one that gets a lot of searches, doesn't have very strong competition and is a "buying" keyword or an "action" keyword, i.e. people who type it are looking to buy something or actively participate in something, not just browsing for free info.
How to find such keywords? Well, there are many ways and each would take a very long time to describe properly.


2. How to pick a product:
Go for something that is already selling well and that you have a certain affinity for. You're going to have to produce content on the topic of your product, so it has to be something you can write about.
Don't worry too much about how saturated a market is. Also don't make the mistake of picking something solely based on the commission level.


3. How to pick a good niche?
This is perhaps the most complex question of them all.
You definitely want to find a niche where people have some kind of a problem that you can solve. That usually makes for the easiest sales. On the other hand, there's lots of money being spent on leisure, luxury and entertainment, so it doesn't all have to be about solving problems.
Another aspect or question is whether you can approach a niche with a new angle. Can you bring something to the table that other's aren't doing yet? Even as an affiliate for a product, you can use a different approach, a different venue and a different angle to promote the product.
If you have a unique selling proposition of some kind, it's going to be easier to stand out from the crowd, than if you're just the 100th affiliate with a "review" blog for the product.
Of course, finding such an angle and evaluating markets and niches is not something easily summarized, but maybe these pointers can already be helpful.

Best regards,
Shane

Saturation is a GOOD thing. The reason for saturation (I use the term lightly, because as Brad noted, there really isn't such a thing), means there is a large pool of potential customers who want the item. You just have to be a little better than the average marketer, or create a unique offer.

1. How to pick good keyword?
2. How to pick a product to promote?
3. How to pick good niche?

These three questions are given FAR too much weight. STOP over-thinking this - it'll only paralyze you. Pull up Google trends and see what people are looking for. Pull up the Ebay best seller list. Check Magazine.com to see what magazines people are subscribing to. Check Amazon.com for best sellers. Make note of the buzz-words used.

Extract a few keywords from that niche and run it through the Google keyword tool. Bingo -- a list of hundreds of keywords you can sort by search volume.

Enter one or two of the hottest keywords in ClickBank to see what related products come up. Search Google for websites related to the hot keyword(s).

To start off, promote in a niche that you have an interest in. There is money to be made everywhere. If you are working in a niche you like, chances are you understand the people involved in that niche. Knowing your market will help your success.

Emmy, any experienced marketer will tell you the way to success is not to create a product first and then find a market for it, but to find a market full of buyers and then put a product in front of them.

Yes, it's easier to break into a market that isn't saturated, but the reason a market isn't saturated is almost always because there isn't much money in it. If you want to make money, you have to go where the money is being spent.

Yes, you do need to set yourself apart from the crowd in a crowded market. That takes thought and effort, and thought and effort is what separates the big earners from the small earners, and the small earners from those who make nothing.

Wao you guys are doing very great job
wao I am impressed
Big ups to you guys

I believe that saturation is a myth as well, It funny how you hear this over and over but you still have marketers who make a full time income from home. Saturation is nothing the money you make online will comes down to the Value you give to the marketplace..

To Your Success
Ty Neal

hey thanks emmy for asking these questions as they can help me something I'm working on.

I won't worry about the niche but look for what's the trend ( local ads, yellow pages etc. ) and then put that keyword into google(tool,insight etc.) and look the global and local searches with "Keyword" - Exact format...I believe you are getting what I mean.

Then make a blog around the picked keyword (3-4 words long and putting that in the title, url, slug) and put some posts.

The last but not the least thing is to promote your blog (through valuable comments in forums, blogs etc.) using onlywire to bookmark and promote your posts. Let the people know what you have to offer that might interests them. Free websubmission is another thing that can help newbies.

Key : Make a schedule/timetable for everthing you do step by step and repeat it over and over again. That's the basics you do for any business and "Treat IM as your business" - Ewen Chia

In my experience, I've followed this mindset and successfully, I enjoyed starting my own business and earning six-figure income at the same time although when I realized that I already miss having this "lifestyle" that I want to be able to enjoy my earnings, I therefore learned to utilize everything that I've learned to someone who could free up some time for me -- outsourcing.

Well, there's no definite niche that you should be following. Just promote what you think could make you more valuable and happy and I'm sure you'll be helping people around easier as well. The more you help, the more you gain value. At the end of the day, that credibility that you have now is the only thing that you have to use to be able to create your own products and yield more results.

Now, turning into an expert from all that passion isn't impossible at all. Alternatively, perseverance, inspiration and focus should be maintained.

@NMP
What a nice post from nice man
I believed the newbies will gain something from you guyz
Best regard

I have just gone with what I know best and work from there. I think too many people focus on trying to make money and end up going into a niche they know too little about.

Saturation is only good when you have money to get into the niche. For example, in order for you to rank for make money online, you have to outsource a lot and play the waiting game until your rankings get better in that niche. Although lots of people say saturation is good there is not a lot of warriors that are on top that niche.

I'm not sure if you are confusing saturation with competition or not so I will give a quick answer to both.

Saturated? No.

There are millions of more potential customers coming online taking the place of those that already bought.

More competition now? Yes.

When I started many many moons ago 4 or 5 of us could own all of the top spots on the front pages of all of the search engines. Now you have hundreds of thousands of more people competing for those same 10 spots.

Does that mean that it is harder to compete in those profitable niches? It is if you don't know how to position yourself in a unique way within the niche.

Does that mean that you should not compete in certain niches? Only you can answer that.

You can spend your time looking for "low hanging fruit" all day, or you can spend your time learning how to compete for a share of the customers with the money.

I would suggest that you learn more about Unique Selling Propositions / Points (USP) to create your own place within whatever niche you want.

You can go into any market and eliminate your competition by not competing with them. Learn how to stand out in a unique way and make them compete with you.

Matt

If people say market is saturated that means there lies a huge potential.
Its a rather good news.

I think everyone has summed it up nicely. If you are writing articles like on EZA as an example, go and look at their most popular articles. The articles that are getting a tremendous number of views are in areas of the most interest. Big interest = more money. You can be successful if you write lots of articles in those high interest topics. The only thing that you should not do if you are a newbie is to take on a highly competitive niche like insurance or mortgages and think that your site will rank on the first page of the search engines anytime soon. That is NOT going to happen.

TomG.

well said tommy
I love the way this is going, everyone here are superb. The view you guys gave here will help a lot of the newbies. more gains to your elbows.
Keep them coming
Best regard