Niche Question

I dont get it dude

You are asking us for help on niches

So you can turn around and teach people about what you dont know?

What is coming of the internet community lol

I've been on hubpages for 2 months and I'm not sure targetting niches is all that it's cracked up to be. If you just write about popular stuff then you'll rank lower down, but the higher traffic for those keywords more than offsets the lower rank.

Maybe long tails aren't that good after all?

My best strategy so far is writing about a random range of topics I know about, and if a page makes money, I write more of them in the same theme.

Were you successful within this niche...that is the question...

Here the thing about writing your own ebook...

Don't just go and write the same ebook as someone else. You're just asking for failure. If that is your plan, then you'd be better off just becoming an affiliate of 1 or all of the other 3 ebooks and selling for them. Trust me, it will save you a lot of headaches.

Only write your own ebook if there is something that these other 3 ebooks are missing or if you have a different approach. Then you can go after the sub-niche if one exists.

Let me give you an example... If you're in the weight loss niche then there are many sub-niches you can get into... diet for weight loss, exercise for weight loss, etc, etc. So let's say you choose to get into the exercise for weight loss sub-niche. There are tons of general exercise for weight loss products out there and if you created one just like the others then you'll get no where.

You have to either find a way to make a better product, i.e. lose more weight and in less time, that actually works better than the other products to steal their hold on the market. Or you'll have to find another angle or even deeper sub-niche that actually has a market and that doesn't have a product yet.

So maybe your angle or sub-niche would be exercise for old people or exercise to lose pregnancy weight. If you can find a hole in the market and there are actually people who need your product then go for it.

But you can dig too far and find that your product serves 5 people in world. So you woudn't want to make a product for, exercise to get rid of arm flab for smoking women between the ages of 54-56.

I think you get the point...

Don't recreate the wheel unless you can do it better or make it serve a new purpose.

And don't just rely on Google keyword search to determine whether there is a market or not. Use Clickbank and look at the gravity scores of these products. If they aren't selling, then you're might not either.

Go to Amazon and do a search for your niche. Are there are a lot books available on the niche and are people actually reading them? If there are plenty of reviews for a book then people are reading it. Are there any "for Dummies" books for your niche? These guys don't produce books that aren't going to sell. Leverage the market research that other's have already done for you.

It's like what a lot of companies use to do before the whole economic downturn. Starbucks was doing extremely well and was known for doing extensive market research before setting up shop just anywhere. But as soon as they did, other companies going after the same target market realized this and would try to set up shop right next to Starbucks.

I hope that helps you figure some things out.

Cheers,

-Tom