Starting Out In Niche Marketing
If you are like most people, you have thought seriously about creating an online business. Thanks to the internet, creating your own business is easier than ever and can be very profitable. Each year, the number of people who are working at home continues to climb.
Most people who got in on the ground floor of online businesses did well in the 1990s and even in the beginning of the century. Now, however, there are too many people all competing for the same customers. In order to be a success in your own online business today, you need to uses niches.
Niches are areas that have not been tried by others, or that have only been used to a minimum. In other words, they are not overrun. This ends up cutting down on your competition and giving you a chance to excel in an area where very few others are competing.
In order to succeed in niche marketing, you have to have something different to bring to the table. This can be a product, service or marketing skills. This series of posts will teach you some ways that you can become a success in online marketing using niches.
Everyone has their own special skills and talents. If you truly want to be a success with your own online business, you should utilize your own special set of skills so that you can use them to create your own niche in the wide world of internet marketing.
In my next post I will go into a little more detail about what niche marketing exactly is…
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June 16th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Yes, you really have to find yourself a niche to get your business properly set up. Although it may seem like all of the niches are taken, their are still some good ones put to be found. Just means you have to look a little harder. Will look forward to your next post.
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June 16th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Thanks for starting this series on niche marketing. I am looking forward to learning more about how to do this. I have not branched out into the niches yet. Will have to take a loog look at it and see if time is available.
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June 16th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
There are tens of thousands of niches out there. Some are profitable and some aren’t. I recommend you remind people of Mike Paetzolds ebook on how to tell them apart. Or perhaps you were planning on doing that yourself.
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June 16th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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June 16th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
The most profitable niches do in fact have a fair amount of competition in them – but you KNOW they’re profitable by the number of people working those niches. While finding micro-niches was all the rage for a while, most marketers have realized very few of them are profitable, which is why there’s little competition in them.
As I know your series will go on to show, learning to dominate your niche REGARDLESS of the competition will create the greatest returns and make the most money for your efforts!
Looking forward to your new series, Brett – bring it on!
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June 16th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Very true… with the right niche and with the right knowledge, just about anyone can become a real authority in that niche market. It just involves a little work up front to research and being to learn what the niche wants and what you can deliver to them.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I wouldn’t necessarily say niches are areas that have not been tried by others, or that have only been used to a minimum.
Niches are just sub-sections of a larger market. In order to succeed in niche marketing you have to target the right keywords as well as the right product/offer.
Looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Hi Brett,
great subject for a series of posts and a good start.
I’d tend to agree with Lisa’s comment, but well done.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the series too.
Cheers,
Michael