Warriors not in the IM niche?

Direct marketing

I announce mine to the entire Internet every day lol.

Why? Do you really think you're in a niche that the folks you'd have to worry about here haven't thought of at least 50 times already?

Some of the things I sell are stun guns, pepper spray, dog beds, dog treadmills, pet carriers, and pet strollers.

Ahh ok.. Bit of a faux pas is to ask this question then? Sorry I asked - thanks for the witty replies though everyone :rolleyes: It was a valid question, as I see the IM niche is heavily weighted, and was wondering how people outside of that arena got on.

Righto, let's all get back to the "How cun i mak money, like 2day??????11" threads..

Exactly, but even when you don't have enough experience in your niche you should know that you will eventually so it doesn't matter who knows.

But to be fair, I think this only applies to people in 1 niche. If people are in even 2 niches then obviously someone who only concentrates on the one would be able to spend more time on it.

I probably wouldn't tell anyone my niches if I was in more than 1.

Nonsense.

However much authority you have in your niche, if you think lots of people might want to copy it (and the more authority you have, the more likely that is!), it makes no sense at all voluntarily to encourage them.

If you've spent many hundreds of hours researching and selecting all your niches partly on the basis of their lack of competition, why would you want to publicize them?!

hehe.. That's the way it goes online!

My last post may sound arrogant, but Im very good at creating content.

Am I good at monetising this skillset? Not yet! Hence my involvement here, learning from the considerable wealth of experience the warriors have in this arena

I'm not in the IM niche at all. I do operate in 8-9 different markets under different pen names. (I say 8 or 9 because two of them are so close that some consider them the same thing.)

I've had entire sites copied and re-posted verbatim, with the only change being the pay link. One SOB even tried to claim that I copied them. I had to change an entire company name once because a competitor thought it was a good name and trademarked it.

So even though I appreciate your take on authority and competition, I'm still not going to trot out the list.

I will tell you that the markets I'm in have some common characteristics. They're all what I call 'obsessive' niches - hobbies, pastimes and such that people will fixate on for long stretches of their life. They all require a fair amount of discretionary income to feed the obsession, so my target audience tends to skew affluent or better. And they all tend to be pretty competitive, but don't have single 'superstar' entities - in other words, even though there is competition, there is room to compete.

Makes perfect sense - like your style

Clearly ... but a very high proportion of those are connected with internet marketing. Do you think that might be because it's a marketing forum and they have something to promote here, and that that's why the thread title specifies "Warriors NOT in the IM niche"?

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