Finding a Niche

If you don't find a niche market for the product or service youoffer, you will have a difficult time being successful. Most newcomers who wish todo business on the Internet often market to everyone they can find with theexpectation that everyone will do business with them. This is the same as throwingmud against the wall and hoping some of it will stick. They have not yet found theirniche market. What is niche marketing? A niche market is composed of individuals and businesses that have similar interestsand needs, which can be readily identified and that can be easily targeted andreached. Finding a niche for your business means finding a great product or service for ahighly targeted audience. Here's the process to find your niche business 1. Find a niche product or service you are passionate about. This will greatlyimprove your chances of being successful. Why? Because it's the only way you'regoing to be able to devote the kind of time and effort to create a meaningful website, build up the right traffic, generate worthwhile income, and enjoy what you'redoing. 2. Choose a niche product you are knowledgeable about. Reflect on what skills,hobbies or products you know the most about. If you don't have the knowledge yet,then choose a niche product that you would love to promote, and then spend thenecessary time to research it, so you can eventually become an expert in yourmarketing field. 3. Define your niche market - do the necessary research to see if there is a marketfor your niche product. To create a profitable business for your niche product, youneed to ask yourself these questions: a) Is there sufficient demand for it? - If you choose a field that is too broad itmay be hard to stand out from the competition. For example, camping equipment couldbe your niche product. Well, unless you are a large corporation such as SportsAuthority (a large retail store in my town), you won't stand out from the crowd.However, a more highly targeted niche product could be Coleman Camping Equipment. b) Keyword research - use keyword tools such as the overture suggestion tool(http://inventory.overtur e.com/d/searchinventory/sugges tion) or word tracker(wordtracker.com) to find how many people are searching each month on keywordsrelated to your niche product.

Here's an example: According to overture (at the time of writing this article), the keyword phrase"camping equipment" was searched 76164 times in one month. If you do a search onGoogle.com for camping equipment you will find 1,610,000 web sites show up - heck,that's too competitive. However "Coleman camping equipment" generated 1242 searches in one month accordingto overture. Google.com shows 93,200 competing websites. That's much better thoughstill somewhat competitive. Tip: Notice there are not many web sites (even the top ones), that have "Colemancamping equipment" in their titles. This is just one of the ways to obtain a highranking on the search engines for your newly targeted web site. This will thenprovide lots of targeted traffic to your site. c) Take a survey - you may already have products or services that you selling toyour customers. If so, ask questions within your survey about what product orservice would help your customers business. If it can help them save time by gainingmore knowledge or automating tasks, you could have a winner. d) Create Your Own Unique Selling Position (USP) - study your competition to findout what they emphasize about the product which makes them stand out from the crowd.Then decide on something that will make your business unique from the others. Itcould be something unique about the product (i.e. discount Coleman campingequipment) or you could choose a more highly defined target market (i.e. Boy Scoutorganizations and clubs throughout the USA that use Coleman's camping equipment). 4. Build and promote your web site - to develop a profitable web site for your nicheproduct you need to create a number of informative pages that will not only attractvisitors from the search engines, but inform and move them to purchase from yoursite. Niche marketing is the key to developing a profitable business that will make youstand out from the crowd. By doing the necessary research and building aninformative web site, you will become an expert in your niche marketing field.

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