What to do with all those emails? NOOB

It's free, but there's absolutely no "quality control" and - inevitably, online - being able to benefit from it is a function of being able to distinguish information from misinformation (the latter is often far more widespread, which should surprise nobody given the low overall sucess-rates in internet marketing). Be aware that "the consensus of opinion" will often be a mistaken or flawed one, and that there are reasons for that.

Normally one does this the other way round, and starts by identifying niches in which people want information/products, checking the available information/products which one can promote (and/or create one's one) and so on. But I appreciate there are also circumstances under which one sometimes looks at it the other way round.

People selling information and products designed to educate people about treating hemorrhoids and people selling hemorrhoid-treatments?

Most of them do. It's a fairly chronic, recurrent problem which many people can change only by significant, long-term diet and lifestyle changes, and the proportion of people who ever achieve that is pretty low. (And similar criteria apply to many other "problem-solving niches" as well.)

But to the extent that it's a real issue, your question does illustrate a potential drawback with "problem niches" in which one sells "solutions". I think "problem niches" are sometimes a little overrated. I slightly prefer "enthusiasm niches" in which one "feeds the enthusiasm", because those are insatiable, without that problem ever arising at all.

Yeah, we marketers are the ultimate collectors of negative spawns. Funny because it's true. :rolleyes:

You want a list, because you're going to market to hemorrhoid-related products. They're sick, tired and want to end the pain.

When they don't have them anymore... Well, you either receive referrals or you don't.

There is no reason to build a list in that niche. Does someone really want to wait around for a few weeks with a pain in their ass so you can "build a relationship" with them before givign them the solution to their problem? No. They just want it gone.

I see this as an opportunity. Granted that your list will not be as versatile as other niches, you can pull from how your list responds. If you have provided good information and people have come to trust your recommendations to cure or help in their afflictions, you could then start polling your list to determine other areas of discomfort that may affect them. I guarantee you that a huge percent of your audience has back pain, arthritis or general joint pain, headaches, and other common ailments. As a result, you can then begin to segment your list further into other pain/cure niches where there are numerous CPA offers, PLR products and other information that you can monetize.

It will take some work, but you may be able to turn a pain in the rear into a polished poop!

Just a thought.