Niche Market Example

Here is a small video on a Niche Marketing example.

Niche Hunting

Here is a video I found on 'Niche Hunting'. (The video volume was a little low on my laptop...just an F.Y.I., so you can adjust your volume accordingly.)
This is part of the Thirty Day Challenge program, of which I am not yet familiar with, but have provided a link for anyone who wants further investigation.

A Niche Experiment

I want to let you in on a niche experiment

I have going.

It's actually one of several, following the bum (affiliate) marketing

method.

To begin with...I set up a Squidoo Lens

that is about the advantages of becoming Energy Independent.

From the Squidoo Lens I have a link

to my

Earth 4 Energy Review blog

and my

Home and Garden Blog

which have my affiliate links to the

Earth 4 Energy product.

I also have a couple of other affiliate links

to Amazon based products...that might produce a sale or two

for me.

After building the Squidoo Lens

and writing the couple of blogs...

I wrote a couple of articles for Ezine Articles

linking those

back to my Squidoo lens

and my Home and Garden blog.

Finally,

I put up a small website

that I need to finish...but once finished

will link all of the other

sites together.

Now..I haven't had a whole lot

of traffic yet...though I haven't visited any forums...

etc.

I am going to take this experiment one step

further and see if

I can get some traffic moving.

If I succeed...I'll let you in on that secret.

Who Is Travis Sago?

So..who is Travis Sago? He's the man behind 'The Bum Marketing Method' and here is a little video by him on, 'How To Choose A Profitable Niche.'

10 Steps Necessary for Affiliate Success

10 Steps Necessary for Affiliate Success

1. Set Goals. -- This is important and really needs to be done first. I wasted weeks because I didn't do this FIRST. It's hard to if you've reached your destination, if you don't know where you're going. Keep a notebook...'get it in writing'. You're going to get 'information overload', even if you pay for a top program...the information comes pretty fast and furious...and you might get lost if you don't write it down.

2. Start out with 'small expectations'. If you go too 'great' you might get discouraged and give up on your goals. So, if you set a goal..to earn $200 or $300 a month, with your affiliate marketing, Adsense, etc...you've given yourself a workable place to start. You can increase your expectations as you learn and refine your knowledge and experience in affiliate marketing.

3. Discover your niche(s). What are you 'good' at, interested in, passionate about...? What is the one thing that others seek advice from you on? If you just can't find something from doing a little self-examination, go visit Clickbank and search their marketplace. You don't have to join to see what different products they offer, maybe something will strike your fancy there.

4.Get familiar with Google AdWords and Wordtracker and refine your keywords.

5. Take your niche and build a website around it. You can start with a blog, then expand it to build a Squidoo lens, do a little article marketing and then set up a website. This is where the keywords come into play.

6. Join an affiliate program, or two, or more. You will get 'automatic approval' from some of the merchants in the programs but, other merchants (with the exception of Clickbank) may want to review your sites before they give their approval. Once you've been approved, start putting the links in your blog, lens and on your website.

7. Start getting yourself 'out there'. Participate in forums, join social networks, visit other blogs and leave comments. It's time to start 'mining for gold'..and quality links that lead back to your sites are as good as gold.

8. Set a schedule. So that you don't overwhelmed or distracted by 'too much information', set a schedule. How much time daily/ weekly are you going to devote to your affiliate marketing? Don't go 'overboard' or 'underboard'..be fair to yourself and be fair to your new 'venture'.

9. Once you have one or two niches going, the blog, the lens, the website are all set up..start all over again and build more niche sites. You increase your odds and you increase the possibility of making a decent income.

10. Keep learning. But, don't sign up for every 'get rich quick' program that comes along. Chances are better that you'll make a lot more money on the programs that don't make the 'get rich' promises. I'll be listing some of those programs here soon..so you can check them out and decide for yourselves.

Niche List

Having trouble deciding on a Niche? Here are a few suggestions!

• acne medication



• advertising



• amazon



• as seen on tv



• audio books



• automotive



• baby products



• banks



• business loan



• beauty products



• bill consolidation loan



• black lights



• broadband



• phone business



• finance business opportunity



• car accessory



• car insurance



• car rental



• cat food



• religious products



• cell phone



• ceramics



• chess



• dog food

I have a much longer list...but you can find several by just searching for 'niche lists' in Google. I am only trying to point out that...niches are everywhere! Just look around the room and you'll find numerous examples.

In my living room, where I am sitting and typing this on my laptop, I can look around and I see...

• My pottery collection. (I found six or seven pottery affiliates by typing 'affiliate programs for pottery..in Google.)



• Old Globe Lamps. (Okay...this one's going to take further 'digging' to find out if there are any affiliate programs...however, I can certainly research the subject and offer the information in the form of ebooks...or appraiser (if I can become expert enough.)



• Art - Original and Print. (All Posters has an affiliate program that you can earn some pretty good commissions...same with Zazzle...and I don't have to provide anything except a little work, a site, some links to the products and good marketing.)

I think you see how niches can be built. It's almost as simple as, "finding a need and filling it". And from the 'organic pet products' example...try to keep that 'need' as specific as possible.

And....if these suggestions..or looking around your room...don't get you excited about a particular niche..you might search Google Trends or eBay Pulse.

What is Niche Affiliate Marketing?

What is a niche? A niche is a certain segment of the population that you intend to focus on.

