Easiest Way to Discover a Profitable Niche
Written By: admin Posted On: August 6, 2007 Tags:
Having information that people are looking for is the first step to making money with advertisers or affiliate programs online. Sometimes it’s a little bit more difficult than it sounds to pick out a niche that will work for you, and it can definitely become a time-consuming process that wastes time you can be using more productively… like building content!
Use eHow & Others to Get Ideas
I’ve always said a useful product is one that provides a solution to one’s troubles or pains. eHow just so happens to have an archive chock full of solutions to problems that people are actually looking for!
Try it out:
Browse over to Careers & Work > Getting Ahead At Work. There are over 98 niche topics on how to get ahead at work. Their main page even has a Popular Articles section featuring the most searched and viewed articles on the site for the current date.
There are tons of articles that could be paired with affiliate offers from your merchant of choice, or used as a basis for your own informational product. If you ever run out of ideas from eHow, there are several others out there:
- My Goals
- How to do things
- Google Groups
- Yahoo Groups
- Yahoo Answers
- Helium
- Google Trends
- Wanna Learn
- ViewDo
- For Dummies
- WikiHow
- eBay Pulse
- AOL Hot Searches
- Lycos Top 50
- Ask.com IQ
- Amazon Popular Tags
- Amazon Bestsellers
- Amazon Movers & Shakers
- Delicious Popular Tags
- Flickr Popular Tags
Pair this data up with the Overture Keyword Tool or the Google Keyword Tool to create a set of keywords and determine competition/value, and you’ve got yourself a profitable niche.
This is a very intuative idea. I think for getting something to work it need to be, as you say, something that makes easier or solves a problem. Providing people access to information that is not avalible elsewhere is also a good one. Back in the days when I was involved in historical research I was able to get access to crinimal records, legal records etc. Some of the information ou can pick up would make some great but expensive link bait.
Also, if the concept you are looking to market has not been tried before (or done really badly) this could make things easier for you. The most succesfful businesses I know were all pioneers.
Not all successful businesses were pioneers! But, this stuff is mainly for info products/adsense/affiliate deals use where being #1-2 in Google automatically gives you most of the customers
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are you suggesting we copy the articles there?
^ Perhaps not ACTUALLY copying the articles. As suggested:
“There are over 98 niche topics on how to get ahead at work.”
Realizing what people want and what people are trying to look for can really help a great deal in establishing your niche. Couple that with patience and motivation and you’ll eventually get the desired results, truth be told.
Good job on the article.
Austin
http://www.findaniche.org