Does people buy Halloween costume online??

I don't know the answers to all your questions but I do know the first one is definitely yes.

I think you might be a little too late for the party this year, though.

Tina

Absolutely. It's a very big money holiday. May be too late to jump in for this year. A lot of people already have ordered their costumes, but keep developing your site if you have one and you'll be ready for next year.

Yes, definitely but it would be too late to get in now. You can make a keyword research on what Halloween stuff people usually like to buy online. And yes, facebook or twitter are a good way to promote this niche.

Yes people do buy Halloween costumes online..

Even though it is late, you can try your luck for this keyword/niche "Last Minute Halloween shopping" or "Last Minute Halloween Costumes"

These two showed up in my KW Research tools

Anup

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Plus amazon and clickbank of course

There are ways to make money by capitalizing on the Halloween season. Here is a link to a PLR pack that might give you some ideas.

Halloween Graphics Blowout

You could start focusing on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's day if you would like to get the jump on the next few big buying seasons.

Halloween is a tremendous niche that I have been apart of since 2003, last year I sold over 1400 costumes and I am on track again
this year to do quite well.

As others have mentioned, it is a bit late to get started now, why not look into the Holiday season instead!

Good luck ...

Check out halloweencostumesfordogs.com You might make a big blip in his traffic stats if you do, and I'm not sure if s/he is a tenaire yet. (like a millionaire, but aiming lower)

Can't help it. Ran across that site one day and it is one of those unforgettable domain names. That's the kind you're supposed to buy, right?

Brian, wow that's fantastic well done

Personally, I dislike niches like halloween to make money. It's only open for a fragment of the year, and really there are no exciting monetization options. No high paying CPA offers, and commissions that are scant at best.

Now is not the time to be getting into anything for holloween unless you plan on getting your site up for next year. Since you state you are new your best bet would not be to try and target a seasonal trending market but a long term trending market. Pick a market that has buyers all year round for your first one. This way you can find out an how to atleast get things going for a seasonal market.

When trying to target seasonal markets if you had not made your presence know atleast a few months prior chances are you will not beable to cash in until the next years market. Since there is only a few days left for the holloween market you really do not have a xhance at all any more. You might try your luck in the xmas market though. If you start now and follow everything to a tee that is handed to you here. Then you should be able to make atleast a few thousand for the up coming xmas season.

Definitely get started for next year as soon as possible. I got my Halloween sites up pretty late in the game since they were not a top concern for me. I did not promote them pretty much at all. I did make enough sales to cover my costs, but nothing to write home about. However, next year these sites will be aged domains with lots of content and backlinks.

If you are looking for immediate sales, I would look at Christmas and New Year items. In your spare time start researching next year's Halloween promotions. Buy a few domains if possible, get your Squidoo and Hub Pages set up to age nicely, etc. Throw out some articles on popular topics and use one of your author box links to link back to your Halloween sites.

I have a large number of sites and have many seasonal niches.

I think of it this way. Seasonal niches are often less competitive than year round niches and if you have a good flow in your niche selection, then something will be peaking year round. My seasonal niches look kind of like this:

Niche Group A - New Years Resolutions
Niche Group B - Spring
Niche Group C - Summer Recreation/Home and Garden/Vacation
Niche Group D - Back to School
Niche Group E - Halloween
Niche Group F - Holidays

This model works well for both mini sites and authority sites. You could have dozens of little sites set up or choose one main site for each seasonal niche and really grow those sites.

They certainly do. They love stuffs from the online shop because they choose what they really like in just a short period of time, most people like adult costume, or even couples costume. Now take your pick!

Oh yes they do. Specially to the busy Joe with little time to spare for the regular shopping and the hassles of choosing the right costume and. There is no better place to shop than in the comfort of one's own home checking on the available options from a vast networks of suppliers and being able to compare prices off hand.

Definitely, people do buy costumes for the Halloween season. As you what you have observed from your environment, people especially the teens do buy costumes not only during the Halloween days but any event that requires costumes. I can't really give you an assurance that by using Face book you can generate more sales for selling costumes online. It really depends on how will you present and advertise your product in the social networking pages, since I can say, that people who are into Face book or other social networking sites are fond of shopping online since it is convenient and will save them gas from going into the store and try to wrestle yourself into the crowd.

People buy costumes online in a big way.
Last year I built a handful of mini sites on exact match halloween domains
Like bigfootcostume . com and .net etc.
After the season was over I did the math. I had made a little over 1,000 including a few hundred from adsense and the rest from a costume affiliate.

The crazy thing is my commission was 10% so I did about 8,000 in gross sales.

Exact match domains for costumes are easy to rank, however you need to keep up with the seo as there are a ton of minisites you will be competing with.
This year I will make a lot less as most of my listings have dropped a page or 2

When I worked retail, they said it was second only to Christmas in the amount of money being made off it. It's the 2nd biggest retail holiday of the year.

Commission Junction has about 15 dif. Halloween related vendors.
Amazon has a good selection of costumes, but def check out CJ.

THIS THREAD IS ONE YEAR OLD.

You can thank the spammer promoting the costumes link at the bottom of their signature for that.