Confused about creating a niche product

Good question, Ruki. I hadn't thought about whether to sell or give away for free.

I guess giving away the ebook would be a great way to build up a list.

Thanks.

I believe cat sneezing should just be among your target niche topics. Other niche topics can be minor annoyances, irritations and allergies, among other common problems that most cats may experience from time to time. And, focus on common problems that a lot of cat lovers, generally, wouldn't most likely know how to solve on their own, unless they consult a vet. Then, I recommend doing the following things, since you must sound like a friendly resource of useful content, info and advice about such topics:

• Develop your onsite content, in ways that can inform and educate your target viewers, about the problems your cat has experienced, time and again, the advice you got from your vet, the things you did, when you followed your vet's advice, the exact results you got, and the other things you do that prevent similar problems from happening again...

• Develop a guide/tutorial, that offers more detailed and more specific info and advice, on how to solve such problems. The content of this product should offer beneficial tips, info and advice, that they can't get from your site and from anywhere else. Then, sell this product on your site. Next, post it as an affiliate product in affiliate networks. At this point, offer a 90% or more commissions per sale, to entice more people to sign up, as your affiliates. These people will help you drive more traffic and populate your mailing list, with buyer traffic. Of course, integrate your mailing list subscription process, into the sales page on your site for this product, so buyers can opt-in to your mailing list...

• Promote your site, content, product, services and your affiliate sign up pages in those affiliate networks. You can do this through PPC/PPV/PPM, private ad space rentals, solo email ads, content syndication and guest authoring in contextually relevant, high authority syndication networks and sites in your niche, and contribute useful and relevant info/advice in contextually relevant, high authority sites, blogs and online social networks/groups/communities, especially those with large regular readership, active membership and active mailing list subscriber bases...

Do take note that you couldn't most likely develop a high quality product, if you just know "a little" about your target niche. This doesn't mean you can't target the niche, though, since, like I said above: Tell your target viewers, about the info and advice, provided by your vet, as solutions to the problems experienced by your cat. This also means you can interview your vet, and your other friends with relevant expertise in such subject areas, so they can add more value to the content of your site and product...

Hope this helps...

Keywords are great to write articles or pages about, they might or might not be worth it to produce an entire product about.

Before you create a niche product, it would be important to find out if anyone cared enough about the topic to buy something. Even if you are creating a product to give away, it still pretty important to find out if anyone wants to spend any money.

So it would be good to find out if there are any competing products in the marketplace that people are already buying. You definitely do not want to be the only product.

Just a suggestion, will you be able to post this on Ebay and sell at a cheap price, with that you can offer your buyer whether they like to be in your list to continue receive information about this particular niche. This list may be very targetable and they are your buyer list.

I have not done anything on Ebay marketing before. If this is not allowed, do let me know too, thanks.

Do you mean research for the market demand? WE can check if you niche is in demand, you can simply check under the amazon best seller category. Otherwise, check under the major shopping directory such as shopping.com or ezine directory.

You can also do keyword research, simply go to google adwords tool to find the demand from the market.