We have all heard it a hundred times, "make your riches with niche marketing". It certainly is a great way to expand your business and create income with very little competition. We all want more income and finding ways to do that online can be daunting. The overall problem is research. How do you get the ideas for these niche markets?
Well one place to start is probably on your mind, in some way or another, everyday. The big bad wolf we call Yahoo. Now I know you're probably thinking "what about Google?". While they are certainly big and bad, Yahoo provides a few "tools" that are very fast and easily accessible.
One of the best places to start is Yahoo Answers. This is a site where people post questions that they need answers for. Google used to have this but it has been retired. When you get to Yahoo Answers you will find a list of categories on the left, and a block with "Recent"/"Popular" in the Answer Questions section.
You will want to look through the categories and find 3 or 4 that you have an interest and some knowledge in.This way you will be more motivated to find solutions or create info products for this "niche". Yahoo helps us even more by giving us sub-categories inside the main category. For instance if you click on Pets as the main category you will find sub-categories such as, birds, cats, dogs, etc...
I love this feature because you can get focused very fast. You want to get as targeted as you can in your niche marketing. I try to use only 4 to 7 keywords/phrases to target my audience. This helps me get plenty of traffic while being able to write quality articles to promote my niche sites.
Remember the goal here is NOT to answer questions (yet) but to find common problems. You do not need to limit yourself to a single problem either. If you can group together 2 or 3 problems that can be solved in a similar way you will greatly increase your chances for success.
So lets say you have discovered a problem that you can fix and you have the knowledge to write an ebook on the subject. So you get to the tasks at hand which will include writing your pdf, building your sales page, buying your domain name (optional), write and distribute 4 or 5 article "teasers" that you can send people to.
You will then need to distribute your articles. I use EzineArticles and GoArticles for my two primary but it is certainly a matter of choice. This should all be done in a matter of days (2 or 3 at best). So after you have that all done it will be time to start your marketing (answering questions).
Head on back to Yahoo Answers and log in. Create a new account if you don't have one. Now just go back to the category that you had chosen for your niche product and scroll through the questions until you find someone with your "problem". Start answering...it is just that easy.
Here are some tips to help you get the most from your efforts;
* Send them to your articles (not your sales page) as if you had found them (not authored them). Let them sell themselves. * You do not have to create a product if you can find one at a site with an affiliate program * Use sympathy to gain their trust..."I know what your going through", "I feel your pain". * USE A DIFFERENT SCREEN NAME THAN YOU WOULD NORMALLY IF YOU ARE TRYING TO BE A "NORMAL" PERSON AND NOT A MARKETER. * Remember people do not like to be sold to, they like to sell themselves.
So there you go a short but sweet article to help you find some small yet powerful markets to suck the wallets dry of your prospective customers. Just try very hard to provide a true solution to their problems so that they will continue to buy products online. Nobody likes to get scammed and they will spread the word quickly.
My name is David Knops Jr and I run a blog dedicated to providing quality content in the internet marketing niche. Please stop on by and see what else you can learn. If you don't find what you are searching for on my site please use the search box provided and then check back in a few days and I should have some quality content published for you. Visit my site at Easy Home Based Business
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