In this example, the targeted niche I am 'focusing on' is...dog owners...specifically, owners that are so 'in love with their dogs' that they want to be sure they have the 'best of everything'.

I have selected organic products for dogs as my marketing niche...in this example, 'Dog Aromatherapy Products'...yes, this niche does exist...and there are products you can provide to those owners who are looking for ways to 'extend the lives of their beloved pets'.

(I'm not actually going to set up a marketing niche for this product...I'm just using it as an example...of 'niche marketing'.)

So---pick your targeted niche = dog owners.

Select your 'sub-niche' = organic products for dogs.

Find affiliate programs that are available in this niche/ sub-niche = Green Affiliate Programs.network/ pet supplies.

Select the products you want to promote = Pet Alive

Happy Tails

Herb Trader

All of these products have affiliate programs that you can join, in order to receive commissions on the promotion of their products.

I've checked on Google and there are 108 sites that you can find for 'Organic Products for Dogs', and three paid advertisements (meaning someone is paying to get their products found) -- according to what I've learned about affiliate niche marketing...it means there are customers looking for these products and very few sites offering them.
You might not 'get rich' with this targeted niche market but, it appears to have some possibilities with a little work and some promotion.

You'll need to do just a bit of research (about 30 minutes worth)...unless you're already an expert...to get your facts and put together a good promotional article.

Once you have all of your information, your products, etc all worked out...place it on your website, blog or Squidoo Lens.
There are more places you can get started..but, I'm not trying to overload you with
information...I want to give you someplace to start, so you can proceed, step by step with the niche/ sub-niche you have selected.

(One of the most dangerous roadblocks on this type of journey is...'information overload'....you find yourself so worried about gathering all of the information you can possibly get your hands on...and you never get around to doing anything with it.)

I'm going to work on my own niche/ sub-niche program...in the meantime...and I'll let you know my experiences along the way.

A change in direction.

I have decided that I'm going to change directions,
in my '30 Day Work at Home Experiment'.


My 30 day work at home programs experiment.
I am going to follow the FREE steps given for
FOUR 'make money online' Programs.

A. PotPieGirl Programs
B. Bum Marketing
C. Long Tail Treasure
D. Niche Marketing Websites

I discovered, after really looking into these programs,
that they are mostly affiliate niche marketing
programs. So, rather than 're-hash' programs that
are somewhat similar...I'll just go into my approach to
'affiliate niche' marketing and give examples from these
programs.

It's important to have a 'direction'...which in this
case is..niche marketing with affiliate programs..
and even more important..is how to 'make it work'.

I think 'making it work' is more the direction that
we need to learn...so that's the direction we'll be taking
as this experiement progresses.

Niche Marketing

And...part 4 of my experiment...Niche Marketing.

A few notes...

I am going for programs that

are free or very low cost...of which Micro Niche Finder is neither...

however...

while it is possible to find the

information on your own, that the Micro Niche Finder offers,

it really would take weeks, months and maybe longer,

depending on the time you have available for

the research.

This tool costs less than $100

but, I still chose to show it to you because,

I think the time it saves,

and the opportunities it presents,

will more than pay for itself

in a very short period of time.

Micro Niche Finder - Parts 4 and 5

Here are the last two videos in the 'Micro Niche Finder' series. If you haven't already seen the first three videos, go down to the two posts previous and watch them in order. They'll make more sense I think.

Micro Niche Finder - Parts 2 and 3

Here are the next two videos...in the Micro Niche Finder study.



LONG TAIL KEYWORDS

INTERNET MARKET RESEARCH

Micro Niche Marketing

It's difficult to know where to begin when first going

into any kind of work at home programs. What is real and what isn't.

The world of niche marketing is full of opportunity!
Choosing a carefully pinpointed niche market should be one of the first steps

that an internet business owner has to take.

A very common way of describing a niche market is,

a targeted group of individuals with very specific and similar needs or interests.

These people engage in similar activities and hence,

they would most probably demand the same goods or services to cater to their needs.

As I have shown in the picture at the beginning of this post,

there is a large circle...consider that the large department stores, magazine,

or whatever your area of interest lie...

it 'caters' to most of our needs...but usually not all...

that is where 'niche' marketing comes in.

You find that area that isn't being covered

and you cover it.

And, the little circles inside the larger circles...are gaps

in the market that can be covered yet again by smaller niche markets.

For instance...let's say you are really into herbs for healing.

You have the large chain stores that cater to the larger markets...

but you want to market 'the every herb cookbook'...

there's a niche....

now, within the cookbook niche...

you see that you might find a market for

consumers to 'grow their own herbs' for cooking...

so you come up with a

'herb gardening kit'.

Well...you get the picture...it's just an example and

I hope it served the purpose of explaining the niches that are

out there...and how they can be filled.

I have run across a tool that I want to share with you.

It is the

"Micro Niche Finder."

Micro Niche Finder is an indespensible tool to online marketing.

The program is simple and easy and comes with good training videos.

Micro Niche Finder is a great keyword research and keyword analysis tool, to find those all important keywords needed to perform optimization on your web pages.

While many marketing gurus recommend that you choose a topic

in which you have experience or interest in it is not really a requirement,

especially with the Micro Niche Finder.

Micro Niche Finder is a software which helps you to uncover profitable niches

you would never even think of.

There is a pretty good set of videos that explains

this tool quite well. Five videos total and I'll share the first

video here, with the others to follow.