Have You Been Succesful in the Meditation Niche?

I could say the same thing about scrapbooking, but just because I wouldn't have a personal interest in it doesn't mean it doesn't have a market (and scrapbooking does).

My point is, your reply was subjective only.

That is why a different angle is needed. Meditation is the solution, but what is the problem? The problem could be:

Stress
Anxiety
Fear
Unhapiness

etc.

These are hungry problems.

It's a good niche, certainly with loyal customers. Mostly women.

You need to keep any marketing very personal, and always positive, optimistic. The relationship aspect in this niche is more important than in many other niches.

Actually, like any self help sub-niche, it draws a lot of people who have trouble coping with their problems, the life, the universe and everything. If they feel you understand and help them and care for them, they will stick with you.

Regarding quality products: from meditation you can branch out into anything self-help, anything esoteric, spiritual. Depending on your target group you can choose the follow up product topics.

Look at book publishers catalogues to see how topics fit together.

I'd focus completely on women.

If you want to market to men, probably go for the more adventurous stuff like mind powers, astral travel etc., or - move on to more worldly topics like success, goal setting etc.

Well, yes. What else would you want to sell?

Usually you'd sell audios, ebooks, videos. Then the same in form of memberships, or coaching groups - both delivering audios, ebooks, videos for ten times the money. ;-)

You could also branch out to well ness and beauty products, but that's a far stretch compared to just giving them more audios, life changing courses etc.

Like with any other good niche: the product never fullfils the need. That's why they keep coming back to buy more of the same.

My niche is basically about meditation. Well that's what I need to try and convince everyone to start doing.

If you can get them to meditate, pass them onto me and it will make my job a lot easier lol.

I don't think there is going to be much interest there. I have one site on hold right now that deals with meditation and spirituality in general, well actually 2. One that deals more with LOA and manifesting and the other dealing more with spiritual side of things and psychic development.

I would say this. If you have a number of different audios, videos, books, affiliate offers to offer do your thing. If you don't then it gets kinda rough. My thing was to write 2 books and base the sites around the books. I want them both to be membership sites, but don't know which direction to go in whether to make them social sites for loa and spirituality, with products or whether to set them up as affiliate sites.

I'm thinking you will probably end up going in the same direction I am and that is to make it something where you come out with your own or someone elses audios, books, videos, etc and just base the whole project on it. You know like the sedona site, or deepak chokpra site something like that.

The problem with the whole idea is that there's not much new to add to it. I mean a new form of meditation is not going to hit the market every month and how often can you tell someone the secret of the secret .

In theory most of the WF crowd could actually use the information and the practice, but how do you explain to people that this world is a dream and they create their own realities?

I don´t like binaural one bit, when the brain shoots in phase you have seizures.

I would look into chakra music, chakra atunements (there is a product in clickbank about it, but doesn´t look very well from the outside), singing bowls...

To put people down a funnel, think on growing into the meditation field. Look into Jon Kabat-Zin.

Meditation is not just sit on a pillow, you can train yourself to retrieve emotions at will and keep them in place for long periods of time. Some of these emotions have healing proprieties, like loving kindness for example.

You can also connect it with essential oils and crystals, many help to get deeper.

Finally, there is a strong connection between meditation and yoga; yoga strengthen the body for meditation.

It is an interesting niche, my main niche overlaps with it.

Sandra

It could do very well depending on the way you market it.

For instance, some people view "meditation" as some sort of "religious" exercise.

However, if you marketed it as "mind relaxation exercises" for example, targeting the stress relief market, you have a very hungry market.

In this day and age, who doesn't suffer from the effects of stress in some form or fashion?

Terra

It is a niche that interests me, both personally and professionally. From what I can tell, it really seems more geared toward product creators. I seems like it might be a challenge for an affiliate, though. Huge potential in any case, I think.

Meditation is something that's be growing in awareness this past year. More and more 'stars' are mentioning meditation as part of their daily plan and as such you will will get the followers who want to try - which means most of them will want to buy any 'instant Nirvanah' secrets going.

Audio and video will always have a place, but don't forget to cater to readers too. Physical books may not be huge day in day out sellers, but the local bookshops always have some available in this niche and they wouldn't stock them if they didn't sell.

The people who are knocking the niche are the people who wouldn't buy the stuff anyway and there will always be those people, no matter what niche you're in.

As many 'gurus' have said, "There's no need to have a new idea. Just re-package the existing ones that work."

If you plan to be a success, you'll be successful. If you don't plan, you're planning to fail.